Patents by Inventor Alexander E. Vaschillo
Alexander E. Vaschillo 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: 8161022Abstract: The principles of the present invention extend to efficiently and reliably providing message related data. Generally, data fields of electronic messages and attachments are created in accordance with an electronic message schema hierarchy. An electronic message can include links to folder items that represent message folders. An electronic message can also include links to contact items that represent message participants. Message applications can register for folder spaces such that each message application is aware of folders that are primarily controlled by other message applications. A link to a contact item can be selected to access current contact related data for a message participant, even when the contact related data has changed since an electronic message containing the link was received.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bryan T. Starbuck, Gail Borod Giacobbe, Alexander E. Vaschillo, Stephen T. Wells, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman, Raghavendra Rachamadugu, Hubert Louis Marie Van Hoof, John Heinrich Lueders
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Patent number: 8150923Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, computer program products, and data structures for efficiently storing and accessing electronic messages. Generally, electronic messages are created and transformed in accordance with an electronic message schema hierarchy. Electronic messages can be created according to a general message schema that defines a format for data fields that are common to all types of electronic messages (e.g. electronic mail, instant message, fax message). Electronic messages can also be extended according to message extension schemas that define formats for adding protocol specific and/or or application specific data fields to an electronic message. Data fields added in accordance with message extension schemas can differ between electronic messages types.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander E. Vaschillo, Bryan T. Starbuck, Gail Borod Giacobbe, Stephen T. Wells, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman, Raghavendra Rachamadugu, Hubert Louis Marie Van Hoof, John Heinrich Lueders
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Patent number: 7496599Abstract: Users and programmers view relational database tables using an schema such as an SQL-annotated XML schema. The schema describes how XML data maps into base tables and fields, including complex one-to-many and many-to-many relationships.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael L. Brundage, Srinivasa R. Burugapalli, Andrew Conrad, Chris A. Suver, Alexander E. Vaschillo, Bertan Ari
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Patent number: 7424513Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, computer program products, and data structures for decoupling an attachment from an electronic message that included the attachment. Generally, data fields of electronic messages and attachments are created in accordance with an electronic message schema hierarchy. Attachments are configured to have a data field indicating if the attachment is to persist when a corresponding electronic message is deleted. When an attachment persists, a user may be able to locate and use the attachment after a corresponding electronic message has been deleted (even if the attachment has not been expressly saved). Attachments are configured to include attachment metadata indicating properties of an electronic message that included the attachment. Accordingly, a user can access information (e.g., sender, subject, date, etc) associated with an electronic message (e.g., that included the attachment) even after the electronic message has been deleted.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Randy Knight Winjum, Gail Borod Giacobbe, Bryan T. Starbuck, John Heinrich Lueders, Alexander E. Vaschillo, Stephen T. Wells, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman, Raghavendra Rachamadugu, Hubert Louis Marie Van Hoof
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Publication number: 20080189244Abstract: The principles of the present invention extend to efficiently and reliably providing message related data. Generally, data fields of electronic messages and attachments are created in accordance with an electronic message schema hierarchy. An electronic message can include links to folder items that represent message folders. An electronic message can also include links to contact items that represent message participants. Message applications can register for folder spaces such that each message application is aware of folders that are primarily controlled by other message applications. A link to a contact item can be selected to access current contact related data for a message participant, even when the contact related data has changed since an electronic message containing the link was received.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2008Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bryan T. Starbuck, Gail Borod Giacobbe, Alexander E. Vaschillo, Stephen T. Wells, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman, Raghavendra Rachamadugu, Hubert Louis Marie Van Hoof, John Heinrich Lueders
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Patent number: 7370052Abstract: The principles of the present invention extend to efficiently and reliably providing message related data. Generally, data fields of electronic messages and attachments are created in accordance with an electronic message schema hierarchy. An electronic message can include links to folder items that represent message folders. An electronic message can also include links to contact items that represent message participants. Message applications can register for folder spaces such that each message application is aware of folders that are primarily controlled by other message applications. A link to a contact item can be selected to access current contact related data for a message participant, even when the contact related data has changed since an electronic message containing the link was received.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bryan T. Starbuck, Gail Borod Giacobbe, Alexander E. Vaschillo, Stephen T. Wells, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman, Raghavendra Rachamadugu, Hubert Louis Marie Van Hoof, John Heinrich Lueders
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Patent number: 7194516Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, computer program products, and data structures for presenting different types of electronic messages at a common interface. Electronic message items are stored in an item database along with other types of items, such as, for example, contact items, folder items, document items, etc. Electronic message items have some common defined data fields and possibly other differently defined data fields that represent protocol and/or application specific properties. Computer systems can query the item database for message related data (e.g., from commonly defined data fields) and display links to message related data at a common messaging interface. Links to different types of electronic messages (as represented by protocol and/or application specific properties) may be displayed simultaneously at the common messaging interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gail Borod Giacobbe, Bryan T. Starbuck, Randy Knight Winjum, John Heinrich Lueders, Alexander E. Vaschillo, Stephen T. Wells, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman, Raghavendra Rachamadugu, Hubert Louis Marie Van Hoof
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Publication number: 20030204511Abstract: Users and programmers view relational database tables using an schema such as an SQL-annotated XML schema. The schema describes how XML data maps into base tables and fields, including complex one-to-many and many-to-many relationships.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2002Publication date: October 30, 2003Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael L. Brundage, Srinivasa R. Burugapalli, Andrew Conrad, Chris A. Suver, Alexander E. Vaschillo, Bertan Ari