Patents by Inventor Nathan J. Fink

Nathan J. Fink 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).

  • Patent number: 8826281
    Abstract: Document scheduling architecture for automatic publication and removal from publication of a document. A document can be developed, approved, and scheduled for automatic viewing and removal from viewing using start data and end data that are represented as job definitions. Based on a triggering event, the jobs are selected and executed to effect document publication. The document is automatically published making it viewable by all users who have suitable permission to do so. The architecture provides a pluggable override scheduling, and hence, extensible scheduling solution for third-party entities to provide alternative approval and/or scheduling behavior. Other attributes include reporting to a user the status of a document, execution of a policy in combination with the document publication such that the policy overrides selected attributes of the publication state, and a management filter process wherein the document can be reviewed independently by another individual for veto of publication if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paula A. Wing, Daniel E. Kogan, Patrick C. Miller, William J. Griffin, Nathan J. Fink
  • Publication number: 20090228427
    Abstract: A document work set acts as a document container for items that are associated with a work product. A document work set is created from a document work set template that defines properties and workflows that are associated with the document work set. Metadata is shared between the items in the document work set and workflows may be associated with the document work set as well as the individual items within the work set. Instead of just providing a view of the items in the work set when accessed, information relating to the overall work product that is represented by the document work set is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dustin Friesenhahn, Ethan D. Gur-esh, Adrian Fanaru, Nathan J. Fink
  • Patent number: 7437427
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for personal sites. The personal sites are associated with a single Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A personal site may contain information that is useful to both the web page owner and other groups of users. According to one aspect of the present invention, the personal site may have two or more views instead of one: one homepage for the web page owner and other homepages directed at other specific users. The present invention allows a web page owner to control access to multiple web pages from a single URL, thereby allowing different groups to have different views of the owner's content. In one embodiment, a web server redirects users to different web pages by analyzing identifiers associated with each web page query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, Matthew Labarge, Mike Arcuri, Bryant Fong, Nathan J. Fink
  • Publication number: 20080109808
    Abstract: Document scheduling architecture for automatic publication and removal from publication of a document. A document can be developed, approved, and scheduled for automatic viewing and removal from viewing using start data and end data that are represented as job definitions. Based on a triggering event, the jobs are selected and executed to effect document publication. The document is automatically published making it viewable by all users who have suitable permission to do so. The architecture provides a pluggable override scheduling, and hence, extensible scheduling solution for third-party entities to provide alternative approval and/or scheduling behavior. Other attributes include reporting to a user the status of a document, execution of a policy in combination with the document publication such that the policy overrides selected attributes of the publication state, and a management filter process wherein the document can be reviewed independently by another individual for veto of publication if desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paula A. Wing, Daniel E. Kogan, Patrick C. Miller, William J. Griffin, Nathan J. Fink