Patents by Inventor Malcolm H. Davis

Malcolm H. Davis 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: 11057334
    Abstract: Message management and classification techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a message received from a sender for delivery via a user account is examined to extract one or more features of the message. A determination is then made as to whether the message corresponds to one or more categories based on the extracted features, the categories usable to enable features to be applied to the message in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paul M. Midgen, Vasantha K. Vemula, Krishna Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Eliot C. Gillum, Mihai Costea, Douglas J. Hines, Wei Jiang, Malcolm H. Davis, Samuel J. L. Albert, Michael James Ahiakpor
  • Publication number: 20160173434
    Abstract: Message management and classification techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a message received from a sender for delivery via a user account is examined to extract one or more features of the message. A determination is then made as to whether the message corresponds to one or more categories based on the extracted features, the categories usable to enable features to be applied to the message in a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Paul M. Midgen, Vasantha K. Vemula, Krishna Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Eliot C. Gillum, Mihai Costea, Douglas J. Hines, Wei Jiang, Malcolm H. Davis, Samuel J. L. Albert, Michael James Ahiakpor
  • Patent number: 9292600
    Abstract: Message management and classification techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a message received from a sender for delivery via a user account is examined to extract one or more features of the message. A determination is then made as to whether the message corresponds to one or more categories based on the extracted features, the categories usable to enable features to be applied to the message in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paul M. Midgen, Vasantha K. Vemula, Krishna Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Eliot C. Gillum, Mihai Costea, Douglas J. Hines, Wei Jiang, Malcolm H. Davis, Samuel J. L. Albert, Michael James Ahiakpor
  • Patent number: 9098459
    Abstract: The filtering of activities generated by nodes of a network while interacting with a device may be performed by evaluating the desirability of the activities (e.g., a spam or not-spam determination of email messages sent by the node) and assigning a trust rating to the node. However, nodes are often identified by network address, and an operator of a node sending undesirable activities may reassign the network address of the node in order to avoid heavy filtering. Instead, nodes may be identified as being controlled by a network entity (e.g., an autonomous system identified in a border gateway protocol routing table.) The network entity is assigned a network entity trust rating based on the trust ratings of the nodes controlled thereby, and an appropriate level of activity filtering based on the network entity trust rating may be selected for subsequent activities received from all nodes controlled by the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Malcolm H Davis, Aravind K Ramachandran, Geoffrey J Hulten, Ivan Osipkov, Milenko Drinic, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Robert L. McCann
  • Publication number: 20130086180
    Abstract: Message management and classification techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a message received from a sender for delivery via a user account is examined to extract one or more features of the message. A determination is then made as to whether the message corresponds to one or more categories based on the extracted features, the categories usable to enable features to be applied to the message in a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Paul M. Midgen, Vasantha K. Vemula, Krishna Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Eliot C. Gillum, Mihai Costea, Douglas J. Hines, Wei Jiang, Malcolm H. Davis, Samuel J. L. Albert, Michael James Ahiakpor
  • Patent number: 8370902
    Abstract: Network entities controlling a set of nodes may vary by trustworthiness, such as tolerance for nodes that send spam, distribute malware, or perform denial-of-service attacks. A device receiving such activities may identify a trust rating of the network entity and apply appropriately stringent filtering (such as spam evaluation) to activities received from nodes controlled by the network entity. However, a poor trust rating of a network entity may subject a legitimate node controlled by the network entity to inefficiently or unfairly stringent activity filtering. Instead, the device may evaluate the activities of a particular node, assign a trust rating to the node, and if the trust rating of the node is higher than the trust rating of the network entity, apply less stringent activity filtering to the activities of the node, thereby “rescuing” the node from the more stringent activity filtering applied to the other nodes of the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm H Davis, Aravind K Ramachandran, Geoffrey J Hulten, Ivan Osipkov, Milenko Drinic, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Robert L. McCann
  • Publication number: 20110191847
    Abstract: The filtering of activities generated by nodes of a network while interacting with a device may be performed by evaluating the desirability of the activities (e.g., a spam or not-spam determination of email messages sent by the node) and assigning a trust rating to the node. However, nodes are often identified by network address, and an operator of a node sending undesirable activities may reassign the network address of the node in order to avoid heavy filtering. Instead, nodes may be identified as being controlled by a network entity (e.g., an autonomous system identified in a border gateway protocol routing table.) The network entity is assigned a network entity trust rating based on the trust ratings of the nodes controlled thereby, and an appropriate level of activity filtering based on the network entity trust rating may be selected for subsequent activities received from all nodes controlled by the network entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm H. Davis, Aravind K. Ramachandran, Geoffrey J. Hulten, Ivan Osipkov, Milenko Drinic, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Robert L. McCann
  • Publication number: 20110191832
    Abstract: Network entities controlling a set of nodes may vary by trustworthiness, such as tolerance for nodes that send spam, distribute malware, or perform denial-of-service attacks. A device receiving such activities may identify a trust rating of the network entity and apply appropriately stringent filtering (such as spam evaluation) to activities received from nodes controlled by the network entity. However, a poor trust rating of a network entity may subject a legitimate node controlled by the network entity to inefficiently or unfairly stringent activity filtering. Instead, the device may evaluate the activities of a particular node, assign a trust rating to the node, and if the trust rating of the node is higher than the trust rating of the network entity, apply less stringent activity filtering to the activities of the node, thereby “rescuing” the node from the more stringent activity filtering applied to the other nodes of the network entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm H. Davis, Aravind K. Ramachandran, Geoffrey J. Hulten, Ivan Osipkov, Milenko Drinic, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Jason D. Walter, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Robert L. McCann
  • Patent number: 7284263
    Abstract: The present invention provides the ability to compare and enforce policies between trusted entities within a rights management system. For example, policies between the two entities may be received by either entity. They may then be compared to determine the compatibility of the two policies. If compatible, or maybe even without the comparison, other embodiments provide for message server use license, which allows access to the protected portion of a message, thereby permitting an entity to enforce its message policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm H. Davis, Peter D. Waxman, John Gerard Speare, Roy Williams
  • Patent number: 7210165
    Abstract: The present invention allows for a pre-licensing process for content that is subject to rights management in order to allow a principal access to the content when the principal does not have access to the rights management server. Rather than requiring the principal to submit a rights account certificate and request for a use license to the rights management server, the present invention allows the message server to obtain a use license on behalf of the principal. Accordingly, the principal can access the use license from the message server and decrypt protected content without having to request the use license from the rights management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John Gerard Speare, Malcolm H. Davis, Peter D. Waxman, Marco A. DeMello, Christopher F. Graham, Jason M. Cahill
  • Patent number: 7181761
    Abstract: The present invention provides the ability to compare and enforce policies between trusted entities within a rights management system. For example, policies between the two entities may be received by either entity. They may then be compared to determine the compatibility of the two policies. If compatible, or maybe even without the comparison, other embodiments provide for message server use license, which allows access to the protected portion of a message, thereby permitting an entity to enforce its message policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Micosoft Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm H. Davis, Peter D. Waxman, John Gerard Speare, Roy Williams
  • Patent number: 4766295
    Abstract: An electronic pricing display system for displaying pricing and other specialized information in real time on shelf display tags (18). Display tags (18) are battery operated and receive remotely transmitted infrared signals from optical heads (20) mounted on the ceiling of a store. A handheld electronic controller (22) may be carried by store personnel for obtaining information from or sending information to a selected wireless display tag (18). Pricing information from a main computer (10) is connected by an electronic interface (23) including a microprocessor (24) into a serial information stream having two separate frequencies for relay to the optical heads (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: H.E. Butt Grocery Company
    Inventors: Malcolm H. Davis, Kent A. Janes, Daniel J. Kleffner, William P. Seltzer, Hugh F. Spence