Patents by Inventor Dale Lynn Shepherd

Dale Lynn Shepherd 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: 11843816
    Abstract: Apparatuses, Methods, and Systems to enable the display of media content, the apparatus includes a remote control device; a keypad with a plurality of buttons for controlling a media player device; a circular button of the plurality of buttons that is configured to rotate in a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction; and in response to detected rotational motion either in the clockwise direction or the counterclockwise direction, the media player device is configured to cause an adjustable amount of forwarding or a reverse play operation in a position of playing streamed media content on a display device; wherein the adjustable amount of forwarding or reverse play operation of streamed media content corresponds to rotational motion detected of the circular button during the playing of the streamed media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sling TV L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dale Lynn Shepherd, Andrew Lynn, Curtis Delon Archibald
  • Publication number: 20230179821
    Abstract: Apparatuses, Methods, and Systems to enable the display of media content, the apparatus includes a remote control device; a keypad with a plurality of buttons for controlling a media player device; a circular button of the plurality of buttons that is configured to rotate in a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction; and in response to detected rotational motion either in the clockwise direction or the counterclockwise direction, the media player device is configured to cause an adjustable amount of forwarding or a reverse play operation in a position of playing streamed media content on a display device; wherein the adjustable amount of forwarding or reverse play operation of streamed media content corresponds to rotational motion detected of the circular button during the playing of the streamed media content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dale Lynn Shepherd, Andrew Lynn, Curtis Delon Archibald
  • Publication number: 20220100364
    Abstract: Devices, systems and processes facilitate adaptive user progressions through content. A process includes receiving a detected first user input motion and determining, based thereon, a first progression type. The process may include executing: a slow scrub progression when input motion occurs within a first area defined by a first velocity threshold VT1 upper limit and a first array sector range AS1; executing a fast scrub progression when input motion occurs within a second area defined by a second velocity threshold VT2 upper limit and a second array sector range AS2; executing a slow swipe scrub progression when input motion occurs within a third area defined by a third velocity threshold VT3 upper limit and a third array sector range AS3; and executing a fast swipe progression when input motion occurs within a fourth area defined by a fourth velocity threshold VT4 upper limit and a fourth array sector range AS4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: SLING TV
    Inventors: Dale Lynn Shepherd, Bryan Douglas DeVries, Taylor Albert McGinnis, Andrew Dean Lynn, Jenna Bradford, Mary Stevens
  • Patent number: 11237716
    Abstract: Devices, systems and processes facilitate adaptive user progressions through content. A process includes receiving a detected first user input motion and determining, based thereon, a first progression type. The process may include executing: a slow scrub progression when input motion occurs within a first area defined by a first velocity threshold VT1 upper limit and a first array sector range AS1; executing a fast scrub progression when input motion occurs within a second area defined by a second velocity threshold VT2 upper limit and a second array sector range AS2; executing a slow swipe scrub progression when input motion occurs within a third area defined by a third velocity threshold VT3 upper limit and a third array sector range AS3; and executing a fast swipe progression when input motion occurs within a fourth area defined by a fourth velocity threshold VT4 upper limit and a fourth array sector range AS4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sling TV L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dale Lynn Shepherd, Bryan Douglas DeVries, Taylor Albert McGinnis, Andrew Dean Lynn, Jenna Bradford, Mary Stevens
  • Publication number: 20210109649
    Abstract: The various embodiments of the present disclosure provide for devices, systems and processes for facilitating adaptive user progressions through content. For at least one embodiment, a process for facilitating user adaptive progressions through content includes receiving a detected first user input motion and determining, based on the first user input motion, a first progression type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: SLING TV L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dale Lynn Shepherd, Bryan Douglas DeVries, Taylor Albert McGinnis, Andrew Dean Lynn, Jenna Bradford, Mary Stevens
  • Patent number: 5873062
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying the phoneme sound types that are contained within an audio speech signal is disclosed. The system includes a microphone and associated conditioning circuitry, for receiving an audio speech signal and converting it to a representative electrical signal. The electrical signal is then sampled and converted to a digital audio signal with a digital-to-analog converter. The digital audio signal is input to a programmable digital sound processor, which digitally processes the sound so as to extract various time domain and frequency domain sound characteristics. These characteristics are input to a programmable host sound processor which compares the sound characteristics to standard sound data. Based on this comparison, the host sound processor identifies the specific phoneme sounds that are contained within the audio speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Fonix Corporation
    Inventors: C. Hal Hansen, Dale Lynn Shepherd, Robert Brian Moncur
  • Patent number: 5640490
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying the phoneme sound types that are contained within an audio speech signal is disclosed. The system includes a microphone and associated conditioning circuitry, for receiving an audio speech signal and converting it to a representative electrical signal. The electrical signal is then sampled and converted to a digital audio signal with a digital-to-analog converter. The digital audio signal is input to a programmable digital sound processor, which digitally processes the sound so as to extract various time domain and frequency domain sound characteristics. These characteristics are input to a programmable host sound processor which compares the sound characteristics to standard sound data. Based on this comparison, the host sound processor identifies the specific phoneme sounds that are contained within the audio speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Fonix Corporation
    Inventors: C. Hal Hansen, Dale Lynn Shepherd, Robert Brian Moncur