Patents by Inventor Alexander W. Darrow

Alexander W. Darrow 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: 20190227678
    Abstract: Variety of approaches to provide document feature management in relation to a communication are described. A productivity application initiates operations to present a communication through a productivity application user interface (UI). The communication includes an attachment file. Upon receiving a modification for the attachment file, the attachment file is renamed based on the modification. An instruction is also transmitted to a data store associated with the communication to rename the attachment file based on the modification. Alternatively, in response a request to create a cloud hosted file, the cloud hosted file is created as related to the communication. A property of the cloud hosted file is also configured based on a property of the communication. The cloud hosted file is furthermore associated with a group associated with the communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Alexander W. DARROW, Philip Z. LOH, Shahil SONI
  • Publication number: 20180136829
    Abstract: Correlation of tasks, documents, and communications is provided. In some examples, one or more tasks may be associated with a document when the document is generated, an existing document, or a document attached to a communication. The tasks may be presented to users through a user interface (UI) of an application associated with the document, a UI of the communication application providing the communication, or a separate task management application. Users may be allowed to track, close, or otherwise edit the tasks. Users may also create new tasks associated with a document that already has tasks associated with it. The tasks may be persisted with the document and alerts or reminders associated with one or more tasks across multiple documents may be provided to select users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Shahil Soni, Alexander W. Darrow, Joseph Masterson, Hayley Steplyk
  • Publication number: 20180129639
    Abstract: Variety of approaches to provide document feature management in relation to a communication are described. A productivity application initiates operations to present a communication through a productivity application user interface (UI). The communication includes an attachment file. Upon receiving a modification for the attachment file, the attachment file is renamed based on the modification. An instruction is also transmitted to a data store associated with the communication to rename the attachment file based on the modification. Alternatively, in response a request to create a cloud hosted file, the cloud hosted file is created as related to the communication. A property of the cloud hosted file is also configured based on a property of the communication. The cloud hosted file is furthermore associated with a group associated with the communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander W. Darrow, Philip Z. Loh, Shahil Soni
  • Patent number: 8654958
    Abstract: Call forwarding profiles corresponding to call forwarding settings based on time, location, and/or presence states of a called party are created. Different call forwarding settings are then activated based on corresponding predefined call forwarding profiles. Users are enabled to pre-configure their call forwarding profiles based on one or more rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Girija Bhagavatula, Alexander W. Darrow, Arulkumar Elumalai, Scott A. Plette, Eran Shtiegman, Sumit Garg
  • Publication number: 20110293084
    Abstract: Call forwarding profiles corresponding to call forwarding settings based on time, location, and/or presence states of a called party are created. Different call forwarding settings are then activated based on corresponding predefined call forwarding profiles. Users are enabled to pre-configure their call forwarding profiles based on one or more rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Girija Bhagavatula, Alexander W. Darrow, Arulkumar Elumalai, Scott A. Plette, Eran Shtiegman, Sumit Garg