Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

David A Roberts

Hui Shen

Anirban Banerjee

Yi Lu

Yatharth Gupta

John W Archer

Christopher David Gual

Xiong Jiang

Michael Bell

Anirudh Anirudh

Aaron Wesley Cunningham

Brian Larsen

Scott Manchester

Amer A Hassan

Christian F Huitema

Abhishek Abhishek

Yusuke Jinnai

Keiichi Kishi

Takeshi Nagao

Takeshi Misu

Yasuhiro Odagiri

Noel Wayne Anderson

Doron J Holan

Mohammad Shabbir Alam

Garret Buban

Robert D Young

Narasimha Rao S S Nagampalli

Christopher J Corbett

Poovanpilli G Madhavan

Douglas Keith Brubacher

Daniel James Driscoll

Saurabh Mahajan

Noel Richard Cross

Sharad Mittal

David J Roth

Zhong Deng

Stephen Clifford Cooper

Ankur Agiwal

Anand Ganesh

Ashraf Hamad

Huseyin Gokmen Gok

Brien Roell

Glenn R Ward

Shawn Jiang

Chris Gual

David V Skyberg

Dennis Ming-Shu Lee

Ani Anirudh

Daniel L Conti

Jeffrey T Smith

Glenn Ward

Scott A Manchester

An access point that implements operating modes in which beacons may be selectively disabled. Beacons may be disabled when no device is actively associated through the access point. Beacons may be enabled in response to one or more triggers, which may include events such as a client forming an association through the access point following a probe request message identifying the access point. In addition, active beaconing may be triggered by user input or may occur during periodic brief intervals that allow client devices to discover the network identifier for the access point. Selective control of beaconing may lead to more effective wireless communication, particularly in areas where users congregate with computers implementing soft APs for personal networks.

Wireless network host in silent mode

A computing device for provisioning a wireless device for connection to a wireless network via a legacy access point. The wireless device supports a wireless protected setup protocol for obtaining the network profile of the network. A user requests the computing device discover wireless devices for provisioning. In response to the user input, the computing device is configured as a soft access point and broadcasts a beacon signal indicating that the access point supports a wireless protected setup protocol, such as Wi-Fi Protected Setup. A request for provisioning is then received by the computing device from the wireless device. A network profile is transmitted from the computing device to the wireless device in accordance with the wireless protected setup protocol. The wireless device may use the profile to connect to the network via the legacy access point using the network profile.

Wireless provisioning a device for a network using a soft access point

A system and method that identifies and effectuates communication between a connectable client and a wireless human interface device. The wireless human interface device utilizes technologies to abstract the complexities of IP based wired and wireless networks to provide mechanisms to easily discover, associate, utilize and diagnose the wireless human interface device. Through the ensuing abstraction the wireless human interface device can be associated with an unlimited number of connectable networked clients or hosts thus eliminating the requirement of analog switch boxes to connect human interface devices to each connectable host or client, and further providing for the control of local and/or Internet based hosts or clients.

Windows rally wireless HID device

A web-based service portal provides a user interface to configure and/or access device(s) of a home network. The service portal can communicate with device(s) through application program interfaces (APIs). The service portal can provide a standardized user interface for specific feature(s) of a device. The service portal can further provide user authentication, device provisioning, and/or a user interface used to interact with device(s) in a home network. The service portal can established a trusted communication link between the portal and the device. The service portal can include a home control user interface component for providing a graphical representation of the home network and receiving user input and a device provisioning component that can discover and configure the device. The service portal can, optionally, include an authentication component that can authenticate a particular user's right to configure and/or access device(s) of a particular home network.

Home networking web-based service portal

A system and method of hosting a user interface of a network device are provided. A particular method includes receiving a request at a server to display a user interface of the network device, authenticating an end user device to validate an identity of a user, and communicating display information of the user interface of the network device to the end user device for display. The server hosted user interface permits monitoring and interactions with the network device by a user of the end user device.

Hosted network device user interface

A process for secure, safe, and easy provisioning of a wireless device with credentials to connect to a wireless network. A connecting wireless device and an established wireless device both utilize low power transmission at close proximity to exchange wireless connection setting information and/or a password. The connecting wireless device is moved into proximity with the established wireless device and a low power setting is discovered at which the wireless devices may communicate with a sufficiently low error rate. The proximity of the connecting wireless device to the established wireless device is verified and the connecting wireless device is then passed the secret information by the established network device.

Physical location verification

A computing device configurable as a wireless network access point that can be controlled from multiple applications. The computing device provides an interface through which applications may input commands to change the state of the access point. The interface responds to these commands and other events, such as association or disassociation of a wireless client, in a manner that does not disrupt the applications or devices using the access point. To determine an appropriate response to any event, the interface may maintain state information, including a count of the number of applications and/or wireless devices that have taken action indicating an operating state of the wireless access point.

Wireless access point supporting control by multiple applications

A system, device, and method for virtually connecting a media device to a computing device are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a method to operate a virtual media device in a computing device, wherein the virtual media device that is controlled by a remote media device. In this manner, a computing device may stream media data to and from the remote media device.

Virtual media device

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David A Roberts