Patents by Inventor Frederick J. Oko

Frederick J. Oko 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).

  • System and method for influencing dynamic community shared elements of audio, video, and text programming via a polling system
    Patent number: 6947966
    Abstract: A system and method for interactively affecting the course of a program or programming content. Viewer purchase electronic tokens which can be used to vote on the sequence of content in a broadcast whether it be audio, video or a combination thereof. Users are periodically polled by a server to vote on the direction that a broadcast is taking. The broadcast is then modified with real-time or stored content based upon the polling results from the viewers. Thus communities of voters have a chance to vote on the direction of content. The invention also allows sub-communities to be formed to pre-vote on a broadcast so that the sub-community can possible vote as a bloc on the direction and content of programming that is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Road Runner HoldCo LLC
    Inventors: Frederick J. Oko, Jr., Qiyue Sun
  • Submersible pump cable test method
    Patent number: 5440235
    Abstract: A plug for insulating electrical contacts of a male connector has a connector engaging portion for snugly coupling the plug to the connector and a head portion extending from the connector engaging portion. Bores extend axially through the connector engaging portion and only partially through the head portion, and snugly receive the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Frederick J. Oko
  • Submersible pump pothead test plug
    Patent number: 5338213
    Abstract: A plug for insulating electrical contacts of a male connector has a connector engaging portion for snugly coupling the plug to the connector and a head portion extending from the connector engaging portion. Bores extend axially through the connector engaging portion and only partially through the head portion, and snugly receive the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Frederick J. Oko