Patents by Inventor Douglas Ray Pearce

Douglas Ray Pearce 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).

  • Automated content submission to a share site
    Patent number: 9420066
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for remotely submitting content to a website without navigating to the website are provided. The website is a content-sharing website that accepts public content submissions and makes the content available to multiple users. Initially, a client application may download remote-content-submission instructions from the website. Subsequently, the client application may follow the instructions to format a remote content submission and communicate it to the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Michael Dolin, Douglas Ray Pearce
  • Progressively discovering and integrating services
    Patent number: 8713453
    Abstract: Tools and techniques related to progressively discovering and integrating services are provided. These tools may receive electronic communications addressed to users of communications platform software. In turn, these tools may analyze the electronic communications, and generate upsells for presentation to the users. These upsells may relate to updating profile records associated with the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Omar Shahine, Jeffrey C. Kunins, Douglas Ray Pearce, Ann Marie Hudspeth
  • Automated content submission to a share site
    Patent number: 8359544
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for remotely submitting content to a website without navigating to the website are provided. The website is a content-sharing website that accepts public content submissions and makes the content available to multiple users. Initially, a client application may download remote-content-submission instructions from the website. Subsequently, the client application may follow the instructions to format a remote content submission and communicate it to the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Michael Dolin, Douglas Ray Pearce
  • AUTOMATED CONTENT SUBMISSION TO A SHARE SITE
    Publication number: 20100306664
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for remotely submitting content to a website without navigating to the website are provided. The website is a content-sharing website that accepts public content submissions and makes the content available to multiple users. Initially, a client application may download remote-content-submission instructions from the website. Subsequently, the client application may follow the instructions to format a remote content submission and communicate it to the website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: ROBERT MICHAEL DOLIN, DOUGLAS RAY PEARCE
  • PROGRESSIVELY DISCOVERING AND INTEGRATING SERVICES
    Publication number: 20100306659
    Abstract: Tools and techniques related to progressively discovering and integrating services are provided. These tools may receive electronic communications addressed to users of communications platform software. In turn, these tools may analyze the electronic communications, and generate upsells for presentation to the users. These upsells may relate to updating profile records associated with the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Omar Shahine, Jeffrey C. Kunins, Douglas Ray Pearce, Ann Marie Hudspeth