Patents by Inventor JOSEPH SPROTT BOURNE, JR.

JOSEPH SPROTT BOURNE, JR. 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).

  • Contextual notification engine
    Patent number: 10446009
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein are directed towards providing a timely notification to a user regarding an event. Computing devices have limited interface availability to provide notifications to a user. Aspects of the technology can make optimal use of the limited interfaces by allocating the limited resources to the most urgent and impactful notifications. The event can be assigned an impact level and an urgency level. The combination of the impact level and urgency level can be used to select a communication channel with an appropriate level of resource usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Sprott Bourne, Jr., Roman Schindlauer
  • CONTEXTUAL NOTIFICATION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20170243465
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein are directed towards providing a timely notification to a user regarding an event. Computing devices have limited interface availability to provide notifications to a user. Aspects of the technology can make optimal use of the limited interfaces by allocating the limited resources to the most urgent and impactful notifications. The event can be assigned an impact level and an urgency level. The combination of the impact level and urgency level can be used to select a communication channel with an appropriate level of resource usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: JOSEPH SPROTT BOURNE, JR., ROMAN SCHINDLAUER