Patents by Inventor Jay R. Girotto

Jay R. Girotto 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).

  • System and methods for exchanging user interface data in a multi-user system
    Patent number: 7945942
    Abstract: A centralized process is provided for elevating portions of an application running under a user account to administrator privilege. A service security identifier is temporarily associated with the user and the portions of the application to be elevated to administrator privileges. The service security identifier is registered in the access control list to be accessed by the operating system. The centralized process may be used in the activation of software products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian S Perlman, Jay R Girotto, Caglar Gunyakti, Kalin Toshev
  • CONTENT RANK
    Publication number: 20080168045
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating a content rank that includes at least one quantitative measurement to ascertain the importance of a literary work and/or media. An interface component can receive data related to a query. A rank component can employ a content rank based on a quantitative measurement to ascertain an objective ranking of the queried content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dzmitry Suponau, Eric L. Burns, Harry Kaplanian, Jay R. Girotto, Jon Michael Buschman, Philip Ti-Fei Su, Yue Liu, Zarah Johnson-Morris
  • Method and apparatus for providing price updates
    Patent number: 6851604
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for providing price updates is provided. Data is received by a system. The received data is filtered by the system to identify triggers in the received data. Actions related to identified triggers are performed by the system. Business rule compliance is performed according to a business rule hierarchy. Updated prices are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Demand Tec Inc.
    Inventors: Jay R. Girotto, Krishna Venkatraman, Rob Parkin, Jeffrey B. Winner, Cristos J. Goodrow
  • Method and apparatus for providing price updates
    Publication number: 20040094616
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for providing price updates is provided. Data is received by a system. The received data is filtered by the system to identify triggers in the received data. Actions related to identified triggers are performed by the system. Business rule compliance is performed according to a business rule hierarchy. Updated prices are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: DemandTec Inc.
    Inventors: Jay R. Girotto, Krishna Venkatraman, Rob Parkin, Jeffrey B. Winner, Cristos J. Goodrow