Patents by Inventor David J. Nugent

David J. Nugent 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).

  • Initial content customization apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8386293
    Abstract: A hardware platform (300) of choice can be configured and arranged to determine (101) a current need to respond to a previously unknown person with content and to then obtain (102) from that person only a modicum of personal information. The hardware platform can then use (103) that modicum of personal information to access a store of characterizing general information and thereby obtain a corresponding profile for this person. The hardware platform can then automatically and currently provide (104) initial content to this person, wherein the initial content is customized as a function, at least in part, of this profile information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: American Spirit Data Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Nugent, Gregory J. Nawrocki
  • Apparatus Pertaining to Identifying Information, Corresponding Characterizing Information, and Corresponding Modification of a Presentation that is Commonly Shared by a Plurality of End Users, and a Corresponding Method
    Publication number: 20100004998
    Abstract: A control circuit serves to receive data messages in conjunction with a corresponding source identifier from each of a plurality of sources (wherein the plurality of sources each have, at the time of sourcing their respective data message, a corresponding end user who is presently sharing a common presentation with others of the end users). The control circuit uses the source identifier to determine additional identifying information for at least a substantial number of these end users and then uses that additional identifying information to determine characterizing information for at least a substantial number of the end users. This characterizing information can then be used to modify the common presentation (for example, by controlling particular items of promotional content that comprise a part of the presentation).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: MARKET REASON, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory J. Nawrocki, David J. Nugent
  • Initial Content Customization Apparatus and Method
    Publication number: 20090254564
    Abstract: A hardware platform (300) of choice can be configured and arranged to determine (101) a current need to respond to a previously unknown person with content and to then obtain (102) from that person only a modicum of personal information. The hardware platform can then use (103) that modicum of personal information to access a store of characterizing general information and thereby obtain a corresponding profile for this person. The hardware platform can then automatically and currently provide (104) initial content to this person, wherein the initial content is customized as a function, at least in part, of this profile information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: David J. Nugent, Gregory J. Nawrocki