Patents by Inventor Christopher H. Prately

Christopher H. Prately 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).

  • Intelligent and paperless office
    Patent number: 8676806
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates collecting and organizing electronic documents. An interface component can receive a document. A manager component can automatically file the document into a category based at least in part upon a portion of static metadata associated with the document and a portion of metadata dynamically generated from an inference related to the portion of static metadata associated with the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Patrice Y. Simard, Lewis C. Levin, Christopher H. Prately