Patents by Inventor Earl A. Crenshaw

Earl A. Crenshaw 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: 20230251815
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a dynamic network identification to facilitate a selection of a desired audio. A premises (e.g., a public bar) may have a plurality of display devices (e.g., television screens) outputting videos associated with a plurality of content items (e.g., television programs). A computing device may assign an audio data of each of the content items to be transmitted over a separate wireless network. A user may be able to listen to the audio of a desired content item by causing a user device to join a wireless network assigned to transmit an audio data of the desired content item. The wireless network may be reused to transmit a different audio data. A network identifier of the wireless network may be renamed to indicate the different audio data. The network identifier may be based on metadata associated with a content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel T. Grady, Phillip A. Gabler, Arvind Mundra, Yan Sperling, Daniel Hillegass, Paul Davis, Nishant Doshi, Earl A. Crenshaw
  • Patent number: 11474772
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a dynamic network identification to facilitate a selection of a desired audio. A premises (e.g., a public bar) may have a plurality of display devices (e.g., television screens) outputting videos associated with a plurality of content items (e.g., television programs). A computing device may assign an audio data of each of the content items to be transmitted over a separate wireless network. A user may be able to listen to the audio of a desired content item by causing a user device to join a wireless network assigned to transmit an audio data of the desired content item. The wireless network may be reused to transmit a different audio data. A network identifier of the wireless network may be renamed to indicate the different audio data. The network identifier may be based on metadata associated with a content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel T. Grady, Phillip A. Gabler, Arvind Mundra, Yan Sperling, Daniel Hillegass, Paul Davis, Nishant Doshi, Earl A. Crenshaw
  • Publication number: 20210365233
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a dynamic network identification to facilitate a selection of a desired audio. A premises (e.g., a public bar) may have a plurality of display devices (e.g., television screens) outputting videos associated with a plurality of content items (e.g., television programs). A computing device may assign an audio data of each of the content items to be transmitted over a separate wireless network. A user may be able to listen to the audio of a desired content item by causing a user device to join a wireless network assigned to transmit an audio data of the desired content item. The wireless network may be reused to transmit a different audio data. A network identifier of the wireless network may be renamed to indicate the different audio data. The network identifier may be based on metadata associated with a content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel T. Grady, Phillip A. Gabler, Arvind Mundra, Yan Sperling, Daniel Hillegass, Paul Davis, Nishant Doshi, Earl A. Crenshaw