Patents by Inventor Sharon Kay Cunnington

Sharon Kay Cunnington 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).

  • Patent number: 8600731
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates communication within a telepresence session. A telepresence session can be initiated within a communication framework that includes two or more virtually represented users that communicate therein. The telepresence session can include at least one virtually represented user that communicates in a first language, the communication is at least one of a portion of audio, a portion of video, a portion of graphic, a gesture, or a portion of text. An interpreter component can evaluate the communication to translate an identified first language into a second language within the telepresence session, the translation is automatically provided to at least one virtually represented user within the telepresence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sharon Kay Cunnington, Jin Li, Michel Pahud, Rajesh K. Hegde, Zhengyou Zhang
  • Publication number: 20100306670
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates interacting with data associated with a telepresence session. A telepresence session can be initiated within a communication framework that includes two or more virtually represented users that communicate therein. A portion of data can be virtually represented within the telepresence session in which at least one virtually represented user interacts therewith. A detect component can monitor motions related to at least one virtually represented user to identify a gesture, the gesture involves a virtual interaction with the portion of data within the telepresence session. An interaction component can implement a manipulation to the portion of data virtually represented within the telepresence session based upon the identified gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kori Marie Quinn, Rajesh Kutpadi Hegde, Sharon Kay Cunnington, Michel Pahud, Xuedong D. Huang, Zhengyon Zhang
  • Publication number: 20100228825
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates enhancing the employment of a telepresence session. An automatic telepresence engine that can evaluate data associated with at least one of an attendee, a schedule for an attendee, or a portion of an electronic communication for an attendee. The automatic telepresence engine can identify at least one the following for a telepresence session based upon the evaluated data: a participant to include for the telepresence session, a portion of data related to a presentation within the telepresence session, a portion of data related to a meeting topic within the telepresence session, a device utilized by an attendee to communicate within the telepresence session. The automatic telepresence engine can initiate the telepresence session within a communication framework that includes two or more virtually represented users that communicate therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rajesh Kutpadi Hegde, Xuedong David Huang, Sharon Kay Cunnington, Jin Li, Michel Pahud, Ryan M. Burkhardt, Kori Marie Quinn, Jayman Dalal, Zhengyou Zhang
  • Publication number: 20100198579
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates communication within a telepresence session. A telepresence session can be initiated within a communication framework that includes two or more virtually represented users that communicate therein. The telepresence session can include at least one virtually represented user that communicates in a first language, the communication is at least one of a portion of audio, a portion of video, a portion of graphic, a gesture, or a portion of text. An interpreter component can evaluate the communication to translate an identified first language into a second language within the telepresence session, the translation is automatically provided to at least one virtually represented user within the telepresence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sharon Kay Cunnington, Jin Li, Michel Pahud, Rajesh K. Hegde, Zhengyou Zhang