Timothy B Moore

6664925, Dec 16, 2003

May 2, 2002

10/137912

Timothy M. Moore - Bellevue WA
Joseph Polastre - Berkeley CA
Warren Barkley - Mill Creek WA
Paramvir Bahl - Sammamish WA

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G01S 302

342451, 342450, 342463

A mobile computer establishes a wireless communication session with a wireless access point of a computer network. The location of each wireless access point is known and obtainable either from a database on the network or from the access points themselves. The strengths of wireless signals passing between the mobile computer and multiple wireless access points of the network, including the access point with which the mobile computer has established the session are measured at multiple time intervals. The measurements may be taken at the mobile computer itself or at the wireless access points. The measured strength values are then weighted according to such factors as whether the mobile computer has already established a communication session with the access point from which the sample was taken, and how old the sample is. For each location, the weighted strength values obtained for access points in that location are summed. The location having the highest sum is deemed to be the location of the mobile computer.

6862285, Mar 1, 2005

Dec 13, 1999

09/459670

Mark T. Jeffrey - Wokingham, GB
Mark R. Sestak - Kirkland WA, US
Timothy M. Moore - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corp. - Redmond WA

H04L012/28

3703953, 3703951

A host computer communicatively linked with a virtual circuit network and communicatively linked with a device over a local area network receives a virtual circuit message from the virtual circuit network, such as an asynchronous transfer mode network. A data structure associating a virtual circuit of the virtual circuit network with the device is referenced, and based on the association, the virtual circuit message is passed to the device over the local area network. The data structure may be a table containing an entry associating the virtual circuit with the device or with the network address of the device.

6862628, Mar 1, 2005

Jan 5, 2001

09/755770

Timothy M. Moore - Bellevue WA, US
Arun Ayyagari - Seattle WA, US
Xiaowen Shan - Kirkland WA, US
Stephen J. Rauch - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06G015/16

709236, 709203, 709227, 709229, 709228, 709235, 709239

A method and device are disclosed that enable a user to experience continuity by alleviating blocking of an application by a slow or failure-prone connection. The method includes dissociating the user interface from an application-client managing communications with a server over the dynamic connection. Furthermore, the application-client caches user input for later actions using an asynchronous mechanism to enable the user to work with little interruption. Furthermore, adjustable frame sizes based on the error rate and bandwidth-delay increase throughput. Data retransmission is reduced by maintaining state information for the client and the server so that a disrupted transaction is resumed at or close to the point of disruption and in response to media sense-events. Consequently, establishing, tearing down and adjusting network connections in response to events such as: high error rates, increasing latency, availability of better alternative connections, or loss of a connection do not interrupt the user's experience.

6922548, Jul 26, 2005

Apr 24, 2000

09/556565

Timothy M. Moore - Bellevue WA, US
Ervin Peretz - Redmond WA, US
Kenneth D. Ray - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04B007/00

455 412, 455557, 455528, 455463, 709315, 709331, 709332, 710 62, 710 63, 710 8, 710 65

The present invention provides a method and computer program product for providing, over a RF link conforming to the Bluetooth specification, a network message protocol which is bus-independent and was originally designed for bus-attached networking devices. One such network message protocol is the NDIS device management protocol. In such a manner, many computer software products designed to operate over a hard-wired (or bus-attached) network can also be used over a Bluetooth wireless network.

7000012, Feb 14, 2006

Apr 23, 2001

09/840569

Timothy M. Moore - Bellevue WA, US
Vadim Eydelman - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/177

709220, 709224, 370312

A service is disclosed that discovers information about the logical networks to which a computer is connected and provides that information to applications. The information is keyed to names constructed by the service. There is a mapping between the names and the logical networks. Applications may rely on the names when selecting a configuration to use with a given logical network. The network name may be correlated with other information, such as physical network interface(s) on the computer through which the logical network is accessible, application programming interfaces of the transport protocols supported by the logical network, and the connectivity type of the logical network. Applications are notified when network information provided to them changes or when new information becomes available.

7000015, Feb 14, 2006

Apr 23, 2001

09/840368

Timothy M. Moore - Bellevue WA, US
Christian Huitema - Clyde Hill WA, US
Vadim Eydelman - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/173

709224, 709221, 709249, 709250, 4554561, 342450

A service is described that discovers the physical locations of a computer's connections to logical networks and provides that information to applications. The service decides which method or methods for discovering physical location information are applicable to each network interface on the computer, applies those methods, and collects the results. The results are then converted into a common format. In addition to physical location, the information may include estimates of the quality and reliability of the information, such as error ranges and confidence intervals, and the methods used to gather the information. The information is made available to whatever system services and applications need it. Clients of the physical location information may be notified when the information provided to them changes or when new information becomes available. Clients may specify a threshold so that location changes of a magnitude below the threshold are not reported to them.

7007079, Feb 28, 2006

Apr 26, 2005

11/114718

Timothy M. Moore - Bellevue WA, US
Vadim Eydelman - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/177

709220, 709224, 370312

A service is disclosed that discovers information about the logical networks to which a computer is connected and provides that information to applications. The information is keyed to names constructed by the service. There is a mapping between the names and the logical networks. Applications may rely on the names when selecting a configuration to use with a given logical network. The network name may be correlated with other information, such as physical network interface(s) on the computer through which the logical network is accessible, application programming interfaces of the transport protocols supported by the logical network, and the connectivity type of the logical network. Applications are notified when network information provided to them changes or when new information becomes available.

7043540, May 9, 2006

Apr 27, 2005

11/115802

Timothy M. Moore - Bellevue WA, US
Vadim Eydelman - Redmond WA, US
Jeffrey C. Venable - Union City CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/177

709220, 709224, 370312

A service is disclosed that discovers information about the logical networks to which a computer is connected and provides that information to applications. The information is keyed to names constructed by the service. There is a mapping between the names and the logical networks. Applications may rely on the names when selecting a configuration to use with a given logical network. The network name may be correlated with other information, such as physical network interface(s) on the computer through which the logical network is accessible, application programming interfaces of the transport protocols supported by the logical network, and the connectivity type of the logical network. Applications are notified when network information provided to them changes or when new information becomes available.