Matthew B Shepherd

US Patent:

8037021, Oct 11, 2011

Filed:

Oct 17, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/975162

Inventors:

Scott Joseph Adler - Menlo Park CA, US
Matthew Dimaggio - Sunnyvale CA, US
Matthew Elliott Shepherd - San Francisco CA, US
Lala Dutta - Cupertino CA, US
Bruce Arthur - Palo Alto CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707610, 707736, 707758, 707951, 709206, 715963

Abstract:

The calendaring techniques and interfaces described herein provide access to calendar data stored in a server hosted calendar store to applications. The calendar data includes calendar events and tasks. In one aspect, an application program interface (API) retrieves an occurrence from a series of reoccurring calendar data upon request from an application. In another aspect, the API sends calendar data provided by the application to a server program that manages a calendar store for storage and queries the server program to retrieve calendar data requested by the application from the calendar store. In yet another aspect, the API sends notifications that the calendar store has changed to interested applications.

US Patent:

20080307323, Dec 11, 2008

Filed:

Jun 10, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/760779

Inventors:

Patrick Lee Coffman - Menlo Park CA, US
Manuel Colom - Paris, FR
Scott Joseph Adler - Menlo Park CA, US
Lala Dutta - Cupertino CA, US
Matthew Elliott Shepherd - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715753

Abstract:

The calendaring techniques and systems described herein enable a user to more easily resolve conflicts for attendees to an event by visually indicating available time slots for all attendees in a calendar window or in a timeline window separate from the calendar window. The first available time slot may be automatically selected or the user may select an available slot to reschedule the event. In another aspect, inspector windows are displayed within a calendar window to show summary or details for an event. An inspector window can also be displayed when a change to an event is detected. In yet another aspect, calendars for multiple accounts accessible by a user are merged into a single calendar view.

US Patent:

20220385738, Dec 1, 2022

Filed:

Apr 15, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/722296

Inventors:

- Cupertino CA, US
Elliot T. GARNER - Cupertino CA, US
Aniket A. ZAMWAR - Milpitas CA, US
Yevgeni PEKUROVSKY - Cupertino CA, US
Jared A. CRAWFORD - Apex NC, US
Frederic JACOBS - St. Sulpice, CH
Justin S. TITI - San Jose CA, US
Matthew E. SHEPHERD - Mountain View CA, US
Jose A. LOZANO HINOJOSA - Santa Clara CA, US
Sean GEIGER - San Francisco CA, US
Ahmed M. BASHIR - Saratoga CA, US

International Classification:

H04L 67/55
H04L 67/63
H04L 9/40
H04L 9/32

Abstract:

Aspects of the subject technology provide for privacy-preserving electronic publication and subscription. A publisher device may establish a publication channel with a publication server and receive a channel identifier and a channel ownership token for the channel. The publisher device may provide the channel identifier and a key for the publication channel to a subscriber device. The publisher device may publish data encrypted using the key to the publication server, the subscriber device may obtain the encrypted published data from the server using the channel identifier, and may decrypt the published data using the key obtained from the publisher device. The published data may include status information for a user of the publisher device, in some examples.

US Patent:

20230021247, Jan 19, 2023

Filed:

Sep 28, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/955311

Inventors:

- Cupertino CA, US
Matthew E. SHEPHERD - Mountain View CA, US
Imran CHAUDHRI - San Francisco CA, US
Gregory N. CHRISTIE - San Jose CA, US
Patrick L. COFFMAN - San Francisco CA, US
Craig M. FEDERIGHI - Los Altos Hills CA, US
Matthew H. GAMBLE - Mill Valley CA, US
Brittany D. PAINE - Park City UT, US
Brendan J. LANGOULANT - Saratoga CA, US
Craig A. MARCINIAK - San Jose CA, US
Donald W. PITSCHEL - San Francisco CA, US
Daniel O. SCHIMPF - Menlo Park CA, US
Andrew R. WHALLEY - San Francisco CA, US
Christopher R. WHITNEY - Boulder CO, US
Jonathan R. DASCOLA - San Francisco CA, US
Lawrence Y. YANG - Bellevue WA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/0481
G06F 3/04883
G06F 21/31
G06F 21/32
H04W 12/06
H04L 9/40
H04L 9/32
G06F 21/41
G06V 40/12

Abstract:

An electronic device with a display and a fingerprint sensor displays a fingerprint enrollment interface and detects, on the fingerprint sensor, a plurality of finger gestures performed with a finger. The device collects fingerprint information from the plurality of finger gestures performed with the finger. After collecting the fingerprint information, the device determines whether the collected fingerprint information is sufficient to enroll a fingerprint of the finger. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device enrolls the fingerprint of the finger with the device. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is not sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device displays a message in the fingerprint enrollment interface prompting a user to perform one or more additional finger gestures on the fingerprint sensor with the finger.

US Patent:

20210400037, Dec 23, 2021

Filed:

Jan 29, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/162955

Inventors:

- Cupertino CA, US
Jessica Aranda - Santa Clara CA, US
Patrick Coffman - Cupertino CA, US
Julien Freudiger - San Francisco CA, US
Matthew Hansen Gamble - Mill Valley CA, US
Ron Huang - Cupertino CA, US
Anant Jain - Union City CA, US
Glen S. Low - Cupertino CA, US
Andrey Pokrovskiy - Mountain View CA, US
Stephen J. Rhee - San Jose CA, US
Matthew E. Shepherd - Cupertino CA, US
Ansh Shukla - Cupertino CA, US
Katherine Skinner - San Francisco CA, US
Kyle Martin Sluder - San Francisco CA, US
Christopher Soli - San Francisco CA, US
Christopher K. Thomas - Sunnyvale CA, US
Guy L. Tribble - Woodside CA, US
John Wilander - Cupertino CA, US

International Classification:

H04L 29/06
H04W 12/06

Abstract:

An access control system is provided to prevent the surreptitious granting of access to privacy related functionality on an electronic device. Software-based events to grant access to device functionality can be validated by confirming that the software event corresponds with a hardware input event. This validation prevents the spoofing of a user interface input that may be used to fraudulently grant access to specific functionality.

US Patent:

20210392194, Dec 16, 2021

Filed:

Mar 26, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/214774

Inventors:

- Cupertino CA, US
Jonathon SODOS - Los Gatos CA, US
Nicholas J. CIRCOSTA - Mountain View CA, US
Sean GEIGER - San Francisco CA, US
Nelson M. LEDUC - San Jose CA, US
Cisto CYRIAC - Cupertino CA, US
Matthew E. SHEPHERD - Mountain View CA, US
David A. SCHAEFGEN - San Jose CA, US
Elliot T. GARNER - Cupertino CA, US
Jose A. LOZANO HINOJOSA - Sunnyvale CA, US
Mursalin AKON - San Jose CA, US
Robert D. BUTLER - Middletown DE, US
Xudong LIU - Campbell CA, US

International Classification:

H04L 29/08

Abstract:

A push notification distribution system centralizes the management and delivery of push notifications to applications executing on electronic devices. Registration requests to register applications for push notifications may be aggregated and sent as an aggregated registration request. The delivery priority of push notifications may be managed according to specified preferences. Upon receiving a push notification intended for an electronic device, a delivery priority of the push notification may be changed if an application identifier associated with the push notification is found on a list of application identifiers with designed delivery priorities.

US Patent:

20200234027, Jul 23, 2020

Filed:

Apr 8, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/843638

Inventors:

- Cupertino CA, US
Matthew E. SHEPHERD - Mountain View CA, US
Imran CHAUDHRI - San Francisco CA, US
Gregory N. CHRISTIE - San Jose CA, US
Patrick L. COFFMAN - San Francisco CA, US
Craig M. FEDERIGHI - Los Altos Hills CA, US
Matthew H. GAMBLE - San Francisco CA, US
Brittany D. PAINE - San Jose CA, US
Brendan J. LANGOULANT - San Francisco CA, US
Craig A. MARCINIAK - San Jose CA, US
Donald W. PITSCHEL - San Francisco CA, US
Daniel O. SCHIMPF - Menlo Park CA, US
Andrew R. WHALLEY - San Francisco CA, US
Christopher R. WHITNEY - Mountain View CA, US
Jonathan R. DASCOLA - San Francisco CA, US
Lawrence Y. YANG - Bellevue WA, US

International Classification:

G06K 9/00
G06F 3/0488
G06F 3/0481
G06F 21/31
G06F 21/32
H04W 12/06
H04L 29/06
H04L 9/32
G06F 21/41

Abstract:

An electronic device with a display and a fingerprint sensor displays a fingerprint enrollment interface and detects, on the fingerprint sensor, a plurality of finger gestures performed with a finger. The device collects fingerprint information from the plurality of finger gestures performed with the finger. After collecting the fingerprint information, the device determines whether the collected fingerprint information is sufficient to enroll a fingerprint of the finger. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device enrolls the fingerprint of the finger with the device. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is not sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device displays a message in the fingerprint enrollment interface prompting a user to perform one or more additional finger gestures on the fingerprint sensor with the finger.

US Patent:

20200167482, May 28, 2020

Filed:

Jan 28, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/774757

Inventors:

- Cupertino CA, US
Craig Alan Marciniak - San Jose CA, US
Andrew Roger Whalley - San Francisco CA, US
Matthew Elliott Shepherd - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 21/60
G06F 21/32

Abstract:

Some embodiments provide an electronic device with a novel content redaction engine. The content redaction engine of some embodiments determines whether to redact content for output based on whether a user is biometrically verified. When the content redaction engine receives verification data indicating that the user is biometrically verified, the device displays content without any portion redacted. On the other hand, when the content redaction engine does not receive such verification data, the device displays the content with at least a portion redacted. The electronic device of some embodiments additionally includes a biometric reader and a biometric verification engine. The biometric reader reads a person's uniquely identifying biometric data (e.g., thumbprint/fingerprint, iris scan, voice, etc.). This biometric information is then read by the biometric verification engine for comparison to a stored set of verified user biometric data. When the biometric data matches the stored data, the person is verified.