Patents by Inventor Dean Browne

Dean Browne 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: 8887178
    Abstract: Systems, methods, routines and/or techniques for customizing native operating system views using web technologies in mobile devices are described. A messaging system may be used to allow and/or facilitate communication between two or more native views, for example, via one or more software development kits (SDKs). A method may include executing, in a first native operating system view, messaging code to communicate one or more messages from the first native operating system view to a second native operating system view. The method may include executing the software development kit code to receive and/or handle the one or more messages from the first native operating system view and route and/or transmit the one or more first messages to the second native operating system view. In some embodiments, the first native operating system view is a WebView and the second native operating system view is a VideoView.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Browne, Vinod Kumar Ramachandran, Timothy Raymond Zwiebel
  • Publication number: 20120278185
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium for adapting alternative documents associated with content to be rendered in a mobile device is disclosed. A method, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium for adapting content, such as ads, based on presence or absence of certain mobile applications is disclosed. The mobile device performs receiving a group of contents together with condition code for each respective content. The mobile device checks a condition code, which includes examining the set of mobile applications contained in the mobile device, selecting and showing the content whose condition code specifying presence or absence of a set of mobile applications is met. A server computer is disclosed for serving a requested content based on checking a condition code. A client front-end is disclosed that enables specifying an ordered sequence of alternative documents or specifying conditions to be met in order to show respective content from a group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar RAMACHANDRAN, Dean Browne