Patents by Inventor Brian K. Buchheit

Brian K. Buchheit 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).

  • Patent number: 10846351
    Abstract: A content for a message to be submitted to a social networking account of a person can be received. The message can be submitted and the content can be shared with other persons via the social network. Prior to conveying, submitting, and/or storing, the message can be scored in one or more dimensions. The dimensions can represent aspects of a reputation of the person. Previously established threshold scores for each of the dimensions can be determined. When the content is outside an established allowance range of the scores, performing a programmatic action to ensure that the submission of the message does not automatically occur to the account. When the content is not outside the scores, not taking a programmatic action to prevent the submission of the message and instead permitting the submission of the message to automatically occur to the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventor: Brian K Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10147151
    Abstract: An ownership interest in copies of physical artifacts is acquired from a set of owners. Each physical artifact contains a copyrighted work. The acquired ownership interest in the copyrighted work is transferred from at least a subset of the physical artifacts into a corresponding subset of digital content media items. The acquired ownership interest in the copyrighted works is leveraged to permit a set of consumers to access and utilize the subset of digital content media items. One or more computing devices execute a set of one or more functions to ensure a quantity of the consumers permitted to concurrently access digitized content of the digital content media items never exceeds a quantity of the acquired ownership interests acquired from the physical artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10062062
    Abstract: An automated teller (ATM) machine providing unattended financial functions comprising financial account access to authorized ones of the users' financial accounts, withdraws from authorized ones of the users' financial accounts, deposits into authorized ones of the user's financial account. The ATM also provides unattended non-negotiable account functions including interactive account access to authorized ones of a set of non-negotiable fund accounts, conversions between value stored in authorized ones of the non-negotiable fund accounts and authorized ones of the user's financial accounts, and/or withdrawals of negotiable funds resulting from ATM machine conversions of a quantity of non-negotiable funds in authorized ones of the non-negotiable fund accounts into paper currency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: JBSHBM, LLC
    Inventors: Sean I. McGhie, Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 10049415
    Abstract: An ownership interest in copies of physical artifacts is acquired from a set of owners. Each physical artifact contains a copyrighted work. The acquired ownership interest in the copyrighted work is transferred from at least a subset of the physical artifacts into a corresponding subset of digital content media items. The acquired ownership interest in the copyrighted works is leveraged to permit a set of consumers to access and utilize the subset of digital content media items. One or more computing devices execute a set of one or more functions to ensure a quantity of the consumers permitted to concurrently access digitized content of the digital content media items never exceeds a quantity of the acquired ownership interests acquired from the physical artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9952906
    Abstract: A native environment on a local device and a virtual environment on a server device linked to the native device over a network can concurrently execute. The concurrently executing can share state information to keep activities between both environments substantially time-synched. The native environment can be a user-machine interactive environment of a machine-to-user interactive interface. The native environment can perform stand-alone operation without appreciable end-user experience degradation. A process in the native environment requiring an excessive quantity of processing cycles can be detected. The native environment can not perform the processing using resources of the native environment. The virtual environment can perform the process and synchronize the result to the native environment, thereby permitting the native environment to continue to function as if the process was performed by the native environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9930416
    Abstract: An enhanced stream associated with a primary stream can be selected. The enhanced stream can be time-synchronized to the primary stream. The enhanced stream can be associated with a secondary viewpoint linked to a primary viewpoint of the primary stream. The primary stream can be a broadcast signal of a digital television broadcast. The enhanced stream can be simultaneously presented on a secondary device and the primary stream on a primary device. The primary device can be a computing device and the secondary device can be a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9924602
    Abstract: A modular display or modular camera that is an integrated portion of a mobile phone hardware of a mobile phone can be selected. The modular display/camera component includes a connector having pin-outs that permit data transfer. Traces electronically connect the pin-outs to other electronics of modular display/camera. The modular display/camera when integrated to the logic board is coupled to the logic board by coupling the connector to a matching socket of the logic board. The modular display/camera can be manually removing from the logic board and can be physically mated to a different matching socket within a different device. Thus, the modular display/camera of the mobile phone can be repurposed/reused/recycled for the different device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9846521
    Abstract: A communications pathway between a data handling system and a physical input device can be established. The system can include one or more processors, memories, and program instructions. The device can be a physical object having N faces along an axis of rotation. The N faces can include a display. A content item from an ordered dataset of content items can be presented within a field of a graphical user interface of the display. A number of discrete items in the ordered dataset of content items is M, where M is greater than N. Rotations of the object can be detected along the axis of rotation. Each rotation of one of the N faces can results in navigation through the dataset of content items. Responsive to each navigation through the dataset of items can result in a corresponding presentation of the navigated to one of the items within the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9769415
    Abstract: Bandwidth optimized channel surfing allow users to experience channel surfing without delay between switching channels when buffering delays are a concern. Audio associated with the surfed channel can be presented to the user in full. Video can be presented at lower frame rates per second than for continuous video. Video sampling or channel surfing mode can mean, for example, that 5 frames per second are displayed to the user. Main video viewing mode can display the full 24 or more frames per second that continuous video is presented at. An interface for channel surfing can determine an automatic switch back to full video. This switch back to full frames per second can occur when a user has hovered over a channel being surfed for a pre-determined amount of time. A user interactive selection of the channel can also result in the switch from channel surfing to main video viewing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Inventors: Brian K. Buchheit, Scott M. Garrett
  • Patent number: 9751463
    Abstract: A traffic flow congestion incident associated with a segment of roadway that is proximate to a responder vehicle can be established. The congestion can include a set of automobiles on the roadway. The automobiles can include a driver operated vehicle, a semi-autonomous vehicle, and an autonomous vehicle. The responder vehicle can be an emergency response vehicle associated with an emergency service or emergency entity. A notification can be conveyed to a computing device associated with the automobiles responsive to the establishing. The notification can alert the operator of the automobile that the responder vehicle is proximate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Inventors: Satesh S. Ramcharitar, Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9740306
    Abstract: A physical object with multiple faces can freely rotate. For each rotation from one face to another of the physical object, a data structure having a plurality of discrete ordered items is advanced by one item. Wireless communications are established between the physical object and a data system. The data system navigates the data structure per the rotations of the physical object. The number of faces of the physical object is different from the number of discrete ordered items of the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9704174
    Abstract: A computer converts a first quantity of loyalty program points of a loyalty program possessed by a member held in a first account to a second quantity of different loyalty program points possessed by the member held in a second account in accordance with a fixed ratio. The loyalty program points and the different loyalty program points are non-fungible, non-negotiable units of exchange. A mutual agreement exists between program operators to permit the conversion. Responsive to the converting: the first quantity of loyalty program points is subtracted from the first account; the second quantity of different loyalty program points is added to the second account; and the entity compensates the commerce partner in accordance with mutual agreement. A transformation results in the different loyalty program points that are subject to terms, conditions, or restrictions of the different loyalty program and not of the loyalty program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Sean I. McGhie, Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9630017
    Abstract: A system for minimizing adverse effects to an implanted medical device (IMD) can include an automated external defibrillator and an IMD safety control. The automated external defibrillator can have a shock function having the potential to adversely affect a treatment provided by and/or the operation of the implanted medical device. The implanted medical device can be embedded within a living body, referred to as an implantee. The implanted medical device can include wireless communication capabilities. The IMD safety control can be coupled to the automated external defibrillator and can be configured to disable performance of the shock function upon the implantee when the shock function is activated and enable performance of the shock function upon resolution by an operator of the automated external defibrillator. The IMD safety control can be capable of wireless communication with the implanted medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9615009
    Abstract: A light source within a real world scene can be identified. The light source can be associated with a one or more attributes. The light source can emit light to illuminate the real world scene. The attributes can include intensity, wavelength, and/or orientation. A live view of the real world scene can be presented within an interface of a computing device. The attributes associated with the light source can be determined. A light map for the light source within the real world scene can be computed. The light map can be a graphical visualization of an approximation of a propagation of light emanating from the light source within the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Inventors: Brian K. Buchheit, Satesh Ramcharitar
  • Patent number: 9531655
    Abstract: A content for a message to be submitted to a social networking account of a person can be received. The message can be submitted and the content can be shared with other persons via the social network. Prior to conveying, submitting, and/or storing, the message can be scored in one or more dimensions. The dimensions can represent aspects of a reputation of the person. Previously established threshold scores for each of the dimensions can be determined. When the content is outside an established allowance range of the scores, performing a programmatic action to ensure that the submission of the message does not automatically occur to the account. When the content is not outside the scores, not taking a programmatic action to prevent the submission of the message and instead permitting the submission of the message to automatically occur to the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9521363
    Abstract: A live video conference session can be established between a first device and second remotely located devices each having a first and second camera as an input peripheral. The first and second camera can capture a first and second video stream of a first and second session participant. During the live video conference session, the first and second video stream can be continuously conveyed in real time over a network to displays of each device. The first video stream can be analyzed to programmatically determine that a position of the first participant is non-optimal as seen by the second participant. An eye guide can be presented on a user interface to assist the first participant to focus their eyes in a new location indicated by the eye. If subsequent detects improved eye focus with the second participant the eye guide can be dismissed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Inventors: Brian K. Buchheit, Satesh Ramcharitar
  • Patent number: 9438937
    Abstract: An enhanced stream associated with a primary stream can be selected. The enhanced stream can be time-synchronized to the primary stream. The enhanced stream can be associated with a secondary viewpoint linked to a primary viewpoint of the primary stream. The primary stream can be a broadcast signal of a digital television broadcast. The enhanced stream can be simultaneously presented on a secondary device and the primary stream on a primary device. The primary device can be a computing device and the secondary device can be a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9419687
    Abstract: A radio frequency signal is transmitted by a powered mobile device that emulates a signal of a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) device signal. The emulated signal is transmitted at an intermediate frequency communication (IFC) range, which is at least a magnitude of five greater than a range at which the passive RFID device is able to receive the radio frequency signal from a NFC reading device (referred to as an NFC range). The NFC reading device responds to the transmission signal from the powered mobile device as if an equivalent signal containing the transmission information were sent from the passive RFID device. This permits a powered mobile device to emulate a passive RFID device at an expanded range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9354928
    Abstract: A native environment on a local device and a virtual environment on a server device linked to the native device over a network can concurrently execute. The concurrently executing can share state information to keep activities between both environments substantially time-synched. The native environment can be a user-machine interactive environment of a machine-to-user interactive interface. The native environment can perform stand-alone operation without appreciable end-user experience degradation. A process in the native environment requiring an excessive quantity of processing cycles can be detected. The native environment can not perform the processing using resources of the native environment. The virtual environment can perform the process and synchronize the result to the native environment, thereby permitting the native environment to continue to function as if the process was performed by the native environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Inventor: Brian K. Buchheit
  • Patent number: 9341917
    Abstract: An electronic ink display of a device has a set of charged pigment particles suspended within a fluid. The charged pigment particles and the fluid are positioned between a first surface and a second surface of the display. An electrical charge is able to be applied that causes the charged pigment particles to move within the fluid. Movement of the charged particles results in the charged pigment particles being rearranged to form text or images viewable through the first surface. A luminescent substance is positioned between the first surface and the second surface. When activated, the luminescent substance emits visible light that is transmitted through the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Inventors: Scott M. Garrett, Brian K. Buchheit