Patents by Inventor Wilhelmina P. Dietrich

Wilhelmina P. Dietrich 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: 8327276
    Abstract: Community driven prioritization of customer issues is described. In an implementation, a selectable portion of a user interface providing interaction with a community forum is selectable by a user to indicate agreement and associate with a posting in the community forum. The user may then automatically be provided results generated in response to the posting. In another implementation, associations matching a plurality of users and postings are utilized to assign priority to the postings and to prioritize responses to the postings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sharat Shroff, Justin D Ronco, Joedy K Blackstad, Wilhelmina P Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20080040427
    Abstract: Community driven prioritization of customer issues is described. In an implementation, a selectable portion of a user interface providing interaction with a community forum is selectable by a user to indicate agreement and associate with a posting in the community forum. The user may then automatically be provided results generated in response to the posting. In another implementation, associations matching a plurality of users and postings are utilized to assign priority to the postings and to prioritize responses to the postings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sharat Shroff, Justin D. Ronco, Joedy K. Blackstad, Wilhelmina P. Dietrich
  • Patent number: D642193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Shih, John Daniel Hayes Leonard, Wilhelmina P. Dietrich, Kristie E. Smith, Ojiakonobi Udezue