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| [P] “System and Method for Addressing Messages” (with P.B. Moody, D.M. Gruen, B.J. Kerr, and S. Kellerman). Patent 8,938,506 (January 20, 2015). [PDF] |
| [O] “Computer Method and Apparatus for Persisting Pieces of a Virtual World Group Conversation” (with L. Cheng and J.F. Patterson). Patent 8,612,868 (December 17, 2013). [PDF] |
| [N] “Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Threading Documents Using Body Text Analysis.” Patent 8,396,897 (March 12, 2013). [PDF] |
| [M] “Contextual Camera Method and Apparatus for Virtual Environments” (with L. Cheng and J.F. Patterson). Patent 8,294,732 (October 23, 2012). [PDF] |
| [L] “Computer System and Method of Using Presence Visualizations of Avatars as Persistable Virtual Contact Objects” (with L. Cheng, J.F. Patterson, M. Ikura, and P.B. Le). Patent 8,117,551 (February 14, 2012). [PDF] |
| [K] “Method and Apparatus for Summarization of Threads in Electronic Mail” (with C. Schmandt, P.B. Moody, D.M. Gruen, D.S. Lam, and M.K. Stern). Patent 7,849,147 (December 7, 2010). [PDF] |
| [J] “Method for Deleting Related Messages” (with P.B. Moody, D.M. Gruen, and B.J. Kerr). Patent 7,818,680 (October 19, 2010). [PDF] |
| [I] “Method, System and Program Product for Retrofitting Collaborative Components into Existing Software Applications” (with S.I. Ross, J.F. Patterson, L. Cheng, and S. Hupfer). Patent 7,484,202 (January 27, 2009). [PDF] |
| [H] “System and Method for Searching and Retrieving Related Messages” (with P.B. Moody, D.M. Gruen, and B.J. Kerr). Patent 7,412,437 (August 12, 2008), continuation issued as 7,962,508 (June 14, 2011). [PDF] |
| [G] “System and Method for Replying to Related Messages” (with P.B. Moody, D.M. Gruen, and B.J. Kerr). Patent 7,409,641 (August 5, 2008), continuation issued as 7,657,839 (February 2, 2010). [PDF] |
| [F] “Automatic Recognition and Flagging of Anomalous Items within Sets of Automatically Classified Items” (with P.B. Moody, D.M. Gruen, and S. Kellerman). Patent 7,406,455 (July 29, 2008). [PDF] |
| [E] “Method and Apparatus for Summarization of Threads in Electronic Mail” (with C. Schmandt, P.B. Moody, D.M. Gruen, D.S. Lam, and M.K. Stern). Patent 7,392,280 (June 24, 2008), continuation issued as 7,865,550 (January 4, 2011). [PDF] |
| [D] “Calendar Bar Interface for Electronic Mail Interaction” (with P.B. Moody, J.F. Patterson, D.M. Gruen, S. Kellerman, and B.J. Kerr). Patent 7,363,590 (April 22, 2008). [PDF] |
| [C] “Method and Apparatus for Electronic Mail Interaction with Grouped Message Types” (with P.B. Moody, J.F. Patterson, D.M. Gruen, S. Kellerman, and B.J. Kerr). Patent 7,359,936 (April 15, 2008). [PDF] |
| [B] “Method and Apparatus for Data Visualization” (with J.F. Patterson and A. Wijeyekoon). Patent 6,529,900 (March 4, 2003). [PDF] |
| [A] “System and Method for Recording and Playing Back and Searching Multimedia” (with G. Cruz, J. Rosenberg, and L.S. Smoot). Patent 5,613,032 (March 18, 1997). [PDF] |
| 5 patents pending. |