Lab and Technology Licensing from Microsoft

Develop the Latest Mobile Device Technologies without a Massive Investment.

tbtechnet — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:06:50 GMT

Microsoft Research has been working on several innovative mobile device technologies. These technologies are ready for you to develop into market leading products. Without the need to ramp-up a large research and development team. Check them out:

Cell2Notify. Energy management for cell phones
Wi-Fi Hand-off to Diversified Base Stations
High Performance Connectivity On Buses

More than 500 companies have already licensed technologies from Microsoft Research and brought them to market as their own products. At a fraction of the cost of developing technologies internally.

See the Microsoft Intellectual Property (IP) Licensing web site at www.microsoft.com/iplicensing

.NET Applications Get a Makeover

tbtechnet — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:57:28 GMT

.NET applications that are used to collect business data often present the data in difficult-to-understand tabular or text formats. These formats are sometimes not accessible in a context that promotes understanding.

Microsoft Research is busy creating solutions like Visualization Components for Displaying Data in .NET Applications . These technologies can display information graphically, providing structured, multidimensional business information that is easier to read, interpret, and translate into actionable insight.

Better yet, development teams can easily license these technologies from Microsoft in a few simple steps.

With Visualization Components for Displaying Data in .NET Applications, users can easily analyze related sets of data in a unified manner.

Here's one example of the technologies below, and click here to learn more.

Bubble Chart
A bubble chart is a set of points displayed as bubbles in an x-y coordinate system. You can control the position of each bubble, its size relative to the other bubbles, and its color. The chart displays optional numerical scale markings along with axis labels and gridlines. Here is a sample bubble chart:

BubbleChartGenerator is a drawing engine without its own user interface. It takes a set of bubble data, generates a bubble chart from the data, and draws it onto a bitmap or Graphics object provided by the caller. It can be used in a variety of environments, including Web applications that generate images on the server for downloading to client browsers.

The BubbleChartControl wraps the BubbleChartGenerator into a Windows Forms control. It can be added to the Microsoft Visual Studio toolbox and dropped into any Windows Forms application. A bubble can be selected with the mouse. Events identifying the selected bubble are fired.

Microsoft Intellectual Property Licensing. www.microsoft.com/iplicensing. Create Your Next Big Thing.

Interoperating with Microsoft Real Time Communication platforms

tbtechnet — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:32:10 GMT

How about delivering high-quality video and audio between the Microsoft Real Time Communication platform and other standards-based video conferencing solutions?

Have you noticed in all the futuristic TV shows, movies nearly everyone is communicating via phone call or video call? Well, audio and video conferencing technology is catching up and catching on. Fast.

I usually get shouted down when I mention drastically reducing travel budgets and doing more audio and video conferencing for meetings, events and tradeshows. The ones doing the shouting have more wrinkles and gray hair than me.

Microsoft released a codec porting kit for some established technologies that are remarkably easy to license.

The RTAudio codec is designed for both high quality wideband and narrowband voice over IP (VoIP) applications, including applications such as, games, audio conferencing, and wireless applications over IP. The RTVideo codec provides high quality, efficient, robust real-time video communication over IP networks. Check them out here.

For more technologies that are also remarkably easy to license, visit the Microsoft site at www.microsoft.com/iplicensing

From Energy Management to Video Conversion to Internet on a Bus - It's All Here

tbtechnet — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:42:18 GMT

Some recent research Microsoft has made available for licensing might make your developers really sit up and take notice. Check out these exciting new areas:

Microsoft Research Deinterlacer - Convert interlaced video.
Microsoft Research Frame Interpolator - Change the frame rate of videos.
Cell2Notify - Cellphone energy management architecture.
Wi-Fi Hand-off to Diversified Base Stations - Seamless Internet and VoIP to vehicles by hops to multiple base stations simultaneously for improved network stability.
Undelivered or Delayed e-mail Notification System - Notification system to make intended recipients aware of email they might be missing.
Microsoft GeoSynth [ LiveLabs ] - Standalone application that enables users to synthesize and view 2d and 3d environments from digital photo collections.

There are many more research and technologies available at www.microsoft.com/iplicensing .

Reduce Battery Consumption for VoIP over Wi-Fi on "smartphones"

tbtechnet — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:58:20 GMT

I don't know about you, but when trying to do VoIP with my "smartphone", my Wi-Fi needs to be always “ON” to receive incoming calls. My phone's battery dies a quick death.

Well, the Microsoft Research folk have been working on a technology and associated patent that might result in a great fix.

Cell2Notify is an energy management architecture that leverages the cellular radio on a smartphone to implement wakeups for the high-energy consumption Wi-Fi radio. For developers, licensing the Cell2Notify patent could result in a whole new breed of "green" "smartphones"

Check out Cell2Notify here.

Plus checkout many more technologies available for licensing - it could mean the creation of your next big thing without a massive investment in new developer projects. www.microsoft.com/iplicensing

Microsoft Detours: The Ability to Change Windows API Controls and Application Behavior

tbtechnet — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:37:37 GMT

Windows APIs govern everything from how memory is allocated to when applications windows can be displayed on the screen.

While this Windows API control may work well across many applications and many scenarios, developers often find the need to change these controls for a specific application or a specific scenario.

Detours provides the mechanisms to allow developers more flexibility by intercepting and modifying some system behavior at the API boundary.

For example, you can use Detours to enforce web browser behavior to allow only the current browser tab to pop up new Windows.
Other uses of Detours have included a system that changes the policy for how COM objects were allocated between a collection of computers and a system that changes registry access policy so that application do not overwrite local registry settings.
Software developers can use Detours to create an automatic distributed partitioning system.
Developers and architects can use this technology to instrument and analyze the DCOM protocol stack, and to create a thinking layer for a COM-based OS API.

Detours is available for commercial use with 32-bit and 64-bit applications via a simple licensing process here.

There are many more research technologies, protocols and components easily licensed from Microsoft. Visit the Microsoft Intellectual Property licensing site here.

You Read the Blurb Now See the Movies

tbtechnet — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:41:07 GMT

It's sometimes boring to read lines of text about what a technology can do. So we've put together several video clips to show some of the technologies in action that are available for licensing.

Check out the clips - they're 2-3 minutes apiece:

3D Face Modeling takes a photograph and creates a 3D face model. Video clip.

Exchange ActiveSync is a communication protocol that enables mobile, over-the-air access to Exchange Server mailbox data. Video clip.

Microsoft Interactive Image Cutout makes it easy to remove objects from a photo. Video clip.

Microsoft Interactive Display is a interactive display technology. Video clip.

Locadio's signal strength technology makes it possible to locate objects in buildings. Video clip.

Microsoft Research has developed a solution to create weathering effects. Video clip.

Microsoft Sync Framework is a synchronization platform to integrate any application, any type of data, using any protocol over any network. Video clip.

Why not leverage the person-years of work Microsoft has spent on research, technologies, protocols and components?

You might create your next big thing without having to hire a huge new development team.

See what is available for licensing at: www.microsoft.com/iplicensing

My Email is Following Me...

tbtechnet — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:33:00 GMT

It seems almost like yesterday that to access my email remotely I had to find a dialtone, logon to the corporate network and watch the emails download to my very heavy laptop oh, so slowly. Sometimes I could go for a 10K run and my emails were still downloading when I returned.

Life is so much easier now to access my e-mail, calendar, and contacts. Not only that I can see the information even when I'm offline. An enabler of this capability is Exchange ActiveSync® in Microsoft® Exchange Server. Exchange ActiveSync is a server-side technology. My Exchange ActiveSync-enabled device will synchronize mailbox items through a wireless connection without using a desktop computer, cradle, and desktop synchronization software. Nice.

So, who is building Exchange ActiveSync-enabled devices and technologies? Well, several companies have licensed the Exchange ActiveSync specification to enable their devices and technologies.

The current list of licensees as of 10.3.08 are:

Check out the other technologies, protocols, research and components available for licensing to startups, entrepreneurs and ISVs here.

We Found a Stock Market Solver

tbtechnet — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:04:00 GMT

Nah, this is not some cheap prank at getting you to buy stock in NonexistentsXCo.com .

It is a post though about www.zignals.com who were trying to crack the problem of stock market data overload for retail investors. Similar to professional investors, retail investors are trying to maximize the effectiveness of their investment decisions. The folk at Zignals worked with Microsoft and developed a Solver series software solution [try saying that three times fast with a mouthful of peanuts].

The first-stage launch of Zignals at www.zignals.com, will focus on easy-to-use stock and market alerts that can be personalized to an investor’s portfolio and delivered directly to users’ e-mail, PDA or mobile device.

Microsoft Solver Foundation technologies is a framework of solvers and modeling services enabling planning, risk modeling, and scheduling for .NET developers.

The Microsoft Intellectual Property (IP) Licensing Group is helping companies like Zignals to create their next big thing. Check us out www.microsoft.com/iplicensing

That Next Big Thing - Tag Your It

tbtechnet — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:59:00 GMT

My team recently did a press meeting to talk about the evidence we have for helping software companies create their next big thing.

World Wide Media eXchange (WWMX), is a technology that enables the indexing of a large volume of geotagged photographs and provides the tools to access them via the geographic browser. WWMX was invented by Kentaro Toyama, when he was with the Interactive Visual Media group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, USA.

WWMX essentially associates digital photographs with the GPS coordinates at which they were shot.

www.planeteye.com caught wind of WWMX and built a whole new web experience around travel planning.

Making travel plans usually requires visiting scattered Web sites to get various bits of information that then need to be pieced together.
PlanetEye pulls all of this information about attractions, hotels, restaurants and the like onto one site, and then it enhances this content with WWMX-geotagged user-generated content.

Check out the other technologies available to license at www.microsoft.com/iplicensing

WPC 08 Played With My Mind

tbtechnet — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:42:11 GMT

We were showing Mindball at WPC in Houston July 08 to attract partners for follow-on conversations.

Rule#1 for Mindball: do not think of flying a jet fighter as a tactic to win this game.
Rule#2 for Mindball: staring at your opponent is great entertainment for the crowds watching you.
Rule#3 for Mindball: caffeine will not help you win.

Anyway, the IP Licensing team is getting some great attention:

Two To Three Step Licensing Now Available:

1. Cross-Device Image Viewer

2. Interactive Image Cutout

3. Microsoft Mobile Video Optimization (Portrait)

4. Mobile Picture

5. Photo Auto-Cropping

6. Detours

REAL SUCCESS STORIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE LICENSED MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES:

1. Data Protection Software Company Creates Next Big Thing to Protect PC and Laptop Data

2. Licensing Watermarking Technology Positions Small Company for Market Leadership

3. Licensing Exchange ActiveSync Attracts Mobile Manufacturers and Customers

4. Licensing Exchange ActiveSync Helps to Further Distinguish Mobile Innovator

5. Inrix Keeps Drivers on Track with Predictive Traffic Information

6. Nokia Integrates Business Mobility with Exchange ActiveSync, Expands Consumer Choice

7. Chinese Company First to Market with Technology That Turns Photos into Cartoons

8. Mobility Start-Up Zooms to Market in Just 18 Months

Create Your Next Big Thing

tbtechnet — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:55:00 GMT

I've been meaning to list all of our case studies and so here's the latest:

Zumobi: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001930
Nokia: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001826
ACC: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001694
DataViz: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001499
Helio: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001517
Inrix: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=201011

Innovate and Faster

tbtechnet — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:25:00 GMT

One of my team's claims is that by licensing technology, innovative products can get to market faster. Well, being a show-me-the-money kind of guy, here is some proof of that:

The IP Licensing Group Helps Bring Roadsync To Market Much Faster

Technology Licensing Plays A Key Role In Helping Helio To Continue To Innovate

PLEASE READ - Disclaimer - PLEASE READ

tbtechnet — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:46:00 GMT

All postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

About Me

tbtechnet — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:44:00 GMT

More than 18 years of experience working in high technology organizations.
Worked in business to build winning marketing and sales organizations from the ground up and to drive successful product development.
Conducted successful branding campaigns and product launches.
Developed a keen ability to spot key market trends and opportunities.
Instrumental in creating product positioning programs and developing revenue for IPOs, mergers, and acquisitions.
Background includes network security, network infrastructure, and research and development in magnetic alloys, lasers, and optical fiber communications.
Research has been published in several scientific publications.
Bachelor and Doctorate degrees in Materials Science from the University of Birmingham, U.K.