Robin A Thomas

US Patent:

20120198019, Aug 2, 2012

Filed:

Jan 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/015961

Inventors:

Robin Thomas - Kirkland WA, US
Paul Wimmer - Maple Valley WA, US
Venkateswara Ayyadevara - Sammamish WA, US
Harvey Rook - Newcastle WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709217

Abstract:

A method for migrating, archiving, or backing-up data between a first device and a second device hosting a communication application in a networked computing environment. The method includes retrieving mailbox data from the second device, the mailbox data includes messaging data and configuration data of the communication application associated with the mailbox data. The method also includes mapping the mailbox data from a first data format to a second data format, and transferring the mapped mailbox data to the first device as a first file.

US Patent:

20130086381, Apr 4, 2013

Filed:

Oct 4, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/252795

Inventors:

Robin Michael Thomas - Kirkland WA, US
Christopher Michael Simison - Denver CO, US
Naresh Sundaram - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

H04L 9/32
G06F 21/20

US Classification:

713168, 726 7

Abstract:

A client is authenticated by a server receiving an initial request from the client at the beginning of a session. The server receiving the initial request generates an authentication token and returns the authentication token to the client in response to the client being authenticated. The user's credentials used to authenticate the client are stored in the authentication token along with other information. After receiving the authentication token from the server that generated the authentication token, the client passes the authentication token with each of the future requests to the pool of servers. Using the client to pass the transferrable authentication token, the servers share the user's identity/credentials in a decentralized manner. Any server from the shared pool of servers that receives a subsequent client request is able to decrypt the token and re-authenticate the user without having to prompt the client for authentication credentials again.

US Patent:

20130191465, Jul 25, 2013

Filed:

Jan 24, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/356868

Inventors:

Naresh Sundaram - Redmond WA, US
Greg Thiel - Black Diamond WA, US
Robin Thomas - Kirkland WA, US
Harvey Rook - Newcastle WA, US
Yogesh Bansal - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709206

Abstract:

Systems, methods, and software are provided for facilitating a message service. A multi-role system is identified based on where an active message database associated with a user identity resides. Service communications generated by a messaging client associated with the user identity are directed from an entry system to the multi-role system for handling in the multi-role system by a messaging server and a content server to provide the message service.

US Patent:

20190050406, Feb 14, 2019

Filed:

Aug 8, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/672095

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Bhaskar MITRA - London, GB
Christophe Jacky Henri VAN GYSEL - Amsterdam, NL
Grzegorz Stanislaw KUKLA - Sliwice, PL
Lynn Carter AYRES - Redmond WA, US
Mark Rolland KNIGHT - Bellevue WA, US
Matteo VENANZI - London, GB
Nicola CANCEDDA - London, GB
Rachel Elizabeth SIRKIN - Seattle WA, US
Robin Michael THOMAS - Kirkland WA, US
Roy ROSEMARIN - London, GB
Shobana BALAKRISHNAN - Redmond WA, US
Sri Ramya MALLIPUDI - Redmond WA, US
Tariq SHARIF - Sammamish WA, US
Yamin WANG - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

Abstract:

Systems and methods are provided that automatically process a message input, construct an intelligent query based on the processing of the message input, and provide at least one attachable entity according to the processing results and the intelligent query. In some example aspects, a message is received. A natural language processor to determine if the message is requesting content may then process the message. If the message is determined to be requesting content, then candidate sub-queries may be generated to serve as a training set for a query that will be sent to an external search engine to retrieve the attachable entity. The sub-queries may be ranked in order of relevance and performance score. The highest ranked sub-queries may then be used in the actual query that is fired against the external search engine. The external search engine may search local and remote repositories for the top K most relevant attachable entities and present them to a user for attachment in a reply message.

US Patent:

20180232424, Aug 16, 2018

Filed:

Feb 13, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/430708

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Lokesh Bhoobalan - Bellevue WA, US
Ashwath Narayan Raghunathan - Redmond WA, US
Thottam Sriram - Redmond WA, US
Robin Thomas - Kirkland WA, US
Tariq Sharif - Sammamish WA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

Abstract:

Computer systems, devices, and associated methods of providing distributed index searching are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a database server, search terms included in a search query for content from a member and in response to receiving the search terms, determining a subset of the distributed indices to be searched in response to the search query based on the received search terms and one or more records of searching features on the database server. The method also includes providing the determined list of distributed indices to be searched based on the search terms in the search query.