Patents by Inventor Shrivaths Iyengar

Shrivaths Iyengar 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: 9426101
    Abstract: Systems and techniques of providing suggestions for email recipients to a user who is composing an email communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may register a plurality of email accounts with an email application. Once an email account is registered with the email application, contact data from each such registered email account may be received. In another embodiment, if the user employs a plurality of devices from which the user composes and/or sends email communications, device-specific contact information may also be received. Relevance metrics may be applied to such suggestions depending upon the contact data received from the various email accounts. Dynamic correction factor may be applied to such relevance metrics—e.g., a decay factor, decrement factor or the like that may or may not be time dependent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Long Zhou, John Morrow, Taylor Lehman, Shrivaths Iyengar, Vincent Celie, Michael Farnsworth
  • Publication number: 20140214976
    Abstract: Systems and techniques of providing suggestions for email recipients to a user who is composing an email communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may register a plurality of email accounts with an email application. Once an email account is registered with the email application, contact data from each such registered email account may be received. In another embodiment, if the user employs a plurality of devices from which the user composes and/or sends email communications, device-specific contact information may also be received. Relevance metrics may be applied to such suggestions depending upon the contact data received from the various email accounts. Dynamic correction factor may be applied to such relevance metrics—e.g., a decay factor, decrement factor or the like that may or may not be time dependent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Long Zhou, John Morrow, Taylor Lehman, Shrivaths Iyengar, Vincent Celie, Michael Farnsworth