Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Abhishek Abhishek

Jiandong Ruan

Hui Shen

Arun Ayyagari

Anton W Krantz

Yi Lu

Amer A Hassan

Francis Duong

Thomas W Kuehnel

Yasser Baseer Asmi

Christian F Huitema

Timothy Mark Moore

Warren Vincent Barkley

Taroon Mandhana

Khawar Zuberi

Zhengyou Zhang

Poovanpilli G Madhavan

Rouzbeh Aminpour

Avi R Geiger

Yue Chen

Noel Wayne Anderson

Jie Jerry Liu

Di Wang

Mohammad Shabbir Alam

Dimitrios Lymberopoulos

Michel Goraczko

Krishna Ganugapati

Victoria Marie Poncini

Tony Capone

Ali Dalloul

Vishesh Parikh

Sean O Lyndersay

David T Jones

David A Roberts

Igor A Kostic

Srinivas Raghu Gatta

Vivek Bhanu

Wei Zhao

David Walter Proctor

Florin Teodorescu

Dan Knudson

Olivier M Contant

Adeel Jamil Siddiqui

Edwin A Hernandez-Mondragon

Paramvir Bahl

Shipeng Li

Ming-Chieh Lee

Craig J Mundie

Deepak Bansal

Shai Guday

William Jefferson Westerinen

Mitesh K Desai

Pei Zheng

Zihua Guo

Scott Manchester

Deyun Wu

Andrew Thomas Baron

Ryan S Menezes

Richard Yuqi Yao

Anirban Banerjee

Mei-Hsuan Lu

Christopher J Corbett

Sachin C Sheth

Saurabh Mahajan

Sharad Mittal

Ankur Agiwal

Tarek Z Elabbady

Ari Pekka Niikkonen

William H Dixon

Hong Liu

Bofan Hsu

Jenelle R Coberly

Amir Zohrenejad

Robert Aichner

Ermin Kozica

Merle Michael Robinson

Glenn R Ward

Victoria M Poncini

William J Westerinen

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Yi c/o Microsoft Corporation International Patents Lu

Yi Microsoft Corporation Lu

David Jones

Scott A Manchester

The discussion relates to inventory control. In one example, a set of ID sensors can be employed in an inventory control environment and subsets of the ID sensors can collectively sense tagged items in shared space. Data from the subset of ID sensors can indicate when a user has taken possession of an individual tagged item in the shared space.

Inventory control

The discussion relates to context-aware environments. One example can include inwardly-facing cameras positioned around a periphery of an environment that defines a volume. The example can also include sensors positioned relative to the volume and configured to communicate with a user device in the volume. The example can also include an ambient perception component configured to track user locations in the volume and to detect user gestures relative to objects in the volume, and responsive to receiving a query from the user's device, to supplement the query with information derived from the objects.

Context-awareness

A user device within a communication architecture, the user device comprising: an image capture device configured to determine image data for the creation of a video channel defining the shared scene; an intrinsic/extrinsic data determiner configured to determine intrinsic/extrinsic capture device data associated with the image capture device; and a video encoder configured to encode the image data and intrinsic/extrinsic capture device data within the video channel.

Shared scene mesh data synchronisation

A first wireless devices establishes an association with a second wireless device by sending a connection request packet to a previously-discovered second wireless device. The second wireless device identifies the received packet as a connection request and responds with a connection response packet, thereby establishing an association between the first and second wireless devices. The wireless devices can then, for example, send and receive data.

Managing associations in ad hoc networks

A software based wireless infrastructure system is provided. The system has a driver that communicates with the network stack and a network interface card (NIC), a station server in communication with the station driver and an 802.1X supplicant or an 802.1X authenticator. Each NIC provides station and/or access point functionality support. The driver drops packets that have been received if the packet has not been authenticated and associated. Packets that have been fragmented or encrypted are unfragmented and decrypted. An association manager is used in conjunction with a configuration table manager to associate stations and access points via management packets. A manager receives 802.1X data packets from the packet processor and sends them up to a station server that communicates with user mode applications and an 802.1X supplicant or an 802.1X authenticator that are used to authenticate and deauthenticate stations and access points. APIs are provided to enable communication between the components.

Native Wi-Fi architecture for 802.11 networks

A wireless mesh network enables multiple devices near each other to transmit simultaneously, thus allowing increased network bandwidth. Prior to transmitting, a device may determine various parameters of the wireless medium on which it desires to transmit. For example, the device may determine whether the intended recipient device is close enough, and verify that any other transmitting and receiving devices are far enough away. If these or any other suitable criteria are met, the device can transmit simultaneously with other devices in the vicinity.

Wireless mesh networking with multiple simultaneous transmissions by nearby network nodes

In some embodiments, a wireless management service provides the capability to manage connectivity between a device and one or more wireless networks on a differentiated basis. For example, network profiles may be managed in a way that is influenced by the identity of the user, such that profiles which are customized for a specific user may be established. Connectivity may also be managed in a way that is influenced by a session type ongoing on a device, such that when certain events occur (e.g., a request by one user to connect to or disconnect from a wireless network is processed), wireless connectivity employed by other users sharing the device is appropriately managed.

Differentiated management of wireless connectivity

A system and method for carrying out network and interface selections across multiple media is disclosed. The disclosed system facilitates automated network interface configuration decision-making that spans a set of networks supporting communications via differing media. A set of media specific modules associated with differing communications media acquire network interface status/capabilities information. A rules engine thereafter applies a designated network selection rule(s) to the acquired network interface status/capabilities information, and any other appropriate parameters attributable to either an interface or network, to select one or more networks and interfaces with which to establish/maintain a connection.

Network and interface selection on a computing device capable of establishing connections via multiple network communications media

Discovery of services between devices is provided prior to establishing a connection between devices, including wireless-enabled devices or devices that are communicatively coupled to wireless access points or other wireless communication devices. Discovering services prior to establishing a connection may facilitate finding a desired service. The services that may be discovered may be, for example, print services, camera services, PDA services or any other suitable services. Services may be discovered using 802.11, UWB or any other suitable wireless technology. As one example, particular services may be requested. As another example, services that are provided by a device may be advertised.

Proximity service discovery in wireless networks

Native WI-FI architecture for 802.11 networks

A wireless station is connected to a wireless network through an access point and can establish a direct client-to-client connection to a second wireless station. The wireless station can communicate directly with the second wireless station without involving the access point. The wireless station communicates with the wired network and with other wireless stations through the access point. The second wireless station may have an infrastructure connection to the access point or may be independent.

Direct wireless client to client communication

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