Patents by Inventor Paul Montoy-Wilson
Paul Montoy-Wilson 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: 10831766Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for receiving by one or more servers, from a client device, a context of the client device. The servers may obtain, from a plurality of user interface object providers, a plurality of user interface objects. The servers may select and rank a set of the plurality of user interface objects based, at least in part, on the context of the client device. The servers may transmit the set of the plurality of user interface objects or information associated therewith to the client device according to the ranking of the set of user interface objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Michael Plasmeier, Paul Montoy-Wilson, Bernat Fortet-Unanue, Naroo Krishnan, Abhay Gupta, Mark Daiss
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Patent number: 10834546Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a context-based user interface include obtaining one or more contextual factors associated with an electronic device; predicting context information in accordance with the one or more contextual factors; and formatting a user interface on the electronic device in accordance with the predicted context information. In some implementations, formatting the user interface on the electronic device in accordance with the predicted context information includes: selecting, in accordance with the predicted context information, a first set of applications; and formatting for display to the user the first set of applications as part of a user interface of the electronic device; and formatting the user interface includes: selecting, in accordance with the predicted context information, a second set of applications; and forgoing display to the user the second set of applications as part of the user interface of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Paul Montoy-Wilson, Mark Daiss, William Choi, Prasanna Vasudevan, Jeffrey Chern, Bernat Fortet Unanue
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Patent number: 10229249Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for distributing content items to a handheld device using a personal computer. A user can browse and select content using a personal computer or other computer that may be more readily available or more convenient to use than the handheld device. The personal computer can communicate with a web server which receives the user's request for content to be distributed to the handheld device. The web server can retrieve configuration information pertaining to the handheld device and communicate with a content server to determine whether the user's request for content distribution is valid based on information identifying the handheld device and at least some of the configuration information pertaining to the handheld device. The content server can transmit the requested content item to the handheld device if the user's request is valid and if the handheld device is able to receive the content item.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jonathan Brunsman, David P. Conway, Pierre Delisle, Ficus Kirkpatrick, Paul Montoy-Wilson, Michael Morrissey, Christian Sonntag, Juliana Tsang, Mark Womack, Peisun Wu
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Patent number: 9756395Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for restricting access to content elements with content ratings. In one method, the content distributor can receive a request from a device to access a set of content elements. The content distributor can then identify at least a content descriptor and a content rating for each content element within the set of content elements, identify a range within the content ratings, and identify content elements with content ratings that are within the range. The content distributor can transmit at least the content descriptors for content elements having content ratings that are within the range to the device for display on the device. This permits a device user to access the content elements by content descriptor. In this method, at least some content descriptors for content elements having content ratings that are outside of the range are not transmitted to the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Timothy Kilbourn, Pei-Keng Chen, Michael Marchak, David P. Conway, Cassandra Forsyth, Peisun Wu, Paul Montoy-Wilson, Anita Mhaskar
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Publication number: 20170177582Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for receiving by one or more servers, from a client device, a context of the client device. The servers may obtain, from a plurality of user interface object providers, a plurality of user interface objects. The servers may select and rank a set of the plurality of user interface objects based, at least in part, on the context of the client device. The servers may transmit the set of the plurality of user interface objects or information associated therewith to the client device according to the ranking of the set of user interface objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Michael Plasmeier, Paul Montoy-Wilson, Bernat Fortet-Unanue, Naroo Krishnan, Abhay Gupta, Mark Daiss
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Patent number: 9178964Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for distributing content items to a handheld device using a personal computer. A user can browse and select content using a personal computer or other computer that may be more readily available or more convenient to use than the handheld device. The personal computer can communicate with a web server which receives the user's request for content to be distributed to the handheld device. The web server can retrieve configuration information pertaining to the handheld device and communicate with a content server to determine whether the user's request for content distribution is valid based on information identifying the handheld device and at least some of the configuration information pertaining to the handheld device. The content server can transmit the requested content item to the handheld device if the user's request is valid and if the handheld device is able to receive the content item.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Brunsman, David P. Conway, Pierre Delisle, Ficus Kirkpatrick, Paul Montoy-Wilson, Michael Morrissey, Christian Sonntag, Juliana Tsang, Mark Womack, Peisun Wu
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Publication number: 20150106737Abstract: Systems and methods for providing context-based user interface are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, obtaining one or more contextual factors associated with an electronic device; predicting context information in accordance with the one or more contextual factors; and formatting a user interface on the electronic device in accordance with the predicted context information. In some implementations, formatting the user interface on the electronic device in accordance with the predicted context information includes: selecting, in accordance with the predicted context information, a first set of applications; and formatting for display to the user the first set of applications as part of a user interface of the electronic device; and formatting the user interface includes: selecting, in accordance with the predicted context information, a second set of applications; and forgoing display to the user the second set of applications as part of the user interface of the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Paul Montoy-Wilson, Mark Daiss, William Choi, Prasanna Vasudevan, Jeffrey Chern, Bernat Fortet Unanue
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Patent number: 8699707Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for distributing content items to a handheld device using a personal computer. A user can browse and select content using a personal computer or other computer that may be more readily available or more convenient to use than the handheld device. The personal computer can communicate with a web server which receives the user's request for content to be distributed to the handheld device. The web server can retrieve configuration information pertaining to the handheld device and communicate with a content server to determine whether the user's request for content distribution is valid based on information identifying the handheld device and at least some of the configuration information pertaining to the handheld device. The content server can transmit the requested content item to the handheld device if the user's request is valid and if the handheld device is able to receive the content item.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Brunsman, David Conway, Pierre Delisle, Ficus Kirkpatrick, Paul Montoy-Wilson, Michael Morrissey, Christian Sonntag, Juliana Tsang, Mark Womack, Peisun Wu