Patents by Inventor Sameer Halai
Sameer Halai 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).
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Patent number: 11209956Abstract: A media party network service manages a set of media parties and a set of users of the media party service. Managing the media parties can involve instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties. Managing a given one of the media parties may include maintaining a queue of media items, allowing users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue. The media party service streams the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, William Portnoy
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Patent number: 9495711Abstract: Techniques for invite abuse prevention are described. In an implementation, data that describes mutual activities of the clients with one or more resources available via a service provider is obtained from multiple clients. The service provider may use this data regarding mutual activities to ascertain activity scores between clients that interact directly. The ascertained activity scores may then be used to compute a score between two subject clients to control invites and/or other interactions between the clients. Computing the score may include determining one or more connections between the two clients through clients that interact directly, calculating candidate values for the one or more connections, and selecting one of the candidate values as the computed score using various techniques. The computed score may be used in various ways to control invites and/or other interactions between the clients using the one or more resources.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Arjmand M. Samuel, Sameer Halai
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Publication number: 20160103572Abstract: A media party network service manages a set of media parties and a set of users of the media party service. Managing the media parties can involve instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties. Managing a given one of the media parties may include maintaining a queue of media items, allowing users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue. The media party service streams the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, William Portnoy
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Patent number: 9245020Abstract: A media party network service manages a set of media parties and a set of users of the media party service. Managing the media parties can involve instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties. Managing a given one of the media parties may include maintaining a queue of media items, allowing users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue. The media party service streams the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, Will Portnoy
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Publication number: 20130159858Abstract: A media party network service manages a set of media parties and a set of users of the media party service. Managing the media parties can involve instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties. Managing a given one of the media parties may include maintaining a queue of media items, allowing users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue. The media party service streams the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Flynn Joffray, Sameer Halai, Stephen Coy, Steve Ickman, Todd Newman, Will Portnoy
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Publication number: 20130103447Abstract: A user declares an intention to perform a task in a social network. The system allows others, connected to the user within the social network, to provide social input that expresses interest in the task declared by the user and uses social mechanics to express support to the user and to assist in keeping the user motivated to perform the task. When the task is complete, the system notifies the other users (the stakeholders) and awards incentive.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Greg Scott Melander, Sameer Halai, Flynn Thayer Joffray, Nathanael Paul Roberton, Craig Arthur Jensen
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Patent number: 8214301Abstract: Techniques for social network mapping are described. In an implementation, properties of a user's contacts with two services are analyzed to identify matching contacts. Contacts may be determined to correspond to the same user when sufficient common properties are found between the contacts. For unmatched contacts following the property analysis, additional processing may be conducted to identify contacts that the unmatched contacts have in common. A number of common contacts found through this processing may be used, alone or in combination, with information regarding common properties to determine when unmatched contacts correspond to the same user.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Arjmand M. Samuel, Sameer Halai
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Publication number: 20120131171Abstract: Techniques for invite abuse prevention are described. In an implementation, data that describes mutual activities of the clients with one or more resources available via a service provider is obtained from multiple clients. The service provider may use this data regarding mutual activities to ascertain activity scores between clients that interact directly. The ascertained activity scores may then be used to compute a score between two subject clients to control invites and/or other interactions between the clients. Computing the score may include determining one or more connections between the two clients through clients that interact directly, calculating candidate values for the one or more connections, and selecting one of the candidate values as the computed score using various techniques. The computed score may be used in various ways to control invites and/or other interactions between the clients using the one or more resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Arjmand M. Samuel, Sameer Halai
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Publication number: 20110078190Abstract: Techniques for social network mapping are described. In an implementation, properties of a user's contacts with two services are analyzed to identify matching contacts. Contacts may be determined to correspond to the same user when sufficient common properties are found between the contacts. For unmatched contacts following the property analysis, additional processing may be conducted to identify contacts that the unmatched contacts have in common. A number of common contacts found through this processing may be used, alone or in combination, with information regarding common properties to determine when unmatched contacts correspond to the same user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Arjmand M. Samuel, Sameer Halai