Patents by Inventor Antony Shaw
Antony Shaw 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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Patent number: 10848823Abstract: A computer implemented method for detecting user engagement with auxiliary content consumed by a user at a viewing device, the method comprising, at the viewing device generating requests for auxiliary content associated with media content selected by the user to be consumed; receiving auxiliary content from an auxiliary content store and playing out the auxiliary content to the user; displaying at least one user engagement element associated with the auxiliary content, the user engagement element defining an expected user activity; generating user engagement data based on the engagement of a user with the user engagement element in accordance with the expected user activity, and formulating a message to be transmitted to an auxiliary content controller, the messaging including a user identifier and the user engagement data.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: PIKSEL, INC.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Hans-Jurgen Maas
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Patent number: 10667014Abstract: A computer-implemented method of triggering an action based on behaviour of a user consuming content at a user device, the method comprising receiving content change signals at a processor executing a content change detection algorithm, wherein the content change signals denote a change of content on the user device; wherein the detection algorithm compares the content change signals with a content change behaviour associated with that device to detect a surfing condition and generates a triggering control signal for triggering an action when the surfing condition for that device is detected.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: PIKSEL, INC.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Miles Eusebius Weaver, Issar Amit Kanigsberg
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Patent number: 10616648Abstract: A computer implemented method of controlling delivery of content to one or more media consuming devices associated with a group of consumers, the method comprising: receiving identification information of each consumer of the group of consumers; identifying each consumer of the group of consumers based on the received identification information; querying a data store to determine characteristics of each of said identified consumers; and controlling the delivery of the content to at least one of said one or more media consuming devices based on the determined characteristics of at least one consumer of the group of consumers, wherein each consumer in the group has an association link with all other consumers in the group, and wherein the content which is delivered is delivered to all consumers in the group.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: PIKSEL, INC.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Andrew David Gayter
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Patent number: 10575039Abstract: A content delivery system delivers media content to a content consuming user and comprises computer storage storing a media asset; an analysis component configured to perform an analysis of the user's behavior at a user device to infer a desirable attribute of a modified version of the media asset, the user's behavior comprising the user instigating at the user device requests for content other than the media asset to a computer network, and consuming the requested other content when returned from the network. The requests do not explicitly identify the desirable attribute. The system comprises a modified version generation component configured to receive the media asset and modify the media asset based on the analysis of the user's behavior; and a content delivery component configured to supply the modified version of the media asset to a media output device of the user, the modified version exhibiting the desirable attribute.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Piksel, Inc.Inventors: Issar Amit Kanigsberg, Philip Antony Shaw, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Andrew David Gayter
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Patent number: 10555045Abstract: A content delivery server configured to select from multiple content items a set of content items for display to a user at a user terminal, the content delivery server having access to content identifiers, identifying content items for delivery; a processor operating a content selection program which is arranged to receive the context data for different contexts and to select a set of content items in dependence on the context data, wherein the content items in the set vary with the context data, such that the content of items in a first set for a user in a first context are different from the content of items in a second set for the same user in a second context, and to transmit a recommendation message to the user terminal comprising a set of content identifiers.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: PIKSEL INC.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Peter Heiland, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Hans-Juergen Maas
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Publication number: 20190082218Abstract: A computer implemented method for detecting user engagement with auxiliary content consumed by a user at a viewing device, the method comprising, at the viewing device generating requests for auxiliary content associated with media content selected by the user to be consumed; receiving auxiliary content from an auxiliary content store and playing out the auxiliary content to the user; displaying at least one user engagement element associated with the auxiliary content, the user engagement element defining an expected user activity; generating user engagement data based on the engagement of a user with the user engagement element in accordance with the expected user activity, and formulating a message to be transmitted to an auxiliary content controller, the messaging including a user identifier and the user engagement data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Hans-Jurgen Maas
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Patent number: 10123082Abstract: In the following, a content delivery system delivers a modified version of a media asset to a current content consuming user. Control information identifying a desired attribute of the modified version of the asset is received from the current content consuming user. The media asset is modified based on the control information and audience reaction data associated with the media asset and generated by analyzing at least a previous content consuming user's reactions to the media asset while the media asset was supplied to a media output device of the previous content consuming user.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Piksel, Inc.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Issar Amit Kanigsberg, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Andrew David Gayter
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Patent number: 10080043Abstract: In the following, a content delivery system delivers a modified version of a media asset to a current content consuming user. Control information identifying a desired attribute of the modified version of the asset is received from the current content consuming user. The media asset is modified based on the control information and audience reaction data associated with the media asset and generated by analyzing at least a previous content consuming user's reactions to the media asset while the media asset was supplied to a media output device of the previous content consuming user.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: PIKSEL, INC.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann
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Patent number: 10075765Abstract: A computer implemented method for detecting user engagement with auxiliary content consumed by a user at a viewing device, the method comprising, at the viewing device generating requests for auxiliary content associated with media content selected by the user to be consumed; receiving auxiliary content from an auxiliary content store and playing out the auxiliary content to the user; displaying at least one user engagement element associated with the auxiliary content, the user engagement element defining an expected user activity; generating user engagement data based on the engagement of a user with the user engagement element in accordance with the expected user activity, and formulating a message to be transmitted to an auxiliary content controller, the messaging including a user identifier and the user engagement data.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Piksel, Inc.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Hans-Jurgen Maas
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Publication number: 20170289635Abstract: In the following, a content delivery system delivers a modified version of a media asset to a current content consuming user. Control information identifying a desired attribute of the modified version of the asset is received from the current content consuming user. The media asset is modified based on the control information and audience reaction data associated with the media asset and generated by analyzing at least a previous content consuming user's reactions to the media asset whilst the media asset was supplied to a media output device of the previous content consuming user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Issar Amit Kanigsberg, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Andrew David Gayter
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Publication number: 20170134807Abstract: A computer implemented method of controlling delivery of content to one or more media consuming devices associated with a group of consumers, the method comprising: receiving identification information of each consumer of the group of consumers; identifying each consumer of the group of consumers based on the received identification information; querying a data store to determine characteristics of each of said identified consumers; and controlling the delivery of the content to at least one of said one or more media consuming devices based on the determined characteristics of at least one consumer of the group of consumers, wherein each consumer in the group has an association link with all other consumers in the group, and wherein the content which is delivered is delivered to all consumers in the group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Andrew David Gayter
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Publication number: 20170026701Abstract: A computer implemented method for detecting user engagement with auxiliary content consumed by a user at a viewing device, the method comprising, at the viewing device generating requests for auxiliary content associated with media content selected by the user to be consumed; receiving auxiliary content from an auxiliary content store and playing out the auxiliary content to the user; displaying at least one user engagement element associated with the auxiliary content, the user engagement element defining an expected user activity; generating user engagement data based on the engagement of a user with the user engagement element in accordance with the expected user activity, and formulating a message to be transmitted to an auxiliary content controller, the messaging including a user identifier and the user engagement data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: January 26, 2017Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Hans-Jurgen Maas
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Publication number: 20160360247Abstract: In the following, a content delivery system delivers a modified version of a media asset to a current content consuming user. Control information identifying a desired attribute of the modified version of the asset is received from the current content consuming user. The media asset is modified based on the control information and audience reaction data associated with the media asset and generated by analyzing at least a previous content consuming user's reactions to the media asset whilst the media asset was supplied to a media output device of the previous content consuming user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Philip Antony SHAW, Ralf Wilhelm TILLMANN
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Patent number: 9510030Abstract: In the following, a content delivery system delivers a modified version of a media asset to a current content consuming user. Control information identifying a desired attribute of the modified version of the asset is received from the current content consuming user. The media asset is modified based on the control information and audience reaction data associated with the media asset and generated by analyzing at least a previous content consuming user's reactions to the media asset whilst the media asset was supplied to a media output device of the previous content consuming user.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Piksel, Inc.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Issar Amit Kanigsberg, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Andrew David Gayter
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Publication number: 20160227266Abstract: A computer-implemented method of triggering an action based on behaviour of a user consuming content at a user device, the method comprising receiving content change signals at a processor executing a content change detection algorithm, wherein the content change signals denote a change of content on the user device; wherein the detection algorithm compares the content change signals with a content change behaviour associated with that device to detect a surfing condition and generates a triggering control signal for triggering an action when the surfing condition for that device is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2014Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Miles Eusebius Weaver, Issar Amit Kanigsberg
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Publication number: 20160227291Abstract: A content delivery server configured to select from multiple content items a set of content items for display to a user at a user terminal, the content delivery server having access to content identifiers, identifying content items for delivery; a processor operating a content selection program which is arranged to receive the context data for different contexts and to select a set of content items in dependence on the context data, wherein the content items in the set vary with the context data, such that the content of items in a first set for a user in a first context are different from the content of items in a second set for the same user in a second context, and to transmit a recommendation message to the user terminal comprising a set of content identifiers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2014Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Peter Heiland, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Hans-Juergen Maas
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Publication number: 20150229975Abstract: In the following, a content delivery system delivers a modified version of a media asset to a current content consuming user. Control information identifying a desired attribute of the modified version of the asset is received from the current content consuming user. The media asset is modified based on the control information and audience reaction data associated with the media asset and generated by analyzing at least a previous content consuming user's reactions to the media asset whilst the media asset was supplied to a media output device of the previous content consuming user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2014Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: Piksel, Inc.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Issar Amit Kanigsberg, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Andrew David Gayter
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Publication number: 20150229977Abstract: A content delivery system delivers media content to a content consuming user and comprises computer storage storing a media asset; an analysis component configured to perform an analysis of the user's behavior at a user device to infer a desirable attribute of a modified version of the media asset, the user's behavior comprising the user instigating at the user device requests for content other than the media asset to a computer network, and consuming the requested other content when returned from the network. The requests do not explicitly identify the desirable attribute. The system comprises a modified version generation component configured to receive the media asset and modify the media asset based on the analysis of the user's behavior; and a content delivery component configured to supply the modified version of the media asset to a media output device of the user, the modified version exhibiting the desirable attribute.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2014Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: Piksel, Inc.Inventors: Issar Amit Kanigsberg, Philip Antony Shaw, Ralf Wilhelm Tillmann, Andrew David Gayter
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Publication number: 20150150029Abstract: A computer implemented method of controlling access to content to be viewed on a viewing device, the method comprising: selecting desired content to be viewed on the viewing device; displaying auxiliary content which is required to be viewed while preventing display of the desired content on the viewing device; after displaying the auxiliary content, displaying at least one user engagement element defining an expected user activity; detecting if a user has engaged with the user engagement element in accordance with the expected user activity and if so, displaying the desired content on the viewing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: PIKSEL, INC.Inventors: Philip Antony Shaw, Miles Eusebius Weaver, Issar Amit Kanigsberg
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Publication number: 20110160227Abstract: The invention described herein relates to certain bicyclic heteroaromatic N-substituted glycine derivatives of formula (I) which are antagonists of HIF prolyl hydroxylases and are useful for treating diseases benefiting from the inhibition of this enzyme, anemia being one example.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Antony Shaw, Rosanna Tedesco