Patents by Inventor Gina Otts

Gina Otts 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).

  • Native video advertising with voice-based ad management and machine-to-machine ad bidding
    Patent number: 10699296
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provides storing user preferences pertaining to a native ad service; receiving a program that includes instances of native ad information indicative of instances of native ads; displaying the program; determining, whether instances of native ad information is received; providing the native ad based on the user preferences, in response to determining that the instances of native ad information is received; determining whether a secondary user device is paired; and transmitting instances of native ad information to the secondary user device in response to determining that the secondary user device is paired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Dante J. Pacella, Saravanan Mallesan, Mani Tadayon, Christopher N. DelRegno, Gina Otts, Jean M. McManus, Mark D. Carney
  • NATIVE VIDEO ADVERTISING WITH VOICE-BASED AD MANAGEMENT AND MACHINE-TO-MACHINE AD BIDDING
    Publication number: 20170193548
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provides storing user preferences pertaining to a native ad service; receiving a program that includes instances of native ad information indicative of instances of native ads; displaying the program; determining, whether instances of native ad information is received; providing the native ad based on the user preferences, in response to determining that the instances of native ad information is received; determining whether a secondary user device is paired; and transmitting instances of native ad information to the secondary user device in response to determining that the secondary user device is paired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Dante J. Pacella, Saravanan Mallesan, Mani Tadayon, Christopher N. DelRegno, Gina Otts, Jean M. McManus, Mark D. Carney