Patents by Inventor Joshua Stickler
Joshua Stickler 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: 11836653Abstract: Aggregation of content based on user-generated topics is provided. Users may associate one or more topics with content items stored across various workloads and repositories. A topic may be a word or phrase of the user's choice, and may be utilized for discoverability of information and aggregation of content items. Topics and content items associated with topics may be acted on (e.g., a user may add or delete topics to associate with a content item, associate or disassociate content items with a topic, embed a set of content items or a stream of content items associated with a topic into other experiences, follow topics, etc.). Content items identified as related to a specific topic may be automatically suggested as possible content items of interest to the user. Additionally, when a user follows a topic, the user may be notified of any changes that occur to the topic.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joshua Stickler, Christopher Kehler, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Victor Poznanski, Ashok Kuppusamy, Oleg Melnychuk, Charles Reeves Little
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Publication number: 20210056472Abstract: Aggregation of content based on user-generated topics is provided. Users may associate one or more topics with content items stored across various workloads and repositories. A topic may be a word or phrase of the user's choice, and may be utilized for discoverability of information and aggregation of content items. Topics and content items associated with topics may be acted on (e.g., a user may add or delete topics to associate with a content item, associate or disassociate content items with a topic, embed a set of content items or a stream of content items associated with a topic into other experiences, follow topics, etc.). Content items identified as related to a specific topic may be automatically suggested as possible content items of interest to the user. Additionally, when a user follows a topic, the user may be notified of any changes that occur to the topic.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joshua STICKLER, Christopher KEHLER, Dmitriy MEYERZON, Victor POZNANSKI, Ashok KUPPUSAMY, Oleg MELNYCHUK, Charles Reeves LITTLE
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Publication number: 20200358864Abstract: An information feed is provided that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to a user. The information feed may be updated with new information items each time the feed is accessed by the user. Information not surfaced to the user in the feed may be accessed by the user via one or more other means, but only those items having a sufficient importance to the user are surfaced in the feed. Items in the feed are sorted by order of importance or relevance to the user. When new items are added to the feed, they are sorted relative to each other, but are displayed separately from previous groupings of items added to the feed. Items may be reposted to different positions in the feed, and items may be manually removed from the feed if desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Johan Idivuoma, Vidar Vikjord, Joshua Stickler, Bjørnstein Lilleby
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Patent number: 10757201Abstract: An information feed is provided that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to a user. The information feed may be updated with new information items each time the feed is accessed by the user. Information not surfaced to the user in the feed may be accessed by the user via one or more other means, but only those items having a sufficient importance to the user are surfaced in the feed. Items in the feed are sorted by order of importance or relevance to the user. When new items are added to the feed, they are sorted relative to each other, but are displayed separately from previous groupings of items added to the feed. Items may be reposted to different positions in the feed, and items may be manually removed from the feed if desired.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Johan Idivuoma, Vidar Vikjord, Joshua Stickler, Bjørnstein Lilleby
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Patent number: 10713602Abstract: Aggregation of content based on user-generated topics is provided. Users may associate one or more topics with content items stored across various workloads and repositories. A topic may be a word or phrase of the user's choice, and may be utilized for discoverability of information and aggregation of content items. Topics and content items associated with topics may be acted on (e.g., a user may add or delete topics to associate with a content item, associate or disassociate content items with a topic, embed a set of content items or a stream of content items associated with a topic into other experiences, follow topics, etc.). Content items identified as related to a specific topic may be automatically suggested as possible content items of interest to the user. Additionally, when a user follows a topic, the user may be notified of any changes that occur to the topic.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joshua Stickler, Christopher Kehler, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Victor Poznanski, Ashok Kuppusamy, Oleg Melnychuk, Charles Reeves Little
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Patent number: 10394827Abstract: Recommending relevant content to a user based on personalized implicit and explicit activity signals aggregated for various content items is provided. A user is provided with situational awareness of content they may use by aggregating and displaying content that has been acted on by people the user works with most closely. Relationships between people and activities around content may be represented in a work graph which may be surfaced to the user. Content and relationship information pertaining to content may be surfaced to the user via a user interface. The user may query the content according to a variety of queries such as “popular with my colleagues,” “viewed by me” (i.e., the querying user), “worked on by me,” “most viewed,” and the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joshua Stickler, Fredrik Holm, Ashok Kuppusamy
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Publication number: 20190180204Abstract: Aggregation of content based on user-generated topics is provided. Users may associate one or more topics with content items stored across various workloads and repositories. A topic may be a word or phrase of the user's choice, and may be utilized for discoverability of information and aggregation of content items. Topics and content items associated with topics may be acted on (e.g., a user may add or delete topics to associate with a content item, associate or disassociate content items with a topic, embed a set of content items or a stream of content items associated with a topic into other experiences, follow topics, etc.). Content items identified as related to a specific topic may be automatically suggested as possible content items of interest to the user. Additionally, when a user follows a topic, the user may be notified of any changes that occur to the topic.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joshua STICKLER, Christopher KEHLER, Dmitriy MEYERZON, Victor POZNANSKI, Ashok KUPPUSAMY, Oleg MELNYCHUK, Charles Reeves LITTLE
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Patent number: 10255563Abstract: Aggregation of content based on user-generated topics is provided. Users may associate one or more topics with content items stored across various workloads and repositories. A topic may be a word or phrase of the user's choice, and may be utilized for discoverability of information and aggregation of content items. Topics and content items associated with topics may be acted on (e.g., a user may add or delete topics to associate with a content item, associate or disassociate content items with a topic, embed a set of content items or a stream of content items associated with a topic into other experiences, follow topics, etc.). Content items identified as related to a specific topic may be automatically suggested as possible content items of interest to the user. Additionally, when a user follows a topic, the user may be notified of any changes that occur to the topic.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joshua Stickler, Christopher Kehler, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Victor Poznanski, Ashok Kuppusamy, Oleg Melnychuk, Charles Reeves Little
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Patent number: 10169457Abstract: A personalized view of insights into social activity surrounding a content item is provided that may indicate to a user why a given piece of content may be interesting to him/her. A user's activities, as well as the activities of others (e.g., colleagues of the user) may be shown, including such items as a total number of views, comments, followers, and likes associated with the content item. The insights view may be personalized based on the user's relationships with other users in association with the content item. The user may learn through the personalized view who among his/her relationships have commented, edited, shared, or liked the content item, as well as, how many of the user's colleagues have viewed the content item. In addition, through a search function that may be applied to the view content, a user may learn about related content items based on the social insights.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Robin Miller, Stefan Debald, Viral Shah, Joshua Stickler, Fredrik Holm, Ashok Kuppusamy, Øyvind Linna Eikeland, Mathuranthagaa Selvarathnam, Marcin Łukasz Roman, Colamba Patabedige Janaka Chathuranga Perera, Bjørnstein Lilleby, Rune Devik, Sangram Jyoti Bal
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Patent number: 9141709Abstract: Relevant files are determined for a user upon detecting a user action such as save, load, open, view, share, or comparable ones associated with a file. The relevancy may be determined through one or more queries based on, a number of criteria, where the queries are executed on local or remote data stores related to the user. For example, files on the local computing device of the user, files in an enterprise network associated with the user, files on a social network subscribed by the user may be evaluated for various relevancy criteria. Files determined to be relevant may be prioritized, ordered, and/or grouped for suggestion to the user and presented through a user interface of an application performing the detected action.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jonathan Keslin, Mary David, Carlos Perez, Reed Pankhurst, Joshua Stickler, Manfred Berry, Marius Tennoe, Oleg Melnychuk, Ricardo Escutia, Berit Herstad, Melissa Torres, Skye Lee Pazuchanics
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Publication number: 20150248429Abstract: Generation and presentation of visual representations of search results may be provided. In response to any type of search for which one or more content or information items are returned, a preview image is obtained or generated and displayed in a graphical user interface for allowing a user to preview documents or other information items returned for the search query. The displayed preview image may be a selectable object such that selection of the displayed preview image allows the user to navigate to or launch the content item, for example, a searched document, corresponding to the preview image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Tiago Pregueiro, Dmitry Shaporenkov, Lucian Baciu, Rune Djurhuus, Sverre Tennøe, Jørgen Iversen, Joshua Stickler, Helge Grenager Solheim, Zbigniew Tadeusz Manasterski
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Publication number: 20150248222Abstract: Aggregation of content based on user-generated topics is provided. Users may associate one or more topics with content items stored across various workloads and repositories. A topic may be a word or phrase of the user's choice, and may be utilized for discoverability of information and aggregation of content items. Topics and content items associated with topics may be acted on (e.g., a user may add or delete topics to associate with a content item, associate or disassociate content items with a topic, embed a set of content items or a stream of content items associated with a topic into other experiences, follow topics, etc.). Content items identified as related to a specific topic may be automatically suggested as possible content items of interest to the user. Additionally, when a user follows a topic, the user may be notified of any changes that occur to the topic.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2014Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Joshua Stickler, Christopher Kehler, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Victor Poznanski, Ashok Kuppusamy, Oleg Melnychuk, Charles Reeves Little
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Publication number: 20150249715Abstract: An information feed is provided that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to a user. The information feed may be updated with new information items each time the feed is accessed by the user. Information not surfaced to the user in the feed may be accessed by the user via one or more other means, but only those items having a sufficient importance to the user are surfaced in the feed. Items in the feed are sorted by order of importance or relevance to the user. When new items are added to the feed, they are sorted relative to each other, but are displayed separately from previous groupings of items added to the feed. Items may be reposted to different positions in the feed, and items may be manually removed from the feed if desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2014Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Johan Idivuoma, Vidar Vikjord, Joshua Stickler, Bjørnstein Lilleby
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Publication number: 20150248480Abstract: A personalized view of insights into social activity surrounding a content item is provided that may indicate to a user why a given piece of content may be interesting to him/her. A user's activities, as well as the activities of others (e.g., colleagues of the user) may be shown, including such items as a total number of views, comments, followers, and likes associated with the content item. The insights view may be personalized based on the user's relationships with other users in association with the content item. The user may learn through the personalized view who among his/her relationships have commented, edited, shared, or liked the content item, as well as, how many of the user's colleagues have viewed the content item. In addition, through a search function that may be applied to the view content, a user may learn about related content items based on the social insights.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2014Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robin Miller, Stefan Debald, Viral Shah, Joshua Stickler, Fredrik Holm, Ashok Kuppusamy, Øyvind Linna Eikeland, Mathuranthagaa Selvarathnam, Marcin Lukasz Roman, Colamba Patabedige Janaka Chathuranga Perera, Bjørnstein Lilleby, Rune Devik, Sangram Jyoti Bal
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Publication number: 20150248410Abstract: Recommending relevant content to a user based on personalized implicit and explicit activity signals aggregated for various content items is provided. A user is provided with situational awareness of content they may use by aggregating and displaying content that has been acted on by people the user works with most closely. Relationships between people and activities around content may be represented in a work graph which may be surfaced to the user. Content and relationship information pertaining to content may be surfaced to the user via a user interface. The user may query the content according to a variety of queries such as “popular with my colleagues,” “viewed by me” (i.e., the querying user), “worked on by me,” “most viewed,” and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2014Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Joshua Stickler, Fredrik Holm, Ashok Kuppusamy