Patents by Inventor Chad C. Gibson
Chad C. Gibson 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: 11176222Abstract: Persistent media playback techniques are described. In an implementation, a media player is served via a network for display by a browser of a device. Web pages are served via the network for display by the browser of the device. Each of the web pages is configured for integration with the media player so that the media player is persistently displayed by the browser during navigation among the web pages. The media player may be configured to play media files providing a variety of different media types. The media player may also provide contextual suggestions of media.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Chad C. Gibson, Sara Tahir, Christopher A. Evans, Marcus E. Pina, Richard L. Mains
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Publication number: 20200183990Abstract: Persistent media playback techniques are described. In an implementation, a media player is served via a network for display by a browser of a device. Web pages are served via the network for display by the browser of the device. Each of the web pages is configured for integration with the media player so that the media player is persistently displayed by the browser during navigation among the web pages. The media player may be configured to play media files providing a variety of different media types. The media player may also provide contextual suggestions of media.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Chad C. Gibson, Sara Tahir, Christopher A. Evans, Marcus E. Pina, Richard L. Mains
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Patent number: 10572567Abstract: Persistent media playback techniques are described. In an implementation, a media player is served via a network for display by a browser of a device. Web pages are served via the network for display by the browser of the device. Each of the web pages is configured for integration with the media player so that the media player is persistently displayed by the browser during navigation among the web pages. The media player may be configured to play media files providing a variety of different media types. The media player may also provide contextual suggestions of media.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Chad C. Gibson, Sara Tahir, Christopher A. Evans, Marcus E. Pina, Richard L. Mains
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Publication number: 20170277704Abstract: Persistent media playback techniques are described. In an implementation, a media player is served via a network for display by a browser of a device. Web pages are served via the network for display by the browser of the device. Each of the web pages is configured for integration with the media player so that the media player is persistently displayed by the browser during navigation among the web pages. The media player may be configured to play media files providing a variety of different media types. The media player may also provide contextual suggestions of media.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Chad C. Gibson, Sara Tahir, Christopher A. Evans, Marcus E. Pina, Richard L. Mains
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Patent number: 9690866Abstract: Persistent media playback techniques are described. In an implementation, a media player is served via a network for display by a browser of a device. Web pages are served via the network for display by the browser of the device. Each of the web pages is configured for integration with the media player so that the media player is persistently displayed by the browser during navigation among the web pages. The media player may be configured to play media files providing a variety of different media types. The media player may also provide contextual suggestions of media.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Chad C. Gibson, Sara Tahir, Christopher A. Evans, Marcus E. Pina, Richard L. Mains
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Patent number: 9460092Abstract: A media asset recommendation service is described. In embodiments, friends of a user are identified in a social graph that is associated with the user, and interactions with media assets by the friends of the user are compiled. Friend interaction data for each of the media assets can be determined from the media assets, the social graph, and the interactions with the media assets by the friends of the user. When a selection of one of the media assets is received from the user via a user device, the friend interaction data that is associated with the media asset selected by the user is communicated to the user device.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: ROVI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Shawn M. Murphy, Christopher B. Weare, Christopher A. Evans, Chad C. Gibson
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Patent number: 8849816Abstract: Personalized media charts are described. In embodiments, a request can be received for a personalized media chart that lists media assets as recommendations in a relevant order for a user. The media assets are initially ordered in the personalized media chart according to a chart rank for each media asset. A relevance factor is then determined for each of the media assets, where the relevance factor for a media asset indicates a relevance of the media asset to the user. A chart rank adjustment is calculated for each of the media assets based on the relevance factors for each of the media assets, and the media assets are then reordered in the personalized media chart according to the chart rank adjustments for each of the media assets.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Burba, Ismet E. Kahraman, Ivan P. Trindev, Zerelina R. Mukherjee, Chad C. Gibson, Thomas C. Butcher
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Publication number: 20110314416Abstract: Collected media content data is described. In embodiments, browsing inputs are received from a client device when a user interacts with the client device to browse media content available via the Internet. Media content data associated with the media content that is displayed for viewing at the client device can be collected, and media items that are associated with the media content data can be determined. Identifiers of the media items that are correlated with the user can be stored, and the identifiers of the media items then communicated to a media content playback device that is associated with the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Chad C. Gibson, Geir O. Martinsen
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Publication number: 20110314030Abstract: Personalized media charts are described. In embodiments, a request can be received for a personalized media chart that lists media assets as recommendations in a relevant order for a user. The media assets are initially ordered in the personalized media chart according to a chart rank for each media asset. A relevance factor is then determined for each of the media assets, where the relevance factor for a media asset indicates a relevance of the media asset to the user. A chart rank adjustment is calculated for each of the media assets based on the relevance factors for each of the media assets, and the media assets are then reordered in the personalized media chart according to the chart rank adjustments for each of the media assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2010Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander Burba, Ismet E. Kahraman, Ivan P. Trindev, Zerelina R. Mukherjee, Chad C. Gibson, Thomas C. Butcher
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Publication number: 20110082861Abstract: Media asset usage by geographic region is described. In embodiments, media asset interaction data is received from user devices, where the media asset interaction data corresponds to a media asset and identifies the media asset when recently played at any of the user devices. Geographic location data that corresponds to each of the user devices is also received. The geographic location data and the media asset interaction data that corresponds to the media asset are aggregated, and a geographic density map is generated as a visual indication of aggregated locations and interactions with the media asset in a geographic region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2009Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Chad C. Gibson, Danyel A. Fisher
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Patent number: 7858867Abstract: Relating higher-level descriptive musical metadata to lower-level musical elements to enable creation of a song map, song model, backing track, or the like. The musical elements are queried based on input metadata to create a set of musical elements of varying types such as notes, chords, song structures, and the like. The set of musical elements is provided to a user for selection of particular musical elements The selected musical elements represent the song model.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Adil Ahmed Sherwani, Chad C. Gibson, Sumit Basu
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Publication number: 20100325549Abstract: Persistent media playback techniques are described. In an implementation, a media player is served via a network for display by a browser of a device. Web pages are served via the network for display by the browser of the device. Each of the web pages is configured for integration with the media player so that the media player is persistently displayed by the browser during navigation among the web pages. The media player may be configured to play media files providing a variety of different media types. The media player may also provide contextual suggestions of media.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Chad C. Gibson, Sara Tahir, Christopher A. Evans, Marcus E. Pina, Richard L. Mains
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Publication number: 20100324704Abstract: A social graph playlist service is described. In embodiments, a social graph that associates a user and friends of the user is maintained. The social graph is based on parameters that define a social relationship between the user and the friends of the user. Interaction data that identifies recently played media assets at user devices that are utilized by the friends of the user can be received. A social graph playlist that is associated with the user can be generated by determining a next media asset for the playlist from the recently played media assets. The next media asset for the playlist can then be communicated to be played at a user device that is associated with the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Shawn M. Murphy, Christopher B. Weare, Christopher A. Evans, Chad C. Gibson
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Publication number: 20100325205Abstract: An event recommendation service is described. In embodiments, selection data that correlates to media content selected by a user, location data that corresponds to a location of the user, and event data is received. A recommendation for an event that the user is likely to attend and that is proximate the location of the user can be generated by aggregating the selection data, the location data, and the event data. The recommendation can then be communicated to a user device as a calendar entry, an email message, a text message, and/or an html page for display to inform the user of the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Shawn M. Murphy, Scott Jensen, Christopher B. Weare, Christopher A. Evans, Chad C. Gibson
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Publication number: 20100318919Abstract: A media asset recommendation service is described. In embodiments, friends of a user are identified in a social graph that is associated with the user, and interactions with media assets by the friends of the user are compiled. Friend interaction data for each of the media assets can be determined from the media assets, the social graph, and the interactions with the media assets by the friends of the user. When a selection of one of the media assets is received from the user via a user device, the friend interaction data that is associated with the media asset selected by the user is communicated to the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Shawn M. Murphy, Christopher B. Weare, Christopher A. Evans, Chad C. Gibson