Patents by Inventor Heinrich Koutcherouk

Heinrich Koutcherouk 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: 10523651
    Abstract: Techniques for domain capture. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises detecting an attempt by a personal user account to use the online service where the account is associated with an electronic mail address that belongs to an owner of a domain name service domain. Based on detecting the attempt, the online service prompts the particular personal user account to join a team of user accounts. Upon receiving an acceptance of the particular personal user account to join the team, the personal user account is offered an option between converting the personal user account to a team user account that is a member of the team or changing the electronic mail address associated with the personal user account to a different electronic mail address that is not owned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: George O'Brien, Emil Ibrishimov, Jung Park, David Stafford, Heinrich Koutcherouk
  • Patent number: 10348717
    Abstract: Techniques for invite enforcement. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises: receiving an acceptance of an invitation to join a team of one or more team user accounts held with the online service; based on receiving the acceptance and based on determining that an owned domain name service domain of an owned electronic mail address is associated with the team, offering a personal user account an option between at least: (a) converting the personal user account to a team user account that is a member of the team, and (b) changing an electronic mail address associated with the personal user account from the owned electronic mail address to one that has a different domain name service domain than the owned domain name service domain associated with the team.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: George O'Brien, Emil Ibrishimov, Jung Park, David Stafford, Heinrich Koutcherouk
  • Patent number: 10326751
    Abstract: Techniques for domain capture. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises detecting an attempt to create a personal user account with an online service that uses an electronic mail address that belongs to an owner of a particular domain name service domain. Based on the detecting, the online service prompts a user associated with the attempt to create a team account with the online service that is under management of the owner of the particular domain name service domain. Also based on the detecting the online service offers the user an option of creating a personal user account with the online service using an unowned electronic mail address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: George O'Brien, Emil Ibrishimov, Jung Park, David Stafford, Heinrich Koutcherouk
  • Publication number: 20190052618
    Abstract: Techniques for domain capture. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises detecting an attempt by a personal user account to use the online service where the account is associated with an electronic mail address that belongs to an owner of a domain name service domain. Based on detecting the attempt, the online service prompts the particular personal user account to join a team of user accounts. Upon receiving an acceptance of the particular personal user account to join the team, the personal user account is offered an option between converting the personal user account to a team user account that is a member of the team or changing the electronic mail address associated with the personal user account to a different electronic mail address that is not owned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: George O'Brien, Emil Ibrishimov, Ken Park, David Stafford, Heinrich Koutcherouk
  • Publication number: 20190028450
    Abstract: Techniques for domain capture. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises detecting an attempt to create a personal user account with an online service that uses an electronic mail address that belongs to an owner of a particular domain name service domain. Based on the detecting, the online service prompts a user associated with the attempt to create a team account with the online service that is under management of the owner of the particular domain name service domain. Also based on the detecting the online service offers the user an option of creating a personal user account with the online service using an unowned electronic mail address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: George O'Brien, Emil Ibrishimov, Ken Park, David Stafford, Heinrich Koutcherouk
  • Publication number: 20180351935
    Abstract: In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises: receiving an acceptance of an invitation to join a team of one or more team user accounts held with the online service; based on receiving the acceptance and based on determining that an owned domain name service domain of an owned electronic mail address is associated with the team, offering a personal user account an option between at least: (a) converting the personal user account to a team user account that is a member of the team, and (b) changing an electronic mail address associated with the personal user account from the owned electronic mail address to one that has a different domain name service domain than the owned domain name service domain associated with the team.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: George O'Brien, Emil Ibrishimov, Ken Park, David Stafford, Heinrich Koutcherouk
  • Patent number: 10079817
    Abstract: Techniques for invite enforcement and domain capture. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed in an online service computing environment comprises the operations of: storing, in a database, an association between a team of one or more user accounts and a domain name service domain; receiving a request to invite an e-mail address belonging to the domain name service domain to join the team; creating, in a database, a placeholder user account that is a member of the team; associating, in a database, the e-mail address with the placeholder user account; and after an invitation for the e-mail address to join the team is accepted, converting, in a database, the individual user account to a team account that is (a) a member of the team and (b) associated with the e-mail address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: George O'Brien, Emil Ibrishimov, Ken Park, David Stafford, Heinrich Koutcherouk
  • Publication number: 20170250969
    Abstract: Techniques for invite enforcement and domain capture. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed in an online service computing environment comprises the operations of: storing, in a database, an association between a team of one or more user accounts and a domain name service domain; receiving a request to invite an e-mail address belonging to the domain name service domain to join the team; creating, in a database, a placeholder user account that is a member of the team; associating, in a database, the e-mail address with the placeholder user account; and after an invitation for the e-mail address to join the team is accepted, converting, in a database, the individual user account to a team account that is (a) a member of the team and (b) associated with the e-mail address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: George O'Brien, Emil Ibrishimov, Ken Park, David Stafford, Heinrich Koutcherouk