Patents by Inventor Brian E. Tschumper

Brian E. Tschumper 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).

  • Publication number: 20090006177
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed, among other things, that provide ads to requesting applications while the client device is not connected to a communication network. An offline advertisement engine is provided for storing business rules for each of a plurality of corresponding stored advertisements, wherein the business rules and advertisements are stored locally on the client device. An offline advertisement media manager is also provided for storing creatives related to the stored advertisements, wherein the creatives are also stored locally on the client device. Moreover, an advertisement center client is disclosed for providing advertisements and creatives associated with the advertisement to an application in response to a request for the advertisements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: John A. BEAVER, Brian E. TSCHUMPER, Prasanth PULAVARTHI, Wenjun QIU
  • Publication number: 20080028062
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining measures of traffic accessing a network location are provided. Users may request traffic measures relevant to a target criteria. The target criteria may be parsed into intermediate target criteria. A server may be queried to determine if traffic measures relevant to the target criteria and/or any of the intermediate target criteria are stored in association therewith. If so, such traffic measures may be received. If not, such traffic measures may be determined. In embodiments, at least one traffic measure associated with an intermediate target criteria is utilized to determine the requested traffic measure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian E. Tschumper, John A. Beaver
  • Publication number: 20020133601
    Abstract: Failover of servers over which data is partitioned is disclosed. A first server services client requests for data of a first type, a second server services client requests for data of a second type, and so on. A master server manages notifications from clients and servers as to indication that one of the servers is offline. When the master server receives such a notification, it verifies that the indicated server is in fact offline. If the server is offline, then the master server so notifies the other server. When the first server is offline, one of the other servers may become the failover server, processing client requests for data usually processed by the first server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Walter J. Kennamer, Christopher L. Weider, Brian E. Tschumper