Patents by Inventor Erik Zigman

Erik Zigman 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: 8996682
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for automatically instrumenting a set of web documents, such as web pages, as well as embedding structures that present advertising content via the web pages. The instrumentation automatically embeds tags that enable usage information associated with the web documents to be tracked and recorded. Many hundreds or thousands of web pages can be automatically modified without user intervention, enabling comprehensive reporting and tracking to be performed on each page. The web pages are analyzed and insertion points intelligently located. Changes can be verified to ensure that no undesirable effects resulted from embedding the content. The tags can receive parameters customized to the level of users and pages. The tags, insertion information, and other configuration information can be stored in a central repository to make subsequent tagging easier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C. Stevenson, Olivier Dabrowski, Kresimir Bozic, Dan Teodosiu, Paolo Severini, Cristian Costache, Euan Grant, Erik Zigman
  • Publication number: 20100280903
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for categorizing sender domains are provided. An advertisement platform includes targeting components, databases, mail servers, and client devices. Recipients interact with the client devices to receive electronic mail from the mail servers. The mail servers store records of sender domains where the recipient performed a specified action to a message having a sender domain. The mail server transmits a log of the sender domains, actions, and an anonymous identifier for the recipient to the targeting system. The targeting components extract the sender domains that are used by the advertisement platform to communicate to the database to retrieve advertisement categories that correspond to the sender domains. The advertisement categories are used by the advertisement platform to direct content, including advertisements, to the recipients via the anonymous identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: DAVID BARLIN, RICHARD EDWARD WRIGHT, MICHAEL DIETRICH SCHACKWITZ, JOOST MARTIJN BON, BRIAN DAVID HOLDSWORTH, MICHAEL CLIFFORD KUNZ, GERARD GJONEJ, ERIK ZIGMAN, SHENGYU FU, VINCENZO MARIA DI NICOLA, DENISE DARE HUI
  • Publication number: 20090100154
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for automatically instrumenting a set of web documents, such as web pages, as well as embedding structures that present advertising content via the web pages. The instrumentation automatically embeds tags that enable usage information associated with the web documents to be tracked and recorded. Many hundreds or thousands of web pages can be automatically modified without user intervention, enabling comprehensive reporting and tracking to be performed on each page. The web pages are analyzed and insertion points intelligently located. Changes can be verified to ensure that no undesirable effects resulted from embedding the content. The tags can receive parameters customized to the level of users and pages. The tags, insertion information, and other configuration information can be stored in a central repository to make subsequent tagging easier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel C. Stevenson, Olivier Dabrowski, Kresimir Bozic, Dan Teodosiu, Paolo Severini, Cristian Costache, Euan Grant, Erik Zigman