Patents by Inventor Phillip Sharp

Phillip Sharp 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: 20180278560
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining non-textual reply content for a reply to an electronic communication and providing the non-textual reply content for inclusion in the reply. Some of those implementations are directed to determining, based on an electronic communication sent to a user, one or more electronic documents that are responsive to the electronic communication, and providing one or more of those electronic documents for inclusion in a reply by the user to the electronic communication. For example, the electronic documents may be automatically attached to the reply and/or link(s) to the electronic documents automatically provided in the reply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Balint Miklos, Ijeoma Emeagwali, Phillip Sharp, Prabhakar Raghavan
  • Patent number: 10025948
    Abstract: A method for modifying access rights to electronically stored files linked in a draft electronic communication stored at a client device includes receiving, at a server from the client device, information relating to a plurality of recipients of the draft electronic communication, information relating to a sender of the draft electronic communication, and a first link, where the first link represents a first file. The method further includes determining, at the server, for the sender and for each recipient in the plurality of recipients, the access rights to the first file. The method further includes generating, at the server, a plurality of options for the sender to modify the access rights for the plurality of recipients, where the plurality of options is based on the access rights to the first file, and sending the plurality of options from the server to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Victoria Hsiao-tsung Chou Fritz, Jeff Scott Harris, Sarah Shuilen Wu, Phillip Sharp, Steven Joseph Saviano
  • Patent number: 10021053
    Abstract: A method throttles display of electronic messages. The process displays a list of entries in an email application. The list of entries includes a first electronic message, a first message cluster, and a second message cluster. The process detects the occurrence of a cluster display trigger event for the first message cluster. The trigger event is one of: detection of passage of a predetermined amount of time since refreshing display of the first message cluster, an occurrence of a particular time of day, an occurrence of a predetermined date, or receipt by the first message cluster of a predefined number of new electronic messages since previously refreshing the display of the list. In response to the detected trigger event, the process refreshes the display of the list of entries, including re-ranking the first message cluster within the list of entries. This changes the relative position of the first message cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Phillip Sharp, Xander Pollock, Matthew J. Bolohan
  • Patent number: 10021051
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining non-textual reply content for a reply to an electronic communication and providing the non-textual reply content for inclusion in the reply. Some of those implementations are directed to determining, based on an electronic communication sent to a user, one or more electronic documents that are responsive to the electronic communication, and providing one or more of those electronic documents for inclusion in a reply by the user to the electronic communication. For example, the electronic documents may be automatically attached to the reply and/or link(s) to the electronic documents automatically provided in the reply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Balint Miklos, Ijeoma Emeagwali, Phillip Sharp, Prabhakar Raghavan
  • Publication number: 20180140625
    Abstract: The invention relates in aspects to hybrid RNAs lacking a poly-A tail and nucleic acid vectors for expressing the RNA. The hybrid RNAs in some instances have a stabilizing triple helical structure. Related methods for expressing RNA in vivo and in vitro are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jeremy E. Wilusz, Phillip A. Sharp
  • Publication number: 20180112255
    Abstract: The present invention relates to in vivo methods for modeling tumor formation and/or tumor evolution comprising the use of eukaryotic cells in which one or more genetic target locus has been altered by the CRISPR/Cas system, and which cells are transplanted in non-human eukaryote as a model system for tumor formation and tumor evolution. In particular in vivo genetic screening methods for identifying genes involved in tumorigenesis and metastasis are disclosed. The invention further relates to kits and components for practicing the methods, as well as materials obtainable by the methods, in particular tumor and metastasis samples and cells or cell lines derived therefrom. The invention also relates to diagnostic and therapeutic methods derived from the information obtained in the modeling methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Sidi Chen, Randall Jeffrey Platt, Neville Espi Sanjana, Phillip A. Sharp, Feng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180010134
    Abstract: The invention involves inducing 3-50 or more mutations (e.g., any whole number between 3 and 50 of mutations, with it noted that in some embodiments there can be up to 16 different RNA(s), e.g., sgRNAs each having its own a promoter, in a vector, such as AAV, and that when each sgRNA does not have its own promoter, there can be twice to thrice that amount of different RNA(s), e.g., sgRNAs, e.g., 32 or even 48 different guides delivered by one vector) in transgenic Cas9 eukaryotes to model genetic disease, e.g. cancer. The invention comprehends testing putative treatments with such models, e.g., testing putative chemical compounds that may be pharmaceutically relevant for treatment or gene therapy that may be relevant for treatment, or combinations thereof. The invention allows for the study of genetic diseases and putative treatments to better understand and alleviate a genetic disease or a condition, e.g., cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: PHILLIP A. SHARP, Feng Zhang, Randall Jeffrey Platt, Sidi Chen
  • Patent number: 9717749
    Abstract: The invention relates in aspects to hybrid RNAs lacking a poly-A tail and nucleic acid vectors for expressing the RNA. The hybrid RNAs in some instances have a 3? terminal stabilizing triple helical structure. Related methods for expressing said RNAs in vivo and in vitro are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jeremy E. Wilusz, Phillip A. Sharp
  • Publication number: 20170201471
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining reply content for a reply to an electronic communication and providing the reply content for inclusion in the reply. Some of those implementations are directed to determining, based on an electronic communication that includes an event and is sent to a user, reply content that is tailored to the electronic communication and tailored to schedule data of the user that is temporally related to the event, and providing the reply content for inclusion in a reply by the user to the electronic communication. For example, the reply content may be automatically included in the reply and/or suggested for inclusion in the reply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Balint Miklos, Ijeoma Emeagwali, Stella Schieffer, Katie Hart, Jonathan Aroner, Phillip Sharp, Jung-won Shin
  • Publication number: 20170195269
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining non-textual reply content for a reply to an electronic communication and providing the non-textual reply content for inclusion in the reply. Some of those implementations are directed to determining, based on an electronic communication sent to a user, one or more electronic documents that are responsive to the electronic communication, and providing one or more of those electronic documents for inclusion in a reply by the user to the electronic communication. For example, the electronic documents may be automatically attached to the reply and/or link(s) to the electronic documents automatically provided in the reply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Balint Miklos, Ijeoma Emeagwali, Phillip Sharp
  • Publication number: 20160251662
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for treating or decreasing the likelihood of developing a stress-granule related disorder and/or cancer by administering one or more poly-ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, one or more PARP activators, one or more poly-ADP-ribose glycosylase (PARG) activators, and/or one or more poly-ADP-ribose glycohydrolase ARH3 activators. The invention also provides corresponding methods of decreasing stress granule formation and/or proliferation in a cell or a population of cells. The invention further provides methods of increasing the number of stress granules and proliferation in a cell or a population of cells by administering one or more PARP activators, one or more PARP inhibitors, one or more PARG inhibitors, and/or one or more ARH3 inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: PAUL CHANG, SEJAL K. VYAS, ANTHONY LEUNG, PHILLIP A. SHARP
  • Patent number: 9361473
    Abstract: A method for modifying access rights to electronically stored files linked in a draft electronic communication stored at a client device includes receiving, at a server from the client device, information relating to a plurality of recipients of the draft electronic communication, information relating to a sender of the draft electronic communication, and a first link, where the first link represents a first file. The method further includes determining, at the server, for the sender and for each recipient in the plurality of recipients, the access rights to the first file. The method further includes generating, at the server, a plurality of options for the sender to modify the access rights for the plurality of recipients, where the plurality of options is based on the access rights to the first file, and sending the plurality of options from the server to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Victoria Hsiao-tsung Chou Fritz, Jeff Scott Harris, Sarah Shuilen Wu, Phillip Sharp, Steven Joseph Saviano
  • Patent number: 9306893
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing electronic messages are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computing device, causing an electronic message to be displayed to a user in an electronic message folder. Responsive to detecting that the user has read at least a portion of the electronic message, without user intervention, the electronic message is removed from the electronic message folder. In some implementations, the electronic message folder is a message inbox and the electronic message is removed from the message inbox to an archive or delete folder. In some implementations, the computing device includes one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Sharp, David Nachum, Keith Coleman, Xander Pollock, Jason Briggs Cornwell
  • Patent number: 9272022
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for treating or decreasing the likelihood of developing a stress-granule related disorder and/or cancer by administering one or more poly-ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, one or more PARP activators, one or more poly-ADP-ribose glycosylase (PARG) activators, and/or one or more poly-ADP-ribose glycohydrolase ARH3 activators. The invention also provides corresponding methods of decreasing stress granule formation and/or proliferation in a cell or a population of cells. The invention further provides methods of increasing the number of stress granules and proliferation in a cell or a population of cells by administering one or more PARP activators, one or more PARP inhibitors, one or more PARG inhibitors, and/or one or more ARH3 inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Paul Chang, Sejal K. Vyas, Anthony Leung, Phillip A. Sharp
  • Publication number: 20160032288
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Drosophila in vitro system which was used to demonstrate that dsRNA is processed to RNA segments 21-23 nucleotides (nt) in length. Furthermore, when these 21-23 nt fragments are purified and added back to Drosophila extracts, they mediate RNA interference in the absence of long dsRNA. Thus, these 21-23 nt fragments are the sequence-specific mediators of RNA degradation. A molecular signal, which may be their specific length, must be present in these 21-23 nt fragments to recruit cellular factors involved in RNAI. This present invention encompasses these 21-23 nt fragments and their use for specifically inactivating gene function. The use of these fragments (or chemically synthesized oligonucleotides of the same or similar nature) enables the targeting of specific mRNAs for degradation in mammalian cells, where the use of long dsRNAs to elicit RNAi is usually not practical, presumably because of the deleterious effects of the interferon response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Tuschl, Phillip D. Zamore, Phillip A. Sharp, David P. Bartel
  • Publication number: 20150358269
    Abstract: A method throttles display of electronic messages. The process displays a list of entries in an email application. The list of entries includes a first electronic message, a first message cluster, and a second message cluster. The process detects the occurrence of a cluster display trigger event for the first message cluster. The trigger event is one of: detection of passage of a predetermined amount of time since refreshing display of the first message cluster, an occurrence of a particular time of day, an occurrence of a predetermined date, or receipt by the first message cluster of a predefined number of new electronic messages since previously refreshing the display of the list. In response to the detected trigger event, the process refreshes the display of the list of entries, including re-ranking the first message cluster within the list of entries. This changes the relative position of the first message cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Phillip Sharp, Xander Pollock
  • Patent number: 9193753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Drosophila in vitro system which was used to demonstrate that dsRNA is processed to RNA segments 21-23 nucleotides (nt) in length. Furthermore, when these 21-23 nt fragments are purified and added back to Drosophila extracts, they mediate RNA interference in the absence of long dsRNA. Thus, these 21-23 nt fragments are the sequence-specific mediators of RNA degradation. A molecular signal, which may be their specific length, must be present in these 21-23 nt fragments to recruit cellular factors involved in RNAi. This present invention encompasses these 21-23 nt fragments and their use for specifically inactivating gene function. The use of these fragments (or chemically synthesized oligonucleotides of the same or similar nature) enables the targeting of specific mRNAs for degradation in mammalian cells, where the use of long dsRNAs to elicit RNAi is usually not practical, presumably because of the deleterious effects of the interferon response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignees: University of Massachusetts, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Förderung Der Wissenschaften E.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Tuschl, Phillip D. Zamore, Phillip A. Sharp, David P. Bartel
  • Publication number: 20150315574
    Abstract: The invention relates in aspects to hybrid RNAs lacking a poly-A tail and nucleic acid vectors for expressing the RNA. The hybrid RNAs in some instances have a 3? terminal stabilizing triple helical structure. Related methods for expressing said RNAs in vivo and in vitro are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jeremy E. Wilusz, Phillip A. Sharp
  • Patent number: 9124546
    Abstract: Systems and methods for throttling display of clustered electronic messages are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computing device detecting occurrence of one or more cluster throttling trigger events for a first message cluster, of a first cluster type, in an email application. The method further includes updating a set of properties for the first message cluster in accordance with the one or more cluster throttling trigger events and comparing the updated set of properties for the first message cluster to one or more cluster display throttling rules associated with the first message cluster. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the set of properties for the first message cluster satisfies the one or more cluster display throttling rules, refreshing display of the first message cluster within a listing of electronic messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Sharp, Xander Pollock
  • Publication number: 20150200885
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a display of attachments for an e-mail message includes receiving an e-mail message with a plurality of attachments at a server, where one of the attachments is a file and a second of the attachments is a link to a file provided by a third party service. A request from the e-mail server is sent to a thumbnail generation service to generate a preview thumbnail for each attachment, where each preview thumbnail has a uniform appearance. The e-mail message and the preview thumbnails generated by the thumbnail generation service are sent to a client computer for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Phillip Sharp, Joshua Hudgins, Alon Shafrir, James Michael McCollum