Patents by Inventor Richard Dean Webb

Richard Dean Webb 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).

  • Method for probabilistic analysis of most frequently occurring electronic message addresses within personal store (.PST) files to determine owner with confidence factor based on relative weight and set of user-specified factors
    Patent number: 7636734
    Abstract: A probabilistic process to determine the owner of an electronic file, such as a Personal Store (.pst). A weighted analysis of multiple factors is performed including the operating system file owner, a user running the process, a “top Y most frequently occurring addresses” when analyzing “X number of sent then received messages,” and a number of occurrences of each “top Y most frequently occurring address.” Other factors, such as the ability to resolve against a directory service may be used. Each of the “top Y most frequently occurring addresses” is analyzed to calculate its weight according to a predetermined relationship and the address is compared to the operating system file owner and a logged-on user value. If there is a match, that value is returned as the probable owner of the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher L. Johnson, Richard Dean Webb, David Thomas Kearney