Patents by Inventor Christopher Lawrence Yates

Christopher Lawrence Yates 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: 20090070426
    Abstract: A method and system for content distribution and placement through external social communities is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes building a work of authorship through a collective coordination of authors of the work of authorship in a community environment, providing a portion of content of the work of authorship on an external social community through a feed from the community environment to the external social community, processing a response of a user of the external social community in contributing to the work of authorship, and integrating the response of the user of the external social community in the work of authorship. The method may include providing the feed as of a Real Simple Syndication feed, as an embeddable widget, and/or an activity announcement based on an update of the work of authorship in the community environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: David Bruce McCauley, Kenneth J. Kratz, James Thomas Stanley, Chris Huffman, Christopher Kemper, Jim Daugherty, Christopher Lawrence Yates
  • Publication number: 20090070128
    Abstract: A method and system of community-based project content creation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating user profiles, associating first user with a first user profile, generating project profiles, each project profile associated with at least one user profile, associating the first user with a first project profile, designating a privilege level associated with a second user profile, and generating as online project collaboration between the first project profile and the second user profile based on the privilege level. The method may also include generating community building activities. The method may also include personalizing the first user profile. The method may further include generating a search associated with the user profiles and/or the project profiles. In addition, the method may include generating a post-publishing activity associated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: David Bruce McCauley, Sandra Powell, Benjamin Wm. Cram, Nathan Paul Williamson, Jacob Leon Geib-Rosch, Kenneth J. Kratz, James Thomas Stanley, Christopher Lawrence Yates