Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Starbucks Corporation

Todd Alan Buiten

Arnold Neil Blinn

David Steeves

Rafael Linden Sagula

Rajesh Viswanathan

Tracy K Ard

William J Reid

Sunil Gowda

Phani Vaddadi

Bassam A Saliba

Eric George Jakstadt

Joshua Kruger

Bert Speelpenning

Jeffrey L Keith

David G Heindel

Systems and methods are provided to implement a computing device that is physically connected to a hardware device. The computing device can identify first event definitions including one or more event parameters and/or a time period. The computing device can obtain first event data from the hardware device according to the first event definitions. The hardware device may provide second event data according to second event definitions to a computing system using a first wireless networking protocol. Based on the first event definitions, the computing device can transform the first event data and route the transformed event data using a second wireless networking protocol to the computing system, via an intermediary system.

Custom event definition for a hardware device using a non-hardware device supported wireless networking protocol

A user may utilize an existing digital identity to authorize the user's access to security-enabled device operations, where the security-enabled device comprises a cryptographic chip. The device can receive a user authentication token from the digital user identification service, which authenticates a user's identity. Further, the security-enabled device can validate the user authentication token, and provide the user access to device security operations on the security-enabled device if the user authentication token is successfully validated, allowing the user to reset their security access information for the device.

Alternate authentication

An image service uses a uniform resource locator (URL) or other identifier to retrieve dynamic content presentations from the Internet. The image service uses a set of imaging parameters to render HTML files into a static image, sized appropriately, that can be presented on a static display device. A user enters URLs identifying locations of dynamic content within a configuration interface on the image service. The image service then dynamically pulls the selected content from the identified web sites, converts the web pages, or portions thereof, into static digital image files, and downloads the image files for display on a static display device.

Dynamic content delivery to network-enabled static display device

An image service uses a uniform resource locator (URL) or other location identifier to retrieve static images embedded in dynamic content presentations from the Internet. The image service uses a set of imaging parameters to extract one or more static images embedded in the dynamic content presentation that can be consumed by the static display device. URLs to existing web pages are entered into a configuration interface on the image service. The image service parses the web pages, identifies a direct location identifier for the embedded image, and passes the direct location identifier to the static display device for direct retrieval of the embedded image. In another implementation, the image service dynamically pulls the selected embedded images from the identified web sites, and downloads the static image files for display on the static display device.

Image acquisition from dynamic content for delivery to network-enabled static display devices

Methods, media, and components are provided for presenting advertising content in an offline setting. In one embodiment, the method includes presenting on a user interface (UI) an advertisement in an electronic form that is associated with selectable options that are also presented on the UI. The selectable options lead to a presentation of supplemental advertising information that is related to the advertisement. The method also includes receiving user input via one the selectable options, and while not communicatively coupled to a source-delivery network, presenting supplemental advertising information that is related to the advertisement.

Interactively presenting advertising content offline

An electronic billing system provides a set of tools for a biller to create and design a customized billing statement. The system includes a statement designer that enables the biller to create a template for the billing statement. Once the statement is designed, the biller provides the statement format and billing data to a third party billing service center, which generates the electronic billing statements in the biller-designed format and electronically distributes the billing statements to consumers. To assist the biller in creating statement templates, the biller integration system maintains industry schema tables that are tailored to particular industries. The tables provide a default set of predefined billing categories for a given industry that the biller might wish to use in its template. The biller integration system and service center are each equipped with a gateway to facilitate the exchange of the statement template and billing data. Each gateway has a parcel manager to reliably transfer parcels and track the parcels as they go from computer to computer. Through this parcel handling and monitoring system, the biller integration system keeps the biller informed as to the location and status of the statement templates, the billing data, any forthcoming payments, and so forth.

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Todd Alan Buiten