Abstract: The proliferation of personal computing devices in recent years, especially mobile personal computing devices, combined with a growth in the number of widely-used communications formats has led to increased concerns regarding the safety and security of documents and messages that are sent over networks. Users desire a system that provides for the setting of custom, content-agnostic, permissions at a message, document, and/or sub-document-level through a communications network. Such a system would allow customized privacy settings to be specified at various levels of social distance from the user sending the document or message (e.g., public, private, followers, groups, Level-1 contacts, Level-2 contacts, Level-3 contacts, etc.). Such a system may also allow the user to apply customized privacy settings and encryption keys differently to particular parts of a document.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to personalized and dynamic server-side searching techniques for encrypted data. Current so-called ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems (i.e., systems where the server has ‘zero-knowledge’ about the client data that it is storing) utilize servers that hold encrypted data without the decryption keys necessary to decrypt, index, and/or re-encrypt the data. As such, the servers are not able to perform any kind of meaningful server-side search process, as it would require access to the underlying decrypted data. Therefore, such prior art ‘zero-knowledge’ privacy systems provide a limited ability for a user to search through a large dataset of encrypted documents to find critical information.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ communications formats and/or protocols at one or more determined delivery times via a single, seamless user interface. The determined delivery time of any message to any recipient may be intelligently determined individually for each recipient, e.g., by using one or more context factors to assess optimal delivery times for each recipient.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ optimal communications formats and/or protocols. Determinations of optimal delivery methods may be intelligently based on the sender individually or the relationship with the sender in the context of a group of recipients—including the format of the incoming communication, the preferred format of the recipient and/or sender, and an optimal format for a given communication message.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for integrating communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, lappets, wearable devices, and the like, to present users with a multi-protocol, person-centric, multi-format in box feed system for integrating multi-format communications. Use of a person-centric, e.g., sender-specific, in box feed allows users to view/preview all their messages in a single feed. Grouping messages by sender also conveniently allows the user to stay on the same user interface screen while reviewing messages and allows for quick visual filtering of messages. “Intelligently Snoozing” messages, e.g., by sender or group of senders, may further allow the user to receive communications at times, locations, on devices, and in ways of the user's choosing.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing multi-format, multi-protocol message threading in a way that is most beneficial for the individual user. Users desire a system that will provide for ease of message threading by “stitching” together related communications in a manner that is seamless from the user's perspective. Such stitching together of communications across multiple formats and protocols may occur, e.g., by: 1) direct user action in a centralized communications application (e.g., by a user clicking ‘Reply’ on a particular message); 2) using semantic matching (or other search-style message association techniques); 3) element-matching (e.g., matching on subject lines or senders/recipients/similar quoted text, etc.); and 4) “state-matching” (e.g., associating messages if they are specifically tagged as being related to another message, sender, etc. by a third-party service, e.g., a webmail provider or Instant Messaging (IM) service).

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for integrating communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, wearables, and the like, to present users with a multi-protocol, person-centric, multi-format inbox feed system for integrating multi-format communications. Use of a person-centric, e.g., sender-specific, inbox feed allows users to view/preview all their messages in a single feed. Grouping messages by sender also conveniently allows the user to stay on the same user interface screen while reviewing messages and allows for quick visual filtering of messages. Such a communication feed may also include messages in one or more of a variety of communication formats (e.g.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ communications formats and/or protocols via a single, seamless user interface. Determinations of outgoing communication formats and/or protocols may be based on, e.g., the format of the incoming communication, the preferred format of the recipient and/or sender of the communication, an optimal format for a given communication session/message, and/or economic considerations of format/protocol choice to the recipient and/or sender.