Shawn D Loveland, 5925710 SE 32Nd Pl, Redmond, WA 98075

6782413, Aug 24, 2004

Feb 11, 2000

09/502849

Shawn D. Loveland - Redmond WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1516

709204, 379120

A system is disclosed for enabling communication between server resources and a wide spectrum of end-terminals to enable users access to the resources of both converged and non-converged networks via voice and/or electronically generated commands. A configurable distributed conference bridge is incorporated within the converged network architecture model of the present invention. The distributed conference bridge enables local conference resources to be utilized and incorporates external service bureau conference bridge resources when needed to supplement the internal conference bridge resources of a system.

6895558, May 17, 2005

Feb 11, 2000

09/503602

Shawn D. Loveland - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G09G005/00
G06F015/16

715746, 715727, 715728, 715729, 709204

A system enables communication between server resources and a wide spectrum of end-terminals to enable access to the resources of both converged and non-converged networks via voice and/or electronically generated commands. An electronic personal assistant (ePA) incorporates generalizing/abstracting communications channels, data and resources provided through a converged computer/telephony system interface such that the data and resources are readily accessed by a variety of interface formats including a voice interface or data interface. A set of applications provides dual interfaces for rendering services and data based upon the manner in which a user accesses the data. An electronic personal assistant in accordance with an embodiment of the invention provides voice/data access to web pages, email, file shares, etc. A voice-based resource server authenticates a user by receiving vocal responses to one or more requests variably selected and issued by a speaker recognition-based authentication facility. Thereafter an application proxy is created.

7024214, Apr 4, 2006

Feb 26, 2002

10/082918

Shawn Domenic Loveland - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04B 15/00

455502, 455501, 455503, 455500, 370350, 370503, 370506, 375354, 375355, 375358

Two computer systems in a network each have a local store that contains a copy of a data item that is to be synchronized. One of the computer systems may be, for example, a mobile device while the other may be a synchronization server. In order to determine whether to synchronize a data item, and what synchronization mechanism to use, one of the computer systems references a flexible set of rules that may be influenced by instructions from a network administrator or a mobile device user. The flexible set of rules takes into consideration the value of the data, the cost associated with synchronization, the security of the synchronization mechanisms, the security of the mobile device, as well as the location of the mobile user in dictating whether and how to synchronize.

7054819, May 30, 2006

Feb 11, 2000

09/502515

Shawn D. Loveland - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G10L 21/00

704273, 704275, 379 8821, 379 8814, 345419, 345756, 709206

A dual-access communications server system is disclosed for enabling communication between server resources and a wide spectrum of end-terminals to enable users access to the resources of both converged and non-converged networks via voice and/or electronically generated commands. Server resources are provided through a converged computer/telephony system interface such that the data and resources are readily accessed by either voice or data calls. A set of applications provide dual interfaces for rendering services and data based upon the manner in which a user accesses the data. A user is authenticated by receiving vocal responses by a user to one or more requests variably selected and issued by a speaker recognition-based authentication facility. Thereafter, an application proxy is created. The application proxy acts on behalf of the authenticated authorized user in accessing applications via the dual-access communications interface.

7076797, Jul 11, 2006

Oct 5, 2001

09/972512

Shawn Domenic Loveland - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04L 9/32
H04L 9/00

726 4, 726 28, 726 29, 726 10, 726 5

Providing access to a mobile user session in a manner that more closely corresponds access to network resources to the trustworthiness of authentication methods and devices associated with the mobile user session. Characteristics of authentication methods associated with a mobile user session are synthesized to generate an authentication bundle. Characteristics may include data associated with passwords, biometric data or devices used to execute an authentication method. By synthesizing characteristics in varied manners, a non-binary sliding scale of access to network resources may be generated. An authentication bundle may be accessed to grant a mobile user session appropriate access to network resources. Granting access may include generating an authorization token that is passed to a filter or reverse proxy. Access to network resources may be dynamically modified as authentication methods associated with a mobile user session change.

7287056, Oct 23, 2007

Sep 28, 2001

09/966685

Shawn Dominic Loveland - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16
G06F 7/00
H04M 15/00

709206, 709207, 37921101, 707102

After detecting that an event occurs for which notification is desired, a notification service determines an appropriate way to notify the user given the user's current circumstances. The notification service determines the appropriate notification method by accessing context information for the user (e. g. , whether the user's telephone is on, busy, in hands-free mode, in meeting mode, or the like). The notification service then accesses a set of rules from which the appropriate notification method may be determined based on the current circumstances of the user. These rules may be, for example, default rules or may be set of the user. The notification service then causes the notification to be sent to the user using the appropriate notification method. The notification methods include voice notifications in which the notification is read to the user.

7287058, Oct 23, 2007

Feb 25, 2002

10/082468

Shawn Domenic Loveland - Sammamish WA, US
Rex A. Foxford - Issaquah WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

709206, 709219, 709227

Performing operations over a low bandwidth and/or high cost networks, the operations requiring access to a document. Such operations may include sending/forwarding an e-mail with an attachment or printing/faxing a document over a network. A client, such as a mobile wireless device, sends an instruction to perform the operation to a server. The instruction identifies the document that is required to be accessed to complete the instruction, but does not include the document itself. The server then determines whether it has access to the required document. If the document is unavailable or an older version, the server requests the document from the client. The client then sends the document to the server so that the server may complete the operation requested by the document-inclusion instruction.

7308255, Dec 11, 2007

Feb 10, 2003

10/361238

Shawn D. Loveland - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04L 12/58

4554141, 455445, 379198

Methods, systems, and computer program products for bridging mobile phone networks with other telephone networks. A telephone network comprises multiple individually addressable telephone lines connected to telephones and to a gateway, which in turn is connected to one or more mobile phones and potentially to one or more landlines. When the gateway receives an inbound call from one of the mobile phones, or an outbound call from one or the telephones, the gateway applies routing rules to determine how to route the call. Routing may depend on a variety of factors, such as time of day, cost, the mobile phone receiving an inbound call. To help identify the mobile phone as the source of an inbound call, a distinctive ring may be selected. To account for differences in the mobile phone network and the telephone network, the gateway translates signals between the two networks.