Patents by Inventor Benjamin Gustav Wilde
Benjamin Gustav 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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Patent number: 11790165Abstract: A system and method for identifying relevant content from other documents and presenting candidate documents/content in a document authoring application is described. A computer-implemented method includes performing an analysis of text of a document being authored by a user with a document authoring application, searching a document library for content elements and documents based on the analysis of the text, identifying candidate documents and candidate content based on the searching, presenting a list of candidate documents or candidate content with the document authoring application, receiving a selection of a candidate document or candidate content from the list in the document authoring application, and including an instance of the selected candidate document or candidate content in the document.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Ransom Lloyd Richardson, Richard Malcolm Banks, Manoj Sharma, Zeyu Wu, Matthew Stephen Howard, Sudarshan Sundar, Lyndsy Marie Stopa, Yi Zheng, Jacob Lee Sanchez, Aleksandr Polyakov, Jason Peter Campoli, Gregory Alan Howard, Paul Anthony Scudieri
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Patent number: 11709586Abstract: A system and method for summarizing suggested content and sharing the summarized suggested content is described. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes performing an analysis of text of a document, searching a document library for content elements and documents based on the analysis of the text, identifying candidate documents and candidate content based on the searching, presenting a list of candidate documents or candidate content with the document authoring application, receiving a selection of a candidate document or candidate content from the list in the document authoring application, and providing the selected candidate document to a collaborative content sharing platform, the collaborative content sharing platform configured to generate a graphical user interface that displays a list of shared documents, the shared documents includes candidate documents selected by one or more users of a group of users that share access to the collaborative content sharing platform.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Ransom Lloyd Richardson, Aleksandr Polyakov, Michael Adam Scarpati
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Publication number: 20230143568Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to the conversion of text to tables. In one example of the technology, input text that includes at least three rows is received. A plurality of characteristics of the input text is determined. Each characteristic of the plurality of characteristics is associated with a uniformity between the rows of the input text. The plurality of characteristics includes at least one characteristic that is associated with a delimiter count. A determination is made as to whether the input text is suitable for conversion to table based on the plurality of characteristics. Upon determining that the input text is suitable for conversion to a table, a machine learning model is used to convert the input text into a table.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Abhijith ASOK, Courtney Sarah COCHRANE, Jenna HONG, Yang HE, Lucas Anton ROSENBLATT, Aleksandr POLYAKOV, Natalie Ann MIONIS, Amit Dinesh GUPTE, Anish Yatin PIMPLEY, Sean Gormley T. KELLEY, Yiquan XU, Ransom Lloyd RICHARDSON, Michael Adam SCARPATI, Benjamin Gustav WILDE, Jichen YANG
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Publication number: 20230016576Abstract: A system and method for summarizing suggested content and sharing the summarized suggested content is described. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes performing an analysis of text of a document, searching a document library for content elements and documents based on the analysis of the text, identifying candidate documents and candidate content based on the searching, presenting a list of candidate documents or candidate content with the document authoring application, receiving a selection of a candidate document or candidate content from the list in the document authoring application, and providing the selected candidate document to a collaborative content sharing platform, the collaborative content sharing platform configured to generate a graphical user interface that displays a list of shared documents, the shared documents includes candidate documents selected by one or more users of a group of users that share access to the collaborative content sharing platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Ransom Lloyd Richardson, Aleksandr Polyakov, Michael Adam Scarpati
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Patent number: 11544644Abstract: A system and method for aggregating and tracking content is described. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes forming a consolidated graphical user interface that tracks activities related to a project identifier. The project identifier identifies aggregated content. A project search query is received on the consolidated graphical user interface. The system identifies the project identifier based on the project search query, and presents at least one of a content item, a file, a folder, a user identifier, a user message, a meeting identifier, and a website identifier associated with the project identifier. The system registers selected items with the project identifier with a user of the consolidated graphical user interface, and forms the aggregated content assigned to the project identifier and to the user based on the registered selection.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Daniel John Niezgocki Chattan, Manoj Sharma, Richard Malcolm Banks, Eva Britta Karolina Burlin, Aleksandr Polyakov, Lyndsy Marie Stopa, Anthony Arnold Wieser
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Patent number: 11513664Abstract: A system and method for summarizing suggested content and sharing the summarized suggested content is described. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes performing an analysis of text of a document, searching a document library for content elements and documents based on the analysis of the text, identifying candidate documents and candidate content based on the searching, presenting a list of candidate documents or candidate content with the document authoring application, receiving a selection of a candidate document or candidate content from the list in the document authoring application, and providing the selected candidate document to a collaborative content sharing platform, the collaborative content sharing platform configured to generate a graphical user interface that displays a list of shared documents, the shared documents includes candidate documents selected by one or more users of a group of users that share access to the collaborative content sharing platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Ransom Lloyd Richardson, Aleksandr Polyakov, Michael Adam Scarpati
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Publication number: 20220343258Abstract: A system and method for aggregating and tracking content is described. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes forming a consolidated graphical user interface that tracks activities related to a project identifier. The project identifier identifies aggregated content. A project search query is received on the consolidated graphical user interface. The system identifies the project identifier based on the project search query, and presents at least one of a content item, a file, a folder, a user identifier, a user message, a meeting identifier, and a website identifier associated with the project identifier. The system registers selected items with the project identifier with a user of the consolidated graphical user interface, and forms the aggregated content assigned to the project identifier and to the user based on the registered selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Benjamin Gustav WILDE, Daniel John Niezgocki Chattan, Manoj Sharma, Richard Malcolm Banks, Eva Britta Karolina Burlin, Aleksandr Polyakov, Lyndsy Marie Stopa, Anthony Arnold Wieser
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Publication number: 20220236843Abstract: A system and method for summarizing suggested content and sharing the summarized suggested content is described. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes performing an analysis of text of a document, searching a document library for content elements and documents based on the analysis of the text, identifying candidate documents and candidate content based on the searching, presenting a list of candidate documents or candidate content with the document authoring application, receiving a selection of a candidate document or candidate content from the list in the document authoring application, and providing the selected candidate document to a collaborative content sharing platform, the collaborative content sharing platform configured to generate a graphical user interface that displays a list of shared documents, the shared documents includes candidate documents selected by one or more users of a group of users that share access to the collaborative content sharing platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Ransom Lloyd RICHARDSON, Aleksandr POLYAKOV, Michael Adam SCARPATI
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Publication number: 20220237374Abstract: A system and method for identifying relevant content from other documents and presenting candidate documents/content in a document authoring application is described. A computer-implemented method includes performing an analysis of text of a document being authored by a user with a document authoring application, searching a document library for content elements and documents based on the analysis of the text, identifying candidate documents and candidate content based on the searching, presenting a list of candidate documents or candidate content with the document authoring application, receiving a selection of a candidate document or candidate content from the list in the document authoring application, and including an instance of the selected candidate document or candidate content in the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Benjamin Gustav WILDE, Ransom Lloyd RICHARDSON, Richard Malcolm BANKS, Manoj SHARMA, Zeyu WU, Matthew Stephen HOWARD, Sudarshan SUNDAR, Lyndsy Marie STOPA, Yi ZHENG, Jacob Lee SANCHEZ, Aleksandr POLYAKOV, Jason Peter CAMPOLI, Gregory Alan HOWARD, Paul Anthony SCUDIERI
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Patent number: 11244100Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein for visualizing changes in documents. In an implementation, one or more computers, employing a change visualization process, maintain a record of changes made to a document over a period of time. The one or more computers identify a document scope within which to focus a visualization of one or more changes made to the document, wherein the document scope comprises a timeframe of interest. The one or more computers also identify, from the record of the changes, one or more changes made to the document within the document scope and surface a visualization of the one or more changes.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Douglas Lane Milvaney, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Arthur David Berman, Christopher Ryan Botaish, Joan Catharine Weaver, Lyndsy Marie Stopa
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Patent number: 11244284Abstract: A document management system and process for facilitating the state of various portions of electronic content in which users can select specific workflow stages to assign to selected content elements in the electronic content that can indicate the workflow condition of the specified content. This provides individual and group users the ability for precise, timely, and effective management of document workflow that facilitates more natural and smoother document development.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Douglas Lane Milvaney, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Abigail Jane Sellen, Nina Rhodes Williams, Sian Elizabeth Lindley, Kelsey Ann Vaughn, Paul Anthony Scudieri
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Patent number: 11240320Abstract: A document modification event management system for notification of specific edits made to electronic content items, and a method of determining the relevance of the modification. As an example, a first user may make an edit to a portion of a document. A second user may receive a notification of this edit if the system determines the edit was relevant to the second user. In addition, during review of an electronic content item, a reader may select a specific portion of content and view the modifications that have occurred to only the selected portion. These tools can provide collaborative document users the ability to more readily monitor document development and stay up-to-date with changes that are important to them.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Douglas Lane Milvaney, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Joan Catharine Weaver, Christopher Ryan Botaish, Lyndsy Marie Stopa, Arthur David Berman
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Patent number: 11093870Abstract: The techniques describe a tool that finds people to help answer a question that arises while a user is consuming content of a file. As the user consumes the content, the techniques identify a signal that indicates an issue (e.g., a question). The signal can be added or somehow inserted into the underlying content of the file based on user input. The techniques determine a portion of the content associated with the signal. The portion of the content, along with any other information provided via the user input, is analyzed to determine a context of the issue. For example, natural language processing techniques can parse text or speech to understand the subject matter. The techniques then access a resolution resource (e.g., a professional network) to identify people that are likely capable of providing assistance, and the people are suggested to the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Patrick Michael Gan, Douglas Lane Milvaney
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Patent number: 10929814Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing the awareness of the activity of others in a collaboration group. In an implementation, a contact that identifies a person is displayed in a user interface to an application. A determination is made whether the person is in a collaboration group with a user of the application. If so, a further determination is made whether that person is presently active in a content item in a context other than the present context of the user. When such conditions are satisfied, an indication is surfaced in the user interface that the person is active in the content item.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Douglas Lane Milvaney, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Arthur David Berman, Lyndsy Marie Stopa, Christopher Ryan Botaish
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Publication number: 20200356623Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein for visualizing changes in documents. In an implementation, one or more computers, employing a change visualization process, maintain a record of changes made to a document over a period of time. The one or more computers identify a document scope within which to focus a visualization of one or more changes made to the document, wherein the document scope comprises a timeframe of interest. The one or more computers also identify, from the record of the changes, one or more changes made to the document within the document scope and surface a visualization of the one or more changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Douglas Lane Milvaney, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Arthur David Berman, Christopher Ryan Botaish, Joan Catharine Weaver, Lyndsy Marie Stopa
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Publication number: 20200349514Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing the awareness of the activity of others in a collaboration group. In an implementation, a contact that identifies a person is displayed in a user interface to an application. A determination is made whether the person is in a collaboration group with a user of the application. If so, a further determination is made whether that person is presently active in a content item in a context other than the present context of the user. When such conditions are satisfied, an indication is surfaced in the user interface that the person is active in the content item.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Douglas Lane Milvaney, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Arthur David Berman, Lyndsy Marie Stopa, Christopher Ryan Botaish
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Publication number: 20200162561Abstract: A document modification event management system for notification of specific edits made to electronic content items, and a method of determining the relevance of the modification. As an example, a first user may make an edit to a portion of a document. A second user may receive a notification of this edit if the system determines the edit was relevant to the second user. In addition, during review of an electronic content item, a reader may select a specific portion of content and view the modifications that have occurred to only the selected portion. These tools can provide collaborative document users the ability to more readily monitor document development and stay up-to-date with changes that are important to them.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Douglas Lane MILVANEY, Benjamin Gustav WILDE, Joan Catharine WEAVER, Christopher Ryan BOTAISH, Lyndsy Marie STOPA, Arthur David BERMAN
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Patent number: 10657318Abstract: A comment management system and process for facilitating navigation of discrete segments of electronic content in which users can remain informed as to the comment context for the electronic content as a whole. This can provide collaborative document users the ability to more clearly distinguish comments for a currently viewed content portion from indicators for comments on previous or subsequent segments of content. The indicators can transition between a low visibility mode and a high visibility mode in response to user inputs.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Inventors: Sophia Isabel Vennix, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Kathleen Anna Cachel, Anunaya Pandey, Raphael Jose Landaverde
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Publication number: 20200042584Abstract: A comment management system and process for facilitating navigation of discrete segments of electronic content in which users can remain informed as to the comment context for the electronic content as a whole. This can provide collaborative document users the ability to more clearly distinguish comments for a currently viewed content portion from indicators for comments on previous or subsequent segments of content. The indicators can transition between a low visibility mode and a high visibility mode in response to user inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Sophia Isabel VENNIX, Benjamin Gustav WILDE, Kathleen Anna CACHEL, Anunaya PANDEY, Raphael Jose LANDAVERDE
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Publication number: 20190370749Abstract: A document management system and process for facilitating the state of various portions of electronic content in which users can select specific workflow stages to assign to selected content elements in the electronic content that can indicate the workflow condition of the specified content. This provides individual and group users the ability for precise, timely, and effective management of document workflow that facilitates more natural and smoother document development.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Douglas Lane MILVANEY, Benjamin Gustav WILDE, Abigail Jane SELLEN, Nina Rhodes WILLIAMS, Sian Elizabeth LINDLEY, Kelsey Ann VAUGHN, Paul Anthony SCUDIERI