Patents by Inventor Dan Blumenfeld

Dan Blumenfeld 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).

  • Automated Agent for Content Interaction
    Publication number: 20180129385
    Abstract: Techniques for automated agent for content interaction are described. According to various implementations, a user can access content, such as video content, and can initiate an interactivity experience to explore the content. The interactivity experience, for instance, represents a chat session with an automated agent, such as a bot. Depending on a context of the content, the automated agent can present different interactivity options for exploring the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Blumenfeld, Vijay Chandrasekaran
  • System and method for making payments via a network
    Patent number: 8583548
    Abstract: A system and method ranks funding sources to make payments according to user preferences, which may be both explicitly provided and learned, and the benefits and costs of using such funding sources, and displays the funding sources in ranked order, allows the user to select one or more funding sources, and makes the payment using the selected one or more funding sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Check, Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Goldstein, Dan Blumenfeld, Stephen Schultz, Nisim Tapiro