Patents by Inventor Stephen DeWitt Sisk

Stephen DeWitt Sisk 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).

  • Creation and suggestion of contact distribution lists
    Patent number: 8677251
    Abstract: Techniques described herein allow for suggesting creation of distribution lists and suggesting use of distribution lists once they have been created. For instance, these techniques may track a frequency with which contacts (e.g., email addresses, phone numbers, screen names, etc.) are used with one another. The techniques may then suggest that a user create a distribution list that includes those contacts. Furthermore, once a contact has been associated with a particular distribution list, these techniques may suggest that a user send a message to this distribution list in response to the user selecting the contact (rather than the list) as a destination of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alton Kwok, Stephen DeWitt Sisk, Adam C. Czeisler, Steven Karl Abrahams
  • Creation and suggestion of contact distribution lists
    Publication number: 20090300546
    Abstract: Techniques described herein allow for suggesting creation of distribution lists and suggesting use of distribution lists once they have been created. For instance, these techniques may track a frequency with which contacts (e.g., email addresses, phone numbers, screen names, etc.) are used with one another. The techniques may then suggest that a user create a distribution list that includes those contacts. Furthermore, once a contact has been associated with a particular distribution list, these techniques may suggest that a user send a message to this distribution list in response to the user selecting the contact (rather than the list) as a destination of the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alton Kwok, Stephen DeWitt Sisk, Adam C. Czeisler, Steven Karl Abrahams