Patents by Inventor Michael Don Sego

Michael Don Sego 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).

  • Time line display of chat conversations
    Patent number: 7814159
    Abstract: Chat messages in a chat session may be displayed in a timeline view. Messages are displayed in a first display region. Timestamps of the chat messages are displayed in a second region. The messages are aligned with their respective timestamps, akin to a timeline. Timestamps for all messages need not be displayed; a timestamp may be omitted if the corresponding message occurs in the “same” time as another message. Breaks of no messaging activity that are longer than a predefined amount of time are shown with graphical objects such as a line. The objects also indicate the length of the break.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Don Sego, Aaron D. Whyte, Braden Kowitz, Keith H. Coleman
  • Integrated conversations having both email and chat messages
    Patent number: 7680895
    Abstract: Email and chat messages may be displayed as part of the same conversation, in an integrated conversation view. The conversation view would include items corresponding to email messages that are part of the conversation and chat messages that are part of the conversation. A user may reply to an email message in the conversation by chat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Perlow, Michael Don Sego, Nahush Mahajan, Keith H. Coleman, Adam Ross Barker