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William Jefferson Westerinen

Todd L Carpenter

Thomas G Phillips

Alexander Frank

Adrian Mark Chandley

Pasquale DeMaio

Chad Magendanz

Clark David Nicholson

Dale Clark Crosier

Christopher Allen Schoppa

Carl J Ledbetter

Aditha May Adams

Cenk Ergan

Michael Richard Fortin

Jason Michael Anderson

Steven John Robbins

Mark Myers

Shon Schmidt

Steven T Kaneko

Rod G Fleck

Michael James Zwilling

Mark Joseph Zbikowski

Hanumantha Rao Kodavalla

Zhangwei Xu

Nathan Steven Obr

Curt Andrew Steeb

John M Parchem

Patrick L Stemen

Rajeev Y Nagar

Therron Powell

Tony Dwayne Pierce

Rajeev Badyal

Dean L DeWhitt

Surenda Verma

Dan Teodosiu

Ruston Panabaker

Steve T Kaneko

Eric Gould Bear

Allen Marshall

David Jaroslav Sebesta

Ruston John David Panabaker

Stephen Richard Drake

Emily Nicole Hill

Chris Schoppa

Eric J Horvitz

Scott Manchester

Benjamin E Nick

Taryn K Beck

Hanumant Kumar Yadav

James Robert Hamilton

Mehmet Iyigun

Joel Bernard Jacobs

Shai Guday

Dawson Yee

Miller Thomas Abel

Sung Ho Son

Scott C Forbes

David Jay Foster

Johannes Klein

Julio Estrada

Juan J Perez

Robert Scott Plank

William Chambers Powell, Iii

James Duffus

Kenneth Wade Stufflebeam, Jr

Paramvir Bahl

Steven Nabil Bathiche

Michael Jack Sinclair

Craig J Mundie

Charles J Migos

Vladimir Sadovsky

Abhishek Abhishek

Feng Zhao

Andrew John Fuller

Robert P Fitzgerald

Craig Steven Ranta

Yadhu Nandh Gopalan

Jeffrey Alan Herold

Justin Michael Maguire

Manolito E Adan

John Mark Miller

Matthew P Rhoten

Gregory P Baribault

Emily Nicole Wilson

Martin D Hall

Michael Alan Dougherty

Michael W Van Flandern

Philip Lionel Barnes

Peter G Viscarola

Jack Creasey

Poovanpilli G Madhavan

Daniel J Makoski

Isaac P Ahdout

Son VoBa

William L Poole

Victoria Marie Poncini

Mohamed Belali

Mark Curtis Light

Valerie R See

Tse-Ching Yu

Light guide display and field of view techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware to configure a user interface and a display device communicatively coupled to the one or more modules to output the user interface to be viewable by a user within a range of distances from the display device such that closer distances within the range permit the user to have an increased field of view in comparison with distances within the range that are further away from the user.

Light guide display and field of view

Augmented reality and physical game techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an indication is received by a computing device of a location of a physical gaming piece of a game. An augmentation is computed based on the indication by the computing device to be displayed as part of the game. The augmentation is displayed by the computing device on a display device that is at least partially transparent such that a physical portion of the game is viewable through the display device concurrently with the augmentation.

Augmented reality and physical games

Augmented reality light guide display techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a housing configured in a hand-held form factor, one or more sensors configured to detect a position and orientation of the housing in three dimensions in a physical environment of the housing, a light guide that is at least partially transparent and supported by the housing, a light engine that is optically coupled to the light guide, and one or more modules disposed within the housing and implemented at least partially in hardware. The one or more modules are configured to calculate a position and orientation of an augmentation and cause the light engine to output the augmentation for display using the light guide such that the augmentation is viewable concurrently with at least a portion of the physical environment through the light guide.

Augmented reality light guide display

In order to provide a more efficient persistent storage device, one or more long-term storage media are included along with a non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, one portion of the non-volatile memory is used as a write buffer and a read cache for writes and reads to the long-term storage media. Interfaces are provided for controlling the use of the non-volatile memory as a write buffer and a read cache. Additionally, a portion of the non-volatile memory is used to provide a direct mapping for specified sectors of the long-term storage media. Descriptive data regarding the persistent storage device is stored in another portion of the non-volatile memory.

Non-volatile memory cache performance improvement

Light guide techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a housing, a light guide supported by the housing, a light engine disposed within the housing and optically coupled to the light guide, and one or more modules disposed within the housing and implemented at least partially in hardware. The one or more modules are configured to cause the light engine to output a user interface for display using the light guide along an image plane focused at infinity.

Mobile device light guide display

Embodiments include a smart personal gateway device (SPGD) that augments the capabilities of smart personal devices (SPDs) connected in a personal area network (PAN). The SPGD implements services for the SPDs using computing resources of the SPGD. In some embodiments, the SPGD provides carrier-grade voice services to SPDs lacking hardware to support such services (e.g., SPDs supporting Wi-Fi only).

Service provisioning through a smart personal gateway device

Techniques are disclosed herein for allowing sharing of notes and ideas between electronic devices. The presence of a number of electronic devices is determined. A determination is made that the electronic devices are to be part of a shared workspace. A shared workspace is generated for the electronic devices. The shared workspace is displayed on a display screen of at least one of the electronic devices. The shared workspace that is displayed may be based on the capabilities of the electronic device. The shared workspace that is displayed may reflect the location of the electronic devices.

Smart notebook

A mobile device such as a cell phone is used to remotely control an electronic appliance such as a television or personal computer. In a setup phase, the mobile device captures an image of the electronic appliance and identifies and stores scale-invariant features of the image. A user interface configuration such as a virtual keypad configuration, and a communication protocol, can be associated with the stored data. Subsequently, in an implementation phase, another image of the electronic appliance is captured and compared to the stored features in a library to identify a match. In response, the associated user interface configuration and communication protocol are implemented to control the electronic appliance. In a polling and reply process, the mobile device captures a picture of a display of the electronic device and compares it to image data which is transmitted by the electronic appliance.

Mobile device which automatically determines operating mode

The present invention includes entity tracking, privacy assurance, and zone policy administration technologies allowing for the creation of zone policies, including the definition of zones and managed entities, the zone policies including rules that apply to the managed entities within or in relation to the zones, and privacy policies assuring privacy of sensitive data. The technologies also provide for the definition of sensors, rule event objects, and default event objects, and for the establishment of associations between rules and managed entities, sensors, and rule event objects so as to create zone policies. Event objects may generate zone policy events or actions upon compliance with or violation of various rules of zone policy. Managed entities are defined as entities associated with mobile devices capable of location tracking and communication with zone policy servers. Entities may be persons, vehicles, animals, or any other object for which tracking and zone policy administration is of value. Zone policy may include privacy policy that may restrict access to or set access conditions for data or information. Privacy policies may be used to ensure individual managed entities and their data remain anonymous to a desired degree and that sensitive data is appropriately protected.

Zone policy administration for entity tracking and privacy assurance

A virtual machine monitor provides a trusted operating environment for a software usage metering application when a qualified virtual machine monitor is loaded as part of trusted boot and when all other programs and operating systems run in containers managed by the virtual machine monitor. The virtual machine monitor may also host a locking application for limiting the functionality of the computer if contractual terms of use are not met. Both the metering and locking applications run at a higher privilege level than ring 0, at the same level as the virtual machine monitor.

Virtual machine support for metered computer usage

Active vibration techniques are described. In implementations, a selection of a type of writing surface or a type of writing implement is received, the selection made through interaction with a user interface. The selected type of writing surface or type of writing implement is simulated using vibrations of a stylus or surface of a computing device that is configured to receive one or more inputs from the stylus.

Active vibrations

Oftentimes, computer files, information packets, and the like share identical data portions that cause duplicate storing. The files and/or packets can be logically divided and checks can be performed to determine if there are shared portions. If shared portions exist, then as opposed to making a duplicate copy of information, a pointer can be produced that identifies where the portion is saved. In addition, pointers can be used in compression of information such that a compressed file can identify an original copy&#x2014;the original copy can be used to decompress the information.

Remote differential compression applied to storage

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William Jefferson Westerinen