Patents by Inventor Charles David Ellis

Charles David Ellis 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: 11032410
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for mobile data visualization frameworks are provided herein. An exemplary method includes, determining data insight candidates for presentation on the mobile computing device that describe analysis of a target dataset, determined based at least on data analysis preferences associated with processing one or more past datasets, and where each of the data insight candidates includes at least one insight object directed to the target dataset and is described by object metadata that indicates at least a processing lineage used to produce the at least one insight object. The method includes selecting a presentation detail level for displaying the data insight candidates on the mobile computing device based at least on properties of the mobile computing device, and generating one or more insight views for presentation on the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Dominique Fortier, Liyin Xue, Carlos Augusto Otero, Catherine William Neylan
  • Patent number: 10984333
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for developing application usage information are provided herein. An exemplary method includes identifying data sources that relate to application usage activity of one or more users, determining activity signals related to at least data analysis by the one or more users from among the application usage activity, and applying the activity signals to a knowledge graphing service that infers data analysis preferences from among the activity signals. The method also includes providing ones of the data analysis preferences for use by data insight services that establish data insight objects visualizing target datasets based at least on the ones of the data analysis preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Dominique Fortier, Liyin Xue, Ashvini Sharma, Jakob Peter Nielsen, Carlos Augusto Otero
  • Patent number: 10860656
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for assisting with providing dataset insights associated with datasets are presented. A dataset and a query relating to the dataset may be received. The dataset may be processed to determine metadata that describes one or more properties of the dataset. The dataset, the determined metadata, and the user query may be provided to one or more modular recommendation elements for processing into an insight result that indicates a result from data analysis directed to the query. The insight result may be transferred in a portable format for use by the productivity application in displaying one or more insight objects based on the insight result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ehab Sobhy Deraz, Charles David Ellis, Michael Joe Woolf, Matthew Willem Asplund, Mathew B. Olinger, Sameer Surendra Jagdale, Charles Strempler
  • Patent number: 10620790
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for data visualization frameworks are provided herein. An exemplary method includes identifying a target dataset from which to determine data insights for presentation in an insight interface to the user application. The method includes determining data insight candidates for the target dataset based at least on usage modalities associated with processing one or more past datasets, and establishing content of the data insight candidates according to at least the target dataset and the usage modalities, where the content of each of the data insight candidates includes at least one insight object described by object metadata that indicates at least a processing lineage used to produce the at least one insight object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Dominique Fortier, Liyin Xue, Ashvini Sharma, Jakob Peter Nielsen, Carlos Augusto Otero, Safiya Bhojawala, Catherine William Neylan
  • Publication number: 20190171777
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for assisting with providing dataset insights associated with datasets are presented. A dataset and a query relating to the dataset may be received. The dataset may be processed to determine metadata that describes one or more properties of the dataset. The dataset, the determined metadata, and the user query may be provided to one or more modular recommendation elements for processing into an insight result that indicates a result from data analysis directed to the query. The insight result may be transferred in a portable format for use by the productivity application in displaying one or more insight objects based on the insight result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Ehab Sobhy Deraz, Charles David Ellis, Michael Joe Woolf, Matthew Willem Asplund, Mathew B. Olinger, Sameer Surendra Jagdale, Charles Strempler
  • Publication number: 20180129373
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for data visualization frameworks are provided herein. An exemplary method includes identifying a target dataset from which to determine data insights for presentation in an insight interface to the user application. The method includes determining data insight candidates for the target dataset based at least on usage modalities associated with processing one or more past datasets, and establishing content of the data insight candidates according to at least the target dataset and the usage modalities, where the content of each of the data insight candidates includes at least one insight object described by object metadata that indicates at least a processing lineage used to produce the at least one insight object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Dominique Fortier, Liyin Xue, Ashvini Sharma, Jakob Peter Nielsen, Carlos Augusto Otero, Safiya Bhojawala, Catherine William Neylan
  • Publication number: 20180131803
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for mobile data visualization frameworks are provided herein. An exemplary method includes, determining data insight candidates for presentation on the mobile computing device that describe analysis of a target dataset, determined based at least on data analysis preferences associated with processing one or more past datasets, and where each of the data insight candidates includes at least one insight object directed to the target dataset and is described by object metadata that indicates at least a processing lineage used to produce the at least one insight object. The method includes selecting a presentation detail level for displaying the data insight candidates on the mobile computing device based at least on properties of the mobile computing device, and generating one or more insight views for presentation on the mobile computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Dominique Fortier, Liyin Xue, Carlos Augusto Otero, Catherine William Neylan
  • Publication number: 20180129946
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for developing application usage information are provided herein. An exemplary method includes identifying data sources that relate to application usage activity of one or more users, determining activity signals related to at least data analysis by the one or more users from among the application usage activity, and applying the activity signals to a knowledge graphing service that infers data analysis preferences from among the activity signals. The method also includes providing ones of the data analysis preferences for use by data insight services that establish data insight objects visualizing target datasets based at least on the ones of the data analysis preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Dominique Fortier, Liyin Xue, Ashvini Sharma, Jakob Peter Nielsen, Carlos Augusto Otero
  • Publication number: 20180129372
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for data visualization frameworks are provided herein. An exemplary method includes producing a data insight object for a target dataset, the data insight object comprising an object insight portion for presentation to a user and an object metadata portion that indicates at least a processing lineage used to produce the data insight object. The method includes providing the data insight object for presentation by an insight interface to the user application, and responsive to identifying a user action related to at least the target dataset, applying the processing lineage to produce at least one different data insight object for presentation by the insight interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Dominique Fortier, Liyin Xue, Jakob Peter Nielsen, Carlos Augusto Otero, Safiya Bhojawala, Catherine William Neylan
  • Publication number: 20160071125
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards automatic provisional evaluation of utility program performance. Treatment facilities may be determined depending characteristics of a project. A performance profile corresponding to each treatment facility may be generated based on historical information corresponding to each treatment facility. Current usage information and current weather information for each treatment facility may be determined. Pre-treatment usage information that corresponds to each treatment facility may be determined based on the performance profile and the current usage information and the current weather information. A program evaluation report may be generated that includes program realization information. Program realization information may be based on an aggregation of project savings information that corresponds to the treatment facilities. Project savings information may be modified based on confidence weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Leonid Borisovich Shklovskii, Mark Louis Ghazal, Brett Clouser, Aaron Ross Goldfeder
  • Patent number: 9189766
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards automatic provisional evaluation of utility program performance. Treatment facilities may be determined depending characteristics of a project. A performance profile corresponding to each treatment facility may be generated based on historical information corresponding to each treatment facility. Current usage information and current weather information for each treatment facility may be determined. Pre-treatment usage information that corresponds to each treatment facility may be determined based on the performance profile and the current usage information and the current weather information. A program evaluation report may be generated that includes program realization information. Program realization information may be based on an aggregation of project savings information that corresponds to the treatment facilities. Project savings information may be modified based on confidence weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: EnergySavvy Inc.
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Leonid Borisovich Shklovskii, Mark Louis Ghazal, Brett Clouser, Aaron Ross Goldfeder
  • Publication number: 20150073874
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards automatic provisional evaluation of utility program performance. Treatment facilities may be determined depending characteristics of a project. A performance profile corresponding to each treatment facility may be generated based on historical information corresponding to each treatment facility. Current usage information and current weather information for each treatment facility may be determined. Pre-treatment usage information that corresponds to each treatment facility may be determined based on the performance profile and the current usage information and the current weather information. A program evaluation report may be generated that includes program realization information. Program realization information may be based on an aggregation of project savings information that corresponds to the treatment facilities. Project savings information may be modified based on confidence weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: EnergySavvy Inc.
    Inventors: Charles David Ellis, Leonid Borisovich Shklovskii, Mark Louis Ghazal, Brett Clouser, Aaron Ross Goldfeder
  • Patent number: 8108466
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for the automated offloading of the execution of a user-defined function (“UDF”) to a high performance computing (“HPC”) system. When a request is received to calculate a workbook that references a UDF, a spreadsheet application program determines, based upon a tag set by the UDF, whether the UDF is safe for execution on the HPC system. If the UDF is safe for execution on the HPC system, the spreadsheet application program causes the UDF to be executed on the HPC system using a connector that communicates with the HPC system to cause the UDF to be executed thereupon. A container executing on the HPC system emulates interfaces provided by the spreadsheet application program and is utilized to execute the UDF. Results of the execution of the UDF on the HPC system may be returned asynchronously to the connector and to the spreadsheet application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chris L Rae, Charles David Ellis, Mark Dalin Parris, Minggiang Xu
  • Publication number: 20090276482
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for the automated offloading of the execution of a user-defined function (“UDF”) to a high performance computing (“HPC”) system. When a request is received to calculate a workbook that references a UDF, a spreadsheet application program determines, based upon a tag set by the UDF, whether the UDF is safe for execution on the HPC system. If the UDF is safe for execution on the HPC system, the spreadsheet application program causes the UDF to be executed on the HPC system using a connector that communicates with the HPC system to cause the UDF to be executed thereupon. A container executing on the HPC system emulates interfaces provided by the spreadsheet application program and is utilized to execute the UDF. Results of the execution of the UDF on the HPC system may be returned asynchronously to the connector and to the spreadsheet application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris L. Rae, Charles David Ellis, Mark Dalin Parris, Minggiang Xu
  • Patent number: 7613719
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manipulating a software application and processing data stored in a data source. The method includes receiving a natural language input and analyze the natural language input to identify semantic information contained therein. Portions of the natural language input are associated with command objects and entity objects of a schema based on the semantic information and the natural language input. The method also includes rendering data from the data source in a table of columns and rows based on the schema and the associated portions of the natural language input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Su Chin Chang, Ravi Shahani, Michael Calcagno, Robert Stumberger, Nicholas Caldwell, Allan Folting, Charles David Ellis
  • Patent number: 7451397
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically completing a formula of a spreadsheet application, calculator application, accounting application, business application or banking application. One aspect of the present invention is a computer-implemented method for automatically completing formulaic cell data. The computer-implemented method includes a step for substantiating an autocomplete process in response to a user input of formulaic cell data and aggregating autocomplete options based on the user input. Another aspect of the present invention includes displaying a dynamic list of autocomplete options when the user input is a trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brandon G. Weber, Charles David Ellis