Raymond E Ozzie, Age 6833 Harbor St, Manchester, MA 01944

6446113, Sep 3, 2002

Jul 19, 1999

09/356930

Jack E. Ozzie - Chester NH
Raymond E. Ozzie - Manchester MA

Groove Networks, Inc. - Beverly MA

G06F 1300

709204, 709203, 709217

An activity-based collaboration system provides communication and other shared and mutual activities between individuals and small groups in shared private spaces, called “telespaces”. In the system, participants or members of a telespace interact through personal computers, Internet appliances or other network-capable devices, which can communicate with one-another over a network, e. g. , the Internet. Each telespace is an instantiation of an activity operable on each of the network-capable devices of members of the telespace. Each activity includes a tool for initiating data change requests (called “deltas”) responsive to telespace member interactions, and a data-change engine, separate from the tool, for maintaining telespace data pursuant to a common data model, usually activity-specific, in memory. Each network-capable device also includes a dynamics manager, responsive to the deltas, for directing the data-change engine to make changes to the local copy of data.

6640241, Oct 28, 2003

Jul 19, 1999

09/357007

Raymond E. Ozzie - Manchester MA
Kenneth G. Moore - Westford MA
Robert H. Myhill - Newton MA
Brian M. Lambert - North Andover MA

Groove Networks, Inc. - Beverly MA

G06F 1516

709204, 709231, 709248

A communications manager provides communication services for an activity-based collaboration system, in which data change requests comprising deltas are communicated over a network between network-capable devices. The communications manager is operable on a local network capable device for sending locally-generated deltas over the network to at least one remote network-capable device and for receiving remotely-generated deltas over the network from the at least one remote network-capable device. The communications manager can send the deltas via unicasting, multicasting, or broadcasting techniques. The communications manager is responsive to network connection status information indicating that the remote network-capable device is connected to the network for sending the local deltas directly to an address for the remote network-capable device. A presence mechanism maintains and distributes, on request, the network connection status information, which it acquires from each of the network-capable devices. The communications manager is also responsive to the network connection status information indicating that the remote network-capable device is disconnected from the network for sending the local deltas to an address of a relay.

6859821, Feb 22, 2005

Jul 19, 1999

09/356148

Jack E. Ozzie - Chester NH, US
Raymond E. Ozzie - Manchester MA, US

Groove Networks, Inc. - Beverly MA

G06F015/16

709205, 709201, 709213, 707201, 715511

A distributed, activity-based collaboration system can employ a data change request priority scheme for determining an order of execution of data change requests in effecting changes to local copies of data so as to optimize data consistency for collaborative activities. The data change request priority scheme can entail encoding sequence number information and dependency information in the data change requests, responsive to which data changes can be made, unmade and remade to the data.

6941510, Sep 6, 2005

Jun 6, 2000

09/588195

Raymond E. Ozzie - Manchester MA, US
Kenneth G. Moore - Westford MA, US
Ransom L. Richardson - Somerville MA, US
Edward J. Fischer - Cambridge MA, US

Groove Networks, Inc. - Beverly MA

G06F015/00

715513, 715530, 711202

An in-memory storage manager represents XML-compliant documents as a collection of objects in memory. The storage manager allows real-time access to the objects by separate processes operating in different contexts. The data in the objects is stored in memory local to each process and the local memories are synchronized by means of a distributed memory system that stores the data in the same data region, but maps the data region to the address space of each process. Data corruption in the data region is prevented by a locking mechanism that prevents the processes from simultaneously modifying same data.

7139798, Nov 21, 2006

May 17, 2002

10/150757

William E. Zircher - Pepperell MA, US
Jack E. Ozzie - Chester NH, US
Raymond E. Ozzie - Manchester MA, US

Groove Networks, Inc. - Beverly MA

G06F 15/16

709204, 709203, 709205, 709217, 709219

A connection between a secure shared space and an external system is created with a connector tool. The connector tool code is included in an independent agent called a “bot” that is created by a software developer. Bots run in the background in an automated and unattended manner in a specialized enterprise integration server. Each bot has a unique identity and runs under an account assigned to the enterprise integration server. A bot can be invited to a shared space much as another collaborator. Bots can also invite others to shared spaces. All bots running in the enterprise integration server are administered by a centralized administrative control. This allows account and identity policies to be established and global behaviors, including authentication settings, startup options and scope to be determined centrally. The centralized control allows simple installation, configuration and deployment and administrative control of bot operation and access. It also allows for logging and monitoring of system behavior.

7340502, Mar 4, 2008

Oct 24, 2002

10/279785

Ransom L. Richardson - Beverly MA, US
Raymond E. Ozzie - Manchester MA, US
Jack E. Ozzie - Chester NH, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

709204, 709205, 709208, 709223, 709246, 709248, 707 8, 707100

In a peer-to-peer collaboration system, deltas containing data change commands are organized in a persistent data structure called a delta log. The delta log is organized into blocks, which are the largest division in the delta log. In turn, blocks contain groups, groups contain chains and chains contain deltas. Delta blocks are used to implement priority deltas that are used to limit the collection of data change commands that must be transferred. Within a block the deltas are organized by groups, each of which is a set of deltas organized into chains. The delta group in used to determine which deltas to purge. The chains are ordered by increasing creator ID of the endpoint that created the chain. Organizing the delta log in this fashion allows the log to be “walked” to detect convergence problems. To achieve causality-preservation, each delta has a list of dependencies representing other deltas that must be executed before the current delta can be executed.

7490126, Feb 10, 2009

Jul 30, 2003

10/630150

Raymond E. Ozzie - Manchester MA, US
Jack E. Ozzie - Chester NH, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

709205, 709204, 709217, 709225, 709232

A distributed, activity-based collaboration system employs a data change request priority scheme for determining an order of execution of data change requests in effecting changes to local copies of data so as to optimize data consistency for collaborative activities. The data change request priority scheme can entail encoding sequence number information and dependency information in the data change requests, responsive to which data changes can be made, unmade and remade to the data.

7552862, Jun 30, 2009

Jun 29, 2006

11/427704

Gary W. Flake - Bellevue WA, US
Eric J. Horvitz - Kirkland WA, US
Joshua T. Goodman - Redmond WA, US
Eric D. Brill - Redmond WA, US
Bradly A. Brunell - Medina WA, US
Susan T. Dumais - Kirkland WA, US
Alexander G. Gounares - Kirkland WA, US
Trenholme J. Griffin - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Oliver Hurst-Hiller - New York NY, US
Raymond E. Ozzie - Manchester MA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/00
H04K 1/00

235375, 235380, 705 14, 705 80, 726 1, 726 27, 709202, 709218, 709229

Architecture is provided that facilitates user-controlled access to user profile information. A user is allowed to selectively expose (or mask) portions of his/her profile to third parties. Additionally, advertisers and/or content providers can offer incentives or enticement in response to the acceptance of which a user exposes larger portions of their profile. The architecture comprises a system that facilitates profile management utilizing a profile component that facilitates creation and storage of an electronic profile of a user, and a control component under control of the user for controlling access to the profile. Machine learning and reasoning is provided to make inferences and automate aspects thereof.