Patents by Inventor Michael K. Forney
Michael K. Forney 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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Publication number: 20160269450Abstract: Meeting software on a meeting room device enables a meeting summary to be generated and sent to individuals associated with a meeting. The meeting summary may be triggered by a user, such as a meeting administrator. Alternately or additionally, the meeting summary may be automatically triggered and sent to the individuals associated with the meeting. The meeting summary can include a timeline of events that occurred throughout the meeting. In addition, the meeting summary can include content from the meeting and/or mechanisms to enable content from the meeting to be accessed by the recipients of the meeting summary.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Madhuri Tondepu, Michael K. Forney, Somasundaram Kumaresan Beerana, Prarthana Panchal Johnson, Mark Robert Swift, Thaddeus Adam Scott, John Cole Bradley, Chad Michael Roberts, Stephen Hoyt Houchen
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Publication number: 20160269254Abstract: Meeting software on a meeting room device enables a meeting summary to be generated and sent to individuals associated with a meeting. The meeting summary may be triggered by a user, such as a meeting administrator. Alternately or additionally, the meeting summary may be automatically triggered and sent to the individuals associated with the meeting. The meeting summary can include a timeline of events that occurred throughout the meeting. In addition, the meeting summary can include content from the meeting and/or mechanisms to enable content from the meeting to be accessed by the recipients of the meeting summary.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Michael K. Forney, Prarthana Panchal Johnson, Mark Robert Swift, Thaddeus Adam Scott, Chad Michael Roberts
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Publication number: 20110040751Abstract: An information dissemination system ranks the search results based on a temporal weight assigned to each search result. The temporal weight is an indication of the importance to a user that varies with time. For each search result, the information dissemination system calculates a temporal weight that is based on the temporal proximity of the event that is related to the search result. The temporal weight may be used to re-rank the search results.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raman Chandrasekar, Dean A. Slawson, Michael K. Forney
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Patent number: 7849079Abstract: An information dissemination system ranks the search results based on a temporal weight assigned to each search result. The temporal weight is an indication of the importance to a user that varies with time. For each search result, the information dissemination system calculates a temporal weight that is based on the temporal proximity of the event that is related to the search result. The temporal weight may be used to re-rank the search results.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raman Chandrasekar, Dean A. Slawson, Michael K. Forney
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Patent number: 7685199Abstract: An information dissemination system provides users information related to topics extracted from event classes. Event classes can generally be thought of as scripts that specify topics and actions for obtaining information related to the topics. The event classes are executed to obtain information related to the particular event class. The information dissemination system identifies a user event that is of interest to a user. The information dissemination system then identifies an event class that corresponds to the user event. The information dissemination system then performs the actions specified for the event class, obtains the action results, and renders the action results to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raman Chandrasekar, Dean A. Slawson, Michael K. Forney, Arungunram C. Surendran, Piali Choudhury, Erin Renshaw
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Patent number: 7681117Abstract: A computer-readable medium has computer-executable instructions for generating a user interface on a display device, the user interface includes a grid having a plurality of cells. The user interface also includes a visual affordance presented on the grid and visually connected to one of the plurality of cells, the visual affordance exposing properties of the one of the plurality of cells to which it is visually connected.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Karl E. Tolgu, Michael K. Forney
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Patent number: 7577718Abstract: An information dissemination system identifies the interests of a user from information derived from various sources, such as, by way of example, the user's calendar entries, emails, World Wide Web (web) usage information, documents, enterprise resource planning (ERP) data, and the like. The information dissemination system then creates a profile for the user, and includes in the profile the details about the user's interests including the information sources to query, the user events which were analyzed to determine the user's interest, the topics derived from the analyzed events, the queries generated for the analyzed events, a language model of terms that are relevant to the user, and other information regarding the user. The information dissemination system then periodically executes the queries against the appropriate information sources, ranks the search results obtained from executing the queries, and renders the ranked search results to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dean A. Slawson, Raman Chandrasekar, Michael K. Forney
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Publication number: 20080027979Abstract: An information dissemination system provides users information related to topics extracted from event classes. Event classes can generally be thought of as scripts that specify topics and actions for obtaining information related to the topics. The event classes are executed to obtain information related to the particular event class. The information dissemination system identifies a user event that is of interest to a user. The information dissemination system then identifies an event class that corresponds to the user event. The information dissemination system then performs the actions specified for the event class, obtains the action results, and renders the action results to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raman Chandrasekar, Dean A. Slawson, Michael K. Forney, Arungunram C. Surendran, Piali Choudhury, Erin Renshaw
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Publication number: 20080027921Abstract: An information dissemination system ranks the search results based on a temporal weight assigned to each search result. The temporal weight is an indication of the importance to a user that varies with time. For each search result, the information dissemination system calculates a temporal weight that is based on the temporal proximity of the event that is related to the search result. The temporal weight may be used to re-rank the search results.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raman Chandrasekar, Dean A. Slawson, Michael K. Forney
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Publication number: 20080028036Abstract: An information dissemination system identifies the interests of a user from information derived from various sources, such as, by way of example, the user's calendar entries, emails, World Wide Web (web) usage information, documents, enterprise resource planning (ERP) data, and the like. The information dissemination system then creates a profile for the user, and includes in the profile the details about the user's interests including the information sources to query, the user events which were analyzed to determine the user's interest, the topics derived from the analyzed events, the queries generated for the analyzed events, a language model of terms that are relevant to the user, and other information regarding the user. The information dissemination system then periodically executes the queries against the appropriate information sources, ranks the search results obtained from executing the queries, and renders the ranked search results to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dean A. Slawson, Raman Chandrasekar, Michael K. Forney