Patents by Inventor Keith Fournier

Keith Fournier 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).

  • Patent number: 10606467
    Abstract: Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to fidelity management of an exemplary notecard item based on action(s) for movement that may re-locate notecard item(s) across any of: different content portions of a digital document, different digital documents of an application/service and digital documents of different applications/services. Specific data (and metadata) is collected and analyzed to enable determination of a level of fidelity for rendering of a notecard item, where a representation of a notecard item is generated to fit a context of a digital document in which the notecard item is being placed. A representation of a notecard item may be rendered at a first level of fidelity in one context but a different level of fidelity when the notecard item is moved to a different context. In other instances, evaluation of a notecard item yields a determination to maintain fidelity after an action that re-locates a notecard item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yibing Zhu, Theresa Estrada, Derik B. Stenerson, Keith Fournier, II, Victor Poznanski, Sian Lindley
  • Patent number: 10402487
    Abstract: Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to creation and management of exemplary notecard items that are reusable in different contexts and across different applications/services. Exemplary notecard items may be created and presented through a user interface of an application/service. A notecard item is individual, self-contained digital data object that provides content to supplement a digital document. Exemplary notecard items live outside of an application/service, in which the notecard item is created or used, where a notecard item may be linked to a digital document but also exists as a separate object. For instance, an exemplary notecard file may be created for management of a created notecard item, where the notecard file is stored in one or more data storages (e.g., a local cache of a computing device and/or a distributed data storage) that is accessible by applications/services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Fournier, II, Derik B. Stenerson, Yibing Zhu, Victor Poznanski, Theresa Estrada, Sian Lindley
  • Publication number: 20190251153
    Abstract: Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to creation and management of exemplary notecard items that are reusable in different contexts and across different applications/services. Exemplary notecard items may be created and presented through a user interface of an application/service. A notecard item is individual, self-contained digital data object that provides content to supplement a digital document. Exemplary notecard items live outside of an application/service, in which the notecard item is created or used, where a notecard item may be linked to a digital document but also exists as a separate object. For instance, an exemplary notecard file may be created for management of a created notecard item, where the notecard file is stored in one or more data storages (e.g., a local cache of a computing device and/or a distributed data storage) that is accessible by applications/services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Keith Fournier, II, Derik B. Stenerson, Yibing Zhu, Victor Poznanski, Theresa Estrada, Sian Lindley
  • Publication number: 20190250788
    Abstract: Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to fidelity management of an exemplary notecard item based on action(s) for movement that may re-locate notecard item(s) across any of: different content portions of a digital document, different digital documents of an application/service and digital documents of different applications/services. Specific data (and metadata) is collected and analyzed to enable determination of a level of fidelity for rendering of a notecard item, where a representation of a notecard item is generated to fit a context of a digital document in which the notecard item is being placed. A representation of a notecard item may be rendered at a first level of fidelity in one context but a different level of fidelity when the notecard item is moved to a different context. In other instances, evaluation of a notecard item yields a determination to maintain fidelity after an action that re-locates a notecard item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Yibing Zhu, Theresa Estrada, Derik B. Stenerson, Keith Fournier, II, Victor Poznanski, Sian Lindley
  • Patent number: 8266225
    Abstract: Context-sensitive content may be created that may be recognized by a particular program but ignored by other programs. For example, in an e-mail message or other type of message, content could be created that advises the user to download a particular client for an enhanced content-viewing experience, along with a link pointing to a site where the client may be downloaded. This content and link could be surrounded by tags that would not be recognized by most clients, but that would be recognized by the client that provides the enhanced experience. Thus, most clients would render the advice and link, but the client that provides the enhanced experience could be configured to omit the link when it recognizes the surrounding tags, since a recipient who is viewing the e-mail with that client already has access to the enhanced experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yuval Gross, Keith A. Fournier, II, Tatjana B. Fournier, Carmen Zlateff, Adam Christopher Czeisler
  • Patent number: 7970839
    Abstract: Various technologies for automatically downloading one or more high resolution image files from online storage. In one implementation, an e-mail client desktop application (stored at a sender's computer) may receive a request from the sender to send an e-mail with one or more high resolution image files added to the e-mail. Although the high resolution image files may be uploaded to a server, the files may be added as lower resolution image files with hidden Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses that may indicate the location on the server of the corresponding high resolution image files. Prior to sending the e-mail, the e-mail client desktop application may concatenate each high resolution image file's URL address with an extension or tag such as “?download” so that the address may later be easily identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yuval Gross, Keith Fournier, Tatjana Fournier
  • Publication number: 20100070877
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter is directed to the conversion of ordinary email data into calendar data. Specifically, the claimed subject matter provides a method and system of an electronic communication message system that performs the creation of calendar events in a personal calendar application from electronic communication text. One embodiment of the claimed subject matter is implemented as a method for creating an electronic calendar event from a selected portion of text from electronic communication message. An electronic communication message is displayed to a user. A user selected portion of the text comprising the electronic communication message is received as input. A scheduling composition dialog is actuated based on the user selected portion, and a calendar event is created in a personal calendar application for the selected portion of the electronic communication message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stacia SCOTT, Oji UDEZUE, Keith FOURNIER, Eyal AXELROD, Ben CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20090327431
    Abstract: Various technologies for automatically downloading one or more high resolution image files from online storage. In one implementation, an e-mail client desktop application (stored at a sender's computer) may receive a request from the sender to send an e-mail with one or more high resolution image files added to the e-mail. Although the high resolution image files may be uploaded to a server, the files may be added as lower resolution image files with hidden Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses that may indicate the location on the server of the corresponding high resolution image files. Prior to sending the e-mail, the e-mail client desktop application may concatenate each high resolution image file's URL address with an extension or tag such as “?download” so that the address may later be easily identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yuval Gross, Keith Fournier, Tatjana Fournier
  • Publication number: 20090319620
    Abstract: Context-sensitive content may be created that may be recognized by a particular program but ignored by other programs. For example, in an e-mail message or other type of message, content could be created that advises the user to download a particular client for an enhanced content-viewing experience, along with a link pointing to a site where the client may be downloaded. This content and link could be surrounded by tags that would not be recognized by most clients, but that would be recognized by the client that provides the enhanced experience. Thus, most clients would render the advice and link, but the client that provides the enhanced experience could be configured to omit the link when it recognizes the surrounding tags, since a recipient who is viewing the e-mail with that client already has access to the enhanced experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuval Gross, Keith A. Fournier, II, Tatjana B. Fournier, Carmen Zlateff, Adam Christopher Czeisler
  • Patent number: 5543319
    Abstract: An avian/mammalian microcell hybrid immortalized pre B cell line containing a mammalian chromosome that carries a selectable marker has been produced. The avian/mammalian microcell hybrid immortalized pre B cell line can be used for introducing predetermined point mutations into specific mammalian chromosomal loci via high frequency homologous recombination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    Inventors: R. E. Keith Fournier, Mark T. Groudine, Ellen S. Dieken, Elliot M. Epner
  • Patent number: D669487
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: William Yang, Keith Fournier
  • Patent number: D670721
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: William Yang, Keith Fournier, Sander M. Viegers
  • Patent number: D670722
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: William Yang, Keith Fournier, Sander M. Viegers