Patents by Inventor Brett Konold

Brett Konold 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).

  • Usability and resource efficiency using comment relevance
    Patent number: 10771424
    Abstract: Techniques for enhancing usability and electronic resource efficiency using comment relevance are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a comment relevance system receives member feature data, including professional identity data such as professional experience or professional skill, and at least one of comment feature data and commenter feature data for comments for post on a social networking service, generates a score for each comment based on the member feature data and the comment or commenter feature data, ranks the comments based on the scores, and causes one or more of the comments to be displayed in a particular position based on the ranking. In some embodiments, the member feature data comprises professional identity data of a member of the social networking service, the comment feature data indicates at least one attribute of the comment, and the commenter feature data indicates at least one attribute of the commenter of the comment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Divye Kapoor, Zheng Li, Pujita Mathur, Heidi Jaywing Wang, Ying Xuan, Parinkumar Shah, Shubham Gupta, Brett Konold, Marco Varela Alvarado, Chao Zhang
  • USABILITY AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY USING COMMENT RELEVANCE
    Publication number: 20180293278
    Abstract: Techniques for enhancing usability and electronic resource efficiency using comment relevance are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a comment relevance system receives member feature data, including professional identity data such as professional experience or professional skill, and at least one of comment feature data and commenter feature data for comments for post on a social networking service, generates a score for each comment based on the member feature data and the comment or commenter feature data, ranks the comments based on the scores, and causes one or more of the comments to be displayed in a particular position based on the ranking. In some embodiments, the member feature data comprises professional identity data of a member of the social networking service, the comment feature data indicates at least one attribute of the comment, and the commenter feature data indicates at least one attribute of the commenter of the comment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Divye Kapoor, Zheng Li, Pujita Mathur, Heidi Jaywing Wang, Ying Xuan, Parinkumar Shah, Shubham Gupta, Brett Konold, Marco Varela Alvarado, Chao Zhang