Patents by Inventor Abigail Doolen

Abigail Doolen 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).

  • Automated generation of content-related discussion
    Patent number: 12684192
    Abstract: Systems, devices and automated processes are described for automatically generating discussion topics such as questions or the like that are related to particular media programs being watched by one or more viewers. The questions are generated by a large language model (LLM) or similar artificial intelligence (AI) construct executed by a content provider, by the viewer's device, or by another service. The automatically-generated questions can greatly improve the viewer's experience by provoking thought or discussion, and by fostering a community atmosphere related to the particular program being viewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: Abigail Doolen
  • INTELLIGENT VIEWING PHASE IDENTIFICATION AND RECOMMENDATION
    Publication number: 20260136069
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and processes receive first metadata descriptive of media programs watched by viewers and second metadata descriptive of the viewers, and can provide the first metadata about the media programs and the second metadata about the viewers to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model on the viewers and the media programs. A viewer device playing a media program may detect a recommendation trigger during a first playback of the media program. The AI model may be applied to third metadata related to the viewer and fourth metadata related to the media program during the first playback to generate a viewing recommendation for the viewer in response to the recommendation trigger. The viewing recommendation can be presented to the viewer during the first playback of the media program on the viewer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Abigail Doolen, Levi Boscardin
  • AUTOMATED GENERATION OF CONTENT-RELATED DISCUSSION
    Publication number: 20250260861
    Abstract: Systems, devices and automated processes are described for automatically generating discussion topics such as questions or the like that are related to particular media programs being watched by one or more viewers. The questions are generated by a large language model (LLM) or similar artificial intelligence (AI) construct executed by a content provider, by the viewer's device, or by another service. The automatically-generated questions can greatly improve the viewer's experience by provoking thought or discussion, and by fostering a community atmosphere related to the particular program being viewed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: Abigail Doolen