Patents by Inventor Erich John Kring

Erich John Kring 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: 20180160199
    Abstract: Passive audiences are enabled to become active participants in plot choices made by characters in audio/visual broadcast events are provided. A method can comprise downloading, to a user device, an initial section of broadcast audiovisual content and an index representing subsequent subsections of the broadcast audiovisual content, and facilitating display of a prompt as a function of the index. Further, based on a reply, received from the user device in response to the prompt, the method can comprise downloading a subsequent subsection of the subsequent subsections for display by the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventor: Erich John Kring