Patents by Inventor Alexandra Nsonwu

Alexandra Nsonwu 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: 20190034980
    Abstract: A scalable voucher system used to manage how content (specifically advertisements) is delivered to client devices is described. The advertisements are stored on a plurality of different ad servers. With the use of vouchers that are assigned to each ad server for pre-determined periods of time, the voucher system is able to manage when and how advertisements should be provided to the client devices. The voucher system also provides an arrangement that allows for the use of additional ad servers to be scalable. As the number of client devices that would need to be serviced with advertisements increases, the voucher system is able to easily accommodate the increase number of clients with the implementation of additional clusters of ad servers and corresponding processors without significant changes to the underlying system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Sean Ian Allen, Matthew Bennett, Alexandra Nsonwu
  • Patent number: 6978473
    Abstract: A pop-up option palette for controlling electronic equipment such as a set top box. The pop-up option palette of the present invention is implemented as an overlay window enabled by HTML. The pop-up option palette appears anywhere on the system at the touch of a particular key on the remote control and disappears at the touch of the same key in the preferred embodiment. The pop-up option palette provides shortcut methods for jumping to other areas of the system, eliminating the need for actual toolbars or menus. When the pop-up key is activated, a window providing a palette of options appears overlaying the browser's main window. The content of the window can be determined based on the page being displayed so that appropriate information relevant to the page being displayed appears within the pop-up option palette window. Thus, the options available on the pop-up option palette are context sensitive. Additionally, help available through the help button is also context sensitive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandra Nsonwu, Murthy Atmakuri, Hanchang Kuo, Kim Mingo
  • Publication number: 20020188585
    Abstract: An apparatus, article of manufacture, and method for displaying data on a computer network. One embodiment of the method, for example, comprises displaying via a browser a first document from the computer network; requesting a second document for display; receiving data for the second document for display; determining that the second document cannot yet be displayed; and storing the data for the second document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Murthy Atmakuri, Alexandra Nsonwu, Hanchang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20020069410
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a digital device is provided. A user interface is provided with controls the user can select. These controls correspond to controls found on the digital device. When a user selects one of the selectable controls, a control command is sent through a translation process where the control command is translated from a first protocol to a second protocol. The translated command is then sent to the digital device, which executes the control command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Murthy Atmakuri, Alexandra Nsonwu, Seema Kataria
  • Patent number: 6377928
    Abstract: A method of operation of a computer system for processing an arbitrary document such as a World Wide Web page to provide additional information not immediately available from the raw, unprocessed document. This additional information allows a user to navigate and control the content of the document using, in some embodiments, voice commands and/or an agent-based user interface. The present disclosure provides both a visual display of previously invisible links embedded in a web page image and an audible indication of the presence of such links. The present invention further comprises a scripting language that allows the rapid creation of executable computer instructions (or scripts) for controlling the behaviors and functionality of the agent-based interface. Such scripts enable the creation of a friendlier, easy to use interface to the navigation and control features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Parichay Saxena, Sheng Dong, Alexandra Nsonwu
  • Patent number: D455759
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Parichay Saxena, Sheng Dong, Alexandra Nsonwu
  • Patent number: D421430
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Parichay Saxena, Sheng Dong, Alexandra Nsonwu
  • Patent number: D421749
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Parichay Saxena, Sheng Dong, Alexandra Nsonwu