Patents by Inventor Gilma A. Z. Perkins

Gilma A. Z. Perkins 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).

  • Method and system for providing service listings in electronic yellow pages
    Patent number: 7437357
    Abstract: A method and system for allowing a regional service merchant that is outside of a given geographical boundary, but services inside the geographical boundary, to be included in a result set of a search directed to a location inside the geographical boundary. Text and/or glyphs are returned along with the regional service merchant's business listing so as to explain to a user why a business not physically residing in the search area has been included in the result set. An application programming interface ensures that, if a business is listed as a regional service merchant, then the text and/or glyph is stored in association with the business listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James C. Monberg, Rico Mariani, Gilma A. Z. Perkins, John G. Carey
  • Method and system for providing service listings in electronic yellow pages
    Patent number: 6973448
    Abstract: A method and system for allowing a regional service merchant that is outside of a given geographical boundary, but services inside the geographical boundary, to be included in a result set of a search directed to a location inside the geographical boundary. Text and/or glyphs are returned along with the regional service merchant's business listing so as to explain to a user why a business not physically residing in the search area has been included in the result set. An application programming interface ensures that, if a business is listed as a regional service merchant, then the text and/or glyph is stored in association with the business listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James C. Monberg, Rico Mariani, Gilma A. Z. Perkins, John G. Carey
  • Electronic registration manager for business directory information
    Publication number: 20040204958
    Abstract: A system and method providing electronic registration and maintenance of business directory listings and advertisements. In a computer system hosting an online business directory, it is advantageous to provide interested businesses with the ability to register their business listing information and/or advertisements such that the user may have direct input into the categorization the business listing(s) or advertisement(s) in the business directory. In an illustrative implementation, the system and methods of the present invention may be realized as an Internet based registration computing application cooperating with a business directory storing and displaying business directory listing information. This registration computing application may be employed as part of an Internet business directory listing information offering deployed on a Web site that offers business listing information services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gilma A.Z. Perkins, William J. Tutt, Chia-Chi Teng, Timothy E. Wood