Patents by Inventor Phillip A. Chou

Phillip A. Chou 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: 8340267
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can preprocess audio portions of communications in order to enrich multiparty communication sessions or environments. In particular, the architecture can provide both a public channel for public communications that are received by substantially all connected parties and can further provide a private channel for private communications that are received by a selected subset of all connected parties. Most particularly, the architecture can apply an audio transform to communications that occur during the multiparty communication session based upon a target audience of the communication. By way of illustration, the architecture can apply a whisper transform to private communications, an emotion transform based upon relationships, an ambience or spatial transform based upon physical locations, or a pace transform based upon lack of presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dinei A. Florencio, Alejandro Acero, William Buxton, Phillip A. Chou, Ross G. Cutler, Jason Garms, Christian Huitema, Kori M. Quinn, Daniel Allen Rosenfeld, Zhengyou Zhang
  • Publication number: 20100195812
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can preprocess audio portions of communications in order to enrich multiparty communication sessions or environments. In particular, the architecture can provide both a public channel for public communications that are received by substantially all connected parties and can further provide a private channel for private communications that are received by a selected subset of all connected parties. Most particularly, the architecture can apply an audio transform to communications that occur during the multiparty communication session based upon a target audience of the communication. By way of illustration, the architecture can apply a whisper transform to private communications, an emotion transform based upon relationships, an ambience or spatial transform based upon physical locations, or a pace transform based upon lack of presence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dinei A. Florencio, Alejandro Acero, William Buxton, Phillip A. Chou, Ross G. Cutler, Jason Garms, Christian Huitema, Kori M. Quinn, Daniel Allen Rosenfeld, Zhengyou Zhang