Patents by Inventor Benjamin Nicholas Alton

Benjamin Nicholas Alton 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: 20110246882
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to the presentation of an entertainment consumption history via a timeline. For example, one embodiment comprises receiving entertainment consumption history comprising one or more entertainment content identifiers each identifying one or more entertainment content items sent to a selected user. The entertainment consumption history also comprises, for each entertainment content identifier, information related to a time at which the one or more entertainment content items identified by the entertainment content identifier were sent to the selected user. The embodiment further comprises sending to a display device a graphical depiction of the entertainment consumption history data as a timeline with each entertainment content identifier being illustrated along a direction of a time axis at a location representative of the time at which the one or more entertainment content items represented by the entertainment content identifier were sent to the selected user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Kollenkark, Benjamin Nicholas Alton, Cory Cirrincione, Doug Berrett, Joe McClanahan, Edwin Thorne, III, Zerelina R. Mukherjee