Patents by Inventor Steve Geffner

Steve Geffner 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).

  • Simultaneous email and attachment viewing
    Patent number: 8826148
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the simultaneous (e.g., side-by-side or via a “sliding” animation) displaying and viewing of email messages and any attachments to such email messages are disclosed. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow a user of a computing system to simultaneously view the textual portion of an email along with the contents of any attachments within one application, and without the need to switch between at least two software applications—the email reader application and the native (productivity) application used to create such attachment (e.g., a word processing software application, a spreadsheet application, a presentation application, a database application, a portable document format reader, a Web browser and/or the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nino Yuniardi, Tracy Schultz, Jeffrey Kohler, Steve Geffner, Doug Herman, Gary Caldwell
  • SIMULTANEOUS EMAIL AND ATTACHMENT VIEWING
    Publication number: 20120284639
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the simultaneous (e.g., side-by-side or via a “sliding” animation) displaying and viewing of email messages and any attachments to such email messages are disclosed. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow a user of a computing system to simultaneously view the textual portion of an email along with the contents of any attachments within one application, and without the need to switch between at least two software applications—the email reader application and the native (productivity) application used to create such attachment (e.g., a word processing software application, a spreadsheet application, a presentation application, a database application, a portable document format reader, a Web browser and/or the like).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nino Yuniardi, Tracy Schultz, Jeffrey Kohler, Steve Geffner, Doug Herman, Gary Caldwell