Patents by Inventor Maarten Willem Mullender

Maarten Willem Mullender 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: 7567944
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a context based work environment. In some embodiments, a computer system is configured to mine relationships to capture references relevant to a context. In other embodiments, a computer system adds a reference to a context. In yet other embodiments, a computer system performs a task when focus is shifted off of the task between performance of different portions of the task. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention promote more efficient data manipulation at a computer system and can (potentially significantly) reduce the amount of work that has to be re-performed when a worker leaves and then subsequently resumes a task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Maarten Willem Mullender, David Paul Hill
  • Patent number: 7565489
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying relevant information to cache. A computer system accesses a marked data entity that has been marked for caching at a client computer system. The marked data entry is marked for caching based on the relevance of the marked data entity from the perspective of a requested data entity. The computer system identifies relationships from the marked data entity to one or more other data entities. The computer system selects, from among the identified relationships, any relationships that satisfy a relevance threshold from the perspective of the requested data entity. The computer system identifies, from among the one or more other data entities, any of the other data entities that correspond to a selected relationship satisfying the relevance threshold. The computer system marks the identified other data entities for caching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Maarten Willem Mullender, Ricard Roma i Dalfó