Patents by Inventor Dominic Hopton

Dominic Hopton 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: 11956508
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a context for a user account and selects a plurality of collections for an interface. A collection includes one or more instances of content. The method analyzes a context for a user account to select a theme from a plurality of themes for a collection in the plurality of collections. The themes in the plurality of themes apply different display formats to the collection. The method sends an identifier for the theme and information for the collection to a client device being used by the user account to indicate to the interface the theme to use to display the collection with the plurality of collections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Trevor Callow, Mike Avitabile, Erika Palmer, Matthew Chun, Lena Bareket, Linda Sum, Darshana Umakanth, Dominic Hopton, Jason Wong, Yu Zhao, Heather Cho, Zachary Hinton, Josh Maldonado
  • Publication number: 20220385976
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method selects an account associated with an application that is displaying content. A plurality of contact options is retrieved where the contact options in the plurality of contact options are able to receive pull notifications for the account. The method ranks the plurality of contact options based on information associated with the account and generates a plurality of pull notification options using the ranking of the plurality of contact options. The plurality of pull notification options is output to the application for display on the application. A pull notification option in the plurality of pull notification options is associated with information to cause an associated contact option to be contacted upon selection of the pull notification option.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Hulu, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Stratton, Tiffany Jiang, Elise Wang, Ariela Ninka, Mingkui Liu, Zhuofeng Wu, Suneeta Puranik, Andres Montano, Austin Wignall, Jillian Abeyta, Josh Nelson, Andrew Salituri, Dominic Hopton
  • Patent number: 11445259
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a request for supplemental content to be displayed in a break of a video being played using a first instance of an application at a first client device. An account is associated with the first instance of the application. A plurality of contact options is retrieved for the account and ranked. The method outputs the plurality of pull notification options to the first client device based on the plurality of contact options where the plurality of pull notification options are displayed during the break. A pull notification option causes a pull notification to be sent to a second instance of the application running on a second client device and the pull notification is configured to be output by the second instance of the application on the second client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Stratton, Tiffany Jiang, Elise Wang, Ariela Ninka, Mingkui Liu, Zhuofeng Wu, Suneeta Puranik, Andres Montano, Austin Wignall, Jillian Abeyta, Josh Nelson, Andrew Salituri, Dominic Hopton
  • Publication number: 20220279251
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a context for a user account and selects a plurality of collections for an interface. A collection includes one or more instances of content. The method analyzes a context for a user account to select a theme from a plurality of themes for a collection in the plurality of collections. The themes in the plurality of themes apply different display formats to the collection. The method sends an identifier for the theme and information for the collection to a client device being used by the user account to indicate to the interface the theme to use to display the collection with the plurality of collections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Trevor CALLOW, Mike AVITABILE, Erika PALMER, Matthew CHUN, Lena BAREKET, Linda SUM, Darshana UMAKANTH, Dominic HOPTON, Jason WONG, Yu ZHAO, Heather CHO, Zachary HINTON, Josh MALDONADO
  • Patent number: 11356740
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method selects a context for a user account and selects a plurality of collections for an interface. A collection includes a set of videos. The method selects a theme from a plurality of themes for a collection in the plurality of collections based on the context. The plurality of themes apply different display formats to the collection. The method sends an identifier for the theme and information for the collection to a client device being used by the user account to indicate to the interface the theme to use to display the collection with the plurality of collections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Trevor Callow, Mike Avitabile, Erika Palmer, Matthew Chun, Lena Bareket, Linda Sum, Darshana Umakanth, Dominic Hopton, Jason Wong, Yu Zhao, Heather Cho, Zachary Hinton, Josh Maldonado
  • Publication number: 20210368240
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method selects a context for a user account and selects a plurality of collections for an interface. A collection includes a set of videos. The method selects a theme from a plurality of themes for a collection in the plurality of collections based on the context. The plurality of themes apply different display formats to the collection. The method sends an identifier for the theme and information for the collection to a client device being used by the user account to indicate to the interface the theme to use to display the collection with the plurality of collections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Trevor Callow, Mike Avitabile, Erika Palmer, Matthew Chun, Lena Bareket, Linda Sum, Darshana Umakanth, Dominic Hopton, Jason Wong, Yu Zhao, Heather Cho, Zachary Hinton, Josh Maldonado
  • Patent number: 9372674
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to dynamically generating a preview placeholder template for presenting data in a user interface. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising receiving a request to display a list of items, each item of the list of items comprising a plurality of parts each having a full appearance defined by a corresponding portion of a full version template. The method further comprises, for an item in the list of items, rendering a full version of a representation of the item, and generating via the full version template a preview placeholder template defining an appearance of a thin version of a list item representation comprising a subset of the plurality of parts. The method further comprises storing the preview placeholder template, and retrieving the preview placeholder template from storage and rendering a thin version of each of one or more list items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Dominic Hopton, Mark Leece
  • Publication number: 20140282138
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to dynamically generating a preview placeholder template for presenting data in a user interface. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising receiving a request to display a list of items, each item of the list of items comprising a plurality of parts each having a full appearance defined by a corresponding portion of a full version template. The method further comprises, for an item in the list of items, rendering a full version of a representation of the item, and generating via the full version template a preview placeholder template defining an appearance of a thin version of a list item representation comprising a subset of the plurality of parts. The method further comprises storing the preview placeholder template, and retrieving the preview placeholder template from storage and rendering a thin version of each of one or more list items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dominic Hopton, Mark Leece
  • Publication number: 20140053063
    Abstract: A user interface (“UI”) control framework enables UI controls to be declaratively created inline with the HTML markup without having to write boilerplate JavaScript that would usually be needed with conventional UI control models. The UI control framework is architected to sit on top of existing WinJS (Windows Library for JavaScript) functionality and encapsulates behaviors that are common across many control implementations so that a single instance of a UI control template may be used to stamp out multiple control instances. The UI control framework separates layout from the “code behind” in the backing controls so that data binding can be implemented abstractly without explicit knowledge of the layout of the control and any of its child controls. The markup provides “anchor points” that allow the code to have direct access to a child control. Custom expando HTML attributes are utilized that place named properties on control instances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cory Cirrincione, Mark Leece, Dominic Hopton
  • Publication number: 20090007068
    Abstract: Non-public software constructs within a portion of code may be made accessible by analyzing the code, locating non-public items such as classes, objects, data structures, methods, interfaces, arrays, and other items, and creating a public call for the item in an executable code. In some instances, a call may reference one or more non-public items and such a call may be a static call created at the same time as the function, or may be a dynamically created at runtime. The calls may handle non-public arrays within calls, generic calls, as well as calls using a non-public interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Rohde, Boris Vidolov, Dominic Hopton, Ryan Vogrinec, Lexin Shan, Naysan Naderi