Patents by Inventor Erica M. Lockheimer

Erica M. Lockheimer 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).

  • User-specific and user-activity-based routing within a website
    Patent number: 9900394
    Abstract: When a user of a social network accepts an invitation message to connect with another user of the social network, a system may use a history of user activity to determine where the user is subsequently directed within the social-network website. In particular, based on the history of user activity associated with an in-network page with recommendations for possible connections for the user within the network of users, the system may determine whether or not there have been too many impressions of the in-network page. If not, the system may present the in-network page with a recommendation for a possible in-network connection for the user within the network of users. Then, if the system receives a user selection of the possible in-network connection, the system may provide an invitation message inviting the possible in-network connection to connect with the user by activating a link in the invitation message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haifeng Ji, Erica M. Lockheimer, Peter B. Rusev, Muhammad Aatif Awan, Yang Zhou, Lili Wu, Manas S. Khadilkar, Samir M. Shah
  • USER-ACTIVITY-BASED ROUTING WITHIN A WEBSITE
    Publication number: 20150350354
    Abstract: When a user of a social network accepts an invitation message to connect with another user of the social network, a system may use a history of user activity to determine where the user is subsequently directed within the social-network website. In particular, based on the history of user activity associated with an in-network page with recommendations for possible connections for the user within the network of users, the system may determine whether or not there have been too many impressions of the in-network page. If not, the system may present the in-network page with a recommendation for a possible in-network connection for the user within the network of users. Then, if the system receives a user selection of the possible in-network connection, the system may provide an invitation message inviting the possible in-network connection to connect with the user by activating a link in the invitation message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Haifeng Ji, Erica M. Lockheimer, Peter B. Rusev, Muhammad Aatif Awan, Yang Zhou, Lili Wu, Manas S. Khadilkar, Samir M. Shah