Patents by Inventor Reed Pankhurst

Reed Pankhurst 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: 10628468
    Abstract: A collaboration database service may allow users to create, edit, and share collaborative content on custom databases, and may also integrate and interoperate with various productivity applications. For example, a collaboration database engine of the service may detect creation or modification of a table through an application associated with the service. In response to a request to add a choice type column to the table, the engine may automatically select, provide, and enable modification of a set of symbols and associated text values corresponding to choices. The engine may then provide the choice type column for display within the table such that each cell of the choice type column is automatically and/or manually populated with at least one of the choices. The choice may be represented by a symbol and/or associated text value from the modified set of symbols and associated text values corresponding to the choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Krista Bendig, Krunal Sheth, Travis Eby, Raul Clouse, Scott McFadden, Reed Pankhurst, Wei Wei, Daniel McAllister, Petr Slavik, Mark Peterson, Chris Seitzinger, Harjinder Pal Singh Raheja
  • Publication number: 20170139884
    Abstract: A collaboration database service may allow users to create, edit, and share collaborative content on custom databases, and may also integrate and interoperate with various productivity applications. For example, a collaboration database engine of the service may detect creation or modification of a table through an application associated with the service. In response to a request to add a choice type column to the table, the engine may automatically select, provide, and enable modification of a set of symbols and associated text values corresponding to choices. The engine may then provide the choice type column for display within the table such that each cell of the choice type column is automatically and/or manually populated with at least one of the choices. The choice may be represented by a symbol and/or associated text value from the modified set of symbols and associated text values corresponding to the choice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Krista Bendig, Krunal Sheth, Travis Eby, Raul Clouse, Scott McFadden, Reed Pankhurst, Wei Wei, Daniel McAllister, Petr Slavik, Mark Peterson, Chris Seitzinger, Harjinder Pal Singh Raheja
  • Patent number: 9141709
    Abstract: Relevant files are determined for a user upon detecting a user action such as save, load, open, view, share, or comparable ones associated with a file. The relevancy may be determined through one or more queries based on, a number of criteria, where the queries are executed on local or remote data stores related to the user. For example, files on the local computing device of the user, files in an enterprise network associated with the user, files on a social network subscribed by the user may be evaluated for various relevancy criteria. Files determined to be relevant may be prioritized, ordered, and/or grouped for suggestion to the user and presented through a user interface of an application performing the detected action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Keslin, Mary David, Carlos Perez, Reed Pankhurst, Joshua Stickler, Manfred Berry, Marius Tennoe, Oleg Melnychuk, Ricardo Escutia, Berit Herstad, Melissa Torres, Skye Lee Pazuchanics