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HORVITZ ERIC J

US235 patents

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HORVITZ ERIC J

MICROSOFT CORP

Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaboration

Computation of travel routes, durations, and plans over multiple contexts

Time-centric training, interference and user interface for personalized media program guides

Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaboration

System and methods for inferring informational goals and preferred level of detail of results in response to questions posed to an automated information-retrieval or question-answering service

System and method that facilitates computer desktop use via scaling of displayed objects with shifts to the periphery

Representation, decision models, and user interface for encoding managing preferences, and performing automated decision making about the timing and modalities of interpersonal communications

Principles and methods for personalizing newsfeeds via an analysis of information novelty and dynamics

Notification platform architecture

Methods and architecture for cross-device activity monitoring, reasoning, and visualization for providing status and forecasts of a users&#39; presence and availability

Systems and methods for performing background queries from content and activity

System for performing context-sensitive decisions about ideal communication modalities considering information about channel reliability

Multi-attribute specification of preferences about people, priorities and privacy for guiding messaging and communications

System and method for defining, refining, and personalizing communications policies in a notification platform

Training, inference and user interface for guiding the caching of media content on local stores

System and method providing utility-based decision making about clarification dialog given communicative uncertainty

System and method for defining, refining, and personalizing communications policies in a notification platform

Contextual models and methods for inferring attention and location

Decision theoretic principles and policies for notification

Modality fusion for object tracking with training system and method

Methods for predicting destinations from partial trajectories employing open-and closed-world modeling methods

Harnessing information about the timing of a user&#39;s client-server interactions to enhance messaging and collaboration services

Notification platform architecture

Visual and multi-dimensional search

Metadata schema for interpersonal communications management systems

Methods and architecture for learning and reasoning in support of context-sensitive reminding, informing, and service facilitation

Time-centric training, inference and user interface for personalized media program guides

Visual and multi-dimensional search

Methods and architecture for cross-device activity monitoring, reasoning, and visualization for providing status and forecasts of a users&#39; presence and availability

Controlling the listening horizon of an automatic speech recognition system for use in handsfree conversational dialogue

Inferring road speeds for context-sensitive routing

Traffic forecasting employing modeling and analysis of probabilistic interdependencies and contextual data

Sensing, storing, indexing, and retrieving data leveraging measures of user activity, attention, and interest

Harnessing information about the timing of a user&#39;s client-server interactions to enhance messaging and collaboration services

System, method, and medium for determining items to insert into a wishlist by analyzing images provided by a user

Use of a bulk-email filter within a system for classifying messages for urgency or importance

Schema-based context service

Recognizing gestures and using gestures for interacting with software applications

Building and using predictive models of current and future surprises

Cost-benefit approach to automatically composing answers to questions by extracting information from large unstructured corpora

Bounded-deferral policies for guiding the timing of alerting, interaction and communications using local sensory information

Display and human-computer interaction for a notification platform

System and method for identifying and establishing preferred modalities or channels for communications based on participants&#39; preferences and contexts

Advanced navigation techniques for portable devices

Key-based advanced navigation techniques

HORVITZ ERIC J

Harnessing predictive models of durations of channel availability for enhanced opportunistic allocation of radio spectrum

Computation of travel routes, durations, and plans over multiple contexts

When-free messaging

Methods for and applications of learning and inferring the periods of time until people are available or unavailable for different forms of communication, collaboration, and information access

ROBERTSON GEORGE G

System and method that facilitates computer desktop use via scaling of displayed objects with shifts to the periphery

Methods and architecture for cross-device activity monitoring, reasoning, and visualization for providing status and forecasts of a users' presence and availability

Harnessing information about the timing of a user's client-server interactions to enhance messaging and collaboration services

Methods and architecture for cross-device activity monitoring, reasoning, and visualization for providing status and forecasts of a users' presence and availability

Harnessing information about the timing of a user's client-server interactions to enhance messaging and collaboration services

System and method for identifying and establishing preferred modalities or channels for communications based on participants' preferences and contexts