Patents
Sr. Product Designer / Director of UX Apple, HP 2016 – 2020
A few of my public patents. Each one came directly from shipping product work and trying to solve problems that didn’t have existing solutions.
The Apple patents grew out of iAd and Apple News, where I was thinking about how messaging could carry more intent. The Poly patent came from COVID, when our video endpoints were in conference rooms worldwide and room capacity suddenly became a safety problem.
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 Unsafe Meeting Attendee Counts at a Videoconferencing Endpoint
Camera-based room occupancy detection that enforces capacity limits at videoconferencing endpoints automatically.
Tags
- Patents A few filed around connecting brands to users. A byproduct of the iAd and News work.
- Product Design Form, flow, and function — answerable to users, not to a portfolio shot.
- AI
- Videoconferencing