Patents by Inventor Ben Cheung

Ben Cheung 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).

  • Patent number: 11049076
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for routing meeting requests by a digital assistant service are presented. A request to schedule a meeting between an invitee and a principal may be received by a digital assistant service, wherein the request is sent by an agent of the principal. The digital assistant service may determine that the agent is a delegate of the principal with scheduling authority. The digital assistant service may further determine that follow-up information for the meeting is required, and the digital assistant service may route an electronic message requesting the follow-up information directly the agent-delegate. Other aspects describe mechanisms for routing meeting requests from third parties directly to delegates, rather than sending those communications directly to principals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Techology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Juliana Pena Ocampo, Mayerber Loureiro De Carvalho Neto, Charles Yin-Che Lee, Ben Cheung, Pamela Bhattacharya, Chala Fekadu Fufa, Warren David Johnson, III
  • Publication number: 20200005207
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for indicating time-cost allocation for an organization for a specified time period are presented. A virtual time coin system may be utilized to track temporal transactions made by organizational entities (e.g., organizational groups, organizational employees). A time coin application may track temporal transactions (e.g., meeting invites, meeting cancelations, meeting expansions) made by organizational entities, and those transactions may be stored on blocks of a temporal blockchain that is duplicated across a plurality of nodes in a distributed ledger. Each temporal transaction may be associated with a withdrawal or deposit of time coins from a time coin repository corresponding to the organizational entity or entities that were party to a transaction. The time coin application may analyze bocks in temporal blockchains and cause the results of that analysis to be graphically displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Charles Yin-Che Lee, Ben Cheung, Pamela Bhattacharya, Juliana Pena Ocampo, Chala Fekadu Fufa, Mayerber Loureiro De Carvalho Neto, Warren David Johnson, III
  • Publication number: 20190340581
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for routing meeting requests by a digital assistant service are presented. A request to schedule a meeting between an invitee and a principal may be received by a digital assistant service, wherein the request is sent by an agent of the principal. The digital assistant service may determine that the agent is a delegate of the principal with scheduling authority. The digital assistant service may further determine that follow-up information for the meeting is required, and the digital assistant service may route an electronic message requesting the follow-up information directly the agent-delegate. Other aspects describe mechanisms for routing meeting requests from third parties directly to delegates, rather than sending those communications directly to principals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Juliana Pena Ocampo, Mayerber Loureiro De Carvalho Neto, Charles Yin-Che Lee, Ben Cheung, Pamela Bhattacharya, Chala Fekadu Fufa, Warren David Johnson, III