Patents by Inventor Tristan C. Hall

Tristan C. Hall 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).

  • Publication number: 20180161673
    Abstract: The disclosed technology concerns methods, apparatus, and systems for using telemetry data from a large number of remote computing devices to address complex problems otherwise prone to subjective inaccuracies. Particular embodiments disclosed herein involve classifying the difficulty of solving (or completing) an objective presented by a certain item of digital content. For instance, certain example embodiments involve collecting telemetry data from hundreds or thousands of users engaging with a respective content item, and, based at least in part on that telemetry data, assigning a difficulty classification to the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ethan Pasternack, Derek T. Dutilly, Kevin Lambert, William N. Frost, Jason McCullough, Tristan C. Hall