Patents by Inventor Alexander William Darrow

Alexander William 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: 20230274732
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein that improve the instruction of prosody in the context of software applications and services. In various implementations, a service analyzes an audio recording of a user reading text aloud to determine the prosody of the reading. The service provides data to an application indicative the prosody, as well as a reference prosody for the text. The application may then display of a visualization of a comparison of the user prosody for the text to the reference prosody for the text for consumption by users, e.g., a teacher or the reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Michael THOLFSEN, Alexander William DARROW, Paul Ronald RAY, Kevin Chad LARSON
  • Patent number: 10832211
    Abstract: Extraction and provision of message identification information to a productivity application for enabling the productivity application to provide an embedded communication experience in association with an attachment file is provided. A message including an attachment is received via a messaging application. Upon receiving a selection to open the attachment from within the messaging application, the attachment file is opened in a productivity application, and various parameters associated with the message are extracted. A path including the various parameters is constructed and passed to a productivity application, thus allowing the productivity application to provide a persisted conversation in a user interface of the productivity application for viewing of and interaction with the conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: George Arthur Herbert, III, Elena Catrinescu, Darren Alexander Apfel, Alexander William Darrow, Rebecca Jean Lawler, Philip Z. Loh, Joseph Patrick Masterson
  • Publication number: 20180248822
    Abstract: Extraction and provision of message identification information to a productivity application for enabling the productivity application to provide an embedded communication experience in association with an attachment file is provided. A message including an attachment is received via a messaging application. Upon receiving a selection to open the attachment from within the messaging application, the attachment file is opened in a productivity application, and various parameters associated with the message are extracted. A path including the various parameters is constructed and passed to a productivity application, thus allowing the productivity application to provide a persisted conversation in a user interface of the productivity application for viewing of and interaction with the conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: George Arthur Herbert, III, Elena Catrinescu, Darren Alexander Apfel, Alexander William Darrow, Rebecca Jean Lawler, Philip Z. Loh, Joseph Patrick Masterson