Patents by Inventor Andrew Olcott
Andrew Olcott 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).
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Publication number: 20180174212Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for providing item information via a network page of an electronic marketplace. A set of items associated with a potential order of an electronic marketplace may be obtained. The set of items may be associated with a threshold condition that must be met prior to enabling completion of the potential order. Item information associated with the set of items, electronic representations of a portion of a plurality of related items, and a remainder value may be displayed on a network page provided by a mobile device. The remainder value may indicate a difference between a current state of the set of items and the threshold condition. A request to associate a related item of the plurality of related items with the potential order may be received. The set of items may be updated and the remainder value may be modified based on the update.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Wesley Scott Lauka, Martin Cortez, Phuong-Thao Nguyen, Andrew Olcott
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Patent number: 9975043Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes identifying a plurality of devices associated with a computing device, identifying status information from each device of the plurality of devices, and identifying presentation features for each device of the plurality of devices. The method further includes receiving presentation information indicating a setting to present first status information from a first device of the plurality of devices via a selected device of the plurality of devices, wherein the first status is presented on the selected device by a selected presentation feature of the selected device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: STEELSERIES ApSInventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Dave Astels, Andrew Olcott
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Patent number: 9931565Abstract: A device for online gaming includes a gaming accessory provisioned with a configuration that includes a group of settings of operating parameters for the gaming accessory. The group of settings corresponds to selections from first equipment of a user via an accessory management application. Upon initiation of a gaming session, the gaming accessory is in communication with second equipment of the user. The gaming accessory is not in communication with the first equipment of the user and is not in communication with the second equipment of the user prior to the initiation of the gaming session. The accessory management application can be a client application of a server remote from the first equipment of the user and the second equipment of the user. The group of settings can be received from the first equipment of the user via a graphical user interface presented by the accessory management application.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: STEELSERIES ApSInventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Andrew Olcott
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Publication number: 20170282059Abstract: A device for online gaming includes a gaming accessory provisioned with a configuration that includes a group of settings of operating parameters for the gaming accessory. The group of settings corresponds to selections from first equipment of a user via an accessory management application. Upon initiation of a gaming session, the gaming accessory is in communication with second equipment of the user. The gaming accessory is not in communication with the first equipment of the user and is not in communication with the second equipment of the user prior to the initiation of the gaming session. The accessory management application can be a client application of a server remote from the first equipment of the user and the second equipment of the user. The group of settings can be received from the first equipment of the user via a graphical user interface presented by the accessory management application.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: JEFFREY NICHOLAS MAHLMEISTER, ANDREW OLCOTT
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Publication number: 20170282058Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes identifying a plurality of devices associated with a computing device, identifying status information from each device of the plurality of devices, and identifying presentation features for each device of the plurality of devices. The method further includes receiving presentation information indicating a setting to present first status information from a first device of the plurality of devices via a selected device of the plurality of devices, wherein the first status is presented on the selected device by a selected presentation feature of the selected device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Dave Astels, Andrew Olcott
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Patent number: 9713767Abstract: A device for online gaming includes a gaming accessory provisioned with a configuration that includes a group of settings of operating parameters for the gaming accessory. The group of settings corresponds to selections from first equipment of a user via an accessory management application. Upon initiation of a gaming session, the gaming accessory is in communication with second equipment of the user. The gaming accessory is not in communication with the first equipment of the user and is not in communication with the second equipment of the user prior to the initiation of the gaming session. The accessory management application can be a client application of a server remote from the first equipment of the user and the second equipment of the user. The group of settings can be received from the first equipment of the user via a graphical user interface presented by the accessory management application.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: STEELSERIES ApSInventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Andrew Olcott
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Patent number: 9707477Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes identifying a plurality of devices associated with a computing device, identifying status information from each device of the plurality of devices, and identifying presentation features for each device of the plurality of devices. The method further includes receiving presentation information indicating a setting to present first status information from a first device of the plurality of devices via a selected device of the plurality of devices, wherein the first status is presented on the selected device by a selected presentation feature of the selected device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: STEELSERIES ApSInventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Dave Astels, Andrew Olcott
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Patent number: 9430141Abstract: Described herein are techniques for adding adaptive annotations to an electronic content item. For example, a user may insert an annotation by hand drawing the annotation over the content of the content item, in white space around the content, or within an annotation window. The user may also anchor, associate, or link annotations to particular portion of the content item, such that when the content is displayed or rendered on a display of an electronic device, the annotation appears in-line with the content and adjacent to the associated portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael James Lu, Allison Bhang, Andrew Scott Craft, Andrew Olcott
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Publication number: 20150297991Abstract: A device for online gaming includes a gaming accessory provisioned with a configuration that includes a group of settings of operating parameters for the gaming accessory. The group of settings corresponds to selections from first equipment of a user via an accessory management application. Upon initiation of a gaming session, the gaming accessory is in communication with second equipment of the user. The gaming accessory is not in communication with the first equipment of the user and is not in communication with the second equipment of the user prior to the initiation of the gaming session. The accessory management application can be a client application of a server remote from the first equipment of the user and the second equipment of the user. The group of settings can be received from the first equipment of the user via a graphical user interface presented by the accessory management application.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Andrew Olcott
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Publication number: 20150301959Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes identifying a plurality of devices associated with a computing device, identifying status information from each device of the plurality of devices, and identifying presentation features for each device of the plurality of devices. The method further includes receiving presentation information indicating a setting to present first status information from a first device of the plurality of devices via a selected device of the plurality of devices, wherein the first status is presented on the selected device by a selected presentation feature of the selected device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Dave Astels, Andrew Olcott
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Publication number: 20150268737Abstract: A gesture-based remote for controlling a controlled device has a first axis that defines a transverse plane normal to the first axis, an acceleration sensing system configured to detect a direction of acceleration of the remote in the transverse plane, a controller, wherein the controller is configured to receive data from the acceleration sensing system and to, based at least in part on the data, estimate an intended direction of a gesture, and a transmission system for receiving data representative of the estimate from the controller and transmitting a direction signal to the device to be controlled, the direction signal being indicative of the intended direction. The direction signal is independent of rotation of the remote about the first axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Neil Gelfond, Darius Darayes Mobed, Andrew Olcott
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Patent number: 9046985Abstract: A visual browsing method allows a user to look at an item closely by hovering over, instead of clicking on, an icon representing the item. The method also enables the user to browse items in different levels of a multiple level category without waiting for web pages to be loaded, to know where he/she has been in the multiple level category, and to back up if he/she likes. The method makes the browsing process faster and easier.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: David Kujda, Andrew Olcott, Eden Soto
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Publication number: 20140359475Abstract: The techniques and systems described herein present various examples of a settings analytics component which provides for different ways to create a customized control settings panel for a user to modify system or application control settings. For example, in an environment where a user of a computing device with an operating system allows user configuration of system control settings, the settings analytics component may track and store user behaviors in regard to the modification of system control settings. The settings analytics component may then base the creation of a customized control settings panel on the tracked and stored user behaviors in regard to the modification of system control settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Krishna Venkatesh, Andrew Olcott, Ramrajprabu Balasubramanian, Mark Yalovsky, Kenton A. Shipley, Nishad Mulye, Peter Seraphim Ponomarev, Jon Gabriel Clapper
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Publication number: 20120030629Abstract: A visual browsing method allows a user to look at an item closely by hovering over, instead of clicking on, an icon representing the item. The method also enables the user to browse items in different levels of a multiple level category without waiting for web pages to be loaded, to know where he/she has been in the multiple level category, and to back up if he/she likes. The method makes the browsing process faster and easier.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: David Kujda, Andrew Olcott, Eden Soto
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Publication number: 20110316664Abstract: A remote control for a sound system includes a first type of wireless system for transmitting commands for controlling operation of a sound output device. The remote control also includes a second type of wireless system for wirelessly transmitting signals that represent sounds created by a first human voice to a first portable audio storage device which can be electrically temporarily connected to the sound output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventors: Andrew Olcott, Lee Zamir, Darius Mobed, Neil Gelfond
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Patent number: 8037424Abstract: A visual browsing method allows a user to look at an item closely by hovering over, instead of clicking on, an icon representing the item. The method also enables the user to browse items in different levels of a multiple level category without waiting for web pages to be loaded, to know where he/she has been in the multiple level category, and to back up if he/she likes. The method makes the browsing process faster and easier.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: David Kujda, Andrew Olcott, Eden Soto
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Publication number: 20110242504Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a rear projection system. The rear projection system may include a housing assembly configured to house at least a portion of a speaker system. The housing assembly may include a multi-function panel that is at least partially optically transmissive and includes an acoustically transparent portion. The rear projection system may further include a rear projection device positioned within the housing assembly and configured to project a graphical user interface onto an interior surface of the acoustically transparent portion of the multi-function panel. Other embodiments are also within the scope of the present disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Andrew Olcott, Darius Mobed, Lee Zamir
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Publication number: 20110242436Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a rear projection system. The rear projection system may include a housing assembly configured to house at least a portion of a speaker system. The housing assembly may include a multi-function panel that is at least partially optically transmissive and includes an acoustically transparent portion. The rear projection system may further include a rear projection device positioned within the housing assembly and configured to project a graphical user interface onto an interior surface of the acoustically transparent portion of the multi-function panel. Other embodiments are also within the scope of the present disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Andrew Olcott, Lee Zamir
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Publication number: 20100289958Abstract: An audio/video switchbox includes a housing and one or more jacks on the housing. Each jack is configured to be connected to an end of a signal cable. A logic and control controls operation of the switchbox. The switchbox is connectable to a video display so that video images from the switchbox can be presented on the display. The switchbox is able to present an image on the display requesting that a person indicate which type of signal cable will be used to connect an audio/video device to the switchbox. The switchbox is able to automatically detect when an end of a signal cable selected by the person has been connected to one of the jacks.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2009Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventors: Suraj C. Iyer, William Berardi, Christine M. Hostage, Leela Keshavan, Valerie S. Liebhold, Andrew Olcott, John Michael Sakalowsky, Conor Sheehan, Lee Zamir
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Publication number: 20090015549Abstract: The invention is directed to an improvement in mechanisms and techniques for accepting user input. An apparatus for accepting a user input is described comprising a display, and a plate and a control knob positioned over the display. A portion of the display is visible through the plate, and a portion of the control knob is optically transparent such that information displayed by the display is visible through the control knob. In some examples, the control knob functions as both a rotary input and as a push button input. The control knob may function as a push button input through a transfer of force through the plate to a pressure sensing switch associated with the plate. The control knob may function as a rotary control through drive gears, belts, or interaction with a light emitter and detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: Neil Gelfond, Lee Zamir, Joseph A. Killough, Andrew Olcott, Peter C. Santoro, James T. Hotary