Patents by Inventor d'Armond Lee Speers

d'Armond Lee Speers 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: 20110154197
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to combine highly targeted and customized content items with algorithmic filmmaking techniques to create a film-quality, personalized multimedia experience (MME)/movie for a user. First, a rich content database is created and embellished with meaningful, accurate, and properly organized multimedia content items tagged with meta-information. Second, a software agent interacts with the user to create, learn, and exploit the user's context to determine which content items need to be retrieved and how they should be customized in order to create a script of content to meet the user's current need. Finally, retrieved and/or customized multimedia content items such as text, images, or video clips are utilized to create a script of movie-like content using automatic filmmaking techniques such as audio synchronization, image control and manipulation, and appropriately customized dialog and content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Louis Hawthorne, d'Armond Lee Speers, Michael Renn Neal, Abigail Betsy Wright, Spencer Stuart McCall
  • Publication number: 20110113041
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to present a script of content (also known as a user experience) comprising one or more content items to a user online, wherein such content is not only relevant to addressing a problem raised by the user, but is also customized and tailored to the specific needs and preferences of the user based on the user's profile. Here, the content generated and presented to the user can be predicted, identified, and selected by taking into account similarities between the user and users or experts in a community who share the same interest as the user as well as feedback on relevant content by the users in the community. With such an approach, a user can efficiently and accurately find what he/she is looking for and have a unique experience that distinguishes it from the experiences by any other person in the general public.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Louis Hawthorne, d'Armond Lee Speers
  • Publication number: 20110016102
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to identify, select, and present psychoactive content to a user in order to achieve a desired psychotherapeutic effect or purpose on the user. More specifically, content items in a content library are tagged and categorized under various psychoactive properties. In addition, image-feeling associations are assessed on a per user basis to determine what types of content items induce what types of feelings/reactions from the specific user. A content comprising one or more content items can then be presented to the user based on its ability to induce a desired shift in the emotional state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Louis Hawthorne, d'Armond Lee Speers, Michael Renn Neal, Abigail Betsy Wright
  • Publication number: 20100114937
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to enable a user to explore his/her problems and/or linkages associated with them in a series of steps and presents a set of content (also known as a user experience) each comprising one or more content items to the user. A psycho-spiritual map is constructed for the user to explore, wherein each node in the map represents a problem, a sub-problem/factor/issue, and an emotion related to it. The map can be dynamically managed and expanded along a path of the user's exploration by a personal “agent” that understands the user's specific needs and interests. Based on such in-depth personal knowledge and understanding, the agent is capable of identifying, retrieving, customizing, and presenting a set of content to the user that specifically and continuously addresses his/her problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: LOUIS HAWTHORNE, Michael Renn Neal, D'Armond Lee Speers, Taryn Voget, Anne Cushman, Thomas Singer
  • Publication number: 20100107075
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to present a script of content comprising one or more content items to a user online, wherein such content is not only relevant to addressing a problem submitted by the user, but is also customized and tailored to the specific needs and preferences of the user based on the user's profile and/or emotional state at the time. Such an approach enables a personal “agent” that understands the user's emotional state, specific needs and interests by maintaining a personal profile and history of the user. Based on in-depth personal knowledge and understanding, the agent is capable of identifying, retrieving, customizing, and presenting to the user a unique experience that distinguishes it from the experiences of any other users in the general public.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Louis Hawthorne, Michael Renn Neal, d'Armond Lee Speers, Anne Cushman, Thomas Singer
  • Publication number: 20100106668
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide one or more potential solutions to a user solicited from a community of wisdom, wherein such solutions are not only relevant to addressing a problem raised by the user, but are also customized to the specific needs and preferences of the user based on the user's profile. Such an approach enables a personalized “agent” who understands the user's specific needs and interests by maintaining a personal profile of the user. Based on such in-depth personal knowledge and understanding, the agent is capable of soliciting, customizing, and presenting the solutions from an online community to the user that specifically address his/her problem or concern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Louis Hawthorne, Michael Renn Neal, d'Armond Lee Speers, Taryn Voget, Anne Cushman
  • Publication number: 20100100542
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to present a script of content comprising one or more content items to a user online, wherein such content is not only relevant to addressing a problem raised by the user, but is also customized and tailored based on a set of rules with the user's needs and preferences in mind. Such an approach enables a personal “agent” that understands the user's specific needs and interests by maintaining a personal profile and history of the user. Based on in-depth personal knowledge and understanding, the agent is capable of identifying, retrieving, customizing, and presenting to the user a unique experience that distinguishes it from the experiences of any other users in the general public.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Louis Hawthorne, Michael Renn Neal, d'Armond Lee Speers
  • Publication number: 20100100827
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to provide one or more potential solutions to a user solicited from a community of wisdom, wherein such solutions are not only relevant to addressing a problem raised by the user, but are also customized to the specific needs and preferences of the user based on the user's profile. Such an approach enables a personalized “agent” to solicit, customize, and present the solutions from an online community that specifically address the user's problem or concern based on such in-depth personal knowledge and understanding of a personal profile of the user. In addition, the user is enabled to manage the solutions solicited by monitoring, browsing, viewing, and filtering the solutions being presented either in their original or customized forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Louis Hawthorne, Michael Renn Neal, d'Armond Lee Speers, Taryn Voget, Anne Cushman
  • Publication number: 20100100826
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to present a script of content comprising one or more content items to a user online, wherein such content is not only relevant to addressing a problem raised by the user, but is also customized and tailored to the specific needs and preferences of the user based on the user's profile. Such an approach enables a personal “agent” that understands the user's specific needs and interests by maintaining a personal profile and history of the user. Based on in-depth personal knowledge and understanding, the agent is capable of identifying, retrieving, customizing, and presenting to the user a unique experience that distinguishes it from the experiences of any other users in the general public.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: LOUIS HAWTHORNE, Michael Renn Neal, d'Armond Lee Speers
  • Patent number: 7043492
    Abstract: The present invention allows an item to automatically be classified using its attributes based on a classification schema and a knowledge base. The invention can include selecting an attribute of the item associated with a source classification system, comparing the value of the attribute to a set of possible attribute values, the possible attributes being associated respectively with a mapping of values from the source classification system to values in a destination classification system, selecting a destination classification for the item based on the comparison if the value of the attribute exists in the mapping, and if the value of the attribute does not exist in the mapping, modifying the value of the attribute, comparing the modified value to the set of possible values, and selecting a second destination classification for the item based on the comparing the modified value if the modified value exists in the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Requisite Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Renn Neal, James Michael Wilmsen, Christopher Todd Black, d'Armond Lee Speers