Patents by Inventor Gregg Brown

Gregg Brown 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: 20230368620
    Abstract: Methods and systems for content management are described. If programming content is distributed to viewers, signals such as markers are transmitted with the programming content. If a user device receives the marker, the use device may make a request to a rights management device. The rights management device may receive the request and determine an identifier associated with the request and an identifier associated with the marker. The rights management server may determine if the user device is authorized for supplemental features associated with the programming content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Gregg Brown, Stuart Kurkowski
  • Publication number: 20230319330
    Abstract: Methods and systems for content management are described. If programming content is distributed to viewers, markers are transmitted with the programming content. If a user device receives the marker, the user device may send an output indication to a rights management device. The rights management device may determine whether or not the user device outputting the content violates or adheres to a content policy and may take an action based on that determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Stuart Kurkowski, Gregg Brown
  • Publication number: 20230091238
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for identifying addressable advertisement slots in media/video streams and utilizing the addressable advertisement slots. The identifying and/or the utilizing may be based on metadata associated with the media/video streams and/or viewers/audiences associated with different distributors/operators. The metadata, which may be collected from a content provider or a third-party suppliers, may be provided, via out-of-band signaling, to the different distributors/operators. The different distributors/operators may use information in the metadata to use identified addressable advertisement slots (e.g., by inserting different advertisements specifically targeted to those viewers/audiences associated with a particular distributor) and potentially generate a higher cost per thousand impressions (CPMs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Gregg Brown, Stuart Kurkowski, Neill Kipp
  • Patent number: 11507674
    Abstract: This document relates to evaluating privacy impact for organization risk management. For example, quantifiable methods are provided by way of a privacy impact model to calculate a relative value for privacy impact can be used to calculate risk and prioritize risk mitigations and take corrective actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kimberly Denise Lucy, Samuel Terrence Trim, Nicholas Gregg Brown
  • Publication number: 20210056213
    Abstract: This document relates to evaluating privacy impact for organization risk management. For example, quantifiable methods are provided by way of a privacy impact model to calculate a relative value for privacy impact can be used to calculate risk and prioritize risk mitigations and take corrective actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kimberly Denise LUCY, Samuel Terrence TRIM, Nicholas Gregg BROWN
  • Patent number: 7512892
    Abstract: A document viewer control that is hosted by another computer program to provide that program with document viewing functionality, including enabling user interaction with the content. An interface provides the program with plug-in access to document viewing functionality, including scrolling, zooming, finding, layout, copying and the like. Properties may be retrieved and set via the interface, and commands may be issued. The result is that any program can provide document viewing functionality in a consistent manner. Moreover, via styles or the like, a program developer can deactivate and/or override default functionality, to customize and/or extend the document viewer as desired for a given program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Sellers, Heather L. Grantham, Joshua A. Dersch, Jeremy W. J. Newton-Smith, Nicholas Gregg Brown, Annette Kay Leedy
  • Publication number: 20070010195
    Abstract: Architecture for accessing and purchasing multimedia services in a mobile terminal cellular environment. The architecture brings together the on-the-fly discovery of music and connectivity for the purchase or preview of multimedia services (e.g., music tracks). Provided is a music client on a cell phone or other mobile communications device that facilitates the discovery, storage, and play of multimedia content or portions thereof such as music. A user can listen to music transmitted to the mobile terminal device (e.g., cell phone) via broadcast, satellite radio, streaming internet radio, etc., review the music, and buy tracks or whole albums over-the-air via the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: Cingular Wireless LLC
    Inventors: Gregg Brown, Robert Hyatt, Marc Lefar, James Ryan
  • Patent number: 6636831
    Abstract: A system and process for voice-controlled information retrieval. A conversation template is executed. The conversation template includes a script of tagged instructions including voice prompts and information content. A voice command identifying information content to be retrieved is processed. A remote method invocation is sent requesting the identified information content to an applet process associated with a Web browser. The information content is retrieved on the Web browser responsive to the remote method invocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Inroad, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack H. Profit, Jr., N. Gregg Brown, Peter S. Mezey, Lianne M. Colombo