Patents by Inventor Eric (Ge) Wu
Eric (Ge) Wu 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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Publication number: 20240020460Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Patent number: 11809811Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Yieldmo, Inc.Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Publication number: 20230186015Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Patent number: 11604918Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Yieldmo, Inc.Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Publication number: 20210020199Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Patent number: 10832730Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Yielmo, Inc.Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Patent number: 10832729Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Yieldmo, Inc.Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Patent number: 10789984Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Yieldmo, Inc.Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Patent number: 10789983Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Yieldmo, Inc.Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight
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Publication number: 20190074034Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Publication number: 20180211692Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Patent number: 9966109Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Yieldmo, Inc.Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Publication number: 20180075875Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Publication number: 20180075874Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight, David Sebag
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Patent number: 9852759Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Yieldmo, Inc.Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight
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Publication number: 20170194030Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight
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Publication number: 20170024098Abstract: One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Inventors: Connor Francis Doherty, David Michael Goligorsky, Shawn Sprockett, Eric (Ge) Wu, Yiming Bao, Firecrow Silvernight