Patents by Inventor Paula A. Wing

Paula A. Wing 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: 10992772
    Abstract: A user associates other users or content with a representation of a topic area, in a computing system. Profile associations between users and the topic areas are generated by detecting that users are associated with the topic areas, or that users have added content to the topic areas. User profile information is automatically updated based upon the profile associations generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Welly Sugiarto Lee, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Paula A. Wing
  • Publication number: 20160323411
    Abstract: A user associates other users or content with a representation of a topic area, in a computing system. Profile associations between users and the topic areas are generated by detecting that users are associated with the topic areas, or that users have added content to the topic areas. User profile information is automatically updated based upon the profile associations generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Welly Sugiarto Lee, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Paula A. Wing
  • Publication number: 20160321337
    Abstract: A computing system comprises, in one example, a display system, an organization graph component configured to access an organization graph that represents users of an organization as nodes and connections between the nodes represent relationships between the users, an aggregate data surfacing system comprising an aggregation component configured to identify a given user and to aggregate user data, from a plurality of users, based on a relationship of the plurality of users to the given user in the organization graph, and a display system controller configured to control the display system to generate an aggregate data user interface display that visualizes at least a portion of the organization graph and displays a user interface element that represents the aggregated user data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Welly Sugiarto Lee, Paula A. Wing, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Karl Thompson
  • 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: 20110307240
    Abstract: Translations are provided as a property in multilingual taxonomical hierarchies. Translations for each node in a tree structure are associated with the node of a primary language as labels, where each node can have a plurality of labels. If the translation into a secondary language does not exist, a default label and language combination may be designated to be used in place of the missing secondary language during rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Kogan, Patrick Miller, Paula Wing, Qinwei Zhu
  • 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