Patents by Inventor ROBERT ROSS FENTON

ROBERT ROSS FENTON 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).

  • Patent number: 11379529
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for proactively enriching content of electronic communications through predicting user intents. User-composed content within an electronic communication is observed and used to predict one or more intents each associated with a task related to the communication and to be completed in creating the communication. Task-queries may be generated based on the detected intents and entities extracted from the user-composed content, contextual information, or other information related to the user, such as a user-knowledge database. User selection of a suggested task-query automatically executes the task-query, and the results are provided to the user. Each result may include an action involving adding content to or supplementing the content of the electronic communication. A conversational digital assistant may further be invoked to interact with the user to confirm and/or modify suggested task-queries and results of selected task-queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Ross Fenton, John Alton Price, Carol Kumar Mekala, Richard Scott Cassan, Hany Salaheldeen Khalil, Subramanian Vuttravadium Venkata, Malik M. Pradhan, Alfredo Augusto Menendez Sancho, Jacqueline Kay Killow, Anuja Milind Joshi, Jacob G. Danovitch-Tatoff
  • Publication number: 20210073293
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for proactively enriching content of electronic communications through predicting user intents. User-composed content within an electronic communication is observed and used to predict one or more intents each associated with a task related to the communication and to be completed in creating the communication. Task-queries may be generated based on the detected intents and entities extracted from the user-composed content, contextual information, or other information related to the user, such as a user-knowledge database. User selection of a suggested task-query automatically executes the task-query, and the results are provided to the user. Each result may include an action involving adding content to or supplementing the content of the electronic communication. A conversational digital assistant may further be invoked to interact with the user to confirm and/or modify suggested task-queries and results of selected task-queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: ROBERT ROSS FENTON, JOHN ALTON PRICE, CAROL KUMAR MEKALA, RICHARD SCOTT CASSAN, HANY SALAHELDEEN KHALIL, SUBRAMANIAN VUTTRAVADIUM VENKATA, MALIK M. PRADHAN, ALFREDO AUGUSTO MENENDEZ SANCHO, JACQUELINE KAY KILLOW, ANUJA MILIND JOSHI, JACOB G. DANOVITCH-TATOFF