Patents by Inventor Douglas H. Crawford

Douglas H. Crawford 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).

  • Interactive television framework utilizing program-synchronous triggers and standard messaging and presence-detection protocols
    Patent number: 8775501
    Abstract: A system for enabling nodes of a client-server network to interact with broadcast program content, the system includes a server node that can detect the presence on the network of one or more client nodes; a trigger extractor that can extract program-synchronous triggers from within the content of a broadcast program; and an application manager that, in response to extraction of a program-synchronous trigger from a broadcast program, can facilitate interactive communication, relating to the broadcast program content, between the server node and one or more client nodes whose presence on the network has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Coincident.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Chidel, Douglas H. Crawford, John Gilles, Julie Petrarca, Michael Ryan
  • Interactive television framework utilizing program-synchronous triggers and standard messaging and presence-detection protocols
    Patent number: 8214429
    Abstract: A system for enabling nodes of a client-server network to interact with broadcast program content, the system includes a server node that can detect the presence on the network of one or more client nodes; a trigger extractor that can extract program-synchronous triggers from within the content of a broadcast program; and an application manager that, in response to extraction of a program-synchronous trigger from a broadcast program, can facilitate interactive communication, relating to the broadcast program content, between the server node and one or more client nodes whose presence on the network has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Coincident.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Chidel, Douglas H. Crawford, John Gilles, Julie Petrarca, Michael Ryan
  • Interactive Television Framework Utilizing Program-Synchronous Triggers and Standard Messaging and Presence-Detection Protocols
    Publication number: 20110196917
    Abstract: A system for enabling nodes of a client-server network to interact with broadcast program content, the system includes a server node that can detect the presence on the network of one or more client nodes; a trigger extractor that can extract program-synchronous triggers from within the content of a broadcast program; and an application manager that, in response to extraction of a program-synchronous trigger from a broadcast program, can facilitate interactive communication, relating to the broadcast program content, between the server node and one or more client nodes whose presence on the network has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Philip Chidel, Douglas H. Crawford, John Gilles, Julie Petrarca, Michael Ryan
  • Interactive Television Framework Utilizing Program-Synchronous Triggers and Standard Messaging and Presence-Detection Protocols
    Publication number: 20110161394
    Abstract: A system for enabling nodes of a client-server network to interact with broadcast program content, the system includes a server node that can detect the presence on the network of one or more client nodes; a trigger extractor that can extract program-synchronous triggers from within the content of a broadcast program; and an application manager that, in response to extraction of a program-synchronous trigger from a broadcast program, can facilitate interactive communication, relating to the broadcast program content, between the server node and one or more client nodes whose presence on the network has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Philip Chidel, Douglas H. Crawford, John Gilles, Julie Petrarca, Michael Ryan