Patents by Inventor Tanya Swartz

Tanya Swartz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Context service system
    Patent number: 7792795
    Abstract: The present system aggregates information from a plurality of different context sources. The present system also makes that aggregated information available to requesting components by abstracting it into a generalized form. Thus, the developer of a context-aware application need only know how to interact with the context service of the present invention, rather than knowing how to interact with each and every one of the context sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tanya Swartz, Srikanth R. Avadhanam, Gagan Chopra
  • Context aware task page
    Publication number: 20070022380
    Abstract: A mobile device operates in several contexts, where a context is specific to a particular operation of the mobile device. The context can include particular activities performed by the mobile device. Depending on the context, a specific context aware task page which includes a specific list of tasks is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tanya Swartz, Gregory Baribault
  • Metadata driven customization of a software-implemented business process
    Publication number: 20050160060
    Abstract: In a method of customizing a software-implemented business process on a mobile computing device, customized metadata defining customizations of the business process are provided. Next, the metadata is deployed to the mobile computing device and stored in a data store of the mobile computing device. The customizations defined by the metadata are then applied to the software-implemented business process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tanya Swartz, Dmitry Zhiyanov, Girish Premchandran, Gagan Chopra, Arif Kureshy, Ahmad El Husseini, Jayadev Pillai, Misha St. Lorant