Patents by Inventor Darin J. Dishneau

Darin J. Dishneau 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).

  • Patent number: 10038974
    Abstract: This document describes proximity-based task notification. By notifying a user of an entity at which the user can perform a task when that entity is near to the user, the techniques enable the user to decide, at a time and location likely convenient to the user, whether or not to perform the task now at the entity or wait until a later occasion. If the user wishes to forgo performing the task, the techniques can notify the user again when the entity or some other entity is likely to be convenient to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventor: Darin J. Dishneau
  • Publication number: 20150201307
    Abstract: This document describes proximity-based task notification. By notifying a user of an entity at which the user can perform a task when that entity is near to the user, the techniques enable the user to decide, at a time and location likely convenient to the user, whether or not to perform the task now at the entity or wait until a later occasion. If the user wishes to forgo performing the task, the techniques can notify the user again when the entity or some other entity is likely to be convenient to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventor: Darin J. Dishneau
  • Patent number: 8983501
    Abstract: This document describes proximity-based task notification. By notifying a user of an entity at which the user can perform a task when that entity is near to the user, the techniques enable the user to decide, at a time and location likely convenient to the user, whether or not to perform the task now at the entity or wait until a later occasion. If the user wishes to forgo performing the task, the techniques can notify the user again when the entity or some other entity is likely to be convenient to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Darin J. Dishneau
  • Publication number: 20140012668
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses that enable predictive shopping notifications. In some embodiments, the techniques determine a purchase pattern for a product based on a user's purchase history, provide this purchase pattern to potential sellers, receive discount offers for the product from those sellers, and notify the user of these offers through his or her mobile device. By so doing, the techniques enables users to pay less for a product that the techniques predict that the user will want to purchase. Also, in some embodiments, the techniques remind a user to purchase a product based on this purchase pattern, such as through a notification indicating that the user is likely running out of that product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Darin J. Dishneau, Patrick Joseph Derks
  • Patent number: 8538807
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses that enable predictive shopping notifications. In some embodiments, the techniques determine a purchase pattern for a product based on a user's purchase history, provide this purchase pattern to potential sellers, receive discount offers for the product from those sellers, and notify the user of these offers through his or her mobile device. By so doing, the techniques enables users to pay less for a product that the techniques predict that the user will want to purchase. Also, in some embodiments, the techniques remind a user to purchase a product based on this purchase pattern, such as through a notification indicating that the user is likely running out of that product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Darin J. Dishneau, Patrick Joseph Derks
  • Publication number: 20130097002
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses that enable predictive shopping notifications. In some embodiments, the techniques determine a purchase pattern for a product based on a user's purchase history, provide this purchase pattern to potential sellers, receive discount offers for the product from those sellers, and notify the user of these offers through his or her mobile device. By so doing, the techniques enables users to pay less for a product that the techniques predict that the user will want to purchase. Also, in some embodiments, the techniques remind a user to purchase a product based on this purchase pattern, such as through a notification indicating that the user is likely running out of that product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Darin J. Dishneau, Patrick Joseph Derks
  • Publication number: 20130024576
    Abstract: Proximity-based detection is described. In one or more implementations, an identifier is received wirelessly by a computing device from another computing device that is directly communicated from the other computing device such that the identifier is not communicated via an intermediary device. The other computing device is identified by comparing the identifier to one or more identifiers stored locally by the computing device. A notification is output for display that indicates the other computing device is within a predefined proximity to the computing device and that identifies the other computing device using data associated with the identifier that is stored locally by the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Darin J. Dishneau, Patrick Joseph Derks, John A. Yovin
  • Publication number: 20120289254
    Abstract: This document describes proximity-based task notification. By notifying a user of an entity at which the user can perform a task when that entity is near to the user, the techniques enable the user to decide, at a time and location likely convenient to the user, whether or not to perform the task now at the entity or wait until a later occasion. If the user wishes to forgo performing the task, the techniques can notify the user again when the entity or some other entity is likely to be convenient to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Darin J. Dishneau