Patents by Inventor Brian Mitchell Percival

Brian Mitchell Percival 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).

  • Patent number: 10754507
    Abstract: Techniques for providing notifications to user devices for the purpose of re-engaging users in content items they are consuming, such as electronic books, movies, videos, and the like. For instance, the techniques may calculate a frequency at which a user reads an electronic book. If the user does not request to read this electronic book for an abnormal amount of time, the techniques may provide a notification encouraging the user to again read the electronic book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Otis Yeager Chandler, Jessica Kathleen Quinn Donaghy, Seth Gershom Goldstein, Jeffrey Paul Helbling, Peter Thomas Killalea, Brian Mitchell Percival
  • Patent number: 10476976
    Abstract: Techniques for facilitating collaborative consumption of content items, such as electronic books, movies, videos, songs, and the like. Multiple users may consume a content item over a substantially common period of time, such as over a day, week, month, etc. Each user may utilize one or more electronic devices (e.g., electronic book reader devices, tablet devices, laptop computers, etc.) to consume the item, and each user may share his or her thoughts and may otherwise provide progress updates to the other users over the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Otis Yeager Chandler, Jessica Kathleen Quinn Donaghy, Seth Gershom Goldstein, Peter Thomas Killalea, Brian Mitchell Percival, Kartik Swaminadan Santhanakrishnan, Brian David Rosenblat
  • Patent number: 10275506
    Abstract: This disclosure describes devices, architectures, and techniques to coordinate data related to separate services to help create a more robust user experience for a user accessing either or both of the separate services. For instance, if the user currently accesses two separate services that relate to a common subject matter, techniques of this disclosure will provide data from one of the services when the user accesses the other. In one example, an activity feed that includes activities relating to both a first service and a second service may be generated and displayed to a user accessing the first service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Erik Schneider, Kieran Sean Fitzpatrick, Brian Mitchell Percival, Anne Randolph Marshall, Philip Daniel Piwonka
  • Patent number: 9692841
    Abstract: Techniques for facilitating collaborative consumption of content items, such as electronic books, movies, videos, songs, and the like. Multiple users may consume a content item over a substantially common period of time, such as over a day, week, month, etc. Each user may utilize one or more electronic devices (e.g., electronic book reader devices, tablet devices, laptop computers, etc.) to consume the item, and each user may share his or her thoughts and may otherwise provide progress updates to the other users over the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Otis Yeager Chandler, Jessica Kathleen Quinn Donaghy, Seth Gershom Goldstein, Peter Thomas Killalea, Brian Mitchell Percival, Kartik Swaminadan Santhanakrishnan
  • Patent number: 7991714
    Abstract: Designs for cognitive memory systems storing input data, images, or patterns, and retrieving it without knowledge of where stored when cognitive memory is prompted by query pattern that is related to sought stored pattern. Retrieval system of cognitive memory uses autoassociative neural networks and techniques for pre-processing query pattern to establish relationship between query pattern and sought stored pattern, to locate sought pattern, and to retrieve it and ancillary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Inventors: Bernard Widrow, Juan Carlos Aragon, Brian Mitchell Percival
  • Publication number: 20090196493
    Abstract: Designs for cognitive memory systems storing input data, images, or patterns, and retrieving it without knowledge of where stored when cognitive memory is prompted by query pattern that is related to sought stored pattern. Retrieval system of cognitive memory uses autoassociative neural networks and techniques for pre-processing query pattern to establish relationship between query pattern and sought stored pattern, to locate sought pattern, and to retrieve it and ancillary data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Bernard Widrow, Juan Carlos Aragon, Brian Mitchell Percival
  • Patent number: 7333963
    Abstract: Designs for cognitive memory systems storing input data, images, or patterns, and retrieving it without knowledge of where stored when cognitive memory is prompted by query pattern that is related to sought stored pattern. Retrieval system of cognitive memory uses autoassociative neural networks and techniques for pre-processing query pattern to establish relationship between query pattern and sought stored pattern, to locate sought pattern, and to retrieve it and ancillary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Inventors: Bernard Widrow, Juan Carlos Aragon, Brian Mitchell Percival