Patents by Inventor Michael Hunter Gray

Michael Hunter Gray 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).

  • Publication number: 20210344624
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method that includes sending a negotiating message from a user to one or more invitees using a messaging protocol, the negotiating message comprising one or more plans for a meeting, each plan including a time information and a location information for the meeting. The method further includes receiving, using the messaging protocol, one or more responses from the one or more invitees, the one or more responses indicating an approval or rejection of the one or more plans and determining based at least partially on the one or more responses received from the one or more invitees to book the event based on the received responses from the one or more invitees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Calendar Research LLC
    Inventor: Michael Hunter Gray
  • Patent number: 11082371
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method that includes sending a negotiating message from a user to one or more invitees using a messaging protocol, the negotiating message comprising one or more plans for a meeting, each plan including a time information and a location information for the meeting. The method further includes receiving, using the messaging protocol, one or more responses from the one or more invitees, the one or more responses indicating an approval or rejection of the one or more plans and determining based at least partially on the one or more responses received from the one or more invitees to book the event based on the received responses from the one or more invitees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Calendar Research LLC
    Inventor: Michael Hunter Gray
  • Publication number: 20210027253
    Abstract: A server for providing scheduling services to at least two remote devices includes a communications interface for transmitting scheduling options to the at least two remote devices and receiving user inputs from the at least two remote devices. The server further includes a processing circuit configured to manage scheduling services for the at least two remote devices. In one embodiment, the server provides scheduling services for two users, allowing the two users to schedule an appointment with each other. In another embodiment, the server provides scheduling services for a first user and a plurality of second users, allowing the multiple users to schedule an appointment with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: Calendar Research LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hunter Gray, Michel Bayan
  • Patent number: 10803424
    Abstract: A server for providing scheduling services to at least two remote devices includes a communications interface for transmitting scheduling options to the at least two remote devices and receiving user inputs from the at least two remote devices. The server further includes a processing circuit configured to manage scheduling services for the at least two remote devices. In one embodiment, the server provides scheduling services for two users, allowing the two users to schedule an appointment with each other. In another embodiment, the server provides scheduling services for a first user and a plurality of second users, allowing the multiple users to schedule an appointment with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Calendar Research LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hunter Gray, Michel Bayan
  • Publication number: 20140229560
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method that includes sending a negotiating message from a user to one or more invitees using a messaging protocol, the negotiating message comprising one or more plans for a meeting, each plan including a time information and a location information for the meeting. The method further includes receiving, using the messaging protocol, one or more responses from the one or more invitees, the one or more responses indicating an approval or rejection of the one or more plans and determining based at least partially on the one or more responses received from the one or more invitees to book the event based on the received responses from the one or more invitees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventor: Michael Hunter Gray
  • Publication number: 20130290058
    Abstract: A server for providing scheduling services to at least two remote devices includes a communications interface for transmitting scheduling options to the at least two remote devices and receiving user inputs from the at least two remote devices. The server further includes a processing circuit configured to manage scheduling services for the at least two remote devices. In one embodiment, the server provides scheduling services for two users, allowing the two users to schedule an appointment with each other. In another embodiment, the server provides scheduling services for a first user and a plurality of second users, allowing the multiple users to schedule an appointment with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: ATLAS APPS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hunter Gray, Michel Bayan
  • Publication number: 20120296705
    Abstract: The present inventive subject matter is a method that can receive sales activity data from a plurality of users, calculate metrics based on the sales activity data, the metrics having an indicator that a first user's sales numbers are greater than fifty percent of a predetermined goal followed by a the ability to generate a message to be sent to a second user with the message configured to inform the second user regarding the progress of the first user's sales activities; the message incorporates a link that is selected by the second user to send a message back to the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Michel Bayan, Michael Hunter Gray