Patents by Inventor Catherine B. Clinch

Catherine B. Clinch 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: 9350859
    Abstract: A method of delivering a story for engaging a user in an interactive, scripted, virtual reality story by generating calls from a group of actors or personalities called a clique, includes the steps of recording onto a memory device a series of calls by multiple persons who pretend to be friends of a user recipient; making calls using the recorded calls in a predetermined sequence to a user recipient and preferably displaying; telling a story in the first person perspective from multiple points of view by means of the calls; and doing everything real friends do when they communicate with each other, except these friends are fictional, rather than real. A system for engaging a user in an interactive, scripted, virtual reality story by generating calls from a group of actors or personalities called a clique, where the calls simulate everything real friends do when they communicate with each other, except these friends are fictional, rather than real.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Inventor: Catherine B. Clinch
  • Patent number: 8792622
    Abstract: A method of delivering a story for engaging a user in an interactive, scripted, virtual reality story by generating calls from a group of actors or personalities called a clique, includes the steps of recording onto a memory device a series of calls by multiple persons who pretend to be friends of a user recipient; making calls using the recorded calls in a predetermined sequence to a user recipient and preferably displaying; telling a story in the first person perspective from multiple points of view by means of the calls; and doing everything real friends do when they communicate with each other, except these friends are fictional, rather than real. A system for engaging a user in an interactive, scripted, virtual reality story by generating calls from a group of actors or personalities called a clique, where the calls simulate everything real friends do when they communicate with each other, except these friends are fictional, rather than real.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Inventor: Catherine B. Clinch
  • Patent number: 8565387
    Abstract: A method of delivering a story for engaging a user in an interactive, scripted, virtual reality story by generating calls from a group of actors or personalities called a clique, includes the steps of recording onto a memory device a series of calls by multiple persons who pretend to be friends of a user recipient; making calls using the recorded calls in a predetermined sequence to a user recipient and preferably displaying; telling a story in the first person perspective from multiple points of view by means of the calls; and doing everything real friends do when they communicate with each other, except these friends are fictional, rather than real.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Inventor: Catherine B. Clinch