Patents by Inventor Ionut Ciprian Gradinaru

Ionut Ciprian Gradinaru 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).

  • Service outage details in an error message
    Patent number: 9152487
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a customized service error message to a user of a service. An error encountered during a user action related to the service may be compared to one or more identified service outages to determine if the error may be attributable to any of the service outages. If the error may be caused by one or more of the identified service outages, the customized service error message can be provided, where the customized service error message comprises information about one or more of the identified service outages that cover the error. The customized service error message may be displayed to the user so that the user knows that the error is server/service side (e.g., as opposed to an issue on the user's local device), a timeframe within which the error is expected to be resolved, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chad Steven Estes, Thomas Ernest Osborne, Rahul Sudhir Kumar, Gil Mcquillan, Gupta Garuda, Jamie Joe Marconi, Ionut Ciprian Gradinaru, Jiong Ouyang
  • Determining whether to display message to user in application based on user message viewing history
    Patent number: 8694375
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for identifying an in-application message to display to a user. A user may perform a user action in an application, which can be identified. The identified user action can be compared to metadata data associated with a plurality of in-application messages for the application, and an in-application message that is eligible for display to the user can be identified based on the user action. A determination can be made whether to display the eligible message to the user in the application, based upon one or more in-application messages that the user may have previously viewed, as may be found or tracked in a user message viewing history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Ernest Osborne, Eric Lee Chin-Sang, Paul Leonard Kompfner, Chad Steven Estes, Rahul Sudhir Kumar, Michael Joseph Papale, Urja Madhukar Shah, Ionut Ciprian Gradinaru, Brian Ka-Hing Fung
  • SERVICE OUTAGE DETAILS IN AN ERROR MESSAGE
    Publication number: 20130086194
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a customized service error message to a user of a service. An error encountered during a user action related to the service may be compared to one or more identified service outages to determine if the error may be attributable to any of the service outages. If the error may be caused by one or more of the identified service outages, the customized service error message can be provided, where the customized service error message comprises information about one or more of the identified service outages that cover the error. The customized service error message may be displayed to the user so that the user knows that the error is server/service side (e.g., as opposed to an issue on the user's local device), a timeframe within which the error is expected to be resolved, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chad Steven Estes, Thomas Ernest Osborne, Rahul Sudhir Kumar, Gil Mcquillan, Gupta Garuda, Jamie Joe Marconi, Ionut Ciprian Gradinaru, Jiong Ouyang
  • DELIVERING AN IN-APPLICATION MESSAGE
    Publication number: 20130086178
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for identifying an in-application message to display to a user. A user may perform a user action in an application, which can be identified. The identified user action can be compared to metadata data associated with a plurality of in-application messages for the application, and an in-application message that is eligible for display to the user can be identified based on the user action. A determination can be made whether to display the eligible message to the user in the application, based upon one or more in-application messages that the user may have previously viewed, as may be found or tracked in a user message viewing history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Ernest Osborne, Eric Lee Chin-Sang, Paul Leonard Kompfner, Chad Steven Estes, Rahul Sudhir Kumar, Michael Joseph Papale, Urja Madhukar Shah, Ionut Ciprian Gradinaru, Brian Ka-Hing Fung