Patents by Inventor Colin Zhao

Colin Zhao 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: 20210092471
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining an association of a client device with the secondary device. The method further includes identifying a triggering event related to an operation of the secondary device. The method also includes responsive to identifying the triggering event, sending, by the secondary device via a network, a message to the client device with a request for information related to the operation of the secondary device. The client device may have a client device interface configured to present the message and to receive input pertaining to the message. The method includes receiving, via a network, input pertaining to the information from the client device. The method further includes configuring the secondary device to perform the operation at the secondary device using the input received from the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: OpenTV, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Fishman, Eunsook An, Danielle Zimmerman, Crx Chai, Colin Zhao
  • Patent number: 10462526
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a display unit configured to display a plurality of icons; an input interface unit configured to receive a request from a remote control device to control the operation of the display device; and a control unit configured to control the display unit and the input interface unit, wherein the control unit configured to play a broadcast program, and if a favorites icon from among the plurality of icons is selected during playback of the broadcast program, display one or more of a favorites channel list and a favorites program list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Uniyoung Kim, Goeun Lee, Ryunghwa Rhee, David Kempe, Keith Weng, Colin Zhao, Mercedes Mapua, Brian Behnke
  • Publication number: 20180020259
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a display unit configured to display a plurality of icons; an input interface unit configured to receive a request from a remote control device to control the operation of the display device; and a control unit configured to control the display unit and the input interface unit, wherein the control unit configured to play a broadcast program, and if a favorites icon from among the plurality of icons is selected during playback of the broadcast program, display one or more of a favorites channel list and a favorites program list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Uniyoung KIM, Goeun LEE, Ryunghwa RHEE, David KEMPE, Keith WENG, Colin ZHAO, Mercedes MAPUA, Brian BEHNKE
  • Publication number: 20150381754
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to unify cloud services for online sharing. In example embodiments, a system use a web service model to detect a user interaction with a web service and obtain, based on the user interaction, cloud service models associated with cloud services. The system may then obtain cloud content metadata from the cloud services using the cloud service models and transmit cloud content from a cloud service to the web service using a portion of the cloud content metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Colin Zhao, Itai VONSHAK, Stephen WINSTON
  • Publication number: 20150365497
    Abstract: A system having one or more servers is provided. The one or more servers implement a plurality of agents to access a plurality of data items from each network resource in a plurality of network resources. Each of the network resources corresponds to a network service. The one or more servers integrate data items from each of the plurality of network resources, and enable functionality that operates on a set of integrated data items. The one or more servers implement a plurality of platform interfaces that each corresponds to a platform for a computing device, and provide, through each of the platform interfaces, an output that is based on the set of integrated data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Colin Zhao, Itai Vonshak, Martin Helnrich Risau
  • Publication number: 20140325400
    Abstract: A method for operating a computing device is provided. One or more processors determines a plurality of web pages that are concurrently opened in a browser. At least a first group of web pages and a second group of web pages are determined. On the browser, a mufti-panel view interface is displayed having a plurality of panels. The mufti-panel view interface concurrently provides useable content of at least some web pages of a first set of web pages in the first group in each panel. The useable content corresponds to a portion of content displayed on an individual web page. The multi-panel view interface includes a selection interface to enable a user to select to view web pages in the first group or the second group. A web page is displayed on the multi-panel view interface by expanding the useable content of that web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Colin Zhao, Itai Vonshak, Angela Tam, Robert Chen, Ben Rottler, Chad Wirtz