Patents by Inventor Avida Michaud

Avida Michaud 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).

  • PERSISTENT COMPANION DEVICE CONFIGURATION AND DEPLOYMENT PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20170206064
    Abstract: A development platform for developing a skill for a persistent companion device (PCD) includes an asset development library having an application programming interface (API) configured to enable a developer to at least one of find, create, edit and access one or more content assets utilizable for creating a skill, an expression tool suite having one or more APIs via which are received one or more expressions associated with the skill as specified by the developer wherein the skill is executable by the PCD in response to at least one defined input, a behavior editor for specifying one or more behavioral sequences of the PCD for the skill and a skill deployment facility having an API for deploying the skill to an execution engine of the PCD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Cynthia Breazeal, Avida Michaud, Francois Laberge, Jonathan Louis Ross, Carolyn Marothy Saund, Fardad Faridi
  • APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A PERSISTENT COMPANION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150314454
    Abstract: A development platform for developing a skill for a persistent companion device (PCD) includes an asset development library having an application programming interface (API) configured to enable a developer to at least one of find, create, edit and access one or more content assets utilizable for creating a skill, an expression tool suite having one or more APIs via which are received one or more expressions associated with the skill as specified by the developer wherein the skill is executable by the PCD in response to at least one defined input, a behavior editor for specifying one or more behavioral sequences of the PCD for the skill and a skill deployment facility having an API for deploying the skill to an execution engine of the PCD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Cynthia Breazeal, Avida Michaud, Francois Laberge, Jonathan Louis Ross, Carolyn Marothy Saund, Elio Dante Querze, III, Fardad Faridi