Patents by Inventor Eugene Wei
Eugene Wei 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: 20180117865Abstract: A tire includes a first side and a second side, and a tread portion extending between the first side and the second side. The first side includes external geometry having at least one rib surrounding a recess, without extending into the recess. The recess is configured to receive a tire electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Hans R. Dorfi, Kevin Scheifele, Terence Eugene Wei, Paul Wilson, Andrew Miklic
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Patent number: 9827724Abstract: A method of mounting an object on a tire includes providing a tire having a sidewall, wherein the sidewall includes a mounting portion configured to receive an object. The method further includes mounting the object on the mounting portion of the sidewall, such that the object is visible without extending outwardly beyond the mounting portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS TIRE OPERATIONS, LLCInventors: Hans R. Dorfi, Kevin Scheifele, Terence Eugene Wei, Paul Wilson, Andrew Miklic
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Publication number: 20160247151Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Patent number: 9066145Abstract: Commenting tied to user-selected times during play of audio/video content is enabled by a computer system. An apparatus detects a time that input of user comment data is received during playback of audio/video content on an electronic display device. The apparatus determines a temporal point relative to the playback of the audio/video content correlated to the user comment data, based on the time. The apparatus transmits the user comment data correlated to identifiers for the audio-video content and the temporal point to a computer server. The server may configure the video data for publishing on a website so that the comment data is displayed for a limited period based on the temporal point. Users may thereby conveniently record audio or textual comments that are output during subsequent play of the audio/video content, for sharing with friends and others.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: HULU, LLCInventors: Jason A. Kilar, Betina J. Chan-Martin, Bradley J. Suter, Gavin F. Hewitt, Damon A. Young, Arash Nikkar, Arthur Switalski, Richard W. Tom, Haisheng Wu, Yingan Wang, Eugene Wei
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Publication number: 20150169744Abstract: A digital magazine server creates cover pages identifying relevant content items relevant to a user. Candidate feeds of content items are identified from various sources, such as user-defined sections of content items, social networking systems, external content providers, and recommended content. The digital magazine server retrieves content items from the candidate feeds and generates clusters including retrieved content items based at least in part on the content elements contained in the content items. The content items in various clusters are scored, and one or more content items are selected from each cluster. The selected content items are placed in a consolidated feed, which is used to create a cover page describing a digital magazine for presentation to a digital magazine server user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Andrew David Walkingshaw, Boris Lev Aleksandrovsky, Xiaoyu Suzanne Fei, Evan R. Doll, Marcos Weskamp, Didier Hilhorst, Michael S. McCue, Joshua Quittner, Todd Lappin, Eugene Wei, Charles Hugo Ying, Christopher Hamamoto Partridge
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Publication number: 20150075693Abstract: A method of mounting an object on a tire includes providing a tire having a sidewall, wherein the sidewall includes a mounting portion configured to receive an object. The method further includes mounting the object on the mounting portion of the sidewall, such that the object is visible without extending outwardly beyond the mounting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLCInventors: Hans R. Dorfi, Kevin Scheifele, Terence Eugene Wei, Paul Wilson, Andrew Miklic
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Patent number: 8620739Abstract: Techniques are described for using loyalty program points and other non-monetary loyalty rewards from a first organization in a monetary manner at a distinct second organization, such as to acquire an item from a merchant at a cost that is reduced by a monetary amount based on the loyalty reward used. In some situations, the first organization programmatically interacts with a merchant to cause a gift certificate to be dynamically created for the merchant in an appropriate monetary amount, and later applies the gift certificate to reduce the cost of the item acquisition. In addition, in some situations such acquiring of items by a user from a merchant is performed based on interactions between the user and the merchant that are performed so as to appear to the user to be with the first organization and such that subsequent interactions continue between the user and the first organization.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Frederick, Toni R. Reid Thomelin, Eugene Wei
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Publication number: 20130238504Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Publication number: 20130004138Abstract: Commenting tied to user-selected times during play of audio/video content is enabled by a computer system. An apparatus detects a time that input of user comment data is received during playback of audio/video content on an electronic display device. The apparatus determines a temporal point relative to the playback of the audio/video content correlated to the user comment data, based on the time. The apparatus transmits the user comment data correlated to identifiers for the audio-video content and the temporal point to a computer server. The server may configure the video data for publishing on a website so that the comment data is displayed for a limited period based on the temporal point. Users may thereby conveniently record audio or textual comments that are output during subsequent play of the audio/video content, for sharing with friends and others.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: HULU LLCInventors: Jason A. Kilar, Betina J. Chan-Martin, Bradley J. Suter, Gavin F. Hewitt, Damon A. Young, Arash Nikkar, Arthur Switalski, Richard W. Tom, Haisheng Wu, Yingan Wang, Eugene Wei
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Publication number: 20120296827Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Patent number: 8150769Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Patent number: 8150768Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Patent number: 7962419Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Patent number: 7962415Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Patent number: 7729994Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Publication number: 20090307134Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Publication number: 20090307106Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Publication number: 20090307107Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Publication number: 20090307135Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell
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Patent number: 7584152Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as via a third-party transaction authorization system that automatically authorizes transactions between parties. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments for transactions between Web service provider and consumer parties in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vikas Gupta, Allan H. Vermeulen, Eugene Wei, Andrew R. Jassy, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Duane J. Krause, David A. Schappell