Patents by Inventor Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton
Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton 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).
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Patent number: 11120408Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for surfacing scheduling conflicts and/or for facilitating appointment scheduling based upon conflict detection. A user may maintain user appointment data comprising user appointments (e.g., calendar entries within a work calendar). Because user activity may not be fully reflected in the appointment data (e.g., no calendar entries for routine grocery shopping, soccer practice, etc.), potential conflicts may exist between user appointments and the true availability of the user. Accordingly, user signals (e.g., email(s), location check-ins, etc. associated with soccer practice) may be evaluated to generate a user inferred behavior pattern that may be used to identify a potential conflict with a user appointment (e.g., where the user consents to the gathering and/or use of such user signals). A warning of the potential conflict may be surfaced to the user (e.g., a Tuesday dinner calendar meeting conflicts with routine soccer practice on Tuesday evenings).Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jagannatha Raju Dantuluri, Karan Singh, Shira Weinberg, Richa Prasad, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton
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Patent number: 11093536Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable users to provide explicit declarations that are used to generate recommendations for the users. An explicit declaration is received from a user of a user device. The explicit declaration is configured to influence a subsequent recommendation. The words of the explicit declaration are processed to generate a record. A recommendation rule is generated based on the generated record. The recommendation rule is executed to generate a recommendation for the user. The generated recommendation is provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sandeep Paruchuri, Robert Howard, Jared Adam Brown, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Paul Robert Nash
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Patent number: 10216734Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for constructing a complementary calendar and/or a shadow calendar. A user may maintain a primary calendar within which the user may schedule user specified tasks and/or meetings, but may inadvertently omit other entries. Accordingly, a complementary calendar may be constructed based upon inferences derived from user signal data (e.g., information used to identify/infer activities of the user, such as social network profile information, messages, temporal information, locational information, documents, etc.). The complementary calendar may be automatically populated with entries corresponding to inferences derived from user signals and/or real-time conditions (e.g., weather, store hours, traffic conditions, etc.). The primary calendar and the complementary calendar may be merged to create a shadow calendar.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Shira Weinberg, Haim Somech, Scott Vernon Fynn, Uri Barash, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Robert J. Howard, III
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Publication number: 20180373707Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for constructing a complementary calendar and/or a shadow calendar. A user may maintain a primary calendar within which the user may schedule user specified tasks and/or meetings, but may inadvertently omit other entries. Accordingly, a complementary calendar may be constructed based upon inferences derived from user signal data (e.g., information used to identify/infer activities of the user, such as social network profile information, messages, temporal information, locational information, documents, etc.). The complementary calendar may be automatically populated with entries corresponding to inferences derived from user signals and/or real-time conditions (e.g., weather, store hours, traffic conditions, etc.). The primary calendar and the complementary calendar may be merged to create a shadow calendar.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Shira Weinberg, Haim Somech, Scott Vernon Fynn, Uri Barash, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Robert J. Howard, III
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Patent number: 10089310Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for constructing a complementary calendar and/or a shadow calendar. A user may maintain a primary calendar within which the user may schedule user specified tasks and/or meetings, but may inadvertently omit other entries. Accordingly, a complementary calendar may be constructed based upon inferences derived from user signal data (e.g., information used to identify/infer activities of the user, such as social network profile information, messages, temporal information, locational information, documents, etc.). The complementary calendar may be automatically populated with entries corresponding to inferences derived from user signals and/or real-time conditions (e.g., weather, store hours, traffic conditions, etc.). The primary calendar and the complementary calendar may be merged to create a shadow calendar.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Shira Weinberg, Haim Somech, Scott Vernon Fynn, Uri Barash, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Robert J. Howard, III
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Publication number: 20170286530Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable users to provide explicit declarations that are used to generate recommendations for the users. An explicit declaration is received from a user of a user device. The explicit declaration is configured to influence a subsequent recommendation. The words of the explicit declaration are processed to generate a record. A recommendation rule is generated based on the generated record. The recommendation rule is executed to generate a recommendation for the user. The generated recommendation is provided to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Sandeep Paruchuri, Robert Howard, Jared Adam Brown, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Paul Robert Nash
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Patent number: 9710546Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable users to provide explicit declarations that are used to generate recommendations for the users. An explicit declaration is received from a user of a user device. The explicit declaration is configured to influence a subsequent recommendation. The words of the explicit declaration are processed to generate a record. A recommendation rule is generated based on the generated record. The recommendation rule is executed to generate a recommendation for the user. The generated recommendation is provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sandeep Paruchuri, Robert Howard, Jared Adam Brown, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Paul Robert Nash
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Publication number: 20150324753Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for surfacing scheduling conflicts and/or for facilitating appointment scheduling based upon conflict detection. A user may maintain user appointment data comprising user appointments (e.g., calendar entries within a work calendar). Because user activity may not be fully reflected in the appointment data (e.g., no calendar entries for routine grocery shopping, soccer practice, etc.), potential conflicts may exist between user appointments and the true availability of the user. Accordingly, user signals (e.g., email(s), location check-ins, etc. associated with soccer practice) may be evaluated to generate a user inferred behavior pattern that may be used to identify a potential conflict with a user appointment (e.g., where the user consents to the gathering and/or use of such user signals). A warning of the potential conflict may be surfaced to the user (e.g., a Tuesday dinner calendar meeting conflicts with routine soccer practice on Tuesday evenings).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2014Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Jagannatha Raju Dantuluri, Karan Singh, Shira Weinberg, Richa Prasad, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton
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Publication number: 20150278348Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable users to provide explicit declarations that are used to generate recommendations for the users. An explicit declaration is received from a user of a user device. The explicit declaration is configured to influence a subsequent recommendation. The words of the explicit declaration are processed to generate a record. A recommendation rule is generated based on the generated record. The recommendation rule is executed to generate a recommendation for the user. The generated recommendation is provided to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sandeep Paruchuri, Robert Howard, Jared Adam Brown, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Paul Robert Nash
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Publication number: 20150199649Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for constructing a complementary calendar and/or a shadow calendar. A user may maintain a primary calendar within which the user may schedule user specified tasks and/or meetings, but may inadvertently omit other entries. Accordingly, a complementary calendar may be constructed based upon inferences derived from user signal data (e.g., information used to identify/infer activities of the user, such as social network profile information, messages, temporal information, locational information, documents, etc.). The complementary calendar may be automatically populated with entries corresponding to inferences derived from user signals and/or real-time conditions (e.g., weather, store hours, traffic conditions, etc.). The primary calendar and the complementary calendar may be merged to create a shadow calendar.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Shira Weinberg, Haim Somech, Scott Vernon Fynn, Uri Barash, Colleen Elizabeth Hamilton, Robert J. Howard, III