Patents by Inventor Elise Wang

Elise Wang 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: 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