William D. Sproule

Person

Woodinville, WA, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Hydration of a hierarchy of dehydrated files
- Patent number 11,010,408
- Issue date May 18, 2021
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Jack Nichols
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Computerized prominent character recognition in videos
- Patent number 9,934,423
- Issue date Apr 3, 2018
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Tzong-Jhy Wang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Automatic video quality enhancement with temporal smoothing and use...
- Patent number 9,934,558
- Issue date Apr 3, 2018
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Nitin Suri
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Opportunistic frame caching
- Patent number 9,691,430
- Issue date Jun 27, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Giedrius Zizys
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Computerized machine learning of interesting video sections
- Patent number 9,646,227
- Issue date May 9, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Nitin Suri
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Virtualization of mobile device user experience
- Patent number 9,542,062
- Issue date Jan 10, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- William D. Sproule
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Automatic video quality enhancement with temporal smoothing and use...
- Patent number 9,460,493
- Issue date Oct 4, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Nitin Suri
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Visual previews
- Patent number 9,208,599
- Issue date Dec 8, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Sriram Subramanian
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Automated story generation
- Patent number 9,161,007
- Issue date Oct 13, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Nitin Suri
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Image tagging user interface
- Patent number 8,867,779
- Issue date Oct 21, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- Karthik G. Anbalagan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Movie making techniques
- Patent number 8,750,684
- Issue date Jun 10, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- William D. Sproule
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Virtualization of mobile device user experience
- Patent number 8,560,595
- Issue date Oct 15, 2013
- Microsoft Corporation
- William D. Sproule
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Automated story generation
- Patent number 8,422,852
- Issue date Apr 16, 2013
- Microsoft Corporation
- Nitin Suri
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data preparation for media browsing
- Patent number 8,180,645
- Issue date May 15, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- Bruce Alan Johnson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data preparation for media browsing
- Patent number 7,865,366
- Issue date Jan 4, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Bruce Alan Johnson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Automatic rules-based device synchronization
- Patent number 7,647,346
- Issue date Jan 12, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Andrew L. Silverman
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Facilitating communication with automotive vehicle buses
- Patent number 7,275,027
- Issue date Sep 25, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- William D. Sproule
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Data preparation for media browsing
- Patent number 7,159,174
- Issue date Jan 2, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- Bruce Alan Johnson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
In-vehicle audio browser system having a common usability model
- Patent number 7,069,510
- Issue date Jun 27, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- W. Michael Anderson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for logging into a vehicle computer system
- Patent number 6,606,543
- Issue date Aug 12, 2003
- Microsoft Corporation
- William David Sproule
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for displaying buttons that transition from an ac...
- Patent number 5,767,835
- Issue date Jun 16, 1998
- Microsoft Corporation
- Kim Obbink
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
HYDRATION OF A HIERARCHY OF DEHYDRATED FILES
- Publication number 20190370378
- Publication date Dec 5, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Jack NICHOLS
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VIRTUALIZATION OF MOBILE DEVICE USER EXPERIENCE
- Publication number 20170242512
- Publication date Aug 24, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- William D. Sproule
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATIC VIDEO QUALITY ENHANCEMENT WITH TEMPORAL SMOOTHING AND USE...
- Publication number 20160379343
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Nitin Suri
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COMPUTERIZED MACHINE LEARNING OF INTERESTING VIDEO SECTIONS
- Publication number 20160034786
- Publication date Feb 4, 2016
- Microsoft Corporation
- Nitin Suri
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATED STORY GENERATION
- Publication number 20160035387
- Publication date Feb 4, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Nitin Suri
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Computerized Prominent Character Recognition in Videos
- Publication number 20160034748
- Publication date Feb 4, 2016
- Microsoft Corporation
- Tzong-Jhy Wang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATIC VIDEO QUALITY ENHANCEMENT WITH TEMPORAL SMOOTHING AND USE...
- Publication number 20150363919
- Publication date Dec 17, 2015
- Microsoft Corporation
- Nitin Suri
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Rule-Based Video Importance Analysis
- Publication number 20150363635
- Publication date Dec 17, 2015
- Microsoft Corporation
- Nitin Suri
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RATING PHOTOS FOR TASKS BASED ON CONTENT AND ADJACENT SIGNALS
- Publication number 20150317510
- Publication date Nov 5, 2015
- Microsoft Corporation
- David Lee
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Image Tagging User Interface
- Publication number 20150016691
- Publication date Jan 15, 2015
- Microsoft Corporation
- Karthik G. Anbalagan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VIRTUALIZATION OF MOBILE DEVICE USER EXPERIENCE
- Publication number 20140047363
- Publication date Feb 13, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- William D. Sproule
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATED STORY GENERATION
- Publication number 20130216205
- Publication date Aug 22, 2013
- Microsoft Corporation
- Nitin Suri
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
VISUAL PREVIEWS
- Publication number 20110310109
- Publication date Dec 22, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Sriram Subramanian
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATED STORY GENERATION
- Publication number 20110249953
- Publication date Oct 13, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Nitin Suri
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
OPPORTUNISTIC FRAME CACHING
- Publication number 20110246883
- Publication date Oct 6, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Giedrius Zizys
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
DATA PREPARATION FOR MEDIA BROWSING
- Publication number 20110069936
- Publication date Mar 24, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Bruce Alan Johnson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Movie Making Techniques
- Publication number 20100086276
- Publication date Apr 8, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- William D. Sproule
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Image Tagging User Interface
- Publication number 20100054601
- Publication date Mar 4, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Karthik G. Anbalagan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Virtualization of mobile device user experience
- Publication number 20070298719
- Publication date Dec 27, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- William D. Sproule
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Data Preparation for Media Browsing
- Publication number 20070016865
- Publication date Jan 18, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- Bruce Alan Johnson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Automatic rules-based device synchronization
- Publication number 20060224620
- Publication date Oct 5, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Andrew L. Silverman
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Facilitating communication with automotive vehicle buses
- Publication number 20040176935
- Publication date Sep 9, 2004
- Microsoft Corporation
- William D. Sproule
- G07 - CHECKING-DEVICES
Information Patent Application
Data preparation for media browsing
- Publication number 20030151618
- Publication date Aug 14, 2003
- Bruce Alan Johnson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
In-vehicle audio browser system having a common usability model
- Publication number 20030137543
- Publication date Jul 24, 2003
- W. Michael Anderson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Data preparation for media browsing
- Publication number 20030132953
- Publication date Jul 17, 2003
- Bruce Alan Johnson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

William D. Sproule

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Hydration of a hierarchy of dehydrated files

Computerized prominent character recognition in videos

Automatic video quality enhancement with temporal smoothing and use...

Opportunistic frame caching

Computerized machine learning of interesting video sections

Virtualization of mobile device user experience

Automatic video quality enhancement with temporal smoothing and use...

Visual previews

Automated story generation

Image tagging user interface

Movie making techniques

Virtualization of mobile device user experience

Automated story generation

Data preparation for media browsing

Data preparation for media browsing

Automatic rules-based device synchronization

Facilitating communication with automotive vehicle buses

Data preparation for media browsing

In-vehicle audio browser system having a common usability model

Method and apparatus for logging into a vehicle computer system

Method and system for displaying buttons that transition from an ac...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

HYDRATION OF A HIERARCHY OF DEHYDRATED FILES

VIRTUALIZATION OF MOBILE DEVICE USER EXPERIENCE

AUTOMATIC VIDEO QUALITY ENHANCEMENT WITH TEMPORAL SMOOTHING AND USE...

COMPUTERIZED MACHINE LEARNING OF INTERESTING VIDEO SECTIONS

AUTOMATED STORY GENERATION

Computerized Prominent Character Recognition in Videos

AUTOMATIC VIDEO QUALITY ENHANCEMENT WITH TEMPORAL SMOOTHING AND USE...

Rule-Based Video Importance Analysis

RATING PHOTOS FOR TASKS BASED ON CONTENT AND ADJACENT SIGNALS

Image Tagging User Interface

VIRTUALIZATION OF MOBILE DEVICE USER EXPERIENCE

AUTOMATED STORY GENERATION

VISUAL PREVIEWS

AUTOMATED STORY GENERATION

OPPORTUNISTIC FRAME CACHING

DATA PREPARATION FOR MEDIA BROWSING

Movie Making Techniques

Image Tagging User Interface

Virtualization of mobile device user experience

Data Preparation for Media Browsing

Automatic rules-based device synchronization

Facilitating communication with automotive vehicle buses

Data preparation for media browsing

In-vehicle audio browser system having a common usability model

Data preparation for media browsing