Patents by Inventor MICHAEL EDWARD THOLFSEN

MICHAEL EDWARD THOLFSEN 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).

  • Managing access permissions to class notebooks and their section groups in a notebook application
    Patent number: 9547776
    Abstract: A method of adding a co-teacher to an original teacher's class notebook can include, in response to receiving a request, at a client device, to add a co-teacher to a class notebook managed by a classroom notebook application, assigning the co-teacher full read/write permissions to the teacher's class notebook including any section groups having connected role inheritances. The co-teacher is also assigned full read/write permissions to the student-specific section groups and the collaboration space section group, which are all in the class notebook and which have broken permission inheritance. To protect the teacher's personal folder, which is a parent folder to the teacher's class notebook, the classroom notebook application removes the co-teacher's permissions to the teacher's personal folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Edward Tholfsen, Ivan Hor Siu Han, Jonathan Thomas Grudin, Thomas Wionzek
  • MANAGING ACCESS PERMISSIONS TO CLASS NOTEBOOKS AND THEIR SECTION GROUPS IN A NOTEBOOK APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20160162702
    Abstract: A method of adding a co-teacher to an original teacher's class notebook can include, in response to receiving a request, at a client device, to add a co-teacher to a class notebook managed by a classroom notebook application, assigning the co-teacher full read/write permissions to the teacher's class notebook including any section groups having connected role inheritances. The co-teacher is also assigned full read/write permissions to the student-specific section groups and the collaboration space section group, which are all in the class notebook and which have broken permission inheritance. To protect the teacher's personal folder, which is a parent folder to the teacher's class notebook, the classroom notebook application removes the co-teacher's permissions to the teacher's personal folder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: MICHAEL EDWARD THOLFSEN, IVAN HOR SIU HAN, JONATHAN THOMAS GRUDIN, THOMAS WIONZEK