Patents by Inventor Christopher Akers

Christopher Akers 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: 20240155039
    Abstract: A service implemented at a first isolated virtual network of a provider network is added to a database of privately-accessible services. Configuration changes that enable network packets to flow between the first isolated virtual network and a second isolated virtual network without utilizing a network address accessible from the public Internet are implemented. Service requests originating at the second isolated virtual network are transmitted to the first isolated virtual network via private pathways of the provider network. Metrics corresponding to service requests directed from the second isolated network to the service are collected and provided to the respective owners of one or both isolated virtual networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Tailor Akers, Michael Siaosi Voegele, Kevin Christopher Miller, Chao Yuan, David Brian Lennon, Patrick Stephenson
  • Patent number: 11551518
    Abstract: An advantage player identification and tracking system includes card shoes configured to dispense playing cards and output card information of the dispensed playing cards, cameras positioned to capture image data of one or more players playing a card game, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the card shoes and the cameras. The computing device is configured to receive the card information from the card shoes, track, for a plurality of hands of cards dealt, game play and bets laid by the one or more players playing the card game, determine a card count, analyze, utilizing a machine learning model, the game play and the bets laid by the one or more players and card counts associated with the game play and the bets laid, and predict, utilizing the machine learning model, that a player of the one or more players is an advantage player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Akers, Kevin Hillman, Wendell Hunsucker
  • Publication number: 20220068085
    Abstract: An advantage player identification and tracking system includes card shoes configured to dispense playing cards and output card information of the dispensed playing cards, cameras positioned to capture image data of one or more players playing a card game, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the card shoes and the cameras. The computing device is configured to receive the card information from the card shoes, track, for a plurality of hands of cards dealt, game play and bets laid by the one or more players playing the card game, determine a card count, analyze, utilizing a machine learning model, the game play and the bets laid by the one or more players and card counts associated with the game play and the bets laid, and predict, utilizing the machine learning model, that a player of the one or more players is an advantage player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Akers, Kevin Hillman, Wendell Hunsucker
  • Patent number: 9749504
    Abstract: A method is provided in certain example embodiments, and may include receiving source timed text data and an associated time stamp, and rendering a representation of the received source timed text data within a textual array. The textual array includes at least one row having textual data associated with the received source timed text data contained therein. The method may further include producing at least one data document including row data associated with one or more rows of the textual array when the textual data of the at least one row has changed from a previously rendered on-screen representation of previously received source timed text data. The row data includes a change in textual data for one or more rows from a previously produced caption data document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott C. Labrozzi, James Christopher Akers
  • Publication number: 20120176540
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example and includes receiving video data from a video source in a first format, where the video data includes associated text to be overlaid on the video data as part of a video stream. The method also includes generating a plurality of fragments based on the text. The fragments include respective regions having a designated time duration. The method also includes using the plurality of fragments to convert the video data into a second format to be provided as an output, which is based on the video data that was received. In more specific embodiments, the first format is associated with a Paint-On caption or a Roll-Up caption, and the second format is associated with a Pop-On caption. The first format can also be associated with subtitles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Scott C. Labrozzi, James Christopher Akers