Patents by Inventor Upshur Warren Parks, III

Upshur Warren Parks, III 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).

  • Patent number: 8255546
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) for sending and receiving endpoint registration data and peer-to-peer network cloud data has a registration call for adding endpoint data to a peer-to-peer network. The API may receive explicit data regarding address information or may be instructed to select and maintain suitable address information as the topology of the peer-to-peer network changes. Blocking and non-blocking calls are exposed for retrieving information peer-to-peer network endpoint data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Noah Horton, David G. Thaler, Brian R. Lieuallen, Upshur Warren Parks, III, Jeremy L. Dewey, Todd R. Manion, Scott A. Senkeresty
  • Patent number: 8036140
    Abstract: Methods and computer readable mediums are described that facilitate inviting user entities on a network. The method may include initiating a first application for sending an invitation by a first user entity on a first endpoint, selecting a second user entity to receive the invitation, and selecting an activity. The method may also include sending from the first endpoint to the second user entity the invitation to participate in the activity if the first endpoint determines the activity is supported by a computing application on the first endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ravi Rao, Eliot John Flannery, Tomer Weisberg, Upshur Warren Parks, III, Rohit Gupta, Kevin R. Tao, Anirudh Anirudh, David G. Thaler, Andre R. Classen, Todd R. Manion
  • Patent number: 7814214
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a user entity. Presence of an entity may generally indicate the willingness and/or ability of the entity to communicate and/or collaborate with other entities, for example. The contact store may also store information regarding which other entities of the plurality of other entities the presence of which should be monitored by the system. A user entity may be able to add contacts to and/or delete contacts from the contact store, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andre R. Classen, Anirudh Anirudh, David G. Thaler, Kevin R. Tao, Ravi T. Rao, Rohit Gupta, Tomer Weisberg, Upshur Warren Parks, III
  • Publication number: 20090248868
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a user entity. Presence of an entity may generally indicate the willingness and/or ability of the entity to communicate and/or collaborate with other entities, for example. The contact store may also store information regarding which other entities of the plurality of other entities the presence of which should be monitored by the system. A user entity may be able to add contacts to and/or delete contacts from the contact store, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andre R. Classen, Anirudh Anirudh, David G. Thaler, Kevin R. Tao, Ravi T. Rao, Rohit Gupta, Tomer Weisberg, Upshur Warren Parks, III
  • Patent number: 7571228
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a user entity. Presence of an entity may generally indicate the willingness and/or ability of the entity to communicate and/or collaborate with other entities, for example. The contact store may also store information regarding which other entities of the plurality of other entities the presence of which should be monitored by the system. A user entity may be able to add contacts to and/or delete contacts from the contact store, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andre R. Classen, Anirudh Anirudh, David G. Thaler, Kevin R. Tao, Ravi T. Rao, Rohit Gupta, Tomer Weisberg, Upshur Warren Parks, III
  • Patent number: 7430747
    Abstract: Application programming interfaces and methods that provide graph management in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network are provided. More specifically, new and improved P2P application programming interfaces (APIs) and methods for the creation and access of graphs, the retrieval of node and graph information, the addition, modification, deletion and management of records (data), the importation and exportation of graph data, the direct communication between graph nodes, the addition of a security provider to a graph, the setting and retrieval of presence information, the registering for event notifications, and other utility and support functions are presented. Each of these interfaces utilize various parameters that are passed in from an application program that uses these interfaces to manage and utilize graphs. The interfaces return a value that indicates the success or failure of the function. For failures, the interfaces provide an indication as to the problem resulting in the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Todd R. Manion, Jeremy L. Dewey, Robert D. Donner, Scott A. Senkeresty, Rohit Gupta, Upshur Warren Parks, III, Noel W. Anderson