Patents by Inventor Deanna R. Fuller

Deanna R. Fuller 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).

  • Method for selecting terms from vocabularies in a category-based system
    Patent number: 7257593
    Abstract: A system and method for categorizing a document in a document management system, wherein said document management system comprises a tree of nodes, and enables a document to be categorized in a plurality of nodes. Each node has a category label indicative of a document category. Unique vocabulary terms are listed wherein each vocabulary term represents only one node in the tree and comprises that node's category label. A checkbox is provided for each of the vocabulary terms whereby a user may select one or more vocabulary term by checking a corresponding checkbox. From the checked terms, a set of vocabulary terms is generated for associating a document with all of the nodes corresponding to the selected vocabulary terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Scott Mazner, William James Griffin, Deanna R. Fuller
  • Method for selecting terms from vocabularies in a category-based system
    Patent number: 6658406
    Abstract: A system and method for categorizing a document in a document management system, wherein said document management system comprises a tree of nodes, and enables a document to be categorized in a plurality of nodes. Each node has a category label indicative of a document category. Unique vocabulary terms are listed wherein each vocabulary term represents only one node in the tree and comprises that node's category label. A checkbox is provided for each of the vocabulary terms whereby a user may select one or more vocabulary term by checking a corresponding checkbox. From the checked terms, a set of vocabulary terms is generated for associating a document with all of the nodes corresponding to the selected vocabulary terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Scott Mazner, William James Griffin, Deanna R. Fuller