Christopher J Rice

US Patent:

7630724, Dec 8, 2009

Filed:

Apr 17, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/308648

Inventors:

Christopher R. Rice - Monroe WA, US

Assignee:

Advanced Ground Information Systems, Inc. - Jupiter Inlet Colony FL

International Classification:

H04W 24/00

US Classification:

455457, 455416, 455417

Abstract:

A cellular, PDA communication device and communication system for allowing a plurality of cellular phone users to monitor each others' locations and status, to initiate cellular phone calls by touching a symbol on the touch screen display with a stylus which can also include point to call conferencing calling. Each participant's cellular phone PDA device includes GPS navigation receiver with application software for point to call cellular phone initiation to participants and geographical entities including vehicles, persons or events, conference calls and video transfers. The method and system also includes automatic shifting from GPRS/EDGE/CDMA/1XEVDO to SMS when any of the cellular phones in the communication network is in the voice mode and in use and for automatic shifting back to GPRS/EDGE/CDMA/1XEVDO upon completion of the voice phone call. In addition, using the system, a full transfer of photographs, video clips and high speed data can be used between any cellular phones regardless of who the cellular phone vendors or cellular phone companies are and in either CDMA, GSM, WiFi or a combination of the two.

US Patent:

7986953, Jul 26, 2011

Filed:

Jun 1, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/475987

Inventors:

Christopher R. Rice - Monroe WA, US
Aravind Krishnamachari Seshadri - Redmond WA, US
Timothy Sharpe - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04W 24/00

US Classification:

4554561, 4554565, 4554566

Abstract:

A method for determining location of an observer device is disclosed. The method includes receiving basestation distance data for the observer device and applying a location algorithm to the basestation distance data to determine a computed location of the observer device. The method further includes determining whether the basestation distance data correlates to any of a plurality of observer device conditions. Upon determining the basestation data correlates with one of the observer device conditions, a location bias associated with that observer device condition is employed to correct the computed location of the observer device and produce a corrected location.

US Patent:

8144841, Mar 27, 2012

Filed:

Dec 5, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/951295

Inventors:

Christopher Russell Rice - Monroe WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04M 11/00

US Classification:

379 8814, 379 8825, 709206

Abstract:

Determining unwanted multimedia message originated from a multimedia call. An interface receives a multimedia message from a telecommunication service operator, and multimedia message is stored on a storage area. A unified communication system manages communication message delivery to at least one of the following access points for the recipient, and the unified communication system includes a processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions for identifying a voice portion from content of the received multimedia message. An anti-spam engine is applied to analyze a textual representation of the identified voice portion, and a confidence ranking of the representation is generated in response to the analyzed representation. It is determined whether the multimedia message is an unwanted multimedia message as a function of the confidence ranking and the analyzed representation.

US Patent:

20150139082, May 21, 2015

Filed:

Nov 15, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/081206

Inventors:

Nicholas A. Banks - Duvall WA, US
Piyush Goyal - Redmond WA, US
Shai Guday - Redmond WA, US
Triptpal Singh Lamba - Bothell WA, US
David Neil MacDonald - Seattle WA, US
Darya Mazandarany - Kirkland WA, US
Christopher R. Rice - Redmond WA, US
Saumaya Sharma - Seattle WA, US

International Classification:

H04W 48/08

US Classification:

370329

Abstract:

Embodiments produce a set of instructions for connecting to a network through a network access point based on data crowdsourced from mobile computing devices. The crowdsourced data describes interactions between the mobile computing devices and the network access point when establishing a connection to the network. A cloud service analyzes the crowdsourced data to identify a set of instructions for association with the network access point. The mobile computing devices replay the set of instructions when subsequently attempting to connect to the network access point.