Patents by Inventor Angus MacDonald Davis
Angus MacDonald Davis 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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Publication number: 20150010135Abstract: Information associated with messages and/or missed calls is provided to a subscriber. Calls received but not answered by the subscriber may be monitored. Each monitored call is classified as one of a missed call and a message. The monitored calls may be summarized based on a customizable rule set to create a summary. The summary is provided to the subscriber via, for example, a voice notification. Attorney Docket No.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Lisa J. Stifelman, Karen M. Cross, Sarah Caplener, Rajeev Khurana, Anne K. Sullivan, Rao Surapaneni, Justin B. Ward, Angus Macdonald Davis
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Publication number: 20130322609Abstract: Information associated with messages and/or missed calls is provided to a subscriber. Calls received but not answered by the subscriber may be monitored. Each monitored call is classified as one of a missed call and a message. The monitored calls may be summarized based on a customizable rule set to create a summary. The summary is provided to the subscriber via, for example, a voice notification.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Lisa J. Stifelman, Karen M. Cross, Sarah Caplener, Rajeev Khurana, Anne K. Sullivan, Rao Surapaneni, Justin B. Ward, Angus Macdonald Davis
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Patent number: 8548130Abstract: Information associated with messages and/or missed calls is provided to a subscriber. Calls received but not answered by the subscriber may be monitored. Each monitored call is classified as one of a missed call and a message. The monitored calls may be summarized based on a customizable rule set to create a summary. The summary is provided to the subscriber via, for example, a voice notification.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lisa J. Stifelman, Karen M. Cross, Sarah Caplener, Rajeev Khurana, Anne K. Sullivan, Rao Surapaneni, Justin B. Ward, Angus Macdonald Davis
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Patent number: 8300780Abstract: One embodiment in accordance with the invention is a method that includes automatically identifying a telephone number associated with an incoming or outgoing telephone call. The telephone call is associated with a telephone system account. A name is automatically determined that corresponds to the telephone number. The name and the telephone number are automatically stored in association with an electronic address book.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: TellMe Networks, Inc.Inventor: Angus Macdonald Davis
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Patent number: 7941481Abstract: A method of accessing and updating an electronic phonebook over electronic communications networks such as a telephone and computer networks is described. The creation of a voice portal is supported by the invention. Embodiments of the invention use telephone identifying information such as the calling party's number to identify, or create, user profiles for customization. The user profile can include personalized phonebook entries that include names and telephone numbers of relevance to the user. Additionally, the voice portal can connect the user to numbers contained in the personalized phonebook in response to spoken commands. The profile can also be updated with additional phonebook entries over the interne using a web browser.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2000Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: TellMe Networks, Inc.Inventors: Hadi Partovi, Angus Macdonald Davis, Michael S. McCue, John Giannandrea, Lisa J. Stifelman, Daphne H. Luong, Eugene Koh
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Patent number: 7571226Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing personalized information content over telephones is described. The creation of a voice portal is supported by the invention. Embodiments of the invention use telephone identifying information such as the calling party's number to identify, or create, user profiles for customization. The personalized content is specific to that user based on her/his telephone identifying information and may be further customized based on the current time, current date, the calling party's locales, and/or the calling party's dialect and speech patterns. In some embodiments, the dialect is selected from a range of common American English dialects according to the locale of the calling party. For example, callers from the Northern Midland will automatically hear a Northern Midland dialect, while callers from the Coastal Southeast will hear that dialect, etc. Individuals can change the dialect to better suit their personal tastes.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2000Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: TellMe Networks, Inc.Inventors: Hadi Partovi, Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Angus Macdonald Davis, Michael S. McCue, Brandon William Porter, John Giannandrea, Eckart Walther, Zhe Li
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Patent number: 7552054Abstract: A method and system for providing efficient menu services for an information processing system that uses a telephone or other form of audio user interface. In one embodiment, the menu services provide effective support for novice users by providing a full listing of available keywords and rotating house advertisements which inform novice users of potential features and information. For experienced users, cues are rendered so that at any time the user can say a desired keyword to invoke the corresponding application. The menu is flat to facilitate its usage. Full keyword listings are rendered after the user is given a brief cue to say a keyword. Service messages rotate words and word prosody. When listening to receive information from the user, after the user has been cued, soft background music or other audible signals are rendered to inform the user that a response may now be spoken to the service.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2006Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: TellMe Networks, Inc.Inventors: Lisa J. Stifelman, Hadi Partovi, Haleh Partovi, David Bryan Alpert, Matthew Talin Marx, Scott James Bailey, Kyle D. Sims, Darby McDonough Bailey, Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Eugene Koh, Angus Macdonald Davis
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Publication number: 20080154601Abstract: A method and system for providing efficient menu services for an information processing system that uses a telephone or other form of audio user interface. In one embodiment, the menu services provide effective support for novice users by providing a full listing of available keywords and rotating house advertisements which inform novice users of potential features and information. For experienced users, cues are rendered so that at any time the user can say a desired keyword to invoke the corresponding application. The menu is flat to facilitate its usage. Full keyword listings are rendered after the user is given a brief cue to say a keyword. Service messages rotate words and word prosody. When listening to receive information from the user, after the user has been cued, soft background music or other audible signals are rendered to inform the user that a response may now be spoken to the service.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lisa Joy Stifelman, Hadi Partovi, Haleh Partovi, David Bryan Alpert, Matthew Talin Marx, Scott James Bailey, Kyle D. Sims, Darby McDonough Bailey, Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Eugene Koh, Angus Macdonald Davis
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Patent number: 7376586Abstract: A voice portal supporting telephone to web server commerce is described. The voice portal allows users to access web servers using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), optionally including the use of a secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol, to complete commercial transactions. Additionally, embodiments of the invention can employ a one word commerce model that abstracts the particular model used by various electronic commerce vendors' web sites. The one word commerce model permits a user to identify a product and signal her/his purchase intentions with a single word, phrase, or touch-tone command. The voice portal can then complete the transaction supplying the electronic commerce vendor necessary information about the purchaser, e.g., her/his address, telephone number, electronic mail address, credit card information, etc. As needed, the voice portal can prompt the purchaser for information.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1999Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Hadi Partovi, Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Angus Macdonald Davis, Michael S. McCue, Brandon William Porter, John Giannandrea, Eckart Walther, Eugene Koh, Andy Scott
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Patent number: 7330890Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing personalized information content over telephones is described. The creation of a voice portal is supported by the invention. Embodiments of the invention use telephone identifying information such as the calling party's number to identify, or create, user profiles for customization. The personalized content is specific to that user based on her/his telephone identifying information and may be further customized based on the current time, current date, the calling party's locales, and/or the calling party's dialect and speech patterns. Also, the telephone identifying information may support targeted advertising, content, and purchasing recommendations specific to that user. The system may use a voice password and/or touch-tone login system when appropriate to distinguish the caller or verify the caller's identity for specific activities.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2004Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Hadi Partovi, Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Angus Macdonald Davis, Michael S. McCue, Brandon William Porter, John Giannandrea, Eckart Walther, Anthony Accardi, Zhe Li
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Patent number: 7308408Abstract: A method and system for providing efficient menu services for an information processing system that uses a telephone or other form of audio user interface. In one embodiment, the menu services provide effective support for novice users by providing a full listing of available keywords and rotating house advertisements which inform novice users of potential features and information. For experienced users, cues are rendered so that at any time the user can say a desired keyword to invoke the corresponding application. The menu is flat to facilitate its usage. Full keyword listings are rendered after the user is given a brief cue to say a keyword. Service messages rotate words and word prosody. When listening to receive information from the user, after the user has been cued, soft background music or other audible signals are rendered to inform the user that a response may now be spoken to the service.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2004Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lisa Joy Stifelman, Hadi Partovi, Haleh Partovi, David Bryan Alpert, Matthew Talin Marx, Scott James Bailey, Kyle D. Sims, Darby McDonough Bailey, Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Eugene Koh, Angus Macdonald Davis
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Patent number: 7143039Abstract: A method and system for providing efficient menu services for an information processing system that uses a telephone or other form of audio user interface. In one embodiment, the menu services provide effective support for novice users by providing a full listing of available keywords and rotating house advertisements which inform novice users of potential features and information. For experienced users, cues are rendered so that at any time the user can say a desired keyword to invoke the corresponding application. The menu is flat to facilitate its usage. Full keyword listings are rendered after the user is given a brief cue to say a keyword. Service messages rotate words and word prosody. When listening to receive information from the user, after the user has been cued, soft background music or other audible signals are rendered to inform the user that a response may now be spoken to the service.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2000Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Tellme Networks, Inc.Inventors: Lisa Joy Stifelman, Hadi Partovi, Haleh Partovi, David Bryan Alpert, Matthew Talin Marx, Scott James Bailey, Kyle D. Sims, Darby McDonough Bailey, Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Eugene Koh, Angus Macdonald Davis
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Patent number: 7140004Abstract: A zero-footprint remotely hosted phone application development environment is described. The environment allows a developer to use a standard computer without any specialized software (in some embodiments all that is necessary is a web browser and network access) together with a telephone to develop sophisticated phone applications that use speech recognition and/or touch tone inputs to perform tasks, access web-based information, and/or perform commercial transactions. Some embodiments support concurrent call flow tracking that allows a developer to observe, using a web browser, the execution of her/his application. A variety of reusable libraries are provided to enable the developer to leverage well-developed libraries for common playback, input, and computational tasks. Embodiments support rapid application deployment from the development environment to hosted application deployment to the intended audience.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Tellme Networks, Inc.Inventors: Jeff C. Kunins, Hadi Partovi, Brandon William Porter, Matthew Talin Marx, Angus Macdonald Davis, Patrick McCormick, John Giannandrea, Andrew Clarke, Tom Thai, Eckart Walther, Daniel Joseph Howard, James Robert Everingham
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Patent number: 6970915Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing streaming content over telephones is described. The creation of a voice portal is supported by the invention. Embodiments of the invention use allows users to place a telephone call to access the voice portal. The user can access many different types of content. This content can include text based content which is read to the user by a text to speech system (e.g., news reports, stock prices, text content of Internet sites), audio content which can be played to the user (e.g., voicemail messages, music), and streaming audio content (e.g., Internet broadcast radio shows, streaming news reports, and streaming live broadcasts). This content can be accessed from many different places. For example, the content can be retrieved from a news feed, a local streaming content server, an audio repository, and/or an Internet based streaming content server. The streaming content allows the user to access live web broadcasts even though the user may not have access to a computer.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1999Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Tellme Networks, Inc.Inventors: Hadi Partovi, Michael S. McCue, Angus Macdonald Davis, Michael M. Plitkins, Anthony Accardi
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Patent number: 6842767Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing personalized information content over telephones is described. The creation of a voice portal is supported by the invention. Embodiments of the invention use telephone identifying information such as the calling party's number to identify, or create, user profiles for customization. The personalized content is specific to that user based on her/his telephone identifying information and may be further customized based on the current time, current date, the calling party's locales, and/or the calling party's dialect and speech patterns. Also, the telephone identifying information may support targeted advertising, content, and purchasing recommendations specific to that user. The system may use a voice password and/or touch-tone login system when appropriate to distinguish the caller or verify the caller's identity for specific activities.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2000Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: TellMe Networks, Inc.Inventors: Hadi Partovi, Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Angus MacDonald Davis, Michael S. McCue, Brandon William Porter, John Giannandrea, Eckart Walther, Anthony Accardi, Zhe Li
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Patent number: 6807574Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing personalized information content over telephones is described. The creation of a voice portal is supported by the invention. Embodiments of the invention use telephone identifying information such as the calling party's number to identify, or create, user profiles for customization. The personalized content is specific to that user based on her/his telephone identifying information and may be further customized based on the current time, current date, the calling party's locales, and/or the calling party's dialect and speech patterns. Also, the telephone identifying information may support targeted advertising, content, and purchasing recommendations specific to that user. The system may use a voice password and/or touch-tone login system when appropriate to distinguish the caller or verify the caller's identity for specific activities.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Tellme Networks, Inc.Inventors: Hadi Partovi, Roderick Steven Brathwaite, Angus Macdonald Davis, Michael S. McCue, Brandon William Porter, John Giannandrea, Eckart Walther, Anthony Accardi, Zhe Li
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Publication number: 20020126813Abstract: A phone based loyalty rewards approach is described. The approach focuses on rewarding certain behaviors by maintaining a rewards balance usable for services such as free telephone calls. Users can be awarded some initial value of rewards balance at registration and then can earn additional rewards through their activities. Calls can be placed using voice dialing against a user supplied address book in one embodiment. Additionally, the rewards can be directly integrated with an advanced dial tone service offering and minutes spent on phone calls beyond the then available rewards balance charged to the user. The rewards are designed to encourage behaviors such as full and accurate registrations, regular usage, trying new features, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2001Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: Hadi Partovi, David T. Bottoms, Angus Macdonald Davis, Eugene Koh, Michael S. McCue, Gregory N. Pal, Patricia Shores