Patents by Inventor Michael F. Masterman

Michael F. Masterman 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).

  • Mobile notifications based upon notification content
    Patent number: 9813882
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments employed to generate device notifications based upon notification content. To this end, a request to generate a device notification is obtained from a user application. Notification content is extracted from the request and an escalated or de-escalated notification level is applied when the content corresponds to a notification rule stored in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael F. Masterman
  • Mobile notifications based upon location
    Patent number: 9351110
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments employed to generate device notifications based upon location data associated with a mobile device. To this end, a request to generate a device notification is obtained from a user application. Notification content is extracted from the request and an escalated or de-escalated notification level is applied that is based at least in part upon the location of the mobile device and properties about the location that can be identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael F. Masterman
  • Manipulating collections of items in a user interface
    Patent number: 9176645
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for handling large collections of items in a user interface. A collection of items in a data store associated with a request for a content page is identified. A content page is generated that includes a number of items in the content page, where the number of items in the content page can be less than a total number of items in the collection. The content page also includes a select-all element. The content page is also configured to initiate a subsequent request to with an argument corresponding to activation of the select-all element as well as potentially an exclusion list corresponding to deselected items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael F. Masterman, Sunil Singh Parihar, Delfino J. Cornali
  • MOBILE NOTIFICATIONS BASED UPON LOCATION
    Publication number: 20150105106
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments employed to generate device notifications based upon location data associated with a mobile device. To this end, a request to generate a device notification is obtained from a user application. Notification content is extracted from the request and an escalated or de-escalated notification level is applied that is based at least in part upon the location of the mobile device and properties about the location that can be identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Michael F. Masterman
  • Mobile notifications based upon sensor data
    Patent number: 9008629
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments employed to generate device notifications based upon ambient conditions associated with a mobile device. To this end, a request to generate a device notification is obtained from a user application. Notification content is extracted from the request and an escalated or de-escalated notification level is applied that is based at least in part upon the ambient conditions of the mobile device and properties about the ambient conditions that can be identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael F. Masterman
  • Mobile notifications based upon location
    Patent number: 8923824
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments employed to generate device notifications based upon location data associated with a mobile device. To this end, a request to generate a device notification is obtained from a user application. Notification content is extracted from the request and an escalated or de-escalated notification level is applied that is based at least in part upon the location of the mobile device and properties about the location that can be identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael F. Masterman