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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2002
Applicants:

Mark H. Lucovsky, Sammamish, WA (US);

Shaun D. Pierce, Sammamish, WA (US);

Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);

Inventors:

Mark H. Lucovsky, Sammamish, WA (US);

Shaun D. Pierce, Sammamish, WA (US);

Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Described is a schema-based context service that provides regularized context data, such as to an information agent that handles notifications. The context service and context schema describe user contextual state data, including presence information, location information, and schedule information, along with people and groups data, sensor data, computing context data and/or extended-context data. The state data may be obtained via similar schema based services.


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