Patents by Inventor Jason C. Fluegel
Jason C. Fluegel 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).
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Patent number: 8989356Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and user interface for displaying an inquiry indication related to an inquiring user's inquiry are described. An inquiring user prepares and submits an inquiry in an inquiry application. Upon preparing and submitting an inquiry, a notice of the inquiry is generated and routed to the inquiring user's network contacts. An inquiry indication is generated to notify network contacts that an inquiry has been submitted by the inquiring user. A network contact may select the inquiry indication to display an inquiry feature and may select an inquiry feature to view the inquiry and respond to the inquiry.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Justin S. Denney, Nils H. Pohlmann, Edward D. Harris, Jason C. Fluegel, Stephen P. Rosato, Michael L. Torres
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Patent number: 8090776Abstract: A content page is configured by a user and located on a network. Changes made to the content page are automatically communicated with notifications to a group of contacts for the user. Only contacts with permission to view the content page, or the changed content, will receive the notification and have permission to view the changes. A visual indicator notifies contacts that a content page of one of their contacts has been changed. When the visual indicator or some other contact indicator is selected by the user, a summary module can be provided. The summary module is a portal to network content, including the content page.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2004Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael I. Torres, Stephen P. Rosato, Jason C. Fluegel, Thomas A. Jeyaseelan, DeEtte M. Day, Eyal Z. Axelrod, German A. Gil
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Patent number: 8073928Abstract: Profile data from multiple networking services can be combined and queried from one networking service. A primary networking service may store user profile data for one or more secondary networking services and the primary networking service. When stored, the data from the multiple networks may be aggregated or merged. The stored data may include user profile data and relationship data for each networking service that a primary networking service has a profile account with. A graph of user-contact relationships existing over the primary networking service and one or more secondary networking services may be constructed and queried against.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Rob Dolin, Oludare Obasanjo, Michael I. Torres, Jason C. Fluegel
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Publication number: 20110219314Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and user interface for displaying an inquiry indication related to an inquiring user's inquiry are described. An inquiring user prepares and submits an inquiry in an inquiry application. Upon preparing and submitting an inquiry, a notice of the inquiry is generated and routed to the inquiring user's network contacts. An inquiry indication is generated to notify network contacts that an inquiry has been submitted by the inquiring user. A network contact may select the inquiry indication to display an inquiry feature and may select an inquiry feature to view the inquiry and respond to the inquiry.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: JUSTIN S. DENNEY, NILS H. POHLMANN, EDWARD D. HARRIS, JASON C. FLUEGEL, STEPHEN P. ROSATO, MICHAEL L. TORRES
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Patent number: 7957510Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and user interface for displaying an inquiry indication related to an inquiring user's inquiry are described. An inquiring user prepares and submits an inquiry in an inquiry application. Upon preparing and submitting an inquiry, a notice of the inquiry is generated and routed to the inquiring user's network contacts. An inquiry indication is generated to notify network contacts that an inquiry has been submitted by the inquiring user. A network contact may select the inquiry indication to display an inquiry feature and may select an inquiry feature to view the inquiry and respond to the inquiry.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Justin S. Denney, Nils H. Pohlmann, Edward D. Harris, Jason C. Fluegel, Stephen P. Rosato, Michael L. Torres
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Publication number: 20110035464Abstract: Profile data from multiple networking services can be combined and queried from one networking service. A primary networking service may store user profile data for one or more secondary networking services and the primary networking service. When stored, the data from the multiple networks may be aggregated or merged. The stored data may include user profile data and relationship data for each networking service that a primary networking service has a profile account with. A graph of user-contact relationships existing over the primary networking service and one or more secondary networking services may be constructed and queried against.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Rob Dolin, Oludare Obasanjo, Michael I. Torres, Jason C. Fluegel
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Patent number: 7818396Abstract: Profile data from multiple networking services can be combined and queried from one networking service. A primary networking service may store user profile data for one or more secondary networking services and the primary networking service. When stored, the data from the multiple networks may be aggregated or merged. The stored data may include user profile data and relationship data for each networking service that a primary networking service has a profile account with. A graph of user-contact relationships existing over the primary networking service and one or more secondary networking services may be constructed and queried against.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Rob Dolin, Oludare Obasanjo, Michael I. Torres, Jason C. Fluegel
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Patent number: 7797318Abstract: A social networking service is integrated with a traditional communication service. The communication service may include an instant messaging service, an electronic mail service, a content page management service, or other communication service. The communication service provides one or more interfaces allowing a user to navigate and manage a contact network. A user may access several layers of contacts, and expand their contact list, by selecting additional contacts within additional contact lists.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2005Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael I. Torres, John R. Kountz, Oludare Obasanjo, Matthew S. Augustine, Jason C. Fluegel, Jacob D. Kim, DeEtte M. Day
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Patent number: 7676833Abstract: Techniques are described which may be employed to provide a login screen with identifying data. In an implementation, a login screen is displayed having an image that identifies a user. Credentials are received via the login screen to log the user onto a service provider over a network.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2006Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Erren Dusan Lester, Jason C Fluegel, Jeffrey Steinbok, Katrina M Blanch, Mark K Wong, Ranjib S Badh, Rui Chen, Trevin M Chow
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Patent number: 7620996Abstract: A content page is configured by a user and located on a network. Changes made to the content page are automatically communicated with notifications to a group of contacts for the user. Only contacts with permission to view the content page, or the changed content, will receive the notification and have permission to view the changes. A visual indicator notifies contacts that a content page of one of their contacts has been changed. When the visual indicator or some other contact indicator is selected by the user, a summary module can be provided. The summary module is a portal to network content, including the content page.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2004Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael I. Torres, Stephen P. Rosato, Jason C. Fluegel, Thomas A. Jeyaseelan, DeEtte M. Day, Eyal Z. Axelrod, German A. Gil
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Patent number: 7487214Abstract: An application providing a common interface allowing access and login to a electronic mail system and instant messaging system. The application allows responding to an email using an instant message, replying to an instant message using an email, sending and receiving both email and instant messages from one application, sending email attachments instantly, and displaying presence information for the user, user email contacts and user messenger contacts. Alerts are provided for both emails and instant messages received. The inbox views can automatically be refreshed when a user receives new email. An interface is provided to convert multiple email contacts into messenger contacts. The system can be used with both local messenger clients and browser based IM clients.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2004Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Imran I. Qureshi, Jason C. Fluegel, Charles Reeves Little, Mikhail Birman, Justin B. Voskuhl
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Publication number: 20080316925Abstract: Profile data from multiple networking services can be combined and queried from one networking service. A primary networking service may store user profile data for one or more secondary networking services and the primary networking service. When stored, the data from the multiple networks may be aggregated or merged. The stored data may include user profile data and relationship data for each networking service that a primary networking service has a profile account with. A graph of user-contact relationships existing over the primary networking service and one or more secondary networking services may be constructed and queried against.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2007Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Rob Dolin, Oludare Obasanjo, Michael I. Torres, Jason C. Fluegel
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Publication number: 20080177875Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and user interface for displaying an inquiry indication related to an inquiring user's inquiry are described. An inquiring user prepares and submits an inquiry in an inquiry application. Upon preparing and submitting an inquiry, a notice of the inquiry is generated and routed to the inquiring user's network contacts. An inquiry indication is generated to notify network contacts that an inquiry has been submitted by the inquiring user. A network contact may select the inquiry indication to display an inquiry feature and may select an inquiry feature to view the inquiry and respond to the inquiry.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: JUSTIN S. DENNEY, Nils H. Pohlmann, Edward D. Harris, Jason C. Fluegel, Stephen P. Rosato, Michael I. Torres
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Publication number: 20080005238Abstract: The techniques and technologies described herein enable real-time user identity information to be maintained by a network server architecture such that the user identity information can be provided across multiple client devices and/or across multiple collaborative applications supported by the client devices. The client devices and the collaborative applications can be designed to receive and process the network-based user identity information for presentation in a consistent display format regardless of the client device type and in the context of different collaborative applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Martin J. Hall, Allison O'Mahony, Darwin K. Yamamoto, Jason C. Fluegel, Michael C. Kunz, Tammy L. Savage