Patents by Inventor Christopher Burdick

Christopher Burdick 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: 20200155932
    Abstract: The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for managing user behavior in online multiuser systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that provide user-based arbitration for online multiuser systems. In one embodiment, a multi-user online system enables a first user to report a second user's behavior while online. The system receives the report and merges the report with the second user's recorded interactions with the online system related to the report to create an arbitration file. The arbitration file is then made available to a third user to review the arbitration file and determine whether action is warranted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Steve Mescon, Christopher Burdick, Tom Cadwell
  • Publication number: 20190134502
    Abstract: The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for managing user behavior in online multiuser systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that provide user-based arbitration for online multiuser systems. In one embodiment, a multi-user online system enables a first user to report a second user's behavior while online. The system receives the report and merges the report with the second user's recorded interactions with the online system related to the report to create an arbitration file. The arbitration file is then made available to a third user to review the arbitration file and determine whether action is warranted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Steve Mescon, Christopher Burdick, Tom Cadwell
  • Patent number: 10016675
    Abstract: The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for managing user behavior in online multiuser systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that provide user-based arbitration for online multiuser systems. In one embodiment, a multi-user online system enables a first user to report a second user's behavior while online. The system receives the report and merges the report with the second user's recorded interactions with the online system related to the report to create an arbitration file. The arbitration file is then made available to a third user to review the arbitration file and determine whether action is warranted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: RIOT GAMES, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Mescon, Christopher Burdick, Tom Cadwell
  • Publication number: 20160166931
    Abstract: The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for managing user behavior in online multiuser systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that provide user-based arbitration for online multiuser systems. In one embodiment, a multi-user online system enables a first user to report a second user's behavior while online. The system receives the report and merges the report with the second user's recorded interactions with the online system related to the report to create an arbitration file. The arbitration file is then made available to a third user to review the arbitration file and determine whether action is warranted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Steve Mescon, Christopher Burdick, Tom Cadwell
  • Patent number: 9120019
    Abstract: The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for managing user behavior in online multiuser systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that provide user-based arbitration for online multiuser systems. In one embodiment, a multi-user online system enables a first user to report a second user's behavior while online. The system receives the report and merges the report with the second user's recorded interactions with the online system related to the report to create an arbitration file. The arbitration file is then made available to a third user to review the arbitration file and determine whether action is warranted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: RIOT GAMES, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Mescon, Christopher Burdick, Tom Cadwell
  • Publication number: 20130252737
    Abstract: The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for managing user behavior in online multiuser systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that provide user-based arbitration for online multiuser systems. In one embodiment, a multi-user online system enables a first user to report a second user's behavior while online. The system receives the report and merges the report with the second user's recorded interactions with the online system related to the report to create an arbitration file. The arbitration file is then made available to a third user to review the arbitration file and determine whether action is warranted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Steve Mescon, Christopher Burdick, Tom Cadwell
  • Publication number: 20050180348
    Abstract: A communication system, method, computer program product, and apparatus include common equipment shared between multiple independently administered networks. The common equipment is reconfigurable and expandable and provides changed communication capacity and functions when additional elements are added or reconfigured. Configurable features include, for example, communication bandwidth, Quality of Service, and a number of communication satellites included in the communication system. The common equipment includes expandable elements including, for example, a single hub modem chassis that can expand to communicate with more than one communication satellite and a protocol processor that can share a protocol processing task with another protocol processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: iDirect Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher Burdick, David Ray, Nicoleta Ionita
  • Publication number: 20050165954
    Abstract: A communication system, method, computer program product, and apparatus include common equipment shared between multiple independently administered networks. The common equipment is reconfigurable and expandable and provides changed communication capacity and functions when additional elements are added or reconfigured. Configurable features include, for example, communication bandwidth, Quality of Service, and a number of communication satellites included in the communication system. The common equipment includes expandable elements including, for example, a single hub modem chassis that can expand to communicate with more than one communication satellite and a protocol processor that can share a protocol processing task with another protocol processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Applicant: iDirect Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher Burdick, David Ray
  • Publication number: 20050152301
    Abstract: A communication system, method, computer program product, and apparatus include common equipment shared between multiple independently administered networks. The common equipment is reconfigurable and expandable and provides changed communication capacity and functions when additional elements are added or reconfigured. Configurable features include, for example, communication bandwidth, Quality of Service, and a number of communication satellites included in the communication system. The common equipment includes expandable elements including, for example, a single hub modem chassis that can expand to communicate with more than one communication satellite and a protocol processor that can share a protocol processing task with another protocol processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: iDirect Incorporated
    Inventors: David Bettinger, Hai Tang, Christopher Burdick, Joseph Boone, Gregory Braunberg, Hao Cheng, Jason Maiorana, Chao Liu