Patents by Inventor Hale Sostock

Hale Sostock 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: 20210210094
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy, Gregory Michael Hart, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Scott Southwood, Ran Mokady, Hale Sostock, Roman Yusufov
  • Patent number: 10916243
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy, Gregory Michael Hart, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Scott Southwood, Ran Mokady, Hale Sostock, Roman Yusufov
  • Publication number: 20180182389
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating communications between shared electronic devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a group account may be assigned to a shared electronic device. The group account may include one or more user accounts, where individuals associated with those user accounts may interact with the shared electronic device, and also may form a part of the group account. When a message is sent from one shared electronic device to another personal device or shared electronic device, the message may be indicated as being sent from the group account, as if the shared electronic device corresponds to its own separate account. In some embodiments, speaker identification processing may be employed to determine a speaker of the message and, if the speaker is able to be identified, the message may be sent from the corresponding speaker's user account instead of the shared electronic device's corresponding group account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy, Gregory Michael Hart, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Scott Southwood, Ran Mokady, Hale Sostock, Roman Yusufov