Patents by Inventor Adil Ahmed Sherwani

Adil Ahmed Sherwani 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).

  • Metadata-based song creation and editing
    Patent number: 7790974
    Abstract: Relating higher-level descriptive musical metadata to lower-level musical elements to enable creation of a song map, song model, backing track, or the like. The musical elements are queried based on input metadata to create a set of musical elements of varying types such as notes, chords, song structures, and the like. The set of musical elements is provided to a user for selection of particular musical elements The selected musical elements represent the song model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adil Ahmed Sherwani, Chad Gibson, Sumit Basu
  • Crossfade of media playback between different media processes
    Patent number: 7571016
    Abstract: A method of crossfading a plurality of audio files comprising opening a first process, opening a second process hosting an audio renderer in which a first audio file of the plurality of audio files is cross faded with a second audio file of the plurality of audio files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shafiq Ur Rahman, Alexandre Grigorovitch, Adil Ahmed Sherwani, Sumedh N. Barde, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Kirt A. Debique, Kipley J. Olson, Patrick Nicholas Nelson
  • PROTECTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20090158036
    Abstract: A method of establishing a protected environment within a computing device including validating a kernel component loaded into a kernel of the computing device, establishing a security state for the kernel based on the validation, creating a secure process and loading a software component into the secure process, periodically checking the security state of the kernel, and notifying the secure process when the security state of the kernel has changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sumedh N. Barde, Jonathan D. Schwartz, Reid Joseph Kuhn, Alexandre Vicktorovich Grigorovitch, Kirt A. Debique, Chabd B. Knowlton, James M. Alkove, Geoffery T. Dunbar, Michael J. Grier, Ming Ma, Chaitanya D. Upadhyay, Adil Ahmed Sherwani, Arun Upadhyaya Kishan