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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2003
Kelly E. Rollin, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephane St-michel, Woodinville, WA (US);
Christopher John Guzak, Kirkland, WA (US);
Giles Van Der Bogert, Kirkland, WA (US);
Brian D. Wentz, Seattle, WA (US);
Kelly E. Rollin, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephane St-Michel, Woodinville, WA (US);
Christopher John Guzak, Kirkland, WA (US);
Giles van der Bogert, Kirkland, WA (US);
Brian D. Wentz, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transferring user profiles between computing devices using portable storage devices is disclosed. A portable storage device (PSD) is connected to a computing device, the computing device reads user profile data from the PSD and configures itself according to that data. If the user profile data is changed on the computing device, those changes are synchronized on the PSD.