Marc S Boyer, Age 487224 S Rustic Rd, Seattle, WA 98178

8224904, Jul 17, 2012

Sep 29, 2006

11/537386

Parag Samdadiya - Bellevue WA, US
Rajesh Ramanathan - Redmond WA, US
Marc Boyer - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16
H04M 1/725

709206, 4554122, 709219, 715206

A method and system for capturing missed communications is provided. An enhanced real-time communication system receives a communication from an initiating participant for a receiving participant that is not available. The enhanced real-time communication system detects that the receiving participant missed the received communication from the initiating participant. Upon detecting that the receiving participant missed the communication, the enhanced real-time communication system stores the missed communication for later retrieval by the receiving participant.

8264990, Sep 11, 2012

Feb 1, 2010

12/697400

Danny Levin - Redmond WA, US
Marc Boyer - Seattle WA, US
Arulkumar Elumalai - Lynnwood WA, US
Rajesh Ramanathan - Redmond WA, US
Vinit Deshpande - Woodinville WA, US
Sumit Garg - Redmond WA, US
Mahendra Sekaran - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04L 12/16

370259, 455439

A method for transferring a telephone call from a client computer to a second electronic device includes establishing a connection for a telephone call between the client computer and a first electronic device, and sending a request to a server computer to transfer the telephone call from the client computer to the second electronic device, the client computer and the second electronic device having the same user, the request initiating a consultation call to the second electronic device. The method also includes receiving a response from the server computer that the second electronic device has accepted the telephone call, and replacing the client computer with the second electronic device as a party in the telephone call with the first electronic device, the continuity of the telephone call being maintained at the first electronic device during the time that the client computer is replaced with the second electronic device.

2007007, Mar 29, 2007

Sep 7, 2006

11/470827

Elena Apreutesei - Redmond WA, US
Edward Simnett - Seattle WA, US
Eran Shtiegman - Redmond WA, US
Frank Shao - Kenmore WA, US
Sahib Aulakh - Bellevue WA, US
Marc Boyer - Seattle WA, US
Thomas McNeill - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04M 11/00

379093010

A facility is described for providing contextual information automatically. In various embodiments, the facility receives an indication to start a conversation, automatically determines an identification for an item indicated by the indication, encodes the identification in a message, and sends the message so that a recipient of the message can locate the item. The facility can include a responder component and an initiator component. The initiator component can receive an identification for contextual information and an identification of the responder, initiate a conversation with the responder's computing device, and automatically encode the received indication of the contextual information in a message that it sends to the responder component so that the responder component can cause a link to the contextual information to be provided that, when selected, causes an application executing on the responder's computing device to load the contextual information. In various embodiments, the facility receives a message containing an indication of contextual information, decodes the indication to determine an identifier for the contextual information, and provides a command for loading the contextual information.

2008013, Jun 5, 2008

Dec 4, 2006

11/566650

Rajesh Ramanathan - Redmond WA, US
Eran Shtiegman - Redmond WA, US
Parag Samdadiya - Bellevue WA, US
Marc Boyer - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16
G06F 13/00

709206, 719328

A real-time communication system receives rich application content from a user. The real-time communication system detects that the user wants to send a message containing the application content, and determines the application that produced the content. For example, if the content was pasted using the operating system clipboard, then the pasted content may contain information indicating the application that produced it. Then the real-time communication system creates a real-time communication containing the application content and identifying the application that produced the content. For example, the real-time communication may be structured as XML that contains the application content and an application identifier. Finally, the real-time communication system sends the real-time communication to the receiving participant.

2008014, Jun 19, 2008

Nov 1, 2006

11/555666

Rajesh Ramanathan - Redmond WA, US
Eran Shtiegman - Redmond WA, US
Ankur Chavda - Seattle WA, US
Justin M. Maguire - Seattle WA, US
Amritansh Raghav - Seattle WA, US
Marc Boyer - Seattle WA, US
Joseph T. Fletcher - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 3/00

715700

A notification system, upon receiving an indication of an event, determines whether the user has requested to suppress event notifications. When the user has requested to suppress event notifications, the notification system suppresses the event notification by not notifying the user of the event. When the user has not requested to suppress event notifications, the notification system infers whether the user wants to suppress event notifications. When the notification system infers that the user does not want to suppress event notifications, the notification system provides to the user a normal event notification. When the notification system infers that the user does want to suppress event notifications, the notification system provides to the user a modified event notification.

2011022, Sep 15, 2011

Mar 15, 2010

12/723900

Marc Boyer - Seattle WA, US
Danny Levin - Bellevue WA, US
Arulkumar Elumalai - Lynnwood WA, US
Vinit Deshpande - Woodinville WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

709206

A mechanism is provided for enabling subscribers of an enhanced communication system to switch endpoints during a conversation, add or remove modalities, invite new participants while continuing the conversation seamlessly. Active endpoints associated with a participant in a conversation may publish their states to a managing server and become aware of a status of the ongoing conversation. Subsequently, the participants may seamlessly switch to another endpoint and continue the conversation using the other endpoint.

2012027, Nov 1, 2012

Apr 27, 2011

13/094848

Marc Boyer - Seattle WA, US
Arulkumar Elumalai - Lynnwood WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04L 12/18

370261

Technologies are described herein for monitoring a participant's connection to a conference and automatically reconnecting the participant if the participant is inadvertently disconnected. A conference proxy module receives a request from a participant identifying a conference to join and an endpoint of the participant to connect to the conference. Upon receiving the request, the conference proxy module joins the conference on behalf of the participant and instructs the conferencing service to establish a connection with the identified endpoint. The conference proxy module then monitors the status of the connection with the participant's endpoint, and if the endpoint is unintentionally disconnected, the conference proxy module instructs the conferencing service to reconnect the endpoint to the conference.

2013001, Jan 17, 2013

Jul 17, 2012

13/551531

Parag Samdadiya - Bellevue WA, US
Rajesh Ramanathan - Redmond WA, US
Marc Boyer - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

709206

A method and system for capturing missed communications is provided. An enhanced real-time communication system receives a communication from an initiating participant for a receiving participant that is not available. The enhanced real-time communication system detects that the receiving participant missed the received communication from the initiating participant. Upon detecting that the receiving participant missed the communication, the enhanced real-time communication system stores the missed communication for later retrieval by the receiving participant.