Patents by Inventor Mark R. Dawson

Mark R. Dawson 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).

  • EXTRACTING A PORTION OF A DOCUMENT, SUCH AS A WEB PAGE
    Publication number: 20180052843
    Abstract: A facility for extracting visual contents of a page is described. The facility renders a page including visual contents, the rendered page including an extraction control. In response to user input activating the extraction control, the facility (1) selects a proper subset of the visual contents of the page that are specified by a publisher on the page for extraction using the extraction control, and (2) transmits a representation of the selected subset of visual contents for storage independent of the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Gary W. Flake, Thomas J. Montgomery, Gregory T. Pascale, Kenneth J. Perkins, Mark R. Dawson
  • Extracting a portion of a document, such as a web page
    Patent number: 9753926
    Abstract: A facility for extracting visual contents of a page is described. The facility renders a page including visual contents, the rendered page including an extraction control. In response to user input activating the extraction control, the facility (1) selects a proper subset of the visual contents of the page that are specified by a publisher on the page for extraction using the extraction control, and (2) transmits a representation of the selected subset of visual contents for storage independent of the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Gary W. Flake, Thomas J. Montgomery, Gregory T. Pascale, Kenneth J. Perkins, Mark R. Dawson
  • EXTRACTING A PORTION OF A DOCUMENT, SUCH AS A WEB PAGE
    Publication number: 20130290828
    Abstract: A facility for extracting visual contents of a page is described. The facility renders a page including visual contents, the rendered page including an extraction control. In response to user input activating the extraction control, the facility (1) selects a proper subset of the visual contents of the page that are specified by a publisher on the page for extraction using the extraction control, and (2) transmits a representation of the selected subset of visual contents for storage independent of the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Clipboard Inc.
    Inventors: Gary W. Flake, Thomas J. Montgomery, Gregory T. Pascale, Kenneth J. Perkins, Mark R. Dawson
  • COLLABORATIVE RANKING AND FILTERING OF ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES
    Publication number: 20120005282
    Abstract: Electronic mail messages may be collaboratively ranked and filtered. User actions on an electronic mail message received from a sender by one or more recipients may be monitored. Statistics may be generated based on the user actions. The generated statistics may be utilized to provide a quality ranking of the electronic mail message based on the generated statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicole D. Steinbok, Jonathan J. Cadiz, John C. Platt, F. David Jones, David John Rasmussen, Thirumalesh K. Bhat, Mark R. Dawson, Eli Y. Tamanaha, Bill Li, Brian D. Williams