Patents by Inventor Gregory Robert Smith

Gregory Robert Smith 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).

  • Monitoring relationships between digital items on a computing apparatus
    Patent number: 8615477
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein that facilitate file management on a computing device and/or across multiple computing devices. Actions of a user with respect to digital items on a computing device can be monitored and utilized to build a relationship table, wherein the relationship table comprises identities of digital items and data that describes relationships between particular digital items. Such a relationship table is analyzed to provide a user with information pertaining to relationships between digital items captured in the relationship table. Relationship tables from different devices can be merged to analyze relationships between digital items across devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Robert Smith, Amy Kathleen Karlson, Bongshin Lee
  • MONITORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DIGITAL ITEMS ON A COMPUTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20110302113
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein that facilitate file management on a computing device and/or across multiple computing devices. Actions of a user with respect to digital items on a computing device can be monitored and utilized to build a relationship table, wherein the relationship table comprises identities of digital items and data that describes relationships between particular digital items. Such a relationship table is analyzed to provide a user with information pertaining to relationships between digital items captured in the relationship table. Relationship tables from different devices can be merged to analyze relationships between digital items across devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Robert Smith, Amy Kathleen Karlson, Bongshin Lee