Patents by Inventor Reed P. Sturtevant

Reed P. Sturtevant 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: 8631080
    Abstract: Email users may feel overwhelmed with the abundance of emails they receive. Many current email management techniques require at least some manual intervention that may be time consuming and/or otherwise frustrating to a user. As provided herein, emails may be characterized based upon content of the email and domain classification data (e.g., a company name, business category, or a website name associated with the domain name of the sender). One or more viewing panels may be populated with the characterized emails. A viewing panel may present emails corresponding to a particular characterization (e.g., a shopping viewing panel may display emails characterized as shopping). To enhance characterization, rules used to characterize emails may learn from a user's actions. For example, a user may move an email from a shopping viewing panel to a travel viewing panel, thus altering the characterization of the email from shopping to travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Goodman, Michael R. Gretzinger, John R. Burkhardt, Rachel R. Schiff, Barnaby M. Claydon, Katherine W. Rae, Reed P. Sturtevant
  • Patent number: 8473517
    Abstract: A location database may be configured to store a set of subjective, arbitrary, and/or ephemeral names assigned to a location by various users. When a user of a device arrives at a particular location, the device may retrieve and present to the user the set of names assigned to the location. Moreover, the names may be associated with a privacy designation, which may permit an author of a location name to indicate whether the name of a location should be shared with the public or restricted to access by the user (or to a specified group of users, etc.) Other access criteria may also be specified, e.g., read-only access to a name for the public and read/write access to a particular group of users. Within the set of names of a location, particular names may be designated as authoritative, and may be presented to users with emphasis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew F. Sly, Reed P. Sturtevant, Shannon W. Bator, Alexander James Jenkins, Aryeh Goldberg, Ravi S. Patel
  • Publication number: 20100235447
    Abstract: Email users may feel overwhelmed with the abundance of emails they receive. Many current email management techniques require at least some manual intervention that may be time consuming and/or otherwise frustrating to a user. As provided herein, emails may be characterized based upon content of the email and domain classification data (e.g., a company name, business category, or a website name associated with the domain name of the sender). One or more viewing panels may be populated with the characterized emails. A viewing panel may present emails corresponding to a particular characterization (e.g., a shopping viewing panel may display emails characterized as shopping). To enhance characterization, rules used to characterize emails may learn from a user's actions. For example, a user may move an email from a shopping viewing panel to a travel viewing panel, thus altering the characterization of the email from shopping to travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert F. Goodman, Michael R. Gretzinger, John R. Burkhardt, Rachel R. Schiff, Barnaby M. Claydon, Katherine W. Rae, Reed P. Sturtevant