Patents by Inventor Benjamin G. Wilde
Benjamin G. Wilde 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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Publication number: 20230403246Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content —without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Leeviana Peng GRAY, Sebastien Rene VANDENBERGHE, Kyle P. CURLETT, Yan Zhong LEIGH, Brian D. MEERSMA, Benjamin G. WILDE, Natalie Ann MIONIS, Sophia Isabel VENNIX, Christopher Andrews JUNG, Humberto LEZAMA GUADARRAMA
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Patent number: 11777884Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content—without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Leeviana Peng Gray, Sebastien Rene Vandenberghe, Kyle P. Curlett, Yan Zhong Leigh, Brian D. Meersma, Benjamin G. Wilde, Natalie Ann Mionis, Sophia Isabel Vennix, Christopher Andrews Jung, Humberto Lezama Guadarrama
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Publication number: 20220166738Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content—without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Leeviana Peng GRAY, Sebastien Rene VANDENBERGHE, Kyle P. CURLETT, Yan Zhong LEIGH, Brian D. MEERSMA, Benjamin G. WILDE, Natalie Ann MIONIS, Sophia Isabel VENNIX, Christopher Andrews JUNG, Humberto LEZAMA GUADARRAMA
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Patent number: 11010539Abstract: Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a collaboration service determines which collaboration commands to surface in association with each user in a list of users collaborating on a document. The collaboration commands are selected based on each user's collaboration state. The service updates local applications with information indicative of the user state, so that the local applications may surface a user-specific, collaboration state-driven selection of commands.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benjamin G. Wilde, Jade Kessler, Ashlyn D. Zoecklein, Douglas L. Milvaney
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Patent number: 10708208Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing distinct conversations within a file activity feed for display on a user interface of a client computing device. A file created with an application may be rendered on the user interface. The file may include at least a chat pane comprising a plurality of chat messages and a file activity feed including one or more activities associated with the file. It may be determined when a distinct conversation begins and ends within the chat pane. The distinct conversation may include at least some of the plurality of chat messages. In response to determining when the distinct conversation begins and ends, the distinct conversation may be recorded as a distinct conversation activity associated with the file. The distinct conversation activity may be displayed within the file activity feed.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benjamin G. Wilde, Douglas L. Milvaney, Nikhil Nathwani
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Patent number: 10289282Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for creating a file activity feed for display on a user interface of a client computing device. In one aspect, data comprising a plurality of activities associated with a file may be obtained. A timestamp associated with a user identity of the file may be identified. One or more missed activities (e.g., those that occurred since a user was away from the file) may be identified from the plurality of activities based on the identified timestamp. It may be determined which missed activities of the one or more missed activities are relevant to a user associated with the user identity. The one or more missed activities determined to be relevant to the user associated with the user identity may be displayed within the file activity feed on the user interface of the client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Candy Hoi Mei Wong, Benjamin G. Wilde, Manoj Sharma, Douglas L. Milvaney
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Publication number: 20170366493Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing distinct conversations within a file activity feed for display on a user interface of a client computing device. A file created with an application may be rendered on the user interface. The file may include at least a chat pane comprising a plurality of chat messages and a file activity feed including one or more activities associated with the file. It may be determined when a distinct conversation begins and ends within the chat pane. The distinct conversation may include at least some of the plurality of chat messages. In response to determining when the distinct conversation begins and ends, the distinct conversation may be recorded as a distinct conversation activity associated with the file. The distinct conversation activity may be displayed within the file activity feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benjamin G. Wilde, Douglas L. Milvaney, Nikhil Nathwani
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Publication number: 20170177182Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for creating a file activity feed for display on a user interface of a client computing device. In one aspect, data comprising a plurality of activities associated with a file may be obtained. A timestamp associated with a user identity of the file may be identified. One or more missed activities (e.g., those that occurred since a user was away from the file) may be identified from the plurality of activities based on the identified timestamp. It may be determined which missed activities of the one or more missed activities are relevant to a user associated with the user identity. The one or more missed activities determined to be relevant to the user associated with the user identity may be displayed within the file activity feed on the user interface of the client computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Candy Hoi Mei Wong, Benjamin G. Wilde, Manoj Sharma, Douglas L. Milvaney
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Publication number: 20170004119Abstract: Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a collaboration service determines which collaboration commands to surface in association with each user in a list of users collaborating on a document. The collaboration commands are selected based on each user's collaboration state. The service updates local applications with information indicative of the user state, so that the local applications may surface a user-specific, collaboration state-driven selection of commands.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Benjamin G. Wilde, Jade Kessler, Ashlyn D. Zoecklein, Douglas L. Milvaney
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Publication number: 20170003835Abstract: Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a list of users associated collaboratively with a shared document are ordered in a user interface based at least partly on their respective collaboration states with respect to the document. As their collaboration states changes, updates are received from a collaboration service and the list of users is re-ordered to reflect their updated collaboration states.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Ryan M. Shaffer, Benjamin G. Wilde, Manoj Sharma, Jade Kessler