Patents by Inventor Paul Leonard Kompfner

Paul Leonard Kompfner 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).

  • 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
  • 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