Johnson T Apacible

6795888, Sep 21, 2004

Dec 1, 1997

08/980585

Johnson R. Apacible - Redmond WA
Kim Stebbens - Redmond WA
Terence Kwan - Mountain View CA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1200

711 1, 711126, 711170, 709223

The invention includes a system and method for logging network server data such as data relating to client requests. In accordance with the invention, end users of a server program can create one or more logging modules, each having a predefined interface that is defined by the server program. In response to client requests, the server program calls logging modules that have been designated by a system administrator, and passes potential log data to the logging modules. In response to receiving the potential log data, each logging module makes its own decision regarding (a) whether to make a log entry, (b) which data should be included in the log entry, and (c) the format that is used for recording the log data. In this way, end users are not constrained to any given logging format or set of logging criteria.

7055101, May 30, 2006

Jul 16, 2001

09/907029

Kenneth H. Abbott - Kirkland WA, US
Joshua M. Freedman - Mercer Island WA, US
Dan Newell - Medina WA, US
James O. Robarts - Redmond WA, US
Johnson Apacible - Redmond WA, US

Tangis Corporation - Seattle WA

G09G 5/00

715744, 715740, 715738, 706 45, 706 60, 709201, 709224

Techniques are disclosed for creating, modifying, categorizing, modeling, distributing, purchasing, selling, and otherwise using themes and theme-related information. Themes can represent various types of contextual aspects or situations, and can model high-level concepts of activities or states not reflected in individual contextual attributes that each model a single aspect of the state of a user, their computing device, the surrounding physical environment, and/or the current cyber-environment. Such themes specify inter-relationships among a set of contextual attributes, and can have associated theme-related information such as theme-specific attributes, theme layouts used to present information and functionality, CSes that provide theme attribute values, and CCs that process theme information. Disclosed techniques can identify one or more themes that currently match the modeled context, select one of the matching themes as a current theme, and provide an appropriate response (e. g, by presenting appropriate information and/or providing appropriate functionality) based on the current theme.

7076737, Jul 11, 2006

Apr 2, 2001

09/825159

Kenneth H. Abbott - Kirkland WA, US
Joshua M. Freedman - Mercer Island WA, US
Dan Newell - Medina WA, US
James O. Robarts - Redmond WA, US
Johnson Apacible - Redmond WA, US

Tangis Corporation - Seattle WA

G09G 5/00

715744, 715745, 715739, 706 48, 706 61, 709228, 709217

Techniques are disclosed for creating, modifying, categorizing, modeling, distributing, purchasing, selling, and otherwise using themes and theme-related information. Themes can represent various types of contextual aspects or situations, and can model high-level concepts of activities or states not reflected in individual contextual attributes that each model a single aspect of the state of a user, their computing device, the surrounding physical environment, and/or the current cyber-environment. Such themes specify inter-relationships among a set of contextual attributes, and can have associated theme-related information such as theme-specific attributes, theme layouts used to present information and functionality, CSes that provide theme attribute values, and CCs that process theme information. Disclosed techniques can identify one or more themes that currently match the modeled context, select one of the matching themes as a current theme, and provide an appropriate response (e. g. , by presenting appropriate information and/or providing appropriate functionality) based on the current theme.

7080322, Jul 18, 2006

Jul 16, 2001

09/907009

Kenneth H. Abbott - Kirkland WA, US
Joshua M. Freedman - Mercer Island WA, US
Dan Newell - Medina WA, US
James O. Robarts - Redmond WA, US
Johnson Apacible - Redmond WA, US

Tangis Corporation - Seattle WA

G09G 5/00

715744, 715740, 715745, 706 45, 706 50, 709201, 709203

Techniques are disclosed for creating, modifying, categorizing, modeling, distributing, purchasing, selling, and otherwise using themes and theme-related information. Themes can represent various types of contextual aspects or situations, and can model high-level concepts of activities or states not reflected in individual contextual attributes that each model a single aspect of the state of a user, their computing device, the surrounding physical environment, and/or the current cyber-environment. Such themes specify inter-relationships among a set of contextual attributes, and can have associated theme-related information such as theme-specific attributes, theme layouts used to present information and functionality, CSes that provide theme attribute values, and CCs that process theme information. Disclosed techniques can identify one or more themes that currently match the modeled context, select one of the matching themes as a current theme, and provide an appropriate response (e. g. , by presenting appropriate information and/or providing appropriate functionality) based on the current theme.

7107539, Sep 12, 2006

Jul 16, 2001

09/906997

Kenneth H. Abbott - Kirkland WA, US
Joshua M. Freedman - Mercer Island WA, US
Dan Newell - Medina WA, US
James O. Robarts - Redmond WA, US
Johnson Apacible - Redmond WA, US

Tangis Corporation - Seattle WA

G06F 3/00
G06F 15/16
G06F 17/30

715744, 715738, 715740, 708 10, 708 11, 708 45, 708 61, 709203, 709223

Techniques are disclosed for creating, modifying, categorizing, modeling, distributing, purchasing, selling, and otherwise using themes and theme-related information. Themes can represent various types of contextual aspects or situations, and can model high-level concepts of activities or states not reflected in individual contextual attributes that each model a single aspect of the state of a user, their computing device, the surrounding physical environment, and/or the current cyber-environment. Such themes specify inter-relationships among a set of contextual attributes, and can have associated theme-related information such as theme-specific attributes, theme layouts used to present information and functionality, CSes that provide theme attribute values, and CCs that process theme information. Disclosed techniques can identify one or more themes that currently match the modeled context, select one of the matching themes as a current theme, and provide an appropriate response (e. g, by presenting appropriate information and/or providing appropriate functionality) based on the current theme.

7137069, Nov 14, 2006

Jul 16, 2001

09/907008

Kenneth H. Abbott - Kirkland WA, US
Joshua M. Freedman - Mercer Island WA, US
Dan Newell - Medina WA, US
James O. Robarts - Redmond WA, US
Johnson Apacible - Redmond WA, US

Tangis Corporation - Seattle WA

G09G 5/00

715744, 715740, 715738, 706 45, 706 61, 709201, 709223

Techniques are disclosed for creating, modifying, categorizing, modeling, distributing, purchasing, selling, and otherwise using themes and theme-related information. Themes can represent various types of contextual aspects or situations, and can model high-level concepts of activities or states not reflected in individual contextual attributes that each model a single aspect of the state of a user, their computing device, the surrounding physical environment, and/or the current cyber-environment. Such themes specify inter-relationships among a set of contextual attributes, and can have associated theme-related information such as theme-specific attributes, theme layouts used to present information and functionality, CSes that provide theme attribute values, and CCs that process theme information. Disclosed techniques can identify one or more themes that currently match the modeled context, select one of the matching themes as a current theme, and provide an appropriate response (e. g. , by presenting appropriate information and/or providing appropriate functionality) based on the current theme.

7233933, Jun 19, 2007

Jun 30, 2003

10/609972

Eric J. Horvitz - Kirkland WA, US
Paul Koch - Toronto, CA
Johnson T. Apacible - Redmond WA, US
Carl M. Kadie - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06E 1/00
G06E 3/00
G06F 15/18
G06G 7/00

706 21

The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate collaboration and communications between entities such as between automated applications, parties to a communication and/or combinations thereof. The systems and methods of the present invention include a service that supports collaboration and communication by learning predictive models that provide forecasts of one or more aspects of a users' presence and availability. Presence forecasts include a user's current or future locations at different levels of location precision and usage of different devices or applications. Availability assessments include inferences about the cost of interrupting a user in different ways and a user's current or future access to one or more communication channels. The predictive models are constructed from data collected by considering user activity and proximity from multiple devices, in addition to analysis of the content of users' calendars, the time of day, and day of week, for example. Various applications are provided that employ the presence and availability information supplied by the models in order to facilitate collaboration and communications between entities.

7444594, Oct 28, 2008

Apr 14, 2004

10/824636

Kenneth H. Abbott - Kirkland WA, US
Dan Newell - Medina WA, US
James O. Robarts - Redmond WA, US
Joshua M. Freedman - Mercer Island WA, US
Johnson Apacible - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 3/00

715744, 715734, 715745, 709201, 709203, 719318, 719319, 706 45, 706 61

Techniques are described providing mediated information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes. In some situations, the providing includes receiving from a first source an indication of a first value for an indicated one of the state attributes of the modeled current state, receiving from a second source an indication of a second value for the indicated state attribute, and, after an indication from a client for a value for the indicated state attribute, sending to the client a mediated value for the indicated state attribute that is produced by mediating between available values for the indicated state attribute including at least the first and second values.