Patents by Inventor Melanie Larson
Melanie Larson 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).
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Patent number: 11196644Abstract: Media content is provided using metric-apportioning. In accordance with one or more embodiments, remote-user interface circuits are authenticated and remote access is provided to different sets of media content via the interface. For each authenticated interface and a time-based period during which the interface accesses the media content, time-stamped usage data that characterizes use of the media content at the interface is communicated therewith. A usage metric characterizing usage of the media content is apportioned based upon the time-stamped usage data and stored weighting factor data for the media content.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
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Patent number: 10839142Abstract: Access is provided for different types of media content provided by disparate publishers, and in formats corresponding to operating characteristics of respective user devices. As consistent with one or more example embodiments herein, media content access is filtered for users requesting access via different user devices, based upon characteristics of the device to which the access is provided, user subscription data and publisher-specific criteria. A user-specific storefront interface is generated for each of a multitude of users, based upon the filtering. Each storefront interface indicates media content that can be displayed at the device to which access is requested, and identifies media content to which the user does and does not have subscription access. The user-specific storefront interfaces are presented at respective user devices, and media content is delivered to each device in response to selections made via the user-specific storefront interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, John Logan, Carlos Carapito, Abraham Rubin, Melanie Larson, James Nathaniel Gerlach
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Patent number: 9967157Abstract: Media content is provided using metric-apportioning. In accordance with one or more embodiments, remote-user interface circuits are authenticated and remote access is provided to different sets of media content via the interface. For each authenticated interface and a time-based period during which the interface accesses the media content, time-stamped usage data that characterizes use of the media content at the interface is communicated therewith. A usage metric characterizing usage of the media content is apportioned based upon the time-stamped usage data and stored weighting factor data for the media content.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Next Issue MediaInventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
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Publication number: 20160179308Abstract: Media content is provided using thumbnail-based images and respective archives linked thereto. In accordance with one or more embodiments, access is provided to interactive single-page and multi-page thumbnail images, with each thumbnail image being linked to at least one of a plurality of media-content units in respective sets of the media-content units (e.g., to pages within respective articles each having one or more pages, with each page having predefined text and image data in a set layout). Archive data is identified and communicated for each media content unit, responsive to user input data indicating a selection of one of the thumbnail images, and based on availability of the archive data locally at a user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Keith Barraclough, Melanie Larson, David Irvine, Benjamin Luther Phillips, James Nathaniel Gerlach
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Patent number: 9369353Abstract: Media content is provided using metric-apportioning. In accordance with one or more embodiments, remote-user interface circuits are authenticated and remote access is provided to different sets of media content via the interface. For each authenticated interface and a time-based period during which the interface accesses the media content, time-stamped usage data that characterizes use of the media content at the interface is communicated therewith. A usage metric characterizing usage of the media content is apportioned based upon the time-stamped usage data and stored weighting factor data for the media content.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Next Issue MediaInventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
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Patent number: 9336320Abstract: An approach is provided for providing user interface navigation information associated with the availability of services. Location information associated with a device is received. Menu items associated with one or more services based on the location information are selected. Presentation of the selected menu items in a bridge is caused, at least in part. The bridge is a user interface element common to the services.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Melanie Larson, Franklin Reynolds, Keith R. Barraclough, Stephen Hartford
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Patent number: 9274694Abstract: Media content is provided using thumbnail-based images and respective archives linked thereto. In accordance with one or more embodiments, access is provided to interactive single-page and multi-page thumbnail images, with each thumbnail image being linked to at least one of a plurality of media-content units in respective sets of the media-content units (e.g., to pages within respective articles each having one or more pages, with each page having predefined text and image data in a set layout). Archive data is identified and communicated for each media content unit, responsive to user input data indicating a selection of one of the thumbnail images, and based on availability of the archive data locally at a user device.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Next Issue MediaInventors: Keith Barraclough, Melanie Larson, David Irvine, Benjamin Luther Phillips, James Nathaniel Gerlach
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Publication number: 20150199313Abstract: Access is provided for different types of media content provided by disparate publishers, and in formats corresponding to operating characteristics of respective user devices. As consistent with one or more example embodiments herein, media content access is filtered for users requesting access via different user devices, based upon characteristics of the device to which the access is provided, user subscription data and publisher-specific criteria. A user-specific storefront interface is generated for each of a multitude of users, based upon the filtering. Each storefront interface indicates media content that can be displayed at the device to which access is requested, and identifies media content to which the user does and does not have subscription access. The user-specific storefront interfaces are presented at respective user devices, and media content is delivered to each device in response to selections made via the user-specific storefront interfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, John Logan, Carlos Carapito, Abraham Rubin, Melanie Larson, James Nathaniel Gerlach
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Publication number: 20150200819Abstract: Media content is provided using metric-apportioning. In accordance with one or more embodiments, remote-user interface circuits are authenticated and remote access is provided to different sets of media content via the interface. For each authenticated interface and a time-based period during which the interface accesses the media content, time-stamped usage data that characterizes use of the media content at the interface is communicated therewith. A usage metric characterizing usage of the media content is apportioned based upon the time-stamped usage data and stored weighting factor data for the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
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Patent number: 8977964Abstract: Access is provided for different types of media content provided by disparate publishers, and in formats corresponding to operating characteristics of respective user devices. As consistent with one or more example embodiments herein, media content access is filtered for users requesting access via different user devices, based upon characteristics of the device to which the access is provided, user subscription data and publisher-specific criteria. A user-specific storefront interface is generated for each of a multitude of users, based upon the filtering. Each storefront interface indicates media content that can be displayed at the device to which access is requested, and identifies media content to which the user does and does not have subscription access. The user-specific storefront interfaces are presented at respective user devices, and media content is delivered to each device in response to selections made via the user-specific storefront interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Next Issue MediaInventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, John Logan, Carlos Carapito, Abraham Rubin, Melanie Larson, James Nathaniel Gerlach
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Patent number: 8978149Abstract: Media content is provided using metric-apportioning. In accordance with one or more embodiments, remote-user interface circuits are authenticated and remote access is provided to different sets of media content via the interface. For each authenticated interface and a time-based period during which the interface accesses the media content, time-stamped usage data that characterizes use of the media content at the interface is communicated therewith. A usage metric characterizing usage of the media content is apportioned based upon the time-stamped usage data and stored weighting factor data for the media content.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Next Issue MediaInventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
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Publication number: 20120317482Abstract: Access is provided for different types of media content provided by disparate publishers, and in formats corresponding to operating characteristics of respective user devices. As consistent with one or more example embodiments herein, media content access is filtered for users requesting access via different user devices, based upon characteristics of the device to which the access is provided, user subscription data and publisher-specific criteria. A user-specific storefront interface is generated for each of a multitude of users, based upon the filtering. Each storefront interface indicates media content that can be displayed at the device to which access is requested, and identifies media content to which the user does and does not have subscription access. The user-specific storefront interfaces are presented at respective user devices, and media content is delivered to each device in response to selections made via the user-specific storefront interfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, John Logan, Carlos Carapito, Abraham Rubin, Melanie Larson, James Nathaniel Gerlach
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Publication number: 20120297490Abstract: Media content is provided using metric-apportioning. In accordance with one or more embodiments, remote-user interface circuits are authenticated and remote access is provided to different sets of media content via the interface. For each authenticated interface and a time-based period during which the interface accesses the media content, time-stamped usage data that characterizes use of the media content at the interface is communicated therewith. A usage metric characterizing usage of the media content is apportioned based upon the time-stamped usage data and stored weighting factor data for the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
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Publication number: 20120297302Abstract: Media content is provided using thumbnail-based images and respective archives linked thereto. In accordance with one or more embodiments, access is provided to interactive single-page and multi-page thumbnail images, with each thumbnail image being linked to at least one of a plurality of media-content units in respective sets of the media-content units (e.g., to pages within respective articles each having one or more pages, with each page having predefined text and image data in a set layout). Archive data is identified and communicated for each media content unit, responsive to user input data indicating a selection of one of the thumbnail images, and based on availability of the archive data locally at a user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventors: Keith Barraclough, Melanie Larson, David Irvine, Benjamin Luther Phillips, James Nathaniel Gerlach
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Publication number: 20110209073Abstract: An approach is provided for providing user interface navigation information associated with the availability of services. Location information associated with a device is received. Menu items associated with one or more services based on the location information are selected. Presentation of the selected menu items in a bridge is caused, at least in part. The bridge is a user interface element common to the services.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: Nokia CorporationInventors: Melanie Larson, Franklin Reynolds, Keith R. Barraclough, Stephen Hartford