Patents by Inventor Alan Noel MULHALL
Alan Noel MULHALL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11694254Abstract: The description relates to an interactive physical product browsing experience. One example includes a display system for displaying objects. The display system comprises a plurality of object displays each comprising an object store, a robot for moving objects to and from a repository, a user input receiving means, and a processing means. The processing means is configured to cause the object displays to display some of the objects, monitor user behaviour using the user input receiving means, and cause the robot to move an object from the repository to one of the object stores based on the user behaviour.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andreas Balzer, David Mowatt, Alan Noel Mulhall, Muiris Woulfe
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Patent number: 11272055Abstract: Methods and systems which perform information retrieval using natural language dialogue for navigating an inventory of items are described. One example provides an information retrieval system to a user using natural language dialogue. The system comprises a user input receiving device, an output device, a database comprising an inventory of items, and a processor. The processor is configured to retrieve one or more items from the inventory of items using an iterative process by: in response to receiving from the user input receiving device a user input, identifying a subset of the inventory based on the user input. The processor is configured to automatically process the subset of items to determine a classification for distinguishing between items of the subset, to generate an enquiry for a user using the classification and to transmit the enquiry to the output device. The user input and/or the enquiry may use natural language.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andreas Balzer, David Mowatt, Alan Noel Mulhall, Muiris Woulfe
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Patent number: 11074058Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing and removing deployment packages using deployment system operations of an integrated deployment strategy in a deployment system. The integrated deployment strategy includes programmatically defined deployment operations that are associated with deployment profiles for intelligent structured and coordinated deployment of deployment packages. In operation, based on one or more scores (e.g., early adopter score, fit scores, usage propensity score) of a first set of deployment profiles for a first plurality of users, deployment operations are performed to cause execution of a deployment package for clients associated with the first plurality of users. Based on deployment data of the deployment package, the first set of deployment profiles, and a second set of deployment profiles, a second plurality of users are identified for executing the deployment package.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Mowatt, Alan Noel Mulhall
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Patent number: 10838575Abstract: The description relates to determining tiles of interest to a user. One example includes a computing device comprising a display, a user input receiving means, and a processing means. The processing means is configured to render on the display a first plurality of tiles each having a respective value of a first classification. The processing means is configured to receive from the user input receiving means a first user input indicating user interest in a first tile of the first plurality of tiles, the first tile having a first value of the first classification. The processing means is configured, in response to receiving the first user input, to render on the display a second plurality of tiles each having a respective value of a second classification and being related to the first tile by having a value of the first classification within a threshold similarity of the first value.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andreas Balzer, Alan Noel Mulhall, Muiris Woulfe, David Mowatt
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Publication number: 20200007681Abstract: Methods and systems which perform information retrieval using natural language dialogue for navigating an inventory of items are described. One example provides an information retrieval system to a user using natural language dialogue. The system comprises a user input receiving device, an output device, a database comprising an inventory of items, and a processor. The processor is configured to retrieve one or more items from the inventory of items using an iterative process by: in response to receiving from the user input receiving device a user input, identifying a subset of the inventory based on the user input. The processor is configured to automatically process the subset of items to determine a classification for distinguishing between items of the subset, to generate an enquiry for a user using the classification and to transmit the enquiry to the output device. The user input and/or the enquiry may use natural language.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Andreas BALZER, David MOWATT, Alan Noel MULHALL, Muiris WOULFE
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Patent number: 10455087Abstract: Methods and systems which perform information retrieval using natural language dialog for navigating an inventory of items are described. One example provides an information retrieval system to a user using natural language dialog. The system comprises a user input receiving device, an output device, a database comprising an inventory of items, and a processor. The processor is configured to retrieve one or more items from the inventory of items using an iterative process by: in response to receiving from the user input receiving device a user input, identifying a subset of the inventory based on the user input. The processor is configured to automatically process the subset of items to determine a classification for distinguishing between items of the subset, to generate an enquiry for a user using the classification and to transmit the enquiry to the output device. The user input and/or the enquiry may use natural language.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andreas Balzer, David Mowatt, Alan Noel Mulhall, Muiris Woulfe
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Publication number: 20180364888Abstract: The description relates to determining tiles of interest to a user. One example includes a computing device comprising a display, a user input receiving means, and a processing means. The processing means is configured to render on the display a first plurality of tiles each having a respective value of a first classification. The processing means is configured to receive from the user input receiving means a first user input indicating user interest in a first tile of the first plurality of tiles, the first tile having a first value of the first classification. The processing means is configured, in response to receiving the first user input, to render on the display a second plurality of tiles each having a respective value of a second classification and being related to the first tile by having a value of the first classification within a threshold similarity of the first value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Andreas BALZER, Alan Noel MULHALL, Muiris WOULFE, David MOWATT
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Publication number: 20180365759Abstract: The description relates to an interactive physical product browsing experience. One example includes a display system for displaying objects. The display system comprises a plurality of object displays each comprising an object store, a robot for moving objects to and from a repository, a user input receiving means, and a processing means. The processing means is configured to cause the object displays to display some of the objects, monitor user behaviour using the user input receiving means, and cause the robot to move an object from the repository to one of the object stores based on the user behaviour.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Andreas BALZER, David MOWATT, Alan Noel MULHALL, Muiris WOULFE
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Publication number: 20180367668Abstract: Methods and systems which perform information retrieval using natural language dialogue for navigating an inventory of items are described. One example provides an information retrieval system to a user using natural language dialogue. The system comprises a user input receiving device, an output device, a database comprising an inventory of items, and a processor. The processor is configured to retrieve one or more items from the inventory of items using an iterative process by: in response to receiving from the user input receiving device a user input, identifying a subset of the inventory based on the user input. The processor is configured to automatically process the subset of items to determine a classification for distinguishing between items of the subset, to generate an enquiry for a user using the classification and to transmit the enquiry to the output device. The user input and/or the enquiry may use natural language.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Andreas BALZER, David MOWATT, Alan Noel MULHALL, Muiris WOULFE