Patents by Inventor Adam W. Miller

Adam W. Miller 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).

  • Providing directed advertising based on user preferences
    Patent number: 9426537
    Abstract: A method determines user preference information for a user for a number of advertisements in a set of advertising blocks and a temporal distribution of the advertising blocks. When each advertising block in the set of advertising blocks occurs according to the temporal distribution during sending of a video program, the method determines a number of advertisements in the advertising block based on the user preference information, determines advertisements for the advertising block equal to the number of advertisements, and sends the determined advertisements during the advertising block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Richard W. Tom, Eric I. Feng, Hua Zheng, Jean-Paul Colaco, Adam W. Miller
  • Providing Directed Advertising Based on User Preferences
    Publication number: 20140053187
    Abstract: A method determines user preference information for a user for a number of advertisements in a set of advertising blocks and a temporal distribution of the advertising blocks. When each advertising block in the set of advertising blocks occurs according to the temporal distribution during sending of a video program, the method determines a number of advertisements in the advertising block based on the user preference information, determines advertisements for the advertising block equal to the number of advertisements, and sends the determined advertisements during the advertising block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Hulu, LLC
    Inventors: Richard W. Tom, Eric I. Feng, Hua Zheng, Jean-Paul Colaco, Adam W. Miller
  • Method and apparatus for providing directed advertising based on user preferences
    Patent number: 8578408
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for providing advertisements into a streamed media program is disclosed. One embodiment comprises a user computer for accepting user input, the user input directly defining user preferences regarding the presentation of the advertisements in the streamed media program and for inserting advertisements in the streamed media program according to the defined user preferences; and a media program provider communicatively coupled to the user computer, for transmitting the streamed media program to the user computer for presentation to the user on a display communicatively coupled to the user computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hulu, LLC
    Inventors: Richard W. Tom, Eric I. Feng, Hua Zheng, Jean-Paul Colaco, Adam W. Miller
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DIRECTED ADVERTISING BASED ON USER PREFERENCES
    Publication number: 20090228920
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for providing advertisements into a streamed media program is disclosed. One embodiment comprises a user computer for accepting user input, the user input directly defining user preferences regarding the presentation of the advertisements in the streamed media program and for inserting advertisements in the streamed media program according to the defined user preferences; and a media program provider communicatively coupled to the user computer, for transmitting the streamed media program to the user computer for presentation to the user on a display communicatively coupled to the user computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: HULU LLC
    Inventors: Richard W. Tom, Eric Feng, Zheng Hua, Jean-Paul Colaco, Adam W. Miller