Patents by Inventor Mitchell C. Green

Mitchell C. Green 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).

  • Method of sharing an item rental account
    Patent number: 7958529
    Abstract: An account in an item rental service is shared with others using computer-implemented profiles, subject to computer-enforced constraints. In one embodiment, a method provides for establishing a user account, wherein the user account is associated with an account owner, wherein the user account comprises a first ordered queue indicating two or more items that the account owner desires to rent; receiving a request to add a second ordered queue to the user account, profile member identifying information, and a constraint value; creating and storing a profile record based on the profile member identifying information and the constraint value, wherein the profile record is further associated with a second queue; receiving a request to add a specified rental item to the second queue, wherein the specified rental item does not conform to the constraint value; and adding the specified rental item to the second queue only in response to receiving confirmation by the account owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Green, Neil D. Hunt, Joshua R. Evans, Keith Hawes, Naresh Gopalani
  • METHOD OF SHARING AN ITEM RENTAL ACCOUNT
    Publication number: 20100005006
    Abstract: An account in an item rental service is shared with others using computer-implemented profiles, subject to computer-enforced constraints. In one embodiment, a method provides for establishing a user account, wherein the user account is associated with an account owner, wherein the user account comprises a first ordered queue indicating two or more items that the account owner desires to rent; receiving a request to add a second ordered queue to the user account, profile member identifying information, and a constraint value; creating and storing a profile record based on the profile member identifying information and the constraint value, wherein the profile record is further associated with a second queue; receiving a request to add a specified rental item to the second queue, wherein the specified rental item does not conform to the constraint value; and adding the specified rental item to the second queue only in response to receiving confirmation by the account owner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Green, Neil D. Hunt, Joshua R. Evans, Keith Hawes, Naresh Gopalani
  • Method of sharing an item rental account
    Patent number: 7631323
    Abstract: An account in an item rental service is shared with others using computer-implemented profiles, subject to computer-enforced constraints. In one embodiment, a method provides for establishing a user account, wherein the user account is associated with an account owner, wherein the user account comprises a first ordered queue indicating two or more items that the account owner desires to rent; receiving a request to add a second ordered queue to the user account, profile member identifying information, and a constraint value; creating and storing a profile record based on the profile member identifying information and the constraint value, wherein the profile record is further associated with a second queue; receiving a request to add a specified rental item to the second queue, wherein the specified rental item does not conform to the constraint value; and adding the specified rental item to the second queue only in response to receiving confirmation by the account owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell C. Green, Neil D. Hunt, Joshua R. Evans, Keith Hawes, Naresh Gopalani