Patents by Inventor Tobin Zerba

Tobin Zerba 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).

  • Resource-based capacity scheduling system
    Patent number: 7676391
    Abstract: The present invention describes the scheduling requirements if a business to an automatic scheduling system in a way which allows efficient automatic scheduling of appointments for resources of the business. In one embodiment, the scheduling system schedules the resources based not only on total capacity, but based on how many appointments can be initiated at a given time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Grunspan, Ehud Pardo, Derik Stenerson, Tobin Zerba
  • User interface method
    Publication number: 20060150077
    Abstract: In a user interface method, an electronic form is displayed to a user, the electronic form to allow the user to gather information. An event associated with the electronic form is detected. A context is determined based on the detected event. Information relevant to the context is retrieved from a database, and the displayed electronic form is modified to allow the electronic form to display to the user the information relevant to the context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Graham Sheldon, Tobin Zerba