Patents by Inventor James Henry Lewallen

James Henry Lewallen 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: 20240098156
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing interactive notification panels to a user. A bot apparatus receives a notification from an application program and transforms the notification into one or more interactive notification panels configured to receive user inputs and/or to provide an output to at least one user input. Based on at least one user input, the bot apparatus transmits data to the application program, which causes the application program to perform one or more actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: James Henry LEWALLEN, JR., Christopher Lee MULLINS
  • Patent number: 11856070
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing interactive notification panels to a user. A bot apparatus receives a notification from an application program and transforms the notification into one or more interactive notification panels configured to receive user inputs and/or to provide an output to at least one user input. Based on at least one user input, the bot apparatus transmits data to the application program, which causes the application program to perform one or more actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: James Henry Lewallen, Jr., Christopher Lee Mullins
  • Publication number: 20220086247
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing interactive notification panels to a user. A bot apparatus receives a notification from an application program and transforms the notification into one or more interactive notification panels configured to receive user inputs and/or to provide an output to at least one user input. Based on at least one user input, the bot apparatus transmits data to the application program, which causes the application program to perform one or more actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James Henry LEWALLEN, JR., Christopher Lee MULLINS
  • Patent number: 11089125
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing interactive notification panels to a user. A bot apparatus receives a notification from an application program and transforms the notification into one or more interactive notification panels configured to receive user inputs and/or to provide an output to at least one user input. Based on at least one user input, the bot apparatus transmits data to the application program, which causes the application program to perform one or more actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James Henry Lewallen, Jr., Christopher Lee Mullins
  • Publication number: 20200137183
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing interactive notification panels to a user. A bot apparatus receives a notification from an application program and transforms the notification into one or more interactive notification panels configured to receive user inputs and/or to provide an output to at least one user input. Based on at least one user input, the bot apparatus transmits data to the application program, which causes the application program to perform one or more actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James Henry LEWALLEN, JR., Christopher Lee MULLINS
  • Patent number: 10530879
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing interactive notification panels to a user. A bot apparatus receives a notification from an application program and transforms the notification into one or more interactive notification panels configured to receive user inputs and/or to provide an output to at least one user input. Based on at least one user input, the bot apparatus transmits data to the application program, which causes the application program to perform one or more actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James Henry Lewallen, Jr., Christopher Lee Mullins
  • Publication number: 20190089796
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing interactive notification panels to a user. A bot apparatus receives a notification from an application program and transforms the notification into one or more interactive notification panels configured to receive user inputs and/or to provide an output to at least one user input. Based on at least one user input, the bot apparatus transmits data to the application program, which causes the application program to perform one or more actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James Henry LEWALLEN, Jr., Christopher Lee MULLINS
  • Publication number: 20120166415
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for creating a personalized search index and supplementing searches with an additional set of keywords. A first set of keywords is received from a user. A first index associated with the user is searched using the first set of keywords to generate a first set of search results. The first index includes content identified by the user. A second set of keywords is defined based on the first set of search results. A second index is searched using the second set of keywords to generate a second set of search results. At least a portion of the first and second sets of search results is provided to the user. Some embodiments are implemented as a cloud computing service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Henry Lewallen, Cezary Marcjan, Matthew Bret MacLaurin, Todd Daniel Newman, David Shigeru Taniguchi