Patents by Inventor Robert M. Zeidman

Robert M. Zeidman 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: 11684860
    Abstract: This invention allows the players of multiplayer games like poker, chess, backgammon, go, board games, and video games to play the game online while commenting on the game and explaining their strategies to an online audience without sharing that information with their opponents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Good Beat Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Patent number: 11684859
    Abstract: This invention allows the players of multiplayer games like poker, chess, backgammon, go, board games, and video games to play the game online while commenting on the game and explaining their strategies to an online audience without sharing that information with their opponents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Good Beat Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Patent number: 11511177
    Abstract: This invention is an inexpensive, easy-to-use, and easy-to-manufacture device that can be placed on the edge of a pool so that a swimmer can use it to count laps without significantly disrupting the swimming. The invention is lightweight and portable so that one person can carry it around, place it on the pool before swimming laps, and remove it afterwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Z Enterprises
    Inventors: Robert M. Zeidman, Carrie L. Zeidman
  • Publication number: 20220339547
    Abstract: This invention allows the players of multiplayer games like poker, chess, backgammon, go, board games, and video games to play the game online while commenting on the game and explaining their strategies to an online audience without sharing that information with their opponents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Good Beat Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Publication number: 20220274028
    Abstract: This invention allows the players of multiplayer games like poker, chess, backgammon, go, board games, and video games to play the game online while commenting on the game and explaining their strategies to an online audience without sharing that information with their opponents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Good Beat Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Patent number: 11369887
    Abstract: This invention allows the players of multiplayer games like poker, chess, backgammon, go, board games, and video games to play the game online while commenting on the game and explaining their strategies to an online audience without sharing that information with their opponents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Good Beat Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Publication number: 20220001260
    Abstract: This invention is an inexpensive, easy-to-use, and easy-to-manufacture device that can be placed on the edge of a pool so that a swimmer can use it to count laps without significantly disrupting the swimming. The invention is lightweight and portable so that one person can carry it around, place it on the pool before swimming laps, and remove it afterwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Publication number: 20210370187
    Abstract: This invention allows the players of multiplayer games like poker, chess, backgammon, go, board games, and video games to play the game online while commenting on the game and explaining their strategies to an online audience without sharing that information with their opponents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Publication number: 20190007749
    Abstract: A system and method that allows content to be broadcast without commercial interruption, yet lets the company or companies that sponsor the broadcast to offer advertisements and discounts and various special offers to the viewers at a later time. The amount of time a viewer spends watching a particular broadcast is recorded along with information about the sponsoring companies or organizations for the broadcast. The viewer later accesses a central database, which sends back to the viewer advertisements, coupons, discounts, contests, and other enticements to purchase products, based on the amount of time the viewer spent watching broadcasts or segments of broadcasts that were sponsored by the advertiser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Patent number: 10116999
    Abstract: A system and method that allows content to be broadcast without commercial interruption, yet lets the company or companies that sponsor the broadcast to offer advertisements and discounts and various special offers to the viewers at a later time. The amount of time a viewer spends watching a particular broadcast is recorded along with information about the sponsoring companies or organizations for the broadcast. The viewer later accesses a central database, which sends back to the viewer advertisements, coupons, discounts, contests, and other enticements to purchase products, based on the amount of time the viewer spent watching broadcasts or segments of broadcasts that were sponsored by the advertiser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Firtiva Corporation
    Inventor: Robert M Zeidman
  • Publication number: 20160261925
    Abstract: A system and method that allows content to be broadcast without commercial interruption, yet lets the company or companies that sponsor the broadcast to offer advertisements and discounts and various special offers to the viewers at a later time. The amount of time a viewer spends watching a particular broadcast is recorded along with information about the sponsoring companies or organizations for the broadcast. The viewer later accesses a central database, which sends back to the viewer advertisements, coupons, discounts, contests, and other enticements to purchase products, based on the amount of time the viewer spent watching broadcasts or segments of broadcasts that were sponsored by the advertiser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Publication number: 20130031573
    Abstract: A system and method that allows content to be broadcast without commercial interruption, yet lets the company or companies that sponsor the broadcast to offer advertisements and discounts and various special offers to the viewers at a later time. The amount of time a viewer spends watching a particular broadcast is recorded along with information about the sponsoring companies or organizations for the broadcast. The viewer later accesses a central database, which sends back to the viewer advertisements, coupons, discounts, contests, and other enticements to purchase products, based on the amount of time the viewer spent watching broadcasts or segments of broadcasts that were sponsored by the advertiser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Patent number: 8316390
    Abstract: A system and method that allows content to be broadcast without commercial interruption, yet lets the company or companies that sponsor the broadcast to offer advertisements and discounts and various special offers to the viewers at a later time. The amount of time a viewer spends watching a particular broadcast is recorded along with information about the sponsoring companies or organizations for the broadcast. The viewer later accesses a central database, which sends back to the viewer advertisements, coupons, discounts, contests, and other enticements to purchase products, based on the amount of time the viewer spent watching broadcasts or segments of broadcasts that were sponsored by the advertiser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Patent number: 8261237
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting plagiarism of software source code. In one embodiment, a first set of arrays and a second set of arrays are created for a first program source code file and a second program source code file respectively. Each pair of arrays in the first and second sets has entries corresponding to program elements of a distinct program element type such as functional program code, program comments, or program code identifiers. Next, each pair of arrays from the first and second sets is compared to find similar entries, and an intermediate match score is calculated for each pair of arrays based on the similar entries. Further, the resulting intermediate match scores are combined to produce a combined match score, which is then used to provide an indication of copying with respect to the first program source code file and the second program source code file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corp.
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Patent number: 8160863
    Abstract: A system and method for connecting a running logic circuit simulation to a network running at a higher speed that includes a computer for receiving data packets from the network and storing the received data packets in a first buffer. The computer next transmits the received data packets to an electronic circuit in the logic circuit simulation at a slower speed. The computer also receives data packets from the electronic device under simulation, and stores the data packets received from the electronic device under simulation in a second buffer. The computer then transmits the data packets received from the electronic device under simulation to the network at a higher speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ionipas Transfer Company, LLC
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Patent number: 7900187
    Abstract: Software that modifies the source code for readily available software tasks—typically applications and hardware drivers—so that a small, fast, reliable operating system can be synthesized to control execution of these readily available software tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Zeidman
    Inventors: Robert M. Zeidman, Gregory Snider
  • Patent number: 7882488
    Abstract: A tool for developing software source code for embedded systems that allows the user to automatically generate a real-time operating system for scheduling of multi-tasking operations while preventing deadlocks between the real-time tasks. The tool takes parameters that let the user assign priorities and timing characteristics to different tasks and to experiment with different scheduling algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Patent number: 7647583
    Abstract: A platform for running embedded software using an inexpensive standard personal computer is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes a compiler assist component and a runtime component. The compiler assist component operates in conjunction with a standard personal computer compiler to compile an embedded system application to run on a conventional personal computer. The runtime component executes on the personal computer and operates in conjunction with the standard operating system drivers to allow an emulated system to communicate with real hardware connected to the personal computer or to virtual hardware that is simulated on the personal computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Inventors: Robert M Zeidman, Daniel R Hafeman
  • Patent number: 7503035
    Abstract: Plagiarism of software source code is a serious problem in two distinct areas of endeavor—cheating by students at schools and intellectual property theft at corporations. A number of algorithms have been implemented to check source code files for plagiarism, each with their strengths and weaknesses. This invention consists of a combination of algorithms in a single software program to assist a human expert in finding plagiarized code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corp.
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Publication number: 20080270991
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting plagiarism of software source code. In one embodiment, a first set of arrays and a second set of arrays are created for a first program source code file and a second program source code file respectively. Each pair of arrays in the first and second sets has entries corresponding to program elements of a distinct program element type such as functional program code, program comments, or program code identifiers. Next, each pair of arrays from the first and second sets is compared to find similar entries, and an intermediate match score is calculated for each pair of arrays based on the similar entries. Further, the resulting intermediate match scores are combined to produce a combined match score, which is then used to provide an indication of copying with respect to the first program source code file and the second program source code file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman