Patents by Inventor Jason Q. Zhang

Jason Q. Zhang 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).

  • Dynamically enabling features of an application based on user status
    Patent number: 8412819
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first application detects a user's activity. Based on the user's activity detected by the first application, a type of user status is determined from among a plurality of different types of possible user status. One or more features are determined of a feature set of a second application that correspond to the type of user status detected by the first application. The corresponding one or more features of the feature set of the second application are limited to prevent the one or more features from interrupting the user's activity. One or more other features of the feature set of the second application that do not correspond to the type of user status detected by the first application are permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Knight, Jason Q. Zhang, Steffen Matt, Anand Ramanathan
  • Dynamically enabling features of an application based on user status
    Patent number: 8301699
    Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more applications may be executed on a computer, where each application has an associated feature set. A user status of a particular application may be determined, and in response to that user status for the particular application, the feature set of at least one other application may be dynamically adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Knight, Jason Q. Zhang, Steffen Matt, Anand Ramanathan
  • DYNAMICALLY ENABLING FEATURES OF AN APPLICATION BASED ON USER STATUS
    Publication number: 20120226806
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first application detects a user's activity. Based on the user's activity detected by the first application, a type of user status is determined from among a plurality of different types of possible user status. One or more features are determined of a feature set of a second application that correspond to the type of user status detected by the first application. The corresponding one or more features of the feature set of the second application are limited to prevent the one or more features from interrupting the user's activity. One or more other features of the feature set of the second application that do not correspond to the type of user status detected by the first application are permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: David Knight, Jason Q. Zhang, Steffen Matt, Anand Ramanathan