Patents by Inventor Blaine Carpenter

Blaine Carpenter 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).

  • TECHNIQUES TO RESTORE COMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS FOR APPLICATIONS HAVING CONVERSATION AND MEETING ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20160028784
    Abstract: Techniques for restoring communications sessions for applications having conversation environment and a meeting embodiment are described. A system may include a meeting component of a communications application for selecting a meeting from multiple meetings, a conversation component of the communications application for managing multiple conversation threads, and a recovery component of the communications application for recovering an active meeting from the multiple meetings or an active conversation thread from the multiple conversation threads. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Gupta, Kevin Morrison, Michael Eckert, Thomas Bouchard, Marcelo Truffat, Blaine Carpenter
  • Techniques to restore communications sessions for applications having conversation and meeting environments
    Patent number: 9171284
    Abstract: Techniques for restoring communications sessions for applications having conversation environment and a meeting embodiment are described. A system may include a meeting component of a communications application for selecting a meeting from multiple meetings, a conversation component of the communications application for managing multiple conversation threads, and a recovery component of the communications application for recovering an active meeting from the multiple meetings or an active conversation thread from the multiple conversation threads. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Gupta, Kevin Morrison, Michael Eckert, Thomas Bouchard, Marcelo Truffat, Blaine Carpenter
  • DYNAMIC FOCUS FOR CONVERSATION VISUALIZATION ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20140026070
    Abstract: A conversation visualization environment may be rendered that includes conversation communications and conversation modalities. The relevance of each of the conversation modalities may be identified and a focus of the conversation visualization environment modified based on their relevance. In another implementation, conversation communications are received for presentation by conversation modalities. An in-focus modality may be selected from the conversation modalities based at least on a relevance of each of the conversation modalities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ankit Tandon, Annika Elias, Blaine Carpenter, Prarthana Panchal, Michael Hill
  • TECHNIQUES TO RESTORE COMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS FOR APPLICATIONS HAVING CONVERSATION AND MEETING ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20110185288
    Abstract: Techniques for restoring communications sessions for applications having conversation environment and a meeting embodiment are described. A system may include a meeting component of a communications application for selecting a meeting from multiple meetings, a conversation component of the communications application for managing multiple conversation threads, and a recovery component of the communications application for recovering an active meeting from the multiple meetings or an active conversation thread from the multiple conversation threads. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amit Gupta, Kevin Morrison, Michael Eckert, Thomas Bouchard, Marcelo Truffat, Blaine Carpenter