Patents by Inventor Charles Reeves Little

Charles Reeves Little 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: 20120102095
    Abstract: A client device presents a resource to a user. In order to present the resource, the client device generates and renders one or more presentation strings. The client device generates a presentation string by identifying a template module that corresponds to an content resource object in a dataset downloaded by the client device. The client device then performs a template execution operation on the content resource object. The template module corresponding to the content resource object specifies the template execution operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Thomas Campbell, Zhenguang Chen, Anthony Lawrence Jackson, Ping Jiang, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Boxin Li, Charles Reeves Little, II, Charles Keller Smith, Brian William Timm, Andrew Joseph Violino, Kerem Yuceturk
  • Publication number: 20120102024
    Abstract: A set of user interfaces is provided to an administrator of a website. The user interfaces enable the administrator to configure search functionality of the website to present different types of search results differently. For instance, the administrator can use the user interfaces to configure the search functionality to present different properties for search results belonging to different result types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Thomas Campbell, Zhenguang Chen, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Boxin Li, Charles Reeves Little, II, Charles Keller Smith, Viktoriya Taranov, Brian William Timm, Andrew Joseph Violino
  • Patent number: 8065421
    Abstract: Publicly accessible linking information is to establish a trusted relationship between reciprocally linked entities controlling web resources, such as websites or web logs. A method of establishing a trust relationship between two entities identifying a user-installed link to a second web resource in a first web resource. Next, the method determines when a reciprocal link is made in the second web resource directed to the first web resource and creates a trust relationship between the entities based on the reciprocal link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Aditya Bansod, Charles Reeves Little, Jason D. Walter
  • Publication number: 20110258562
    Abstract: A cross-browser dialog platform is provided for supporting hosted web pages in a dialog, such that a web page may be used inside or outside the dialog. Select elements on the hosted page may be hidden when in a dialog, different behavior may be specified for hyperlinks inside or outside the dialog, and a proper size of the dialog may be inferred from its contents without designer input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shaofeng Zhu, Cindy Liao, Zachary Nation, Charles Reeves Little, Tim McConnell, Jeff Crowley
  • Publication number: 20110138062
    Abstract: Publicly accessible linking information is to establish a trusted relationship between reciprocally linked entities controlling web resources, such as websites or web logs. A method of establishing a trust relationship between two entities identifying a user-installed link to a second web resource in a first web resource. Next, the method determines when a reciprocal link is made in the second web resource directed to the first web resource and creates a trust relationship between the entities based on the reciprocal link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aditya Bansod, Charles Reeves Little, Jason D. Walter
  • Patent number: 7912960
    Abstract: Publicly accessible linking information is to establish a trusted relationship between reciprocally linked entities controlling web resources, such as websites or web logs. A method of establishing a trust relationship between two entities identifying a user-installed link to a second web resource in a first web resource. Next, the method determines when a reciprocal link is made in the second web resource directed to the first web resource and creates a trust relationship between the entities based on the reciprocal link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Aditya Bansod, Charles Reeves Little, Jason D. Walter
  • Patent number: 7673003
    Abstract: A user's address book includes a first group of email addresses. Those email addresses are used to identify address books that include another group of email addresses. Multiple iterations may be used to identify several groups of email addresses, representing a user's social network. When an email message addressed to the user is received, the message is trusted if the sending email address is within the user's social network. Otherwise, the message is flagged as junk mail. Varying trust levels may be applied to messages that are received based on a distance within a social network between the sending email address and the user and/or how often the sending email address appears within the social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Charles Reeves Little, II
  • Patent number: 7664814
    Abstract: Subject matter includes systems and methods for presence-based messaging. In one implementation an engine detects the real-time presence of a potential message recipient who can be reached via a communications medium that a sender composing a message is not currently using. The engine can either transition to an environment for composing and sending the message using the detected presence-based communications medium or offer the sender a choice of switching to the presence-based communication medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Charles Reeves Little, II
  • Patent number: 7487214
    Abstract: An application providing a common interface allowing access and login to a electronic mail system and instant messaging system. The application allows responding to an email using an instant message, replying to an instant message using an email, sending and receiving both email and instant messages from one application, sending email attachments instantly, and displaying presence information for the user, user email contacts and user messenger contacts. Alerts are provided for both emails and instant messages received. The inbox views can automatically be refreshed when a user receives new email. An interface is provided to convert multiple email contacts into messenger contacts. The system can be used with both local messenger clients and browser based IM clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Imran I. Qureshi, Jason C. Fluegel, Charles Reeves Little, Mikhail Birman, Justin B. Voskuhl
  • Patent number: 7406503
    Abstract: User IDs in addresses to which an e-mail is addressed are logically ordered into a 2D matrix of rows each having one user ID. For each column in the 2D matrix, a column count is found by counting the highest number of matching characters in the column. A column quotient is calculated for each column by dividing the column count by the total number of rows in the 2D matrix. A weighted column quotient is calculated for each column by multiplying the column quotient by a weight that is based on the left-to-right order of the column in the 2D matrix. A numerical assessment is made of the similarity of the user IDs in the addresses to which the e-mail is addressed by adding up the weighted column quotients for the columns in the 2D matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Reeves Little, II, Eric L. Eilebrecht