Avronil Bhattacharjee

6973482, Dec 6, 2005

Oct 1, 2001

09/968382

Mazhar Mohammed - Sammamish WA, US
Avronil Bhattacharjee - Bellevue WA, US
Justin Kwak - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F015/16

709208, 709202, 709203, 709229, 713182, 713187, 713189, 713190, 713191

Systems and methods for remote assistance. A user computer is able to generate a ticket that includes temporary credentials for a remote assistance account of the user computer. The ticket is escalated to an expert, who activates the ticket and requests a connection with the user using the encrypted credentials. The user can accept this request if the credentials are validated and provide the expert with a view of the user's desktop. The expert, if necessary, can request control of the user computer and the user can either grant or deny this request. If granted, the user computer can unilaterally terminate the control that was provided to the expert. Because the credentials in the ticket are encrypted, the expert does not know the actual password to the remote assistance account and can only access the user computer interactively.

7539733, May 26, 2009

Aug 30, 2005

11/215527

Mazhar Mohammed - Sammamish WA, US
Avronil Bhattacharjee - Bellevue WA, US
Justin Kwak - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

709208, 709202, 709223, 709229, 713182, 713187, 713189, 713190

Systems and methods for remote assistance. A user computer is able to generate a ticket that includes temporary credentials for a remote assistance account of the user computer. The ticket is escalated to an expert, who activates the ticket and requests a connection with the user using the encrypted credentials. The user can accept this request if the credentials are validated and provide the expert with a view of the user's desktop. The expert, if necessary, can request control of the user computer and the user can either grant or deny this request. If granted, the user computer can unilaterally terminate the control that was provided to the expert. Because the credentials in the ticket are encrypted, the expert does not know the actual password to the remote assistance account and can only access the user computer interactively.

7653705, Jan 26, 2010

Dec 12, 2006

11/609673

Ananta Gudipaty - Woodinville WA, US
Avronil Bhattacharjee - Redmond WA, US
Zheng Ni - Beijing, CN
Bo Qin - Beijing, CN
Jeremy Smith - Redmond WA, US
Zhi-Wei Lin - Beijing, CN
Mingju Zhang - Beijing, CN
Sumeet Bawa - Sammamish WA, US
Aliasgar Haveliwala - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corp. - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16
G06K 9/36

709218, 709217, 709204, 382232

The present interactive recording and playback technique provides the ability to archive the content, the discussions and the metadata of a meeting or similar event; then aggregate, search and annotate across this data; and finally edit, combine, or split various recordings to create new presentations. This interactive recording and playback technique provides rich productivity and innovation that is unavailable today.

8117201, Feb 14, 2012

May 24, 2009

12/471399

Avronil Bhattacharjee - Redmond WA, US
Amit Gupta - Redmond WA, US
Cindy Kwan - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707736, 707752, 707756

A contacts list for a subscriber is pre-populated based on information received from various data stores, data mining of applications associated with the subscriber, and administrator defined contacts. The list may be further maintained dynamically based on changes to contact information and/or subscriber attributes.

8135809, Mar 13, 2012

Jan 21, 2009

12/356550

Alexander M. Hehmeyer - Bellevue WA, US
Setty Venkateshaiah - Bothell WA, US
Amit Gupta - Redmond WA, US
Avronil Bhattacharjee - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/177

709220, 709221, 709227

Architecture for gathering and presentation to a remote user (watcher) of presence, preferences, and capabilities information of a local user (publisher). An extensible presence document is employed, as transmitted by the publisher, that contains specific information about the capabilities of the publisher endpoint and preferences that are for the publisher overall. The document is aggregated, and the aggregated capabilities are transmitted to watchers. The watchers render this information in a user experience.

8275197, Sep 25, 2012

Jun 14, 2008

12/139454

Quinn Hawkins - Kirkland WA, US
Pulin Thakkar - Redmond WA, US
Kapil Sharma - Woodinville WA, US
Avronil Bhattacharjee - Redmond WA, US
Adam Eversole - Redmond WA, US
Bo Qin - Beijing, CN

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06K 9/00

382165

Techniques to manage a whiteboard for multimedia conference events are described. An apparatus may comprise a whiteboard manager component operative to manage whiteboard recording, image processing and reproduction operations for a multimedia conference event. The whiteboard manager component may comprise an image quantizer module operative to receive an image of a writing surface with pen strokes, and quantize each pixel of the image into a predetermined number of colors, an attribute extractor module communicatively coupled to the image quantizer module, the attribute extractor module operative to extract stroke attribute information for the pen strokes from the quantized pixels, and a whiteboard interface module communicatively coupled to the attribute extractor module, the whiteboard interface module operative to send the stroke attribute information to a meeting console for rendering as digital pen strokes on a digital writing surface. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

8301879, Oct 30, 2012

Jan 26, 2009

12/359485

Rajesh Ramanathan - Redmond WA, US
William Looney - Seattle WA, US
Avronil Bhattacharjee - Redmond WA, US
Amit Gupta - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04L 29/06

713156, 380255

Conversation rights for multi-modal communications are managed and enforced in an enhanced communication system. Through physical and/or software components, rights are assigned to a communication session and related components upon user request. Permitted participants of the session are provided access tools such as decryption keys. Restrictions based on the assigned conversation rights are extended to preserved recordings and associated documents of the communication session.

8316089, Nov 20, 2012

May 6, 2008

12/115556

Pulin Thakkar - Redmond WA, US
Noor-E-Gagan Singh - Redmond WA, US
Stuti Jain - Redmond WA, US
Avronil Bhattacharjee - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16
H04N 7/14
H04L 12/16
G06F 3/00

709205, 709204, 348 1401, 370259, 715733

Techniques to manage media content for a multimedia conference event are described. An apparatus may comprise a media content manager component operative to generate a visual composition of decoded media streams for a multimedia conference event. If it is determined that the total number of decoded media streams is greater than the total number of available display frames in a visual composition then an active group of decoded media streams may be selected from among the total number of decoded media streams for mapping to the available display frames based on speech activity. Other embodiments are described and claimed.