Patents by Inventor Sogol Malekzadeh
Sogol Malekzadeh 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: 10268826Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that address issues related to data privacy by enabling users to elect various levels of data sharing. A user of a user device is enabled to indicate their comfort level with sharing, transmitting, or otherwise exposing individual activity records (data entities) with respect to various activity categories. The exposure of activity records may be controlled with respect to on-device and off-device components. Furthermore, privacy profiles may be automatically generated for the user, and the privacy profiles may be automatically activated in corresponding situations.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLCInventors: Colleen Hamilton, Robert Howard, Lee Dicks Clark, John Yovin, Shawn Brown, Sogol Malekzadeh
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Publication number: 20180173882Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that address issues related to data privacy by enabling users to elect various levels of data sharing. A user of a user device is enabled to indicate their comfort level with sharing, transmitting, or otherwise exposing individual activity records (data entities) with respect to various activity categories. The exposure of activity records may be controlled with respect to on-device and off-device components. Furthermore, privacy profiles may be automatically generated for the user, and the privacy profiles may be automatically activated in corresponding situations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Colleen Hamilton, Robert Howard, Lee Dicks Clark, John Yovin, Shawn Brown, Sogol Malekzadeh
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Patent number: 9922197Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that address issues related to data privacy by enabling users to elect various levels of data sharing. A user of a user device is enabled to indicate their comfort level with sharing, transmitting, or otherwise exposing individual activity records (data entities) with respect to various activity categories. The exposure of activity records may be controlled with respect to on-device and off-device components. Furthermore, privacy profiles may be automatically generated for the user, and the privacy profiles may be automatically activated in corresponding situations.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Colleen Hamilton, Robert Howard, Lee Dicks Clark, John Yovin, Shawn Brown, Sogol Malekzadeh
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Patent number: 9807559Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for implementing a digital personal assistant. The digital personal assistant is capable of determining that a user has asked a question or made a statement that is intended to engage with a persona of the digital personal assistant. In response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides a response thereto by displaying or playing back a multimedia object associated with a popular culture reference within or by a user interface of the digital personal assistant. Additionally or alternatively, in response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides the response thereto by generating or playing back speech that comprises an impersonation of a voice of a person associated with the popular culture reference.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lee Dicks Clark, Deborah B. Harrison, Susan Hendrich, David Gardner, Sogol Malekzadeh, Catherine L. Maritan, Melissa Lim, Mary P. Czerwinski, Ran Gilad-Bachrach
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Patent number: 9514748Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for implementing a digital personal assistant. The digital personal assistant is capable of determining that a user has asked a question or made a statement that is intended to engage with a persona of the digital personal assistant. In response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides a response thereto by displaying or playing back a multimedia object associated with a popular culture reference within or by a user interface of the digital personal assistant. Additionally or alternatively, in response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides the response thereto by generating or playing back speech that comprises an impersonation of a voice of a person associated with the popular culture reference.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mouni Reddy, Robert J. Howard, III, Deborah B. Harrison, Sogol Malekzadeh
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Patent number: 9264104Abstract: A method for exchanging information between two communication devices includes communicating first identity information from a first communication device to a second communication device over a short-range communication link in response to an event. A second identity is received from the second communication device over the short-range communication link. The first identity information identifies a user of the first communication device and the second identity information identifies a user of the second communication device. Based on the first and second identity information, information is obtained specifying at least one attribute of the first and second users that they have in common.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Jae Park, Karen Luk, Michael Connolly, Sogol Malekzadeh, John Skovron, Matthias Baer, Monica Gonzalez, Jonathan Aroner
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Publication number: 20150382147Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for implementing a digital personal assistant. The digital personal assistant is capable of determining that a user has asked a question or made a statement that is intended to engage with a persona of the digital personal assistant. In response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides a response thereto by displaying or playing back a multimedia object associated with a popular culture reference within or by a user interface of the digital personal assistant. Additionally or alternatively, in response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides the response thereto by generating or playing back speech that comprises an impersonation of a voice of a person associated with the popular culture reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Lee Dicks Clark, Deborah B. Harrison, Susan Hendrich, David Gardner, Sogol Malekzadeh, Catherine L. Maritan, Melissa Lim, Mary P. Czerwinski, Ran Gilad-Bachrach
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Publication number: 20150286698Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing a reactive digital personal assistant. A reactive digital assistant is a digital assistant that is capable of having a reaction. For instance, the reaction may be provided visually and/or audibly. The reaction may be specified by personal assistant logic on a device that provides the digital personal assistant, by an application on the device that communicates with the personal assistant logic, or by a Web service with which the application communicates. The personal assistant logic may retrieve media representation(s) that correspond to the reaction from a store on the device, or the application may retrieve the media representation(s) from the Web service. The personal assistant logic may notify the application of a status of the digital personal assistant once the media representation(s) are retrieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2014Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ryan P. Gagnier, Sogol Malekzadeh, David Gardner, Talon E. Ireland, Lee Dicks Clark, Robert Howard, Matthew S. Mang
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Publication number: 20150199967Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for implementing a digital personal assistant. The digital personal assistant is capable of determining that a user has asked a question or made a statement that is intended to engage with a persona of the digital personal assistant. In response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides a response thereto by displaying or playing back a multimedia object associated with a popular culture reference within or by a user interface of the digital personal assistant. Additionally or alternatively, in response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides the response thereto by generating or playing back speech that comprises an impersonation of a voice of a person associated with the popular culture reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Mouni Reddy, Robert J. Howard, III, Deborah B. Harrison, Sogol Malekzadeh
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Publication number: 20150199523Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that address issues related to data privacy by enabling users to elect various levels of data sharing. A user of a user device is enabled to indicate their comfort level with sharing, transmitting, or otherwise exposing individual activity records (data entities) with respect to various activity categories. The exposure of activity records may be controlled with respect to on-device and off-device components. Furthermore, privacy profiles may be automatically generated for the user, and the privacy profiles may be automatically activated in corresponding situations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Colleen Hamilton, Robert Howard, Lee Dicks Clark, John Yovin, Shawn Brown, Sogol Malekzadeh
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Patent number: 9064247Abstract: Card applets associated with an electronic wallet are activated and deactivated based on user-defined rules. Based on the rules and a device state, a card emulation state and card applet states are modified to enable or disable completion of transactions. The transactions are between a computing device and a reader such as a point-of-sale terminal. In some embodiments, a user designates a plurality of the card applets as fast cards capable of completing a transaction via near-field communication (NFC) interaction without user input at a time of the transaction.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Matthias Baer, Michael Connolly, Alejandro Steckler, Sogol Malekzadeh, Tirthankar Sengupta
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Publication number: 20140148094Abstract: A method for exchanging information between two communication devices includes communicating first identity information from a first communication device to a second communication device over a short-range communication link in response to an event. A second identity is received from the second communication device over the short-range communication link. The first identity information identifies a user of the first communication device and the second identity information identifies a user of the second communication device. Based on the first and second identity information, information is obtained specifying at least one attribute of the first and second users that they have in common.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Jae Park, Karen Luk, Michael Connolly, Sogol Malekzadeh, John Skovron, Matthias Baer, Monica Gonzalez, Jonathan Aroner
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Publication number: 20130339166Abstract: Card applets associated with an electronic wallet are activated and deactivated based on user-defined rules. Based on the rules and a device state, a card emulation state and card applet states are modified to enable or disable completion of transactions. The transactions are between a computing device and a reader such as a point-of-sale terminal. In some embodiments, a user designates a plurality of the card applets as fast cards capable of completing a transaction via near-field communication (NFC) interaction without user input at a time of the transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Matthias Baer, Michael Connolly, Alejandro Steckler, Sogol Malekzadeh, Tirthankar Sengupta
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Patent number: D679730Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Cara Lyn Tyler, Theodore Aaron Haberman, Sogol Malekzadeh, Marc Anthony Salazar, Jae Park, Chad Voss, Sarah Siritaratiwat
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Patent number: D706292Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Cara Lyn Tyler, Theodore Aaron Haberman, Sogol Malekzadeh, Jae Park, Kristina Voros, Jonathan Aroner
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Patent number: D706820Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Cara Lyn Tyler, Theodore Aaron Haberman, Sogol Malekzadeh, Marc Anthony Salazar, Jae Park, Chad Michael Roberts
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Patent number: D793422Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ryan Gagnier, Sogol Malekzadeh, Jeffery G. Arnold, Jeffrey C. Fong
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Patent number: D801993Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ryan Gagnier, Sogol Malekzadeh, Jeffery G. Arnold, Jeffrey C. Fong
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Patent number: D802603Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ryan Terry Bickel, Chad Michael Roberts, Jose A. Rodriguez, Jonathan Gass, Timothy Wantland, Jeremy Bowen, Jason Nelson, Liang Chen, Ryan Gagnier, Sogol Malekzadeh, Jeffery G. Arnold, Jeffrey C. Fong, Shane Landry