Patents by Inventor Paul Adrian Foy

Paul Adrian Foy 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: 11301458
    Abstract: A method may include accessing a ratings datastore, the rating datastore including ratings for users with respect to a feature of a software application; transmitting a request for generating a content unit with respect to the feature to a first user of the users based on the first user's ratings for the feature in the ratings datastore; receiving the content unit from the first user; selecting a set of users from a first class of users to review the received content unit based on the set of users' respective ratings for the feature in the ratings datastore; storing the received content unit in a content datastore as associated with a content rating for the feature based on ratings received from the set of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pranish Atul Kumar, Paul Adrian Foy, Paul Fraedrich Estes, Jered D Aasheim, Tai Chou, David B Appel
  • Publication number: 20200174998
    Abstract: A method may include accessing a ratings datastore, the rating datastore including ratings for users with respect to a feature of a software application; transmitting a request for generating a content unit with respect to the feature to a first user of the users based on the first user's ratings for the feature in the ratings datastore; receiving the content unit from the first user; selecting a set of users from a first class of users to review the received content unit based on the set of users' respective ratings for the feature in the ratings datastore; storing the received content unit in a content datastore as associated with a content rating for the feature based on ratings received from the set of users
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Pranish Atul Kumar, Paul Adrian Foy, Paul Fraedrich Estes, Jered D. Aasheim, Tai Chou, David B. Appel