Patents by Inventor Charles Cordray

Charles Cordray 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).

  • Publication number: 20070157223
    Abstract: A “New To Me” feature is provided for an interactive media guidance system implemented as a home network having multiple user equipment devices. Functionally speaking, the “New To Me” feature of the interactive media guidance system identifies programs or advertisements that have been previously viewed by an individual user or a user equipment device within the home network, or even by a household. The interactive media guidance system may use the information gathered regarding the programs and/or advertisements that have already been seen by a user, device or household to, for example, remove the programs or advertisements from future displays of recommendations, search results or listings of available programming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Charles Cordray, Todd Walker
  • Publication number: 20070157249
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring a user's viewing progress of media in a series are provided. The user may setup a media profile containing a list of program series to be monitored. The interactive media monitoring application may track the user's viewing progress of programs in the program series on the user equipment and update the user's media profile. The user may request and watch programs in the series at the user's leisure while peripheral media content may be filtered to be consistent with the user's viewing progress in the series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Charles Cordray, Todd Walker, Samir Armaly
  • Publication number: 20070154163
    Abstract: A viewer of an episode of a series such as a television series may wish to access episodes of the series that the viewer missed when they were originally broadcast. Interactive applications may receive the viewer's indication of interest to record missed episodes of the incomplete series, which may include instructions regarding recording options for including the missed episodes in a series aggregation. Interactive applications may identify the episodes to be included in the series aggregation, and record the missed episodes, which may then be stored and organized to create a series aggregation, in the order that they were first broadcast with episodes that the viewer may already have available. Interactive applications may present the episodes of the series aggregation in the order that they were originally broadcast, by providing the viewer with options on how to access the episodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventor: Charles Cordray
  • Publication number: 20070154169
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for maintaining a user's interest level in a media program by allowing a user to access particular segments of interest from a media program. A media program can have logical segments, and the disclosed technology can identify the segments of the media program. A user can designate particular segments of interest from the segments of the media program and can be provided with only the designated segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Charles Cordray, Samir Armaly
  • Publication number: 20070157247
    Abstract: A “New To Me” feature is provided for an interactive media guidance system implemented as a home network having multiple user equipment devices. Functionally speaking, the “New To Me” feature of the interactive media guidance system identifies programs or advertisements that have been previously viewed by an individual user or a user equipment device within the home network, or even by a household. The interactive media guidance system may use the information gathered regarding the programs and/or advertisements that have already been seen by a user, device or household to, for example, remove the programs or advertisements from future displays of recommendations, search results or listings of available programming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Charles Cordray, Todd Walker
  • Publication number: 20070157237
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring a user's viewing progress of media in a series are provided. The user may setup a media profile containing a list of program series to be monitored. The interactive media monitoring application may track the user's viewing progress of programs in the program series on the user equipment and update the user's media profile. The user may request and watch programs in the series at the user's leisure while peripheral media content may be filtered to be consistent with the user's viewing progress in the series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Charles Cordray, Todd Walker, Samir Armaly
  • Publication number: 20070157222
    Abstract: A “New To Me” feature is provided for an interactive media guidance system implemented as a home network having multiple user equipment devices. Functionally speaking, the “New To Me” feature of the interactive media guidance system identifies programs or advertisements that have been previously viewed by an individual user or a user equipment device within the home network, or even by a household. The interactive media guidance system may use the information gathered regarding the programs and/or advertisements that have already been seen by a user, device or household to, for example, remove the programs or advertisements from future displays of recommendations, search results or listings of available programming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Charles Cordray, Todd Walker, Samir Armaly