Trevor J Smith

7133872, Nov 7, 2006

Nov 7, 2002

10/290928

Warren Keith Edwards - San Francisco CA, US
Mark Webster Newman - San Francisco CA, US
Trevor Smith - San Francisco CA, US
Jana Zdislava Sedivy - Palo Alto CA, US
Karen Marcelo - San Francisco CA, US
Shahram Izadi - Mountain View CA, US
Jason Hong - Berkeley CA, US

Palo Alto Research Center Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G06F 17/30

707100, 707 3, 707200, 713 1, 710104

A method and system for unifying component metadata includes components, such as computers, laptops or flat panel display devices and software entities, connected together by one or more networks. A method includes a first component, such as a laptop device, obtaining intrinsic metadata associated with one or more other components, such as a computer and a flat panel display device. The first component combines intrinsic metadata received from each component with extrinsic metadata of the first component, and provides the combined metadata to the other components, although the first component may also utilize the combined metadata. The components are able to obtain a consistent, unified view of the combined metadata without needing any prior programming and without requiring the use of centralized servers.

7165093, Jan 16, 2007

Jun 22, 2001

09/888298

Ian E. Smith - San Francisco CA, US
Mark A. Howard - San Francisco CA, US
Trevor F. Smith - San Francisco CA, US
Victoria M. E. Bellotti - San Francisco CA, US
Karen Marcelo - San Francisco CA, US

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

G06F 15/16

709206, 709203, 709207

A method, system, and article of manufacture for performing computation on an electronic message without the involvement of a user is provided. By including a command instruction in an electronic message which identifies an application provider for performing the computation and includes parameters and values to indicate what information is to be provided to the application provider, the message can be sent by a user and computation can be performed without the involvement of the user. The method, system, and article of manufacture is designed to intercept the message, control the computation, modify the message, and deliver it to the intended recipients.

7367029, Apr 29, 2008

Aug 1, 2002

10/212375

Warren Keith Edwards - San Francisco CA, US
Mark Webster Newman - San Francisco CA, US
Trevor Smith - San Francisco CA, US
Jana Zdislava Sedivy - Palo Alto CA, US
Karen Marcelo - San Francisco CA, US
Shahram Izadi - Bicester, GB
Jason Hong - Berkeley CA, US

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

G06F 9/44

719315, 719316, 709203

Handling data at one of a plurality of components, wherein the plurality of components includes at least a sink component and a source component. The source component transfers data to the sink component, and the sink component accesses an obtained data type handler object to invoke an interface implemented by the handler object. The invoked type handler interface includes source-specific instructions that are executed by the sink component regardless of whether the data is a format that the sink natively understands.

7376834, May 20, 2008

Jul 18, 2003

10/623296

W. Keith Edwards - San Francisco CA, US
Mark W. Newman - San Francisco CA, US
Jana Z. Sedivy - Palo Alto CA, US
Trevor F. Smith - San Francisco CA, US
Diana Smetters - San Francisco CA, US
Dirk Balfanz - Menlo Park CA, US
Paul Stewart - Sunnyvale CA, US

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated - Palo Alto CA

H04L 9/00
H04L 9/32
G06F 15/16

713168, 713175, 713176, 726 28, 726 30, 709206

System and method for enabling arbitrary components to control communications without having or requiring prior knowledge of each other. The system includes a first component that creates controller objects and provides the objects to other components. The controller objects include instructions which when executed by the other components enable the components to generate user interfaces for controlling the first component. Further, the controller objects are encrypted and are used to authenticate the senders or receivers of the objects.

7398534, Jul 8, 2008

Dec 18, 2002

10/324625

Warren Keith Edwards - San Francisco CA, US
Mark W. Newman - San Francisco CA, US
Jana Zdislava Sedivy - Palo Alto CA, US
Trevor Smith - San Francisco CA, US
Shahram Izadi - Oxon, GB

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated - Palo Alto CA

G06F 9/44
G06F 9/445
G06F 9/46

719330, 717174, 717176, 717177

A system and method for assessing component capability to accept and execute mobile code includes a first component coupled via a network to a second component. The first component uses a predicate object to determine whether the second component can accept mobile code, such as a data type handler object or an applet. The instructions included in the predicate object are executed in the environment of the second component, although they can be executed in the first component environment. The execution of these instructions in the second component environment causes the second component to respond to a series of basic tests, such as whether the second component has access to required libraries, software versions and/or peripherals. Additionally, a predicate object creation module is disclosed for generating predicate objects that are specific to the objects desired, such as a data type handler object or a controller object.

7433915, Oct 7, 2008

Aug 1, 2002

10/212376

Warren Keith Edwards - San Francisco CA, US
Mark Webster Newman - San Francisco CA, US
Trevor Smith - San Francisco CA, US
Jana Zdislava Sedivy - Palo Alto CA, US
Karen Marcelo - San Francisco CA, US
Shahram Izadi - Bicester, GB
Jason Hong - Berkeley CA, US

Xerox Corporation - Norwalk CT

G06F 15/16
G06F 3/00

709203, 719316

Methods and systems for enabling arbitrary components to control communications, such as data transfers, without having or requiring prior knowledge of each other. The system includes a component that creates controller objects for a communication, such as a data transfer involving several components. Further, the component associates the controller objects with a communication session object of the data transfer, such as a data transfer session object. One or more of the components involved in the data transfer obtain the controller objects through the data transfer session object and execute source-specific instructions included in the obtained controller objects to generate user interfaces. The user interfaces enable the components to control aspects of the communication, such as the data transfer.

7461172, Dec 2, 2008

Dec 12, 2002

10/317342

Mark W. Newman - San Francisco CA, US
W. Keith Edwards - San Francisco CA, US
Jason Hong - Berkeley CA, US
Shahram Izadi - Oxon, GB
Karen J. Marcelo - San Francisco CA, US
Jana Z. Sedivy - Palo Alto CA, US
Trevor F. Smith - San Francisco CA, US

Xerox Corporation - Norwalk CT

G06F 15/16

709246, 707 3, 707 7, 707102

Methods, systems, apparatus and program products for gathering contextual history from components in an environment and applying an operation on the gathered history to assist a user in selecting which components to use in the environment.

7526482, Apr 28, 2009

Aug 1, 2002

10/212377

Warren Keith Edwards - San Francisco CA, US
Mark Webster Newman - San Francisco CA, US
Trevor Smith - San Francisco CA, US
Jana Zdislava Sedivy - Palo Alto CA, US
Karen Marcelo - San Francisco CA, US
Shahram Izadi - Oxon, GB
Jason Hong - Berkeley CA, US

Xerox Corporation - Norwalk CT

G06F 17/30
G06F 15/173
H04W 4/00

707 10, 709227, 4554261

A system for enabling components on arbitrary networks to communicate includes a plurality of arbitrary components, such as computers, servers, laptops, facsimile machines, copier machines and cellular telephones, including applications operating on those components, such as word processing or data base applications, connected together by one or more networks that may use the same or different protocols. A method includes a first component, such as a computer, obtaining aggregate objects from other components, such as a laptop or server. Each of the aggregate objects are associated with discovered component objects of the other components, such as the laptop or server. The first component selects at least one of the components associated with the aggregate objects, and invokes universal interfaces associated with the selected arbitrary components to communicate with other arbitrary components.