Patents by Inventor Richard B. Leider

Richard B. Leider 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).

  • Real-time interaction during video viewing
    Patent number: 9253225
    Abstract: Community interaction during video viewing is provided. A video hosting website includes videos available for viewing. Users establish lists of friends, who are other users of the video hosting site. When a user logs on, her presence is made known by an interaction engine to her friends that are also logged in to the site. The user's activities are tracked and her friends are notified of those activities. Tracked activities may include viewing a video, rating a video, commenting on a video, uploading a video to the site, and adding a new friend. Friends are notified of these activities in one embodiment through one or more user interface elements. A user can select a user interface element to discover which of her friends are also watching the same video at that time. A user watching a video can summon her online friends to the watch page to watch collaboratively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Junee, Herbert Ho, Yu Pan, Erik Klein, Slave Jovanovski, Julian Frumar, Jasson Arthur Schrock, Richard B. Leider, Mohan Nibhanupudi
  • Integrated user interface
    Patent number: 8892988
    Abstract: A system and method for a content player to determine and retrieve a graphical asset associated with a player feature supported by the content. The content player downloads the graphical assets, integrates the graphical assets in the player's graphical user interface, and displays the graphical assets as part of the player's user interface. The user can now select one of the graphical assets to enable the player feature associated with the graphical asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jasson A. Schrock, Richard B. Leider
  • Real-time interaction during video viewing
    Patent number: 8555177
    Abstract: Community interaction during video viewing is provided. A video hosting website includes videos available for viewing. Users establish lists of friends, who are other users of the video hosting site. When a user logs on, her presence is made known by an interaction engine to her friends that are also logged in to the site. The user's activities are tracked and her friends are notified of those activities. Tracked activities may include viewing a video, rating a video, commenting on a video, uploading a video to the site, and adding a new friend. Friends are notified of these activities in one embodiment through one or more user interface elements. A user can select a user interface element to discover which of her friends are also watching the same video at that time. A user watching a video can summon her online friends to the watch page to watch collaboratively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Junee, Herbert Ho, Yu Pan, Erik Klein, Slave Jovanovski, Julian Frumar, Jasson Arthur Schrock, Richard B. Leider, Mohan Nibhanupudi