The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
May. 16, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter L. Engrav, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron E. Erlandson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Stephen White, Kirkland, WA (US);
Trevor J. Harris, Seattle, WA (US);
Malia M. Douglas, Seattle, WA (US);
Rachel Sirkin, Seattle, WA (US);
Shikha Devesh Desai, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jie Dong, Woodinville, WA (US);
Evan W. Lavender, Redmond, WA (US);
Christian Harper-Cyr, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method that enables time as data is described herein. The method includes constructing a tree structure, wherein data of the tree structure is a plurality of time intervals, and layers of the tree below a root node comprise identical sibling nodes for layers above a threshold interval length and parent nodes share identical sibling nodes. The method also includes assigning a node identification to each node of the tree structure, wherein each node of the tree structure corresponds to a time interval, and traversing the tree structure to convert a timestamp to a human readable time.