Patents by Inventor Kenneth Fern
Kenneth Fern 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: 9798769Abstract: A document sharing system includes a plurality of different data provider implementations. The document sharing system exposes a common application programming interface to a plurality of different clients and receives data requests identifying a given data provider, from the clients. The document sharing system then uses the data provider implementation for the data provider identified in the request, in order to obtain the requested data, and place it in a common data structure that is returned to the client.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David L. Meyers, Michael B. Palmer, Betsy Y. McIntyre, Mirela D. S. Correa, David P. Limont, Kenneth Fern
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Patent number: 9792014Abstract: Techniques for providing an in-place contextual menu and user interface for email and other information management system triage are provided in which a contextual menu can be overlaid or replace an item on a view screen. The contextual menu can provide action commands specific to the type and state of the items selected in the feature view of the email or other information management system. A single recognized selection input, such as a swipe gesture, selects an item and invokes an in-place contextual menu presenting actions that can be asserted on the selected item. Multiple item selection is available through the same invocation of presenting the in-place contextual menu.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jeffrey K. Feiereisen, Yung-Cheng Chen, Ryan Thomas Murphy, Eva Britta Karolina Burlin, Michael Anthony Faoro, Kenneth Fern, Michael R. Gow, Chao-Chung Lin, Joseph McLaughlin
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Publication number: 20170185574Abstract: A document history interface provides a visual document history. In particular, document history application provides for tracking, storing and presenting events occurring over a document lifecycle to provide a robust interface for visualizing and accessing the document's history. In aspects, an interactive document timeline with a scroll control is provided to roll back through the document history. The interactive document timeline includes visual indicators for events that occurred during the document lifecycle, including but not limited to authoring events, communication events, and document branching events. A play control is further provided with the interactive document timeline such that a time-lapse rendition of events occurring over the document history may be displayed. In some aspects, upon scrolling to particular points along the interactive document timeline, legacy versions of the document may be saved as new documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kenneth Fern, Alexander Darrow, Joseph Masterson
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Publication number: 20170083165Abstract: Controlling notifications based on an importance of the notifications to users is described. A service provider can receive notifications. The service provider can determine an order for sending the notifications based partly on priority levels assigned to the notifications and positions associated with presentations of the notifications. The service provider can send a first notification to at least one device in a first period of time. The service provider can determine that sending a second notification causes a conflict with a presentation policy. Accordingly, the service provider can determine a second period of time subsequent to the first period of time to send the second notification to the at least one device based partly on a lapse of a predetermined amount of time and/or an occurrence of an event, and can send the second notification to the at least one device in the second period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Zohaib H. Ali, Kenneth Fern, Sara Manning L.M. Dawson, Joseph Masterson, Srinivasa Reddy Manda, Eduardo Da Fonseca Melo, Jun Yan
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Publication number: 20170012985Abstract: A user generates a message by adding a recipient in order to send the message to the recipient. The message has a link to an attached object which is automatically detected and it is determined whether the recipient has rights to the object. If not, the recipient's rights are automatically modified so that the recipient has rights to the object, and the user is notified of the modified permissions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: David L. Meyers, David P. Limont, Kenneth Fern, Michael B. Palmer, Betsy Y. McIntyre, Mirela D.S. Correa
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Patent number: 9491177Abstract: A user generates a message by adding a recipient in order to send the message to the recipient. The message has a link to an attached object which is automatically detected and it is determined whether the recipient has rights to the object. If not, the recipient's rights are automatically modified so that the recipient has rights to the object, and the user is notified of the modified permissions.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David L. Meyers, David P. Limont, Kenneth Fern, Michael B. Palmer, Betsy Y. McIntyre, Mirela D. S. Correa
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Publication number: 20160283447Abstract: An interactive preview of a content within a communication is provided. An application such as a communication application retrieves metadata of a content from a content provider, in response to a detection of an insertion of a link of the content into a message. An interactive preview of the content is generated based on the metadata. The interactive preview provides actions to manage the interactive preview and the content. The interactive preview is inserted into the message in proximity to the link. Custom operations associated with the actions are executed in response to a transmission of the message.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Joey Masterson, Kenneth Fern, Rebecca Lawler, Hayley Steplyk
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Publication number: 20160283051Abstract: An attachment control to manage attachments in a conversation is provided. An application such as a communication application displays a conversation of grouped messages in response to a detection of a selection of a message summary associated with one of the grouped messages. An attachment control is generated to manage identified attachments in the grouped messages. The attachment control is displayed in proximity to the conversation. An attachment drop down menu that includes a listing of the attachments is displayed in response to an activation of the attachment control.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Joey Masterson, Kenneth Fern, David Paul Limont, Hayley Steplyk
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Publication number: 20150277724Abstract: Inline document collaboration workflows are provided. When a user receives an electronic communication that includes an attached content item, the receiving user may select the attached content item and cause the attached content item to be displayed in an immersive view in proximity to an electronic communication pane in which an electronic communication may be conducted about any topic including the content item that is displayed in proximity to the electronic communication pane. During editing of a content item, an electronic communication may be generated from a user interface in which the content item is being generated, or alternatively a new content item may be generated out of an electronic communications user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, Jin Ma, Elena Catrinescu, Nathan Waddoups, Kenneth Fern, David Paul Limont, David Lloyd Meyers, JR., Michael B. Palmer
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Publication number: 20150281149Abstract: Electronic communication-based storage of content items to support multiple workflows is provided. When an attached content item is received with an electronic communication, a receiving user may select the attached content item for review and editing in an immersive view pane that may be launched adjacent to or in proximity to an electronic mail viewing pane. When the received content item is edited, a copy of the edited content item is temporarily stored with the electronic communication with which the content item was received at an associated electronic communication server. When the receiving user then desires to dispose of the edited content item, for example, by replying back to the sending user with the edited content item as an attachment, the edited content item may be retrieved from the electronic communication server automatically for attachment to the responsive communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, Nathan Waddoups, Russell L. Simpson, JR., Michael B. Palmer, Jin Ma, Elena Catrinescu, Kenneth Fern
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Publication number: 20150277711Abstract: User interaction with components and content items provided in an immersive information and document view is provided. When a user receives an electronic communication, for example, an electronic mail item having an attached content item, the content item may be selectively displayed in an immersive view pane displayed in an electronic communications user interface. The immersive view pane may be animated into display for effect. If two or more attachments are received, the attachments may be displayed in an attachment well. Display of various attached content items may be provided via a number of navigation methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, Kenneth Fern, Jin Ma, Elena Catrinescu, Nathan Waddoups, David Paul Limont, David Lloyd Meyers, JR., Hayley Lynn Steplyk
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Publication number: 20150281150Abstract: Inline document collaboration workflows are provided. When a user receives an electronic communication that includes an attached content item, the receiving user may select the attached content item and cause the attached content item to be displayed in an immersive view in proximity to an electronic communication pane in which an electronic communication may be conducted about any topic including the content item that is displayed in proximity to the electronic communication pane. During editing of a content item, an electronic communication may be generated from a user interface in which the content item is being generated, or alternatively a new content item may be generated out of an electronic communications user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, Jin Ma, Elena Catrinescu, Nathan Waddoups, Kenneth Fern, David Paul Limont, David Lloyd Meyers, JR., Michael B. Palmer
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Publication number: 20150281148Abstract: Immersive document view and use in an electronic communications user interface are provided. If an electronic communications conversation is presented in an electronic communications pane or canvas, a user may navigate through the electronic communications items while a selected content item is maintained in a displayed state in an immersive view pane. The electronic communications conversation thread may be oriented such that oldest communication items are presented at the top, followed by next newer conversation items, and so on. A pop-out function may be provided wherein an editing experience for a selected content item may be popped out into a secondary user interface window in a partially or completely overlaying fashion over a user interface display window containing the components of the electronic communications user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, David Paul Limont, Jin Ma, Elena Catrinescu, Hayley Lynn Steplyk, David Lloyd Meyers, JR., Jason Cook, Kenneth Fern, Nathan Waddoups
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Publication number: 20150277722Abstract: An adaptive layout and workflow engine. The adaptive layout and workflow engine allows various applications to dynamically render scaled views of content based on the characteristics of the display on the device being used to consume the content. The adaptive layout and workflow engine may select an appropriate view of the content to render based on the size, resolution, or aspect ratio of the display. The rendered size of the content and/or the user interface of the content application is evaluated relative to the characteristics of the display. Embodiments may provide different controls via the user interfaces based on the characteristics of the display and/or content. The adaptive layout and workflow engine may provide customized work flows via the user interface to improve the user experience depending on the display capabilities of the device used to consume the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Masterson, Jeremy de Souza, Jin Ma, Elena Catrinescu, Nathan Waddoups, Kenneth Fern, David Lloyd Meyers, Jr., David Paul Limont, Michael B. Palmer
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Publication number: 20150277725Abstract: Automatic uploading of electronic communication attachments to a collaborative storage location for enabling efficient co-authoring among a group of users is provided. When an electronic communication item is received that contains an attached content item, a user may select the content item for review and/or editing. A communication (e.g., a responsive email message) may be automatically created and may include an attachment pointer to direct recipients of the communication to the location at which the edited content item will be stored at a collaborative group storage location. The communication may also include a posting for notifying recipients of the communication that the associated content item has been edited and by whom the content item was edited. Recipients of the communication may then locate the edited content item and may begin reviewing and/or editing the stored content item in a collaborative co-authoring environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Joseph Masterson, Nathan Waddoups, Mirela Correa, Kenneth Fern, David Lloyd Meyers, JR., David Paul Limont, Jin Ma
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Publication number: 20150154156Abstract: Enhanced links in a message composition surface are described. A uniform resource locator (URL) may be identified while a user is composing a message in a message composition surface of an electronic message such as an email. A source of the URL and the file type of the document linked to by the URL can be determined and a preview of the document can be rendered in the message composition surface. When the source is a cloud storage location, access permissions for the document can be adjusted from within email—without the user navigating to a file management site of the cloud storage. When the file type is a productivity application, a link rendering element can call a productivity application service to provide interaction functionality for the productivity application file and facilitate the rendering of the productivity application file.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David Lloyd Meyers, JR., David Paul Limont, Kenneth Fern, Michael Palmer, Betsy Yu-pui Mclntyre, Mirela Correa
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Publication number: 20150149456Abstract: A document sharing system includes a plurality of different data provider implementations. The document sharing system exposes a common application programming interface to a plurality of different clients and receives data requests identifying a given data provider, from the clients. The document sharing system then uses the data provider implementation for the data provider identified in the request, in order to obtain the requested data, and place it in a common data structure that is returned to the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: David L. Meyers, Michael B. Palmer, Betsy Y. McIntyre, Mirela D.S. Correa, David P. Limont, Kenneth Fern
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Publication number: 20150134751Abstract: Techniques for facilitating sharing a file via email are disclosed. A file may be shared as an attachment or link in a simplified process flow initiated from within an email application. In response to receiving a command to share a file, the email application can launch a file explorer screen from which a user may navigate files including files stored on a local drive and files stored via a cloud storage provider. After a file is selected by the user via the file explorer screen the email application can present sharing options for the file. Regardless of where the file is originally stored, the file may be attached to the email or a link to the file may be inserted in the email. The email application can upload a file from a local drive to the cloud storage provider when such a file is selected for inserting as a link.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David Lloyd Meyers, Jr., David Paul Limont, Kenneth Fern, Michael Palmer, Betsy Yu-pui McIntyre, Mirela Correa
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Publication number: 20150106877Abstract: A user generates a message by adding a recipient in order to send the message to the recipient. The message has a link to an attached object which is automatically detected and it is determined whether the recipient has rights to the object. If not, the recipient's rights are automatically modified so that the recipient has rights to the object, and the user is notified of the modified permissions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David L. Meyers, David P. Limont, Kenneth Fern, Michael B. Palmer, Betsy Y. McIntyre, Mirela D.S. Correa
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Publication number: 20140282254Abstract: Techniques for providing an in-place contextual menu and user interface for email and other information management system triage are provided in which a contextual menu can be overlaid or replace an item on a view screen. The contextual menu can provide action commands specific to the type and state of the items selected in the feature view of the email or other information management system. A single recognized selection input, such as a swipe gesture, selects an item and invokes an in-place contextual menu presenting actions that can be asserted on the selected item. Multiple item selection is available through the same invocation of presenting the in-place contextual menu.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey K. Feiereisen, Yung-Cheng Chen, Ryan Thomas Murphy, Eva Britta Karolina Burlin, Michael Anthony Faoro, Kenneth Fern, Michael R. Gow, Chao-Chung Lin, Joseph McLaughlin