Patents by Inventor Brian Bilodeau

Brian Bilodeau 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: 10678890
    Abstract: A client computing device is disclosed that comprises a processor and an electronic personal assistant application program. The personal assistant application program may be configured to capture user data associated with user activities across a plurality of computer programs. The user data may be sent to a personal assistant user data interpretation engine. A health-related suggestion based on at least a subset of the user data and anonymized statistics of a user population retrieved from an aggregated knowledge base may be received. The health-related suggestion may be displayed on a display associated with the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Hadas Bitran, Todd Holmdahl, Eric Horvitz, Desney S. Tan, Dennis Paul Schmuland, Adam T. Berns, Brian Bilodeau
  • Publication number: 20180056130
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to integrating health data and calendar data of one or more users and providing insights for a selected user to help the user accomplish an outcome of interest. The insights may be identified based on a group of cohorts determined to be similar to the selected user and/or used to predict a likelihood that the selected user will achieve an outcome of interest. Additional insights may be provided by monitoring an effect that following a recommendation has on the selected user achieving the outcome of interest. Recommendations and/or updates to recommendations may be provided based on the insights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hadas Bitran, Ryen William White, Girish Sthanu Nathan, Tachen C. Ni, Jessica Lundin, David Earl Heckerman, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester, Carey Dietz, Heather Jordan Cartwright, Shahar Yekutiel, Arie Schwartzman, Gil Shacham, Brian Bilodeau, Todd Holmdahl, Gabriel A. desGarennes
  • Publication number: 20170039327
    Abstract: A client computing device is disclosed that comprises a processor and an electronic personal assistant application program. The personal assistant application program may be configured to capture user data associated with user activities across a plurality of computer programs. The user data may be sent to a personal assistant user data interpretation engine. A health-related suggestion based on at least a subset of the user data and anonymized statistics of a user population retrieved from an aggregated knowledge base may be received. The health-related suggestion may be displayed on a display associated with the client computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hadas Bitran, Todd Holmdahl, Eric Horvitz, Desney S. Tan, Dennis Paul Schmuland, Adam T. Berns, Brian Bilodeau
  • Publication number: 20170039332
    Abstract: A method for presenting health notifications begins with creating a plurality of different health notifications, each conveying the same type of information. Each of the different health notifications is provided to a plurality of different users, each user categorized with user health metrics. Post-health notification user activity is tracked for each of the different users. A machine-learning classification machine is trained with tracked user activity, along with corresponding user health metrics, for each of the different health notifications. When provided with user health metrics received from a health-monitoring computing device associated with a user, the machine-learning classification machine chooses a selected health notification for the user from among the different health notifications, the selected notification determined to be more likely than any of the other health notifications to elicit a healthy response from the user. The selected health notification is then sent to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Elad Yom-Tov, Hadas Bitran, Nazia Zaman, Brian Bilodeau, Katherine Winant Osborne, David A. Wickert, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester, Farah Shariff
  • Patent number: 8879748
    Abstract: A wireless audio client device such as a headset worn by a user allows the user to talk with multiple other devices using different communication protocols. In one approach, the wireless audio client device is a slave device which pairs with multiple master devices such as a game console and cell phone. The wireless audio client device uses a common set of peripherals such as a speaker, microphone, RF antenna, battery, status lights and control buttons. Processing circuitry is provided in one or more chips, to handle the different communication protocols. The wireless audio client device can automatically interrupt a game chat to allow the user to accept an incoming phone call, or can prompt the user to accept the call. Or, the wireless audio client device can play audio from the cell phone while the game chat continues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Zulfigar Alam, Brian Bilodeau, Dennis Tom, Carlos Manzanedo
  • Publication number: 20120237053
    Abstract: A wireless audio client device such as a headset worn by a user allows the user to talk with multiple other devices using different communication protocols. In one approach, the wireless audio client device is a slave device which pairs with multiple master devices such as a game console and cell phone. The wireless audio client device uses a common set of peripherals such as a speaker, microphone, RF antenna, battery, status lights and control buttons. Processing circuitry is provided in one or more chips, to handle the different communication protocols. The wireless audio client device can automatically interrupt a game chat to allow the user to accept an incoming phone call, or can prompt the user to accept the call. Or, the wireless audio client device can play audio from the cell phone while the game chat continues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zulfigar Alam, Brian Bilodeau, Dennis Tom, Carlos Manzanedo