Patents by Inventor Peter H. Williamson

Peter H. Williamson 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).

  • Publication number: 20170289087
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable media for delivery of notifications to devices without appropriate applications installed are disclosed. In some implementations, the systems, methods and computer readable media can deliver a notification message and process a response via an alternate mode when an appropriate application is not installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Austin N. Chang, Balaji Srinivasan, Ivan Lee, Joshua Oldmeadow, Thomas R. Karlo, Francesco Nerieri, Daniel R. Sandler, Somaskanda Thyagaraja, Xiaoyong Liu, Peter H. Williamson
  • Patent number: 9537925
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may comprise instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, are configured to cause an intermediary server to at least receive, from a first client device, a first login request via a first browser installed on the first client device, the first login request identifying a user account, receive, from a third-party server, a message request, the message request including an identifier and indicating a browser application or a browser extension, map the identifier to the user account, determine whether the user account has installed the browser application or browser extension, and if the user account has installed the browser application or browser extension, send a first message to the first browser based on the message request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Daniel Cheng, Somas Thyagaraja, Justin DeWitt, Munjal Doshi, Dmitry Titov, Jennifer Braithwaite, Xiaoyong Liu
  • Patent number: 7590535
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating the selection of alternates for hand written word. Rules select words user based on operating modes and cursor positions and sequential orderings. User interfaces can also be used to select words and to provide alternates for the selected words having alternates. Words that the recognizer believes correct to a high actual or relative probability may be skipped over in automatic processes, and the display of words that the recognizer is less confident are correct can be modified. The user can adjust such sensitivity settings for determining the probability of correctness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Charlton E. Lui, Dan W. Altman
  • Patent number: 7457466
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating the selection of alternates for hand written word. Rules select words user based on operating modes and cursor positions and sequential orderings. User interfaces can also be used to select words and to provide alternates for the selected words having alternates. Words that the recognizer believes correct to a high actual or relative probability may be skipped over in automatic processes, and the display of words that the recognizer is less confident are correct can be modified. The user can adjust such sensitivity settings for determining the probability of correctness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Charlton E. Lui, Dan W. Altman
  • Patent number: 7440896
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating the selection of alternates for hand written word. Rules select words user based on operating modes and cursor positions and sequential orderings. User interfaces can also be used to select words and to provide alternates for the selected words having alternates. Words that the recognizer believes correct to a high actual or relative probability may be skipped over in automatic processes, and the display of words that the recognizer is less confident are correct can be modified. The user can adjust such sensitivity settings for determining the probability of correctness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Charlton E. Lui, Dan W. Altman
  • Patent number: 7430508
    Abstract: In a computing device that receives handwritten data, a method and system that facilitates the selection of alternates for a hand written word. A mechanism uses rules to select a word for the user based on the operating mode (state) of the system. In a cursor operating mode, a word is selected and the alternates are provided for the word based on the position of on screen cursor relative to the word (within or adjacent the word). If not on a word having alternates, the selection can move to another word that has alternates. If multiple words are selected, (selection mode), the system selects the first word of those selected that has alternates. Menu options to go to the next or previous recognized word may also be placed on the menu for easy navigation among words, and a user can automatically walk through multiple word sets to receive alternates for each word, one-word at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Charlton E. Lui, Dan W. Altman
  • Patent number: 7130798
    Abstract: In a computing device that receives handwritten data, a method and system that facilitates the selection of alternates for a hand written word. A mechanism uses rules to select a word for the user based on the operating mode (state) of the system. In a cursor operating mode, a word is selected and the alternates are provided for the word based on the position of on screen cursor relative to the word (within or adjacent the word). If not on a word having alternates, the selection can move to another word that has alternates. If multiple words are selected, (selection mode), the system selects the first word of those selected that has alternates. Menu options to go to the next or previous recognized word may also be placed on the menu for easy navigation among words, and a user can automatically walk through multiple word sets to receive alternates for each word, one-word at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Charlton E. Lui, Dan W. Altman
  • Patent number: 6836759
    Abstract: In a computing device that receives handwritten data, a method and system that facilitates the selection of alternates for a hand written word. A mechanism uses rules to select a word for the user based on the operating mode (state) of the system. In a cursor operating mode, a word is selected and the alternates are provided for the word based on the position of on screen cursor relative to the word (within or adjacent the word). If not on a word having alternates, the selection can move to another word that has alternates. If multiple words are selected, (selection mode), the system selects the first word of those selected that has alternates. Menu options to go to the next or previous recognized word may also be placed on the menu for easy navigation among words, and a user can automatically walk through multiple word sets to receive alternates for each word, one-word at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Charlton E. Lui, Dan W. Altman
  • Patent number: 6801660
    Abstract: In a computing device that receives handwritten data, a method and system that maintains an association between alternates for a given ink word, regardless of the handwritten or text state of the word, and regardless of the position of the word as it may be edited in a document. Handwritten data is maintained in an ink word data structure, and once the word is recognized and an alternate is selected for it, the first character of the word remains as an ink word (in a text buffer) pointing to the data structure, with a flag set in the data structure indicating that the word is now recognized as text. In this state, the first character is displayed to the user as a recognized text letter instead of as the handwritten word. The other characters that make up the recognized word are inserted as text into the text buffer. Any alternates returned by the recognizer are thus stored with the ink word data structure displayed as this first character of a recognized word, which also maintains the ink data, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Dan W. Altman, Charlton E. Lui
  • Patent number: 6785417
    Abstract: In a computing device that receives handwritten data, a method and system for finding matches for recognized handwritten words, by comparing a given search word (and possibly its alternates) with the words in a document, including recognized ink words and any possible alternates for those recognized words as returned by a recognizer. One described test looks for an exact match between an entered search word (and possibly its alternates) and the recognized words and their alternates stored in a handwritten document. Other tests are possible because of the use of alternates, which also may be returned with a probability ranking. For example, one scheme looks for a percentage of matching characters, with a user-determined threshold percentage. Other variations include giving different weight to certain characters, and/or factoring in the relative number of syllables and/or the relative lengths of the words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Charlton E. Lui
  • Patent number: 6771817
    Abstract: In a computing device that receives handwritten data, a method and data structure that enables extended data to be added to an existing ink word data structure without compromising backwards-compatibility. A flag in the header data structure is indicates to new ink processing programs the presence or absence of the extended data, and the size information maintained in the header is adjusted ensure that earlier versions of ink programs do not lose the extended data. The extended data is then added by including it in a copy of the existing ink word data structure, along with a tail structure that includes information describing the extended data and the tail structure to the new ink code, e.g., version and offset information. The tail structure can be used to locate a list of alternate word choices for an ink word that are maintained within the extended data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Charlton E. Lui, Dan W. Altman
  • Patent number: 6754386
    Abstract: In a computing device that receives handwritten data, a method and system that corrects for parser segmentation errors by sending an entire line of ink to a recognizer, and then comparing, on a word-by-word basis, the initial segmentation guesses of the parser with the more-thoroughly recognized segmentation results of the handwriting recognition engine. In the correction process, the ink words are efficiently adjusted with relatively little data manipulation. As the recognizer is fed a series of strokes on a line, the recognizer returns segmentation information. For ink word breaks that are the same for any given set of data, the existing ink word is unchanged. For ink words that are recognized differently relative to their initial segmentation, one or more new ink words are created and the handwriting (including stroke) data of the parser's ink word is manipulated to create a new ink processor word (or words) to match the recognizer output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Microsft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Williamson, Charlton E. Lui, Dan W. Altman
  • Patent number: 5897642
    Abstract: A method and system for integrating an object-based application with a version control system. Selected objects of an application such as a database are converted to individual text files and written to a temporary folder. The individual text files are then exported from the temporary folder to a version control system, whereby the version control system manages the files for developers and other developers according to its capabilities. Developers can check in individual objects for revising, whereby the text file corresponding to the checked-in object is exported by the version control system to a temporary folder and the data therein converted back into data in the object. An application program interface is provided to facilitate communication between application programs and the version control program for importing and exporting the text files and exchanging other related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chris C. Capossela, Kenny M. Felder, Nicholas J. Shulman, Peter H. Williamson