Todd D Segal, 44Olympia, WA

2009015, Jun 18, 2009

Dec 13, 2007

11/955548

David Franklin - Seattle WA, US
Todd D. Segal - Seattle WA, US
Arthur K.T. Lam - Seattle WA, US
Henry Y.T. Chen - Snoqualmie WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04Q 7/22
G06F 15/16

4554352, 709227, 709228

A communication device and/or applications capable of facilitating communication through different networks are automatically provisioned based on recognition of network environment including network connectivity and characteristics. A user's multiple identities for different networks with varying capabilities and features are accommodated by detecting and prioritizing available network(s), then provisioning the device to enable the user to communicate through one or more of those networks. Communication types and media may vary depending on network type such as cellular, VOIP, and so on. The device may be configured to scan for new networks automatically periodically or based on location change, time change, etc.

2009021, Aug 27, 2009

Feb 26, 2008

12/037550

Todd D. Segal - Seattle WA, US
David L. Franklin - Seattle WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 3/02

345169

Systems and methods for inputting text and commands to an electronic device using a remote control device. One method includes displaying a first grid on a display device, wherein at least one cell in the first grid represents alphanumeric characters and at least one cell represents an operation function. The method includes receiving a first input from the remote control device that identifies a first cell that includes first alphanumeric characters, and displaying a second grid in front of the first grid such that the second grid including a plurality of cells, with each cell representing the first alphanumeric characters. The method also includes receiving a second input from the remote control device that identifies a specific alphanumeric character within the second grid, and displaying the identified alphanumeric character on the display device.

2010013, Jun 3, 2010

Dec 3, 2008

12/327724

Alexander T. Bussmann - Toronto, CA
Joseph Figueroa - Kirkland WA, US
Todd Segal - Seattle WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06Q 30/00
G06Q 40/00
G06Q 90/00

705 1449, 705 37

The provision of location-based advertising services is disclosed. One disclosed embodiment provides a method of operating a location-based advertising server. The method comprises receiving from each of a plurality of advertising publishers an item of advertising content associated with a bounded area defined in a geographic region, and also receiving from each advertising publisher a bid for payment for distributing the advertising publisher's item of advertising content to devices. The method then comprises receiving from a device a request for advertising content associated with the bounded area, and sending an item of advertising content associated with a highest bid to the device.

2011007, Mar 24, 2011

Sep 18, 2009

12/562401

Todd Segal - Seattle WA, US
Jeffrey Michael MacDuff - Kirkland WA, US
Michael Matteson - Bellevue WA, US
Ritwik Tewari - Woodinville WA, US
Brett Robinson - Seattle WA, US
Prakash Ajay Kumar Suri - Sammamish WA, US
David Shoemaker - Monroe WA, US
Xiangying Ma - Issaquah WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 3/048

715763, 715760

Various embodiments related to an application programming interface for user interface creation are disclosed herein. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides an application programming interface, embodied on one or more data-holding subsystems, comprising user interface creation services for intermediately defining a user interface including one or more user interface elements as declarative extensible markup language data. The application programming interface further comprises compiler services for providing aspects of the declarative extensible markup language data to one or more compilers for compilation into two or more different machine code implementations, where each machine code implementation is natively executable without a virtual machine by a different hardware platform to present the user interface intermediately defined as declarative extensible markup language data.