Patents Examined by Michael Cross
  • Patent number: 10354291
    Abstract: Methods and systems herein involve a computing system receiving a listing-suggestion request associated with a first account, and responsive to the listing-suggestion request: (a) detecting, in point-of-view (POV) image data received from one or wearable devices, one or more occurrences of a first surface of a real-world object; (b) determining that the first surface of real-world object is associable with the first account; (c) determining that the first surface is not associated with the first account in a database for augmented-reality overlay rights and (d) responsive to determining that the first surface is associated with the first account: (i) using the POV image data as a basis for determining a numeric measure corresponding to overlay of augmented-reality content on the first surface of the real-world object; and (ii) sending a listing-suggestion message to a computing device corresponding to the first account, wherein the listing-suggestion message indicates the determined numeric measure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Eric Teller
  • Patent number: 8504418
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described for online content management. Online content in the form of answer sets are exposed to a user posing a question to a question and answer service. The question and answer service causes an award amount to be debited from an account associated with the user. The question and answer service receives a user input that (i) selects one or more answers from the answer set, and (ii) specifies a distribution of a portion of the award amount among the selected answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Inventor: Benjamin P. Dimock