Patents by Inventor Raymond E. Ozzie
Raymond E. Ozzie 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).
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Publication number: 20100223341Abstract: Providing for electronic messaging tailored to contexts or interests of one or more participants of electronic communication is described herein. By way of example, a message can be analyzed during or after compilation to determine a context of the message. Message participants can be identified and a context for such participants determined. Based on the message context or participant context, the message can be modified to be consistent with interests, preferences or other context of one or more participants. In some aspects, the message can be modified upon receipt by a recipient's communication device or messaging application. According to other aspects, the message can be modified at compilation, or transmission. In accordance with still other aspects, message modifications can be output as suggested feedback to improve receptivity or utility of a message.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dragos A. Manolescu, Matthew Jason Pope, Raymond E. Ozzie, Christopher H. Pratley, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, F. David Jones, Mary P. Czerwinski
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Publication number: 20100223212Abstract: Providing for task-related electronic feedback based on user interaction with a communication network is described herein. By way of example, user interactions the network or a network interface can be monitored to identify user activities performed in conjunction with a task. A rating for performance of the task can be obtained via comparison of user activities with benchmark performance activities. Based on the rating and user-benchmark comparison, inefficiencies can be identified, along with corrective actions for such activities. The corrective actions can then be output to coach the user on techniques for improving performance of the task. Accordingly, by employing corrective feedback based on monitored user activity, personal training can be automated, potentially reducing time and cost of such training.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Dragos A. Manolescu, Matthew Jason Pope, Raymond E. Ozzie, Eric I-Chao Chang, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, F. David Jones, Mary P. Czerwinski, Alex David Daley
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Publication number: 20100223581Abstract: Providing for graphical visualization of contextual information pertinent to electronic messaging is described herein. By way of example, contextual network usage information or messaging disposition can be determined for a set of participants to electronic communication. The contextual information is compiled into categories and organized at least as a function of category. The compiled data can be transformed into a visualization of user disposition or context and output to a user device as a multi-dimensional graphical rendering. By rendering contextual data graphically, the rich and diverse information available from usage histories, current user context and user dispositions can be output and consumed rapidly and efficiently, resulting in productive electronic interaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Dragos A. Manolescu, Matthew Jason Pope, Raymond E. Ozzie, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, F. David Jones, Mary P. Czerwinski
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Patent number: 7734690Abstract: A conventional operating system folder or directory based file system is implemented with, or enhanced to provide, attributes of shared collaborative workspaces. In particular, the conventional file system is connected to either a server based or a distributed collaboration system and the user interface of the operating system file system is augmented to allow it to control aspects of the collaboration system. Each folder or directory can be synchronized and treated as a “workspace” that can be viewed and shared with other users or groups of users. Folder can also be provided with “awareness” information that indicates collaborators that are present and those that are sharing the workspace.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2003Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: George P. Moromisato, Gregory S. Klabish, Jerry J. Shekhel, Pamela J. Taylor-Paris, Mark R. Szamrej, Raymond E. Ozzie, Eric M. Patey, Patrick M. Halvorsen
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Patent number: 7721194Abstract: A storage manager represents XML-compliant documents as a collection of objects in memory, allowing the storage manager to manipulate the document, or parts of the document, with a consistent interface and to provide for features that are not available in conventional XML documents, such as element attributes with types other than text and documents that contain binary rather than text information. The XML-compliant document may be associated with a schema document which defines the arrangement of the document elements and attributes. The schema data associated with a document can contain a mapping between document elements and program code to be associated with each element. The storage manager further has methods for retrieving the code from the element tag. The retrieved code can then be invoked using attributes and content from the associated element and the element then acts like a conventional object.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Groove Networks, Inc.Inventors: Raymond E. Ozzie, Kenneth G. Moore, Ransom Richardson, Edward J. Fischer
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Patent number: 7716280Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate replicating a state associated with a client, user, service, application, and the like. A third party service provider can support any number of services that can be concurrently requested by several clients without user perception of degraded computing performance as compared to conventional systems/techniques due to improved connectivity and mitigated latencies. A replication component can generate replicas of states associated with requested services. Further, the replicas can facilitate seamlessly interacting with the third party service provider (e.g., while transitioning between client devices). Additionally, by providing replicas of the state related information, differing third party service providers can effectuate services based upon a request from a client without regenerating the state.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Raymond E. Ozzie, Gary W. Flake, Lili Cheng, Nishant V. Dani, Daniel S. Glasser, Alexander G. Gounares, James R. Larus, Debi P. Mishra, Amit Mital, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Chandramohan A. Thekkath
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Patent number: 7716150Abstract: Systems and methods that analyze aggregated tagging behavior of users, and evaluate such tagging trends to identify criteria for taxonomy applications. Initially, existence of a possible trend of tagging data based on collective user behavior is determined. Subsequently, tagging trends can be examined to identify that a predetermined convergence criteria has in fact been met, and/or establish such criteria for taxonomy applications. Machine learning systems (implicitly as well as explicitly trained) can be supplied to facilitate determining the trends and the convergence criteria.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lili Cheng, Gary W. Flake, Alexander G. Gounares, James R. Larus, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Raymond E. Ozzie, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold N. Blinn, Christopher W. Brumme, Michael Connolly, Daniel S. Glasser, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Debi P. Mishra, Melora Zaner-Godsey
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Publication number: 20100100945Abstract: End users of a multi-factor authentication service can utilize an account management service, and third-party website can register to utilize the multi-factor authentication service. Registering a third-party website can comprise the multi-factor authentication service receiving a valid digital identity certificate for the third-party website, and receiving an agreement to terms of use of the multi-factor authentication service for the third-party website. Once received, the multi-factor authentication service can enable the third-party website to utilize the service (e.g., switch the service on, or send an authorization key to the third-party website). Further, registering a user to the multi-factor authentication service can comprise determining availability of service, and providing a location-specific access code. Additionally, registering the user can comprise registering the user's mobile device, for example, to provide multi-factor authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raymond E. Ozzie, Jack E. Ozzie, Thomas A. Galvin, Eric M. Patey
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Publication number: 20100082751Abstract: Determining user use context for electronic messaging and disseminating a subset of the user use context to recipients and/or senders of such electronic message is disclosed herein. By way of example, the user use context can be based on a general context of recipients, such as speed with which a message is disseminated or consumed, number of child messages spawned, rate at which such messages are spawned, and so on. Additionally, user use context can also be based on individual context, by comparing individual interaction to a message (e.g., time to read, time to delete, number of child messages, etc.), with a baseline usage context determined for the individual. The context can be disseminated to recipients of the message or to the sender, to provide an overview of perception of the electronic message.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Dragos A. Manolescu, Matthew Jason Pope, Matthew B. MacLaurin, F. David Jones, Mary P. Czerwinski, Raymond E. Ozzie
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Patent number: 7689524Abstract: An intelligent personalized agent monitors, regulates, and advises a user in decision-making processes for efficiency or safety concerns. The agent monitors an environment and present characteristics of a user and analyzes such information in view of stored preferences specific to one of multiple profiles of the user. Based on the analysis, the agent can suggest or automatically implement a solution to a given issue or problem. In addition, the agent can identify another potential issue that requires attention and suggests or implements action accordingly. Furthermore, the agent can communicate with other users or devices by providing and acquiring information to assist in future decisions. All aspects of environment observation, decision assistance, and external communication can be flexibly limited or allowed as desired by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raymond E. Ozzie, William H. Gates, III, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold N. Blinn, William J. Bolosky, Christopher W. Brumme, Lili Cheng, Michael Connolly, Dane A. Glasgow, Daniel S. Glasser, Alexander G. Gounares, James R. Larus, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Debi P. Mishra, Amit Mital, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Melora Zaner-Godsey
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Patent number: 7680908Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate replicating a state associated with a client, user, service, application, and the like. A third party service provider can support any number of services that can be concurrently requested by several clients without user perception of degraded computing performance as compared to conventional systems/techniques due to improved connectivity and mitigated latencies. A replication component can generate replicas of states associated with requested services. Further, the replicas can facilitate seamlessly interacting with the third party service provider (e.g., while transitioning between client devices). Additionally, by providing replicas of the state related information, differing third party service providers can effectuate services based upon a request from a client without regenerating the state.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: William H. Gates, III, Gary W. Flake, James R. Larus, Debi P. Mishra, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Raymond E. Ozzie, Lili Cheng, Nishant V. Dani, Daniel S. Glasser, Alexander G. Gounares, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Amit Mital, Ira L. Snyder, Jr.
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Patent number: 7672909Abstract: Systems and methods that recognize items based on aggregated tagging behavior of users regarding the items. Individual users can establish relationships among tagged items and the system analyzes aggregate of such established relationships, to recognize the item and/or infer additional information regarding the items (e.g., wisdom of crowd such as metadata annotations, relevance ranking, and the like). Subsequently, search engine crawlers can be supplied with such additional information (e.g., extra metadata for reverse link search tables) to facilitate enterprise management and search.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Raymond E. Ozzie, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold N. Blinn, Christopher W. Brumme, Lili Cheng, Michael Connolly, Daniel S. Glasser, Alexander G. Gounares, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Debi P. Mishra, Melora Zaner-Godsey
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Patent number: 7672953Abstract: Communications, such as emails or other information, in a work setting can be retained in a shared database that operates similar to an Internet social network. As work activities are performed, the content of the work activities can be associated with one or more shared databases based on the individual performing the activities, a common topic or theme associated with the activity and/or a manual entry. As various individuals review information contained in the shared database, notifications relating to who reviewed the content and a time of review can be sent to a contributor of the content to provide for accountability issues.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Richard J. McAniff, Anoop Gupta, Bruce Johnson, Mary P. Czerwinski, Paul J. Hough, Pavel Curtis, Roger S. Barga, Raymond E. Ozzie
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Patent number: 7657493Abstract: Personal data mining mechanisms and methods are employed to identify relevant information that otherwise would likely remain undiscovered. Users supply personal data that can be analyzed in conjunction with data associated with a plurality of other users to provide useful information that can improve business operations and/or quality of life. Personal data can be mined alone or in conjunction with third party data to identify correlations amongst the data and associated users. Applications or services can interact with such data and present it to users in a myriad of manners, for instance as notifications of opportunities.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Raymond E. Ozzie, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold N. Blinn, Christopher W. Brumme, Lili Cheng, Michael Connolly, Nishant V. Dani, Dane A. Glasgow, Daniel S. Glasser, Alexander G. Gounares, James R. Larus, Matthew B. MacLaurin, Debi P. Mishra, Amit Mital, Ira L. Snyder, Jr., Chandramohan A. Thekkath, David R. Treadwell, III, Melora Zaner-Godsey
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Patent number: 7647522Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an identified user over a network (e.g., WAN, Internet, etc.). A receiver component can receive a request for initiating and execution of a process that is maintained by the network service. A servicing component can analyze representations of multiple processes within the network service and determines whether to enable initiation and execution of the process based at least in part upon the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Raymond E. Ozzie, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold N. Blinn, Christopher W. Brumme, Michael Connolly, Dane A. Glasgow, Alexander G. Gounares, Galen C. Hunt, James R. Larus, Matthew B. MacLaurin, David R. Treadwell, III
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Publication number: 20090325562Abstract: A single device can be compartmentalized into two or more virtual portions, wherein each virtual portion is associated with a user role. Each virtual portion can retain information, communications, resources, and/or functions separate from the other virtual portions. As a user changes roles, a different virtual portion can be accessed (automatically and/or manually) in order to maintain separation or confidentiality among the portions and associated roles. In such a manner, a user can utilize a single device for multiple roles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Paul J. Hough, Mary P. Czerwinski, Anoop Gupta, Raymond E. Ozzie, Pavel Curtis
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Publication number: 20090319482Abstract: Recording of various events in a video format that facilitates viewing and selective editing are provided. The video can be presented in a wiki-format that allows a multitude of subsequent users to add, modify and/or delete content to the original recorded event or a revision of that event. As edits and annotations are applied, either automatically or manually, such edits can be indexed based on criteria such as identification of an annotator, a time stamp associated with the edit, a revision number, or combinations thereof. The edits or annotations can be provided in various formats including video, audio, text, and so forth.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Rebecca Norlander, Anoop Gupta, Bruce A. Johnson, Paul J. Hough, Mary P. Czerwinski, Pavel Curtis, Raymond E. Ozzie
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Patent number: 7624421Abstract: Proper user-to-data associations are maintained in shared spaces created in a peer-to-peer collaborative system by means of a simplified and minimal user interface that permits users to easily authenticate other members of a shared space. In particular, support is provided for automatically building authenticated relationships even if users do not take the time to authenticate other users. When a user enters a shared space and views the contacts in that space, the display names of each contact are accompanied by distinctive icons that identify that authentication status of that contact. A mechanism is provided for resolving conflicts between contacts with the same display names to prevent confusion and contact “spoofing.” Security policies can be established to provide a uniform approach to authentication. These policies can be set by a user or, alternatively, the policies can be set by an administrator.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2003Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raymond E. Ozzie, George P. Moromisato, Nimisha Asthagiri, Wei Dai, Alexei Evdokimov, Mark Cote, Adam Weiss
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Publication number: 20090248695Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing online and offline applications are described. Such systems and methods may in some cases provide the same programming interface, regardless of whether the application is online or offline. Such systems and methods may also or instead in some cases provide additional or other possible capabilities, including installation without elevated privileges, simplified data synchronization, sharing of applications and application data, access to data from other applications, and richer client functionality than may be provided by an application such as a web browser.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Raymond E. Ozzie, Jack E. Ozzie, George P. Moromisato, Raman Narayanan, Matthew S. Augustine, Dharma K. Shukla, Ori M. Amiga, Ming Liu, Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie
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Publication number: 20090216908Abstract: Systems and methods of providing synchronization of providing a device mesh and a virtual computing device are disclosed herein. A selection of a plurality of computer devices, such as PDAs, cellphone, laptops, and the like, can be received from a user. The data at the virtual computing device and the plurality of devices can be synchronized. Access to all applications available in each computing device in the plurality of computing devices can be provided at the virtual computing device. Access to all data available in each computing device in the plurality of computing devices can be provided at the virtual computing device. Access to the virtual computing device can be provided via a data network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2008Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: George P. Moromisato, Raymond E. Ozzie, Noah Edelstein, Abhay Parasnis, Raymond E. Endres