Patents by Inventor Timothy D. Sharpe
Timothy D. Sharpe 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: 8909546Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can mitigate privacy concerns in connection with ad targeting or data collection. In particular, architecture can be included in a personal mobile communication device such as a cell phone. During communication transactions between the host device and a peer device, shared information can be extracted either from content included in the communication or from metadata. Based upon the shared information, a social graph maintained on the host device can be updated. In addition, the host device can receive a large set of ads and select or tailor a custom ad from the set based upon the social graph.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Eric J. Horvitz, Brett D. Brewer, Mary P. Czerwinski, Melissa W. Dunn, Karim T. Farouki, Jason Garms, Alexander G. Gounares, Milind V. Mahajan, Jayaram NM Nanduri, Timothy D. Sharpe, Darrell Leroy Blegen
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Patent number: 7962344Abstract: Depiction of a speech user interface via graphical elements is provided. One or more bits of a graphical user interface bitmask are re-designated as speech bits. When a software application processes the re-designated speech bits, a window manager responsible for generating and rendering a graphical user interface for the application passes information to a secondary window manager responsible for generating and rendering a speech user interface. The secondary speech window manager may load a text-to-speech engine, a speech recognizer engine, a lexicon or library of recognizable words or phrases and a set of “grammars” (recognizable words and phrasing) for building a speech user interface that will receive, recognize and act on spoken input to the associated software application.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Timothy D. Sharpe, Cameron A. Etezadi
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Publication number: 20110040627Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods for propagating viral advertising content to multiple mobile devices without utilizing an intermediary interposing hosting and/or distribution service. The system includes devices that receive viral advertising content on a mobile device, modify the viral advertising content with further viral advertising content previously received from a disparate mobile device, determine sets of recipients to whom the modified viral advertising content can be perceived as compelling, and disseminates the modified viral advertising content to the sets of recipients each of whom can be associated with a disparate mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Brett D. Brewer, Timothy D. Sharpe, Jason Garms, Melissa W. Dunn, Abhiram G. Khune
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Publication number: 20100332496Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates accessing information content based at least in part on relevancy to a user by leveraging user ambitions. User ambitions can take the form of to-do lists, calendar items, goals, or interests. These can be leveraged with or without contextual information, historical data, user profiles, and the like to determine the relevancy of content to a specific user. This can facilitate determining what content is accessible to a user based on relevance. A threshold relevance level can be dynamically adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Eric Horvitz, Brett Brewer, Melissa W. Dunn, Janet Galore, Abhiram G. Khune, Sin Lew, Timothy D. Sharpe
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Patent number: 7769804Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that expand input data. An interface can obtain input data and a wildcard insertion component can modify the input data to include at least one implicit wildcard inserted at an end of each intended word. Additionally, an expansion component can generate a candidate list of expanded data based at least in part on the input data including the at least one implicit wildcard utilizing a language model that provides likely expansions of wildcards. Further, the expansion component can evaluate the input data at a server side.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2006Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kenneth W. Church, Timothy D. Sharpe, Bo Thiesson
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Publication number: 20090265242Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can mitigate privacy concerns in connection with ad targeting or data collection. In particular, architecture can be included in a personal mobile communication device such as a cell phone. During communication transactions between the host device and a peer device, shared information can be extracted either from content included in the communication or from metadata. Based upon the shared information, a social graph maintained on the host device can be updated. In addition, the host device can receive a large set of ads and select or tailor a custom ad from the set based upon the social graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Eric J. Horvitz, Brett D. Brewer, Mary P. Czerwinski, Melissa W. Dunn, Karim T. Farouki, Jason Garms, Alexander G. Gounares, Milind V. Mahajan, Jayaram NM. Nanduri, Timothy D. Sharpe, Darrell Leroy Blegen
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Patent number: 7533352Abstract: A user interface for a hand-held device is provided that allows users to activate the full “card” for an entry using one gesture on a button while also giving the user the ability to reach a menu of context dependent commands using a second gesture on a button. In particular, certain button inputs are recognized as context menu gestures. When these gestures are made, a context menu appears. The user is then able to select a command in the context menu that is to be performed. A user is also allowed to open context menus while only using one hand to operate and hold the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Chee H. Chew, Elizabeth A. Bastiaanse, Jeffrey R. Blum, Greg A. Keyser, Charlton E. Lui, Kathryn L. Parker, Timothy D. Sharpe, Sarah E. Zuberec
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Publication number: 20090006099Abstract: Depiction of a speech user interface via graphical elements is provided. One or more bits of a graphical user interface bitmask are re-designated as speech bits. When a software application processes the re-designated speech bits, a window manager responsible for generating and rendering a graphical user interface for the application passes information to a secondary window manager responsible for generating and rendering a speech user interface. The secondary speech window manager may load a text-to-speech engine, a speech recognizer engine, a lexicon or library of recognizable words or phrases and a set of “grammars” (recognizable words and phrasing) for building a speech user interface that will receive, recognize and act on spoken input to the associated software application.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Timothy D. Sharpe, Cameron A. Etezadi
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Publication number: 20080140519Abstract: Match criteria are provided to specify when advertisements will be shown, for instance in a search environment. Input such as search queries can be represented in a simplified form such as an implicit and/or explicit wildcard expression. Advertisers or other entities can bid on terms such that advertisements or similar content are presented when the terms match an expansion of a simplified input. Matching ads can subsequently be displayed alone or in combination with query expansion suggestions and/or query results.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Bo Thiesson, Christopher A. Meek, Kenneth W. Church, Timothy D. Sharpe
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Patent number: 7352363Abstract: A single press method for entering text using a keypad is disclosed. A conventional four-row by three-column 12-key keypad is used to enter all of the letters of the alphabet using single key actuation. Depending on the letter, either a single key or multiple side-by-side keys, such as a pair of side-by-side keys, that can be substantially simultaneously depressed by a user's finger or thumb are used to enter alphabet letters.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2003Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Justine E. Coates, Timothy D. Sharpe
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Publication number: 20040264690Abstract: A single press method for entering text using a keypad is disclosed. A conventional four-row by three-column 12-key keypad is used to enter all of the letters of the alphabet using single key actuation. Depending on the letter, either a single key or multiple side-by-side keys, such as a pair of side-by-side keys, that can be substantially simultaneously depressed by a user's finger or thumb are used to enter alphabet letters.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2003Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Justine E. Coates, Timothy D. Sharpe
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Publication number: 20040075695Abstract: The present invention provides a user interface for a hand-held device that allows users to activate the full “card” for an entry using one gesture on a button while also giving the user the ability to reach a menu of context dependent commands using a second gesture on a button. In particular, the present invention recognizes certain button inputs as context menu gestures. When these gestures are made, a context menu appears. The user is then able to select a command in the context menu that is to be performed. The present invention also allows a user to open context menus while only using one hand to operate and hold the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Chee H. Chew, Elizabeth A. Bastiaanse, Jeffrey R. Blum, Greg A. Keyser, Charlton E. Lui, Kathryn L. Parker, Timothy D. Sharpe, Sarah E. Zuberec
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Patent number: 6664991Abstract: The present invention provides a user interface for a pen-based device that allows users to activate the full “card” for an entry using a single tap while also giving the user the ability to reach a menu of context dependent commands using a simple gesture. In particular, the present invention recognizes certain stylus and/or button inputs as context menu gestures. When these gestures are made, a context menu appears. The user is then able to select a command in the context menu that is to be performed. The present invention also allows a user to open context menus while only using one hand to operate and hold the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2000Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Chee H. Chew, Elizabeth A. Bastiaanse, Jeffrey R. Blum, Greg A. Keyser, Charlton E. Lui, Kathryn L. Parker, Timothy D. Sharpe, Sarah E. Zuberec