Patents by Inventor Ahmed M. Bashir
Ahmed M. Bashir 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: 11848767Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for privacy-preserving electronic publication and subscription. A publisher device may establish a publication channel with a publication server and receive a channel identifier and a channel ownership token for the channel. The publisher device may provide the channel identifier and a key for the publication channel to a subscriber device. The publisher device may publish data encrypted using the key to the publication server, the subscriber device may obtain the encrypted published data from the server using the channel identifier, and may decrypt the published data using the key obtained from the publisher device. The published data may include status information for a user of the publisher device, in some examples.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas J. Circosta, Elliot T. Garner, Aniket A. Zamwar, Yevgeni Pekurovsky, Jared A. Crawford, Frederic Jacobs, Justin S Titi, Matthew E. Shepherd, Jose A. Lozano Hinojosa, Sean Geiger, Ahmed M. Bashir
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Publication number: 20220394063Abstract: Techniques are provided for securely routing network traffic data. A kernel routine in a computing device obtains content metadata from the network traffic data associated with an application. The kernel routine can evaluate the content metadata and determine whether security and privacy policies should be applied to the network traffic data associated with the content metadata. The kernel routine can automatically create or identify tags for the content metadata based on intent and context information that is determined by the kernel routine. The tags can be associated with particular security and privacy policies, such as anonymization and encryption.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Thomas F. Pauly, Nishchaie Khanna, Ahmed M. Bashir
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Publication number: 20220385738Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for privacy-preserving electronic publication and subscription. A publisher device may establish a publication channel with a publication server and receive a channel identifier and a channel ownership token for the channel. The publisher device may provide the channel identifier and a key for the publication channel to a subscriber device. The publisher device may publish data encrypted using the key to the publication server, the subscriber device may obtain the encrypted published data from the server using the channel identifier, and may decrypt the published data using the key obtained from the publisher device. The published data may include status information for a user of the publisher device, in some examples.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Nicholas J. CIRCOSTA, Elliot T. GARNER, Aniket A. ZAMWAR, Yevgeni PEKUROVSKY, Jared A. CRAWFORD, Frederic JACOBS, Justin S. TITI, Matthew E. SHEPHERD, Jose A. LOZANO HINOJOSA, Sean GEIGER, Ahmed M. BASHIR
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Publication number: 20220006767Abstract: A device implementing a system for sharing groups of files within a messaging application includes a processor configured to provide, within the messaging application, a user interface element for sending at least one file to a participant in an active message thread of the messaging application, the at least one file having been determined to be relevant to the participant. The processor is further configured to, responsive to receiving a selection of the user interface element: transmit, to a server, a request to store the at least one file in association with a shared storage area, and to transmit, via the messaging application, a message to the participant in the active message thread, the message comprising information for accessing the at least one file associated with the shared storage area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Michael BRANDT, Pierre J. DE FILIPPIS, Chelsea J. LEBLANC, Ge YAN, Gavin B. THOMSON, Van HONG, Ahmed M. BASHIR, Randall S. BECKER, Stephen M. LOTTERMOSER, Kevin Y. HE, Roberto GARCIA
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Patent number: 11146514Abstract: A device implementing a system for sharing groups of files within a messaging application includes a processor configured to provide, within the messaging application, a user interface element for sending at least one file to a participant in an active message thread of the messaging application, the at least one file having been determined to be relevant to the participant. The processor is further configured to, responsive to receiving a selection of the user interface element: transmit, to a server, a request to store the at least one file in association with a shared storage area, and to transmit, via the messaging application, a message to the participant in the active message thread, the message comprising information for accessing the at least one file associated with the shared storage area.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael Brandt, Pierre J. De Filippis, Chelsea J. Leblanc, Ge Yan, Gavin B. Thomson, Van Hong, Ahmed M. Bashir, Randall S. Becker, Stephen M. Lottermoser, Kevin Y. He, Roberto Garcia
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Patent number: 10567460Abstract: A server (or server instance) may receive data during a plurality of sequential blocks of time. The server may store the data received in each block of time in a corresponding separate directory within a data store. The server may determine that a threshold storage capacity of the data store has been reached and, in response to the determining, may clear a directory in which oldest data received in an earliest block of time has been stored.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ahmed M. Bashir, Vasilii Vlasov
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Publication number: 20190342239Abstract: A device implementing a system for sharing groups of files within a messaging application includes a processor configured to provide, within the messaging application, a user interface element for sending at least one file to a participant in an active message thread of the messaging application, the at least one file having been determined to be relevant to the participant. The processor is further configured to, responsive to receiving a selection of the user interface element: transmit, to a server, a request to store the at least one file in association with a shared storage area, and to transmit, via the messaging application, a message to the participant in the active message thread, the message comprising information for accessing the at least one file associated with the shared storage area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Michael BRANDT, Pierre J. DE FILIPPIS, Chelsea J. LEBLANC, Ge YAN, Gavin B. THOMSON, Van HONG, Ahmed M. BASHIR, Randall S. BECKER, Stephen M. LOTTERMOSER, Kevin Y. HE, Roberto GARCIA
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Patent number: 10033817Abstract: The embodiments set forth a technique for providing a stateless technique for distributing uploads. According to some embodiments, a system can include various computing devices, authorization servers, and storage destinations. Within the system, an authorization server assigns weight properties to each storage destination, and generates a set of tokens for subsequent assignment to the different storage destinations in accordance with their weight properties. More specifically, the authorization server is configured to perform an initial token drafting process that involves assigning the tokens to different storage destinations. As the current health of each storage destination changes over time, the authorization server is also configured to periodically perform (e.g., at a set interval) a supplemental token drafting process that involves updating the weight properties of each storage destination and redistributing the tokens in view of the updated weight properties.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ahmed M. Bashir, Theodore Hong
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Publication number: 20180084061Abstract: The embodiments set forth a technique for providing a stateless technique for distributing uploads. According to some embodiments, a system can include various computing devices, authorization servers, and storage destinations. Within the system, an authorization server assigns weight properties to each storage destination, and generates a set of tokens for subsequent assignment to the different storage destinations in accordance with their weight properties. More specifically, the authorization server is configured to perform an initial token drafting process that involves assigning the tokens to different storage destinations. As the current health of each storage destination changes over time, the authorization server is also configured to periodically perform (e.g., at a set interval) a supplemental token drafting process that involves updating the weight properties of each storage destination and redistributing the tokens in view of the updated weight properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Ahmed M. BASHIR, Theodore HONG
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Patent number: 9860322Abstract: The embodiments set forth a technique for providing a stateless technique for distributing uploads. According to some embodiments, a system can include various computing devices, authorization servers, and storage destinations. Within the system, an authorization server assigns weight properties to each storage destination, and generates a set of tokens for subsequent assignment to the different storage destinations in accordance with their weight properties. More specifically, the authorization server is configured to perform an initial token drafting process that involves assigning the tokens to different storage destinations. As the current health of each storage destination changes over time, the authorization server is also configured to periodically perform (e.g., at a set interval) a supplemental token drafting process that involves updating the weight properties of each storage destination and redistributing the tokens in view of the updated weight properties.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ahmed M. Bashir, Theodore Hong
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Publication number: 20170357449Abstract: A server (or server instance) may receive data during a plurality of sequential blocks of time. The server may store the data received in each block of time in a corresponding separate directory within a data store. The server may determine that a threshold storage capacity of the data store has been reached and, in response to the determining, may clear a directory in which oldest data received in an earliest block of time has been stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Ahmed M. Bashir, Vasilii Vlasov
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Publication number: 20160301619Abstract: The embodiments set forth a technique for providing a stateless technique for distributing uploads. According to some embodiments, a system can include various computing devices, authorization servers, and storage destinations. Within the system, an authorization server assigns weight properties to each storage destination, and generates a set of tokens for subsequent assignment to the different storage destinations in accordance with their weight properties. More specifically, the authorization server is configured to perform an initial token drafting process that involves assigning the tokens to different storage destinations. As the current health of each storage destination changes over time, the authorization server is also configured to periodically perform (e.g., at a set interval) a supplemental token drafting process that involves updating the weight properties of each storage destination and redistributing the tokens in view of the updated weight properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2015Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Ahmed M. BASHIR, Theodore HONG
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Patent number: 8117496Abstract: A method, system, and article for resolving a silent error is disclosed. A primary program copy runs on a primary host, and a secondary program copy runs on a secondary host. The primary and secondary copies communicate to maintain synchronized execution. A third copy of the data is stored on a storage device as a write operations log and maintained in memory on the primary host while the program is running. The primary copy is synchronized with the secondary copy by computing a first checksum of data on the primary host in response to a read operation local to the primary host, computing a second checksum of data on the secondary host in response to a read operation local to the secondary host, and periodically communicating the first checksum to the secondary host, and resolving any discrepancies between the first and second checksum of data reflecting a silent data error.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ahmed M. Bashir, Prasenjit Sarkar, Soumitra Sarkar, Mark J. Seaman, Dinesh K. Subhraveti, Victor S. Wen
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Publication number: 20110099360Abstract: A method, system, and article are provided to enable a Hyperswap operation in a clustered computer system. Each node in the system is configured with flash memory, with a hierarchical list of boot volumes therein. Following a Hyperswap operation, the current boot volume is communicated to each node in the cluster and each node joining the cluster. All previously inactive nodes that were booted from the improper boot volume are re-booted from the correct and the flash memory is amended to reflect the correct boot volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ahmed M. Bashir, Prasenjit Sarkar, Soumitra Sarkar, Mark J. Seaman
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Publication number: 20100325500Abstract: A method, system, and article for resolving a silent error is disclosed. A primary program copy runs on a primary host, and a secondary program copy runs on a secondary host. The primary and secondary copies communicate to maintain synchronized execution. A third copy of the data is stored on a storage device as a write operations log and maintained in memory on the primary host while the program is running. The primary copy is synchronized with the secondary copy by computing a first checksum of data on the primary host in response to a read operation local to the primary host, computing a second checksum of data on the secondary host in response to a read operation local to the secondary host, and periodically communicating the first checksum to the secondary host, and resolving any discrepancies between the first and second checksum of data reflecting a silent data error.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Ahmed M. Bashir, Prasenjit Sarkar, Soumitra Sarkar, Mark J. Seaman, Dinesh K. Subhraveti, Victor S. Wen