Patents by Inventor Brian Springer
Brian Springer 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: 20220017997Abstract: A vehicle part formed at least in part of a blended material is provided. The blended material is formed by mixing an improved aluminum alloy and a recycled aluminum alloy. The recycled aluminum alloy can be obtained from road wheels. The blended alloy preferable meets the Aural series alloy specifications. The blended material can be cast under high pressure and a vacuum to form a part designed for use in a chassis or structural body of a vehicle, for example a front subframe, a front shock tower, a rear rail, a front kick-down rail, a front body hinge pillar, a tunnel, a front body hinge pillar, or a rear shock mount.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Kevin HANEY, Mike BLOW, Benjamin C. PROBERT, Zach BROWN, Brian SPRINGER, Andrea HILL, Xiaoping NIU, Randy BEALS
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Patent number: 10275529Abstract: The systems and methods are directed towards embodiments for incorporating alternative sources of information, other than current online sources, for use with intelligent personal assistants. These alternative sources are processed and prioritized by the intelligent personal assistant when performing queries by the user. Furthermore, the intelligent personal assistant is capable of performing other actions related to the alternative source of information. In another embodiment, the user is capable of providing both audio commands and motion-based commands to the intelligent personal assistant to instruct the intelligent personal assistant to perform specific processes whereby the audio commands correspond to a first set of processes and the motion-based commands correspond to a distinct second set of processes.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: RICH MEDIA VENTURES, LLCInventors: John Cronin, Neil Balthaser, Colby Brian Springer
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Publication number: 20170017993Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method of using attribution tracking for off-platform content promotion, for use in media content or other computing environments. A media campaign can be associated with a promoted content link (e.g., a URL) for use on a publisher web site. When the promoted content link is selected, for example by a user of a client media device, the user/device can be redirected to the media content environment. Client activity data can be logged to provide one or more campaign, content promoter, artist, date, user identification, or other data, which can be recorded as a promotion event. In response to the user/device performing additional downstream actions with regard to the promoted content, downstream events can be generated, and data pipelines used in combination with attribution windows, to correlate attribution of the downstream actions with particular media campaigns or content promoters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Steve Shirley, Gilles Deveaux, Brian Springer, Sean Kenny, Ankit Aggarawal, Abeyu Mengistu
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Patent number: 7546288Abstract: Providing standardized metadata associated with media content responsive to input metadata. The invention extracts one or more tokens from the input metadata. Each of the extracted tokens represents a portion of the input metadata. The invention creates a token group comprising a plurality of selected tokens. The invention searches the database of standardized metadata using a multi-pass approach using the token group and the extracted tokens to identify the standardized metadata associated with the input metadata.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2003Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Thomas Brian Springer, Jr., Jason E. D. McCartney
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Publication number: 20070017179Abstract: An interior building system which includes a curved, acoustical, self-supporting composite panel which differentiates and accents the interior building space, and, at the same time, provides substantial sound absorbing capabilities. The composite panel is composed of two or more layers of non self-supporting soft fiber material and a discontinuous layer of adhesive interposed between each of the soft fiber layers. The system further includes mounting hardware for attaching the panel to the building structure. The mounting hardware has a perforated plate which is embedded in the panel which minimizes the visibility of the hardware, and, at the same time, provides enhanced load bearing capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2006Publication date: January 25, 2007Inventors: Brian Springer, John Felegi, James Waters, Guillaume Martin
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Patent number: 7136866Abstract: A media identifier registry for managing metadata records. The registry stores a unique logical identifier for each of the records as well as a base type corresponding to each of the logical identifiers. The base types are representative of the information contained in the respective metadata records for the corresponding logical identifiers. The registry further defines associations between the logical identifiers and base types. Improvements in identifying media content and related information according to the invention permit building a media data warehouse capable of aggregating data from many different sources, uniquely identify the same piece of content from different data providers, in different cultures, and in different physical forms to allow a consistent set of data to be stored and retrieved.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2002Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Thomas Brian Springer, Jr., Jason E. D. McCartney, Keith Maurice Toussaint
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Patent number: 7065527Abstract: Systems and methods for data publishing. A back end server collects source data and generates a current publication database from the collected source data. The back end database server also copies the current publication database to an offline database. A front end server directs queries to an online database. After the current publication database is copied to the offline database, the front end server alternates the online and offline databases so that the offline database becomes online for data delivery and the online database becomes offline to prevent data delivery. An automation control database managed by the back end server contains job control data for instructing the front end server which of the associated databases is online and which of the associated databases is offline.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2002Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jason E. D. McCartney, T. Brian Springer, Jr., Keith M. Toussaint
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Publication number: 20050187840Abstract: The present invention provides a method for providing an annuity structure and a system for processing an annuity structure. The annuity structure may include a base portion segment, where the base portion segment is a functional annuity having a first annuity schedule; and a secondary portion segment, where the secondary portion segment is a functional annuity having a second annuity schedule. In the invention, the base portion segment and the secondary portion segment each operate as its own annuity. Also, the base portion segment and the secondary portion segment are each included in a single contract, i.e., under the umbrella of one contract.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2004Publication date: August 25, 2005Inventors: Geoffrey Stiff, Holly Snyder, Joel Prough, Brian Springer
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Publication number: 20040034650Abstract: A media identifier registry for managing metadata records. The registry stores a unique logical identifier for each of the records as well as a base type corresponding to each of the logical identifiers. The base types are representative of the information contained in the respective metadata records for the corresponding logical identifiers. The registry further defines associations between the logical identifiers and base types. Improvements in identifying media content and related information according to the invention permit building a media data warehouse capable of aggregating data from many different sources, uniquely identify the same piece of content from different data providers, in different cultures, and in different physical forms to allow a consistent set of data to be stored and retrieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2002Publication date: February 19, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Thomas Brian Springer, Jason E.D. McCartney, Keith Maurice Toussaint
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Publication number: 20040019658Abstract: Obtaining metadata for media content. Software according to the invention requests the metadata via a metadata query data structure (MDQ) such as a uniform resource locator and receives metadata in response via a metadata return data structure (MDR). The invention includes namespace identifiers such as WMContentID, WMCollectionID, and WMCollectionGroupID for instance-specific associations between media content and metadata. The invention also includes namespace identifiers such as WMPrimaryClassID and WMSecondaryClassID to classify the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2003Publication date: January 29, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Daniel Plastina, John Wesley Terrell, Jason E. D. McCartney, Keith Maurice Toussaint, David W. H. Hostetter, Thomas Brian Springer, Aaron P. Starkey
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Publication number: 20040002993Abstract: System and methods for processing user feedback data corresponding to digital media files. Client computers execute a media player program for rendering media files to their users. A server receives user-provided data entries relating to content of the media files and performs per field conflict resolution to determine relationships between the entries. Based on the relationships, the server aggregates the data entries and then defines new metadata records from the aggregated data for publishing to the users. The invention is directed to a user feedback data schema.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2002Publication date: January 1, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Keith M. Toussaint, Jason E. D. McCartney, T. Brian Springer
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Publication number: 20040003003Abstract: Systems and methods for data publishing. A back end server collects source data and generates a current publication database from the collected source data. The back end database server also copies the current publication database to an offline database. A front end server directs queries to an online database. After the current publication database is copied to the offline database, the front end server alternates the online and offline databases so that the offline database becomes online for data delivery and the online database becomes offline to prevent data delivery. An automation control database managed by the back end server contains job control data for instructing the front end server which of the associated databases is online and which of the associated databases is offline.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2002Publication date: January 1, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jason E. D. McCartney, T. Brian Springer, Keith M. Toussaint