Patents by Inventor Alison Kay Allen

Alison Kay Allen 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).

  • Patent number: 9648369
    Abstract: A method includes presenting a user interface providing access to content from multiple content providers and receiving, via the user interface, user input indicating selection criteria for recommending content. The selection criteria include an amount of time available to the user. The method includes providing, to a network device, an indication of the selection criteria and receiving, from the network device, information for providing recommended content options based on the selection criteria. The recommended content options are available from different content providers of the multiple content providers. The method includes presenting, to the user and via the interface, the recommended content options in association with the selection criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Michael J. Naggar, Mitch Dornich, Ashutosh K. Sureka, Alison Kay Allen, Nitin Khanna, Ryan Evans, Rahim Charania, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Shuchi Patel, Kristi D. Crum
  • Patent number: 9602853
    Abstract: A user device includes a user interface providing access to content from multiple content providers, each of the multiple content providers having a separate subscription associated with the user. The user device receives user input indicating interest in an aspect of particular content available from a first content provider of the multiple content providers and provides, to a network device, an indication of the user interest. The user device receives, from the network device, links to additional content available from a different content provider and related to the aspect of the particular content. The user device presents, via the user interface, the links to the additional content in association with the aspect of the particular content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Michael J. Naggar, Ashutosh K. Sureka, Kristopher T. Frazier, Alison Kay Allen, Ryan Evans, Rahim Charania, Shuchi Patel
  • Patent number: 9332206
    Abstract: A method including providing television content (TC) to a user; receiving a TC capture request; capturing TC frames based on the TC capture request; displaying to the user one or more TC frames included in the captured TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more TC frames included in the displayed one or more TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more destinations to send the selected one or more TC frames; and sending the selected one or more TC frames to the one or more destinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Ruchir Rodrigues, Kristopher T. Frazier, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • Patent number: 8935714
    Abstract: A method including providing at least one of a television service or an Internet access service to a customer; generating predictive options pertaining to content delivered to the customer, wherein the predictive options correspond to possible future events that could occur with respect to the content; receiving a customer selection of one of the predictive options; determining whether the customer-selected predictive option matches an outcome with respect to the content; and assigning a score to the customer based on whether the selected predictive option successfully or unsuccessfully predicted the outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kristopher Frazier, Ruchir Rodrigues, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • Publication number: 20130332839
    Abstract: A method includes presenting a user interface providing access to content from multiple content providers and receiving, via the user interface, user input indicating selection criteria for recommending content. The selection criteria include an amount of time available to the user. The method includes providing, to a network device, an indication of the selection criteria and receiving, from the network device, information for providing recommended content options based on the selection criteria. The recommended content options are available from different content providers of the multiple content providers. The method includes presenting, to the user and via the interface, the recommended content options in association with the selection criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicants: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP D/B/A VERIZON WIRELESS, VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Michael J. Naggar, Mitch Dornich, Ashutosh K. Sureka, Alison Kay Allen, Nitin Khanna, Ryan Evans, Rahim Charania, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Shuchi Patel, Kristi D. Crum
  • Publication number: 20130332838
    Abstract: A user device includes a user interface providing access to content from multiple content providers, each of the multiple content providers having a separate subscription associated with the user. The user device receives user input indicating interest in an aspect of particular content available from a first content provider of the multiple content providers and provides, to a network device, an indication of the user interest. The user device receives, from the network device, links to additional content available from a different content provider and related to the aspect of the particular content. The user device presents, via the user interface, the links to the additional content in association with the aspect of the particular content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicants: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP D/B/A VERIZON WIRELESS, VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Naggar, Ashutosh K. Sureka, Kristopher T. Frazier, Alison Kay Allen, Ryan Evans, Rahim Charania, Shuchi Patel
  • Publication number: 20120174145
    Abstract: A method including providing at least one of a television service or an Internet access service to a customer; generating predictive options pertaining to content delivered to the customer, wherein the predictive options correspond to possible future events that could occur with respect to the content; receiving a customer selection of one of the predictive options; determining whether the customer-selected predictive option matches an outcome with respect to the content; and assigning a score to the customer based on whether the selected predictive option successfully or unsuccessfully predicted the outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Kristopher Frazier, Ruchir Rodrigues, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • Publication number: 20120096501
    Abstract: A method including providing television content (TC) to a user; receiving a TC capture request; capturing TC frames based on the TC capture request; displaying to the user one or more TC frames included in the captured TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more TC frames included in the displayed one or more TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more destinations to send the selected one or more TC frames; and sending the selected one or more TC frames to the one or more destinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Ruchir Rodrigues, Kristopher T. Frazier, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden