Patents by Inventor Shruti Bhosale

Shruti Bhosale 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).

  • Expanding a social network
    Patent number: 10044668
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for expanding a social network. A method includes retrieving contact lists from a plurality of devices, generating a list of associations between identifiers in a first communication channel and identifiers in a second communication channel, removing, from the list of associations, one or more associations that include identifiers that do not represent contacts that are not members of the online social networking service, and transmitting an invitation to join the online social networking service to the second identifiers on the second communication channel for associations that remain in the list of associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haifeng Ji, Myunghwan Kim, Shruti Bhosale, Brad Christopher Ciraulo, Andrew P. Hill, Mitul Tiwari
  • EXPANDING A SOCIAL NETWORK
    Publication number: 20170155615
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for expanding a social network. A method includes retrieving contact lists from a plurality of devices, generating a list of associations between identifiers in a first communication channel and identifiers in a second communication channel, removing, from the list of associations, one or more associations that include identifiers that do not represent contacts that are not members of the online social networking service, and transmitting an invitation to join the online social networking service to the second identifiers on the second communication channel for associations that remain in the list of associations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Haifeng Ji, Myunghwan Kim, Shruti Bhosale, Brad Christopher Ciraulo, Andrew P. Hill, Mitul Tiwari