Patents by Inventor Chad Michael Roberts

Chad Michael Roberts 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).

  • Publication number: 20230004601
    Abstract: The present application describes a system and method for searching for content items in an application executing on a computing device. In order to increase the efficiency of the search, the present disclosure provides a refiner that is used to filter or otherwise refine search results. The refiner is user-specific and/or tenant/entity-specific. The refiner may be based on long-term aggregated data and/or contextual information associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sabreena Shanthoshi RAJAN, FNU SADHIKA, Jingtian JIANG, Byungki BYUN, Rajkiran PANUGANTI, Philippe FAVRE, Omar Z. KHAN, Ye-Yi WANG, Ankur GUPTA, Ravi K. BIKKULA, Guo MEI, Carol Kumar Mekala, Jeremy Michael Grubaugh, Chad Michael Roberts, Honghao Qiu, Malik Mehdi Pradhan, Anuja Milind Joshi, Rigoberto Saenz Imbacuan, Krishn Ramesh, Adarsh Sridhar
  • Publication number: 20210278913
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure enable a docking station to provide various capabilities. In some examples, the docking station includes a sidewall at least partially defining a cavity, a charge module configured to charge a digital pen positioned within the cavity, and an authentication module configured to associate a digital pen with one or more user settings such that the digital pen is configured to operate in accordance with the user settings. Examples of the disclosure enable one or more digital pens to be placed in or retrieved from the docking station in a user-friendly manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Joel Bernard JACOBS, Bryan Anthony SPARKS, Kae-Ling Jacquline GURR, Chad Michael ROBERTS
  • Patent number: 11016581
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure enable a docking station to provide various capabilities. In some examples, the docking station includes a sidewall at least partially defining a cavity, a charge module configured to charge a digital pen positioned within the cavity, and an authentication module configured to associate a digital pen with one or more user settings such that the digital pen is configured to operate in accordance with the user settings. Examples of the disclosure enable one or more digital pens to be placed in or retrieved from the docking station in a user-friendly manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Bernard Jacobs, Bryan Anthony Sparks, Kae-Ling Jacquline Gurr, Chad Michael Roberts
  • Patent number: 9883003
    Abstract: Meeting software on a meeting room device enables a meeting to be conducted. The meeting room device detects that a meeting has been terminated and, responsive to detecting that the meeting has been terminated, automatically deletes data associated with the meeting from multiple different locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Nathaniel Whitford Stott, Thaddeus Adam Scott, John Cole Bradley, Chad Michael Roberts, Brianna Kelly Potvin, John Michael Sheehan
  • Publication number: 20160313814
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure enable a docking station to provide various capabilities. In some examples, the docking station includes a sidewall at least partially defining a cavity, a charge module configured to charge a digital pen positioned within the cavity, and an authentication module configured to associate a digital pen with one or more user settings such that the digital pen is configured to operate in accordance with the user settings. Examples of the disclosure enable one or more digital pens to be placed in or retrieved from the docking station in a user-friendly manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Joel Bernard JACOBS, Bryan Anthony SPARKS, Kae-Ling Jacquline GURR, Chad Michael ROBERTS
  • Publication number: 20160269450
    Abstract: Meeting software on a meeting room device enables a meeting summary to be generated and sent to individuals associated with a meeting. The meeting summary may be triggered by a user, such as a meeting administrator. Alternately or additionally, the meeting summary may be automatically triggered and sent to the individuals associated with the meeting. The meeting summary can include a timeline of events that occurred throughout the meeting. In addition, the meeting summary can include content from the meeting and/or mechanisms to enable content from the meeting to be accessed by the recipients of the meeting summary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Madhuri Tondepu, Michael K. Forney, Somasundaram Kumaresan Beerana, Prarthana Panchal Johnson, Mark Robert Swift, Thaddeus Adam Scott, John Cole Bradley, Chad Michael Roberts, Stephen Hoyt Houchen
  • Publication number: 20160269503
    Abstract: Meeting software on a meeting room device enables a meeting to be conducted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Nathaniel Whitford Stott, Thaddeus Adam Scott, John Cole Bradley, Chad Michael Roberts, Brianna Kelly Potvin, John Michael Sheehan
  • Publication number: 20160269254
    Abstract: Meeting software on a meeting room device enables a meeting summary to be generated and sent to individuals associated with a meeting. The meeting summary may be triggered by a user, such as a meeting administrator. Alternately or additionally, the meeting summary may be automatically triggered and sent to the individuals associated with the meeting. The meeting summary can include a timeline of events that occurred throughout the meeting. In addition, the meeting summary can include content from the meeting and/or mechanisms to enable content from the meeting to be accessed by the recipients of the meeting summary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Michael K. Forney, Prarthana Panchal Johnson, Mark Robert Swift, Thaddeus Adam Scott, Chad Michael Roberts
  • Patent number: D737291
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Megan Donahue, Chad Michael Roberts, Josh Phillips, Rhoniel Villano Manlapaz, Andrea Michelle Simons, Nancy Yun Xu
  • Patent number: D738902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chad Michael Roberts, Andrea Michelle Simons, Janis J. Lee
  • Patent number: D739870
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chad Michael Roberts, Andrea Michelle Simons, Janis J. Lee
  • Patent number: D743971
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan T. Bickel, Chad Michael Roberts, Aaron Woo
  • Patent number: D750664
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Chad Michael Roberts, Dawn Wilson, Joyce S. Chou, Juan Dai, Priyanka Singhal
  • Patent number: D771111
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chad Michael Roberts, Andrea Michelle Simons, Janis J. Lee
  • Patent number: D772887
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jared Frew, Chad Michael Roberts, Theodore Aaron Haberman, Andrea Michelle Simons, Jonathan Bell
  • Patent number: D778286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Chad Michael Roberts, Dawn Wilson, Joyce S. Chou, Juan Dai, Priyanka Singhal
  • Patent number: D778310
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chad Michael Roberts, Andrea Michelle Simons, Janis J. Lee
  • Patent number: D783041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Bury, Chad Michael Roberts, Stuart John Mayhew, Emmanuel John Athans
  • Patent number: D783672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sushanth Rajasankar, Graham Bury, Chad Michael Roberts, Stuart John Mayhew, Emmanuel John Athans
  • Patent number: D802603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Terry Bickel, Chad Michael Roberts, Jose A. Rodriguez, Jonathan Gass, Timothy Wantland, Jeremy Bowen, Jason Nelson, Liang Chen, Ryan Gagnier, Sogol Malekzadeh, Jeffery G. Arnold, Jeffrey C. Fong, Shane Landry