Patents by Inventor Upshur W. Parks
Upshur W. Parks 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).
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Publication number: 20190238438Abstract: An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, JR., Pehkeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti, Dmitry A. Anipko
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Patent number: 10257064Abstract: An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, Jr., Pehkeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti, Dmitry A. Anipko
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Publication number: 20160285723Abstract: An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, JR., Pehkeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti, Dmitry A. Anipko
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Patent number: 9338309Abstract: A mobile computing device that supports cost-aware application components for operation over a metered network. A current basis for computing usage charges over one or more networks may be made available to the cost-aware application components through an application programming interface supported by an operating system service. That service may receive a policy for charging for data usage over a network and may also obtain information defining data usage for the mobile computing device. Based on this information, the service may determine a current basis for charging for data usage. With this information, the application component can determine a manner for executing network operations that involve data transmission over the network, such as deferring the operation or selecting an alternative network.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Pascal Menezes, Marco Piumatti, Upshur W. Parks, Ravi Rao
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Patent number: 9246783Abstract: An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, Jr., Pehkeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti, Dmitry A. Anipko
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Patent number: 9008610Abstract: A mobile computing device that supports cost-aware application components for operation over a metered network. A current basis for computing usage charges over one or more networks may be made available to the cost-aware application components through an application programming interface supported by an operating system service. That service may receive a policy for charging for data usage over a network and may also obtain information defining data usage for the mobile computing device. Based on this information, the service may determine a current basis for charging for data usage. With this information, the application component can determine a manner for executing network operations that involve data transmission over the network, such as deferring the operation or selecting an alternative network.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Pascal Menezes, Marco Piumatti, Upshur W. Parks, Ravi Rao
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Publication number: 20150074269Abstract: An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, JR., Pehkeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti, Dmitry A. Anipko
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Patent number: 8977686Abstract: Application programming interface (API) for starting and accessing distributed routing table (DRT) functionality. The API facilitates bootstrapping into the DRT by one or more devices of a group of devices (a mesh) seeking to collaborate over a serverless connection, establishing a node of the DRT, where each node is an instance of an application that is participating in the mesh, and node participation by allowing the application to search for keys published by other nodes in the mesh, or by becoming part of the mesh by publishing a key. The API facilitates optimization of the routing table for quickly finding a root of a specific key in the mesh by finding the key directly in a cache or by asking a root node of the key that is in the local routing table that is closest numerically to the key being searched.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Todd R. Manion, Kevin C. Ransom, Jeremy L. Dewey, Scott A. Senkeresty, Travis C. Luke, Upshur W. Parks, Brian R. Lieuallen, Pritam De, Pallavi Choudhury
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Patent number: 8971841Abstract: A mobile computing device that supports cost-aware application components for operation over a metered network. A current basis for computing usage charges over one or more networks may be made available to the cost-aware application components through an application programming interface supported by an operating system service. That service may receive a policy for charging for data usage over a network and may also obtain information defining data usage for the mobile computing device. Based on this information, the service may determine a current basis for charging for data usage. With this information, the application component can determine a manner for executing network operations that involve data transmission over the network, such as deferring the operation or selecting an alternative network.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Pascal Menezes, Marco Piumatti, Upshur W. Parks, Ravi Rao
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Patent number: 8892732Abstract: An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, Jr., Pehkeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti, Dmitry A. Anipko
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Publication number: 20140323084Abstract: A mobile computing device that supports cost-aware application components for operation over a metered network. A current basis for computing usage charges over one or more networks may be made available to the cost-aware application components through an application programming interface supported by an operating system service. That service may receive a policy for charging for data usage over a network and may also obtain information defining data usage for the mobile computing device. Based on this information, the service may determine a current basis for charging for data usage. With this information, the application component can determine a manner for executing network operations that involve data transmission over the network, such as deferring the operation or selecting an alternative network.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Pascal Menezes, Marco Piumatti, Upshur W. Parks, Ravi Rao
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Patent number: 8429272Abstract: An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2012Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, PehKeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti, Dmitry A. Anipko
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Publication number: 20120254420Abstract: An indicator for a device may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for a network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, JR., PehKeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti, Dmitry A. Anipko
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Publication number: 20120203835Abstract: Application programming interface (API) for starting and accessing distributed routing table (DRT) functionality. The API facilitates bootstrapping into the DRT by one or more devices of a group of devices (a mesh) seeking to collaborate over a serverless connection, establishing a node of the DRT, where each node is an instance of an application that is participating in the mesh, and node participation by allowing the application to search for keys published by other nodes in the mesh, or by becoming part of the mesh by publishing a key. The API facilitates optimization of the routing table for quickly finding a root of a specific key in the mesh by finding the key directly in a cache or by asking a root node of the key that is in the local routing table that is closest numerically to the key being searched.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Todd R. Manion, Kevin C. Ransom, Jeremy L. Dewey, Scott A. Senkeresty, Travis C. Luke, Upshur W. Parks, Brian R. Lieuallen, Pritam De, Pallavi Choudhury
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Patent number: 8230061Abstract: A computing device including an indicator predicting use of a network resource. The indicator may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for the network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated. An administrative tool is provided for managing network resources and setting budgets for resource consumption by users, devices, or applications.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, Jr., PehKeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti, Dmitry A. Anipko
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Publication number: 20120157038Abstract: A mobile computing device that supports cost-aware application components for operation over a metered network. A current basis for computing usage charges over one or more networks may be made available to the cost-aware application components through an application programming interface supported by an operating system service. That service may receive a policy for charging for data usage over a network and may also obtain information defining data usage for the mobile computing device. Based on this information, the service may determine a current basis for charging for data usage. With this information, the application component can determine a manner for executing network operations that involve data transmission over the network, such as deferring the operation or selecting an alternative network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Pascal Menezes, Marco Piumatti, Upshur W. Parks, Ravi Rao
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Patent number: 8161095Abstract: Application programming interface (API) for starting and accessing distributed routing table (DRT) functionality. The API facilitates bootstrapping into the DRT by one or more devices of a group of devices (a mesh) seeking to collaborate over a serverless connection, establishing a node of the DRT, where each node is an instance of an application that is participating in the mesh, and node participation by allowing the application to search for keys published by other nodes in the mesh, or by becoming part of the mesh by publishing a key. The API facilitates optimization of the routing table for quickly finding a root of a specific key in the mesh by finding the key directly in a cache or by asking a root node of the key that is in the local routing table that is closest numerically to the key being searched.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Todd R. Manion, Kevin C. Ransom, Jeremy L. Dewey, Scott A. Senkeresty, Travis C. Luke, Upshur W. Parks, Brian R. Lieuallen, Pritam De, Pallavi Choudhury
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Publication number: 20110231551Abstract: A computing device including an indicator predicting use of a network resource. The indicator may provide an indication that a threshold associated with a budget for the network resource has or will be reached. When a user requests a network operation that will consume the network resource, an amount of the network resource to be consumed by the operation is predicted, if possible. If the prior use of the network resource and the amount to be used to complete the network operation exceeds a threshold the user may be warned and given an opportunity to cancel the operation or adjust the way in which the operation will be performed. If the amount of network resource a network operation will consume is unknown, a rate of use of the network resource is determined and a time until the budget is reached is estimated. An administrative tool is provided for managing network resources and setting budgets for resource consumption by users, devices, or applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, JR., PehKeong Teh, Andrew T. Baron, Shai Guday, Upshur W. Parks, Marco Piumatti
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Publication number: 20080225860Abstract: Application programming interface (API) for starting and accessing distributed routing table (DRT) functionality. The API facilitates bootstrapping into the DRT by one or more devices of a group of devices (a mesh) seeking to collaborate over a serverless connection, establishing a node of the DRT, where each node is an instance of an application that is participating in the mesh, and node participation by allowing the application to search for keys published by other nodes in the mesh, or by becoming part of the mesh by publishing a key. The API facilitates optimization of the routing table for quickly finding a root of a specific key in the mesh by finding the key directly in a cache or by asking a root node of the key that is in the local routing table that is closest numerically to the key being searched.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Todd R. Manion, Kevin C. Ransom, Jeremy L. Dewey, Scott A. Senkeresty, Travis C. Luke, Upshur W. Parks, Brian R. Lieuallen, Pritam De, Pallavi Choudhury
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Patent number: 7159021Abstract: A test framework for testing peer-to-peer applications allocates a test case manager and a plurality of distributed test units for each test case, which has a sequence of actions each to be performed by one of the test units. To enable the test units to perform the test case actions, the test case manager loads dynamic link library files (DDLs) containing the test case to each test unit, and creates on each test unit a test object that can be remotely activated using an object-remoting framework. To execute the test case, the test case manager goes through the sequence of test case actions. For each action, the test case manager calls the test object on a corresponding test unit to perform the action. In this way, the test case manager directs the test units to carry out the test case actions. The results of the test case actions are logged by the distributed test units and then collected for analysis and diagnosis.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: James R. Boldman, Upshur W. Parks, Ramakrishnan L. Peruvemba, Kishore J. Prakash, Jonathan T. Wheeler