Jerome D Boss

US Patent:

6813248, Nov 2, 2004

Filed:

Oct 3, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/678536

Inventors:

Jerome D. Boss - Bellevue WA
Cezary Marcjan - Redmond WA
Fei Su - Bellevue WA

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04J 116

US Classification:

370252, 370401, 709203

Abstract:

Geographically distributed data-gathering client computers are connected to the Internet in the same manner as typical users (for example, via local dial-up connections). The data-gathering client computers poll a central server (the âUserMonâ server) for a target site to access. After receiving the address of a target site from the UserMon server, the data-gathering client computers access the target site and obtain performance-parameter values indicative of the quality of their respective Internet connections to the target site and/or the performance of the target site itself. Each data-gathering client computer then pushes the performance-parameter values back to the âUserMonâ server for analysis.

US Patent:

7379427, May 27, 2008

Filed:

Nov 2, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/979460

Inventors:

Jerome D. Boss - Bellevue WA, US
Cezary Marcjan - Redmond WA, US
Fei Su - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04L 12/26

US Classification:

370252, 370401, 709203

Abstract:

Geographically distributed data-gathering client computers are connected to the Internet in the same manner as typical users (for example, via local dial-up connections). The data-gathering client computers poll a central server (the “UserMon” server) for a target site to access. After receiving the address of a target site from the UserMon server, the data-gathering client computers access the target site and obtain performance-parameter values indicative of the quality of their respective Internet connections to the target site and/or the performance of the target site itself. Each data-gathering client computer then pushes the performance-parameter values back to the “UserMon” server for analysis.

US Patent:

7418254, Aug 26, 2008

Filed:

Feb 20, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/789432

Inventors:

Jerome Boss - Bellevue WA, US
Lili Cheng - Bellevue WA, US
Cezary Marcjan - Redmond WA, US
David Milstein - Redmond WA, US
Gilad Odinak - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04M 1/66

US Classification:

455411, 455407, 455418, 455437, 235380, 719313

Abstract:

A dynamic service application is stored and executed on a mobile or wireless communication device (e. g. , a cellular telephone) to enable it to be programmed without specialized hardware, software, and other proprietary information. For example, dynamic service application programs or scripts may be entered directly by a user or may be received as a wireless or radiated digital message transmission. The dynamic service application executes the dynamic service application script, which is of a format to accommodate wireless or radiated transmission and storage on the device. The dynamic service application script may be written directly by a user on a computer or a mobile communication device or may be written with the aid of scripting “wizard” software that runs on a computer and guides the writing of script without the user having to work directly with the dynamic service application script. In addition to being received as radiated transmissions, dynamic service application scripts may also be sent as radiated transmissions from mobile communication devices to other devices or computers.

US Patent:

7444156, Oct 28, 2008

Filed:

Feb 20, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/789434

Inventors:

Jerome Boss - Bellevue WA, US
Lili Cheng - Bellevue WA, US
Cezary Marcjan - Redmond WA, US
David Milstein - Redmond WA, US
Gilad Odinak - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04Q 7/00

US Classification:

4554563, 4554042

Abstract:

A user-controlled cellular telephone positioning feature allows a cellular telephone user to correlate a user-specified location name with a cellular telephone location among one or more cells of a cellular telephone network. In one implementation, a cellular telephone location tagging application is stored and operated on a cellular telephone. The application obtains a cell identification string corresponding to a cell of a cellular telephone system with which cell the cellular telephone is in communication and allows the user to associate a location name and the cell identification string as location information for a selected location. Location data are maintained on a user's cellular telephone, and the user can selectively make the location information available others.

US Patent:

7542429, Jun 2, 2009

Filed:

Nov 1, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/979947

Inventors:

Jerome D. Boss - Bellevue WA, US
Cezary Marcjan - Redmond WA, US
Fei Su - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04L 12/56
H04J 1/16

US Classification:

370252, 370401, 709203

Abstract:

Geographically distributed data-gathering client computers are connected to the Internet in the same manner as typical users (for example, via local dial-up connections). The data-gathering client computers poll a central server (the “UserMon” server) for a target site to access. After receiving the address of a target site from the UserMon server, the data-gathering client computers access the target site and obtain performance-parameter values indicative of the quality of their respective Internet connections to the target site and/or the performance of the target site itself. Each data-gathering client computer then pushes the performance-parameter values back to the “UserMon” server for analysis.

US Patent:

7725103, May 25, 2010

Filed:

Dec 14, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/013161

Inventors:

Jerome Boss - Bellevue WA, US
Lili Cheng - Bellevue WA, US
Cezary Marcjan - Redmond WA, US
David Milstein - Redmond WA, US
Gilad Odinak - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04M 3/00

US Classification:

455420, 370241, 379 1003, 379 2704, 37910202, 37910203, 37910601, 37920105, 37920112, 455418, 455419, 455423, 455425, 709202, 709203, 709208

Abstract:

A dynamic service application is stored and executed on a mobile or wireless communication device (e. g. , a cellular telephone) to enable it to be programmed without specialized hardware, software, and other proprietary information. For example, dynamic service application programs or scripts may be entered directly by a user or may be received as a wireless or radiated digital message transmission. The dynamic service application executes the dynamic service application script, which is of a format to accommodate wireless or radiated transmission and storage on the device. The dynamic service application script may be written directly by a user on a computer or a mobile communication device or may be written with the aid of scripting “wizard” software that runs on a computer and guides the writing of script without the user having to work directly with the dynamic service application script. In addition to being received as radiated transmissions, dynamic service application scripts may also be sent as radiated transmissions from mobile communication devices to other devices or computers.

US Patent:

20040267820, Dec 30, 2004

Filed:

Jul 21, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/895663

Inventors:

Jerome Boss - Bellevue WA, US
Cezary Marcjan - Redmond WA, US
Ryan Hamlin - Woodlinville WA, US
Pierre Cote - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F007/00

US Classification:

707/104100

Abstract:

A system for recording and replaying Internet transactions is disclosed. The system uses a recorder object that connects between the Internet and an Internet client through the Internet client's proxy server interface. All communications between the Internet client and the Internet pass through the recorder object, and the recorder object is therefore able to observe directly the exact content of the communications, as well as other aspects of the communications, such as the rate at which they take place, the number and size of packets into which they are bundled, errors in communication, and DNS resolution time. This information can be used to produce a detailed record of the transaction, which can then be reproduced by an Internet client which is configured to use the record to replay the recorded transaction.

US Patent:

20050208954, Sep 22, 2005

Filed:

Mar 1, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/070473

Inventors:

Jerome Boss - Bellevue WA, US
Lili Cheng - Bellevue WA, US
Cezary Marcjan - Redmond WA, US
David Milstein - Redmond WA, US
Gilad Odinak - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04Q007/20

US Classification:

455456100, 455558000, 455456300

Abstract:

A user-controlled cellular telephone positioning feature allows a cellular telephone user to correlate a user-specified location name with a cellular telephone location among one or more cells of a cellular telephone network. In one implementation, a cellular telephone location tagging application is stored and operated on a cellular telephone. The application obtains a cell identification string corresponding to a cell of a cellular telephone system with which cell the cellular telephone is in communication and allows the user to associate a location name and the cell identification string as location information for a selected location. Location data are maintained on a user's cellular telephone, and the user can selectively make the location information available others.