Patents by Inventor Richard Shawn McDowell
Richard Shawn McDowell 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).
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Patent number: 10216717Abstract: A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2014Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Suraj T. Poozhiyil, Richard Shawn McDowell, Jason A. Bould, Cyrus R. Balsara, Mark H. Lucovsky
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Patent number: 8868557Abstract: A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Suraj T Poozhiyil, Richard Shawn McDowell, Jason A Bould, Cyrus R Balsara, Mark H. Lucovsky
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Publication number: 20140245118Abstract: A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Suraj T. Poozhiyil, Richard Shawn McDowell, Jason A. Bould, Cyrus R. Balsara, Mark H. Lucovsky
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Patent number: 7836100Abstract: Embodiments are provided to calculate and provide information based in part on a defined expression. In an embodiment, a database system can be configured to include a number of calculated columns as part of a database table structure. The database system can be configured to present a calculated result based in part on a determined result type. In one embodiment, a database system can be configured to enable calculated columns to be defined on a table of a database, wherein a component can be used to evaluate an expression associated with a column calculation to determine a proper result type. The proper result type can be stored and used when presenting a result of the calculation. Other embodiments are available.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Abigail Elisabeth Short, Daniel J. Cole, Matthew Pohle, Michael Allen Brotherton, Vitore Selca, Sumit Chauhan, Richard Shawn McDowell
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Publication number: 20100205269Abstract: A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Suraj T. Poozhiyil, Cyrus R. Balsara, Jason A. Bould, Mark H. Lucovsky, Richard Shawn McDowell
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Patent number: 7734670Abstract: A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2004Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Suraj T Poozhiyil, Cyrus R Balsara, Jason A Bould, Mark H. Lucovsky, Richard Shawn McDowell
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Patent number: 7546291Abstract: A user interface is provided that allows users to create queries interactively. The user interface operates by creating a source query (or, for example, SQL commands) for the user while they select fields from a data source. This provides users with an alternative to using conventional designers, wizards, or other tools to manually generate a query.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Vitore Selca, Christopher W. Bryant, Richard L. Dickinson, Richard Shawn McDowell, Zachary P. Woodall, Michael J. McCormack