Patents by Inventor Peter Bailey

Peter Bailey 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: 12438835
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for contextual messaging in a conference. A method can include receiving, by a first user interface, data indicating content of a message, a recipient of the message, and a condition that, when satisfied during the conference, causes the message to be visually displayed during the audiovisual conference, while the conference is being held via an audiovisual conference application, monitoring user contextual data for whether the condition is satisfied, responsive to the condition being satisfied, augmenting audiovisual conference data from the audiovisual conference application to include the message resulting in augmented audiovisual data, and providing, to the recipient on a second user interface of the audiovisual conference application, a view of the augmented audiovisual data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ryen William White, Peter Bailey
  • Publication number: 20240073162
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for contextual messaging in a conference. A method can include receiving, by a first user interface, data indicating content of a message, a recipient of the message, and a condition that, when satisfied during the conference, causes the message to be visually displayed during the audiovisual conference, while the conference is being held via an audiovisual conference application, monitoring user contextual data for whether the condition is satisfied, responsive to the condition being satisfied, augmenting audiovisual conference data from the audiovisual conference application to include the message resulting in augmented audiovisual data, and providing, to the recipient on a second user interface of the audiovisual conference application, a view of the augmented audiovisual data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ryen William White, Peter Bailey
  • Patent number: 11848900
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for contextual messaging in a conference. A method can include receiving, by a first user interface, data indicating content of a message, a recipient of the message, and a condition that, when satisfied during the conference, causes the message to be visually displayed during the audiovisual conference, while the conference is being held via an audiovisual conference application, monitoring user contextual data for whether the condition is satisfied, responsive to the condition being satisfied, augmenting audiovisual conference data from the audiovisual conference application to include the message resulting in augmented audiovisual data, and providing, to the recipient on a second user interface of the audiovisual conference application, a view of the augmented audiovisual data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ryen William White, Peter Bailey
  • Publication number: 20230066231
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for contextual messaging in a conference. A method can include receiving, by a first user interface, data indicating content of a message, a recipient of the message, and a condition that, when satisfied during the conference, causes the message to be visually displayed during the audiovisual conference, while the conference is being held via an audiovisual conference application, monitoring user contextual data for whether the condition is satisfied, responsive to the condition being satisfied, augmenting audiovisual conference data from the audiovisual conference application to include the message resulting in augmented audiovisual data, and providing, to the recipient on a second user interface of the audiovisual conference application, a view of the augmented audiovisual data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ryen William White, Peter Bailey
  • Publication number: 20230069116
    Abstract: A platform screen door system having a fixed panel and a door panel, wherein the system is provided with a track (11) having a convex surface adapted to support a roller (14), which roller is rotatably mounted on the moving panel and has a concave surface and has two points of contact (17) on the track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Peter Bailey
  • Patent number: 11017047
    Abstract: Search and browse trails are temporally-ordered sequences of web pages visited by a user during post-search query navigation beginning with a page associated with one of the search results. The trails can provide useful information for a number of search-related purposes. For example, these trails can be used to leverage the post-query behavior of other users to help the current user search more effectively and allow them to make more informed search interaction decisions. The trails can also be used to establish search results and refine search result rankings, select and evaluate deeplinks, and recommend multi-step trails as an alternative to or enhancement for existing search result presentation techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Nikhil Dandekar, Adish Singla, Jeff Huang
  • Patent number: 10482073
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for updating a search index with new uniform resource locators (URLs) and spiking URLs with increased user interest. History data, provided from browser applications residing on users' computers that indicate URLs accessed by the users, is parsed to identify new/previously unknown URLs. The history data also indicates URLs in which there is increased interest based on a number of recent hits as compared to an average number of hits determined over time. Author postings of new URLs to social networking sites and a quality rating of the authors may also be used to identify and filter new URLs. Search indexes are updated with the new and spiking URL data. As such, lag time between posting of new URLs and spiking of URL interest and inclusion of this data in a search index is greatly decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Sun, Junaid Ahmed, Yipeng Li, Peter Bailey, Nikhil Dandekar, Sasi Parthasarathy, Xin Chen, Xiao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190266203
    Abstract: Search and browse trails are temporally-ordered sequences of web pages visited by a user during post-search query navigation beginning with a page associated with one of the search results. The trails can provide useful information for a number of search-related purposes. For example, these trails can be used to leverage the post-query behavior of other users to help the current user search more effectively and allow them to make more informed search interaction decisions. The trails can also be used to establish search results and refine search result rankings, select and evaluate deeplinks, and recommend multi-step trails as an alternative to or enhancement for existing search result presentation techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Nikhil Dandekar, Adish Singla, Jeff Huang
  • Patent number: 10289735
    Abstract: Search and browse trails are temporally-ordered sequences of web pages visited by a user during post-search query navigation beginning with a page associated with one of the search results. The trails can provide useful information for a number of search-related purposes. For example, these trails can be used to leverage the post-query behavior of other users to help the current user search more effectively and allow them to make more informed search interaction decisions. The trails can also be used to establish search results and refine search result rankings, select and evaluate deeplinks, and recommend multi-step trails as an alternative to or enhancement for existing search result presentation techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Nikhil Dandekar, Adish Singla, Jeff Huang
  • Patent number: 9619290
    Abstract: A method of balancing execution rates for a plurality of parallel program loops being executed concurrently by a processor may include estimating a completion time for each program loop of the plurality of program loops, determining a difference between the estimated completion time of a first program loop of the plurality of program loops and the estimated completion time of a second program loop of the plurality of program loops, and decreasing the difference by adjusting an execution rate of the first program loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Bailey, Indrani Paul, Manish Arora
  • Publication number: 20160328428
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for updating a search index with new uniform resource locators (URLs) and spiking URLs with increased user interest. History data, provided from browser applications residing on users' computers that indicate URLs accessed by the users, is parsed to identify new/previously unknown URLs. The history data also indicates URLs in which there is increased interest based on a number of recent hits as compared to an average number of hits determined over time. Author postings of new URLs to social networking sites and a quality rating of the authors may also be used to identify and filter new URLs. Search indexes are updated with the new and spiking URL data. As such, lag time between posting of new URLs and spiking of URL interest and inclusion of this data in a search index is greatly decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Walter Sun, Junaid Ahmed, Yipeng Li, Peter Bailey, Nikhil Dandekar, Sasi Parthasarathy, Xin Chen, Xiao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160259667
    Abstract: A method of balancing execution rates for a plurality of parallel program loops being executed concurrently by a processor may include estimating a completion time for each program loop of the plurality of program loops, determining a difference between the estimated completion time of a first program loop of the plurality of program loops and the estimated completion time of a second program loop of the plurality of program loops, and decreasing the difference by adjusting an execution rate of the first program loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Bailey, Indrani Paul, Manish Arora
  • Patent number: 9424356
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for updating a search index with new uniform resource locators (URLs) and spiking URLs with increased user interest. History data, provided from browser applications residing on users' computers that indicate URLs accessed by the users, is parsed to identify new/previously unknown URLs. The history data also indicates URLs in which there is increased interest based on a number of recent hits as compared to an average number of hits determined over time. Author postings of new URLs to social networking sites and a quality rating of the authors may also be used to identify and filter new URLs. Search indexes are updated with the new and spiking URL data. As such, lag time between posting of new URLs and spiking of URL interest and inclusion of this data in a search index is greatly decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Sun, Junaid Ahmed, Yipeng Li, Peter Bailey, Nikhil Dandekar, Sasi Parthasarathy, Xin Chen, Xiao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9228342
    Abstract: A system for attachment of a fitting to an extruded beam comprises a beam including an upstanding longitudinally-disposed neck having a head comprising laterally-extending flange elements and co-operating attachment means for mounting the fitting, in which the attachment means comprise clamp elements which in use engage the neck of the longitudinally-disposed member from each side thereof, underneath the flange elements, when a clamping force is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SPECIALIST STRUCTURES LTD
    Inventors: Keith Lewcock, Peter Bailey
  • Patent number: 8805750
    Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices facilitate providing a comparison experience to a user in response to a search query. Upon receiving a search query from the user, entities are extracted from the query. The entities are associated with entity classes. The entities, entity classes, previous user behavior, and other information are used to infer whether the user likely is engaging in a comparison task. If the inference indicates that the user likely is engaging in a comparison task, a comparison experience is generated and access to the comparison experience is provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Bailey, Liwei Chen, Sanaz Ahari, Nipoon Malhotra
  • Patent number: 8756219
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media for determining relevant search categories, such as images, videos, news, health, maps, products, etc., and subcategories that are associated with the search categories based on a query submitted by a user on a search page and displaying the relevant search categories and subcategories on an initial search results page. A query may be inputted by a user and may be received. A set of suggested refinement links, which may include search categories and subcategories, may be identified as being relevant to the query. Further, the subcategories, when selected, may return narrower search results than when a selection is made of a search category. Additionally, the initial search results page may be generated and may include the set of suggested refinement links determined to be relevant to the query, as well as search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rajeev Chand, Peter Bailey, Toan Huynh, Deana Fuller, Zachary Gutt
  • Patent number: 8707198
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing tasks and related tasks. While a user is performing a task, a group of related tasks is presented. When a new task is selected, a new group of related tasks is provided. This allows a user to perform a series of tasks without having to separately search for each task. As the user moves between tasks, task information items are passed between the tasks so that previously provided information can be preserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Li Jiang, Sandy Wong, William Ramsey, Peter Bailey, Paul Reinholdtsen
  • Patent number: 8484202
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for interleaving multiple sets of blended search results to identify a preferred set of blended search results for a search query or for a category of search queries. A search query is received and routed to multiple ranking systems, which return search results that are blended into sets of blended search results. Interleaving experiments are performed to determined, based on user preferences, which set of blended search results are preferred for that particular search query. Based on the outcome, a preferred blending algorithm is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Filip Radlinski, Nick Craswell, Peter Bailey
  • Patent number: 8266141
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for improving the efficiency of the interleaving process. Once it is determined that a search query is to be used in an interleaving experiment, a primary ranking system and a secondary ranking system are analyzed to determine whether their respective search results for that search query would be identical. If the search results would be identical, the search query is routed only to the primary ranking system and not the secondary ranking system. If, however, it is determined that the search results would not be identical, both the primary ranking system and the secondary ranking system receive the search query for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Filip Radlinski, Nick Craswell, Peter Bailey, Daniel Schwartz, Aidan Crook, Likhita Krishnamurthy
  • Publication number: 20120216479
    Abstract: A system for attachment of a fitting to an extruded beam comprises a beam including an upstanding longitudinally-disposed neck having a head comprising laterally-extending flange elements and co-operating attachment means for mounting the fitting, in which the attachment means comprise clamp elements which in use engage the neck of the longitudinally-disposed member from each side thereof, underneath the flange elements, when a clamping force is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Keith Lewcock, Peter Bailey