Patents by Inventor Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy 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: 20240078892
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for managing sensors and computing devices associated with a premises are presented. An example method comprises receiving, by a computing device from a mobile device: an image of a sensor that comprises a quick response (QR) code; and a request to add the sensor to an account associated with a premises; identifying the sensor based on the QR code; and based on identifying the sensor based on the QR code, adding the sensor to a list of sensors associated with the account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Patent number: 11862003
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for managing sensors and computing devices associated with a premises are presented. An example method comprises receiving, by a computing device from a mobile device: an image of a sensor that comprises a quick response (QR) code; and a request to add the sensor to an account associated with a premises; identifying the sensor based on the QR code; and based on identifying the sensor based on the QR code, adding the sensor to a list of sensors associated with the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Publication number: 20230121273
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for managing sensors and computing devices associated with a premises are presented. An example method comprises receiving, by a computing device and from a mobile device at a premises: an image of a sensor, and a request to add the sensor to an account associated with the premises, performing object recognition on the image, and based on the object recognition, adding the sensor to a list of sensors associated with the account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Patent number: 11557192
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for managing sensors and computing devices associated with a premises are presented. An example method comprises receiving, by a computing device and from a mobile device at a premises: an image of a sensor, and a request to add the sensor to an account associated with the premises, performing object recognition on the image, and based on the object recognition, adding the sensor to a list of sensors associated with the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Patent number: 11539989
    Abstract: A content delivery server may allow users to redirect browsed content from one system to another. A user may install or activate a plug-in to a browser, such as an Internet browser, and the plug-in may be linked to the user's account on another service. As the user browses content from the browser, the user may select a command to cause the browsed content to be delivered to the other service, ingested by the other service, and made available to the user from the other service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Swan, Weidong Mao, Sree Kotay, Mark Vickers, Mohsin Roowalla, Chris Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20220122449
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing sensor data are presented. An example method comprises accessing, by a computing device at a premises, sensor information associated with a plurality of sensors located at the premises, receiving, by the computing device, first sensor data from a first security sensor of the plurality of sensors, receiving, by the computing device, second sensor data from a second security sensor of the plurality of sensors, and in response to determining, by the computing device and based on the sensor information, that the first sensor data is associated with a higher priority than the second sensor data processing, by the computing device, the first sensor data, and transmitting, by the computing device, the second sensor data to a remote computing device for processing, wherein the remote computing device is at a location different from the premises.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Publication number: 20210321148
    Abstract: A content delivery server may allow users to redirect browsed content from one system to another. A user may install or activate a plug-in to a browser, such as an Internet browser, and the plug-in may be linked to the user's account on another service. As the user browses content from the browser, the user may select a command to cause the browsed content to be delivered to the other service, ingested by the other service, and made available to the user from the other service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Swan, Weidong Mao, Sree Kotay, Mark Vickers, Mohsin Roowalla, Chris Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11076178
    Abstract: A content delivery server may allow users to redirect browsed content from one system to another. A user may install or activate a plug-in to a browser, such as an Internet browser, and the plug-in may be linked to the user's account on another service. As the user browses content from the browser, the user may select a command to cause the browsed content to be delivered to the other service, ingested by the other service, and made available to the user from the other service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Swan, Weidong Mao, Sree Kotay, Mark Vickers, Mohsin Roowalla, Chris Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11069222
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing sensor data are presented. An example method comprises accessing, by a computing device at a premises, sensor information associated with a plurality of sensors located at the premises, receiving, by the computing device, first sensor data from a first security sensor of the plurality of sensors, receiving, by the computing device, second sensor data from a second security sensor of the plurality of sensors, and in response to determining, by the computing device and based on the sensor information, that the first sensor data is associated with a higher priority than the second sensor data processing, by the computing device, the first sensor data, and transmitting, by the computing device, the second sensor data to a remote computing device for processing, wherein the remote computing device is at a location different from the premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Publication number: 20200213637
    Abstract: A content delivery server may allow users to redirect browsed content from one system to another. A user may install or activate a plug-in to a browser, such as an Internet browser, and the plug-in may be linked to the user's account on another service. As the user browses content from the browser, the user may select a command to cause the browsed content to be delivered to the other service, ingested by the other service, and made available to the user from the other service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Swan, Weidong Mao, Sree Kotay, Mark Vickers, Mohsin Roowalla, Chris Kennedy
  • Patent number: 10582230
    Abstract: A content delivery server may allow users to redirect browsed content from one system to another. A user may install or activate a plug-in to a browser, such as an Internet browser, and the plug-in may be linked to the user's account on another service. As the user browses content from the browser, the user may select a command to cause the browsed content to be delivered to the other service, ingested by the other service, and made available to the user from the other service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Swan, Weidong Mao, Sree Kotay, Mark Vickers, Mohsin Roowalla, Chris Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20200067174
    Abstract: High performance antennas for smart appliances are described herein. An antenna for use with a smart controller for an appliance can include a length of memory metal. The antenna can be configured to maintain the length while undisturbed, deform while under external stress, and return to or near to the length after deformation. Additionally, one end of the length of memory metal is in operative communication with a communication circuit associated with the smart controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventor: Chris Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20190378396
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing sensor data are presented. An example method comprises accessing, by a computing device at a premises, sensor information associated with a plurality of sensors located at the premises, receiving, by the computing device, first sensor data from a first security sensor of the plurality of sensors, receiving, by the computing device, second sensor data from a second security sensor of the plurality of sensors, and in response to determining, by the computing device and based on the sensor information, that the first sensor data is associated with a higher priority than the second sensor data processing, by the computing device, the first sensor data, and transmitting, by the computing device, the second sensor data to a remote computing device for processing, wherein the remote computing device is at a location different from the premises.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Patent number: 10320502
    Abstract: A system may allow users to automatically record radio programs for later consumption. When a user is listening to a radio program in the car, and arrives at the destination, the user's mobile device may capture an audio sample of the radio station, along with a GPS location of the user, and may transmit this information to a radio station application server. The server may use the location to identify a list of candidate radio stations, and may compare the audio sample with reference recordings of the candidate radio stations, to identify the radio station and program. The program may then be recorded for the user and subsequently played back at the user's convenience and on a device selected by the user, such as a mobile device, television, computer, DVR, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Chris Kennedy
  • Patent number: 10244234
    Abstract: Disclosed by way of example embodiments are a system and a computer implemented method for adaptively encoding a video by changing compression rates for different frames of the video. In one aspect, two frames of a video are compared to determine a compression rate for compressing one of the two frames. Hash images may be generated for corresponding frames for the comparison. By comparing two hash images, a number of stationary objects and a number of moving objects in the two frames may be determined. Moreover, a compression rate may be determined according to the number of stationary objects and the number of moving objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Ellation, Inc.
    Inventor: Chris Kennedy
  • Patent number: 10217348
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing sensor data are presented. An example method comprises accessing, by a computing device at a premises, sensor information associated with a plurality of sensors located at the premises, receiving, by the computing device, first sensor data from a first security sensor of the plurality of sensors, receiving, by the computing device, second sensor data from a second security sensor of the plurality of sensors, and in response to determining, by the computing device and based on the sensor information, that the first sensor data is associated with a higher priority than the second sensor data processing, by the computing device, the first sensor data, and transmitting, by the computing device, the second sensor data to a remote computing device for processing, wherein the remote computing device is at a location different from the premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Publication number: 20180338165
    Abstract: A content delivery server may allow users to redirect browsed content from one system to another. A user may install or activate a plug-in to a browser, such as an Internet browser, and the plug-in may be linked to the user's account on another service. As the user browses content from the browser, the user may select a command to cause the browsed content to be delivered to the other service, ingested by the other service, and made available to the user from the other service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Swan, Weidong Mao, Sree Kotay, Mark Vickers, Mohsin Roowalla, Chris Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20180144610
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing sensor data are presented. An example method comprises accessing, by a computing device at a premises, sensor information associated with a plurality of sensors located at the premises, receiving, by the computing device, first sensor data from a first security sensor of the plurality of sensors, receiving, by the computing device, second sensor data from a second security sensor of the plurality of sensors, and in response to determining, by the computing device and based on the sensor information, that the first sensor data is associated with a higher priority than the second sensor data processing, by the computing device, the first sensor data, and transmitting, by the computing device, the second sensor data to a remote computing device for processing, wherein the remote computing device is at a location different from the premises.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: James Poder, Galen Trevor Gattis, Chris Kennedy, Karen Serviss
  • Patent number: 9900628
    Abstract: A first device may request that multimedia content be made available on a second device. The first device may send the request to a server. The server mat notify the second device of the multimedia content. Based on how quickly the server receives a request, from the second device, for the content, the server mat determine how to ingest the multimedia content from a content source. The server mat ingest the multimedia content in full or in part prior to sending the multimedia content to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Swan, Weidong Mao, Sree Kotay, Mark Vickers, Mohsin Roowalla, Chris Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20170339435
    Abstract: A content delivery server may allow users to redirect browsed content from one system to another. A user may install or activate a plug-in to a browser, such as an Internet browser, and the plug-in may be linked to the user's account on another service. As the user browses content from the browser, the user may select a command to cause the browsed content to be delivered to the other service, ingested by the other service, and made available to the user from the other service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Swan, Weidong Mao, Sree Kotay, Mark Vickers, Mohsin Roowalla, Chris Kennedy