Patents by Inventor Stephen Lardieri

Stephen Lardieri 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).

  • Automatically displaying keywords and other supplemental information
    Patent number: 7664740
    Abstract: Various embodiments can utilize information that is displayed for a user to automatically generate a list of keywords and use that list as a means to display supplemental information that is relevant to the keywords. In at least some embodiments, the displayed information is analyzed using an extraction algorithm to identify words or, more generally, character strings of interest. If these words or character strings of interest are determined to constitute relevant search terms or “keywords”, then a special user interface portion can be used to display this supplemental information along with the information that is already displayed for the user. This supplemental information can include the search terms themselves, ads that pertain to the search terms, and/or search results that have been ascertained from a web search engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan T Starbuck, Ojiakonobi Udezue, Stephen Lardieri, Manish M Anand, Joshua T. Goodman, Alexei V Bocharov
  • Automatically Displaying Keywords and Other Supplemental Information
    Publication number: 20070299815
    Abstract: Various embodiments can utilize information that is displayed for a user to automatically generate a list of keywords and use that list as a means to display supplemental information that is relevant to the keywords. In at least some embodiments, the displayed information is analyzed using an extraction algorithm to identify words or, more generally, character strings of interest. If these words or character strings of interest are determined to constitute relevant search terms or “keywords”, then a special user interface portion can be used to display this supplemental information along with the information that is already displayed for the user. This supplemental information can include the search terms themselves, ads that pertain to the search terms, and/or search results that have been ascertained from a web search engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan T. Starbuck, Ojiakonobi Udezue, Stephen Lardieri, Manish M. Anand, Joshua T. Goodman, Alexei V. Bocharov
  • Contact data structure and management
    Publication number: 20070023507
    Abstract: Contact data is modified by first identifying contact data associated with a particular contact entry. A file containing the identified contact data is locked and at least one value contained in the contact data is modified. A version stamp associated with the modified value is stored in the file. Additionally, a time stamp associated with the modified value is stored in the file. The file containing the identified contact data is then unlocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan Starbuck, Jeffrey Wall, Mark Coburn, Alexander Castro, Stephen Lardieri