Patents by Inventor Harish S Kulkarni

Harish S Kulkarni 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).

  • Publication number: 20240152205
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein are related to an intelligent UI element selection system using eye-gaze technology. In some example aspects, a UI element selection zone may be determined. The selection zone may be defined as an area surrounding a boundary of the UI element. Gaze input may be received and the gaze input may be compared with the selection zone to determine an intent of the user. The gaze input may comprise one or more gaze locations. Each gaze location may be assigned a value according to its proximity to the UI element and/or its relation to the UI element's selection zone. Each UI element may be assigned a threshold. If the aggregated value of gaze input is equal to or greater than the threshold for the UI element, then the UI element may be selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Narasimhan RAGHUNATH, Austin B. HODGES, Fei SU, Akhilesh KAZA, Peter John ANSELL, Jonathan T. CAMPBELL, Harish S. KULKARNI
  • Patent number: 11921966
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to intelligent typing and responses using eye-gaze technology are disclosed herein. In some example aspects, a dwell-free typing system is provided to a user typing with eye-gaze. A prediction processor may intelligently determine the desired word or action of the user. In some aspects, the prediction processor may contain elements of a natural language processor. In other aspects, the systems and methods may allow quicker response times from applications due to application of intelligent response algorithms. For example, a user may fixate on a certain button within a web-browser, and the prediction processor may present a response to the user by selecting the button in the web-browser, thereby initiating an action. In other example aspects, each gaze location may be associated with a UI element. The gaze data and associated UI elements may be processed for intelligent predictions and suggestions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dmytro Rudchenko, Eric N. Badger, Akhilesh Kaza, Jacob Daniel Cohen, Harish S. Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11907419
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein are related to an intelligent UI element selection system using eye-gaze technology. In some example aspects, a UI element selection zone may be determined. The selection zone may be defined as an area surrounding a boundary of the UI element. Gaze input may be received and the gaze input may be compared with the selection zone to determine an intent of the user. The gaze input may comprise one or more gaze locations. Each gaze location may be assigned a value according to its proximity to the UI element and/or its relation to the UI element's selection zone. Each UI element may be assigned a threshold. If the aggregated value of gaze input is equal to or greater than the threshold for the UI element, then the UI element may be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Narasimhan Raghunath, Austin B. Hodges, Fei Su, Akhilesh Kaza, Peter John Ansell, Jonathan T. Campbell, Harish S. Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11880545
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to assigning dynamic eye-gaze dwell-times. Dynamic dwell-times may be tailored to the individual user. For example, a dynamic dwell-time system may be configured to receive data from the user, such as the duration of time the user takes to execute certain actions within applications (e.g., read a word suggestion before actually selecting it). The dynamic dwell-time system may also prevent users from making unintended selections by providing different dwell times for different buttons. Specifically, on a user interface, longer dwell times may be established for the critical keys (e.g., “close” program key, “send” key, word suggestions, and the like) and shorter dwell times may be established for the less critical keys (e.g., individual character keys on a virtual keyboard, spacebar, backspace, and the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dmytro Rudchenko, Eric N. Badger, Akhilesh Kaza, Jacob Daniel Cohen, Peter John Ansell, Jonathan T. Campbell, Harish S. Kulkarni
  • Publication number: 20220155911
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to intelligent typing and responses using eye-gaze technology are disclosed herein. In some example aspects, a dwell-free typing system is provided to a user typing with eye-gaze. A prediction processor may intelligently determine the desired word or action of the user. In some aspects, the prediction processor may contain elements of a natural language processor. In other aspects, the systems and methods may allow quicker response times from applications due to application of intelligent response algorithms. For example, a user may fixate on a certain button within a web-browser, and the prediction processor may present a response to the user by selecting the button in the web-browser, thereby initiating an action. In other example aspects, each gaze location may be associated with a UI element. The gaze data and associated UI elements may be processed for intelligent predictions and suggestions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dmytro RUDCHENKO, Eric N. BADGER, Akhilesh KAZA, Jacob Daniel COHEN, Harish S. KULKARNI
  • Publication number: 20220155912
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to intelligent typing and responses using eye-gaze technology are disclosed herein. In some example aspects, a dwell-free typing system is provided to a user typing with eye-gaze. A prediction processor may intelligently determine the desired word or action of the user. In some aspects, the prediction processor may contain elements of a natural language processor. In other aspects, the systems and methods may allow quicker response times from applications due to application of intelligent response algorithms. For example, a user may fixate on a certain button within a web-browser, and the prediction processor may present a response to the user by selecting the button in the web-browser, thereby initiating an action. In other example aspects, each gaze location may be associated with a UI element. The gaze data and associated UI elements may be processed for intelligent predictions and suggestions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dmytro RUDCHENKO, Eric N. BADGER, Akhilesh KAZA, Jacob Daniel COHEN, Harish S. KULKARNI
  • Patent number: 11237691
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to intelligent typing and responses using eye-gaze technology are disclosed herein. In some example aspects, a dwell-free typing system is provided to a user typing with eye-gaze. A prediction processor may intelligently determine the desired word or action of the user. In some aspects, the prediction processor may contain elements of a natural language processor. In other aspects, the systems and methods may allow quicker response times from applications due to application of intelligent response algorithms. For example, a user may fixate on a certain button within a web-browser, and the prediction processor may present a response to the user by selecting the button in the web-browser, thereby initiating an action. In other example aspects, each gaze location may be associated with a UI element. The gaze data and associated UI elements may be processed for intelligent predictions and suggestions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dmytro Rudchenko, Eric N. Badger, Akhilesh Kaza, Jacob Daniel Cohen, Harish S. Kulkarni
  • Publication number: 20210325962
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein are related to an intelligent UI element selection system using eye-gaze technology. In some example aspects, a UI element selection zone may be determined. The selection zone may be defined as an area surrounding a boundary of the UI element. Gaze input may be received and the gaze input may be compared with the selection zone to determine an intent of the user. The gaze input may comprise one or more gaze locations. Each gaze location may be assigned a value according to its proximity to the UI element and/or its relation to the UI element's selection zone. Each UI element may be assigned a threshold. If the aggregated value of gaze input is equal to or greater than the threshold for the UI element, then the UI element may be selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Narasimhan RAGHUNATH, Austin B. HODGES, Fei SU, Akhilesh KAZA, Peter John ANSELL, Jonathan T. CAMPBELL, Harish S. KULKARNI
  • Publication number: 20210318794
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to assigning dynamic eye-gaze dwell-times. Dynamic dwell-times may be tailored to the individual user. For example, a dynamic dwell-time system may be configured to receive data from the user, such as the duration of time the user takes to execute certain actions within applications (e.g., read a word suggestion before actually selecting it). The dynamic dwell-time system may also prevent users from making unintended selections by providing different dwell times for different buttons. Specifically, on a user interface, longer dwell times may be established for the critical keys (e.g., “close” program key, “send” key, word suggestions, and the like) and shorter dwell times may be established for the less critical keys (e.g., individual character keys on a virtual keyboard, spacebar, backspace, and the like).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dmytro RUDCHENKO, Eric N. BADGER, Akhilesh KAZA, Jacob Daniel COHEN, Peter John ANSELL, Jonathan T. CAMPBELL, Harish S. KULKARNI
  • Patent number: 11079899
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to assigning dynamic eye-gaze dwell-times. Dynamic dwell-times may be tailored to the individual user. For example, a dynamic dwell-time system may be configured to receive data from the user, such as the duration of time the user takes to execute certain actions within applications (e.g., read a word suggestion before actually selecting it). The dynamic dwell-time system may also prevent users from making unintended selections by providing different dwell times for different buttons. Specifically, on a user interface, longer dwell times may be established for the critical keys (e.g., “close” program key, “send” key, word suggestions, and the like) and shorter dwell times may be established for the less critical keys (e.g., individual character keys on a virtual keyboard, spacebar, backspace, and the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dmytro Rudchenko, Eric N. Badger, Akhilesh Kaza, Jacob Daniel Cohen, Peter John Ansell, Jonathan T. Campbell, Harish S. Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11073904
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein are related to an intelligent UI element selection system using eye-gaze technology. In some example aspects, a UI element selection zone may be determined. The selection zone may be defined as an area surrounding a boundary of the UI element. Gaze input may be received and the gaze input may be compared with the selection zone to determine an intent of the user. The gaze input may comprise one or more gaze locations. Each gaze location may be assigned a value according to its proximity to the UI element and/or its relation to the UI element's selection zone. Each UI element may be assigned a threshold. If the aggregated value of gaze input is equal to or greater than the threshold for the UI element, then the UI element may be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Narasimhan Raghunath, Austin B. Hodges, Fei Su, Akhilesh Kaza, Peter John Ansell, Jonathan T. Campbell, Harish S. Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 10866633
    Abstract: A user's signature may be decomposed into one or more components. The components may be described using one or more control points. A user may sign with their eyes by focusing their gaze on a set of these control points that make up the signature. If the user's gaze is within a threshold distance from a control point the signature is validated. Moreover, by modifying the control points based upon the actual gaze location (which is within the threshold distance), the signature may be slightly modified. For example, the signature may be decomposed into one or more components as Bezier curves and the user may be asked to focus on each control point of each of the one or more Bezier curves. Modifying the control points of a Bezier curve slightly still produces a smooth curve, but introduces natural variations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan T Campbell, Harish S Kulkarni
  • Publication number: 20190034038
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to intelligent typing and responses using eye-gaze technology are disclosed herein. In some example aspects, a dwell-free typing system is provided to a user typing with eye-gaze. A prediction processor may intelligently determine the desired word or action of the user. In some aspects, the prediction processor may contain elements of a natural language processor. In other aspects, the systems and methods may allow quicker response times from applications due to application of intelligent response algorithms. For example, a user may fixate on a certain button within a web-browser, and the prediction processor may present a response to the user by selecting the button in the web-browser, thereby initiating an action. In other example aspects, each gaze location may be associated with a UI element. The gaze data and associated UI elements may be processed for intelligent predictions and suggestions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dmytro RUDCHENKO, Eric N. BADGER, Akhilesh KAZA, Jacob Daniel COHEN, Harish S. KULKARNI
  • Publication number: 20190033965
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein are related to an intelligent UI element selection system using eye-gaze technology. In some example aspects, a UI element selection zone may be determined. The selection zone may be defined as an area surrounding a boundary of the UI element. Gaze input may be received and the gaze input may be compared with the selection zone to determine an intent of the user. The gaze input may comprise one or more gaze locations. Each gaze location may be assigned a value according to its proximity to the UI element and/or its relation to the UI element's selection zone. Each UI element may be assigned a threshold. If the aggregated value of gaze input is equal to or greater than the threshold for the UI element, then the UI element may be selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Narasimhan RAGHUNATH, Austin B. HODGES, Fei SU, Akhilesh KAZA, Peter John ANSELL, Jonathan T. CAMPBELL, Harish S. KULKARNI
  • Publication number: 20190034057
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to assigning dynamic eye-gaze dwell-times. Dynamic dwell-times may be tailored to the individual user. For example, a dynamic dwell-time system may be configured to receive data from the user, such as the duration of time the user takes to execute certain actions within applications (e.g., read a word suggestion before actually selecting it). The dynamic dwell-time system may also prevent users from making unintended selections by providing different dwell times for different buttons. Specifically, on a user interface, longer dwell times may be established for the critical keys (e.g., “close” program key, “send” key, word suggestions, and the like) and shorter dwell times may be established for the less critical keys (e.g., individual character keys on a virtual keyboard, spacebar, backspace, and the like).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dmytro RUDCHENKO, Eric N. BADGER, Akhilesh KAZA, Jacob Daniel COHEN, Peter John ANSELL, Jonathan T. CAMPBELL, Harish S. KULKARNI
  • Publication number: 20180246567
    Abstract: A user's signature may be decomposed into one or more components. The components may be described using one or more control points. A user may sign with their eyes by focusing their gaze on a set of these control points that make up the signature. If the user's gaze is within a threshold distance from a control point the signature is validated. Moreover, by modifying the control points based upon the actual gaze location (which is within the threshold distance), the signature may be slightly modified. For example, the signature may be decomposed into one or more components as Bezier curves and the user may be asked to focus on each control point of each of the one or more Bezier curves. Modifying the control points of a Bezier curve slightly still produces a smooth curve, but introduces natural variations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Jonathan T. Campbell, Harish S. Kulkarni
  • Publication number: 20170293402
    Abstract: The systems and techniques described herein implement an improved gaze-based on-screen keyboard that provide dynamically variable dwell times to increase throughput and reduce errors. Utilizing a language model, the probability that each key of the on-screen keyboard will be the subsequential key can be determined, and based at least in part on this determined probability, a dwell time can be assigned to each key. When used as an iterative process, a minimum dwell time may be gradually reduced as confidence in the subsequential key increases to provide a cascading minimum dwell time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Meredith June Morris, Shane Frandon Williams, Mira Eileen Shah, Ann Paradiso, Harish S. Kulkarni, Martez Mott, Jay Curtis Beavers, Jonathan Thomas Campbell, Peter John Ansell
  • Patent number: 9542337
    Abstract: Described is a technology by which a transient storage device or secure execution environment-based (e.g., including an embedded processor) device validates a host computer system. The device compares hashes of host system data against valid hashes maintained in protected storage of the device. The host data may be a file, data block, and/or memory contents. The device takes action when the host system data does not match the information in protected storage, such as to log information about the mismatch and/or provide an indication of validation failure, e.g., via an LED and/or display screen output. Further, the comparison may be part of a boot process validation, and the action may prevent the boot process from continuing, or replace an invalid file. Alternatively, the validation may take place at anytime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Abzarian, Todd L. Carpenter, Harish S. Kulkarni, Salahuddin J. Khan
  • Patent number: 9436400
    Abstract: A device configuration silo is arranged to be accessed as an IEEE 1667-compatible silo which exposes interfaces to a host application to make changes to the presence of one or more other silos, as well as make changes to silo configurations on a per-silo basis for data and method sharing among silos across the ACTs on a storage device such as a transient storage device. The interfaces exposed by the device configuration silo are arranged to enable an authenticated provisioner, like administrator in a corporate network environment, to perform configuration changes to silos after the storage device is released into the field through a secure provisioning mechanism. In addition, users may make configuration changes to silos at runtime in some usage scenarios, for example to enable discrete portions of functionality on a storage device, by using a secure secondary authentication mechanism that is exposed by the device configuration silo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Abzarian, Harish S. Kulkarni, Todd Carpenter
  • Patent number: 9172744
    Abstract: Described is a technology by which a scalable distributed file system is provided by deploying intelligent storage devices that are directly connected to the network. A server receives a request for data from a requester, and sends corresponding requests to the storage devices. The storage devices send data blocks directly to the requester instead of back to the server, while identifying the server as the sender, e.g., by programming a switch to participate in such an operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Harish S. Kulkarni