Patents by Inventor Stephen Liffick

Stephen Liffick 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: 20120260188
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for identifying potential recipients for a communication (e.g., email, instant message, content sharing platform, etc.) a user is presently preparing based at least in part upon a user's communication history. That is, information about the user's interactions with past recipients of his/her communications are compared with information known about the present communication and potential recipients of the present communication are identified based upon this comparison. Moreover, in one embodiment, based upon the past interactions of the user with others, one or more communication groups can be identified and presented to the user. In this way, a user may select a communication group and recipients included in the communication group can be added as recipients for the communication the user is presently preparing without the user having to manually create such groups, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Seung-Hae Park, Suraj Samaranayake, Arcadiy Gregory Kantor, Sarah Filman, Omar H. Shahine, Piero Sierra, Stephen Liffick, Anthony Frey, Siddhartha Parmar
  • Publication number: 20050108392
    Abstract: A system for monitoring user activity in an instant messaging session on a computer network periodically sends an activity message to other participants in the instant messaging session if the user has actively entered data during a first predetermined time interval. The system periodically sends a new activity message at intervals corresponding to the first predetermined time interval so long as the user is actively entering data during each time interval. If the user has not entered data during the first predetermined time interval, the system will not send an activity message. Other participants in the instant messaging session receive the activity message and generate an activity indicator on their respective displays. The computer receiving the activity message displays an activity indicator on the computer display in response to receipt of an activity message and starts a timer to measure a second predetermined time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Glasser, Stephen Liffick
  • Publication number: 20050005008
    Abstract: A system for monitoring user activity in an instant messaging session on a computer network periodically sends an activity message to other participants in the instant messaging session if the user has actively entered data during a first predetermined time interval. The system periodically sends a new activity message at intervals corresponding to the first predetermined time interval so long as the user is actively entering data during each time interval. If the user has not entered data during the first predetermined time interval, the system will not send an activity message. Other participants in the instant messaging session receive the activity message and generate an activity indicator on their respective displays. The computer receiving the activity message displays an activity indicator on the computer display in response to receipt of an activity message and starts a timer to measure a second predetermined time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Daniel Glasser, Stephen Liffick