Patents by Inventor Farah Shariff

Farah Shariff 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: 11070644
    Abstract: Techniques for improving profile switching and/or account switching using resource grouped architecture. For example, a system may group multiple applications and/or features together and associate them with a container that includes a set of resources shared between the features. Thus, all of the applications/features in a container may use the same set of resources, which enables the system to update the resources for multiple features at a time. In addition, the system may maintain multiple containers simultaneously, enabling the system to perform profile/account switching by moving an individual application/feature from a first container to a second container. Thus, this resource grouped architecture simplifies profile/account switching and enables additional functionality for care givers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Da Teng, Farah Shariff
  • Patent number: 10827944
    Abstract: A sensory-and-logic system includes a ring-shaped, electrically-conductive skin sensor sized and shaped to form an electrical connection with human skin, and an electrical component surrounded by the ring-shaped, electrically-conductive skin sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Kim Justice, Farah Shariff, Scott Dallmeyer
  • Patent number: 10258280
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a composite band, a touch-sensor display, a skin sensor, and a course of electrical conductors. The composite band forms a loop having two or more rigid segments and a flexible segment coupled between the rigid segments. The touch-sensor display is arranged in a first of the rigid segments, and a skin sensor is arranged in a second of the rigid segments. The course of electrical conductors runs between the first and second rigid segments, inside the flexible segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Kim Justice, Vinod L. Hingorani, Farah Shariff, Stephen John Minarsch, Thomas E. McCue, Jr., Amish Patel, Mark Shintaro Ando, Scott F. Williams, Mohammad Shakeri, Byung J. Cho
  • Patent number: 10152947
    Abstract: Computing devices and methods for controlling light output of a display are disclosed. In one example, a default brightness setting is set to an indoor light output level. A UV light sensor is activated to detect UV radiation levels. Based on determining that one or more of the UV radiation levels exceed a UV threshold, the default brightness setting is updated to correspond to an outdoor light output level that is greater than the indoor light output level. Without using information from an ambient light sensor, the display is activated from a deactivated state to illuminate at the updated default brightness setting corresponding to the outdoor light output level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Haithem Albadawi, Han Yee Mimi Fung, Farah Shariff
  • Publication number: 20180116547
    Abstract: A sensory-and-logic system includes a ring-shaped, electrically-conductive skin sensor sized and shaped to form an electrical connection with human skin, and an electrical component surrounded by the ring-shaped, electrically-conductive skin sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Kim Justice, Farah Shariff, Scott Dallmeyer
  • Patent number: 9903755
    Abstract: Determining time spent outdoors. A method includes, at a first time, using one or more primary criteria including one or more criteria related to information provided by a first hardware input sensor on a device, to determine that the device is outdoors. The method further includes at one or more other times, using one or more secondary criteria, different than the primary criteria, the secondary criteria related to information provided by one or more second hardware input sensors, to determine continuity of the device being outdoors from the first time to the one or more other times. The method further includes based on determining that the device is outdoors and determining continuity of the device being outdoors from the first time to the one or more other times, identifying a total amount of time that the device has been outdoors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haithem Albadawi, Han Yee Mimi Fung, Farah Shariff
  • Patent number: 9833164
    Abstract: A sensory-and-logic system includes a ring-shaped, electrically-conductive skin sensor sized and shaped to form an electrical connection with human skin, and an electrical component surrounded by the ring-shaped, electrically-conductive skin sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Kim Justice, Farah Shariff, Scott Dallmeyer
  • Publication number: 20170294174
    Abstract: Computing devices and methods for controlling light output of a display are disclosed. In one example, a default brightness setting is set to an indoor light output level. A UV light sensor is activated to detect UV radiation levels. Based on determining that one or more of the UV radiation levels exceed a UV threshold, the default brightness setting is updated to correspond to an outdoor light output level that is greater than the indoor light output level. Without using information from an ambient light sensor, the display is activated from a deactivated state to illuminate at the updated default brightness setting corresponding to the outdoor light output level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haithem Albadawi, Han Yee Mimi Fung, Farah Shariff
  • Publication number: 20170097258
    Abstract: Determining time spent outdoors. A method includes, at a first time, using one or more primary criteria including one or more criteria related to information provided by a first hardware input sensor on a device, to determine that the device is outdoors. The method further includes at one or more other times, using one or more secondary criteria, different than the primary criteria, the secondary criteria related to information provided by one or more second hardware input sensors, to determine continuity of the device being outdoors from the first time to the one or more other times. The method further includes based on determining that the device is outdoors and determining continuity of the device being outdoors from the first time to the one or more other times, identifying a total amount of time that the device has been outdoors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Haithem Albadawi, Han Yee Mimi Fung, Farah Shariff
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20170039335
    Abstract: A network-accessible computer includes a network-communications interface, configured to receive health metrics of a user over a computer network. The network-accessible computer also includes a logic machine, which is configured to localize the user in a virtual space based on the health metrics, identify k nearest neighbors in the virtual space having k shortest Euclidean distances to the user, and generate a health insight comparing the user to the k nearest neighbors. The network-communications interface is further configured to send the health insight to a computing device associated with the user via the computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ansari Mohammed Ismail, Hadas Bitran, Royi Ronen, Ohad Jassin, Elad Yom-Tov, Andrew Lindsay Dumovic, Haithem Albadawi, Farah Shariff, Todd Holmdahl
  • Patent number: 9563233
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an electronic component configured to receive electric current and a plated contact electrically coupled to the electronic component and configured to carry the electric current to the electronic component from a system external to the device. The plated contact includes a copper-alloy layer, a platinum-group metal (PGM) layer plated over the copper-alloy layer, and a gold-alloy layer plated over the PGM layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Thomas McCormack, Anthony Allen Fischer, Raj Master, Farah Shariff, Dennis Tom, Zulfiqar Alam
  • Publication number: 20160374588
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that are related to monitoring body hydration levels based on galvanic skin response measurements acquired by a wearable electronic device. One example provides a wearable electronic device including a sensor configured to measure a galvanic skin response, a logic device, and a storage device including instructions executable by the logic device to operate a hydration monitoring mode, acquire a plurality of measures of galvanic skin response over time, present data regarding the plurality of measures of galvanic skin response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Farah Shariff, Vinod L. Hingorani, Haithem Albadawi
  • Publication number: 20160360984
    Abstract: A system is described for providing the value of a biological characteristic. The system includes a sensor. The sensor is configured to generate a time domain photoplethysmogram (PPG) input signal. The system further includes a first computation module coupled to the sensor. The first computation module is configured to evaluate portions of the generated time domain PPG signal against predetermined quality criteria. The system further includes a second computation module coupled to the first computation module. The second computation module is configured to use portions of the generated time domain PPG signal that meet the predetermined quality criteria to generate an output value. The output value characterizes a biological characteristic at a point in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Haithem Albadawi, Farah Shariff, Zongyi Liu
  • Publication number: 20160302671
    Abstract: Collection and analysis of physiological reading can predict when a person is likely to develop a fever before that person's body temperature increases. In an implementation a device such as a wearable band collects physiological information from its wearer. The physiological information may include heart rate or respiration rate. The person's physiological information classified by an algorithm derived through machine learning techniques. The algorithm may be trained by using data from other individuals who are both healthy and who are sick and/or trained from past reading of the person's own physiological readings. The algorithm may evaluate a value of the person's physiological information to generate probabilities that the person is healthy or that the person likely to become sick and/or develop a fever in the next few days.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Farah Shariff, Zongyi Liu, Dake Sun, Haithem Albadawi
  • Patent number: 9413087
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a power and data connector comprising a magnet, a film adhered to a surface of the magnet, and a stage extending away from the film. The power and data connector further comprises a plurality of electrical contacts disposed on the stage, the plurality of electrical contacts having a mirrored signal pin-out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Farah Shariff, Vinod L. Hingorani, Stephen John Minarsch, Scott Dallmeyer, Thomas E. McCue, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20160074706
    Abstract: A physical activity monitoring device includes a sensor array with one or more sensors configured to measure physical activity attributes of a user. A controller automatically determines time intervals where the user is actively engaged in a physical activity based on the physical activity attributes. The controller also automatically determines a type of physical activity the user in actively engaged in during the determined time intervals based on the physical activity attributes. A reporter outputs information regarding the type of physical activity to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Morris, Ilya Kelner, Farah Shariff, Dennis Tom, T. Scott Saponas, Andrew Guillory
  • Publication number: 20160048159
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an electronic component configured to receive electric current and a plated contact electrically coupled to the electronic component and configured to carry the electric current to the electronic component from a system external to the device. The plated contact includes a copper-alloy layer, a platinum-group metal (PGM) layer plated over the copper-alloy layer, and a gold-alloy layer plated over the PGM layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Mark Thomas McCormack, Anthony Allen Fischer, Raj Master, Farah Shariff, Dennis Tom, Zulfiqar Alam
  • Publication number: 20150342525
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a composite band, a touch-sensor display, a skin sensor, and a course of electrical conductors. The composite band forms a loop having two or more rigid segments and a flexible segment coupled between the rigid segments. The touch-sensor display is arranged in a first of the rigid segments, and a skin sensor is arranged in a second of the rigid segments. The course of electrical conductors runs between the first and second rigid segments, inside the flexible segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory Kim Justice, Vinod L. Hingorani, Farah Shariff, Stephen John Minarsch, Thomas E. McCue, JR., Amish Patel, Mark Shintaro Ando, Scott F. Williams, Mohammad Shakeri, Byung J. Cho
  • Publication number: 20150342522
    Abstract: A sensory-and-logic system includes a ring-shaped, electrically-conductive skin sensor sized and shaped to form an electrical connection with human skin, and an electrical component surrounded by the ring-shaped, electrically-conductive skin sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory Kim Justice, Farah Shariff, Scott Dallmeyer