Patents by Inventor Sara Manning L.M. Dawson

Sara Manning L.M. Dawson 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).

  • Smart notifications
    Patent number: 10627976
    Abstract: Controlling notifications based on an importance of the notifications to users is described. A service provider can receive notifications. The service provider can determine an order for sending the notifications based partly on priority levels assigned to the notifications and positions associated with presentations of the notifications. The service provider can send a first notification to at least one device in a first period of time. The service provider can determine that sending a second notification causes a conflict with a presentation policy. Accordingly, the service provider can determine a second period of time subsequent to the first period of time to send the second notification to the at least one device based partly on a lapse of a predetermined amount of time and/or an occurrence of an event, and can send the second notification to the at least one device in the second period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Zohaib H. Ali, Kenneth Fern, Sara Manning L. M. Dawson, Joseph Masterson, Srinivasa Reddy Manda, Eduardo Da Fonseca Melo, Jun Yan
  • SMART NOTIFICATIONS
    Publication number: 20170083165
    Abstract: Controlling notifications based on an importance of the notifications to users is described. A service provider can receive notifications. The service provider can determine an order for sending the notifications based partly on priority levels assigned to the notifications and positions associated with presentations of the notifications. The service provider can send a first notification to at least one device in a first period of time. The service provider can determine that sending a second notification causes a conflict with a presentation policy. Accordingly, the service provider can determine a second period of time subsequent to the first period of time to send the second notification to the at least one device based partly on a lapse of a predetermined amount of time and/or an occurrence of an event, and can send the second notification to the at least one device in the second period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Zohaib H. Ali, Kenneth Fern, Sara Manning L.M. Dawson, Joseph Masterson, Srinivasa Reddy Manda, Eduardo Da Fonseca Melo, Jun Yan