Patents Assigned to Affinity Labs of Texas, LLC
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Patent number: 10341403Abstract: A system for communicating media is disclosed. Such a system may include, for example, a media broken into a plurality of independent segment files that may represent sequential portions of the media. One of the segment files can be encoded to have a format that is different than the encoded format of another one of the segment files. The formats may be chosen to allow outputting of information in the segments at different rates. A list may include network addresses for the segment files, and a content delivery system may be deployed to distribute media content to remotely located requesting devices by sending the segment files in response to requests for the segment files.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 9923944Abstract: A system for communicating media is disclosed. Such a system may include, for example, a media broken into a plurality of independent segment files that may represent sequential portions of the media. One of the segment files can be encoded to have a format that is different than the encoded format of another one of the segment files. The formats may be chosen to allow outputting of information in the segments at different rates. A list may include network addresses for the segment files, and a content delivery system may be deployed to distribute media content to remotely located requesting devices by sending the segment files in response to requests for the segment files.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 9621615Abstract: A system for communicating media is disclosed. Such a system may include, for example, a media broken into a plurality of independent segment files that may represent sequential portions of the media. One of the segment files can be encoded to have a format that is different than the encoded format of another one of the segment files. The formats may be chosen to allow outputting of information in the segments at different rates. A list may include network addresses for the segment files, and a content delivery system may be deployed to distribute media content to remotely located requesting devices by sending the segment files in response to requests for the segment files.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 9444868Abstract: A system for communicating media is disclosed. Such a system may include, for example, a media broken into a plurality of independent segment files that may represent sequential portions of the media. One of the segment files can be encoded to have a format that is different than the encoded format of another one of the segment files. The formats may be chosen to allow outputting of information in the segments at different rates. A list may include network addresses for the segment files, and a content delivery system may be deployed to distribute media content to remotely located requesting devices by sending the segment files in response to requests for the segment files.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 9266584Abstract: A system for rope cleating is disclosed. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include a cleating component, an anchoring component, and an exterior shell. In practice, the system may facilitate connecting a boat to a dock even if the boater is unfamiliar with proper nautical knots.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Stanley M. Dufek
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Patent number: 9094802Abstract: A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Publication number: 20140237362Abstract: A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Publication number: 20140237364Abstract: A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Publication number: 20140236730Abstract: A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Publication number: 20140207581Abstract: A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Publication number: 20140196705Abstract: A system for bow gripping is disclosed. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include a grip component configured to couple to a bow. In some embodiments, the grip component may interact and/or attached to an archer's lead hand. Some components may have a third metacarpal offset that encourages a grip angle of over twenty degrees. Depending on design goals, the encouraged grip angle may also be larger or smaller than twenty degrees. The grip component may also include a mechanism for attaching the component to an archer's bow or hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventor: Russell W. White
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Publication number: 20140101547Abstract: A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 8688085Abstract: A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 8588680Abstract: A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 8554191Abstract: An automobile with a communication interface configured to help communicatively couple a sound system with a wireless telephone such that the wireless telephone can stream selected media content like music or video to the communication module using an asynchronous channel of a localized wireless network. The communication interface may also allow operation of the wireless telephone in a hands free mode to facilitate use of the wireless telephone in the automobile in a way that does not require a user to hold the wireless telephone.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 8532641Abstract: A music enabled communication system includes a wireless telephone device with a display, a wireless communication module, a rechargeable power supply, a memory system, and a collection of instructions operable to utilize the wireless communication module to stream a signal representing a song to a recipient device using a given asynchronous wireless channel of a localized communications signaling network, to recognize receipt of an incoming call, and to alter the signal in connection with recognizing receipt of the call.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 8521140Abstract: A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 8500075Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention includes loading and carting system having support mechanisms each including pairs of telescoping members extending away from each other and an object sling extending between the pairs. The system further includes a reversible platform to which the support mechanisms are mounted, where the platform includes on a first side thereof a set of base portions in which the support members are mounted and on a second side thereof wheel mounts to which wheels can be mounted. The first side may be configured to support a bulky object during a carting process and the second side configured to support the object during a loading or unloading process.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Harlie D. Frost, Russell W. White
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Patent number: 8359007Abstract: A method for communicating media content is disclosed. The method includes receiving in a server a request for a listing of network addresses associated with a playlist for available content, and sending a message having network addresses for different portions of the content. The network addresses allow a requesting device to use one transmission rate for a first part of the content and a different transmission rate for a second part of the content.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes
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Patent number: 7970379Abstract: A method for providing broadcast content is disclosed. The method maintains a system to deliver regionally broadcasted content to an electronic device located outside a region of the regionally broadcasted content, provides an application for the electronic device that allows the electronic device to request a streaming media signal representing the regionally broadcasted content even if the electronic device is located outside of the region, and communicates the streaming media signal to the electronic device responsive to a user request.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Affinity Labs of Texas, LLCInventors: Russell W. White, Kevin R. Imes