Patents by Inventor Eric Zappa

Eric Zappa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Visitor-assisted user profile creation
    Patent number: 8195601
    Abstract: A visitor to a profile page is invited to modify a user profile associated with the profile page. If the visitor elects to provide a suggested modification to the profile page, a message is transmitted to the user that owns the profile page requesting authorization to perform the suggested modification. In response to the message, the user can accept the suggested modification to the user profile, decline the suggested modification to the user profile, or edit the suggested modification to the user profile. If the user accepts or edits the suggested modification to the user profile, the user profile is modified accordingly. In this manner, a visitor to a profile page can assist in the creation of a user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David W. Law, Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Eric Zappa, Brian M. Perrin, Archana M. Gadkari, Dan Wu, Joseph Andrew Bono, Jeffrey Earl Steinbok
  • VISITOR-ASSISTED USER PROFILE CREATION
    Publication number: 20100082683
    Abstract: A visitor to a profile page is invited to modify a user profile associated with the profile page. If the visitor elects to provide a suggested modification to the profile page, a message is transmitted to the user that owns the profile page requesting authorization to perform the suggested modification. In response to the message, the user can accept the suggested modification to the user profile, decline the suggested modification to the user profile, or edit the suggested modification to the user profile. If the user accepts or edits the suggested modification to the user profile, the user profile is modified accordingly. In this manner, a visitor to a profile page can assist in the creation of a user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: David W. Law, Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Eric Zappa, Brian M. Perrin, Archana M. Gadkari, Dan Wu, Joseph Andrew Bono, Jeffrey Earl Steinbok
  • INLINE ENHANCEMENT OF WEB LISTS
    Publication number: 20090327231
    Abstract: Method of searching for one or more images that relate to a list entry item on a web based list. In one implementation, the method may include receiving a request to search for the one or more images that relate to the list entry, sending the request to an online server, receiving a file containing one or more search results having one or more URL addresses indicating one or more locations of the one or more images on the online server and information pertaining to the one or more images and displaying the one or more images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric Zappa, Abdul Haadi Mohammed, Dipinder Sing Rekhi