Patents by Inventor Anthony C. ANDERSON

Anthony C. ANDERSON 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).

  • Enhanced knowledge delivery and attainment using a question answering system
    Patent number: 11947582
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for presentation delivery. The mechanism delivering a presentation content to a group of users and receives a plurality of questions concerning the presentation content from the group of users. The mechanism stores the plurality of questions in a question history database and clusters the plurality of questions in the question history database into one or more question clusters. The mechanism determines a topic for each of the one or more question clusters to form one or more question topics and generates feedback for updating the presentation content based on the one or more question topics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erik D. Anderson, Howard N. Anglin, Anthony J. Arcuri, James C. Palistrant
  • Digital rights management for cinema systems
    Patent number: 11044505
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling transmission of digital content stored at a server are disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, at the server, session information from a device, the session information including information for authorizing the server to decrypt the digital content for transmission to a playback device; determining, at the server, to decrypt the digital content for the transmission to the playback device, based on the session information; decrypting, at the server, the digital content for the transmission to the playback device, in response to determining to decrypt the digital content; and transmitting, at the server, the decrypted digital content to the playback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael S. Wilkinson, Anthony C. Anderson, Andrew Lucas
  • DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT FOR CINEMA SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20200245010
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling transmission of digital content stored at a server are disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, at the server, session information from a device, the session information including information for authorizing the server to decrypt the digital content for transmission to a playback device; determining, at the server, to decrypt the digital content for the transmission to the playback device, based on the session information; decrypting, at the server, the digital content for the transmission to the playback device, in response to determining to decrypt the digital content; and transmitting, at the server, the decrypted digital content to the playback device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn DEEN, Michael S. WILKINSON, Anthony C. ANDERSON, Andrew LUCAS