Patents by Inventor Brian Amento
Brian Amento 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: 10126828Abstract: Bioacoustic sensors and wireless technologies are used for the control of electronic devices, such as wireless telephones, pagers, music/media players or personal laptops and personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. Such control is implemented with certain systems, methods and apparatus which include bioacoustic sensors, a processor coupled to the bioacoustic sensors, and a transmitter coupled to the processor. The present invention is operative to detect particular hand and/or finger gestures, and to transmit control signals corresponding to the gestures for operative control of an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, William Colyer Hill, Loren Gilbert Terveen
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Patent number: 10101810Abstract: A thermoelectric display including an array of thermoelectric devices is used to provide output to a user in the form of thermal feedback. The thermal feedback may be used to provide navigation cues to the user to enable eyes-free navigation. The thermal feedback may be used to provide target acquisition cues to enable the user to accurately target a contact point on a touchscreen. The thermal feedback may be used to convey an emotive aspect of a message to the user. The thermal feedback may be used to identify to the user a caller associated with an incoming call. The thermoelectric display may be, alternatively or additionally, used to provide input to another device, such as a mobile device to which the thermoelectric display is operatively coupled.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Kevin Ansia Li, Brian Amento
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Patent number: 10080056Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to collect data indicative of temporal actions initiated by a group of users during presenting a media program. The data indicative of the temporal actions are collected in a collective metadata archive. Portions of the media program are identified based on metadata for which a number of occurrences of the temporal actions exceeds a threshold number of occurrences. A compacted presentation of the portions of the media program is prepared based on the metadata. The compacted presentation includes the portions of the media program arranged consecutively. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, Larry Stead, Alicia Abella
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Publication number: 20180234351Abstract: A system for managing clouds of edge devices as an Infrastructure as a Service clouds includes an application server, a location based situational awareness subsystem and a cloud management subsystem. The cloud management subsystem includes a first API through which the application server makes request to the location based situational awareness subsystem and a conductor that searches for the optimal deployment of cloud resources that meet a set of constraints. A second API for managing and deploying applications on a selected set of the plurality of network connected devices. The system also includes a compute node that can interact with the selected set of the plurality of network connected devices to launch and manage containers on the selected set of the plurality of network connected devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Brian Amento, Robert J. Hall, Kaustubh Joshi, Kermit Hal Purdy
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Publication number: 20180124158Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating and managing hybrid clouds including both standard compute nodes and edge devices. Edge devices can be enrolled in a hybrid cloud by deploying a lightweight container to the edge device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Brian AMENTO, Robert J. HALL, Kaustubh JOSHI, Kermit Hal PURDY
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Publication number: 20180114251Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system including a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, including detecting a vehicle, obtaining a demographic profile for an occupant of the vehicle, obtaining a directed advertisement for the vehicle based on the demographic profile of the occupant, generating a message for the vehicle based on the directed advertisement, and broadcasting the message to the vehicle, wherein an on-board device of the vehicle receives the message. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Simon D. Byers, Brian Amento, Kermit Hal Purdy
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Publication number: 20180027297Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to collect data indicative of temporal actions initiated by a group of users during presenting a media program. The data indicative of the temporal actions are collected in a collective metadata archive. Portions of the media program are identified based on metadata for which a number of occurrences of the temporal actions exceeds a threshold number of occurrences. A compacted presentation of the portions of the media program is prepared based on the metadata. The compacted presentation includes the portions of the media program arranged consecutively. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Brian Amento, Larry Stead, Alicia Abella
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Patent number: 9769532Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to collect data indicative of temporal actions initiated by a group of users during presenting a media program. The data indicative of the temporal actions are collected in a collective metadata archive. Portions of the media program are identified based on metadata for which a number of occurrences of the temporal actions exceeds a threshold number of occurrences. A compacted presentation of the portions of the media program is prepared based on the metadata. The compacted presentation includes the portions of the media program arranged consecutively. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, Larry Stead, Alicia Abella
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Publication number: 20170230731Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a media server, a request to create a media content summary. The request includes a user-specified criterion. The method includes identifying segments of media content based on annotation data. The annotation data includes annotations associated with a first segment of the segments and a second segment of the segments. The first segment is identified based on a number of corresponding annotations. The method further includes generating the media content summary by automatically changing a first size of the first segment and a second size of the second segment such that a total size of the media content summary satisfies the user-specified criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Brian Amento, Mukesh Nathan, Larry Stead
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Patent number: 9712929Abstract: An illustrative method for transferring data to a device includes identifying the data that is to be transferred to the device, modulating the data with a signal, providing the signal to a contact microphone that is in physical contact with an individual, and transmitting the signal through a body of the individual to the device using the contact microphone. An illustrative method for authenticating the individual includes transmitting a signal through a body of the individual in response to the individual physically contacting an authentication device, receiving a modified signal including the signal as modified by the body of the individual, removing the signal from the modified signal to identify a unique body signature of the individual, comparing the unique body signature to a database to determine if the database includes the unique body signature, and selectively authenticating the individual based upon whether the database includes the unique body signature.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, Kevin Ansia Li, Kermit Hal Purdy, Larry Stead
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Publication number: 20170164054Abstract: Methods and systems for capturing, transmitting and processing data for generating ratings relating to multimedia programming based on passively obtained user cues are disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: BRIAN AMENTO, CHRISTOPHER HARRISON, LARRY STEAD
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Patent number: 9606768Abstract: Methods and systems for capturing, transmitting and processing data for generating ratings relating to multimedia programming based on passively obtained user cues are disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, Christopher Harrison, Larry Stead
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Publication number: 20170052598Abstract: Bioacoustic sensors and wireless technologies are used for the control of electronic devices, such as wireless telephones, pagers, music/media players or personal laptops and personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. Such control is implemented with certain systems, methods and apparatus which include bioacoustic sensors, a processor coupled to the bioacoustic sensors, and a transmitter coupled to the processor. The present invention is operative to detect particular hand and/or finger gestures, and to transmit control signals corresponding to the gestures for operative control of an electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, William Colyer Hill, Loren Gilbert Terveen
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Patent number: 9503826Abstract: An illustrative method for transferring data to a device includes identifying the data that is to be transferred to the device, modulating the data with a signal, providing the signal to a contact microphone that is in physical contact with an individual, and transmitting the signal through a body of the individual to the device using the contact microphone. An illustrative method for authenticating the individual includes transmitting a signal through a body of the individual in response to the individual physically contacting an authentication device, receiving a modified signal including the signal as modified by the body of the individual, removing the signal from the modified signal to identify a unique body signature of the individual, comparing the unique body signature to a database to determine if the database includes the unique body signature, and selectively authenticating the individual based upon whether the database includes the unique body signature.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, Kevin Ansia Li, Kermit Hal Purdy, Larry Stead
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Publication number: 20160269768Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to collect data indicative of temporal actions initiated by a group of users during presenting a media program. The data indicative of the temporal actions are collected in a collective metadata archive. Portions of the media program are identified based on metadata for which a number of occurrences of the temporal actions exceeds a threshold number of occurrences. A compacted presentation of the portions of the media program is prepared based on the metadata. The compacted presentation includes the portions of the media program arranged consecutively. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Brian Amento, LARRY STEAD, ALICIA ABELLA
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Patent number: 9430043Abstract: Bioacoustic sensors and wireless technologies are used for the control of electronic devices, such as wireless telephones, pagers, music/media players or personal laptops and personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. Such control is implemented with certain systems, methods and apparatus which include bioacoustic sensors, a processor coupled to the bioacoustic sensors, and a transmitter coupled to the processor. The present invention is operative to detect particular hand and/or finger gestures, and to transmit control signals corresponding to the gestures for operative control of an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, William Colyer Hill, Loren Gilbert Terveen
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Patent number: 9395819Abstract: Bioacoustic sensors and wireless technologies are used for the control of electronic devices, such as wireless telephones, pagers, music/media players or personal laptops and personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. Such control is implemented with certain systems, methods and apparatus which include bioacoustic sensors, a processor coupled to the bioacoustic sensors, and a transmitter coupled to the processor. The present invention is operative to detect particular hand and/or finger gestures, and to transmit control signals corresponding to the gestures for operative control of an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2006Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, William Colyer Hill, Loren Gilbert Terveen
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Patent number: 9369781Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to collect data indicative of temporal actions initiated by a group of users during presenting a media program. The data indicative of the temporal actions are collected in a collective metadata archive. Portions of the media program are identified based on metadata for which a number of occurrences of the temporal actions exceeds a threshold number of occurrences. A compacted presentation of the portions of the media program is prepared based on the metadata. The compacted presentation includes the portions of the media program arranged consecutively. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, LPInventors: Brian Amento, Larry Stead, Alicia Abella
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Publication number: 20150092962Abstract: An illustrative method for transferring data to a device includes identifying the data that is to be transferred to the device, modulating the data with a signal, providing the signal to a contact microphone that is in physical contact with an individual, and transmitting the signal through a body of the individual to the device using the contact microphone. An illustrative method for authenticating the individual includes transmitting a signal through a body of the individual in response to the individual physically contacting an authentication device, receiving a modified signal including the signal as modified by the body of the individual, removing the signal from the modified signal to identify a unique body signature of the individual, comparing the unique body signature to a database to determine if the database includes the unique body signature, and selectively authenticating the individual based upon whether the database includes the unique body signature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, Kevin Ansia Li, Kermit Hal Purdy, Larry Stead
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Patent number: 8908894Abstract: An illustrative method for transferring data to a device includes identifying the data that is to be transferred to the device, modulating the data with a signal, providing the signal to a contact microphone that is in physical contact with an individual, and transmitting the signal through a body of the individual to the device using the contact microphone. An illustrative method for authenticating the individual includes transmitting a signal through a body of the individual in response to the individual physically contacting an authentication device, receiving a modified signal including the signal as modified by the body of the individual, removing the signal from the modified signal to identify a unique body signature of the individual, comparing the unique body signature to a database to determine if the database includes the unique body signature, and selectively authenticating the individual based upon whether the database includes the unique body signature.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Brian Amento, Kevin Ansia Li, Kermit Hal Purdy, Larry Stead