Patents by Inventor Cyrus Phiroze Master

Cyrus Phiroze Master 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).

  • Automated accounts for media playback
    Patent number: 9509673
    Abstract: Content stored on a server may be selected using a user device and enabled on a central device. The identity of the central device may be authenticated without transmitting user credentials corresponding to the user, user device, user account, etc. A central device identifier can be sent to the server via the user device. An encrypted version of the central device identifier may be returned to the user device and to the central device. The central device can send the encrypted and unencrypted version of the identifier to the server, and the server can transmit the desired content to the remote device based on a comparison of the encrypted and unencrypted identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Parks, Timothy Kilbourn, Jeremy Ellington, Cyrus Phiroze Master, Joe Freeman Britt, Jr., Jeremy Lyon, Eugene Koh, Owen Daniel Otto, Michael Jonathon Chen, Jason Simmons, Dmitry Dolinsky, Jeffrey David Yaksick, Manuel Roman
  • Landing Page for Presenting Media Items
    Publication number: 20150113399
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating a landing page for displaying a plurality of displayed media items are provided. A landing page may include a plurality of sections, and each displayed media item may be displayed in a separate section of the landing page. For a first section of the landing page, a first category may be selected from among a set of categories based on a display probability for the first category. Each category in the set of categories may have a display probability. A first displayed media item may be selected from among a first plurality of media items in the first category. For each section of the landing page, a category may be selected from among the set of categories based on a display probability for the each category, and a displayed media item may be selected from among a plurality of media items in the each category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Bilinski, Cyrus Phiroze Master, Curtis Glenn Hawthorne
  • AUTOMATED ACCOUNTS FOR MEDIA PLAYBACK
    Publication number: 20140366102
    Abstract: Content stored on a server may be selected using a user device and enabled on a central device. The identity of the central device may be authenticated without transmitting user credentials corresponding to the user, user device, user account, etc. A central device identifier can be sent to the server via the user device. An encrypted version of the central device identifier may be returned to the user device and to the central device. The central device can send the encrypted and unencrypted version of the identifier to the server, and the server can transmit the desired content to the remote device based on a comparison of the encrypted and unencrypted identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Jason Parks, Timothy Kilbourn, Jeremy Ellington, Cyrus Phiroze Master, Joe Freeman Britt, JR., Jeremy Lyon, Eugene Koh, Owen Daniel Otto, Michael Jonathon Chen, Jason Simmons, Dmitry Dolinsky, Jeffrey David Yaksick, Manuel Roman
  • Automated accounts for media playback
    Patent number: 8819841
    Abstract: Content stored on a server may be selected using a user device and enabled on a central device. The identity of the central device may be authenticated without transmitting user credentials corresponding to the user, user device, user account, etc. A central device identifier can be sent to the server via the user device. An encrypted version of the central device identifier may be returned to the user device and to the central device. The central device can send the encrypted and unencrypted version of the identifier to the server, and the server can transmit the desired content to the remote device based on a comparison of the encrypted and unencrypted identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Parks, Timothy Kilbourn, Jeremy Ellington, Cyrus Phiroze Master, Joe Freeman Britt, Jr., Jeremy Lyon, Eugene Koh, Owen Daniel Otto, Michael Jonathon Chen, Jason Simmons, Dmitry Dolinsky, Jeffrey David Yaksick, Manuel Roman
  • AUTOMATED ACCOUNTS FOR MEDIA PLAYBACK
    Publication number: 20130347117
    Abstract: Content stored on a server may be selected using a user device and enabled on a central device. The identity of the central device may be authenticated without transmitting user credentials corresponding to the user, user device, user account, etc. A central device identifier can be sent to the server via the user device. An encrypted version of the central device identifier may be returned to the user device and to the central device. The central device can send the encrypted and unencrypted version of the identifier to the server, and the server can transmit the desired content to the remote device based on a comparison of the encrypted and unencrypted identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Jason Parks, Timothy Kilbourn, Jeremy Ellington, Cyrus Phiroze Master, Joe Freeman Britt, JR., Jeremy Lyon, Eugene Koh, Owen Daniel Otto, Michael Jonathon Chen, Jason Simmons, Dmitry Dolinsky, Jeffery David Yaksick, Manuel Roman