Daniel Thomas Cook

US Patent:

6986100, Jan 10, 2006

Filed:

Sep 29, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/676364

Inventors:

John D. Roper - Redmond WA, US
Steven D. Copson - Seattle WA, US
Daniel B. Cook - Seattle WA, US
Peter H. Brussard - Seattle WA, US
Mark Ugar - Seattle WA, US
Arnold N. Blinn - Bellevue WA, US
Kathryn L. Sparr - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/24
G06F 17/27

US Classification:

715511, 715513, 715530, 715539, 715540, 715908, 705 14

Abstract:

A method for balancing the allocation of available display slots on a Web page among a plurality of different sources of display items comprises (a) defining for each source a set of candidate items to be displayed, (b) selecting items from a pool of all candidate sets, in a manner that normalizes the probability that the items of any one candidate set will be selected in relation to the items of the other candidate sets, and (c) inserting the selected items into the available display slots of the Web page.

US Patent:

7152202, Dec 19, 2006

Filed:

Jun 3, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/144367

Inventors:

John D. Roper - Redmond WA, US
Steven D. Copson - Seattle WA, US
Daniel B. Cook - Seattle WA, US
Peter H. Brussard - Seattle WA, US
Mark Ugar - Seattle WA, US
Arnold N. Blinn - Bellevue WA, US
Kathryn L. Sparr - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/24
G06F 17/27

US Classification:

715511, 715513, 715539, 715540, 705 14

Abstract:

A method for balancing the allocation of available display slots on a Web page among a plurality of different sources of display items comprises (a) defining for each source a set of candidate items to be displayed, (b) selecting items from a pool of all candidate sets, in a manner that normalizes the probability that the items of any one candidate set will be selected in relation to the items of the other candidate sets, and (c) inserting the selected items into the available display slots of the Web page.

US Patent:

7266559, Sep 4, 2007

Filed:

Dec 5, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/310408

Inventors:

Daniel B. Cook - Seattle WA, US
Chad S. Oftedal - Redmond WA, US
Scott E. Seiber - Medina WA, US
Matthew A. Goldberg - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 7/10
G06F 15/18

US Classification:

707100, 707101, 707102, 707 4, 707 10, 706 12, 706 46, 706 47

Abstract:

A method and computer-readable medium are provided for constructing a classifier for classifying search queries. The classifier is constructed by receiving a query from a user and applying the query to a classifier to identify the task. An unsupervised mapping between the query and the task is then identified and is used to train a new classifier. Under one embodiment, the unsupervised mapping is identified based on a user's selection of the task.

US Patent:

7289985, Oct 30, 2007

Filed:

Apr 15, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/826168

Inventors:

Hua-Jun Zeng - Beijing, CN
Benyu Zhang - Beijing, CN
Zheng Chen - Beijing, CN
Wei-Ying Ma - Beijing, CN
Daniel B. Cook - Seattle WA, US
Gabor Hirschler - Issaquah WA, US
Karen Fries - Seattle WA, US
Kurt Samuelson - Issaquah WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

707 3, 707 2, 707 5, 707100, 707200, 709217

Abstract:

Systems and methods for enhanced document retrieval are described. In one aspect, a search query from an end-user is received. Responsive to receiving the search query, search results are retrieved. The search results include an enhanced document and a set of non-enhanced documents. The enhanced document and the non-enhanced documents include term(s) of the search query. The enhanced document is derived from a base document. The base document was modified with metadata mined from one or more different documents. The metadata is associated with one or more respective references to the base document. The one or more different documents are independent of the base document.

US Patent:

7305389, Dec 4, 2007

Filed:

Apr 15, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/826161

Inventors:

Hua-Jun Zeng - Beijing, CN
Benyu Zhang - Beijing, CN
Zheng Chen - Beijing, CN
Wei-Ying Ma - Beijing, CN
Daniel B. Cook - Seattle WA, US
Gabor Hirschler - Issaquah WA, US
Karen Fries - Seattle WA, US
Kurt Samuelson - Issaquah WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 5, 707101, 715514

Abstract:

Systems and methods providing computer-implemented content propagation for enhanced document retrieval are described. In one aspect, reference information directed to one or more documents is identified. The reference information is identified from one or more sources of data that are independent of a data source that includes the one or more documents. Metadata that is proximally located to the reference information is extracted from the one or more sources of data. Relevance between respective features of the metadata to content of associated ones of the one or more documents is calculated. For each document of the one or more documents, associated portions of the metadata is indexed with the relevance of features from the respective portions into original content of the document. The indexing generates one or more enhanced documents.

US Patent:

7496693, Feb 24, 2009

Filed:

Mar 17, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/378418

Inventors:

Daniel B. Cook - Seattle WA, US
David Mowatt - Seattle WA, US
Oliver Scholz - Kirkland WA, US
Oscar E. Murillo - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04B 1/38
G10L 21/00
H04M 1/00
H04H 7/00

US Classification:

710 10, 710 8, 710 9, 710 29, 704243, 704244, 704245, 704246, 704 1, 704260, 704270, 455 306, 455 412, 455557, 455563, 705 1, 705 26, 707 4, 707 9

Abstract:

A method of interacting with a speech recognition (SR)-enabled personal computer (PC) is provided in which a user SR profile is transferred from a wireless-enabled device to the SR-enabled PC. Interaction with SR applications, on the SR-enabled PC, is carried out by transmitting speech signals wirelessly to the SR-enabled PC. The transmitted speech signals are recognized with the help of the transferred user SR profile.

US Patent:

7680514, Mar 16, 2010

Filed:

Mar 17, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/378550

Inventors:

Daniel B. Cook - Seattle WA, US
David Mowatt - Seattle WA, US
Oliver Scholz - Kirkland WA, US
Oscar E. Murillo - Seattle WA, US
Robert L. Chambers - Sammamish WA, US
Ryan T. Bickel - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04B 1/38

US Classification:

455557, 455563, 4555691, 704243, 710 10

Abstract:

A portable wireless-enabled system includes an input transducer (for example, a microphone), an output transducer (for example, a speaker) and a wireless transceiver system. Also included, is a memory having a programmable user speech profile. A processor system controls operation of the input transducer, the output transducer, the wireless transceiver system and the memory.

US Patent:

8160389, Apr 17, 2012

Filed:

Jul 24, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/179575

Inventors:

Charles Bissonnette - Snoqualmie WA, US
Charles Parker - Sammamish WA, US
Daniel Cook - Seattle WA, US
Douglas Charles Shimonek - Sioux City IA, US
William Hsu - Redmond WA, US
Yin Li - Issaquah WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06K 9/20
G06K 9/34

US Classification:

382282, 382173

Abstract:

Image editing tools are commonly used to assist with manipulating and saving visual compositions. Many image editing tools provide slicing functionality to create images slices (sub-images) of the visual composition. As provided herein, a slice representation of a visual composition is defined by an arbitrarily chosen set of coordinates within the visual composition. This slice region may be defined independent of other slice regions (e. g. the slice region may or may not overlap, abut, etc. other slice regions). The slice representation comprises the slice region and one or more objects or portions thereof within the slice region. Slice representations may also comprise overlapping objects and/or slice region coordinates. Objects may be manipulated within a slice representation without affecting that object within other slice representations.