Patents by Inventor Brion Stone

Brion Stone 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: 20150256491
    Abstract: A system that suggests recipients for a target document based on similarity of document data is provided. The system receives an indication of the target document. The system identifies documents that are similar to the target document based on a comparison of document data of the target document to document data of documents in a corpus of documents. The system then identifies entities associated with the identified documents. The system then suggests that one or more of the identified entities be considered as recipients for the target document. The system may also suggest recipients based on a recipient query. When a response to a prompt for a recipient does not match an entity in an address store, the system identifies an entity to suggest by using the response as a recipient query to identify an entity that matches the recipient query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: David Eatough, Jeffrey Wall, Ian Petersen, Brion Stone
  • Patent number: 8458159
    Abstract: A mechanism for automatically laying out a search topology and assisting administration of the system in a shared services environment is provided. A search configuration wizard user interface may prompt an administrator to specify a number of items to be supported by the search system on initial search application topology configuration, as well as selections between high-availability or high throughput options. A topology manager managing the search configuration wizard may determine how many servers are needed upon receiving configuration options and create specific search components on available servers to optimize query and crawl performance for the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brion Stone, Victoria Taranov
  • Publication number: 20110276583
    Abstract: A mechanism for automatically laying out a search topology and assisting administration of the system in a shared services environment is provided. A search configuration wizard user interface may prompt an administrator to specify a number of items to be supported by the search system on initial search application topology configuration, as well as selections between high-availability or high throughput options. A topology manager managing the search configuration wizard may determine how many servers are needed upon receiving configuration options and create specific search components on available servers to optimize query and crawl performance for the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brion Stone, Victoria Taranov
  • Publication number: 20110213764
    Abstract: A method for monitoring search performance on a server computer includes determining the processing time for a plurality of operations related to a search on the server computer. The determined processing time for each of the plurality of operations is stored in a database. Aggregate processing times are determined for the plurality of operations and the aggregate processing times are stored in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brion Stone, Viktoriya Taranov, Michal Piaseczny, Menton Joseph Frable
  • Publication number: 20060184375
    Abstract: Configuration of an application module to utilize branded content is described. In an implementation, a method includes identifying one of a plurality of business relationships which correspond to a request sent by a client over a network. A configuration file is the formed for communication to the client and for configuration of an application module of the client to utilize branded content which corresponds to the identified business relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brion Stone, Eric Hebenstreit, Emmanuel Miranda-Steiner, Lucius Fleuchaus, Oliver Wallace, Scott Stacey, Arnold Blinn