Patents by Inventor Eric Wayne Doerr

Eric Wayne Doerr 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).

  • Discovering and disambiguating identity providers
    Patent number: 9544310
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for discovering and disambiguating identity providers such that user knowledge of appropriate identity providers is minimized. Users are presented with options for selecting appropriate providers only when multiple providers have user profiles matching a user identifier. When users are presented with options for selecting appropriate providers, providers that have user profiles matching the identifier are identified utilizing identity information for the application that utilizes the identity provider for its users rather than information identifying the identity provider itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ariel Gordon, Sam Franklin Williams, III, Sarat Chandra Subramaniam, William Louis Thomas, Michael Robert Van Waardhuizen, Jonathan Yoder Brenner, Tia Bianca Caldwell, Eric Wayne Doerr, Amy Caryl Nathanson