Patents by Inventor Jade Kessler

Jade Kessler 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: 11010539
    Abstract: Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a collaboration service determines which collaboration commands to surface in association with each user in a list of users collaborating on a document. The collaboration commands are selected based on each user's collaboration state. The service updates local applications with information indicative of the user state, so that the local applications may surface a user-specific, collaboration state-driven selection of commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin G. Wilde, Jade Kessler, Ashlyn D. Zoecklein, Douglas L. Milvaney
  • Patent number: 10812568
    Abstract: In an end user application running on a computer, for the purpose of collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, a graphical user interface is provided that facilitates storing an electronic document in shared storage. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys information about shared status of the currently accessed electronic document to the end user. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. Certain manipulations of this graphical element instruct the end user computer to store the currently accessed electronic document in shared storage if that electronic document has not yet been stored in shared storage. After the electronic document is stored in shared storage, the graphical user interface facilitates sharing of the electronic document with others. A graphical user interface that allows an electronic document to be quickly shared improves user efficiency and productivity in collaborative authoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jade Kessler, Ryan Shaffer, Benjamin Wilde, Juliana Cherston
  • Patent number: 10754519
    Abstract: In an end user application running on a computer, for collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, a graphical user interface is provided that facilitates identifying other users to collaborate with and for storing an electronic document in shared storage. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys information about shared status of the currently accessed electronic document to the end user. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. Certain manipulations of this graphical element instruct the end user computer to determine if the electronic document can be shared. If the document can be shared, the graphical user interface prompts the user for additional users with whom the document is to be shared and then stores the document in shared storage. A graphical user interface that allows an electronic document to be quickly shared improves user efficiency and productivity in collaborative authoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Jade Kessler
  • Publication number: 20190369844
    Abstract: In an end user application running on a computer, for collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, a graphical user interface is provided that facilitates identifying other users to collaborate with and for storing an electronic document in shared storage. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys information about shared status of the currently accessed electronic document to the end user. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. Certain manipulations of this graphical element instruct the end user computer to determine if the electronic document can be shared. If the document can be shared, the graphical user interface prompts the user for additional users with whom the document is to be shared and then stores the document in shared storage. A graphical user interface that allows an electronic document to be quickly shared improves user efficiency and productivity in collaborative authoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventor: Jade Kessler
  • Publication number: 20190141115
    Abstract: In an end user application running on a computer, for the purpose of collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, a graphical user interface is provided that facilitates storing an electronic document in shared storage. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys information about shared status of the currently accessed electronic document to the end user. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. Certain manipulations of this graphical element instruct the end user computer to store the currently accessed electronic document in shared storage if that electronic document has not yet been stored in shared storage. After the electronic document is stored in shared storage, the graphical user interface facilitates sharing of the electronic document with others. A graphical user interface that allows an electronic document to be quickly shared improves user efficiency and productivity in collaborative authoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Jade Kessler, Ryan Shaffer, Benjamin Wilde, Juliana Cherston
  • Patent number: 10230731
    Abstract: Inline command functionality for automatically sharing a document with user access permissions is provided. Automatic sharing of a document is performed in response to a trigger entry within the document. When a trigger entry and a user identifier entry is received, an auto-share system automatically resolves user access permissions in the background, detects sharing permissions, and shares the document with user access permissions without requiring the user who is sharing the document to manually input data. A notification is provided to the sharing user informing the user that the document is being shared, and another notification is provided to the user with whom the document is being shared including a link to the document. If the document was unintentionally shared, the sharing user is enabled to select the notification, and quickly and easily make modifications to the user access permissions for the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Joan Catharine Weaver, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Patrick Michael Gan, Jade Kessler, Erin M. O'Connell, Suzan Marashi, Derik Stenerson
  • Patent number: 10154078
    Abstract: In an end user application running on a computer, for the purpose of collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, a graphical user interface is provided that facilitates storing an electronic document in shared storage. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys information about shared status of the currently accessed electronic document to the end user. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. Certain manipulations of this graphical element instruct the end user computer to store the currently accessed electronic document in shared storage if that electronic document has not yet been stored in shared storage. After the electronic document is stored in shared storage, the graphical user interface facilitates sharing of the electronic document with others. A graphical user interface that allows an electronic document to be quickly shared improves user efficiency and productivity in collaborative authoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jade Kessler, Ryan Shaffer, Benjamin Wilde, Juliana Cherston
  • Publication number: 20180260100
    Abstract: In an end user application running on a computer, for collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, a graphical user interface is provided that facilitates identifying other users to collaborate with and for storing an electronic document in shared storage. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys information about shared status of the currently accessed electronic document to the end user. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. Certain manipulations of this graphical element instruct the end user computer to determine if the electronic document can be shared. If the document can be shared, the graphical user interface prompts the user for additional users with whom the document is to be shared and then stores the document in shared storage. A graphical user interface that allows an electronic document to be quickly shared improves user efficiency and productivity in collaborative authoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventor: Jade Kessler
  • Publication number: 20170353466
    Abstract: Inline command functionality for automatically sharing a document with user access permissions is provided. Automatic sharing of a document is performed in response to a trigger entry within the document. When a trigger entry and a user identifier entry is received, an auto-share system automatically resolves user access permissions in the background, detects sharing permissions, and shares the document with user access permissions without requiring the user who is sharing the document to manually input data. A notification is provided to the sharing user informing the user that the document is being shared, and another notification is provided to the user with whom the document is being shared including a link to the document. If the document was unintentionally shared, the sharing user is enabled to select the notification, and quickly and easily make modifications to the user access permissions for the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Joan Catharine Weaver, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Patrick Michael Gan, Jade Kessler, Erin M. O'Connell, Suzan Marashi, Derik Stenerson
  • Publication number: 20170329793
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing contact suggestions. In one aspect, rendering of a file created with an application in a user interface may be initiated. The file may include at least one collaboration feature. In response to receiving an indication of interest made with respect to the at least one collaboration feature, a plurality of contacts and an associated relevancy score for each of the plurality of contacts may be received. The plurality of contacts may be sorted by the associated relevancy score for each of the plurality of contacts. At least some of the plurality of contacts may be displayed within a picker displayed on the user interface based on the associated relevancy score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Elizabeth Brooks Dolman, Jade Kessler
  • Publication number: 20170003830
    Abstract: In an end user application running on a computer, for the purpose of collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, a graphical user interface is provided that facilitates storing an electronic document in shared storage. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys information about shared status of the currently accessed electronic document to the end user. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. Certain manipulations of this graphical element instruct the end user computer to store the currently accessed electronic document in shared storage if that electronic document has not yet been stored in shared storage. After the electronic document is stored in shared storage, the graphical user interface facilitates sharing of the electronic document with others. A graphical user interface that allows an electronic document to be quickly shared improves user efficiency and productivity in collaborative authoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Jade Kessler, Ryan Shaffer, Benjamin Wilde, Juliana Cherston
  • Publication number: 20170003835
    Abstract: Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a list of users associated collaboratively with a shared document are ordered in a user interface based at least partly on their respective collaboration states with respect to the document. As their collaboration states changes, updates are received from a collaboration service and the list of users is re-ordered to reflect their updated collaboration states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan M. Shaffer, Benjamin G. Wilde, Manoj Sharma, Jade Kessler
  • Publication number: 20170004119
    Abstract: Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a collaboration service determines which collaboration commands to surface in association with each user in a list of users collaborating on a document. The collaboration commands are selected based on each user's collaboration state. The service updates local applications with information indicative of the user state, so that the local applications may surface a user-specific, collaboration state-driven selection of commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin G. Wilde, Jade Kessler, Ashlyn D. Zoecklein, Douglas L. Milvaney
  • Publication number: 20170003829
    Abstract: An end user application running on a computer, for the purpose of collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, is configured to provide a graphical user interface that facilitates interactively and collaboratively modifying an electronic document. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys to an end user both sharing status information and editing status information for the currently accessed electronic document. The graphical element can take any of a number of different forms, such that each different form represents a different combination of the current sharing state and current co-authoring state of the currently accessed electronic document. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. In response to certain manipulations of the graphical element, the end user computer is configured to present further detailed information about such status and to receive further inputs from a user to change such status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin Wilde, Jade Kessler, Manoj Sharma, Ryan Shaffer, Juliana Cherston