Patents by Inventor Wiley Wilkins

Wiley Wilkins 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: 20230072128
    Abstract: An example method includes presenting a remote broadcast event by delivering content from a first user endpoint device to a plurality of user endpoint devices of a plurality of audience members, estimating reactions of the audience members, based on streams of data received from the plurality of user endpoint devices, grouping the audience members into a plurality of groups, based on the reactions, wherein each group of the plurality of groups is associated with a different reaction, and wherein each audience member who is a member of the each group was estimated to demonstrate a common reaction of the plurality of reactions, wherein the common reaction is associated with the each group, selecting, for a first group, a first audience member from the first group to be representative of the first group, and presenting, to the first user endpoint device, an image of the first audience member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Wiley Wilkins, James H. Pratt, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11503090
    Abstract: An example method includes presenting a remote broadcast event by delivering content from a first user endpoint device to a plurality of user endpoint devices of a plurality of audience members, estimating reactions of the audience members, based on streams of data received from the plurality of user endpoint devices, grouping the audience members into a plurality of groups, based on the reactions, wherein each group of the plurality of groups is associated with a different reaction, and wherein each audience member who is a member of the each group was estimated to demonstrate a common reaction of the plurality of reactions, wherein the common reaction is associated with the each group, selecting, for a first group, a first audience member from the first group to be representative of the first group, and presenting, to the first user endpoint device, an image of the first audience member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wiley Wilkins, James H. Pratt, Eric Zavesky
  • Publication number: 20220174099
    Abstract: An example method includes presenting a remote broadcast event by delivering content from a first user endpoint device to a plurality of user endpoint devices of a plurality of audience members, estimating reactions of the audience members, based on streams of data received from the plurality of user endpoint devices, grouping the audience members into a plurality of groups, based on the reactions, wherein each group of the plurality of groups is associated with a different reaction, and wherein each audience member who is a member of the each group was estimated to demonstrate a common reaction of the plurality of reactions, wherein the common reaction is associated with the each group, selecting, for a first group, a first audience member from the first group to be representative of the first group, and presenting, to the first user endpoint device, an image of the first audience member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Wiley Wilkins, James H. Pratt, Eric Zavesky
  • Publication number: 20200151783
    Abstract: A method may include a processor obtaining an authorization to identify electronic purchase confirmation messages in a plurality of electronic messages for a user and to maintain a user purchase profile of the user. The processor may collect the plurality of electronic messages for the user, identifying the electronic purchase confirmation messages in the plurality of electronic messages, and determine a purchase category and a purchase amount from each of the electronic purchase confirmation messages that is identified. The processor may further obtain a verification of the purchase category that is determined from each of the electronic purchase confirmation messages that is identified, update the user purchase profile in accordance with the purchase category and the purchase amount from each of the electronic purchase confirmation messages that is identified, and perform an automated action in accordance with the user purchase profile that is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: James H. Pratt, Wiley Wilkins
  • Patent number: 10540698
    Abstract: A method may include a processor obtaining an authorization to identify electronic purchase confirmation messages in a plurality of electronic messages for a user and to maintain a user purchase profile of the user. The processor may collect the plurality of electronic messages for the user, identifying the electronic purchase confirmation messages in the plurality of electronic messages, and determine a purchase category and a purchase amount from each of the electronic purchase confirmation messages that is identified. The processor may further obtain a verification of the purchase category that is determined from each of the electronic purchase confirmation messages that is identified, update the user purchase profile in accordance with the purchase category and the purchase amount from each of the electronic purchase confirmation messages that is identified, and perform an automated action in accordance with the user purchase profile that is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James H. Pratt, Wiley Wilkins
  • Publication number: 20180247354
    Abstract: A method may include a processor obtaining an authorization to identify electronic purchase confirmation messages in a plurality of electronic messages for a user and to maintain a user purchase profile of the user. The processor may collect the plurality of electronic messages for the user, identifying the electronic purchase confirmation messages in the plurality of electronic messages, and determine a purchase category and a purchase amount from each of the electronic purchase confirmation messages that is identified. The processor may further obtain a verification of the purchase category that is determined from each of the electronic purchase confirmation messages that is identified, update the user purchase profile in accordance with the purchase category and the purchase amount from each of the electronic purchase confirmation messages that is identified, and perform an automated action in accordance with the user purchase profile that is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: James H. PRATT, Wiley Wilkins