Patents by Inventor Sophia Isabel VENNIX

Sophia Isabel VENNIX 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).

  • Publication number: 20230403246
    Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content —without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Leeviana Peng GRAY, Sebastien Rene VANDENBERGHE, Kyle P. CURLETT, Yan Zhong LEIGH, Brian D. MEERSMA, Benjamin G. WILDE, Natalie Ann MIONIS, Sophia Isabel VENNIX, Christopher Andrews JUNG, Humberto LEZAMA GUADARRAMA
  • Patent number: 11777884
    Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content—without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Leeviana Peng Gray, Sebastien Rene Vandenberghe, Kyle P. Curlett, Yan Zhong Leigh, Brian D. Meersma, Benjamin G. Wilde, Natalie Ann Mionis, Sophia Isabel Vennix, Christopher Andrews Jung, Humberto Lezama Guadarrama
  • Publication number: 20220166738
    Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content—without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Leeviana Peng GRAY, Sebastien Rene VANDENBERGHE, Kyle P. CURLETT, Yan Zhong LEIGH, Brian D. MEERSMA, Benjamin G. WILDE, Natalie Ann MIONIS, Sophia Isabel VENNIX, Christopher Andrews JUNG, Humberto LEZAMA GUADARRAMA
  • Patent number: 11243824
    Abstract: Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure enable creation and management of representations of content through the execution of copy actions, paste actions or a combination thereof. An indication of a copy action is received that copies a content portion. The copy action is analyzed to generate a (live) representation of the content portion. Other examples of representations are also generatable including a static representation and/or a live non-editable representation. As an example, a live representation is an editable and synchronized representation of the content portion that is synchronized with original source content. The live representation comprises a selectable data link that links back to the original source content and an editable representation of the content portion. In response to receiving an indication of a paste action, the live representation of the content portion is automatically rendered inline within a graphical user interface of a host application/service endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Daniel Meersma, David Simon Carpenter, Jonathan Seth Kaufthal, Nimisha Gupta, Kyle David Ryan, Sophia Isabel Vennix, Margaret Cui Liu, Gregory Alan Howard, Maya Rodrig, Daniel Paul Costenaro, Mara Beth Fortini, Cosmin Catrinescu
  • Patent number: 11030395
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for displaying annotation(s) of an electronic document. User input to review (e.g., scroll) the electronic document is received, until a selected portion of the electronic document is displayed within a viewport pane of a display. In response to the review input, annotation(s) (e.g., comment(s), comment thread(s), annotation thread(s)) anchored within the selected portion of the electronic document displayed within the viewport pane are identified. Which annotation of the annotation(s) to visually distinguish for a focus of the user is determined. The identified annotation(s) are displayed in an annotation pane, with the determined annotation visually distinguished (highlighted) for the focus of the user. In some embodiments, the anchor associated with the determined annotation is also visually distinguished to provide a contextual link to the user and/or hint(s) that provided a visual signal of annotation(s) associated with an anchor on a particular line are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Apurv Suman, Dheeraj Agarwal, Nicholas Michael Simons, Sneha Jayaprakash, Sophia Isabel Vennix, Kathleen Anna Cachel, Derik Bjorn Stenerson, Michael Augustine Tavis, Robin Emily Wakefield, Daniel John Niezgocki Chattan, Harold Sazon Gomez
  • Patent number: 10657318
    Abstract: A comment management system and process for facilitating navigation of discrete segments of electronic content in which users can remain informed as to the comment context for the electronic content as a whole. This can provide collaborative document users the ability to more clearly distinguish comments for a currently viewed content portion from indicators for comments on previous or subsequent segments of content. The indicators can transition between a low visibility mode and a high visibility mode in response to user inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Inventors: Sophia Isabel Vennix, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Kathleen Anna Cachel, Anunaya Pandey, Raphael Jose Landaverde
  • Publication number: 20200042584
    Abstract: A comment management system and process for facilitating navigation of discrete segments of electronic content in which users can remain informed as to the comment context for the electronic content as a whole. This can provide collaborative document users the ability to more clearly distinguish comments for a currently viewed content portion from indicators for comments on previous or subsequent segments of content. The indicators can transition between a low visibility mode and a high visibility mode in response to user inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sophia Isabel VENNIX, Benjamin Gustav WILDE, Kathleen Anna CACHEL, Anunaya PANDEY, Raphael Jose LANDAVERDE
  • Publication number: 20190370319
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for displaying annotation(s) of an electronic document. User input to review (e.g., scroll) the electronic document is received, until a selected portion of the electronic document is displayed within a viewport pane of a display. In response to the review input, annotation(s) (e.g., comment(s), comment thread(s), annotation thread(s)) anchored within the selected portion of the electronic document displayed within the viewport pane are identified. Which annotation of the annotation(s) to visually distinguish for a focus of the user is determined. The identified annotation(s) are displayed in an annotation pane, with the determined annotation visually distinguished (highlighted) for the focus of the user. In some embodiments, the anchor associated with the determined annotation is also visually distinguished to provide a contextual link to the user and/or hint(s) that provided a visual signal of annotation(s) associated with an anchor on a particular line are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Apurv SUMAN, Dheeraj AGARWAL, Nicholas Michael SIMONS, Sneha JAYAPRAKASH, Sophia Isabel VENNIX, Kathleen Anna CACHEL, Derik Bjorn STENERSON, Michael Augustine TAVIS, Robin Emily WAKEFIELD, Daniel John Niezgocki CHATTAN, Harold Sazon GOMEZ