Patents by Inventor Anna Kassoway

Anna Kassoway 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: 9348935
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for delivering related video content to a user in response to user actions on augmented keywords on a web page. A server may receive from a browser, in response to an indication of a mouse over a keyword currently displayed on a web page of a client, a keyword identified for augmentation via a user interface overlay. The server may identify, responsive to receiving the keyword, a plurality of videos related to the keyword. A content relevancy engine may determine an order of relevance of the plurality of videos to the keyword. The server may transmit to the client, within a predetermined time period from the indication, the user interface overlay to include a selected one or more videos of the plurality of videos with a higher order of relevance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: VIBRANT MEDIA, INC.
    Inventors: Toby Doig, Anna Kassoway
  • Publication number: 20120117485
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods (and corresponding systems and computer program products) that augment content in web pages with resources and provide the resources based on user interaction with the augmented content in the web pages. The disclosed embodiments analyzes a web page to identify a keyword, locates a piece of reference data matching the identified keyword, generates an association of the located piece of reference data and the keyword, and embeds the association in an augmented web page. Upon receiving a request from a client computer corresponding to a pointer being positioned over the keyword in the augmented web page, the disclosed embodiments determines relevant resources, and transmits the resources to the client computer for display in a multi-layered dialog box, such that a viewer can access the plurality of resources by interacting with the multi-layered dialog box without leaving the augmented web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Richard Brindley, Craig Allen Gooding, Anna Kassoway
  • Patent number: 8122014
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods (and corresponding systems and computer program products) that augment content in web pages with resources and provide the resources based on user interaction with the augmented content in the web pages. The disclosed embodiments analyzes a web page to identify a keyword, locates a piece of reference data matching the identified keyword, generates an association of the located piece of reference data and the keyword, and embeds the association in an augmented web page. Upon receiving a request from a client computer corresponding to a pointer being positioned over the keyword in the augmented web page, the disclosed embodiments determines relevant resources, and transmits the resources to the client computer for display in a multi-layered dialog box, such that a viewer can access the plurality of resources by interacting with the multi-layered dialog box without leaving the augmented web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Vibrant Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Brindley, Craig Allen Gooding, Anna Kassoway
  • Publication number: 20110320429
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for delivering related video content to a user in response to user actions on augmented keywords on a web page. A server may receive from a browser, in response to an indication of a mouse over a keyword currently displayed on a web page of a client, a keyword identified for augmentation via a user interface overlay. The server may identify, responsive to receiving the keyword, a plurality of videos related to the keyword. A content relevancy engine may determine an order of relevance of the plurality of videos to the keyword. The server may transmit to the client, within a predetermined time period from the indication, the user interface overlay to include a selected one or more videos of the plurality of videos with a higher order of relevance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Toby Doig, Anna Kassoway
  • Publication number: 20110015996
    Abstract: The solution of the present disclosure provides augmented content in the form of a convenient search unit. The convenient search unit, or CSU, provides an intext or keyword based augmentation technique that conveniently provides a viewer search results from one or more search engines based on the content of the keyword(s). The CSU is displayed responsive to a viewer's interaction with content of a current destination page, such as user placing the mouse over a predetermined keyword or clicking on the same. The systems and methods of the present disclosure automatically performs a relevant search with a search engine based on the context of the keyword and displays the results of the search in a creative element that overlays the current destination page. Using the overlay technique, the viewer can view and interaction with search results of related content without leaving the current destination page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Anna Kassoway, Craig Gooding, Jay Seideman
  • Publication number: 20090019039
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods (and corresponding systems and computer program products) that augment content in web pages with resources and provide the resources based on user interaction with the augmented content in the web pages. The disclosed embodiments analyzes a web page to identify a keyword, locates a piece of reference data matching the identified keyword, generates an association of the located piece of reference data and the keyword, and embeds the association in an augmented web page. Upon receiving a request from a client computer corresponding to a pointer being positioned over the keyword in the augmented web page, the disclosed embodiments determines relevant resources, and transmits the resources to the client computer for display in a multi-layered dialog box, such that a viewer can access the plurality of resources by interacting with the multi-layered dialog box without leaving the augmented web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: Vibrant Media Limited
    Inventors: Richard Brindley, Craig Allen Gooding, Anna Kassoway