Patents by Inventor Rebecca Ping Zhu

Rebecca Ping Zhu 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: 20160315897
    Abstract: Email tags are described. In embodiments, email messages are received for distribution to client devices that correspond to respective recipients of the email messages. Email routing decisions are applied to route an email message to an email folder for a recipient of the email message, where the email folder may include an email inbox, a junk folder, or a user-created folder. The email message is then tagged with an email tag to generate a tagged email message. The email tag includes a routing description that indicates why the email message was routed to the particular email folder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Vitaldevara, Sanchan Sahai Saxena, Eliot C. Gillum, Rebecca Ping Zhu, Tyler J. Schnoebelen
  • Patent number: 9401883
    Abstract: Email tags are described. In embodiments, email messages are received for distribution to client devices that correspond to respective recipients of the email messages. Email routing decisions are applied to route an email message to an email folder for a recipient of the email message, where the email folder may include an email inbox, a junk folder, or a user-created folder. The email message is then tagged with an email tag to generate a tagged email message. The email tag includes a routing description that indicates why the email message was routed to the particular email folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Vitaldevara, Sanchan Sahai Saxena, Eliot C. Gillum, Rebecca Ping Zhu, Tyler J. Schnoebelen
  • Publication number: 20150007053
    Abstract: Email tags are described. In embodiments, email messages are received for distribution to client devices that correspond to respective recipients of the email messages. Email routing decisions are applied to route an email message to an email folder for a recipient of the email message, where the email folder may include an email inbox, a junk folder, or a user-created folder. The email message is then tagged with an email tag to generate a tagged email message. The email tag includes a routing description that indicates why the email message was routed to the particular email folder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Krishna Vitaldevara, Sanchan Sahai Saxena, Eliot C. Gillum, Rebecca Ping Zhu, Tyler J. Schnoebelen
  • Patent number: 8843568
    Abstract: Email tags are described. In embodiments, email messages are received for distribution to client devices that correspond to respective recipients of the email messages. Email routing decisions are applied to route an email message to an email folder for a recipient of the email message, where the email folder may include an email inbox, a junk folder, or a user-created folder. The email message is then tagged with an email tag to generate a tagged email message. The email tag includes a routing description that indicates why the email message was routed to the particular email folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Krishna Vitaldevara, Sanchan Sahai Saxena, Eliot C. Gillum, Rebecca Ping Zhu, Tyler J. Schnoebelen
  • Publication number: 20110282948
    Abstract: Email tags are described. In embodiments, email messages are received for distribution to client devices that correspond to respective recipients of the email messages. Email routing decisions are applied to route an email message to an email folder for a recipient of the email message, where the email folder may include an email inbox, a junk folder, or a user-created folder. The email message is then tagged with an email tag to generate a tagged email message. The email tag includes a routing description that indicates why the email message was routed to the particular email folder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Krishna Vitaldevara, Sanchan Sahai Saxena, Eliot C. Gillum, Rebecca Ping Zhu, Tyler J. Schnoebelen