TIMOTHY R MCGRATH
Electrician in Redmond, WA

2003011, Jun 19, 2003

Sep 11, 2002

10/241671

Eric Horvitz - Kirkland WA, US
Mark Lucovsky - Sammamish WA, US
Shaun Pierce - Sammamish WA, US
Christopher Lang - Seattle WA, US
Timothy McGrath - Redmond WA, US
Harvinder Bhela - Woodinville WA, US
Rajesh Rao - Sammamish WA, US
Stephen Lawler - Redmond WA, US

G06F015/00

707/500000

A schema-based location service for Internet access to per-user location data, wherein access to data is based on each user's identity. The location service includes a schema that defines rules and a structure for each user's data, and also includes methods that provide access to the data in a defined way. The location schema thus corresponds to a logical document containing the data for each user. The user manipulates (e.g., reads or writes) data in the logical document by data access requests through defined methods. In one implementation, the location schemas are arranged as XML documents, and the services provide methods that control access to the data based on the requesting user's identification, defined role and scope for that role. In this way, data can be accessed by its owner, and shared to an extent determined by the owner. The structure of the data is defined from the perspective of the data, not from that of an application program or a device, whereby appropriate programs can communicate with the location service to access the data, with existing knowledge of the schema-defined format, regardless of the device or application program in use. Extensibility is defined into the schema.

7503074, Mar 10, 2009

Aug 27, 2004

10/928023

Pratul Dublish - Sammamish WA, US
Timothy S. McGrath - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/04, G06F 17/30, G06K 9/00, H03M 1/68, H04K 1/00, H04L 9/00, H04L 9/32, H04N 7/16

726 27, 726 26, 713168

A system and method for securely delivering the location information of a mobile device to a location consumer is presented. In operation, the mobile device user issues a license to a location consumer. The license identifies the location consumer and any conditions the mobile device user places on the license. The license is encrypted such that it cannot be modified without invalidating the license. The license is submitted in a location request by the location consumer. A location information server receives the request, validates that the license was issued to the location consumer and that the location request conforms to the conditions of the license. If so, the location information server obtains the mobile device's location information, generates a location response, encrypts some of the location response, and returns the location response to the location consumer.

7089109, Aug 8, 2006

Sep 15, 2003

10/662907

Amos Dylan Vance - Seattle WA, US
Timothy S. McGrath - Redmond WA, US
Julia M. Crawford - Seattle WA, US
Aiden Byrne - Redmond WA, US
Norm Bryar - Sammamish WA, US
Christopher Jon Lang - Seattle WA, US
Michael J. Antonio - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G01C 21/30

701208, 701209

A location data structure represents a location in a number of different ways, and may include a map view scale appropriate for rending the map. A map view data structure contains sufficient information to derive a number of independent descriptions of a map view. A route data structure may be used at any point in the route calculation and rendering process, and includes a locations field that includes the two-end points of the route, a calculated route data field representing a calculated route between the two end-points, an options field that specifies the options used or to be used to calculate the route, a driving directions field that represents driving directions for the route, and an identity data field that specifies whether the route data structure is a request to calculate a route, a response to a route calculation request, or a rendering request.

2006018, Aug 17, 2006

Feb 14, 2005

11/058057

Jeffrey Couckuyt - Bothell WA, US
Timothy McGrath - Redmond WA, US
Herry Sutanto - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G01C 21/34

701202000, 701209000, 340995190

A multi-modal navigation system is presented. The navigation system is multi-modal as it provides navigation information (including routes, maps, directions, and navigation instructions) for a plurality of transportation modes including, but not limited to, automobiles, pedestrian walking, trains, subways, and the like. The multi-modal navigation system may be embodied in integrated navigation devices, as stand-alone navigation systems on a variety of computing devices, as a navigation service on a computing device or as a Web service, and the like. The multi-modal navigation system includes route data for a plurality of transportation modes. Route data for the plurality of transportation modes may be integrated, may be separately available, or any combination thereof.

7672483, Mar 2, 2010

Mar 30, 2006

11/393442

Timothy S. McGrath - Redmond WA, US
Leonard Smith, Jr. - Seattle WA, US
David P. Horne - Redmond WA, US
Duncan M. Lawler - Bothell WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06K 9/00

382103, 382104

A spatial data handling and map generation system comprises a receiver component that receives a request for information associated with a geographic region and data associated with an initiator of the request. A mapping component renders a representation of the geographic region, the representation is customized according to a role assigned to the initiator of the request, the role is assigned based at least in part upon the received data.