Patents
Sr. Product Designer / UX Leadership Apple, Poly 2015 – 2020
A few of my public patents. Each one came straight out of shipping product work: I ran into a problem that had no existing solution and had to invent one.
The Apple patents grew out of iAd and Apple News, back when I was thinking a lot about how a message could carry more intent. The Poly patent came out of COVID: our video endpoints were sitting in conference rooms all over the world, and room capacity had suddenly become a safety question.
Virtual Assistant Aided Communication With 3rd Party Service
Siri integration in iMessage, letting a virtual assistant broker interactions between users and outside services without leaving the conversation.
Virtual Assistant in a Communication Session
Peer-to-peer financial transactions within a messaging session, mediated by a virtual assistant.
Preventing the Number of Meeting Attendees at a Videoconferencing Endpoint From Becoming Unsafe
Camera-based room occupancy detection that enforces capacity limits at videoconferencing endpoints automatically.
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- Patents A few filed around Siri in iMessage and videoconferencing, each a byproduct of shipping work.
- Product Design Designing the actual product. Users get the final vote, not the portfolio.
- AI Less about the model, more about the workflow it lives in.
- Videoconferencing Cameras, mics, and the rooms they live in. I design for the meeting, not the product shot.