Patents by Inventor Bradley James Rhodes
Bradley James Rhodes 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: 20190331914Abstract: An experience sharing session can be established with a wearable computing device. A field of view of an environment can be provided through a head-mounted display (HMD) of the wearable computing device. The HMD is operable to display a computer-generated image overlaying at least a portion of the view. At least one image of the environment can be captured using a camera associated with the wearable computing device. The wearable computing device can receive an indication of a region of interest within the environment via the experience sharing session. The wearable computing device can display, on the HMD, the indication of the region of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Steven John Lee, Indika Charles Mendis, Max Benjamin Braun, Bradley James Rhodes, Casey Ho, Michael Patrick Johnson
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Patent number: 10083468Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and corresponding systems for facilitating a live registry event between a shopper and one or more remote viewers. In the live registry event, the shopper, registers for gifts that they would like to receive while sharing their registering experience with the viewers in real-time. When the user registers for an item, a server system allows the viewers to purchase the gift for the shopper.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Steven John Lee, Bradley James Rhodes, Indika Charles Mendis, Max Benjamin Braun
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Patent number: 9367864Abstract: Exemplary embodiments involve real-time commenting in experience-sharing sessions. An exemplary method involves: (a) a server system facilitating an experience sharing session between a sharing device and one or more viewing devices, wherein the server system receives media in real-time from the sharing device and transmits the media to the one or more viewing devices in real-time, wherein the media comprises video; (b) during the experience sharing session, the server system receiving one or more comments from one or more of the viewing devices; (d) the server system filtering the received comments in real-time based on filter criteria; and (e) the server system initiating real-time delivery, to the sharing device, of one or more of the received comments that satisfy the filter criteria.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Steven John Lee, Indika Charles Mendis, Max Benjamin Braun, Liang-Yu Tom Chi, Bradley James Rhodes
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Publication number: 20160110783Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and corresponding systems for facilitating a live registry event between a shopper and one or more remote viewers. In the live registry event, the shopper, registers for gifts that they would like to receive while sharing their registering experience with the viewers in real-time. When the user registers for an item, a server system allows the viewers to purchase the gift for the shopper.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Steven John Lee, Bradley James Rhodes, Charles Indika Mendis, Max Benjamin Braun
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Patent number: 9245288Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and corresponding systems for facilitating a live registry event between a shopper and one or more remote viewers. In the live registry event, the shopper, registers for gifts that they would like to receive while sharing their registering experience with the viewers in real-time. When the user registers for an item, a server system allows the viewers to purchase the gift for the shopper.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Steven John Lee, Bradley James Rhodes, Indika Charles Mendis, Max Benjamin Braun
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Publication number: 20150304253Abstract: Exemplary embodiments involve real-time commenting in experience-sharing sessions. An exemplary method involves: (a) a server system facilitating an experience sharing session between a sharing device and one or more viewing devices, wherein the server system receives media in real-time from the sharing device and transmits the media to the one or more viewing devices in real-time, wherein the media comprises video; (b) during the experience sharing session, the server system receiving one or more comments from one or more of the viewing devices; (d) the server system filtering the received comments in real-time based on filter criteria; and (e) the server system initiating real-time delivery, to the sharing device, of one or more of the received comments that satisfy the filter criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Steven John Lee, Indika Charles Mendis, Max Benjamin Braun, Liang-Yu Tom Chi, Bradley James Rhodes
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Patent number: 9015245Abstract: Exemplary embodiments involve real-time commenting in experience-sharing sessions. An exemplary method involves: (a) a server system facilitating an experience sharing session between a sharing device and one or more viewing devices, wherein the server system receives media in real-time from the sharing device and transmits the media to the one or more viewing devices in real-time, wherein the media comprises video; (b) during the experience sharing session, the server system receiving one or more comments from one or more of the viewing devices; (d) the server system filtering the received comments in real-time based on filter criteria; and (e) the server system initiating real-time delivery, to the sharing device, of one or more of the received comments that satisfy the filter criteria.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Steven John Lee, Indika Charles Mendis, Max Benjamin Braun, Liang-Yu Tom Chi, Bradley James Rhodes
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Patent number: 8988253Abstract: Methods and systems involving an incentivized recovery of balloon materials are disclosed herein. An example system may be configured to: (a) determine a landing location of a balloon, where the balloon has been configured to operate as a node in a balloon network; (b) detect a removal event corresponding to the balloon ceasing to operate as a node in the balloon network and descending to the landing location; and (c) in response to detecting the removal event, initiate a transmission of a recovery-assistance signal that is comprised of (i) location data corresponding to the landing location of the balloon and (ii) an indication of an incentive to recover the balloon.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Eric Teller, Richard Wayne DeVaul, Joshua Weaver, Clifford L. Biffle, Bradley James Rhodes
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Patent number: 8880326Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a cyclical pattern of trajectories for a fleet of vehicles are provided. In one example, a method comprises receiving a sequence of coverage requirements for a region and an associated period of time. For each of one or more phases of the period of time, possible routes that a vehicle located at one or more respective landmarks at a beginning of the phase could follow to reach one or more additional landmarks by an end of the phase are determined. Further, a cyclical pattern of trajectories for vehicles of a fleet of vehicles that minimizes a difference between a distribution of the fleet at a beginning of the period of time and a distribution of the fleet at an end of the period of time is determined.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Keith Allen Bonawitz, Bradley James Rhodes, Dan Piponi, Adrien Treuille
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Patent number: 8873147Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems involve chord-based authentication on a touch-based interface. An exemplary method may involve: (a) providing a user-interface on a touch-based interface of a computing device, wherein the user-interface comprises a plurality of input regions; (b) receiving input data corresponding to a plurality of touch interactions on the touch-based interface; (c) determining a sequence of chords from the input data, wherein each chord is defined by touch interaction with a certain combination of one or more of the input regions; (d) determining that the sequence of chords substantially matches a predetermined chord authentication sequence; and (e) responsive to the match, causing a computing device to make at least one function accessible.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Bradley James Rhodes, Michael Patrick Johnson, Sebastian Thrun, Thad Eugene Starner
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Patent number: 8849571Abstract: Methods and systems for determining trajectories for a fleet of vehicles are provided. In one example, a method comprises receiving an initial location of one or more vehicles, and receiving a sequence of coverage requirements for a region and an associated period of time. The method also comprises determining, for each of one or more phases, single-phase landmarks that a vehicle could travel to over the duration of the phase, and determining for at least one of the one or more phases, phase-skipping landmarks that a vehicle could travel to over the duration of multiple phases. The method further comprises determining which landmarks of the single-phase landmarks and phase-skipping landmarks that a vehicle should travel to based on the initial locations of the one or more vehicles and the sequence of coverage requirements.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Keith Allen Bonawitz, Bradley James Rhodes
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Patent number: 8804228Abstract: A balloon payload is provided having a payload structure, an outer surface of the payload structure comprised of an electronic ink covering, and a control system configured to change the electronic ink covering from a first state having first energy absorptive properties with respect to thermal energy that enters the payload through the electronic ink covering, to a second state having second energy absorptive properties with respect to thermal energy that enters the payload through the electronic ink covering, wherein the second energy absorptive properties allow less thermal energy to enter the payload than the first energy absorptive properties.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Clifford Biffle, Richard Wayne DeVaul, Joshua Weaver, Eric Teller, Bradley James Rhodes
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Publication number: 20140015694Abstract: Methods and systems involving an incentivized recovery of balloon materials are disclosed herein. An example system may be configured to: (a) determine a landing location of a balloon, where the balloon has been configured to operate as a node in a balloon network; (b) detect a removal event corresponding to the balloon ceasing to operate as a node in the balloon network and descending to the landing location; and (c) in response to detecting the removal event, initiate a transmission of a recovery-assistance signal that is comprised of (i) location data corresponding to the landing location of the balloon and (ii) an indication of an incentive to recover the balloon.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: GOOGLE, INC.Inventors: Eric Teller, Richard Wayne DeVaul, Joshua Weaver, Clifford L. Biffle, Bradley James Rhodes