Patents by Inventor George Arthur Herbert, III

George Arthur Herbert, III 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: 20230262015
    Abstract: Technologies are presented directed to smart attachment of cloud-based files to communications such as email. A communication service may determine and select automatically between local and cloud versions of synchronized files allowing the recipient of the message to receive a version of the file regardless of whether the sender is offline or online when the attachment was made and in a user-friendly manner to the sender through a single representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Misbah URAIZEE, George Arthur HERBERT, III, Steven LEPOFSKY, Aaron STOLARZ, Rebecca LAWLER
  • Patent number: 11677697
    Abstract: Technologies are presented directed to smart attachment of cloud-based files to communications such as email. A communication service may determine and select automatically between local and cloud versions of synchronized files allowing the recipient of the message to receive a version of the file regardless of whether the sender is offline or online when the attachment was made and in a user-friendly manner to the sender through a single representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Misbah Uraizee, George Arthur Herbert, III, Steven Lepofsky, Aaron Stolarz, Rebecca Lawler
  • Publication number: 20220231978
    Abstract: Technologies are presented directed to smart attachment of cloud-based files to communications such as email. A communication service may determine and select automatically between local and cloud versions of synchronized files allowing the recipient of the message to receive a version of the file regardless of whether the sender is offline or online when the attachment was made and in a user-friendly manner to the sender through a single representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Misbah URAIZEE, George Arthur HERBERT, III, Steven LEPOFSKY, Aaron STOLARZ, Rebecca LAWLER
  • Patent number: 11329935
    Abstract: Technologies are presented directed to smart attachment of cloud-based files to communications such as email. A communication service may determine and select automatically between local and cloud versions of synchronized files allowing the recipient of the message to receive a version of the file regardless of whether the sender is offline or online when the attachment was made and in a user-friendly manner to the sender through a single representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Misbah Uraizee, George Arthur Herbert, III, Steven Lepofsky, Aaron Stolarz, Rebecca Lawler
  • Patent number: 11165727
    Abstract: Technologies are presented directed to uploading of attachments to a relevant group cloud storage at send time. A communication application and/or service may suggest to a user to upload an attachment of an outgoing communication to a group cloud storage upon generation of the communication. Suggestion of group may be based on last use, document type, content, user(s), which account the user is in, and comparable factors. The user (or sender) may also be provided with options to set permissions for the attachment based on the upload destination selection. In some examples, upload of work documents to personal cloud storage may be prevented and suitable groups may be selected for user that are part of multiple groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Misbah Uraizee, George Arthur Herbert, III, Christopher Walker, Aaron Stolarz
  • Patent number: 10832211
    Abstract: Extraction and provision of message identification information to a productivity application for enabling the productivity application to provide an embedded communication experience in association with an attachment file is provided. A message including an attachment is received via a messaging application. Upon receiving a selection to open the attachment from within the messaging application, the attachment file is opened in a productivity application, and various parameters associated with the message are extracted. A path including the various parameters is constructed and passed to a productivity application, thus allowing the productivity application to provide a persisted conversation in a user interface of the productivity application for viewing of and interaction with the conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: George Arthur Herbert, III, Elena Catrinescu, Darren Alexander Apfel, Alexander William Darrow, Rebecca Jean Lawler, Philip Z. Loh, Joseph Patrick Masterson
  • Publication number: 20190327194
    Abstract: Technologies are presented directed to uploading of attachments to a relevant group cloud storage at send time. A communication application and/or service may suggest to a user to upload an attachment of an outgoing communication to a group cloud storage upon generation of the communication. Suggestion of group may be based on last use, document type, content, user(s), which account the user is in, and comparable factors. The user (or sender) may also be provided with options to set permissions for the attachment based on the upload destination selection. In some examples, upload of work documents to personal cloud storage may be prevented and suitable groups may be selected for user that are part of multiple groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Misbah URAIZEE, George Arthur HERBERT, III, Christopher Walker, Aaron Stolarz
  • Patent number: 10389663
    Abstract: Technologies are presented directed to uploading of attachments to a relevant group cloud storage at send time. A communication application and/or service may suggest to a user to upload an attachment of an outgoing communication to a group cloud storage upon generation of the communication. Suggestion of group may be based on last use, document type, content, user(s), which account the user is in, and comparable factors. The user (or sender) may also be provided with options to set permissions for the attachment based on the upload destination selection. In some examples, upload of work documents to personal cloud storage may be prevented and suitable groups may be selected for user that are part of multiple groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Misbah Uraizee, George Arthur Herbert, III, Christopher Walker, Aaron Stolarz
  • Publication number: 20180248822
    Abstract: Extraction and provision of message identification information to a productivity application for enabling the productivity application to provide an embedded communication experience in association with an attachment file is provided. A message including an attachment is received via a messaging application. Upon receiving a selection to open the attachment from within the messaging application, the attachment file is opened in a productivity application, and various parameters associated with the message are extracted. A path including the various parameters is constructed and passed to a productivity application, thus allowing the productivity application to provide a persisted conversation in a user interface of the productivity application for viewing of and interaction with the conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: George Arthur Herbert, III, Elena Catrinescu, Darren Alexander Apfel, Alexander William Darrow, Rebecca Jean Lawler, Philip Z. Loh, Joseph Patrick Masterson
  • Patent number: 9985914
    Abstract: Rich attachments in emails (or other modes of communication) may be regenerated when an email with a rich attachment is sent to an application incapable of handling the rich attachment and then returned or forwarded to an application capable of handling the rich attachments. In some examples, the rich attachment may be along with a link (e.g., a hypertext markup language “HTML” link) or similar construct by the application capable of handling the rich attachment. A receiving/forwarding (or replying) application that is incapable of handling the rich attachment features, may simply keep the link in the email without processing the rich features. When the email comes back or is forwarded to the application capable of handling the rich attachment, the HTML link may be recognized, the attachment and associated metadata extracted, and presented to the recipient as rich attachment (e.g., in an attachment well).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Misbah Uraizee, George Arthur Herbert, III, Aaron Stolarz, William Baughman
  • Patent number: 9590880
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for collecting, analyzing and reporting telemetry data. A telemetry engine is built into a client application installed on a client device, and the telemetry engine is configured to collect and analyze application data at the client device and report the analyzed data to a service provider associated with the application. The telemetry application includes a specialized set of components, such as a telemetry transport component configured to communicate with the service provider, a data collection module configured to retrieve data from the application, and a rule manager and analyzer configured to analyze collected data according to a set of data collection rules provided by the service provider. The telemetry engine enables collection and analysis of telemetry data from multiple distributed client devices. The client devices dynamically change over time to ensure that current and important information is reported to the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Ashby, Eric Smith, George Arthur Herbert, III, Danny Thayer, Bruce Wiedeman, Larry Jack Israel, Robert Novitskey, Peter Gurevich, Mukunda Murthy, Jacob Pitts, Eric Borzello, Yi-Lei Wu, Bala Murali Loganath
  • Publication number: 20160315887
    Abstract: Technologies are presented directed to uploading of attachments to a relevant group cloud storage at send time. A communication application and/or service may suggest to a user to upload an attachment of an outgoing communication to a group cloud storage upon generation of the communication. Suggestion of group may be based on last use, document type, content, user(s), which account the user is in, and comparable factors. The user (or sender) may also be provided with options to set permissions for the attachment based on the upload destination selection. In some examples, upload of work documents to personal cloud storage may be prevented and suitable groups may be selected for user that are part of multiple groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Misbah Uraizee, George Arthur Herbert, III, Christopher Walker, Aaron Stolarz
  • Publication number: 20160315889
    Abstract: Rich attachments in emails (or other modes of communication) may be regenerated when an email with a rich attachment is sent to an application incapable of handling the rich attachment and then returned or forwarded to an application capable of handling the rich attachments. In some examples, the rich attachment may be along with a link (e.g., a hypertext markup language “HTML” link) or similar construct by the application capable of handling the rich attachment. A receiving/forwarding (or replying) application that is incapable of handling the rich attachment features, may simply keep the link in the email without processing the rich features. When the email comes back or is forwarded to the application capable of handling the rich attachment, the HTML link may be recognized, the attachment and associated metadata extracted, and presented to the recipient as rich attachment (e.g., in an attachment well).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Misbah Uraizee, George Arthur Herbert, III, Aaron Stolarz, William Baughman
  • Publication number: 20160315888
    Abstract: Technologies are presented directed to smart attachment of cloud-based files to communications such as email. A communication service may determine and select automatically between local and cloud versions of synchronized files allowing the recipient of the message to receive a version of the file regardless of whether the sender is offline or online when the attachment was made and in a user-friendly manner to the sender through a single representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Misbah Uraizee, George Arthur Herbert, III, Steven Lepofsky, Aaron Stolarz, Rebecca Lawler
  • Publication number: 20150046512
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for collecting, analyzing and reporting telemetry data. A telemetry engine is built into a client application installed on a client device, and the telemetry engine is configured to collect and analyze application data at the client device and report the analyzed data to a service provider associated with the application. The telemetry application includes a specialized set of components, such as a telemetry transport component configured to communicate with the service provider, a data collection module configured to retrieve data from the application, and a rule manager and analyzer configured to analyze collected data according to a set of data collection rules provided by the service provider. The telemetry engine enables collection and analysis of telemetry data from multiple distributed client devices. The client devices dynamically change over time to ensure that current and important information is reported to the service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Erik Ashby, Eric Smith, George Arthur Herbert, III, Danny Thayer, Bruce Wiedeman, Larry Jack Israel, Robert Novitskey, Peter Gurevich, Mukunda Murthy, Jacob Pitts, Eric Borzello, Yi-Lei Wu, Bala Murali Loganath
  • Patent number: 7716288
    Abstract: A rights-managed email is provided for sending protected content from a sender to a recipient, whereby the recipient can render the protected content with a corresponding license if the recipient satisfies terms set forth in the license. In the email, a main information portion has a message that the email is rights management protected, and an attachment portion has the protected content. The recipient if enabled can render the protected content in the attachment portion. If not enabled, the recipient can only review the main information portion having the message. The enabled recipient recognizes that the email has the protected content in the attachment portion thereof, discounts the main information portion of the email, and examines the attachment portion of the email and proceeds based thereon to render the protected content in the attachment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chris Graham, George Arthur Herbert, III, Lauren Antonoff, Pavel Kouznetsov, Jason Cahill, Kevin Brown
  • Patent number: 7472357
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a user interface for managing and prioritizing items in a list are provided. Each item in the list is associated with and displayed adjacent to a user interface control for flagging the associated list item. When selected, the user interface control is operative to flag the corresponding list item. Moreover, the user interface control is further operative to change its visual state to indicate that the corresponding list item is flagged. List items flagged by other users appear differently. When again selected, the user interface control is further operative to remove the flagged state for the corresponding item and to set the state of the item as completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jesse Clay Satterfield, Jensen Michael Harris, Jiaxin Wang, Richard Henry Leukart, III, George Arthur Herbert, III, Martijn Eldert van Tilburg