Patents by Inventor Douglas Corey REHER

Douglas Corey REHER 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).

  • Publication number: 20250071395
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for providing interactive content to a user. In a non-limiting embodiment, an apparatus, such as a media device, may provide interactive content to a user. The media device may receive content comprising primary and secondary content from a content provider, and then determine whether the secondary content is a candidate for an interactive experience. The media device may also provide the interactive experience to the user when the secondary content is a candidate for the interactive experience. Furthermore, the media device may monitor tracking information of the interactive experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Louqman Ackandy PARAMPATH, Douglas Corey REHER, Cameron BAHARLOO, Scott ROSENBERG
  • Patent number: 12238392
    Abstract: In one aspect, an example method includes (i) encountering, by a media player of a media presentation system, a trigger to transmit a network communication to a computing device; (ii) generating, by the media player, an attestation watermark indicative of an authenticity of the media player using a cryptographic key; (iii) attaching, by the media player, the attestation watermark to the network communication; and (iv) based on encountering the trigger, transmitting, by the media player, the network communication having the attached attestation watermark to the computing device, the authenticity of the media player being verifiable by the computing device using the attestation watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Willard Lennox Simmons, Atanas Hristov Banov, Douglas Corey Reher
  • Patent number: 12177539
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for providing interactive content to a user. In a non-limiting embodiment, an apparatus, such as a media device, may provide interactive content to a user. The media device may receive content comprising primary and secondary content from a content provider, and then determine whether the secondary content is a candidate for an interactive experience. The media device may also provide the interactive experience to the user when the secondary content is a candidate for the interactive experience. Furthermore, the media device may monitor tracking information of the interactive experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventors: Louqman Ackandy Parampath, Douglas Corey Reher, Cameron Baharloo, Scott Rosenberg
  • Publication number: 20230247268
    Abstract: In one aspect, an example method includes (i) encountering, by a media player of a media presentation system, a trigger to transmit a network communication to a computing device; (ii) generating, by the media player, an attestation watermark indicative of an authenticity of the media player using a cryptographic key; (iii) attaching, by the media player, the attestation watermark to the network communication; and (iv) based on encountering the trigger, transmitting, by the media player, the network communication having the attached attestation watermark to the computing device, the authenticity of the media player being verifiable by the computing device using the attestation watermark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Willard Lennox Simmons, Atanas Hristov Banov, Douglas Corey Reher
  • Publication number: 20220394361
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for providing interactive content to a user. In a non-limiting embodiment, an apparatus, such as a media device, may provide interactive content to a user. The media device may receive content comprising primary and secondary content from a content provider, and then determine whether the secondary content is a candidate for an interactive experience. The media device may also provide the interactive experience to the user when the secondary content is a candidate for the interactive experience. Furthermore, the media device may monitor tracking information of the interactive experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Louqman Ackandy PARAMPATH, Douglas Corey REHER, Cameron BAHARLOO, Scott ROSENBERG
  • Patent number: 11418858
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for providing interactive content to a user. In a non-limiting embodiment, an apparatus, such as a media device, may provide interactive content to a user. The media device may receive content comprising primary and secondary content from a content provider, and then determine whether the secondary content is a candidate for an interactive experience. The media device may also provide the interactive experience to the user when the secondary content is a candidate for the interactive experience. Furthermore, the media device may monitor tracking information of the interactive experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Louqman Ackandy Parampath, Douglas Corey Reher, Cameron Baharloo, Scott Rosenberg
  • Publication number: 20190075353
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for providing client side stitching of secondary content to a user. In a non-limiting embodiment, an apparatus, such as a media device, may provide client side stitching of secondary content to a user. The media device may receive content comprising primary content from a content provider and analyze metadata of the content to identify secondary content to be presented to the user. The media device may also retrieve the secondary content from the content provider and pre-buffer the secondary content. The media device may also provide the secondary content to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Louqman Ackandy PARAMPATH, Douglas Corey REHER, Cameron BAHARLOO, Scott ROSENBERG, Wim MICHIELS
  • Publication number: 20190075371
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for providing interactive content to a user. In a non-limiting embodiment, an apparatus, such as a media device, may provide interactive content to a user. The media device may receive content comprising primary and secondary content from a content provider, and then determine whether the secondary content is a candidate for an interactive experience. The media device may also provide the interactive experience to the user when the secondary content is a candidate for the interactive experience. Furthermore, the media device may monitor tracking information of the interactive experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Louqman Ackandy PARAMPATH, Douglas Corey REHER, Cameron BAHARLOO, Scott ROSENBERG