Patents by Inventor Darrell Jay Cannon

Darrell Jay Cannon 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).

  • Privacy vault for maintaining the privacy of user profiles
    Patent number: 8312273
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for facilitating personalization of web content is provided, while protecting the privacy of the user data utilized to personalize the user's experience. A privacy vault may collect user data including user activity data, demographic data, and user interests submitted by a user. In one embodiment, the privacy vault operates on a user client device. The privacy vault sends the user data to a community vault that collects user data from multiple users. The community vault generates segment rules that whether a user belongs to a user segment, which expresses a user's interest. The segment rules are then communicated back to the privacy vault, which assigns one or more user segments to the user based on the user data available to the privacy vault and the segment rules. The privacy vault may communicate user segments to one or more content providers that supply personalized content that is selected based on the user segments provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nir Nice, Melissa W. Dunn, Eric Picard, Amit Shaked, Eric Don Van Valkenburg, Alexander George Gounares, Friedman Arie, Sefy Ophir, Boaz Feldbaum, Vu A. Ha, Teresa B. Mah, Darrell Jay Cannon, Michael Joseph Toutonghi, Uri Barash, Cynthia Dwork, Ying Li
  • PRIVACY VAULT FOR MAINTAINING THE PRIVACY OF USER PROFILES
    Publication number: 20110083013
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for facilitating personalization of web content is provided, while protecting the privacy of the user data utilized to personalize the user's experience. A privacy vault may collect user data including user activity data, demographic data, and user interests submitted by a user. In one embodiment, the privacy vault operates on a user client device. The privacy vault sends the user data to a community vault that collects user data from multiple users. The community vault generates segment rules that whether a user belongs to a user segment, which expresses a user's interest. The segment rules are then communicated back to the privacy vault, which assigns one or more user segments to the user based on the user data available to the privacy vault and the segment rules. The privacy vault may communicate user segments to one or more content providers that supply personalized content that is selected based on the user segments provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nir Nice, Melissa W. Dunn, Eric Picard, Amit Shaked, Eric Don Van Valkenburg, Alexander George Gounares, Friedman Arie, Sefy Ophir, Boaz Feldbaum, Vu A. Ha, Teresa Mah, Darrell Jay Cannon, Michael Joseph Toutonghi, Uri Barash, Cynthia Dwork, Ying Li