Guy W Suter

US Patent:

20190222542, Jul 18, 2019

Filed:

Mar 25, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/363321

Inventors:

- Ann Arbor MI, US
Guy Suter - Ann Arbor MI, US
Ian Berry - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/58
G06F 16/2457
G06F 16/248
H04L 12/24
H04L 29/08
G06N 20/00

Abstract:

A system and method includes at the online electronic communications service: receiving a search query from a source communication node; accessing historical electronic communication data associated with the source communication node and a plurality of online communication nodes from one or more third-party online communication services; constructing an electronic communication network mapping of communication nodes between the source communication node and each of the plurality of online communication nodes, wherein constructing includes: measuring communication metrics and/or connectivity metrics among the source communication node and the plurality of online communication nodes at least one communication metric or at least one connectivity metric between pairs of online communication nodes within the electronic communication network mapping based on the measuring; and returning an identification of one or more online communication nodes that satisfy one or more search facets of the search query based on the electronic communication network mapping.

US Patent:

20180351901, Dec 6, 2018

Filed:

Jun 1, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/995865

Inventors:

- Ann Arbor MI, US
Guy Suter - Ann Arbor MI, US
Ian Berry - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/58
G06F 15/18
G06K 9/62

Abstract:

An online system and an online method that enables intelligent chat messaging within an email environment based on email communication data includes collecting by an email integration server email communication data relating to an inbound email communication; extracting by one or more processing circuits chat data features from the email communication data; providing the extracted chat data features, as input, into a chat messaging circuit; using the extracted chat data features to generate by the chat messaging circuit chat communication parameters that define one or more configurations for a chat communication relating to the inbound email communication; and implementing the chat communication within the email environment based on the generated chat communication parameters.

US Patent:

20180218334, Aug 2, 2018

Filed:

Feb 2, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/423534

Inventors:

- Ann Arbor MI, US
Ian Berry - Ann Arbor MI, US
Guy Suter - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

G06Q 10/10
H04L 12/58
G06F 17/30

Abstract:

An apparatus transforms a request for an introduction and a message archive into a submission to a selected intermediary for endorsement or denial. In embodiments, the submission may include time, place, manner and a gloss of her relationship of requestor to the selected intermediary. An intersection is sought among ranked correspondents of a requestor and strong influencers of a desired invitee to intermediate an introduction of requestor to invitee. A method suggests a proposed introduction message to a selected intermediary for endorsement based on measures of relationships the intermediary has derived from message archives. A method determines a relationship metric of the oldest and first introduction of one party to another. A method transforms a plurality of messages, a request, and a calendar into an exchange of proposed and endorsed introduction messages for and by a selected intermediary based on relationships inferred from the message archive.

US Patent:

20180048611, Feb 15, 2018

Filed:

Oct 24, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/791880

Inventors:

- Ann Arbor MI, US
Ian Berry - Ann Arbor MI, US
Guy Suter - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/58

Abstract:

A message post-processing apparatus provides an optional instrumented viewport to a message recipient to store message dispositions such as archive, reply-to, forward, open, move, delete, and each elapsed time-to-disposal (TTD) from display. The instrumented viewport also displays a proposed disposition and a proposed TTD, which may be overridden within the instrumented viewport. A timer is initialized to TDD when each message is substantially within the viewport. Absent user intervention, a disposer circuit performs the proposed operation on the message upon expiration of the TTD. The proposed TTD and disposition is derived from analyzing the history and quality of similar messages among recipient's dispositions. When a recipient changes the treatment of a message, the apparatus stores the new disposition and TTD for future reference. A synthesizer circuit transforms message body and headers and proposed TTD and disposition into a message precis.

US Patent:

20170359277, Dec 14, 2017

Filed:

Jun 11, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/180023

Inventors:

- Ann Arbor MI, US
Ian Berry - Ann Arbor MI, US
Guy Suter - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/58
H04L 12/18
H04L 29/08

Abstract:

Replies to electronic messages are prepared, customized, and personalized reflecting a relationship a recipient might have with a sender. Each received message is categorized by medium, meta-data, content, and relationship. A message queue is transformed from FIFO order to groups ordered by similar urgency, complexity, or both. A compositor operates on messages which contain requests for action, requests for information, or imperative directives. A sender's relationship with the message recipient influences both the priority and the voice of a proffered reply as well as the medium of transmission. Prefatory and operative components of the received message are transformed into selectable reply message components. Sentiment analysis of received requests and proposed replies ensures role-appropriate professional quality and respectfulness. The apparatus offers choices of appropriate tone and style to recipient for salutations, body, and closing. As respondent composes a reply, the apparatus presents previously stored or transmitted content for reuse.

US Patent:

20170289093, Oct 5, 2017

Filed:

Mar 30, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/085480

Inventors:

- Ann Arbor MI, US
Ian Berry - Ann Arbor MI, US
Guy Suter - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/58

Abstract:

When a message contains an actionable request or question the invention measures a time til transmitted reply (TTTR). Replies which contain substantive answers such as dates, decisions, quantities, concurrence, or content are paired with their respective request for each sender-recipient directed dyad. The replies are categorized to the type of action taken in response to the request. The history of each dyad is examined to determine the relative importance each party ascribes to the other and a range of typical TTTR is stored. Questions, directives, and requests are discovered in a message by scanning for deadline words, calendar words, time words, urgency phrases, question words such as who what when, capability syntax, and agreement/disagreement alternatives. A user receives an alert when a response is nearly past a deadline or close to exceeding expected time to reply, immediately upon receipt, or both. An alert offers a potential response.

US Patent:

20170041274, Feb 9, 2017

Filed:

Aug 5, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/819025

Inventors:

Lindsay Snider - Ann Arbor MI, US
Guy Suter - Ann Arbor MI, US
Ian Berry - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/58

Abstract:

An apparatus imputes an indirect relationship between a message sender and recipient by transforming the relationships of intermediaries into a reputation. When at least one intermediary of a cohort has a direct relationship with a message sender and a direct relationship with a message recipient, sharing of the connections is obtained, measures are imputed to messages received by the recipient from the sender independent of any direct contact between the two. Average response time and response rate are examples of measures of a direct relationship between message clients. Permission-based connection sharing protects privacy and ensures that a reputation is derived from relationships that meet one or more minimum thresholds of measurements. Frequency, recency, quality, quantity, and symmetry are some of the dimensions that measure each relationship. An instrumented display apparatus, presents messages according to imputed relationship measures when direct relationship measures are insufficient.

US Patent:

20160248712, Aug 25, 2016

Filed:

Feb 19, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/626914

Inventors:

Lindsay Snider - Ann Arbor MI, US
Ian Berry - Ann Arbor MI, US
Guy Suter - Ann Arbor MI, US

Assignee:

NOTION AI, INC. - Ann Arbor MI

International Classification:

H04L 12/58
H04L 29/08

Abstract:

A circuit transmits a beneficiary to a benefits server when a message recipient has disposed of an incentivized message by opening and attending to the message. A navigation and viewport control circuit presents a précis of an incentivized message with a proposed time to disposition (TTD), a proposed disposition, and a proffered benefit for at least minimally engaging with the message; records the time the message is opened; and whether the required minimum has been attained. A message transformation and disposition apparatus retrieves, from a benefit server, a decay or expiration time, a required quantum of engagement, and a proffered benefit. Stored disposition history of recipient and peers is read to determine a proposed disposition and TTD according to user's preferences for benefits and their expiration dates. A timer causes performance of the proposed disposition depending on user's activity or inactivity. Engagement can require passive viewing or non-random interacting.