Patents by Inventor Andrew Irvin Williams

Andrew Irvin Williams 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: 20200219184
    Abstract: Separate user accounts can be linked into a group of linked user accounts so that content items assigned to each of the user accounts can be accessed by each user account in the group. Linking user accounts in this way allows the individual user accounts to share content items while also retaining their individual properties such as username, password, preference data, etc. Linking user accounts allows each user account to retain the content items assigned to the user account when the user account is unlinked from the group. Linking user accounts can be restricted according to linking rules that dictate how many user accounts can be included in a group, when a user account can be added or removed from a group, etc. A master user account can set parameters restricting content items accessible to the user accounts in the group, as well as money spent be each user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Robbin, Eduardo Humburto Cue, Evan C. Krasts, Andrew Irvin Williams, Maria Ioveva, Patrice Olivier Gautier, Steve S. Gedikian, Usama Mikael Hajj
  • Publication number: 20180005316
    Abstract: Separate user accounts can be linked into a group of linked user accounts so that content items assigned to each of the user accounts can be accessed by each user account in the group. Linking user accounts in this way allows the individual user accounts to share content items while also retaining their individual properties such as username, password, preference data, etc. Linking user accounts allows each user account to retain the content items assigned to the user account when the user account is unlinked from the group. Linking user accounts can be restricted according to linking rules that dictate how many user accounts can be included in a group, when a user account can be added or removed from a group, etc. A master user account can set parameters restricting content items accessible to the user accounts in the group, as well as money spent be each user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Robbin, Eduardo Humburto Cue, Evan C. Krasts, Andrew Irvin Williams, Maria Ioveva, Patrice Olivier Gautier, Steve S. Gedikian, Usama Mikael Hajj
  • Patent number: 9626720
    Abstract: Separate user accounts can be linked into a group of linked user accounts so that content items assigned to each of the user accounts can be accessed by each user account in the group. Linking user accounts in this way allows the individual user accounts to share content items while also retaining their individual properties such as username, password, preference data, etc. Linking user accounts allows each user account to retain the content items assigned to the user account when the user account is unlinked from the group. Linking user accounts can be restricted according to linking rules that dictate how many user accounts can be included in a group, when a user account can be added or removed from a group, etc. A master user account can set parameters restricting content items accessible to the user accounts in the group, as well as money spent be each user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Robbin, Eduardo Humburto Cue, Evan C. Krasts, Andrew Irvin Williams, Maria Ioveva, Patrice Olivier Gautier, Steve S. Gedikian, Usama Mikael Hajj
  • Publication number: 20150149358
    Abstract: Separate user accounts can be linked into a group of linked user accounts so that content items assigned to each of the user accounts can be accessed by each user account in the group. Linking user accounts in this way allows the individual user accounts to share content items while also retaining their individual properties such as username, password, preference data, etc. Linking user accounts allows each user account to retain the content items assigned to the user account when the user account is unlinked from the group. Linking user accounts can be restricted according to linking rules that dictate how many user accounts can be included in a group, when a user account can be added or removed from a group, etc. A master user account can set parameters restricting content items accessible to the user accounts in the group, as well as money spent be each user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Robbin, Eduardo Humburto Cue, Evan C. Krasts, Andrew Irvin Williams, Maria Ioveva, Patrice Olivier Gautier, Steve S. Gedikian, Usama Mikael Hajj