Patents by Inventor Ashlyn D. Zoecklein

Ashlyn D. Zoecklein 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).

  • State-specific commands in collaboration services
    Patent number: 11010539
    Abstract: Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a collaboration service determines which collaboration commands to surface in association with each user in a list of users collaborating on a document. The collaboration commands are selected based on each user's collaboration state. The service updates local applications with information indicative of the user state, so that the local applications may surface a user-specific, collaboration state-driven selection of commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin G. Wilde, Jade Kessler, Ashlyn D. Zoecklein, Douglas L. Milvaney
  • STATE-SPECIFIC COMMANDS IN COLLABORATION SERVICES
    Publication number: 20170004119
    Abstract: Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a collaboration service determines which collaboration commands to surface in association with each user in a list of users collaborating on a document. The collaboration commands are selected based on each user's collaboration state. The service updates local applications with information indicative of the user state, so that the local applications may surface a user-specific, collaboration state-driven selection of commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin G. Wilde, Jade Kessler, Ashlyn D. Zoecklein, Douglas L. Milvaney