Patents Assigned to Qurio Holdings, Inc.
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING ASPECT RATIO IN A CAMERA GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20120133817
    Abstract: A device and method are provided that retrieves a plurality of thumbnails corresponding to a plurality of images captured by the digital camera and rotates each thumbnail of the plurality of thumbnails into an upright position. The method and device also crops each thumbnail of the plurality of thumbnails to a uniform size which is an overlap of a portrait and landscape image and displays each thumbnail of the plurality of thumbnails having the uniform size such that the plurality of thumbnails has a uniform appearance while the digital camera is in a review mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: QURIO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Eric C. Anderson
  • System and method for modifying a device profile
    Patent number: 8175645
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for modifying a profile of a user device prior to sending the profile to a destination server, wherein the destination server customizes content provided to the user device based on the modified profile. In general, the profile of the user device may include information identifying capabilities of the user device, user preferences, and demographic information regarding a user of the user device. At either the user device or a mediating server interconnecting the user device and the destination server, the profile of the user device is modified based upon one or more rules to provide the modified profile. The modified profile is then provided to the destination server, which customizes content provided to the user device based on the modified profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: James Evans, Richard J. Walsh, Alfredo C. Issa
  • Profile aware mediating server
    Patent number: 8150938
    Abstract: A mediating server operates to interconnect a number of user devices to network servers. In order to receive customized content from the network servers, the user devices provide device profiles to the network servers via the mediating server within or in addition to requests for content. As the device profiles pass through the mediating server, the mediating server obtains the device profiles and stores the device profiles in a device profiles database. The mediating server may then classify the user devices based on the user profiles using a classification algorithm, which may include one or more classification rules for each of a number of classes. Thereafter, the mediating server may provide one or more services based on the device profiles, the classification of the user devices, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Walsh, Alfredo C. Issa, James Evans
  • Personal area network having media player and mobile device controlling the same
    Patent number: 8145203
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for controlling content played by a number of media devices. In general, the system includes a mobile device and the number of media devices. The mobile device includes a wireless communication interface for communicating with the media devices, a media database, and a control system including a media client. When the mobile device enters a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) associated with a media device, the media client obtains information describing the content residing at the media device and stores the information in the media database at the mobile device. Thereafter, when the mobile device is within the WPAN associated with the media device, the media database is used to select content to be played at the media device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Alfredo C. Issa
  • Message propagation in a distributed virtual world
    Patent number: 8135018
    Abstract: A message propagation scheme for a distributed virtual world is provided. In general, each of a number of peer servers hosts a cell of the virtual world, where the cell is also referred to herein as a virtual space. A peer server issues an advertisement/subscription (ad/sub) message, or message flow path setup message, identifying message types produced by the virtual objects in the virtual space hosted by the peer server and message types consumed by the virtual objects in the virtual space hosted by the peer server. Based on the ad/sub message, for each message type produced, message flow paths from the peer server to other peer servers hosting virtual objects that are consumers of the message type are identified. Likewise, for each message type consumed, message paths from other peer servers hosting virtual objects that are producers of the message type to the peer server are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunal Kandekar, Richard J. Walsh
  • System and method for user classification based on social network aware content analysis
    Patent number: 8135800
    Abstract: A target user's profile may be generated based on scanning metadata related to various content items made available for sharing by the user. For instance, some content items may be made available for sharing by the target user while other items are made available for sharing by one or more other users in the target user's social network. A list of keywords related to each item may be generated from the metadata. Each keyword may then be scored using social network data. For example, social network data corresponding to one or more users associated with each content item may be used to score keywords related to that item. Scoring may be based on factors such as social network distance, relationship type, trust, length of time in the social network, amount of content, amount of metadata, and other factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Walsh, Christopher Amidon, Alfredo Issa
  • Interconnect device to enable compliance with rights management restrictions
    Patent number: 8135947
    Abstract: The present invention provides an interconnect device that connects a source device to a destination device, and allows the source device's non-compliant rights management (RM) interface to deliver media content with little or no restriction to the destination device's compliant RM interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Morgan Evans, Cheryl Adams
  • Prioritizing virtual object downloads in a distributed virtual environment
    Patent number: 8126985
    Abstract: As a client connects to a peer in a distributed virtual environment, the peer provides the client with virtual objects that are relevant to the client so that the virtual objects can be rendered by the client and displayed to a user via a display device. In the distributed virtual environment, the client may require that each peer to which the client connects provide the client with virtual objects, referred to herein as content virtual objects, depicting a landscape of a region hosted by the peer. The client can render the content virtual objects on the display device for the user, depicting the region hosted by the respective peer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunal Kandekar, Richard J. Walsh
  • Methods for providing peer negotiation in a distributed virtual environment and related systems and computer program products
    Patent number: 8116323
    Abstract: Methods are provided that include recursively negotiating a boundary between a first virtual space controlled by a first peer and a second virtual space controlled by a second peer in a distributed virtual environment responsive to profile data of the first peer and the second peer. Related systems and computer program products are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: James Evans, Kunal Kandekar, Richard Walsh
  • High-speed WAN to wireless LAN gateway
    Patent number: 8102863
    Abstract: A gateway interconnecting a high speed Wide Area Network (WAN) and a lower speed Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is provided. The high speed WAN is preferably connected to the gateway via a Fiber-to-the Home (FTTH) connection and associated FTTH modem. In general, the gateway includes an adaptable cross-layer offload engine operating to manage bandwidth between the high speed WAN and the lower speed WLAN. As data enters the gateway from the WAN at the high speed data rate of the WAN, the offload engine stores the data in a non-secure data cache. A rule check engine performs a stateless or stateful inspection of the data in the non-secure data cache. Thereafter, the data is moved from the non-secure data cache to a secure data cache and thereafter transmitted to an appropriate user device in the WLAN at the lower data rate of the WLAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Morgan Evans
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAGGING IMAGES BASED ON POSITIONAL INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20110314016
    Abstract: A system and method for suggesting keywords for tagging a digital image are provided. In general, a requesting node is communicatively coupled to a keyword service via a network. The requesting node sends a request to the keyword service requesting suggested keywords for a digital image. The request includes information relating to the digital image such as positional information. Based on the information, the keyword service generates a list of suggested keywords and provides the list of suggested keywords to the requesting node. At the requesting node, the list of suggested keywords is displayed to a user, and the user selects one or more of the suggested keywords for tagging the digital image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: QURIO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Hugh Svendsen
  • Method and system for providing image rich web pages from a computer system over a network
    Patent number: 8065285
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a computer system that provides a web page to a requestor over a network. Aspects of the present invention include receiving by the computer system a request to access a web page and in response, determining whether a descriptor for the requested web page is in a session memory. If the descriptor is not in the session memory, it is retrieved from a database and the stored in the session memory. From there, the descriptor is used to determine whether the web page should be retrieved and returned to the requestor. By storing the descriptor in session memory, additional accesses to the database can be avoided when the descriptor is used for subsequent tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh B. Svendsen, Christopher M. Amidon, Gary W. Black, Alfredo C. Issa
  • System and method providing quality based peer review and distribution of digital content
    Patent number: 8060574
    Abstract: A digital content review and distribution system and method are provided. In general, a number of authors of digital content register with a content review and distribution agent, which may be hosted by a central server. The authors agree to review digital content submitted by other authors in exchange for review and distribution of their own content. In operation, an author submits metadata associated with digital content to be reviewed and optionally the digital content to the content review and distribution agent. In response to the submission, the content review and distribution agent effects a review of the digital content by one or more groups of reviewers, where the groups of reviewers are selected from the other authors registered with the content review and distribution agent based on the metadata for the digital content and reviewer credentials of the other authors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Morgan Evans, Thomas A. Roberts
  • Dynamic load based ad insertion
    Patent number: 8060904
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for dynamically adjusting advertisement (“ad”) time for a multicast channel. In one embodiment, a variable ad insertion function operates to receive one or more multicasts of media content from a core distribution network, insert ad timeslots into the media content, and optionally perform late-binding of ads to the ad timeslots. The media content including the inserted ad timeslots and late-binded ads, if any, is then multicast to associated client devices over a feeder network using corresponding multicast channels. For each multicast channel, insertion of ad timeslots into the associated media content is dynamically controlled based on the number of users currently consuming or predicted to consume the multicast channel, the number of client devices receiving or predicted to receive the multicast channel, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory M. Evans, Richard J. Walsh
  • Automated real-time secure user data sourcing
    Patent number: 8055536
    Abstract: Profiling data for a consumer can be generated from one or more of the consumer's own financial records. The profiling data can be provided by the consumer him or herself through use of one or more computing devices subject to terms, conditions, rules, and/or other parameters set by the consumer. The profiling data may be provided to one or more interested parties in exchange for value, with the exchange negotiated by one or more software agents acting on behalf of the consumer. The profiling data may be provided in a manner such that it is accessible only in a manner specified by the consumer. For instance, profiling data may be subject to digital rights management or other restrictions such that the receiving party or parties may only access the data for a limited time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Oladipupo Olaiya, Gregory Morgan Evans, Thomas Roberts
  • System and method for bypassing an access point in a local area network for P2P data transfers
    Patent number: 8054815
    Abstract: A system and method for bypassing an access point in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) for direct point-to-point data transfers are provided. A user device in the wireless LAN is equipped with a primary local wireless interface establishing a wireless communication link with an access point of the wireless LAN, a secondary local wireless interface used for direct point-to-point (P2P) file transfers, and a P2P file transfer application. When the P2P application desires to transfer a data file to another user device within the wireless LAN, the user device determines whether the other user device is within a coverage area of the secondary local wireless interface and whether the file transfer meets one or more alternate transfer criterion. If so, the data file is transferred to the other user device via a direct P2P wireless communication link, thereby bypassing the access point of the wireless LAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Morgan Evans
  • Generating communities using a mediating server and the semantic web
    Patent number: 8055803
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for creating communities based on a semantic understanding of content requested by a number of user devices. More specifically, a mediating server operates to interconnect a number of user devices to destination servers. In operation, the mediating server routes requests from the user devices to the appropriate destination servers. The mediating server examines the responses from the destination servers to gain a semantic understanding of the content requested by the user devices. Thereafter, the mediating server establishes communities for the user devices based on the semantic understanding of the content requested by the user devices. For example, the mediating server may invite users of the user devices that have requested semantically similar content to join a chat session around a common topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfredo C. Issa, Richard J. Walsh, James Evans
  • CLIENT-SIDE WATERMARKING USING HYBRID I-FRAMES
    Publication number: 20110268197
    Abstract: A system and method for client-side watermarking of digital content using hybrid Intra-Frames (I-Frames) are provided. In general, a content source provides a compressed video stream and a hybrid I-Frame stream to a client device via a network. The hybrid I-Frame stream includes a number of low-loss I-Frames corresponding to select ones of the I-Frames in the compressed video stream to be used for client-side watermarking. The client device watermarks the I-Frames in the hybrid I-Frame stream, optionally compresses the watermarked I-Frames, and replaces the select ones of the I-Frames in the compressed video stream with the watermarked and optionally compressed I-Frames to provide a watermarked version of the compressed video stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: QURIO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Morgan Evans, Thomas A. Roberts, Cheryl Adams
  • Method and system for providing data streams in a virtual environment
    Patent number: 8051195
    Abstract: A method and system for providing content in a virtual environment. A host computer hosting a region in a virtual environment provides an event stream including a plurality of event data segments identifying activity occurring in the virtual environment to a client computer participating in the virtual environment. The host computer receives a request to provide virtual environment content including imagery data associated with the virtual environment to the client computer, and provides a content stream including a plurality of content data segments containing virtual environment content at a content stream bandwidth based on an event stream bandwidth associated with the event stream to the client computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Qurio Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunal Kandekar, Richard J. Walsh
  • SELECTION OF I-FRAMES FOR CLIENT-SIDE WATERMARKING
    Publication number: 20110261998
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for selecting frames of a compressed video stream that may be used for client-side watermarking. In general, a content source evaluates a number of Intra-Frames (I-Frames) in the compressed video stream using a sample watermark that is similar to actual watermarks that may be used for client-side watermarking. More specifically, each of a number of I-Frames in the compressed video stream is evaluated by first watermarking the I-Frame with the sample watermark. Associated frames in the compressed video stream are then decoded using the watermarked I-Frame. An error value for the decoded video frames is then computed. If the error value is outside of a predetermined error threshold range, the I-Frame is selected as an I-Frame that may be used for client-side watermarking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: QURIO HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Roberts, Gregory Morgan Evans, Cheryl Adams