Patents by Inventor Junaid Ahmed
Junaid Ahmed 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).
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Patent number: 9842158Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are provided for delivering clustered search results for recent and non-recent events by maintaining the identification (ID) numbers of the respective clustered documents beyond the “fresh” life span of the clustered documents. When clusters are formed according to similar content, an ID number and associated attributes are assigned to each of the clusters. This provides a mechanism to track and retrieve the respective clusters for subsequent delivery of search results. The respective ID numbers of the clusters are maintained, even after the documents are no longer considered “fresh.” These similar-content clusters are further subdivided according to publication date. This provides individual subdivided clusters for similar content events that occurred at different time spans, which are delivered along with individual non-clustered search results in a SERP.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sasi Kumar Parthasarathy, Junaid Ahmed, Yatharth Saraf, Walter Sun
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Publication number: 20170272303Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yan KE, Serge SMIRNOV, Qiaolin MAO, Alexander Owen COLL, Ting CAI, Xiaodong FAN, Junaid AHMED
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Patent number: 9728800Abstract: A proton exchange membrane and a membrane electrode assembly for an electrochemical cell such as a fuel cell are provided. A catalytically active component is disposed within the membrane electrode assembly. The catalytically active component comprises particles containing a metal oxide such as silica, metal or metalloid ions such as ions that include boron, and a catalyst. A process for increasing peroxide radical resistance in a membrane electrode is also provided that includes the introduction of the catalytically active component described into a membrane electrode assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLCInventors: Kimberly Gheysen Raiford, Junaid Ahmed Siddiqui
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Patent number: 9718557Abstract: When flights meet disaster in the mid-air, the cause of the mishap is unknown immediately. Teams are dispatched in difficult conditions to retrieve the flight data recorder (FDR) also known as black box. Until the black box is found, the exact cause of the crash cannot be determined. Sometimes it may take years to find the black box. For example, Air France flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Jun. 1, 2009. The cause of the accident remained unknown mainly because the black box was missing. It was found after almost two years in May 2011. The delay in finding the flight data creates risks for future flights if the crash occurred due to a manufacturing defect in the model of the plane. The ability to reach the data without the burden and need for a physical black box has obvious benefits.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New YorkInventor: Junaid Ahmed Zubairi
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Patent number: 9699019Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yan Ke, Serge Smirnov, Qiaolin Mao, Alexander Owen Coll, Ting Cai, Xiaodong Fan, Junaid Ahmed
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Publication number: 20170177851Abstract: A device unlock pattern (“pattern password”) is static in that the same pattern is entered each time to unlock a device. Due to this repetition, a pattern password may be discovered by an application that captures touchscreen gestures, by inspection of fingerprints or smudges on a screen, or simply by an onlooker that views the pattern password being entered. A variable hint pattern can be used to impede discovery. A hint pattern is a sub-pattern (“hint”) of the pattern password to be completed for device unlock. A variable hint pattern can impede discovery by changing the sub-pattern at a defined change threshold related to unlock attempts. The device can randomly change the sub-pattern or randomly change the missing portions of the pattern password at each change threshold. As a result, different inputs complete the pattern password. This variance stymies the methods typically used to discover pattern passwords.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Yashwant Ramkishan Sawant, Mohammed Mujeeb Kaladgi, Ruqiya Nikhat Kaladgi, Junaid Ahmed Jameel, Jameel Ahmed Kaladgi
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Publication number: 20170027657Abstract: A medical tool for use with an endoscopic capsule includes: a jaw assembly configured to maintain the endoscopic capsule at a certain position or within a range of positions relative to the jaw assembly while the endoscopic capsule is inside a bodily lumen, the jaw assembly having a first jaw and a second jaw, the first jaw having a first portion and a second portion that is opposite from the first portion; and a control configured to move at least one of the first jaw and the second jaw from a first configuration in which the first and the second jaws are spaced at a first distance, to a second configuration in which the first and the second jaws are spaced at a second distance that is less than the first distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Alexander Martin Zoellner, Caitlin Claire Ploch, Harsh Rajesh Sheth, Junaid Ahmed Bakhtiyar Zaman, Po-Hao Huang, Saumitra Kumar Thakur
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Publication number: 20160328428Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for updating a search index with new uniform resource locators (URLs) and spiking URLs with increased user interest. History data, provided from browser applications residing on users' computers that indicate URLs accessed by the users, is parsed to identify new/previously unknown URLs. The history data also indicates URLs in which there is increased interest based on a number of recent hits as compared to an average number of hits determined over time. Author postings of new URLs to social networking sites and a quality rating of the authors may also be used to identify and filter new URLs. Search indexes are updated with the new and spiking URL data. As such, lag time between posting of new URLs and spiking of URL interest and inclusion of this data in a search index is greatly decreased.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Walter Sun, Junaid Ahmed, Yipeng Li, Peter Bailey, Nikhil Dandekar, Sasi Parthasarathy, Xin Chen, Xiao Zhang
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Patent number: 9424356Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for updating a search index with new uniform resource locators (URLs) and spiking URLs with increased user interest. History data, provided from browser applications residing on users' computers that indicate URLs accessed by the users, is parsed to identify new/previously unknown URLs. The history data also indicates URLs in which there is increased interest based on a number of recent hits as compared to an average number of hits determined over time. Author postings of new URLs to social networking sites and a quality rating of the authors may also be used to identify and filter new URLs. Search indexes are updated with the new and spiking URL data. As such, lag time between posting of new URLs and spiking of URL interest and inclusion of this data in a search index is greatly decreased.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Walter Sun, Junaid Ahmed, Yipeng Li, Peter Bailey, Nikhil Dandekar, Sasi Parthasarathy, Xin Chen, Xiao Zhang
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Patent number: 9292607Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for updating a search index with new uniform resource locators (URLs) and with metadata for new and known URLs. Data associated with communications made by users using a social network is received. The communications include a URL therein that a user has shared, posted, or otherwise communicated to one or more other users using the social network. When the URL is not found in a search index it is identified as a new URL and is added to the search index. A measure of a trending interest, or virality, of the URL is determined from the data. The determined virality is associated with the URL in a search index as metadata. The virality is useable to inform a ranking of the URL against a plurality of other URLs for identification and presentation as a search result in a search engine results page.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Sasi Parthasarathy, Junaid Ahmed, Walter Sun, Jingfeng Li, Paul Alexander Dow, Yajie Siamwalla
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Patent number: 9200180Abstract: A composition and associated method for chemical mechanical planarization (or other polishing) are described. The composition contains an abrasive, benzenesulfonic acid compound, a per-compound oxidizing agent, and water. The composition affords tunability of removal rates for metal, barrier layer materials, and dielectric layer materials in metal CMP processes. The composition is particularly useful in conjunction with the associated method for metal CMP applications (e.g., step 2 copper CMP processes).Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2009Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Gautam Banerjee, Timothy Frederick Compton, Junaid Ahmed Siddiqui, Ajoy Zutshi
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Patent number: 9116990Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-storage media for improving the freshness, or the apparent freshness, of search results are described. In an embodiment, the first portion of search results presented on a search results page are based on responsiveness to the search query and a second portion of results describe only recently published documents that are responsive to the search query. In an embodiment, a more recent version of the document, which is not directly used to determine responsiveness, is used to build the caption for a search result. Another way to make search results appear fresh is to include a publication time within the search result caption. In one embodiment, the publication time is generated by calculating a point in time between when a document is first added to a search index and the previous time the search engine visited the site where the document was found.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Walter Sun, Thomas Arthur Ledbetter, Vinay Sudhir Deshpande, Yinzhe Yu, Lin Guo, Abhishek Singh, Junaid Ahmed, Jay Kumar Goyal, Jingfeng Li, Brahm Kiran Singh
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Publication number: 20150234915Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are provided for delivering clustered search results for recent and non-recent events by maintaining the identification (ID) numbers of the respective clustered documents beyond the “fresh” life span of the clustered documents. When clusters are formed according to similar content, an ID number and associated attributes are assigned to each of the clusters. This provides a mechanism to track and retrieve the respective clusters for subsequent delivery of search results. The respective ID numbers of the clusters are maintained, even after the documents are no longer considered “fresh.” These similar-content clusters are further subdivided according to publication date. This provides individual subdivided clusters for similar content events that occurred at different time spans, which are delivered along with individual non-clustered search results in a SERP.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Sasi Kumar Parthasarathy, Junaid Ahmed, Yatharth Saraf, Walter Sun
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Publication number: 20150203212Abstract: When flights meet disaster in the mid-air, the cause of the mishap is unknown immediately. Teams are dispatched in difficult conditions to retrieve the flight data recorder (FDR) also known as black box. Until the black box is found, the exact cause of the crash cannot be determined. Sometimes it may take years to find the black box. For example, Air France flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Jun. 1, 2009. The cause of the accident remained unknown mainly because the black box was missing. It was found after almost two years in May 2011. The delay in finding the flight data creates risks for future flights if the crash occurred due to a manufacturing defect in the model of the plane. The ability to reach the data without the burden and need for a physical black box has obvious benefits.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventor: Junaid Ahmed Zubairi
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Patent number: 9043306Abstract: A client application installed on end user computers generates metadata from the content of web pages visited by end users and provides the metadata to a search engine. When an end user visits a web page, the end user's computer downloads and displays the web page to the end user. The client application may simultaneously access the web page content and generate this metadata in the form of a content signature of the web page from the web page content. The client application then provides the content signature to a search engine. The search engine may employ content signatures to identify new web pages to crawl and index. Additionally, the search engine may employ content signatures to identify changes to web pages and determine the crawl frequency of web pages.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Fabrice Canel, Junaid Ahmed, Thomas Francis McElroy, Walter Sun, Kumar Chellapilla, Abhishek Singh, Vishnu Challam
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Patent number: 9026519Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are provided for delivering clustered search results for recent and non-recent events by maintaining the identification (ID) numbers of the respective clustered documents beyond the “fresh” life span of the clustered documents. When clusters are formed according to similar content, an ID number and associated attributes are assigned to each of the clusters. This provides a mechanism to track and retrieve the respective clusters for subsequent delivery of search results. The respective ID numbers of the clusters are maintained, even after the documents are no longer considered “fresh.” These similar-content clusters are further subdivided according to publication date. This provides individual subdivided clusters for similar content events that occurred at different time spans, which are delivered along with individual non-clustered search results in a SERP.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sasi Kumar Parthasarathy, Junaid Ahmed, Yatharth Saraf, Walter Sun
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Publication number: 20140372425Abstract: Architecture that employs a search engine to unobtrusively understand the concepts (topics) and entities in which a user is interested, while simultaneously understanding the current events of the world. These concepts/entities and current events are then mapped to each other to provide a personalized experience for each user that is informative as to the latest news of interest to the user. The user interests are mapped to current events, and queries are formulated, ranked, and displayed to the user that relate to what the user may be interested in searching about new events the user would not have considered without the search engine's assistance. The popular queries are combined with the understanding of what is being indexed in a super fresh tier to determine the current events.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Dina Ayoub, Junaid Ahmed
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Publication number: 20140372563Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Yan Ke, Serge Smirnov, Qiaolin Mao, Alexander Owen Coll, Ting Cai, Xiaodong Fan, Junaid Ahmed
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Patent number: 8722569Abstract: A catalytically active component is provided which comprises particles containing a metal oxide such as silica, metal or metalloid ions such as ions that include boron, and a catalyst. When introduced into the membrane electrode assembly of a fuel cell, the particles increase peroxide radical resistance in a membrane electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Junaid Ahmed Siddiqui, Kimberly Gheysen Raiford
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Publication number: 20140120455Abstract: A proton exchange membrane and a membrane electrode assembly for an electrochemical cell such as a fuel cell are provided. A catalytically active component is disposed within the membrane electrode assembly. The catalytically active component comprises particles containing a metal oxide such as silica, metal or metalloid ions such as ions that include boron, and a catalyst. A process for increasing peroxide radical resistance in a membrane electrode is also provided that includes the introduction of the catalytically active component described into a membrane electrode assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2014Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Kimberly Gheysen Raiford, Junaid Ahmed Siddiqui