Patents by Inventor Richard J. Sgro

Richard J. Sgro 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).

  • Business intelligent in-document suggestions
    Patent number: 8959109
    Abstract: Implementing business intelligent in-document suggestion may include detecting a content that a user is inputting into a document or selecting from the document. Based on the content, a key word may be extracted to generate a query. The query may be transmitted to an enterprise search engine for enterprise intelligence. Based on returned search results, a suggestion may be generated and presented to a user device by integrating the suggestion into the document. In some embodiments, the suggestion may include a people suggestion, a document suggestion, a phrase suggestion and a document template suggestion. In some embodiments, adding an additional content or selecting a subset of the content may refine the suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Scott, Chao Wang, Richard J. Sgro
  • Business Intelligent In-Document Suggestions
    Publication number: 20140040238
    Abstract: Implementing business intelligent in-document suggestion may include detecting a content that a user is inputting into a document or selecting from the document. Based on the content, a key word may be extracted to generate a query. The query may be transmitted to an enterprise search engine for enterprise intelligence. Based on returned search results, a suggestion may be generated and presented to a user device by integrating the suggestion into the document. In some embodiments, the suggestion may include a people suggestion, a document suggestion, a phrase suggestion and a document template suggestion. In some embodiments, adding an additional content or selecting a subset of the content may refine the suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Scott, Chao Wang, Richard J. Sgro