Patents by Inventor Sean GEIGER

Sean GEIGER 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).

  • Push notification distribution system
    Patent number: 11917030
    Abstract: A push notification distribution system centralizes the management and delivery of push notifications to applications executing on electronic devices. Registration requests to register applications for push notifications may be aggregated and sent as an aggregated registration request. The delivery priority of push notifications may be managed according to specified preferences. Upon receiving a push notification intended for an electronic device, a delivery priority of the push notification may be changed if an application identifier associated with the push notification is found on a list of application identifiers with designed delivery priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huan He, Jonathon Sodos, Nicholas J. Circosta, Sean Geiger, Nelson M. Leduc, Cisto Cyriac, Matthew E. Shepherd, David A. Schaefgen, Elliot T. Garner, Jose A. Lozano Hinojosa, Mursalin Akon, Robert D. Butler, Xudong Liu
  • Privacy-preserving electronic publication and subscription systems
    Patent number: 11848767
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for privacy-preserving electronic publication and subscription. A publisher device may establish a publication channel with a publication server and receive a channel identifier and a channel ownership token for the channel. The publisher device may provide the channel identifier and a key for the publication channel to a subscriber device. The publisher device may publish data encrypted using the key to the publication server, the subscriber device may obtain the encrypted published data from the server using the channel identifier, and may decrypt the published data using the key obtained from the publisher device. The published data may include status information for a user of the publisher device, in some examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Circosta, Elliot T. Garner, Aniket A. Zamwar, Yevgeni Pekurovsky, Jared A. Crawford, Frederic Jacobs, Justin S Titi, Matthew E. Shepherd, Jose A. Lozano Hinojosa, Sean Geiger, Ahmed M. Bashir
  • PRIVACY-PRESERVING ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION AND SUBSCRIPTION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20220385738
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for privacy-preserving electronic publication and subscription. A publisher device may establish a publication channel with a publication server and receive a channel identifier and a channel ownership token for the channel. The publisher device may provide the channel identifier and a key for the publication channel to a subscriber device. The publisher device may publish data encrypted using the key to the publication server, the subscriber device may obtain the encrypted published data from the server using the channel identifier, and may decrypt the published data using the key obtained from the publisher device. The published data may include status information for a user of the publisher device, in some examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas J. CIRCOSTA, Elliot T. GARNER, Aniket A. ZAMWAR, Yevgeni PEKUROVSKY, Jared A. CRAWFORD, Frederic JACOBS, Justin S. TITI, Matthew E. SHEPHERD, Jose A. LOZANO HINOJOSA, Sean GEIGER, Ahmed M. BASHIR
  • PUSH NOTIFICATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210392194
    Abstract: A push notification distribution system centralizes the management and delivery of push notifications to applications executing on electronic devices. Registration requests to register applications for push notifications may be aggregated and sent as an aggregated registration request. The delivery priority of push notifications may be managed according to specified preferences. Upon receiving a push notification intended for an electronic device, a delivery priority of the push notification may be changed if an application identifier associated with the push notification is found on a list of application identifiers with designed delivery priorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Huan HE, Jonathon SODOS, Nicholas J. CIRCOSTA, Sean GEIGER, Nelson M. LEDUC, Cisto CYRIAC, Matthew E. SHEPHERD, David A. SCHAEFGEN, Elliot T. GARNER, Jose A. LOZANO HINOJOSA, Mursalin AKON, Robert D. BUTLER, Xudong LIU