Patents by Inventor William T. Duffy

William T. Duffy 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: 11496286
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein enable data associated with a large plurality of users to be analyzed without compromising the privacy of the user data. In one embodiment, a user can opt-in to allow analysis of clear text of the user's emails. An analysis process can then be performed in which an analysis service receives clear text of an email of a client device; processes the clear text of the email into one or more tokens having one or more tags; enriches one or more tokens in the processed email using data associated with a user of the client device and the one or more tags; and processes the clear text and one or more enriched tokens to generate a data set of one or more feature vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Duffy, Andrew H. Vyrros, Yannis Minadakis, Andrew R. Byde, Giulia Pagallo
  • Publication number: 20180198602
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein enable data associated with a large plurality of users to be analyzed without compromising the privacy of the user data. In one embodiment, a user can opt-in to allow analysis of clear text of the user's emails. An analysis process can then be performed in which an analysis service receives clear text of an email of a client device; processes the clear text of the email into one or more tokens having one or more tags; enriches one or more tokens in the processed email using data associated with a user of the client device and the one or more tags; and processes the clear text and one or more enriched tokens to generate a data set of one or more feature vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: William T. Duffy, Andrew H. Vyrros, Yannis Minadakis, Andrew R. Byde, Giulia Pagallo
  • Patent number: 8458317
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a message from a mobile device over a wireless network, the message including several attachments, wherein the several attachments include one or more mobile device attachments corresponding to content captured using the mobile device, identifying the one or more mobile device attachments; and separating the one or more mobile device attachments from the plurality of attachments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Dote, Stephane Lunati, Ken Goto, William T. Duffy, Graham S. Orndorff, Mankit Sze
  • Publication number: 20120122426
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a message from a mobile device over a wireless network, the message including several attachments, wherein the several attachments include one or more mobile device attachments corresponding to content captured using the mobile device, identifying the one or more mobile device attachments; and separating the one or more mobile device attachments from the plurality of attachments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Brian Dote, Stephane Lunati, Ken Goto, William T. Duffy, Graham S. Orndorff, Mankit Sze
  • Patent number: 8126966
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a message from a mobile device over a wireless network, the message including several attachments, wherein the several attachments include one or more mobile device attachments corresponding to content captured using the mobile device, identifying the one or more mobile device attachments; and separating the one or more mobile device attachments from the plurality of attachments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Dote, Stephane Lunati, Ken Goto, William T. Duffy, Graham S. Orndorff, Mankit Sze
  • Publication number: 20090005010
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a message from a mobile device over a wireless network, the message including several attachments, wherein the several attachments include one or more mobile device attachments corresponding to content captured using the mobile device, identifying the one or more mobile device attachments; and separating the one or more mobile device attachments from the plurality of attachments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Brian Dote, Stephane Lunati, Ken Goto, William T. Duffy, Graham S. Orndorff, Mankit Sze
  • Publication number: 20020199032
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a component manager that manages one or more deferred response components wherein each deferred response component has at least one method designated as having a deferred response, the component manager including an interface constructor that automatically constructs: (a) a Requester interface implementation for each deferred response component; and (b) a Responder interface implementation for each deferred response component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: Verano
    Inventors: Glenn R. Seidman, William T. Duffy