Patents by Inventor Marc Adam Silbey

Marc Adam Silbey 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).

  • Identifying likely recipients of a message
    Patent number: 7543243
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for identifying the most likely recipients for a message or other communication from a source and building a most frequently used list of recipients. The present invention utilizes a contact list and determines the likelihood that a list of recipients from that contact list are the intended targets for a current message. The likelihood determination is made using both how recent and how frequent prior communications were made to particular individuals or groups of recipients. Further, a user is able to switch between a most frequently used list of recipients and full list of contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jordan Luther King Schwartz, Marc Adam Silbey, Ahsan Syed Kabir, Cees Van Dok, Hilary Palmen, Gail Borod Giacobbe, Sandra Barnet, Vivien Park
  • Method and system for identifying message recipients
    Publication number: 20040135816
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for identifying the most likely recipients for a message or other communication from a source and building a most frequently used list of recipients. The present invention utilizes a contact list and determines the likelihood that a list of recipients from that contact list are the intended targets for a current message. The likelihood determination is made using both how recent and how frequent prior communications were made to particular individuals or groups of recipients. Further, a user is able to switch between a most frequently used list of recipients and full list of contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Jordan Luther King Schwartz, Marc Adam Silbey, Ahsan Syed Kabir, Cees Van Dok, Hilary Palmen, Gail Borod Giacobbe, Sandra Barnet, Vivien Park