Patents by Inventor D. Beau Morley
D. Beau Morley 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).
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Patent number: 9237308Abstract: A method and system may include sending a non-linear content signal to cause display of non-linear content at a display device, identifying a termination identifier associated with display of the non-linear content, and sending a graphical user interface signal to cause display of a graphical user interface that includes a current location field and a previous location field. The system and method may further include receiving a selection request selecting one of the current location field and the previous location field.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y Moon, D. Beau Morley
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Patent number: 9204196Abstract: Systems and methods can include offering a user an incentive for viewing advertising content, delivering the advertising content to the user, monitoring the delivery of the advertising content to the user and awarding the user the offered incentive upon successful completion of delivery of the advertising content to the user. Systems and methods can further include maintaining a database of incentives awarded to the user for subsequent redemption by the user. Systems and methods can further include offering the user an opportunity to identify advertising content preferences, storing those advertising content preferences in a database and using the advertising content preferences to filter the advertising content identified to the user when the user is offered an incentive for viewing advertising content.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y. Moon, D. Beau Morley
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Publication number: 20140325539Abstract: Systems and methods can include offering a user an incentive for viewing advertising content, delivering the advertising content to the user, monitoring the delivery of the advertising content to the user and awarding the user the offered incentive upon successful completion of delivery of the advertising content to the user. Systems and methods can further include maintaining a database of incentives awarded to the user for subsequent redemption by the user. Systems and methods can further include offering the user an opportunity to identify advertising content preferences, storing those advertising content preferences in a database and using the advertising content preferences to filter the advertising content identified to the user when the user is offered an incentive for viewing advertising content.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Hannah Y. MOON, D. Beau MORLEY
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Patent number: 8805729Abstract: A food ordering system may receive, from a user, a request to place a food order, identify the user, identify a type of user device used by the user to place the request, identify a user interface client that is tailored to the type of the user device, receive, via the user interface client, input from the user to establish the food order, and provide the food order to a restaurant.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Andrew J. Afram, D. Beau Morley, Hannah Y. Moon, Joel S. Angiolillo
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Patent number: 8769559Abstract: Systems and methods can include offering a user an incentive for viewing advertising content, delivering the advertising content to the user, monitoring the delivery of the advertising content to the user and awarding the user the offered incentive upon successful completion of delivery of the advertising content to the user. Systems and methods can further include maintaining a database of incentives awarded to the user for subsequent redemption by the user. Systems and methods can further include offering the user an opportunity to identify advertising content preferences, storing those advertising content preferences in a database and using the advertising content preferences to filter the advertising content identified to the user when the user is offered an incentive for viewing advertising content.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y Moon, D. Beau Morley
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Patent number: 8667526Abstract: A system may present video content with a data scroll on a video display device. The data scroll may include data scroll items that are automatically and consecutively presented on the video display device. Each of the data scroll items may include information associated with a particular topic. The system may receive a selection of a softkey corresponding to one of the data scroll items, retrieve, in response to receiving the selection of the softkey, additional content corresponding to the particular topic associated with the one of the data scroll items, and present the additional content on the video display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Andrew J Afram, D. Beau Morley, Hannah Y Moon
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Patent number: 8601031Abstract: A system and method may include receiving a non-linear content identifier request. The system and method may further include identifying linear content metadata associated with the non-linear content identifier request, the linear content metadata representing at least one metadata keyword. The system and method also may include identifying a relationship between the at least one metadata keyword and at least one non-linear content keyword.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y Moon, D. Beau Morley
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Patent number: 8554046Abstract: A system may receive an enhanced media stream that includes media content and interactive content relating to the media content, present the media content for display on a video display device, detect initiation of a trick mode during presentation of the media content, and present information, relating to the interactive content, superimposed on the media content presented for display on the video display device during the trick mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: D. Beau Morley, Andrew J Afram, Hannah Y Moon
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Patent number: 8407744Abstract: A system may include logic to provide a video program to a video display, logic to provide interactive content to indicate that a snapshot of the video program can be captured, and snapshot capturing logic to capture a video frame of the video program.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y. Moon, D. Beau Morley, Alexander N. Zaenchik
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Patent number: 8254961Abstract: A system identifies a location of a user based on a location of a mobile device associated with the user, associates the location of the user to a location having a collection of attractions relating to shopping or entertainment, retrieves layout information associated with the location having the collection of attractions, and provides the layout information to the user on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y. Moon, D. Beau Morley, Andrew J. Afram
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Publication number: 20120143699Abstract: A system and method may include receiving a non-linear content identifier request. The system and method may further include identifying linear content metadata associated with the non-linear content identifier request, the linear content metadata representing at least one metadata keyword. The system and method also may include identifying a relationship between the at least one metadata keyword and at least one non-linear content keyword.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Verizon Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y. Moon, D. Beau Morley
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Patent number: 8103707Abstract: A system and method may include receiving a non-linear content identifier request. The system and method may further include identifying linear content metadata associated with the non-linear content identifier request, the linear content metadata representing at least one metadata keyword. The system and method also may include identifying a relationship between the at least one metadata keyword and at least one non-linear content keyword.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y Moon, D. Beau Morley
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Publication number: 20110072461Abstract: A system may provide a video program or information associated with the video program on a video display device, and provide an interactive content icon on the video display device. The interactive content icon may indicate that interactive content is available for the video program.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventors: Hannah Y. MOON, D. Beau MORLEY
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Patent number: 7849481Abstract: A system may provide a video program or information associated with the video program on a video display device, and provide an interactive content icon on the video display device. The interactive content icon may indicate that interactive content is available for the video program.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y. Moon, D. Beau Morley
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Publication number: 20090317053Abstract: A system may receive an enhanced media stream that includes media content and interactive content relating to the media content, present the media content for display on a video display device, detect initiation of a trick mode during presentation of the media content, and present information, relating to the interactive content, superimposed on the media content presented for display on the video display device during the trick mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicants: VERIZON CORPORATE SERVICES GROUP INC., VERIZON LABORATORIES INC.Inventors: D. Beau MORLEY, Andrew J. AFRAM, Hannah Y MOON
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Publication number: 20090307721Abstract: A system may present video content with a data scroll on a video display device. The data scroll may include data scroll items that are automatically and consecutively presented on the video display device. Each of the data scroll items may include information associated with a particular topic. The system may receive a selection of a softkey corresponding to one of the data scroll items, retrieve, in response to receiving the selection of the softkey, additional content corresponding to the particular topic associated with the one of the data scroll items, and present the additional content on the video display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2008Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicants: Verizon Laboratories Inc., Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc.Inventors: Andrew J. AFRAM, D. Beau Morley, Hannah Y. Moon
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Publication number: 20090104920Abstract: A system identifies a location of a user based on a location of a mobile device associated with the user, associates the location of the user to a location having a collection of attractions relating to shopping or entertainment, retrieves layout information associated with the location having the collection of attractions, and provides the layout information to the user on the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2007Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: Verizon Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y. MOON, D. Beau Morley, Andrew J. Afram
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Publication number: 20090089183Abstract: A food ordering system may receive, from a user, a request to place a food order, identify the user, identify a type of user device used by the user to place the request, identify a user interface client that is tailored to the type of the user device, receive, via the user interface client, input from the user to establish the food order, and provide the food order to a restaurant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: Verizon Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Andrew J. Afram, D. Beau Morley, Hannah Y. Moon, Joel S. Angiolillo
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Publication number: 20090024404Abstract: A system receives, via a network, customer selected preferences for receiving different types of data at different ones of multiple devices associated with the customer and stores the customer preferences. The system sends a first type of the different types of data to the customer at a first device of the multiple devices based on the stored customer preferences and sends a second type of the different types of data to the customer at a second device of the multiple devices based on the stored customer preferences, where the second device is different than the first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: Verizon Laboratories Inc.Inventors: D. Beau MORLEY, Hannah Y. Moon, Andrew J. Afram
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Publication number: 20080320546Abstract: A system may include logic to provide a video program to a video display, logic to provide interactive content to indicate that a snapshot of the video program can be captured, and snapshot capturing logic to capture a video frame of the video program.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2007Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicants: Verizon Laboratories Inc., Verizon Data Services Inc.Inventors: Hannah Y. Moon, D. Beau Morley, Alexander N. Zaenchik