Patents by Inventor Alan Wong

Alan Wong 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).

  • Publication number: 20260122297
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and memory storing software code. The processor executes the software code to receive first user data identifying a user and a media content in a first media format accessed by the user, receive second user data suspending access to the media content in the first media format by the user and identifying a first location in the first media format where the access is suspended, and store the first location in a usage history of the user. The software code further receives third user data identifying the user and the media content in a second media format, determines, using the first location and media content metadata cross-referencing the first media format and the second media format, a second location in the second media format corresponding to the first location, and initiates access to the media content in the second media format at the second location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventor: Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 12615403
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and memory storing software code. The processor executes the software code to receive first user data identifying a user and a media content in a first media format accessed by the user, receive second user data suspending access to the media content in the first media format by the user and identifying a first location in the first media format where the access is suspended, and store the first location in a usage history of the user. The software code further receives third user data identifying the user and the media content in a second media format, determines, using the first location and media content metadata cross-referencing the first media format and the second media format, a second location in the second media format corresponding to the first location, and initiates access to the media content in the second media format at the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Wong
  • Publication number: 20260004637
    Abstract: A technique for managing anonymous gaming session data includes obtaining an anonymous session data record and a corresponding device identifier. The device identifier is detected by performing a scan, from an electronic gaming machine and during an active gaming session, for nearby electronic devices. The device identifier is compared with one or more prior logged device identifiers associated with historic session data records to identify a matched device identifier. The technique identifies, from at least one of the historic data records having the matched device identifier, a user identifier. Moreover, the device modifies the anonymous session data record to include the user identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2025
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong, David Pickering, Jabez Allies
  • Publication number: 20250259509
    Abstract: A gaming system includes an electronic gaming machine (EGM) located within a defined zone of a gaming venue, a transmitter configured to output a first unique identifier, and a server including a processor and a memory storing instructions, where the instructions cause the processor to receive, in connection with a request at a mobile terminal to transfer funds to a gaming wallet accessible at the EGM, a communication from the mobile terminal including the first unique identifier, determine, based on the received first unique identifier, whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, and transmit, in response to determining whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, a signal to the mobile terminal indicating whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 12387713
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant and/or other application that can adapt settings of a foldable display interface of a computing device according to user interactions occurring during a multilingual conversation. During the multilingual conversation between at least two users, translated content of the conversation can be rendered at a portion of the display interface according to which user is actively speaking. When a user is actively speaking, a brightness level of a portion of the display interface that is facing another user in the conversation can be modified to emphasize that the user is speaking and that the translated content is being rendered. When the user who is speaking is also the owner of the computing device, a portion of the display interface that is facing the other user can exhibit a limited responsiveness to touch inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Clark, Gustav Sennton, Xinxing Gu, Vincent Lacey, David Wilson, Shaun Post, Chris Kau, Petr Cermák, Michael Anthony Schuler, Nicole McWilliams, Will Osborn, Daniel Lee, Sanatt Abrol, Pragya Bajoria, Alan Wong
  • Publication number: 20250239131
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system is configured to provide a wagering session on an electronic gaming machine based upon one or more communications received from a mobile device of a player, where the communications indicate a signal strength of a wireless beacon relative to the mobile device. For example, the mobile device may provide a first communication indicating that the mobile device is within a first distance of the electronic gaming machine. In response, the wagering session may be provided or initiated. Likewise, during gameplay, the mobile device may provide a second communication indicating that the mobile device has moved to within a second distance of the electronic gaming machine. In response, the wagering session may be continued or terminated, depending upon, for example, a comparison of the second distance to a threshold second distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Publication number: 20250209888
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system including a server including a database, an electronic gaming device, and a module is described. The module is configured to receive a player account identifier (ID) associated with a player account associated with the electronic gaming device and receive a player lock input. The module is further configured to determine that the player account is authorized to lock the electronic gaming device, cause the electronic gaming device to lock, and transmit a message to the server, the message including a credit amount at the electronic gaming device when the player lock input was received, the player account ID, and a device ID associated with the electronic gaming device wherein the server is configured to store a credit preservation record in the database upon receipt of the message, the credit preservation record including the credit amount, the player account ID, and the device ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 12315336
    Abstract: A gaming system includes an electronic gaming machine (EGM) located within a defined zone of a gaming venue, a transmitter configured to output a first unique identifier, and a server including a processor and a memory storing instructions, where the instructions cause the processor to receive, in connection with a request at a mobile terminal to transfer funds to a gaming wallet accessible at the EGM, a communication from the mobile terminal including the first unique identifier, determine, based on the received first unique identifier, whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, and transmit, in response to determining whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, a signal to the mobile terminal indicating whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 12300062
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system is configured to provide a wagering session on an electronic gaming machine based upon one or more communications received from a mobile device of a player, where the communications indicate a signal strength of a wireless beacon relative to the mobile device. For example, the mobile device may provide a first communication indicating that the mobile device is within a first distance of the electronic gaming machine. In response, the wagering session may be provided or initiated. Likewise, during gameplay, the mobile device may provide a second communication indicating that the mobile device has moved to within a second distance of the electronic gaming machine. In response, the wagering session may be continued or terminated, depending upon, for example, a comparison of the second distance to a threshold second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Publication number: 20250111745
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system may a memory device and a processor configured to: (1) receive user activity data from a plurality of venue systems associated with a plurality of different venues, the user activity data relating to user activity at gaming devices at the plurality of different venues; (2) identify the user activity as relating to a first user based on a linking between a stored value account associated with the first user and a plurality of loyalty accounts associated with the first user and with a corresponding one of the plurality of venue systems; (3) update global user activity records associated with the first user based on the received user activity data; and (4) transmit global user activity records associated with the first user to a first venue system of the plurality of venue systems that is associated with a first venue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Cheyne Cole, Andrew Wyllie, David Pickering, Ben Vineyard, IV, Alan Wong, Pankaj Bhandari, Mohit Kumar, Mukul Mathur
  • Publication number: 20250111747
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system may include a memory device and a processor configured to (1) determine a session has been established by a user at a gaming device associated with a CMS; (2) receive a transaction request associated with a gaming device, the transaction request identifying a transaction amount; (3) in response to determining the session has been established and receiving the transaction request, transmit instructions to cause an immutable CL to record a virtual transfer of funds record equal to the transaction amount from a virtual user account associated with the user to a venue virtual account; and (4) transmit instructions to a venue system to cause the CMS to initiate a transfer of the transaction amount from the venue gaming account to a credit balance of the gaming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Cheyne Cole, Andrew Wyllie, David Pickering, Alan Wong, Pankaj Bhandari, Santosh Singh
  • Publication number: 20240404361
    Abstract: A quarantine wallet associated with a user account that support funds to be quarantined for a defined period. A user account server determines that a respective win amount satisfies one or more funds quarantine criteria and removes at least a portion of the win amount satisfying the one or more funds quarantine criteria from access by one or more wallets associated with a user account. The user account server stores the removed portion of the win amount as a quarantined fund amount in a quarantine wallet associated with the user account. The user account server sets a release time for the quarantined funds amount in the quarantine wallet and performs a transfer of the quarantined funds amount to the one or more wallets based on satisfying the release time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Publication number: 20240339109
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant and/or other application that can adapt settings of a foldable display interface of a computing device according to user interactions occurring during a multilingual conversation. During the multilingual conversation between at least two users, translated content of the conversation can be rendered at a portion of the display interface according to which user is actively speaking. When a user is actively speaking, a brightness level of a portion of the display interface that is facing another user in the conversation can be modified to emphasize that the user is speaking and that the translated content is being rendered. When the user who is speaking is also the owner of the computing device, a portion of the display interface that is facing the other user can exhibit a limited responsiveness to touch inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Clark, Gustav Sennton, Xinxing Gu, Vincent Lacey, David Wilson, Shaun Post, Chris Kau, Petr Cermák, Michael Anthony Schuler, Nicole McWilliams, Will Osborn, Daniel Lee, Sanatt Abrol, Pragya Bajoria, Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 12100267
    Abstract: A quarantine wallet associated with a user account that support funds to be quarantined for a defined period. A user account server determines that a respective win amount satisfies one or more funds quarantine criteria and removes at least a portion of the win amount satisfying the one or more funds quarantine criteria from access by one or more wallets associated with a user account. The user account server stores the removed portion of the win amount as a quarantined fund amount in a quarantine wallet associated with the user account. The user account server sets a release time for the quarantined funds amount in the quarantine wallet and performs a transfer of the quarantined funds amount to the one or more wallets based on satisfying the release time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Publication number: 20240242563
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system is configured to provide a wagering session on an electronic gaming machine based upon one or more communications received from a mobile device of a player, where the communications indicate a signal strength of a wireless beacon relative to the mobile device. For example, the mobile device may provide a first communication indicating that the mobile device is within a first distance of the electronic gaming machine. In response, the wagering session may be provided or initiated. Likewise, during gameplay, the mobile device may provide a second communication indicating that the mobile device has moved to within a second distance of the electronic gaming machine. In response, the wagering session may be continued or terminated, depending upon, for example, a comparison of the second distance to a threshold second distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 12026642
    Abstract: A trip-planning operation includes identifying a primary work location associated with each user account of a dependency graph defined by the three or more users performing a set of interaction events on a software platform. A first set of advanced programming interface (API) calls is generated to a third party service to obtain one or more query results based on the primary work location, which are then analyzed to determine a ranked list of candidate trip locations based on a ranking criterion. At least a portion of the ranked list is displayed on the client device and, in response to an input from the client device and upon a determination that a consensus regarding the candidate trip location exists among the three or more user accounts, a second API call is generated to the third party service to book a trip to the candidate trip location for each user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN US, INC.
    Inventors: Alan Wong, Alizeh Rehman, David Herbst, Emily Crowe, Timothy Granshaw
  • Publication number: 20240177563
    Abstract: A gaming system includes an electronic gaming machine (EGM) located within a defined zone of a gaming venue, a transmitter configured to output a first unique identifier, and a server including a processor and a memory storing instructions, where the instructions cause the processor to receive, in connection with a request at a mobile terminal to transfer funds to a gaming wallet accessible at the EGM, a communication from the mobile terminal including the first unique identifier, determine, based on the received first unique identifier, whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, and transmit, in response to determining whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, a signal to the mobile terminal indicating whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 11972658
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system is configured to provide a wagering session on an electronic gaming machine based upon one or more communications received from a mobile device of a player, where the communications indicate a signal strength of a wireless beacon relative to the mobile device. For example, the mobile device may provide a first communication indicating that the mobile device is within a first distance of the electronic gaming machine. In response, the wagering session may be provided or initiated. Likewise, during gameplay, the mobile device may provide a second communication indicating that the mobile device has moved to within a second distance of the electronic gaming machine. In response, the wagering session may be continued or terminated, depending upon, for example, a comparison of the second distance to a threshold second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Publication number: 20240104440
    Abstract: A trip-planning operation includes identifying a primary work location associated with each user account of a dependency graph defined by the three or more users performing a set of interaction events on a software platform. A first set of advanced programming interface (API) calls is generated to a third party service to obtain one or more query results based on the primary work location, which are then analyzed to determine a ranked list of candidate trip locations based on a ranking criterion. At least a portion of the ranked list is displayed on the client device and, in response to an input from the client device and upon a determination that a consensus regarding the candidate trip location exists among the three or more user accounts, a second API call is generated to the third party service to book a trip to the candidate trip location for each user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Alan Wong, Alizeh Rehman, David Herbst, Emily Crowe, Timothy Granshaw
  • Patent number: 11928926
    Abstract: A gaming system includes an electronic gaming machine (EGM) located within a defined zone of a gaming venue, a transmitter configured to output a first unique identifier, and a server including a processor and a memory storing instructions, where the instructions cause the processor to receive, in connection with a request at a mobile terminal to transfer funds to a gaming wallet accessible at the EGM, a communication from the mobile terminal including the first unique identifier, determine, based on the received first unique identifier, whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, and transmit, in response to determining whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, a signal to the mobile terminal indicating whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong