Patents by Inventor Daniel S. Elias

Daniel S. Elias 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).

  • Patent number: 9299089
    Abstract: A device is configured to receive scheduling information associated with a program. The device is configured to determine a time break, corresponding to an advertisement, associated with the program. The device is configured to receive guide information associated with the program. The device is configured to identify the program based on the guide information and the scheduling information, and generate an advertisement map based on identifying the program and based on the time break. The advertisement map may include information that identifies the time break and the program. The device is configured to provide the advertisement map to a dynamic advertisement insertion system to permit the dynamic advertisement insertion system to replace the advertisement during a subsequent playing of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Marcelo D. Lechner, Erin Flood, Yehuda Kaplovitz, Daniel S. Elias
  • Publication number: 20150172737
    Abstract: A device is configured to receive scheduling information associated with a program. The device is configured to determine a time break, corresponding to an advertisement, associated with the program. The device is configured to receive guide information associated with the program. The device is configured to identify the program based on the guide information and the scheduling information, and generate an advertisement map based on identifying the program and based on the time break. The advertisement map may include information that identifies the time break and the program. The device is configured to provide the advertisement map to a dynamic advertisement insertion system to permit the dynamic advertisement insertion system to replace the advertisement during a subsequent playing of the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Marcelo D. LECHNER, Erin FLOOD, Yehuda KAPLOVITZ, Daniel S. ELIAS
  • Patent number: 5354222
    Abstract: A water rescue sled for towing an incapacitated victim behind a personal watercraft has a buoyant body configured to support a recumbent victim thereupon. A coupling attaches the buoyant body to the personal watercraft in a manner providing at least two degrees of freedom so as to minimize stresses to both the personal watercraft and the water rescue sled during use thereof. The water rescue sled preferably further comprises a plurality of ties for facilitating securing of a victim disposed upon the buoyant body thereto. Ropes, straps, webbing, etc. may be attached to the ties and placed over the victim so as to maintain the victim safely upon the upper surface of the buoyant body. The ties are preferably configured as handles so as to facilitate carrying of the water rescue sled and victim. Thus, the water rescue sled of the present invention may optionally function as a backboard for maintaining the spine in a straight and immobile configuration during transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Inventor: Daniel S. Elias