Patents by Inventor Marine Chimayan

Marine Chimayan 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: 10187696
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically overriding an auto-skip command embedded in a media asset annotation when a user profile indicates a preference for content that is to be auto-skipped. To this end, a media guidance application may play back a media asset to a user, and detect therein a skip annotation that corresponds to a portion of the media asset that is to be played back. The media guidance application may, in response to detecting the skip annotation, access metadata indicating content of the portion, compare the metadata to entries of a profile of the user, and determine whether the user prefers the content based on the comparing. if the user prefers the content, the media guidance application may refrain from executing a skip command indicated by the skip annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Arevik Chimayan, China Arai, Marine Chimayan, Kim T. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20180234735
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically overriding an auto-skip command embedded in a media asset annotation when a user profile indicates a preference for content that is to be auto-skipped. To this end, a media guidance application may play back a media asset to a user, and detect therein a skip annotation that corresponds to a portion of the media asset that is to be played back. The media guidance application may, in response to detecting the skip annotation, access metadata indicating content of the portion, compare the metadata to entries of a profile of the user, and determine whether the user prefers the content based on the comparing. if the user prefers the content, the media guidance application may refrain from executing a skip command indicated by the skip annotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Arevik Chimayan, China Arai, Marine Chimayan, Kim T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9942610
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically overriding an auto-skip command embedded in a media asset annotation when a user profile indicates a preference for content that is to be auto-skipped. To this end, a media guidance application may play back a media asset to a user, and detect therein a skip annotation that corresponds to a portion of the media asset that is to be played back. The media guidance application may, in response to detecting the skip annotation, access metadata indicating content of the portion, compare the metadata to entries of a profile of the user, and determine whether the user prefers the content based on the comparing. If the user prefers the content, the media guidance application may refrain from executing a skip command indicated by the skip annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Arevik Chimayan, China Arai, Marine Chimayan, Kim T. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20170366859
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically overriding an auto-skip command embedded in a media asset annotation when a user profile indicates a preference for content that is to be auto-skipped. To this end, a media guidance application may play back a media asset to a user, and detect therein a skip annotation that corresponds to a portion of the media asset that is to be played back. The media guidance application may, in response to detecting the skip annotation, access metadata indicating content of the portion, compare the metadata to entries of a profile of the user, and determine whether the user prefers the content based on the comparing. If the user prefers the content, the media guidance application may refrain from executing a skip command indicated by the skip annotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Arevik Chimayan, China Arai, Marine Chimayan, Kim T. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20160337702
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a media guidance application that quickly allows a user to locate content of interest appearing in a media asset. Moreover, the media guidance application may compensate for any delay of the user in indicating an interest in content as the content in presented in a media asset. For example, in response to detecting a user may be interested in content (e.g., an advertisement, a product, a topic, etc.) recently appearing in a media asset, the media guidance application may generate for display recommendations for content recently appearing in the media asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventors: Walter R. Klappert, Marine Chimayan