Patents by Inventor Abhiram G. Khune

Abhiram G. Khune 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: 8943420
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can enhance an experience associated with indicia related to a local environment. In particular, the architecture can receive an image that depicts a view of the local environment including a set of entities represented in the image. One or more of the entities can be matched or correlated to modeled entities included in a geospatial model of the environment, potentially based upon location and direction, in order to scope or frame the view depicted in the image to a modeled view. In addition, the architecture can select additional content that can be presented. The additional content typically relates to services or data associated with modeled entities included in the geospatial model or associated with modeled entities included in an image-based data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Flora P. Goldthwaite, Brett D. Brewer, Eric I-Chao Chang, Jonathan C. Cluts, Karim T. Farouki, Gary W. Flake, Janet Galore, Jason Garms, Abhiram G. Khune, Oscar Murillo, Sven Pleyer
  • Patent number: 8874086
    Abstract: Described is a technology by which a communications identifier such as a telephone number is used in selecting relevant content (e.g., an advertisement) for outputting as audible and/or visible information to a destination device. The communications identifier is used like a search term/keyword to determine content relevant to that identifier. A telephone number may be the identifier, selected based on a partially-dialed or actually dialed number, or a user's current scrolling position among listed telephone numbers. A telephone number of an incoming call may be used as the identifier. Profile data and/or state data may be used in selecting relevant content. Some of the profile data may be mined based on previous user activities. In one example, the content may be provided via a remote source of the content, and used immediately or cached for later use (e.g., output).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xuedong Huang, Milind V. Mahajan, Abhiram G. Khune
  • Patent number: 8763150
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can leverage private affinities in order to facilitate or enrich relationships between people. In particular, the architecture can receive a profile associated with a user wherein the profile includes a set of private affinities that are cryptographically protected from public inspection. The architecture can decrypt and/or cryptographically compare a private affinity from the profile to an affinity in a disparate profile (associated with a disparate user) in order to identify a matching affinity. Once a matching affinity is identified, a message indicating such can be provided to the user along with a request to publish certain revealed information to the disparate user, possibly based upon a mutual exchange of commensurate information from the disparate user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gary W. Flake, Eric I-Chao Chang, Jason Garms, Abhiram G. Khune, Darrell Leroy Blegen
  • Publication number: 20110055930
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can leverage private affinities in order to facilitate or enrich relationships between people. In particular, the architecture can receive a profile associated with a user wherein the profile includes a set of private affinities that are cryptographically protected from public inspection. The architecture can decrypt and/or cryptographically compare a private affinity from the profile to an affinity in a disparate profile (associated with a disparate user) in order to identify a matching affinity. Once a matching affinity is identified, a message indicating such can be provided to the user along with a request to publish certain revealed information to the disparate user, possibly based upon a mutual exchange of commensurate information from the disparate user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary W. Flake, Eric I-Chao Chang, Jason Garms, Abhiram G. Khune, Darrell Leroy Blegen
  • Publication number: 20110040627
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods for propagating viral advertising content to multiple mobile devices without utilizing an intermediary interposing hosting and/or distribution service. The system includes devices that receive viral advertising content on a mobile device, modify the viral advertising content with further viral advertising content previously received from a disparate mobile device, determine sets of recipients to whom the modified viral advertising content can be perceived as compelling, and disseminates the modified viral advertising content to the sets of recipients each of whom can be associated with a disparate mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brett D. Brewer, Timothy D. Sharpe, Jason Garms, Melissa W. Dunn, Abhiram G. Khune
  • Publication number: 20100332496
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates accessing information content based at least in part on relevancy to a user by leveraging user ambitions. User ambitions can take the form of to-do lists, calendar items, goals, or interests. These can be leveraged with or without contextual information, historical data, user profiles, and the like to determine the relevancy of content to a specific user. This can facilitate determining what content is accessible to a user based on relevance. A threshold relevance level can be dynamically adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric Horvitz, Brett Brewer, Melissa W. Dunn, Janet Galore, Abhiram G. Khune, Sin Lew, Timothy D. Sharpe
  • Publication number: 20100325563
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can enhance an experience associated with indicia related to a local environment. In particular, the architecture can receive an image that depicts a view of the local environment including a set of entities represented in the image. One or more of the entities can be matched or correlated to modeled entities included in a geospatial model of the environment, potentially based upon location and direction, in order to scope or frame the view depicted in the image to a modeled view. In addition, the architecture can select additional content that can be presented. The additional content typically relates to services or data associated with modeled entities included in the geospatial model or associated with modeled entities included in an image-based data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Flora P. Goldthwaite, Brett D. Brewer, Eric I-Chao Chang, Jonathan C. Cluts, Karim T. Farouki, Gary W. Flake, Janet Galore, Jason Garms, Abhiram G. Khune, Oscar Murillo, Sven Pleyer
  • Publication number: 20090203361
    Abstract: Described is a technology by which a communications identifier such as a telephone number is used in selecting relevant content (e.g., an advertisement) for outputting as audible and/or visible information to a destination device. The communications identifier is used like a search term/keyword to determine content relevant to that identifier. A telephone number may be the identifier, selected based on a partially-dialed or actually dialed number, or a user's current scrolling position among listed telephone numbers. A telephone number of an incoming call may be used as the identifier. Profile data and/or state data may be used in selecting relevant content. Some of the profile data may be mined based on previous user activities. In one example, the content may be provided via a remote source of the content, and used immediately or cached for later use (e.g., output).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xuedong Huang, Milind V. Mahajan, Abhiram G. Khune
  • Publication number: 20080253544
    Abstract: Described is a technology by which a user's telephone-related data is aggregated from various sources for use in assisting the user with making telephone calls. For example, call history data corresponding to a landline telephone, a mobile telephone and/or an office telephone of the user may be combined. Other sources include a landline telephone service, a mobile telephone service, an enterprise telephone system or server, a computing device, voice mail data, web page data, electronic message content, instant message content, a contacts list, and/or an information data store. The telephone-related data can be processed (e.g., based on frequency and calling patterns) to determine corresponding probability data to help determine a user's intent in locating a particular recipient to call. The user may access the telephone-related data via voice commands input at one of the user's telephones, or by receiving a visible list of at least part of the telephone-related data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Ian Brown, Piyush Dogra, Xuedong Huang, Abhiram G. Khune, Kuansan Wang