Michael Gale Byrd

US Patent:

7020746, Mar 28, 2006

Filed:

Jan 28, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/352599

Inventors:

David C. Brown - Redmond WA, US
Mikhail V. Leonov - Kirkland WA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 12/00

US Classification:

711118, 711133, 711144, 711154, 711156

Abstract:

Disclosed is a central cache that is updated without the overhead of locking. Updates are “atomic” in that they cannot be interrupted part way through. Applications are always free to read data in the cache, accessing the data through a reference table. Applications do not directly update the cache, instead, they send update requests to a service routine. To update the cache, the service routine proceeds in two phases. In the first phase, the service routine prepares the new data and adds them to the cache, without updating the reference table. During the first phase, an application accessing the cache cannot “see” the new data because the reference table has not yet been updated. After the first phase is complete, the service routine performs the second phase of the update process: atomically updating the reference table. The two-phase update process leaves the cache, at all times, in a consistent state.

US Patent:

7062402, Jun 13, 2006

Filed:

May 19, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/848001

Inventors:

Joseph D. Ternasky - Mountain View CA, US
Robert L. C. Parker - San Jose CA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US
Adam Eversole - Redmond WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Michael Stokes - Eagle ID, US

International Classification:

G06F 19/00

US Classification:

702123, 347 19, 358406

Abstract:

A system and related techniques automatically exercise the output capabilities of a printer or other output device, and return a log or record of those capabilities to the print manager of a host operating system or other destination. According to embodiments, the host, client or other machine may decide to query a printer, facsimile machine, copy or multifunction machine or other device to determine its range of output capabilities such as available fonts, graphical or rending routines, firmware compatibility or other functions or capabilities. The host may transmit a composite electronic document, containing various components including intermediate language objects which may be interpreted to execute various output processing, such as exercising a set of fonts, scaling, rotating, or other rendering or output functions. The results may be captured in the printer or other output device, for instance by dumping an output buffer or returning execution codes, and returned to the host machine where the available capabilities may be displayed, including in embodiments a rendering of the physical output or simulated physical output on the user interface. The invention offers enhanced profiling and verification for printers and other output systems, compared to manual test pages and other test procedures.

US Patent:

7089365, Aug 8, 2006

Filed:

Jul 19, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/184578

Inventors:

David C. Brown - Redmond WA, US
Mikhail V. Leonov - Kirkland WA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 12/00

US Classification:

711133, 711118, 711144, 711154, 711156, 711159, 715748

Abstract:

Disclosed is a central cache that is updated without the overhead of locking. Updates are “atomic” in that they cannot be interrupted part way through. Applications are always free to read data in the cache, accessing the data through a reference table. Applications do not directly update the cache, instead, they send update requests to a service routine. To update the cache, the service routine proceeds in two phases. In the first phase, the service routine prepares the new data and adds them to the cache, without updating the reference table. During the first phase, an application accessing the cache cannot “see” the new data because the reference table has not yet been updated. After the first phase is complete, the service routine performs the second phase of the update process: atomically updating the reference table. The two-phase update process leaves the cache, at all times, in a consistent state.

US Patent:

7096143, Aug 22, 2006

Filed:

Nov 18, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/281680

Inventors:

Joseph D. Ternasky - Mountain View CA, US
Robert L. C. Parker - San Jose CA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US
Adam Eversole - Redmond WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Michael Stokes - Eagle ID, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 19/00

US Classification:

702123, 347 19, 358406

Abstract:

A system and related techniques automatically exercise the output capabilities of a printer or other output device, and return a log or record of those capabilities to the print manager of a host operating system or other destination. According to embodiments, the host, client or other machine may decide to query a printer, facsimile machine, copy or multifunction machine or other device to determine its range of output capabilities such as available fonts, graphical or rending routines, firmware compatibility or other functions or capabilities. The host may transmit a composite electronic document, containing various components including intermediate language objects which may be interpreted to execute various output processing, such as exercising a set of fonts, scaling, rotating, or other rendering or output functions. The results may be captured in the printer or other output device, for instance by dumping an output buffer or returning execution codes, and returned to the host machine where the available capabilities may be displayed, including in embodiments a rendering of the physical output or simulated physical output on the user interface. The invention offers enhanced profiling and verification for printers and other output systems, compared to manual test pages and other test procedures.

US Patent:

7191289, Mar 13, 2007

Filed:

Jan 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/342216

Inventors:

David C. Brown - Redmond WA, US
Mikhail V. Leonov - Kirkland WA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 12/00

US Classification:

711118, 711133, 711144, 711154, 711156

Abstract:

Disclosed is a central cache that is updated without the overhead of locking. Updates are “atomic” in that they cannot be interrupted part way through. Applications are always free to read data in the cache, accessing the data through a reference table. Applications do not directly update the cache, instead, they send update requests to a service routine. To update the cache, the service routine proceeds in two phases. In the first phase, the service routine prepares the new data and adds them to the cache, without updating the reference table. During the first phase, an application accessing the cache cannot “see” the new data because the reference table has not yet been updated. After the first phase is complete, the service routine performs the second phase of the update process: atomically updating the reference table. The two-phase update process leaves the cache, at all times, in a consistent state.

US Patent:

7392533, Jun 24, 2008

Filed:

May 19, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/848071

Inventors:

Joseph D. Ternasky - Mountain View CA, US
Robert L. C. Parker - San Jose CA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US
Adam Eversole - Redmond WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Michael Stokes - Eagle ID, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 7/04
G06F 17/30
G06K 9/00
H04L 9/32

US Classification:

726 2, 371111

Abstract:

A system and related techniques detect and manage the set of rights associated with a componentized electronic document, including to separately protect and manage individual text, graphic, audio, video or other parts of a multimedia presentation. Unlike prior digital asset management platforms which could enforce encryption or other protection simply around the entire object, the invention permits individualized control over separate media components, to permit distribution for example of some parts, such as text passages, while preventing unauthorized access or copying of audio, photographic, video or other files or content. The electronic document may maintain a list of media components and the set of rights associated with each such component, and a content server or other source may apply key encryption or other safeguards to guide the delivery of the overall media object or its parts, for instance to view in a browser, print on a printer or otherwise access, manipulate or output the content.

US Patent:

7777902, Aug 17, 2010

Filed:

May 19, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/848002

Inventors:

Joseph D. Ternasky - Mountain View CA, US
Robert L. C. Parker - San Jose CA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US
Adam Eversole - Redmond WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Michael Stokes - Eagle ID, US
Oliver H. Foehr - Mercer Island WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/00

US Classification:

358 115, 358 12, 358 113, 358 19, 400 76

Abstract:

A system and related techniques generate printing and other output operations via a resolution-independent visual tree object. According to embodiments the operating system or other resource may receive the visual tree object and related data from applications or other sources, and perform logic to scale or process the visual output for resolution, effects or other purposes directly from that object. The operating system or other resource itself may be configured to receive the componentized visual tree object and condition or render that object for output to a printer, facsimile machine, copy machine or other output device. The operating system may serialize or spool that object from the source object in native form, relieving applications of the need to prepare documents or other output objects to generate specified resolutions, effects or to adapt the output to specific output drivers.

US Patent:

7880918, Feb 1, 2011

Filed:

May 19, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/848043

Inventors:

Joseph D. Ternasky - Mountain View CA, US
Robert L. C. Parker - San Jose CA, US
Michael M. Byrd - Bellevue WA, US
Adam Eversole - Redmond WA, US
Joseph King - Seattle WA, US
Michael Stokes - Eagle ID, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G09G 5/00

US Classification:

358 118, 358 12, 345619, 345660

Abstract:

A system and related techniques generate a unified representation of graphical representations, such as documents, graphic images or others, for displaying on a display screen, printing on a printer, faxing via a facsimile machine or outputting in other ways. In embodiments a media integration layer, which may reside in the operating system level, may generate renderings from graphics primitives, and send that rendering via a mediation engine to a device driver, for instance a print engine located in a printer. The device engine may return a preview of the output representation to the media integration layer for adjustments or to accept and print the output, all without a necessity for or reliance upon a device-specific driver in the operating system. Since both the display screen and the output device operate off of the same base representation, neither the display nor output device needs to attempt to emulate the output characteristics of the other, and screen-to-print uniformity may be enhanced.

Address:

14150 NE 20 St, Bellevue, WA 98007

Phone:

4257854458

VIN:

JTEBU5JR2C5099513

Make:

TOYOTA

Model:

4RUNNER

Year:

2012