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:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2011
Applicants:
Gregory Francis O'shea, Cambridge, GB;
Thomas Christian Zahn, Cambridge, GB;
Antony Rowstron, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Inventors:
Gregory Francis O'Shea, Cambridge, GB;
Thomas Christian Zahn, Cambridge, GB;
Antony Rowstron, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04J 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Content discovery and content transfer between mobile communications nodes is often required, for example, to synchronize maps, traffic hot spot information and the like for vehicle mounted satellite navigation devices, pedestrian hand-held personal digital assistants and other mobile communications nodes. In an embodiment, content discovery processes using a tree-based data structure for transferring data between two mobile communication nodes is described.