Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andrew C Glass

Randall Edward Aull

Doron J Holan

Christopher Mark Dreher

Craig Steven Ranta

Ellick H Sung

Firdosh Kersy Bhesania

Gary Rensberger

Bernard J Thompson

Peter E H Hauser

Chong I Ka

Bradley L Fosdick

Chih Jen Wen

Various embodiments relate to systems and methods that facilitate wireless device communications and configuration. A detection component identifies N devices that are coupled together via a biological medium, N being an integer, wherein the medium includes direct or indirect touching to a device or devices. After biological contact, a configuration component initiates a configuration between a subset of the devices.

Capacitive bonding of devices

The present invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate wireless device communications and configuration. A detection component identifies N devices that are coupled together via a biological medium, N being an integer, wherein the medium includes direct or indirect touching to a device or devices. After biological contact, a configuration component initiates a configuration between a subset of the devices. Although configurations and/or other communications can be conducted through a medium such as the human body, the present invention can employ an initial touch to identify respective devices whereby other electronic configuration sequences commence without further device contact. Other aspects include chain touching between users and/or devices to facilitate contact between the devices. Location detection components can also be provided to identify when users are present near a device, the detected presence to commence further automated procedures, and/or the location detection components can enable devices to identify other devices in a crowded wireless environment.

A device discovery and presentation system. The architecture facilitates automatically sensing devices, ports, or other wirelessly identifiable entities by detecting such entities, and displaying a 2-D or 3-D representation of the relative location of such entities to a user via a display. The architecture may be controlled to detect such entities in a confined envelope of space for a specified distance.

Multi-dimensional graphical display of discovered wireless devices

Disclosed are a unique system and method that facilitate establishing and maintaining a secure connection between at least one wireless input component and a host (e.g., PC). The system and method involve the wireless input component broadcasting a message that can be 'heard' by any potential host located within a given distance from the wireless input component. The message can indicate that the input component is available for use or pairing with a PC. PCs in the area can respond to the message by notifying the user that a wireless input component is available and by generating a random PIN. The PIN can be displayed to the user on the respective PC. The user can be prompted to enter the PIN using the wireless device. When a match between the user's response and the corresponding PC is determined, the two can be securely linked. In addition the invention provides support of wireless input devices at boot or start up.

Wireless device support for electronic devices

Computer systems typically include many application programs which enable uses to perform a wide range of tasks. The application programs are generally stored on high-capacity memory devices, such as hard drives. Many of these high-capacity memory devices are slow relative to other components of computer system and thus noticeably reduce the overall performance, particularly during start of application programs. One way of improving performance is to organize application programs in memory devices so that often-used application programs are stored in areas that are faster to access or otherwise have less effect on computer performance. Unfortunately, there is no convenient way of keeping track of how often each application program is used. Accordingly, the inventors devised an operating system that logs, or records, certain information every time an application program is started. The log ultimately provides a convenient measure of how frequently application programs are used. Another facet of the invention includes using the log to reorganize how application programs are stored in a memory device.

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Woodinville, WA, United States of America

Andrew C Glass