Patents by Inventor Steve Seixeiro
Steve Seixeiro 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).
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Patent number: 10614030Abstract: A digital assistant supported on a local device and/or a remote digital assistant service is disclosed herein. The device may interact with a user and perform various functions or tasks based on the user's input (e.g., web search, set calendar appointments, capture images or video). The digital assistant may identify and store artifacts associated with each action or function. Artifacts may include, for example, people in an image, search results from a web search, participants in a meeting, etc. Subsequently, the user may query the digital assistant for information about one of the artifacts, such as who the participants were in a meeting conducted the prior Thursday. The digital assistant can sift through the various artifacts and provide the user with the relevant information. Additionally, the digital assistant can suggest actions for the user based on the retrieved artifacts, such as to message one of the identified participants.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLCInventors: Reza Ferrydiansyah, Gurpreet Virdi, Richa Prasad, Steve Seixeiro, Robert Howard, III
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Patent number: 10528228Abstract: A digital assistant supported on computing devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, personal computers (PCs), wearable devices, game consoles, smart home devices and the like is configured with a notification system that interfaces with applications and/or other systems and resources so that the digital assistant may collect notifications across a range of a user's devices. The digital assistant may utilize a natural language interface (which may cooperate with touch and gesture interfaces) and applies awareness of context and user's behaviors to intelligently present the collected notifications on a single device for the user as a native digital assistant user experience. The digital assistant can sort notifications, group notifications together, and interact with the user to answer questions, provide information and status, and enable the user to action on a notification from the collection.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Steve Seixeiro, Gurpreet Virdi, Lijuan Qin, David Jeremy Guy Wood, Michael Burt Goulding, Lucas Scotta
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Patent number: 10389797Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for sharing items residing on a computing device. Items selected for sharing can be made simultaneously available to users on a local network and to users outside of the local network. A remote sharing service allows access to copies of items based on user identifiers associated. Local attributes associated with items are modified such that the user identifiers are associated with the items for providing access via a local network.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Lindsey R. Noll, Steve Seixeiro, Jerry K. Koh, Anshul Rawat, Sunil P. Gottumukkala
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Publication number: 20190050945Abstract: An event service is configured to create groups of computing device users proactively and intelligently based on analyses of user data sets of group members that describe location, availability, social graphs, and interests. The event service is further configured to identify events and activities by analyzing data acquired from web-based and external resources such as third-party databases and large data sets, and obtain marketing information including discounts, coupons, and other promotions that are pertinent to a given event. Utilizing the user data sets from the combined group, the event service can make suggestions for group activities at suitable times and location to enable the members to discover and participate in activities with other members of the group that are relevant and interesting while taking advantage of available promotions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Marcus Alan ASH, Steve SEIXEIRO, Lijuan QIN, George Fitzgerald MATTHEWS, Gurpreet VIRDI
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Publication number: 20180373398Abstract: A digital assistant supported on computing devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, personal computers (PCs), wearable devices, game consoles, smart home devices and the like is configured with a notification system that interfaces with applications and/or other systems and resources so that the digital assistant may collect notifications across a range of a user's devices. The digital assistant may utilize a natural language interface (which may cooperate with touch and gesture interfaces) and applies awareness of context and user's behaviors to intelligently present the collected notifications on a single device for the user as a native digital assistant user experience. The digital assistant can sort notifications, group notifications together, and interact with the user to answer questions, provide information and status, and enable the user to action on a notification from the collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Steve SEIXEIRO, Gurpreet VIRDI, Lijuan QIN, David Jeremy Guy WOOD, Michael Burt GOULDING, Lucas SCOTTA
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Publication number: 20180349389Abstract: A digital assistant supported on a local device and/or a remote digital assistant service is disclosed herein. The device may interact with a user and perform various functions or tasks based on the user's input (e.g., web search, set calendar appointments, capture images or video). The digital assistant may identify and store artifacts associated with each action or function. Artifacts may include, for example, people in an image, search results from a web search, participants in a meeting, etc. Subsequently, the user may query the digital assistant for information about one of the artifacts, such as who the participants were in a meeting conducted the prior Thursday. The digital assistant can sift through the various artifacts and provide the user with the relevant information. Additionally, the digital assistant can suggest actions for the user based on the retrieved artifacts, such as to message one of the identified participants.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2017Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Reza FERRYDIANSYAH, Gurpreet VIRDI, Richa PRASAD, Steve SEIXEIRO, Robert HOWARD, III
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Patent number: 10031556Abstract: User experience adaptation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a connection portion configured to be removably physically and communicatively with a computing device, a housing physically connected to the connection portion and providing an outer surface having one or more characteristics that are viewable by a user, and memory disposed within the housing and configured to communicate data to the computing device via the connection portion, the data usable by the computing device to dynamically adapt a user interface displayable by a display device of the computing device to mimic the one or more physical characteristics of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Panos C. Panay, Sharon Drasnin, Michael D. McCormack, John E. Inman, Steve Seixeiro, Anthony Christian Reed, Ralf Groene, Jeffrey Jay Johnson
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Patent number: 9705969Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for sharing items residing on a computing device. Items selected for sharing can be made simultaneously available to users on a local network and to users outside of the local network. A remote sharing service allows access to copies of items based on user identifiers associated. Local attributes associated with items are modified such that the user identifiers are associated with the items for providing access via a local network.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lindsey R. Noll, Steve Seixeiro, Jerry K. Koh, Anshul Rawat, Sunil P. Gottumukkala
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Publication number: 20170126803Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for sharing items residing on a computing device. Items selected for sharing can be made simultaneously available to users on a local network and to users outside of the local network. A remote sharing service allows access to copies of items based on user identifiers associated. Local attributes associated with items are modified such that the user identifiers are associated with the items for providing access via a local network.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2017Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: LINDSEY R. NOLL, STEVE SEIXEIRO, JERRY K. KOH, ANSHUL RAWAT, SUNIL P. GOTTUMUKKALA
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Publication number: 20160028793Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for sharing items residing on a computing device. Items selected for sharing can be made simultaneously available to users on a local network and to users outside of the local network. A remote sharing service allows access to copies of items based on user identifiers associated. Local attributes associated with items are modified such that the user identifiers are associated with the items for providing access via a local network.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: LINDSEY R. NOLL, STEVE SEIXEIRO, JERRY K. KOH, ANSHUL RAWAT, SUNIL P. GOTTUMUKKALA
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Patent number: 8938788Abstract: Method and computer storage media for sharing resources between a plurality of computing devices associated with a common non-enterprise network. A common set of credentials is stored on at least two or more of a plurality of computing devices that reside behind a routing device and are associated through a common non-enterprise network. Upon storing the common set of credentials, each of the two or more of a plurality of computing devices create a local account that contains, at least, the common set of credentials. The common set of credentials allow for the sharing, among the two or more of the plurality of computing devices, of resource that reside on or are associated with the computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brian L. McNeil, Michael G. Sheldon, Steve Seixeiro, Ramkumar Ramasubramanian, Jerry K. Koh, Anshul Rawat, Andrew V. Davidson, Daniel Oliver, Michael D. McCormack
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Patent number: 8910253Abstract: In one embodiment, a picture signature password system may use a picture signature password to determine access to a computing device or service. A display screen 172 may display a personalized digital image 310. A user input device 160 may receive a user drawing set executed by a user over the personalized digital image 310. A processor 120 may authenticate access to the user session if the user drawing set matches a library drawing set associated with the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Jay Johnson, Steve Seixeiro, Zachary Pace, Giles van der Bogert, Sean Gilmour, Levi Siebens, Kenneth Tubbs
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Patent number: 8775548Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for sharing items residing on a computing device. Items selected for sharing can be made simultaneously available to users on a local network and to users outside of the local network. A remote sharing service allows access to copies of items based on user identifiers associated. Local attributes associated with items are modified such that the user identifiers are associated with the items for providing access via a local network.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lindsey R. Noll, Steve Seixeiro, Jerry K. Koh, Anshul Rawat, Sunil P. Gottumukkala
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Patent number: 8650636Abstract: In one embodiment, a picture signature password system may use a picture signature password to determine access to a computing device or service. A display screen 172 may display a personalized digital image 310. A user input device 160 may receive a user drawing set executed by a user over the personalized digital image 310. A processor 120 may authenticate access to the user session if the user drawing set matches a library drawing set associated with the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2011Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeff Johnson, Steve Seixeiro, Zachary Pace, Giles van der Bogert, Sean Gilmour, Levi Siebens, Ken Tubbs
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Publication number: 20130332628Abstract: User experience adaptation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a connection portion configured to be removably physically and communicatively with a computing device, a housing physically connected to the connection portion and providing an outer surface having one or more characteristics that are viewable by a user, and memory disposed within the housing and configured to communicate data to the computing device via the connection portion, the data usable by the computing device to dynamically adapt a user interface displayable by a display device of the computing device to mimic the one or more physical characteristics of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: Panos C. Panay, Sharon Drasnin, Michael D. McCormack, John E. Inman, Steve Seixeiro, Anthony Christian Reed, Ralf Groene, Jeffrey Jay Johnson
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Publication number: 20130298214Abstract: Method and computer storage media for sharing resources between a plurality of computing devices associated with a common non-enterprise network. A common set of credentials is stored on at least two or more of a plurality of computing devices that reside behind a routing device and are associated through a common non-enterprise network. Upon storing the common set of credentials, each of the two or more of a plurality of computing devices create a local account that contains, at least, the common set of credentials. The common set of credentials allow for the sharing, among the two or more of the plurality of computing devices, of resource that reside on or are associated with the computing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Brian L. McNeil, Michael G. Sheldon, Steve Seixeiro, Ramkumar Ramasubramanian, Jerry K. Koh, Anshul Rawat, Andrew V. Davidson, Daniel Oliver, Michael D. McCormack
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Patent number: 8510808Abstract: Method and computer storage media for sharing resources between a plurality of computing devices associated with a common non-enterprise network. A common set of credentials is stored on at least two or more of a plurality of computing devices that reside behind a routing device and are associated through a common non-enterprise network. Upon storing the common set of credentials, each of the two or more of a plurality of computing devices create a local account that contains, at least, the common set of credentials. The common set of credentials allow for the sharing, among the two or more of the plurality of computing devices, of resource that reside on or are associated with the computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brian L. McNeil, Michael G. Sheldon, Steve Seixeiro, Ramkumar Ramasubramanian, Jerry K. Koh, Anshul Rawat, Andrew V. Davidson, Daniel Oliver, Michael D. McCormack
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Publication number: 20120304284Abstract: In one embodiment, a picture signature password system may use a picture signature password to determine access to a computing device or service. A display screen 172 may display a personalized digital image 310. A user input device 160 may receive a user drawing set executed by a user over the personalized digital image 310. A processor 120 may authenticate access to the user session if the user drawing set matches a library drawing set associated with the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeff Johnson, Steve Seixeiro, Zachary Pace, Giles van der Bogert, Sean Gilmour, Levi Siebens, Ken Tubbs
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Publication number: 20110246525Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer-readable media, computerized methods, and computer systems for acting on properties of multiple resources, which span disparate locations within a network, upon detecting an intuitive user-initiated operation are provided. Initially, a library is provided that includes a framework for contemporaneously accessing a collection of items within a scope thereof. Upon launching the library, representations of the scoped items are surfaced at a UI display. When the user-initiated operation is applied at one of the surfaced representations, properties of each of the scoped items are automatically manipulated. A library-configuration state, which reflects how the items are affected upon manipulating the properties thereof, may be updated upon implementing the manipulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: LINDSEY R. NOLL, Steve Seixeiro, Ramkumar Ramasubramanian, Relja B. Ivanovic, Jerry K. Koh, Gurjot S. Brar, Anshul Rawat, Lyon Wong
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Patent number: 8032661Abstract: In accordance with the automatic peripheral device sharing, a peripheral device that has been newly installed on a device is detected and is shared with one or more additional devices coupled to the device. A notification of the peripheral device is automatically published to the one or more additional devices. This notification includes an indication of how the one or more additional devices can access the peripheral device. Each of the one or more additional devices can receive this notification and determine whether the peripheral device can be automatically installed on that device without user input. For each of the one or more additional devices, the peripheral device is installed on that device only if the peripheral device can be automatically installed on that device without user input.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert J Anderson, Lindsey R Noll, Frank Olivier, J Adrian Lannin, Shawn E Maloney, Steve Seixeiro, Jerry Koh, Daniel J Oliver