Patents by Inventor Ilana Rae Smith

Ilana Rae 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).

  • Patent number: 8423616
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for identifying and correlating e-mail messages. The contents of the subject and recipients fields of e-mail messages received at and sent from a computing system are hashed and stored in a database. When an incoming e-mail message is received at the computing system, the contents of its subject and recipients fields are also hashed. A search is then made of the database to locate e-mail messages identified in the database that have a sufficient number of subject and address hash values that match the subject and address hash values generated for the incoming e-mail message so that the messages may be correlated. A correlation is made between the incoming e-mail message and the best matching e-mail message located during the search of the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dominic J. Pouzin, Ilana Rae Smith
  • Patent number: 8352553
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for providing a bi-direction e-mail transport between a management (“CRM”) server computer and an e-mail server computer. An e-mail connector communicates with a CRM server computer to determine whether any e-mail messages are pending send at the CRM server computer. If any e-mail messages are pending send, the e-mail connector retrieves the e-mail messages from the CRM server computer. The e-mail connector then communicates with an e-mail server computer to send the retrieved e-mail messages to their intended recipients. The e-mail connector may also retrieve e-mail messages from the e-mail server computer and determine whether the e-mail messages are CRM related. If the e-mail messages are CRM related, the e-mail connector is operative to transmit the CRM-related e-mails to the CRM server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dominic J. Pouzin, Ilana Rae Smith, Shashi Ranjan, David Robert Shutt
  • Publication number: 20080275957
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for identifying and correlating e-mail messages. The contents of the subject and recipients fields of e-mail messages received at and sent from a computing system are hashed and stored in a database. When an incoming e-mail message is received at the computing system, the contents of its subject and recipients fields are also hashed. A search is then made of the database to locate e-mail messages identified in the database that have a sufficient number of subject and address hash values that match the subject and address hash values generated for the incoming e-mail message so that the messages may be correlated. A correlation is made between the incoming e-mail message and the best matching e-mail message located during the search of the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dominic J. Pouzin, Ilana Rae Smith
  • Publication number: 20080270550
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for providing a bi-direction e-mail transport between a management (“CRM”) server computer and an e-mail server computer. An e-mail connector communicates with a CRM server computer to determine whether any e-mail messages are pending send at the CRM server computer. If any e-mail messages are pending send, the e-mail connector retrieves the e-mail messages from the CRM server computer. The e-mail connector then communicates with an e-mail server computer to send the retrieved e-mail messages to their intended recipients. The e-mail connector may also retrieve e-mail messages from the e-mail server computer and determine whether the e-mail messages are CRM related. If the e-mail messages are CRM related, the e-mail connector is operative to transmit the CRM-related e-mails to the CRM server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dominic J. Pouzin, Ilana Rae Smith, Shashi Ranjan, David Robert Shutt
  • Patent number: D671144
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Earl Washington, Peter Seraphim Ponomarev, Ilana Rae Smith, Kieran Phelan, Kristie Eileen Smith