Patents by Inventor Bradley D. Kindig
Bradley D. Kindig 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: 20220027120Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering personalized content streams over a variety of devices and networks are disclosed. A user's preferences, customizations, and content are made available to the user through specialized clients for home, car, office, and portable environments. In order to enable personalized content streams on devices that are intermittently connected or that make use of network bandwidth during off-peak hours, the system prescribes a distributed content sequencing engine and a distributed, synchronized user profile and station/channel definitions. The system is also designed to support players connected via unidirectional or asymmetric connections such as satellite radios with or without an upstream data link.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventor: Bradley D. KINDIG
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Patent number: 10657168Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing devices capable of the reception and playback of one or more crafted media channels transmitted over an intermittent connection. The one or more channels may be customized by the end user to bias the programming towards individual tastes or moods. The channels may be delivered over an intermittent, unidirectional link, for example a Satellite Radio receiver in a home or car. Content may also be delivered over an intermittent, bidirectional link, for example to a portable media player via a wireless 802.11 or other networked connection.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Slacker, Inc.Inventors: Bradley D. Kindig, Celite Milbrandt
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Publication number: 20200104278Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing devices capable of the reception and playback of one or more crafted media channels transmitted over an intermittent connection. The one or more channels may be customized by the end user to bias the programming towards individual tastes or moods. The channels may be delivered over an intermittent, unidirectional link, for example a Satellite Radio receiver in a home or car. Content may also be delivered over an intermittent, bidirectional link, for example to a portable media player via a wireless 802.11 or other networked connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Bradley D. KINDIG, Celite MIBRANDT
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Publication number: 20190370344Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing devices capable of the reception and playback of one or more crafted media channels transmitted over an intermittent connection. The one or more channels may be customized by the end user to bias the programming towards individual tastes or moods. The channels may be delivered over an intermittent, unidirectional link, for example a Satellite Radio receiver in a home or car. Content may also be delivered over an intermittent, bidirectional link, for example to a portable media player via a wireless 802.11 or other networked connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2015Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Bradley D. KINDIG, Celite MILBRANDT
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Patent number: 10445809Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product discover relationships among items and recommend items based on the discovered relationships. The recommendations provided by the present invention are based on user profiles that take into account actual preferences of users, without requiring users to complete questionnaires. An improved binomial log likelihood ratio analysis technique is applied, to reduce adverse effects of overstatement of coincidence and predominance of best sellers. The invention may be used, for example, to generate track lists for a personalized radio station.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLCInventors: Ted E. Dunning, Bradley D. Kindig
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Patent number: 10380171Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing devices capable of the reception and playback of one or more crafted media channels transmitted over an intermittent connection. The one or more channels may be customized by the end user to bias the programming towards individual tastes or moods. The channels may be delivered over an intermittent, unidirectional link, for example a Satellite Radio receiver in a home or car. Content may also be delivered over an intermittent, bidirectional link, for example to a portable media player via a wireless 802.11 or other networked connection.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: SLACKER, INC.Inventors: Bradley D. Kindig, Celite Milbrandt
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Publication number: 20170126770Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering personalized content streams over a variety of devices and networks are disclosed. A user's preferences, customizations, and content are made available to the user through specialized clients for home, car, office, and portable environments. In order to enable personalized content streams on devices that are intermittently connected or that make use of network bandwidth during off-peak hours, the system prescribes a distributed content sequencing engine and a distributed, synchronized user profile and station/channel definitions. The system is also designed to support players connected via unidirectional or asymmetric connections such as satellite radios with or without an upstream data link.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventor: Bradley D. Kindig
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Publication number: 20160335258Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing devices capable of the reception and playback of one or more crafted media channels transmitted over an intermittent connection. The one or more channels may be customized by the end user to bias the programming towards individual tastes or moods. The channels may be delivered over an intermittent, unidirectional link, for example a Satellite Radio receiver in a home or car. Content may also be delivered over an intermittent, bidirectional link, for example to a portable media player via a wireless 802.11 or other networked connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2015Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Bradley D. KINDIG, Celite MILBRANDT
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Patent number: 8849820Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing devices capable of the reception and playback of one or more crafted media channels transmitted over an intermittent connection. An exemplary method of personalized rendering of media content includes receiving media files and file metadata defining attributes of the media files over a data link at a receiver. The method further includes executing, using a processor of the receiver, instructions stored in a memory of the receiver. The instructions cause the processor to store certain ones of the media files characterized by file metadata consistent with one or more channel profiles in the memory, remove certain of the ones of the media files stored within the memory, and sequence the ones of the media files stored within the memory for rendering based upon one or more of the channel profiles.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Slacker, Inc.Inventors: Bradley D. Kindig, Celite Milbrandt
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Patent number: 8712563Abstract: A system, method, and machine-readable medium are disclosed for the controlled, non-real-time conveyance of digital content for playback. Digital content and associated metadata are marked, rated, categorized, and then converted into encoded digital data. The resulting encoded digital data is transmitted as a plurality of data streams through a communications facility such as a satellite, wireless, or physical network. The data streams are received by a content receiver where they are decoded into metadata and digital content for controlled conveyance and playback. A digital content management module comprising a content selection algorithm compares metadata associated with candidate digital content to a predetermined content selection profile. If the metadata matches predetermined selection parameters of the selection profile, the candidate digital content and its associated metadata are stored in a machine-readable medium for controlled conveyance and playback.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Slacker, Inc.Inventors: Celite Milbrandt, Safdar Asghar, Bradley D. Kindig
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Patent number: 8443007Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing devices capable of the reception and playback of one or more crafted media channels transmitted over an intermittent connection. The one or more channels may be customized by the end user to bias the programming towards individual tastes or moods. The channels may be delivered over an intermittent, unidirectional link, for example a Satellite Radio receiver in a home or car. Content may also be delivered over an intermittent, bidirectional link, for example to a portable media player via a wireless 802.11 or other networked connection.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Slacker, Inc.Inventors: Bradley D. Kindig, Celite Milbrandt
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Patent number: 8352331Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product discover relationships among items and recommend items based on the discovered relationships. The recommendations provided by the present invention are based on user profiles that take into account actual preferences of users, without requiring users to complete questionnaires. An improved binomial log likelihood ratio analysis technique is applied, to reduce adverse effects of overstatement of coincidence and predominance of best sellers. The invention may be used, for example, to generate track lists for a personalized radio station.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2001Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Ted E. Dunning, Bradley D. Kindig
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Publication number: 20120011138Abstract: Improved techniques for enhancing, associating, and linking various sources of metadata for music files, to allow integration of commercially generated metadata with user-entered metadata, and to ensure that metadata provided to the user is of the highest quality and accuracy available, even when the metadata comes from disparate sources having different levels of credibility. The invention further provides improved techniques for identifying approximate matches when querying metadata databases, and also provides improved techniques for accepting user submissions of metadata, for categorizing user submissions according to relative credibility, and for integrating user submissions with existing metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Ted E. Dunning, Bradley D. Kindig, Sean C. Joshlin, Christopher P. Archibald
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Patent number: 8005724Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product discover relationships among items and recommend items based on the discovered relationships. The recommendations provided by the present invention are based on user profiles that take into account actual preferences of users, without requiring users to complete questionnaires. An improved binomial log likelihood ratio analysis technique is applied, to reduce adverse effects of overstatement of coincidence and predominance of best sellers. The invention may be used, for example, to generate track lists for a personalized radio station.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Ted E Dunning, Bradley D Kindig
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Patent number: 7984062Abstract: Improved techniques for enhancing, associating, and linking various sources of metadata for music files, to allow integration of commercially generated metadata with user-entered metadata, and to ensure that metadata provided to the user is of the highest quality and accuracy available, even when the metadata comes from disparate sources having different levels of credibility. The invention further provides improved techniques for identifying approximate matches when querying metadata databases, and also provides improved techniques for accepting user submissions of metadata, for categorizing user submissions according to relative credibility, and for integrating user submissions with existing metadata.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Ted E Dunning, Bradley D Kindig, Sean C Joshlin, Christopher P Archibald
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Publication number: 20100106852Abstract: System and method for providing content, such as audio or music files for playback on a portable device, are described. In one implementation, content is provided by a streaming channel, such as a cellular data channel, as well as by a wired or wireless network connection. Content playback is selectively performed based on available connectivity to the streaming channel and/or based on user playback customization criteria. In one implementation, content consistent with a streaming channel is cached and played on the portable device when streaming channel connectivity is unavailable.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventors: Bradley D. Kindig, Celite Milbrandt
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Patent number: 7707221Abstract: Improved techniques for enhancing, associating, and linking various sources of metadata for music files, to allow integration of commercially generated metadata with user-entered metadata, and to ensure that metadata provided to the user is of the highest quality and accuracy available, even when the metadata comes from disparate sources having different levels of credibility. The invention further provides improved techniques for identifying approximate matches when querying metadata databases, and also provides improved techniques for accepting user submissions of metadata, for categorizing user submissions according to relative credibility, and for integrating user submissions with existing metadata.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2003Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Ted E Dunning, Bradley D Kindig, Sean C Joshlin, Christopher P Archibald
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Patent number: 7672873Abstract: An online music purchasing system and method is disclosed, in which a radio service operates on a user's computer and is configured for receiving and playing digital radio representations of media content in near real-time in a radio session. A content server is configured for serving the digital radio representations of media content to the radio service, and a radio sequence server is configured for serving a sequential list of currently-playing and previously-played media content of the radio session to the radio service. An account server is configured for receiving a signal indicative of a user's desire to purchase a file of one of a currently-playing or previously-played media content. A download manager is configured for downloading the file to the user's computer according to the signal indicative of the user's desire to purchase the file.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2004Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Bradley D. Kindig, Robert F. Kleemann, Sean Robert Sullivan, Michael J. Kogan, Sean Cornell Joshlin, Mark Alan Laffoon, Daniel Davidson Baird, Ameen Hikmat Abed, Nathan Lavar Clegg, Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud, Kevin Sitze, Amir Doron
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Publication number: 20090307201Abstract: Improved techniques for enhancing, associating, and linking various sources of metadata for music files, to allow integration of commercially generated metadata with user-entered metadata, and to ensure that metadata provided to the user is of the highest quality and accuracy available, even when the metadata comes from disparate sources having different levels of credibility. The invention further provides improved techniques for identifying approximate matches when querying metadata databases, and also provides improved techniques for accepting user submissions of metadata, for categorizing user submissions according to relative credibility, and for integrating user submissions with existing metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Inventors: Ted E. Dunning, Bradley D. Kindig, Sean C. Joshlin, Christopher P. Archibald
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Patent number: 7546316Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product perform text equivalencing. The text equivalencing is performed by modifying a string of characters by applying a set of heuristics, comparing the modified strings of characters to known strings of characters. If a match is found, the text equivalencing engine performs database update and exits. If no match is found, sub-strings are formed by grouping together frequently occurring sets of characters. An information retrieval technique is performed on the sub-strings to determine equivalent text.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2007Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Ted E. Dunning, Bradley D. Kindig