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).

  • Patent number: 11196644
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
  • Patent number: 10839142
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, John Logan, Carlos Carapito, Abraham Rubin, Melanie Larson, James Nathaniel Gerlach
  • Patent number: 9967157
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Next Issue Media
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
  • Publication number: 20160179308
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, Melanie Larson, David Irvine, Benjamin Luther Phillips, James Nathaniel Gerlach
  • Patent number: 9369353
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Next Issue Media
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
  • Patent number: 9336320
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Melanie Larson, Franklin Reynolds, Keith R. Barraclough, Stephen Hartford
  • Patent number: 9274694
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Next Issue Media
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, Melanie Larson, David Irvine, Benjamin Luther Phillips, James Nathaniel Gerlach
  • Publication number: 20150199313
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, John Logan, Carlos Carapito, Abraham Rubin, Melanie Larson, James Nathaniel Gerlach
  • Publication number: 20150200819
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
  • Patent number: 8977964
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Next Issue Media
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, John Logan, Carlos Carapito, Abraham Rubin, Melanie Larson, James Nathaniel Gerlach
  • Patent number: 8978149
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Next Issue Media
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
  • Publication number: 20120317482
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, John Logan, Carlos Carapito, Abraham Rubin, Melanie Larson, James Nathaniel Gerlach
  • Publication number: 20120297490
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, David Irvine, Melanie Larson, Morgan P. Guenther, Gerri Johnson
  • Publication number: 20120297302
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Keith Barraclough, Melanie Larson, David Irvine, Benjamin Luther Phillips, James Nathaniel Gerlach
  • Publication number: 20110209073
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Melanie Larson, Franklin Reynolds, Keith R. Barraclough, Stephen Hartford