Patents by Inventor Barbara Leigh Perks

Barbara Leigh Perks 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).

  • System, method, and medium for generating a map of a geographic region based on client location data
    Patent number: 10817928
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A MAP OF A GEOGRAPHIC REGION BASED ON CLIENT LOCATION DATA
    Publication number: 20190095984
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • System, method, and medium for generating a map of a geographic region based on client location data
    Patent number: 10157415
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A MAP OF A GEOGRAPHIC REGION BASED ON CLIENT LOCATION DATA
    Publication number: 20160104232
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • System, method, and medium for generating a map of a geographic region based on client location data
    Patent number: 9141987
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • GENERATING A MAP THAT INCLUDES LOCATION AND PRICE OF PRODUCTS IN A SHOPPING LIST
    Publication number: 20120123673
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Necktarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • DISPLAYING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS ON A MAP
    Publication number: 20120123674
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has performed a search for a product, wherein the product has a parameter corresponding thereto, and the parameter has a constraint corresponding thereto. Inventories of multiple retail stores can be searched over by relaxing the constraint, thereby allowing a recommended product to be located. A graphical icon representative of a retail store that has the recommended product in stock is included in the map together with data indicative of the price of the recommended product at the retail store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina