Patents by Inventor Robert Louis Lyren

Robert Louis Lyren 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).

  • Publication number: 20230244300
    Abstract: An electronic device determines information about a target and provides the information to another electronic device that has an obstructed view of the target. The other electronic device displays an image of the target with an orientation and a location of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Robert Louis Lyren
  • Publication number: 20170161789
    Abstract: A targeted advertisement is retrieved for a first user, and a targeted advertisement is retrieved for a second user. The targeted advertisements are switched such that the targeted advertisement intended for the first user plays on a display of an electronic device of the second user, and the targeted advertisement intended for the second user plays on a display of an electronic device of the first user while the first and second users communicate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Robert Louis Lyren
  • Publication number: 20140330649
    Abstract: A targeted advertisement is retrieved for a first user, and a targeted advertisement is retrieved for a second user. The targeted advertisements are switched such that the targeted advertisement intended for the first user plays on a display of an electronic device of the second user, and the targeted advertisement intended for the second user plays on a display of an electronic device of the first user while the first and second users communicate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Robert Louis Lyren
  • Patent number: 8521601
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for marketing and selling feature length movies over one or more networks. One method of marketing includes placing, at plural different internet locations, advertisements to purchase a feature length movie (FLM) before the FLM is publicly available to buy on digital video disk (DVD); soliciting, before the FLM is publicly available to buy on DVD, public individuals not previously affiliated with the FLM to become salespeople who sell the FLM over network spaces belonging to the public individuals; and compensating a salesperson for each sale of the FLM that occurs as a result of an advertisement at network spaces belonging to the salesperson.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Robert Louis Lyren
  • Patent number: 8424048
    Abstract: One embodiment is a handheld portable cellular device that receives and plays feature length movies. In one exemplary embodiment, a multifunctional handheld portable cellular device (HPCD) has a body, a display and a processor. The processor plays a feature length movie on the display. The HPCD orders, via a wireless connection to a network, the feature length movie before a public release date of the feature length movie, and plays the feature length movie on the display before the public release date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Robert Louis Lyren