Patents by Inventor Amer Aref Hassan

Amer Aref Hassan 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).

  • Data transmission using puncturing and code sequences
    Patent number: 11146360
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for improved data transmissions using puncturing and binary sequences. A receiving device receives a sequenced data input that includes a set of individual values and performs a puncturing of the sequenced data input, yielding a punctured sequenced data input. The receiving device calculates correlation values for the punctured sequence data input and a set of predetermined data outputs. The receiving device determines whether any of the resulting correlation values exceeds a threshold correlation value. In response to determining that the correlation value calculated based on one of the predetermined data outputs exceeds the threshold correlation value, the receiving device determines that the sequenced data input corresponds to the predetermined data output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Gareth L. E. Bridges, Whitney J Giaimo
  • Device synchronization with noise symbols and pattern recognition
    Patent number: 11133962
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine-readable mediums which allow for more secure and robust synchronization by implementing synchronization systems with sequences that may include interspersed noise symbols. These systems, which still synchronize despite one or more noise symbols N in indeterminate positions that are not known by the recipient device during a synchronization attempt reduce the amount of failed synchronization attempts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Wei-Chen Chen
  • Sub-display designation for remote content source device
    Patent number: 11093046
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Amer Aref Hassan
  • Emergency text location enhancement
    Patent number: 11089449
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be used for providing an emergency text service on a mobile device. These systems and methods may generate selectable indications with unique addresses and rank the selectable indications based on, for example, proximity of the mobile device to a probable location. Some systems and methods may display the ranked selectable indications on a user interface (e.g., on a display of the mobile device). An address may be inserted into the emergency text message when a selectable indication corresponding to the address is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Michael J. Davis, Ashley Ingram
  • Use of error correction codes to prevent errors in neighboring storage
    Patent number: 11086719
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, storage devices, and machine readable mediums that utilize the ability of ECC to correct errors to actively prevent errors. The memory device determines whether a request to place data of a requested value at a requested location in the storage media is likely to interfere with other data stored at other locations on the storage media, and if so, changes the requested value to a second value that will not interfere (or has a lower probability of interfering) with neighboring data. The second value may be corrected to the requested value when a read request is made for that data using ECC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Roy D. Kuntz, David Anthony Lickorish
  • ADDRESS RELIABILITY AND AUGMENTATION FOR EMERGENCY TEXT
    Publication number: 20210243301
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be used for providing an emergency text service via a mobile device. These systems and methods may include receiving an indication that an emergency text service has been started at the mobile device, generating a user interface component for entry of a location by a user, and receiving, via the user interface component, location information entered by the user. The systems and methods may include separately determining a probable location of the mobile device without user input and sending, in a single emergency communication, both the location information entered by the user and the probable location of the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Bruce Shearar, Amer Aref Hassan, David Anthony Lickorish
  • DIGITAL ASSISTANT FOR EMERGENCY CALLING
    Publication number: 20210243294
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be used for providing a location of a device during an emergency communication. These systems and methods may include operations (e.g., performed by a processor), including detecting that an emergency service call has been started at the device, and initiating a digital assistant in response to detecting that the emergency service call has been started. The systems and methods may include operations including parsing audio during the emergency service call to determine a request for location information, and providing audio, by the digital assistant during the emergency service call, indicating a location based on location information determined at the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Gareth L.E. Bridges, Frank Bruce Shearar
  • LOCATING METHOD FOR EMERGENCY CALLER WITH ASSISTANCE VECTORING
    Publication number: 20210243584
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be used for generating an alert on a mobile device for providing an emergency service. These systems and methods may include identifying from network traffic that a nearby mobile device has initiated an emergency communication. These systems and methods may include determining a location where an emergency situation exists based on location information corresponding to the emergency communication, and determining whether a user of the mobile device has a registered attribute corresponding to an emergency type identified from keywords or metadata of the emergency communication. The alert may be generated in response to determining that the user has the registered attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Michael J. Davis, Russell Andrew Penar
  • LOCATION BASED EMERGENCY ALERT
    Publication number: 20210243583
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be used for alerting a device with information related to a nearby emergency. These systems and methods may include receiving a plurality of emergency communications from a corresponding plurality of user devices, determining an emergency location based on locations of the plurality of user devices based on the plurality of emergency communications, and determining whether the plurality of emergency communications at the emergency location exceed a threshold number of emergency communications. Proximate user devices may be identified, and an alert may be sent to at least one of the proximate user devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Amer Aref Hassan
  • SATELLITE DATA TRANSMISSION CLUSTERING WITH DYNAMIC CLUSTERS
    Publication number: 20210234608
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums A method for satellite communications. A computing device concurrently communicates with two or more satellites of a cluster of satellites in a satellite network. The clusters are dynamically adjusted to achieve a communication objective. This improves satellite communications by increasing that likelihood that the computing device will be in range of a satellite that is useful for achieving the communication objective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Mahendra D. Sekaran, Ronald F. Johnson
  • Satellite data transmission clustering with dynamic clusters
    Patent number: 11075689
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums A method for satellite communications. A computing device concurrently communicates with two or more satellites of a cluster of satellites in a satellite network. The clusters are dynamically adjusted to achieve a communication objective. This improves satellite communications by increasing that likelihood that the computing device will be in range of a satellite that is useful for achieving the communication objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Mahendra D. Sekaran, Ronald F. Johnson
  • Bit error reduction of communication systems using error correction
    Patent number: 11075656
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which optimize one or more metrics of a communication system by intentionally changing symbols in a bitstream after encoding by an error correction coder, but prior to transmission. The symbols may be changed to meet a communication metric optimization goal, such as decreasing a high PAPR, reducing an error rate, reducing an average power level (to save battery), or altering some other communication metric. The symbol that is intentionally changed is then detected by the receiver as an error and corrected by the receiver utilizing the error correction coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Roy D. Kuntz
  • Increasing average power levels to reduce peak-to-average power levels using error correction codes
    Patent number: 11063696
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which optimize one or more metrics of a communication system by intentionally changing symbols in a bitstream after encoding by, an error correction coder, but prior to transmission. The symbols may be changed to meet a communication metric optimization goal, such as decreasing a high PAPR, reducing an error rate, reducing an average power level (to save battery), or altering some other communication metric. The symbol that is intentionally changed is then detected by the receiver as an error and corrected by the receiver utilizing the error correction coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Amer Aref Hassan
  • Peak to average power ratio reduction of optical systems utilizing error correction
    Patent number: 11044044
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which optimize one or more metrics of a communication system by intentionally changing symbols in a bitstream after encoding by an error correction coder, but prior to transmission. The symbols may be changed to meet a communication metric optimization goal, such as decreasing a high PAPR, reducing an error rate, reducing an average power level (to save battery), or altering some other communication metric. The symbol that is intentionally changed is then detected by the receiver as an error and corrected by the receiver utilizing the error correction coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Amer Aref Hassan
  • Sub-display designation and sharing
    Patent number: 11042222
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Michael T. Gilbert, Edward C. Giaimo, III
  • SUB-DISPLAY NOTIFICATION HANDLING
    Publication number: 20210183336
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Wei-Chen Chen
  • SUB-DISPLAY PAIRING
    Publication number: 20210185520
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Michael T. Gilbert
  • SUB-DISPLAY DESIGNATION FOR REMOTE CONTENT SOURCE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210181853
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventor: Amer Aref Hassan
  • SUB-DISPLAY DESIGNATION AND SHARING
    Publication number: 20210181852
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Michael T. Gilbert, Edward C. Giaimo, III
  • SUB-DISPLAY INPUT AREAS AND HIDDEN INPUTS
    Publication number: 20210181938
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Edward C. Giaimo, III