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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:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2004
Applicant:
Michael Joseph Toutonghi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Inventor:
Michael Joseph Toutonghi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for a data acquisition device to transfer a new data object to a user storage device. The method comprises detecting a new data object; determining an availability of one or more user storage devices to store the new data object in response to the detecting; establishing a communications session with at least one available user storage device; and sending the new data object to the at least one available user storage device for storage therein.