Patents by Inventor Nadim Awad
Nadim Awad 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: 9456043Abstract: Users may access a variety of content in many locations. Described herein are systems, devices and methods for introducing users that are in close proximity to one another. Historical location data of the media devices, data indicating content usage on the media devices, or a combination of the two is used to determine a correspondence between two or more users. Once the correspondence has been determined, an introduction may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Arnaud Marie Froment, Levon Dolbakian, Kenneth Paul Kiraly, Srinivasan Sridharan, Jonathan White Keljo, Nadim Awad
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Patent number: 9411780Abstract: Techniques are described for determining height, weight, or other characteristics of a user based on processed sensor data. The sensor data may include data collected by sensors on the user's computing device or other computing devices, or data collected by stationary, external sensors. Different types of sensor data may be processed to estimate at least one physical characteristic of the user, such as the user's height, weight, apparel size, age, and so forth. The estimated characteristics may be employed to perform actions based on the user's identity or category, to customize content delivery for the user, or for other purposes.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nadim Awad, Srinivasan Sridharan, Kenneth Paul Kiraly, Jonathan White Keljo, Levon Dolbakian, Arnaud Marie Froment
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Patent number: 9374655Abstract: A user device may include a transmission power manager to control a transmission power level of a wireless transceiver based on a location of a human body proximate the user device as detected by a proximity sensor. In response to at least one of a power up of the user device or initialization of a wireless transceiver, the transmission power manager may restrict a transmission power level of the wireless transceiver to one of a plurality of power states. The transmission power manager may then operate to detect a step in proximity sensor data obtained by the proximity sensor. Then, in response to detecting the step in the proximity data, the transmission power manager may restricting the transmission power level of the wireless transceiver and determine a proximity threshold value based at least in part on the detected step and the proximity sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Allen Lee, Nadim Awad, Ruenjou Lu
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Patent number: 9319221Abstract: Approaches to enable a computing device, such as a phone or tablet computer, to compute a probability that the user currently using the device matches a profile of an authorized user and to set or change a security level of the computing device based on the computed probability. The security level can be one of many security levels each having a different scope of authorized access to data or functions of the computing device. The computing device may periodically re-compute the probability and change the security level whenever the probability crosses certain predefined thresholds.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nadim Awad, Jonathan White Keljo, Levon Dolbakian, Arnaud Marie Froment, Kenneth Paul Kiraly, Michael David Dumont, Srinivasan Sridharan
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Patent number: 9299350Abstract: A system and method for identifying a user of a device includes comparing audio received by a device with acoustic fingerprint information to identify a user of the device. Image data, video data and other data may also be used in the identification of the user. Once the user is identified, operation of the device may be customized based on the user. Further, once the user is identified, data can be associated with the user, for example, usage data, location data, gender data, age data, dominant hand data of the user, and other data. This data can then be used to further customize the operation of the device to the specific user.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael David Dumont, Jonathan White Keljo, Levon Dolbakain, Srinivasan Sridharan, Arnaud Marie Froment, Nadim Awad, Kenneth Paul Kiraly
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Patent number: 9286482Abstract: In some examples, an electronic device may include one or more recognition devices able to be used to recognize a current user. If the electronic device recognizes that a primary user, such as an owner, is currently using the electronic device, the electronic device may allow access to all of the primary user's private information and all of the features of the electronic device. On the other hand, when the electronic device determines that the current user is an unknown user, or that the current user is a known user who is authorized to access only limited information or features of the electronic device, the electronic device may send a communication to restrict the current user from accessing private information of the primary user. In some cases, the electronic device may enable the primary user to designate which items known users and/or unknown users may access.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael David Dumont, Kenneth Paul Kiraly, Levon Dolbakian, Srinivasan Sridharan, Nadim Awad, Jonathan White Keljo, Arnaud Marie Froment
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Patent number: 9280234Abstract: A system and method determines whether a finger touch on a touch screen device is outside the defined boundary of a touch target. In such situations a device may adjust the location coordinates of the finger touch to adaptively correspond to an appropriate touch target based on such factors as context, region, distance from touch target, user history, device movement, parallax, etc. The method and system may also be applied to overlapping touch targets.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Arnaud Marie Froment, Nadim Awad, Kenneth Paul Kiraly
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Patent number: 9276541Abstract: Content is presented by media devices to a user. Described herein are techniques and systems for determining occurrence of one or more events at, or proximate to, the media device. Once an event is determined, one or more actions to modify presentation of the content may be initiated. The actions may include starting presentation of the content, stopping presentation of the content, applying noise mitigation techniques to the content, and so forth. The noise mitigation techniques may include modification of an intended signal from the content to produce a noise mitigation zone 118 proximate to, or encompassing, at least a portion of the user's head.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Arnaud Marie Froment, Kenneth Paul Kiraly, Jonathan White Keljo, Srinivasan Sridharan, Levon Dolbakian, Nadim Awad, Michael David Dumont
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Patent number: 9262999Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices and methods for presenting content based on the spatial relationship between a media device and a user of the media device. The media device may present content based on an angle between an eye axis of the user and a device axis of the media device.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Arnaud Marie Froment, Kenneth Paul Kiraly, Nadim Awad, Jonathan White Keljo, Michael David Dumont, Levon Dolbakian, Srinivasan Sridharan
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Patent number: 9190025Abstract: Techniques for utilizing different versions of a same font when rendering subsequent portions of a content item. For instance, envision that a user requests to open an electronic book. In response to this request, a display controller may display the first page of the electronic book using a flashing update and, therefore, may display the text using a regular weight of a particular font. However, when the user subsequently requests to turn to the second page of the electronic book, the display controller (utilizing a non-flashing update) may update the display using a version of the same font having a lesser weight. Given that some level of bleeding with likely occur when using the non-flashing update, the lesser weight coupled with the bleeding may result in text that approximates the weight of the text of the first page of the electronic book.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Waverly Zehner, Nadim Awad, Scott Michael Dylewski, Ronald Joseph Fernandez, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Jonathan Ian McCormack, Hannah Rebecca Lewbel
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Patent number: 9104886Abstract: Systems and approaches are provided for automating privacy control for a computing device based on a privacy or security context of the device. The privacy or security context of the computing device can be determined by analyzing sensor data or other input data captured by the device. The sensor and other input data can provide information such as a location of the computing device or the presence of other persons within the vicinity of the device to indicate whether the user is situated within a private or secure setting or a public or unsecure setting. A privacy or security control can be updated based on the determined privacy or security context, such as modifying a manner of displaying a pin or password during entry, elements of a home screen of the computing device, or preview content of user applications.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Levon Dolbakian, Jonathan White Keljo, Kenneth Paul Kiraly, Nadim Awad, Arnaud Marie Froment, Michael David Dumont, Srinivasan Sridharan
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Patent number: 9035752Abstract: User input is accepted by a force sensing resistor (“FSR”) assembly, a force sensing capacitor (“FSC”) or both. The FSR or FSC assemblies may be located within an input device, such as behind a device exterior, display, and so forth. A force applied to the device exterior proximate to the assembly may result in activation of the assembly. The activation may be processed as input and used to determine and then perform a particular action. The particular action may be based at least in part on a particular portion of the assembly which has been activated, a magnitude of applied force, or both. A haptic output may be provided on activation to provide feedback to a user.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, Lakshman Rathnam, Nadim Awad, John Aaron Zarraga, David Charles Buuck, Julien George Beguin
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Patent number: 8977776Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for content streaming with bandwidth management. Partial content is generated from source content at a server and distributed to a streaming device, such as during periods when network bandwidth is available. This partial content is incomplete relative to the source content and is unusable. During presentation of the content, remaining content is streamed from the server and combined with the partial content to generate complete content suitable for presentation.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael M. Lee, Nadim Awad, Nagendra Bage Jayaraj
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Patent number: 8935710Abstract: Embodiments of methods, systems and storage medium associated with generating and storing a unique event identifier (UEID) associated with a type of an event of a module of a computing system are disclosed herein. Specifically, a centralized UEID storage may include one or more event nodes configured to associate a UEID with a type of an event handled by or occurring at an owner module. The centralized UEID storage may be further configured to associate, using the UEID, the type of the event with one or more callback functions of one or more client modules. Upon occurrence of the type of the event, the callback functions may be identified and invoked using the UEID.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sandeep Chidambara Marathe, Nadim Awad, Vidhyananth Ramasamy Venkatasamy
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Publication number: 20140378159Abstract: An adaptive navigation system anticipates a user's interactions with a device, modifying the device in the future based on past user movements and interactions. The system records a user's movement patterns and correlates movement patterns with how the user interacts with the device. When the movement patterns recur, the system modifies at least one behavior of the device based upon past interaction of the user with the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Levon Dolbakian, Kenneth Paul Kiraly, Srinivasan Sridharan, Nadim Awad, Jonathan White Keljo, Arnaud Marie Froment, Michael David Dumont