Patents by Inventor NICKOLAS D. WELTON

NICKOLAS D. WELTON 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: 11120210
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for enhancing document productivity. In one implementation, various entries in a document are examined to identify at least an entry recognizable as an entity that is potentially related to at least one of various additional entities external to the document. At least a subset of the additional entities may be identified for surfacing in a user interface for potential inclusion in the document. In response to a selection of at least one of the subset of the additional entities, at least the one additional entity of the subset of the additional entities is included in the document in association with the entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nickolas D. Welton, Benjamin E. Rampson, Stephen J. Adelson
  • Patent number: 9992285
    Abstract: Techniques to manage state information for a web service are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, and an application program for execution by the processor circuit to provide a set of operations to modify a state of a network resource provided by a network service. The application program may comprise a state manager component arranged to record state information for the network resource provided by the network service as state changes occur to the network resource during a first communication session, and store a resource identifier and associated state information for the network resource in a state database, the state information for use in automatically reproducing a state of the network resource during a second communication session. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Arunkumar Thippur Jayakeerthy, Benjamin E. Rampson, Nickolas D. Welton, Christopher J. Gross, Michael G. Davenport, Martin R. Calsyn, Catalin I. Tomai, Andrew G. Carlson
  • Publication number: 20170289260
    Abstract: Techniques to manage state information for a web service are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, and an application program for execution by the processor circuit to provide a set of operations to modify a state of a network resource provided by a network service. The application program may comprise a state manager component arranged to record state information for the network resource provided by the network service as state changes occur to the network resource during a first communication session, and store a resource identifier and associated state information for the network resource in a state database, the state information for use in automatically reproducing a state of the network resource during a second communication session. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Arunkumar Thippur Jayakeerthy, Benjamin E. Rampson, Nickolas D. Welton, Christopher J. Gross, Michael G. Davenport, Martin R. Calsyn, Catalin I. Tomai, Andrew G. Carlson
  • Patent number: 9712622
    Abstract: Techniques to manage state information for a web service are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, and an application program for execution by the processor circuit to provide a set of operations to modify a state of a network resource provided by a network service. The application program may comprise a state manager component arranged to record state information for the network resource provided by the network service as state changes occur to the network resource during a first communication session, and store a resource identifier and associated state information for the network resource in a state database, the state information for use in automatically reproducing a state of the network resource during a second communication session. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Arun Thippur Jayakeerthy, Benjamin E. Rampson, Andrew Carlson, Nickolas D. Welton, Chris Gross, Michael Davenport, Martin Calsyn, Catalin Tomai
  • Publication number: 20160019198
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for enhancing document productivity. In one implementation, various entries in a document are examined to identify at least an entry recognizable as an entity that is potentially related to at least one of various additional entities external to the document. At least a subset of the additional entities may be identified for surfacing in a user interface for potential inclusion in the document. In response to a selection of at least one of the subset of the additional entities, at least the one additional entity of the subset of the additional entities is included in the document in association with the entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Nickolas D. Welton, Benjamin E. Rampson, Stephen J. Adelson
  • Publication number: 20150019624
    Abstract: Techniques to manage state information for a web service are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, and an application program for execution by the processor circuit to provide a set of operations to modify a state of a network resource provided by a network service. The application program may comprise a state manager component arranged to record state information for the network resource provided by the network service as state changes occur to the network resource during a first communication session, and store a resource identifier and associated state information for the network resource in a state database, the state information for use in automatically reproducing a state of the network resource during a second communication session. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: ARUN THIPPUR JAYAKEERTHY, BENJAMIN E. RAMPSON, ANDREW CARLSON, NICKOLAS D. WELTON, CHRIS GROSS, MICHAEL DAVENPORT, MARTIN CALSYN, CATALIN TOMAI