James W Mickens

US Patent:

8140646, Mar 20, 2012

Filed:

Jun 4, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/478595

Inventors:

James W. Mickens - Bellevue WA, US
Jonathan R. Howell - Seattle WA, US
Jacob R. Lorch - Bellevue WA, US
Jeremy E. Elson - Kirkland WA, US
Edmund B. Nightingale - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 7/44
G06F 17/00
G06F 17/20

US Classification:

709219, 709203, 709218, 717172, 717173, 715200, 715204, 715205

Abstract:

A speculative web browser engine may enable providing transmission of content between a server and a client prior to a user-initiated request for the content hidden in imperative code (event handlers), which may reduce user-perceived latency when the user initiates the imperative code. In some aspects, a speculative browser state may be created from an actual browser state and used to run the event handlers. The event handlers may be modified to direct actions of the event handler to update the speculative browser state. Speculative content may be transmitted between the server and the client in response to an execution of the modified code. The speculative content may be stored in a cache and made readily available for use when the user initiates the event handler and finds that the desired content has already been fetched.

US Patent:

8244721, Aug 14, 2012

Filed:

Feb 13, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/030331

Inventors:

Meredith June Morris - Bellevue WA, US
Jaime Brooks Teevan - Cambridge MA, US
James W. Mickens - Ann Arbor MI, US
Saleema Amershi - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707723, 707802, 715753

Abstract:

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating a personalized query result for a specific user. An interface can receive at least one of a portion of a text query to be searched or a portion of personalized content related to a user that submits the portion of the text query. A personalization component can combine the portion of personalized content related to the user with a portion of personalized content related to one or more disparate users to create group personalized content, wherein the group personalized content is compared with the portion of the text query to identify a relationship there between to generate a personalized query result in accordance with the relationship.

US Patent:

8307077, Nov 6, 2012

Filed:

Aug 3, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/197435

Inventors:

John R. Douceur - Bellevue WA, US
James W. Mickens - Bellevue WA, US
Debmalya Panigrahi - Cambridge MA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709224, 709232

Abstract:

The described implementations relate to collaborative speed determination in distributed systems. One method estimates upload speeds of a plurality of hosts. The method sends a first bandwidth probe from a first host to a second host. The method receives, at the first host, a second bandwidth probe sent from the second host. The method determines which of the first and second bandwidth probes was relatively slower. The method designates either of the first or second hosts that sent the relatively slower bandwidth probe as a loser and takes a speed of the bandwidth probe of the loser as a first estimate of the loser's upload speed.

US Patent:

8407321, Mar 26, 2013

Filed:

Apr 21, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/764104

Inventors:

James Mickens - Bellevue WA, US
Jon Howell - Seattle WA, US
Jeremy Elson - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709220, 709218, 709228, 7071041

Abstract:

This patent application pertains to capturing web-based scenarios. One example detects execution of a web application. This example also automatically captures non-deterministic events of the execution in a manner that is transparent to a user of the web application.

US Patent:

20100241742, Sep 23, 2010

Filed:

Mar 17, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/405246

Inventors:

John R. Douceur - Bellevue WA, US
James W. Mickens - Bellevue WA, US
Debmalya Panigrahi - Cambridge MA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709224

Abstract:

The described implementations relate to collaborative speed determination in distributed systems. One method estimates upload speeds of a plurality of hosts. The method sends a first bandwidth probe from a first host to a second host. The method receives, at the first host, a second bandwidth probe sent from the second host. The method determines which of the first and second bandwidth probes was relatively slower. The method designates either of the first or second hosts that sent the relatively slower bandwidth probe as a loser and takes a speed of the bandwidth probe of the loser as a first estimate of the loser's upload speed.

US Patent:

20110288934, Nov 24, 2011

Filed:

May 24, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/786231

Inventors:

John R. Douceur - Bellevue WA, US
Jacob R. Lorch - Bellevue WA, US
James Mickens - Bellevue WA, US
David Levin - College Park MD, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00
G06F 17/30
G06F 3/048

US Classification:

705 1453, 705 1466, 705 1449, 707769, 715760, 707705, 707E17014

Abstract:

Techniques are described to mitigate ad stalking and other user concerns resulting from user-targeted advertising. A user may be informed of advertising information by a process in which an advertising server receives a request for an ad. The request may have been generated in response to a user request for a landing web page. An ad may be selected based on user information available to the advertising server, where the user information is associated with the user and describes behavior and/or attributes and/or preferences associated with the user. Text about how the ad was selected may be incorporated into the ad. Such text may describe the user information used to select the ad. The selection-disclosing text may be incorporated in the ad in a form that is displayable to the user by a browser. The ad may then be transmitted for display in the landing web page.

US Patent:

20120084346, Apr 5, 2012

Filed:

Oct 5, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/898128

Inventors:

James W. Mickens - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709203

Abstract:

Web page loading time may be decreased with the use of a page-maintained storage cache on a client device. In various implementations, a server may receive a request for a web page from a web browser that is on the client device. The server may provide a chunk reassembler to the client device that determines whether any chunks in the web page are already stored on the client device. Subsequently, the server may send one or more chunk of the web page to the client device when the chunk reassembler determines that the one or more chunks of the web page are missing from the client device. The chunk reassembler may then instruct the web browser to assemble the one or more received chunks with the one or more chunks that are stored on the client device into the web page for presentation on the client device.

US Patent:

20130060905, Mar 7, 2013

Filed:

Sep 2, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/224337

Inventors:

James Mickens - Bellevue WA, US
David Chu - Bellevue WA, US
Li Zhuang - Los Altos CA, US
Kaisen Lin - Cupertino CA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709219

Abstract:

In the new architecture, a client that desires access to a piece of hardware sends HTTP requests to a device server. The server receives a HTTP requests, accesses a device on behalf of the client, and send the device's response back to the client in the form of an HTTP response. This architecture has three primary advantages. First, it offers a clean interface for clients where all devices are accessed as if they are web servers. Second, it helps make devices more secure whereby clients can be prevented from accessing hardware directly, and all device access is forced through the narrow HTTP access protocol and checked for compliance with a desired security policy. Third, since HTTP allows local and remote servers to be contacted, the proposed architecture makes it easy for clients to communicate with devices that are not physically co-resident with the client but which are accessible via a network connection.