Patents by Inventor Donald H. Relyea
Donald H. Relyea 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).
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Patent number: 11222528Abstract: In an exemplary method, a traffic monitoring subsystem receives mobile device attribute data from a plurality of mobile devices over a network, selectively aggregates the mobile device attribute data, the selectively aggregating including identifying anomalous data in the mobile device attribute data and excluding the anomalous data from the aggregated mobile device attribute data, and generating traffic condition data based at least in part on the aggregated mobile device attribute data, the traffic condition data representative of a traffic condition. In certain examples, the traffic monitoring system provides the traffic condition data to at least one of the mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and & Licensing Inc.Inventors: Donald H. Relyea, Michelle Felt
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Patent number: 11107122Abstract: An exemplary method includes a media content presentation system detecting a presentation of a media content instance by way of a primary media content access device, determining that a secondary media content access device is located within a detection zone associated with the primary media content access device during a time period associated with the presentation of the media content instance, selecting, in accordance with a course correction heuristic, advertisement content related to the media content instance and configured to target a user of the secondary media content access device, and presenting the advertisement content to the user by way of the secondary media content access device during the presentation of the media content instance by the primary media content access device. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Verizon and Patent Licensing Inc.Inventors: Brian F. Roberts, Anthony M. Lemus, Japan A. Mehta, Kishore Tallapaneni, Donald H. Relyea, Michael R. Oliver
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Patent number: 10809069Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content instance from a first device, wherein the content instance is associated with a geographic location and a period of time; determining that a second device is associated with the geographic location and the period of time associated with the content instance, wherein the determination is based on the second device being within a predefined proximity of the geographic location associated with the content instance during the period of time associated with the content instance; and enabling, in response to determining that the second device is associated with the geographic location and the period of time associated with the content instance, the content instance to be accessible by the second device.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Patent number: 10778788Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing, by one or more computing devices of a content-aggregation-and-distribution system, one or more content postings. Each content posting is associated on creation with one or more geographic locations related to accessing the content posting. The method includes selectively providing, by one or more computing devices of the content-aggregation-and-distribution system, one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a geographic location associated with the access device. For each content posting selectively provided for display, the geographic location associated with the access device being within a predefined proximity of a geographic location of the one or more geographic locations related to accessing the content posting is requisite to the content posting being selectively provided for display.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Publication number: 20200076905Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content instance from a first device, wherein the content instance is associated with a geographic location and a period of time; determining that a second device is associated with the geographic location and the period of time associated with the content instance, wherein the determination is based on the second device being within a predefined proximity of the geographic location associated with the content instance during the period of time associated with the content instance; and enabling, in response to determining that the second device is associated with the geographic location and the period of time associated with the content instance, the content instance to be accessible by the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Patent number: 10511678Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content posting from a device associated with a first user, the content posting including data representative of a content instance and a geographic location associated with the content instance; determining that a second user is associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, wherein the determination is based on a first client device associated with the second user being or having been within a predefined proximity of the geographic location associated with the content instance; and authorizing, based on the second user being associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, a second client device associated with the second user to submit an annotation to the content instance.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Publication number: 20190304295Abstract: In an exemplary method, a traffic monitoring subsystem receives mobile device attribute data from a plurality of mobile devices over a network, selectively aggregates the mobile device attribute data, the selectively aggregating including identifying anomalous data in the mobile device attribute data and excluding the anomalous data from the aggregated mobile device attribute data, and generating traffic condition data based at least in part on the aggregated mobile device attribute data, the traffic condition data representative of a traffic condition. In certain examples, the traffic monitoring system provides the traffic condition data to at least one of the mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Donald H. Relyea, Michelle Felt
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Publication number: 20190289083Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing, by one or more computing devices of a content-aggregation-and-distribution system, one or more content postings. Each content posting is associated on creation with one or more geographic locations related to accessing the content posting. The method includes selectively providing, by one or more computing devices of the content-aggregation-and-distribution system, one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a geographic location associated with the access device. For each content posting selectively provided for display, the geographic location associated with the access device being within a predefined proximity of a geographic location of the one or more geographic locations related to accessing the content posting is requisite to the content posting being selectively provided for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Publication number: 20190253502Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content posting from a device associated with a first user, the content posting including data representative of a content instance and a geographic location associated with the content instance; determining that a second user is associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, wherein the determination is based on a first client device associated with the second user being or having been within a predefined proximity of the geographic location associated with the content instance; and authorizing, based on the second user being associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, a second client device associated with the second user to submit an annotation to the content instance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Patent number: 10373488Abstract: In an exemplary method, a traffic monitoring subsystem receives mobile device attribute data from a plurality of mobile devices over a network, selectively aggregates the mobile device attribute data, the selectively aggregating including identifying anomalous data in the mobile device attribute data and excluding the anomalous data from the aggregated mobile device attribute data, and generating traffic condition data based at least in part on the aggregated mobile device attribute data, the traffic condition data representative of a traffic condition. In certain examples, the traffic monitoring system provides the traffic condition data to at least one of the mobile devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Donald H. Relyea, Michelle Felt
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Publication number: 20190220239Abstract: An exemplary method includes defining a group of users associated with a plurality of access devices, providing a graphical user interface to a first access device and a second access device of the plurality of access devices, receiving, from the first access device, data representative of a first content item, the data having a first data format, mapping the first content item to the group of users, encoding the data representative of the first content item into a second data format different than the first data format, identifying that the second access device is associated with the group of users, distributing, to the second access device, the encoded data representative of the first content item in the second data format, and displaying an interactive graphical object representative of the first content item in the graphical user interface of the second access device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: James M. Kondziela, Heath Stallings, Donald H. Relyea, Brian F. Roberts
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Patent number: 10334061Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing one or more content postings, where each content posting is associated with one or more first users and each content posting is associated with one or more geographic locations corresponding to accessing of the content posting. The method also includes selectively sending one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a past or present geographic location of the access device, where the access device is associated with a second user, and for each content posting selectively sent for display on the access device, one or more of the geographic locations associated with the accessing of the content posting being within a predefined proximity of the past or present geographic location of the access device is requisite to the content posting being sent for display on the access device.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Publication number: 20190116231Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing one or more content postings, where each content posting is associated with one or more first users and each content posting is associated with one or more geographic locations corresponding to accessing of the content posting. The method also includes selectively sending one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a past or present geographic location of the access device, where the access device is associated with a second user, and for each content posting selectively sent for display on the access device, one or more of the geographic locations associated with the accessing of the content posting being within a predefined proximity of the past or present geographic location of the access device is requisite to the content posting being sent for display on the access device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Patent number: 10261743Abstract: In certain examples, a content hub subsystem receives data representative of content from an access device included in a plurality of access devices associated with the predefined group of users, maps the content to the predefined group of users, and provides data representative of the content to one or more other access devices associated with the predefined group of users. In certain examples, the content hub subsystem selects one or more data formats and encodes the content into the one or more data formats for distribution to the one or more other access devices associated with the predefined group of users. Each of the access devices associated with the predefined group of users is configured to generate at least one interactive graphical object representative of the content, and generate and present a graphical user interface including the interactive graphical object.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: James M. Kondziela, Heath Stallings, Donald H. Relyea, Brian F. Roberts
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Patent number: 10187480Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing one or more content postings, where each content posting is associated with one or more first users and each content posting is associated with one or more geographic locations corresponding to accessing of the content posting. The method also includes selectively sending one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a past or present geographic location of the access device, where the access device is associated with a second user, and for each content posting selectively sent for display on the access device, one or more of the geographic locations associated with the accessing of the content posting being within a predefined proximity of the past or present geographic location of the access device is requisite to the content posting being sent for display on the access device.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Publication number: 20180309839Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing one or more content postings, where each content posting is associated with one or more first users and each content posting is associated with one or more geographic locations corresponding to accessing of the content posting. The method also includes selectively sending one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a past or present geographic location of the access device, where the access device is associated with a second user, and for each content posting selectively sent for display on the access device, one or more of the geographic locations associated with the accessing of the content posting being within a predefined proximity of the past or present geographic location of the access device is requisite to the content posting being sent for display on the access device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Patent number: 10108970Abstract: A method performed by one or more devices within a subscription television network includes defining a micro-group, where the micro-group includes one or more user accounts associated with the subscription television network. The method further includes obtaining a profile for the micro-group and obtaining advertising corresponding to the profile of the micro-group. The method also includes sending the advertising to a device associated with one of the one or more user accounts.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Donald H. Relyea, Jr., Brian F. Roberts, Alex Zavatone
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Patent number: 10079899Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content posting from a device associated with a first user, the content posting including data representative of a content instance and a geographic location associated with the content instance; determining that a second user is associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, wherein the determination is based on a first client device associated with the second user being or having been within a predefined proximity of the geographic location associated with the content instance; and authorizing, based on the second user being associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, a second client device associated with the second user to submit an annotation to the content instance.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Patent number: 10027772Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing one or more content postings that each include data representative of one or more content instances, where each content posting is associated with one or more first users and each content posting is associated with a geographic location corresponding to a content creation event of the content posting. The method also includes selectively sending one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a past or present geographic location of the access device, where the access device is associated with a second user and for each content posting selectively sent for display on the access device, the geographic location associated with the content posting being within a predefined proximity of the past or present geographic location of the access device is requisite to the content posting being sent for display on the access device.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
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Publication number: 20180167470Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing one or more content postings that each include data representative of one or more content instances, where each content posting is associated with one or more first users and each content posting is associated with a geographic location corresponding to a content creation event of the content posting. The method also includes selectively sending one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a past or present geographic location of the access device, where the access device is associated with a second user and for each content posting selectively sent for display on the access device, the geographic location associated with the content posting being within a predefined proximity of the past or present geographic location of the access device is requisite to the content posting being sent for display on the access device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea