Patents by Inventor Fredrick Zuill

Fredrick Zuill 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: 20150117836
    Abstract: Methods and systems to provide supplemental content to a user who is viewing video or other content. The user's device (through which he will access the video) then provides an identifier of that video to a server or other computing facility. Here, the video identifier is used to identify supplemental content that corresponds to the user's video. The supplemental content is then provided to the user device for the user's consumption. The supplemental content may be structured in such a way that pieces of the supplemental content are accessible at particular points in the video. The piece(s) of the supplemental content available at a particular point in the video will be related to one or more objects that are present at this point. This allows a user to access one or more pieces of supplemental content in a context-specific manner, at a point in the video where the piece(s) of supplemental content are relevant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sonic IP, Inc.
    Inventors: William Amidei, Francis Chan, Eric Grab, Michael Kiefer, Aaron McDaniel, John Mickus, Ronald Mombourquette, Nikolai Popov, Fredrick Zuill
  • Publication number: 20150117837
    Abstract: Methods and systems to provide supplemental content to a user who is viewing video or other content. The user's device (through which he will access the video) then provides an identifier of that video to a server or other computing facility. Here, the video identifier is used to identify supplemental content that corresponds to the user's video. The supplemental content is then provided to the user device for the user's consumption. The supplemental content may be structured in such a way that pieces of the supplemental content are accessible at particular points in the video. The piece(s) of the supplemental content available at a particular point in the video will be related to one or more objects that are present at this point. This allows a user to access one or more pieces of supplemental content in a context-specific manner, at a point in the video where the piece(s) of supplemental content are relevant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sonic IP, Inc.
    Inventors: William Amidei, Francis Chan, Eric Grab, Michael Kiefer, Aaron McDaniel, John Mickus, Ronald Mombourquette, Nikolai Popov, Fredrick Zuill