Patents by Inventor John Alton Price

John Alton Price 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: 11907272
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, machine-readable media, and devices which provide for real-time personalized suggestions for participants in a network-based communication service. The personalized suggestions may include options for taking actions, content suggestions, and smart replies. These suggestions may be based upon the current conversation and are delivered personally to each participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Nikrouz Ghotbi, Eddie Fusaro, John Alton Price, Jeff Roger DeVries
  • Publication number: 20230394073
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, machine-readable media, and devices which provide for real-time personalized suggestions for participants in a network-based communication service. The personalized suggestions may include options for taking actions, content suggestions, and smart replies. These suggestions may be based upon the current conversation and are delivered personally to each participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Nikrouz GHOTBI, Eddie Fusaro, John Alton Price, Jeff R. Devries
  • Patent number: 11379529
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for proactively enriching content of electronic communications through predicting user intents. User-composed content within an electronic communication is observed and used to predict one or more intents each associated with a task related to the communication and to be completed in creating the communication. Task-queries may be generated based on the detected intents and entities extracted from the user-composed content, contextual information, or other information related to the user, such as a user-knowledge database. User selection of a suggested task-query automatically executes the task-query, and the results are provided to the user. Each result may include an action involving adding content to or supplementing the content of the electronic communication. A conversational digital assistant may further be invoked to interact with the user to confirm and/or modify suggested task-queries and results of selected task-queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Ross Fenton, John Alton Price, Carol Kumar Mekala, Richard Scott Cassan, Hany Salaheldeen Khalil, Subramanian Vuttravadium Venkata, Malik M. Pradhan, Alfredo Augusto Menendez Sancho, Jacqueline Kay Killow, Anuja Milind Joshi, Jacob G. Danovitch-Tatoff
  • Publication number: 20210073293
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for proactively enriching content of electronic communications through predicting user intents. User-composed content within an electronic communication is observed and used to predict one or more intents each associated with a task related to the communication and to be completed in creating the communication. Task-queries may be generated based on the detected intents and entities extracted from the user-composed content, contextual information, or other information related to the user, such as a user-knowledge database. User selection of a suggested task-query automatically executes the task-query, and the results are provided to the user. Each result may include an action involving adding content to or supplementing the content of the electronic communication. A conversational digital assistant may further be invoked to interact with the user to confirm and/or modify suggested task-queries and results of selected task-queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: ROBERT ROSS FENTON, JOHN ALTON PRICE, CAROL KUMAR MEKALA, RICHARD SCOTT CASSAN, HANY SALAHELDEEN KHALIL, SUBRAMANIAN VUTTRAVADIUM VENKATA, MALIK M. PRADHAN, ALFREDO AUGUSTO MENENDEZ SANCHO, JACQUELINE KAY KILLOW, ANUJA MILIND JOSHI, JACOB G. DANOVITCH-TATOFF
  • Publication number: 20180239770
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, machine-readable media, and devices which provide for real-time personalized suggestions for participants in a network-based communication service. The personalized suggestions may include options for taking actions, content suggestions, and smart replies. These suggestions may be based upon the current conversation and are delivered personally to each participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Nikrouz Ghotbi, Eddie Fusaro, John Alton Price, Jeff Roger DeVries