Patents by Inventor Jennie Park Telehowski

Jennie Park Telehowski 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).

  • Leveraging communications to identify social network friends
    Patent number: 8010602
    Abstract: A method for determining whether to recommend a social relationship between a social network member and another party is disclosed. Electronic communication activity of the social network member and the other party is monitored. Based on a number of characteristics of the communication, a determination is made as to whether to recommend the party to the member as a social network friend. The characteristics can include how the parties communicate—whether through email, instant messaging and/or voice communication, whether the parties send direct email messages to each other, whether they communicate as part of a group email message, the location of each parties address in the email message and whether communication includes sharing activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer Iting Shen, Omar H. Shahine, Steven D. Kafka, Jennie Park Telehowski, Eliot Gillum, Sara Liu Yang
  • LEVERAGING COMMUNICATIONS TO IDENTIFY SOCIAL NETWORK FRIENDS
    Publication number: 20100057858
    Abstract: A method for determining whether to recommend a social relationship between a social network member and another party is disclosed. Electronic communication activity of the social network member and the other party is monitored. Based on a number of characteristics of the communication, a determination is made as to whether to recommend the party to the member as a social network friend. The characteristics can include how the parties communicate—whether through email, instant messaging and/or voice communication, whether the parties send direct email messages to each other, whether they communicate as part of a group email message, the location of each parties address in the email message and whether communication includes sharing activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jennifer Iting Shen, Omar H. Shahine, Steven D. Kafka, Jennie Park Telehowski, Eliot Gillum, Sara Liu Yang