Patents by Inventor Chad Steelberg

Chad Steelberg 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).

  • Publication number: 20140244615
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for an open indexing system, which includes an indexing engine associated with at least one processor and having one or more open inputs for inputting of indexing criteria, at least one computerized search engine for obtaining information across at least one computing network in accordance with the indexing criteria, at least one repository comprising at least one computing memory for storing information obtained via the at least one computerized search engine and corresponded to the indexing criteria, and at least one reporting engine, wherein an output of the reporting engine is manipulable responsive to modification to one or more categorizations dependent on the indexing criteria, and wherein the output is dependent solely on the information in said at least one repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8819756
    Abstract: A digital video recorder is disclosed. The digital video recorder includes at least one memory device, a plurality of communication access points for receiving at least one program play, an open application programming interface associated with the at least one memory device, and at least one correlation engine in communication with the open application programming interface. The plurality of applications correspondent to the open application programming interface allow a user to manipulate metadata associated with ones of the programs plays and the metadata relates to interframe interactivity with detailed aspects of the ones of the program plays. The at least one correlation engine provides for correlation among at least for the interframes of the program play to ones of the interframes of other ones of the program plays, and among the interframe interactivity to the interframes of the program play to interframe interactivity with the other ones of the interframes of the other ones of the program plays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Publication number: 20140236721
    Abstract: The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at least one permission for enhancement of the primary content, ones of a plurality of content produced remotely from the javascript component and according to the javascript component, and an enhancement widget. The enhancement widget may be a flash widget.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Chad Steelberg, Ryan Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8798436
    Abstract: A video engine, system and method for use with a video player, including a presenter that presents at least two audio/visual works, at least one software application capable of at least one metadata-related interaction with the audio/visual works, communication points over which the audio/visual works are received, and over which at least a portion of the at least one meta-data interaction occurs, and a hierarchical taxonomy that effects a common metadata reference to each recurrence of a particular object across the audio/visual works, and across each of the at least one metadata-related interaction. The video engine, system, and method may additionally include a prioritization data for use with the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8751479
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for an open indexing system, which includes an indexing engine associated with at least one processor and having one or more open inputs for inputting of indexing criteria, at least one computerized search engine for obtaining information across at least one computing network in accordance with the indexing criteria, at least one repository comprising at least one computing memory for storing information obtained via the at least one computerized search engine and corresponded to the indexing criteria, and at least one reporting engine, wherein an output of the reporting engine is manipulable responsive to modification to one or more categorizations dependent on the indexing criteria, and wherein the output is dependent solely on the information in said at least one repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8742607
    Abstract: A system for generation of power using an apparatus in deep water is disclosed. The system includes a ballast buoy configured to achieve a desired depth in the deep water, a substantially vertical hollow tube attached to the ballast buoy that is submerged under water when the ballast buoy achieves the desired depth in the deep water, and a converter for converting the physical environment created in the substantially vertical hollow tube by placement of the ballast buoy at the desired depth in the deep water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8738653
    Abstract: The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at least one permission for enhancement of the primary content, ones of a plurality of content produced remotely from the javascript component and according to the javascript component, and an enhancement widget. The enhancement widget may be a flash widget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Steelberg, Ryan Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8725563
    Abstract: A search engine, system and method for locating and rating a plurality of electronic mentions of respective ones of a plurality of brands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8719097
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and a user interface for automatically scheduling a media play is disclosed. The user can specify criteria for play of the media play, including times, stations, and/or external criteria such as a weather condition or the occurrence of an event. Information relevant to the entered criteria is received and assessed against the criteria to determine if the criteria are met. Responsive to the received information meeting the criteria for play of the media play, an accessor accesses the media play inventory and inserts the media play into a media feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Steelberg, Ryan Steelberg, Scott Beauchamp, Russell Kevin Ketchum
  • Publication number: 20140111322
    Abstract: The present invention provides an engine, system and method for capturing and transmitting real time sports performance data to a data base/smart phone using short distance wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventor: Chad Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8698332
    Abstract: A system for generation of power using an apparatus in deep water is disclosed. The system includes a ballast buoy configured to achieve a desired depth in the deep water, a substantially vertical hollow tube attached to the ballast buoy that is submerged under water when the ballast buoy achieves the desired depth in the deep water, and a converter for converting the physical environment created in the substantially vertical hollow tube by placement of the ballast buoy at the desired depth in the deep water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Newport Coast Investments
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Publication number: 20140058791
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method of implementing a computerized brand affinity engine. The apparatus, system and method include at least a plurality of computerized access points having accessible thereto a plurality of sites mentioning at least one sponsor, a categorized, hierarchical database of keywords, wherein at least the keywords falling in at least one category of the hierarchy correspond to a sponsor category of the at least one sponsor, and a tracker, wherein the tracker tracks positive ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites and negative ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites, in accordance with positive and negative keywords of the categorized, hierarchical database in the sponsor category, and wherein the tracker issues an rating with regard to the at least one sponsor in accordance with the positive ones and the negative ones of the mentions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: BRAND AFFINITY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Publication number: 20140046779
    Abstract: An advertising engine, system and method of using is described. The engine includes at least one vault including a plurality of media assets, a recommendation engine that matches at least one media asset from the vault with at least one requested creative, a delivery engine that integrates the requested creative with the matched media assets from the vault, and a management engine that regulates and/or tracks ones of the at least one media asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8630525
    Abstract: A engine for use with a display is disclosed. The engine includes a presenter that presents at least two audio/visual works, at least one software application capable of at least one metadata-related interaction with the at least two audio/visual works, communication points over which the audio/visual works are received, and over which at least a portion of the at least one metadata-related interaction occurs, and a hierarchical taxonomy that effects a common metadata reference to each recurrence of a particular object across the audio/visual works, and across each of the at least one metadata related interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Iron Mountain Group, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8621343
    Abstract: The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at least one permission for enhancement of the primary content, ones of a plurality of content produced remotely from the javascript component and according to the javascript component, and an enhancement widget. The enhancement widget may be a flash widget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Publication number: 20130341928
    Abstract: A system for generation of power using an apparatus in deep water is disclosed. The system includes a ballast buoy configured to achieve a desired depth in the deep water, a substantially vertical hollow tube attached to the ballast buoy that is submerged under water when the ballast buoy achieves the desired depth in the deep water, and a converter for converting the physical environment created in the substantially vertical hollow tube by placement of the ballast buoy at the desired depth in the deep water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Patent number: 8583693
    Abstract: An advertising engine, system and method of using is described. The engine includes at least one vault including a plurality of media assets, a recommendation engine that matches at least one media asset from the vault with at least one requested creative, a delivery engine that integrates the requested creative with the matched media assets from the vault, and a management engine that regulates and/or tracks ones of the at least one media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Publication number: 20130290098
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for placing an advertisement is disclosed. An audio work may be analyzed for at least one keyword. The at least one keyword may be accessed for its relevance to an advertisement. Based on the assessment of the at least one keyword and an avail of the audio work, the advertisement may be placed within the audio work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg
  • Publication number: 20130283200
    Abstract: The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at least one permission for enhancement of the primary content, ones of a plurality of content produced remotely from the javascript component and according to the javascript component, and an enhancement widget. The enhancement widget may be a flash widget.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Chad Steelberg, Ryan Steelberg
  • Publication number: 20130282685
    Abstract: A computer-based search engine for performing a search for a keyword, comprising a result responsive to a search, a database comprising a plurality of terms organized by categories wherein at least one of the categories includes the keyword, and relational ones of the plurality of terms to the keyword; a heuristic engine comprising a plurality of rules which, when executed by a processor, applies the rules in accordance with the relational ones of the plurality of terms to a networked site to assess the keyword as a primary subject of the networked site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Steelberg, Chad Steelberg