Patents by Inventor Anne Marie Piper

Anne Marie Piper 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).

  • Delivering content based on physical object characteristics
    Patent number: 9280776
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering content based on physical object characteristics. When a physical object is detected within a specified proximity of a component of a computer system, the computer system submits an accessed object identifier for the physical object to a content portal. The content portal identifies content and corresponding layout information for the computer system by at least determining the commonality between object keywords for the physical object and target keywords for content providers and determining content placement priorities corresponding to content providers. The content portal sends the content and layout information to the computer system. The computer system filters a subset of content from the received and presents the filtered subset of content on a presentation surface in accordance with corresponding layout information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christian N. Wiswell, Dana L. Silverstein, Derek Sunday, Anne Marie Piper
  • DELIVERING CONTENT BASED ON PHYSICAL OBJECT CHARACTERISTICS
    Publication number: 20080167913
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering content based on physical object characteristics. When a physical object is detected within a specified proximity of a component of a computer system, the computer system submits an accessed object identifier for the physical object to a content portal. The content portal identifies content and corresponding layout information for the computer system by at least determining the commonality between object keywords for the physical object and target keywords for content providers and determining content placement priorities corresponding to content providers. The content portal sends the content and layout information to the computer system. The computer system filters a subset of content from the received and presents the filtered subset of content on a presentation surface in accordance with corresponding layout information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christian N. Wiswell, Dana L. Silverstein, Derek Sunday, Anne Marie Piper