Patents by Inventor Michael F. Palermiti

Michael F. Palermiti 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: 10013144
    Abstract: Many software applications allow users to consume and interact with a variety of data, such as files, photos, web pages, emails, and/or other content. Because the amount of content may be cumbersome to sift through, software applications may provide filtering and searching capabilities to aid users in finding desired content. However, the trial and error involved in current searching techniques may be time consuming and/or diminish the user's experience. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for presenting visual previews of search results are disclosed herein. In particular, a user may reference an identifier (e.g., “Bill”) that may be used as search criteria to retrieve corresponding objects (e.g., photos of Bill). A visual preview of the retrieved objects may be presented to the user. The user may quickly view visual previews of search results by referencing various identifiers without committing to a particular search result set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Michael F. Palermiti, II
  • Publication number: 20150095850
    Abstract: Many software applications allow users to consume and interact with a variety of data, such as files, photos, web pages, emails, and/or other content. Because the amount of content may be cumbersome to sift through, software applications may provide filtering and searching capabilities to aid users in finding desired content. However, the trial and error involved in current searching techniques may be time consuming and/or diminish the user's experience. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for presenting visual previews of search results are disclosed herein. In particular, a user may reference an identifier (e.g., “Bill”) that may be used as search criteria to retrieve corresponding objects (e.g., photos of Bill). A visual preview of the retrieved objects may be presented to the user. The user may quickly view visual previews of search results by referencing various identifiers without committing to a particular search result set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: Michael F. Palermiti, II
  • Patent number: 8892578
    Abstract: Many software applications allow users to consume and interact with a variety of data, such as files, photos, web pages, emails, and/or other content. Because the amount of content may be cumbersome to sift through, software applications may provide filtering and searching capabilities to aid users in finding desired content. However, the trial and error involved in current searching techniques may be time consuming and/or diminish the user's experience. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for presenting visual previews of search results are disclosed herein. In particular, a user may reference an identifier (e.g., “Bill”) that may be used as search criteria to retrieve corresponding objects (e.g., photos of Bill). A visual preview of the retrieved objects may be presented to the user. The user may quickly view visual previews of search results by referencing various identifiers without committing to a particular search result set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Michael F. Palermiti, II
  • Patent number: 8639661
    Abstract: Both an edited version of a first image and an original version of the first image are stored at a first computing device. In response to a user request to synchronize images across multiple computing devices, both the edited version of the first image and the original version of the first image are synchronized with a second computing device. A user is allowed to revert to the original version of the first image regardless of on which of the multiple computing devices the edited version was changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael F. Palermiti, Scott R. Ramsby, Francisco J. Garcia-Ascanio, Dejan D. Subotic, Brian D. Remick
  • Patent number: 8495057
    Abstract: Image management applications allow users to upload, modify, organize, search, and/or share images. Unfortunately, current image management applications may have separate search modes and tagging modes. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for providing a user with a seamlessly integrated search, view, and/or tag experience are disclosed herein. Search results comprising tagged images and untagged images may be provided in response to a user search query. The untagged images may be contextually relevant to features of the tagged images and/or the user search query. Tagging suggestions for untagged images may be presented that allow a user to confirm or deny a tagging suggestion for an untagged image. Additionally, confirmable thumbnails corresponding to the untagged images may be presented. A confirmable thumbnail may allow a user to confirm or deny tagging a corresponding untagged image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael F. Palermiti, II, William Yang, Bryan Ferguson, Robin Counts
  • Publication number: 20130067346
    Abstract: A content user experience is described. In one or more implementations, a user interface is displayed that has selectable representations of content sources, at least one of which is available via a network. Responsive to selection of one or more of the content sources via the user interface, representations of content are displayed in the user interface using metadata obtained from the selected one or more content sources, the representations arranged according to a hierarchy used at a respective content source to arrange access to the content. Responsive to selection of one or more of the representations via the user interface; the content is obtained that corresponds to the selected representations and the obtained content is displayed in the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Rosenstein, Brian D. Remick, Mark Sievert Larsen, Allison A. O'Mahony, Jason M. Cahill, Carmen Zlateff, Francisco J. Garica-Ascanio, Omar Khalid, John M. Thornton, Michael I. Torres, Ignatius Setiadi, Chun-Kit J. Chan, Ronald L. Wessels, Michael F. Palermiti, Rachel K. Popkin
  • Publication number: 20120109986
    Abstract: Many software applications allow users to consume and interact with a variety of data, such as files, photos, web pages, emails, and/or other content. Because the amount of content may be cumbersome to sift through, software applications may provide filtering and searching capabilities to aid users in finding desired content. However, the trial and error involved in current searching techniques may be time consuming and/or diminish the user's experience. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for presenting visual previews of search results are disclosed herein. In particular, a user may reference an identifier (e.g., “Bill”) that may be used as search criteria to retrieve corresponding objects (e.g., photos of Bill). A visual preview of the retrieved objects may be presented to the user. The user may quickly view visual previews of search results by referencing various identifiers without committing to a particular search result set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Michael F. Palermiti, II
  • Publication number: 20110282867
    Abstract: Image management applications allow users to upload, modify, organize, search, and/or share images. Unfortunately, current image management applications may have separate search modes and tagging modes. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for providing a user with a seamlessly integrated search, view, and/or tag experience are disclosed herein. Search results comprising tagged images and untagged images may be provided in response to a user search query. The untagged images may be contextually relevant to features of the tagged images and/or the user search query. Tagging suggestions for untagged images may be presented that allow a user to confirm or deny a tagging suggestion for an untagged image. Additionally, confirmable thumbnails corresponding to the untagged images may be presented. A confirmable thumbnail may allow a user to confirm or deny tagging a corresponding untagged image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael F. Palermiti, II, William Yang, Bryan Ferguson, Robin Counts
  • Publication number: 20100262582
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide a tool for synchronizing content across multiple computers. In one or more embodiments, files and folders can be automatically synchronized when multiple computers are available. Further, in at least some embodiments, automatic synchronization can be effected on each of two or more computers by a single user action on a single computer, such as a mouse click. Additionally, in other embodiments, the tool can present an option to synchronize content across multiple computers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Francisco J. Garcia-Ascanio, Michael F. Palermiti, Scott R. Ramsby, Dejan D. Subotic, Brian D. Remick
  • Publication number: 20100138385
    Abstract: Both an edited version of a first image and an original version of the first image are stored at a first computing device. In response to a user request to synchronize images across multiple computing devices, both the edited version of the first image and the original version of the first image are synchronized with a second computing device. A user is allowed to revert to the original version of the first image regardless of on which of the multiple computing devices the edited version was changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael F. Palermiti, Scott R. Ramsby, Francisco J. Garcia-Ascanio, Dejan D. Subotic, Brian D. Remick