Patents by Inventor Frank CONWAY

Frank CONWAY 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: 20220100327
    Abstract: A method is performed at a server system associated with a media streaming service. The method includes providing, a first client device, playback of a first media content item; and receiving, from the first client device, a second media content item to be associated with the first media content item. The method includes, after receiving the second media content item from the first client device: providing, a second client device, a user interface that includes graphical representations of a plurality of media content items that have been uploaded by other users of the media streaming service as related to the first media content item; receiving, from the second client device, a user selection of a graphical representation of the second media content item; and in response, providing the second media content item concurrently with playback of the first media content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Frank CONWAY, Robert William WOOD, Arvind SURESH, Tobias Heinrich SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20210264504
    Abstract: A method and system for generating perceivable data representing a digital order is provided. A GUI receives a user selection of a particular button of a plurality of buttons. Each button of the plurality of buttons is for adding a respective menu or catalog item to a checkout cart. The particular button displays within its border at least one line of copy and at least one emoji, where the at least one emoji indicates the respective menu or catalog item. The at least one line of copy provides a text description of the respective menu or catalog item and is displayed in at least a minimum font point size and at least a minimum color contrast ratio relative to a background of the particular button. The GUI is then updated to indicate that the respective menu or catalog item for the particular button is added to the checkout cart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: EDAN ROSENBERG, DUSTIN ALPERT, FRANK CONWAY
  • Publication number: 20160378269
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and electronic devices for performing playback of streamed media, including complementing a media content item with an associated media content item. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, during playback of a first media content item, a message is sent to a computer server system, to return information that a related second media content item is selectable. The information that the second media content item is selectable is displayed at a user interface as a visual array of tiles, wherein each one of the tiles corresponds to a respective second media content item. Playback of the second media content item can be combined with the first media content item. By displaying information about selectable associated media content items to a user, the user will be enabled to individually select associated media content items to complement a currently playbacked media content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: FRANK CONWAY, ROBERT WILLIAM WOOD, ARVIND SURESH, TOBIAS HEINRICH SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20160381106
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and electronic devices for performing playback of streamed media, including uploading an associated second media content item while performing playback of a first media content item. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, when performing playback of a first media content item, a message is sent to a computer server system, to return information that a service for sharing a related second media content item is selectable. The information is displayed at a user interface as a visual array of tiles, wherein each tile corresponds to a respective service. When a service is requested, a service data is processed, and the second media content item captured and uploaded with the requested service. By enabling a user to obtain media content items associated to the currently playbacked media content item, the user may find associated media content items, which he/she normally should not have been aware of.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: FRANK CONWAY, ROBERT WILLIAM WOOD, ARVIND SURESH, TOBIAS HEINRICH SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20150113407
    Abstract: An electronic device with one or more processors, memory and a display obtains information about a first and second sequence of media items. The device plays an initially-displayed media item of the first sequence and while playing the initially-displayed media item in a respective region of the display, detects a media-change input. In response to the input, when the media-change input corresponds to movement in a first direction, the device ceases to play the initially-displayed media item in the respective region and plays a first media item that is adjacent to the initially-displayed media item in the first sequence. When the media-change input corresponds to movement in a second, different, direction, the device ceases to play the initially-displayed media item in the respective region of the display and plays a second media item in the respective region, where the second media item is from the second sequence of media items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Eric HOFFERT, Mike BERKLEY, Dejan SORMAZ, Tobias SCHNEIDER, Frank CONWAY, Kevin FAABORG
  • Publication number: 20090157697
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing variable-length media clips based upon a received media stream. An exemplary system for providing media clips to users includes a database comprising a list of rules associated with a plurality of programs, as well as a first server and a second server. The first server receives information about a particular program being viewed by a media player and obtains rules from the database for the identified program that are transmitted to the media player. The second server receives a media clip of the particular program being viewed from the media player, wherein the media clip is created at the media player in accordance with the rules corresponding to the program, and subsequently makes the media clip available to the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Frank CONWAY, Sean CURTIS, Brian J. GRIFFIN, Jason HIRSCHHORN, Brian LUCAS, Padmanabha R. RAO