Patents by Inventor Donald Loyd Kaufman

Donald Loyd Kaufman 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: 11449301
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing content streams with highly targeted, interactive content in a personalized manner. A content producer can generate a user-generic content stream associated with one or more user-specific content flags, which can describe how the user-specific content can be presented along with the content stream. A content-provider can purchase or otherwise acquire the rights to insert their user-specific content into another content provider's user-generic content. Both the user-specific and user-generic content can be provided to the user by means of a voice-controlled device associated with a cloud-based profile of the user. A user can interact with the personalized content to receive supplemental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Michael Wagner, Donald Loyd Kaufman
  • Patent number: 10175933
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing content streams with highly targeted, interactive content in a personalized manner. A content producer can generate a user-generic content stream associated with one or more user-specific content flags, which can describe how the user-specific content can be presented along with the content stream. A content-provider can purchase or otherwise acquire the rights to insert their user-specific content into another content provider's user-generic content. Both the user-specific and user-generic content can be provided to the user by means of a voice-controlled device associated with a cloud-based profile of the user. A user can interact with the personalized content to receive supplemental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Michael Wagner, Donald Loyd Kaufman
  • Patent number: 9361469
    Abstract: A customer support application provides screen sharing of the user's computing device with a remote customer support agent, thereby enabling the customer support agent to view the content displayed on the user's device. Sensitive information that is displayed on a user's computing device is obfuscated from the computing device of the remote customer support agent, and a notification of that obfuscation is displayed on the user's computing device. Information can be determined to be sensitive based on a sensitive indicator tag or a heuristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, inc.
    Inventors: Pirasenna Thiyagarajan, Donald Loyd Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20150278534
    Abstract: A customer support application provides screen sharing of the user's computing device with a remote customer support agent, thereby enabling the customer support agent to view the content displayed on the user's device. Sensitive information that is displayed on a user's computing device is obfuscated from the computing device of the remote customer support agent, and a notification of that obfuscation is displayed on the user's computing device. Information can be determined to be sensitive based on a sensitive indicator tag or a heuristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pirasenna Thiyagarajan, Donald Loyd Kaufman