Patents by Inventor Bryan Eaton

Bryan Eaton 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: 11127307
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and methods for conducting a media-based interaction between a host user and a plurality of audience users. According to one embodiment, conducting a media-based interaction between a host user and a plurality of audience users can comprise managing a queue of a plurality of questions. Each question of the plurality of questions can be presented by one of the plurality of audience users. An interactive media session can be initiated between the host user and the plurality of audience users and a question from the queue of the plurality of questions can be presented to the host user. An answer to the question provided by the host user can be streamed in the interactive media session and recorded and the queue of the plurality of questions can be updated to remove the question provided to the host user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Talking Stick, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore A. Stoner, Benjamin Gauthier, Jacob Quattrocchi, Bryan Eaton
  • Patent number: 11063778
    Abstract: Once a group communication such as a video conference has been initiated, embodiments of the present disclosure provide for equitably managing the conference so that each participant can be given a chance to speak or contribute. For example, and according to one embodiment, the participants can be placed into a rotating queue based upon the order in which they joined the conference. As the conference progresses, each participant can be allowed to speak, while the other participants are muted, for up to a predetermined amount of time. Once that time expires, or the speaker yields the remaining time, the next participant in the rotating queue can be allowed to speak for up to the same predetermined amount of time. This rotation can continue for up to a predetermined number of rotations, a predetermined amount of time for the conference, or until the participants otherwise end the conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Talking Stick, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Stoner, Benjamin Gauthier, Jacob Quattrocchi, Bryan Eaton
  • Publication number: 20210036878
    Abstract: Once a group communication such as a video conference has been initiated, embodiments of the present disclosure provide for equitably managing the conference so that each participant can be given a chance to speak or contribute. For example, and according to one embodiment, the participants can be placed into a rotating queue based upon the order in which they joined the conference. As the conference progresses, each participant can be allowed to speak, while the other participants are muted, for up to a predetermined amount of time. Once that time expires, or the speaker yields the remaining time, the next participant in the rotating queue can be allowed to speak for up to the same predetermined amount of time. This rotation can continue for up to a predetermined number of rotations, a predetermined amount of time for the conference, or until the participants otherwise end the conference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Theodore Stoner, Benjamin Gauthier, Jacob Quattrocchi, Bryan Eaton
  • Patent number: 10587427
    Abstract: Once a group communication such as a video conference has been initiated, embodiments of the present disclosure provide for equitably managing the conference so that each participant can be given a chance to speak or contribute. For example, and according to one embodiment, the participants can be placed into a rotating queue based upon the order in which they joined the conference. As the conference progresses, each participant can be allowed to speak, while the other participants are muted, for up to a predetermined amount of time. Once that time expires, or the speaker yields the remaining time, the next participant in the rotating queue can be allowed to speak for up to the same predetermined amount of time. This rotation can continue for up to a predetermined number of rotations, a predetermined amount of time for the conference, or until the participants otherwise end the conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Talking Stick, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Stoner, Benjamin Gauthier, Jacob Quattrocchi, Bryan Eaton
  • Publication number: 20180108266
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and methods for conducting a media-based interaction between a host user and a plurality of audience users. According to one embodiment, conducting a media-based interaction between a host user and a plurality of audience users can comprise managing a queue of a plurality of questions. Each question of the plurality of questions can be presented by one of the plurality of audience users. An interactive media session can be initiated between the host user and the plurality of audience users and a question from the queue of the plurality of questions can be presented to the host user. An answer to the question provided by the host user can be streamed in the interactive media session and recorded and the queue of the plurality of questions can be updated to remove the question provided to the host user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Theodore A. Stoner, Benjamin Gauthier, Jake Quattrocchi, Bryan Eaton
  • Publication number: 20170302466
    Abstract: Once a group communication such as a video conference has been initiated, embodiments of the present disclosure provide for equitably managing the conference so that each participant can be given a chance to speak or contribute. For example, and according to one embodiment, the participants can be placed into a rotating queue based upon the order in which they joined the conference. As the conference progresses, each participant can be allowed to speak, while the other participants are muted, for up to a predetermined amount of time. Once that time expires, or the speaker yields the remaining time, the next participant in the rotating queue can be allowed to speak for up to the same predetermined amount of time. This rotation can continue for up to a predetermined number of rotations, a predetermined amount of time for the conference, or until the participants otherwise end the conference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Theodore Stoner, Benjamin Gauthier, Jacob Quattrocchi, Bryan Eaton
  • Patent number: 4044743
    Abstract: A cannister purge valve assembly for a vehicle emissions control system is disclosed which includes a housing defining a chamber which is divided into a pair of sections by a diaphragm carried by the valve housing. One of the sections has inlets communicated to the vehicle fuel tank and to the vapor absorbing cannister and an outlet which is communicated to engine intake manifold vacuum when the vehicle engine is operating. The other section is provided with an inlet which is communicated to the spark port on the vehicle carburetor so that the other section is communicated to a vacuum level when the engine is running. The inlet communicated to the cannister and the outlet communicated to the intake manifold terminate in a pair of coaxial tubes which extend into the chamber. Corresponding ends of the tube are substantially coplanar to define a valve seating area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: Fram Corporation
    Inventor: Bryan Eaton