Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Mark Gerard Kraus

Vu Xuan Nguyen

Paul G Toenjes

Martin Thomas Shetter

Sudhakar Visweswara Prabhu

A method of operating a security system () including a plurality of sensors () and cameras (). The security system () includes a monitoring device () and a monitoring database (), at least one of which stores a plurality of contacts and notification methods for contacting the contacts. When one of the sensors () or cameras () detects an emergency condition, one of the monitoring device () or monitoring database () automatically sends a notification message to one of the contacts. If the contact rejects the notification message or does not respond, then the monitoring device () or monitoring database () automatically sends the notification message to the same contact through a different notification method or to a different contact.

Security system for a building

A system and method for providing an emergency contact party telephone line in response to an emergency. The system includes a user device () and a monitoring database (), which communicate with one another over the Internet (). A plurality of contacts and contact methods are stored on the monitoring database (). The contact methods for each contact are arranged in a hierarchy according to priority. When the user device () establishes an emergency condition, it communicates the emergency condition to the monitoring database (). The monitoring database () then establishes a support line, similar to a conference call line. Once the support line is set up, the monitoring database () sends a notification message of the emergency to the contacts through a first contact method. The monitoring database () then sends another notification message through a second contact method different to the first contact method to each of the contacts who did not respond to the first notification message.

System and method of providing an emergency contact party line

The subject invention provides a system and method of providing emergency response to a user carrying a user device (). The method establishes a monitoring database () including identifications for a plurality of user devices () and user information associated with each of the user devices (). An internet protocol (IP) address is established for the monitoring database () and for each user device (). The monitoring database () includes contacts to be contacted in an emergency for each user of each user device () and receives priority information for notifying the contacts. Communication is established between one of the user devices () and the monitoring database () and the monitoring database () automatically processes the priority information to notify the contact using either internet protocols or public-switched telephone networks.

System and method of providing emergency response to a user carrying a user device

Disclosed is a 'keyboard overlay' that sits on top of a touch-sensitive display screen of a computing device. After aligning the overlay on the display screen, the user types on the overlay. When the user presses a key on the overlay, the pressure is transmitted to the display screen below. That pressure is registered by the display screen as a touch. The keyboard overlay is formed to provide tactile finger-position feedback so that a user can keep his fingers oriented properly over the keyboard. The overlay may be opaque with keycap information displayed in the key areas. The overlay may be transparent, allowing a user to see a virtual keyboard painted on the display screen below. The computing device can detect the presence and type of an overlay. Applications may respond differently to different types of overlays. Different applications may be invoked depending upon the type of overlay detected.

Method and system for using a keyboard overlay with a touch-sensitive display screen

A file system protection mechanism for an operating system image for a portable computing device is provided to assist in ensuring a good user experience. A signed catalog file is embedded in a resource-sparing operating system (OS), such as a Windows CE image, for security enhancement and load verification purposes. The invention performs various checks on the image and the signature of the image to ensure that image has not been maliciously modified and that it complies with a release standard. Such a mechanism is important to protect image loads from external threats made possible by, e.g. recent incorporation of broadband wireless and wireline connectivity for portable computing devices. The signing technique includes creating a signed catalog of the image and embedding that catalog into the image as it is loaded onto the portable computing device.

System and method for image authentication of a resource-sparing operating system

Disclosed are a method and a system for detecting multiple, simultaneous touches on a touch-sensitive screen of a computing device. The hardware that controls the touch screen performs two measurements to locate a touch location on the screen. If there is a single touch, then the two measurements are equal. A non-zero difference indicates multiple touches and is correlated with the spread of locations simultaneously touched on the screen. If the difference is greater than a set threshold, then an indication is given of multiple touches. The user is warned against multiple touches, and input from the screen is ignored as long as multiple touches are detected. For some embodiments, when multiple touches are detected, the invention also tries to indicate the boundary of the set of locations simultaneously touched. The boundary is used to interpolate the intended single touch from the locations of all the touches.

Method and system for detecting multiple touches on a touch-sensitive screen

The subject invention provides a method of providing emergency response to a user carrying a user device (). The method establishes a monitoring database () including identifications for a plurality of user devices () and user information associated with each of the user devices (). The monitoring database () includes a list of contacts to be contacted in an emergency for each user of each user device (). An internet protocol (IP) address is established for the monitoring database () and for each user device (). One of the user devices () is selected in the database and at least one of the selected user device () or at least one contact from the list of contacts associated with the selected user device () is notified of the emergency. The communication between the monitoring database () and the selected user device () is established over the Internet () using internet protocols to notify the selected user device () and/or the contact.

Disclosed is a &ldquo;keyboard overlay&rdquo; that sits on top of a touch-sensitive display screen of a computing device. After aligning the overlay on the display screen, the user types on the overlay. When the user presses a key on the overlay, the pressure is transmitted to the display screen below. That pressure is registered by the display screen as a touch. The keyboard overlay is formed to provide tactile finger-position feedback so that a user can keep his fingers oriented properly over the keyboard. The overlay may be opaque with keycap information displayed in the key areas. The overlay may be transparent, allowing a user to see a virtual keyboard painted on the display screen below. The computing device can detect the presence and type of an overlay. Applications may respond differently to different types of overlays. Different applications may be invoked depending upon the type of overlay detected.

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Mark Gerard Kraus