While at Microsoft I invented a few things that the company ended up patenting. It was fun. I decided to enumerate these inventions somewhere easy to reference. So here they are:
Issued
- Calculating Latency Variation: US6975656
- Also Latency Variation (seems to be the same patent with a different number?): US7333517
- Messenger Transport: US7363378
- Messenger Object Store: US7539727
- Peer-to-peer IM: US7433700
- Secure IM: US7949873
- Multiparty IM Games: US7664816
- Voice IM: US7769142
- Multi Protocol Multicast: US7529255
- Location and Proximity Awareness for Presence: US7823073
- IM Plug-Ins: US7747785
- Multiparty Replication API: US7895270
Filed; not yet issued
- Client Side Presence Document: US20060195532
- Context Sensitive Searches for IM: US20080201434
- Data Compression Using Bloom Filters: US20080301218
- Multipoint IM: US20080313297
- Gadgets for IM: US20090222516