Patents by Inventor Michael Wilson Daniels

Michael Wilson Daniels 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: 11636263
    Abstract: An editor service receives a textual input. The editor service provides the textual input to a rule-based grammar checker to obtain a grammar checker result. The editor service also provides the textual input to a machine learning (ML) fluency model that checks the textual input for errors and provides a ML model result. The editor service aggregates the grammar checker result and the ML model result and generates an editor service output based upon the aggregated results. A representation of the editor service result is provided to the client computing system for surfacing through a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Zhang Li, Michael Wilson Daniels, Enrico Cadoni, Domenic Joseph Cipollone, Bhavuk Jain, Olivier Gauthier, Kaushik R. Narayanan, Siqing Chen, Alice Yingming Lai
  • Patent number: 11544467
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to provide a linguistic-based approach to evaluating repetition in content of an electronic document. The approach of the present disclosure is about detecting terms/words/phrases that are likely to be perceived as being repetitious by native speakers of a language rather than just identifying the occurrence of identical words or strings in a document as done by traditional language checks. Processing of the present disclosure detects and evaluates terms or phrases using positive linguistic evidence derived from evaluation of linguistic relationships between words in a string in syntactic ways. This results in more accurate and efficient determination as to whether a term is truly repetitious at the linguistic level as compared with traditional language checks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Davide Turcato, Alfredo R. Arnaiz, Domenic Joseph Cipollone, Michael Wilson Daniels
  • Patent number: 11429779
    Abstract: A method and system for providing replacement text segments for a given text segment may include receiving a request to provide the replacement text segment for the text segment in the document, examining a content characteristic of the document, and examining at least one of user-specific information, organization-specific information, or non-linguistic features of the document, before identifying at least one replacement text segment for the text segment, via a machine translation system, based on the content characteristic of the document and at least one of the user-specific information, the organization-specific information, or the non-linguistic features of the document. The method and system may include providing the identified replacement text segment for display to a user, receiving an input indicating a user's selection of the identified replacement text segment, and upon receiving the input, replacing the text segment in the document with the identified replacement text segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Zhang Li, Domenic Joseph Cipollone, Maria Isabel Carpenter, Juhi Amitkumar Naik, Susan Michele Hendrich, Michael Wilson Daniels, William Brennan Dolan, Christopher Brian Quirk, Christopher John Brockett, Alice Yingming Lai
  • Publication number: 20210390258
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to provide a linguistic-based approach to evaluating repetition in content of an electronic document. The approach of the present disclosure is about detecting terms/words/phrases that are likely to be perceived as being repetitious by native speakers of a language rather than just identifying the occurrence of identical words or strings in a document as done by traditional language checks. Processing of the present disclosure detects and evaluates terms or phrases using positive linguistic evidence derived from evaluation of linguistic relationships between words in a string in syntactic ways. This results in more accurate and efficient determination as to whether a term is truly repetitious at the linguistic level as compared with traditional language checks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Davide Turcato, Alfredo R. Arnaiz, Domenic Joseph Cipollone, Michael Wilson Daniels
  • Publication number: 20210374340
    Abstract: An editor service receives a textual input. The editor service provides the textual input to a rule-based grammar checker to obtain a grammar checker result. The editor service also provides the textual input to a machine learning (ML) fluency model that checks the textual input for errors and provides a ML model result. The editor service aggregates the grammar checker result and the ML model result and generates an editor service output based upon the aggregated results. A representation of the editor service result is provided to the client computing system for surfacing through a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Zhang Li, Michael Wilson Daniels, Enrico Cadoni, Domenic Joseph Cipollone, Bhavuk Jain, Olivier Gauthier, Kaushik R. Narayanan, Siqing Chen, Alice Yingming Lai
  • Patent number: 11126794
    Abstract: A method for providing targeted rewrites can include receiving a selection of text in a file; generating a set of target rewrites of the selection of text, the set of target rewrites comprising: at least one phrase or sentence having semantic similarity to a phrase or sentence of the selection of text; and a style that corresponds to a particular target style, wherein a target style is a representative style for a genre, profession, or environment; and providing for selection one or more of the target rewrites of the set of target rewrites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Zhang Li, Christopher John Brockett, William Brennan Dolan, Christopher Brian Quirk, Alice Yingming Lai, Susan Michele Hendrich, Olivier Gauthier, Kaushik Ramaiah Narayanan, Maria Isabel Carpenter, Juhi Amitkumar Naik, Michael Wilson Daniels
  • Patent number: 10909309
    Abstract: A system and method includes receiving content of an electronic document having a document type, the content divided into components each having a unique identifier and selecting an extraction schema based on the document type, the extraction schema having a plurality of data categories. For each of the components, the extraction schema is applied to identify content of the component that corresponds to individual ones of the data categories and saving, with the processor, in an electronic data storage, in a record associated with the component, category metadata indicative of content of the component corresponding to the data categories. In response to obtaining the category metadata for each of the components, applying the extraction schema to the content metadata of each of the components and to the electronic document as a whole to determine document metadata. A user interface displays the document metadata on the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Taleghani, Kathryn V. J. Sullivan, Kevin Roland Powell, Maria del Mar Gines Marin, Theresa A. Estrada, Tev'n J. Powers, Domenic J. Cipollone, Kylan Nieh, Michael Wilson Daniels
  • Publication number: 20210004432
    Abstract: A method and system for providing replacement text segments for a given text segment may include receiving a request to provide the replacement text segment for the text segment in the document, examining a content characteristic of the document, and examining at least one of user-specific information, organization-specific information, or non-linguistic features of the document, before identifying at least one replacement text segment for the text segment, via a machine translation system, based on the content characteristic of the document and at least one of the user-specific information, the organization-specific information, or the non-linguistic features of the document. The method and system may include providing the identified replacement text segment for display to a user, receiving an input indicating a user's selection of the identified replacement text segment, and upon receiving the input, replacing the text segment in the document with the identified replacement text segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Zhang LI, Domenic Joseph CIPOLLONE, Maria Isabel CARPENTER, Juhi Amitkumar NAIK, Susan Michele HENDRICH, Michael Wilson DANIELS, William Brennan DOLAN, Christopher Brian QUIRK, Christopher John BROCKETT, Alice Yingming LAI
  • Publication number: 20200327189
    Abstract: A method for providing targeted rewrites can include receiving a selection of text in a file; generating a set of target rewrites of the selection of text, the set of target rewrites comprising: at least one phrase or sentence having semantic similarity to a phrase or sentence of the selection of text; and a style that corresponds to a particular target style, wherein a target style is a representative style for a genre, profession, or environment; and providing for selection one or more of the target rewrites of the set of target rewrites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Zhang LI, Christopher John BROCKETT, William Brennan DOLAN, Christopher Brian QUIRK, Alice Yingming LAI, Susan Michele HENDRICH, Olivier GAUTHIER, Kaushik Ramaiah NARAYANAN, Maria Isabel CARPENTER, Juhi Amitkumar NAIK, Michael Wilson DANIELS
  • Patent number: 10699065
    Abstract: A system and method includes receiving an electronic document having content divided into components and, for each of the components, comparing content of the component with component content characteristics of a classification schema associated with a document type and storing, in an electronic data storage, in a record associated with the component, indications of the component content characteristics of the classification schema that are included in the component. Document content characteristics of the classification schema are compared with the content of the electronic document and storing, in the electronic data storage, in a record for the electronic document, indications of the document content characteristics of the classification schema that are included in the electronic document. The electronic document is identified as the document type based on the content characteristics of the records meeting a document type criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Taleghani, Kathryn V. J. Sullivan, Kevin Roland Powell, Kylan Nieh, Maria del Mar Gines Marin, Shikha Devesh Desai, Theresa A. Estrada, Tev'n J. Powers, Domenic J. Cipollone, Michael Wilson Daniels
  • Publication number: 20190138609
    Abstract: A system and method includes receiving content of an electronic document having a document type, the content divided into components each having a unique identifier and selecting an extraction schema based on the document type, the extraction schema having a plurality of data categories. For each of the components, the extraction schema is applied to identify content of the component that corresponds to individual ones of the data categories and saving, with the processor, in an electronic data storage, in a record associated with the component, category metadata indicative of content of the component corresponding to the data categories. In response to obtaining the category metadata for each of the components, applying the extraction schema to the content metadata of each of the components and to the electronic document as a whole to determine document metadata. A user interface displays the document metadata on the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Ali Taleghani, Kathryn V.J. Sullivan, Kevin Roland Powell, Maria del Mar Gines Marin, Theresa A. Estrada, Tev'n J. Powers, Domenic J. Cipollone, Kylan Nieh, Michael Wilson Daniels
  • Publication number: 20190138610
    Abstract: A system and method includes receiving an electronic document having content divided into components and, for each of the components, comparing content of the component with component content characteristics of a classification schema associated with a document type and storing, in an electronic data storage, in a record associated with the component, indications of the component content characteristics of the classification schema that are included in the component. Document content characteristics of the classification schema are compared with the content of the electronic document and storing, in the electronic data storage, in a record for the electronic document, indications of the document content characteristics of the classification schema that are included in the electronic document. The electronic document is identified as the document type based on the content characteristics of the records meeting a document type criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Ali Taleghani, Kathryn V.J. Sullivan, Kevin Roland Powell, Kylan Nieh, Maria del Mar Gines Marin, Shikha Devesh Desai, Theresa A. Estrada, Tev'n J. Powers, Domenic J. Cipollone, Michael Wilson Daniels