Patents by Inventor Glen Arthur O'Connor

Glen Arthur O'Connor 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).

  • Patent number: 8341195
    Abstract: Managing content assets, such as images, video, and audio to facilitate filtering, searching, licensing, and editing associated attributes. Content assets are associated with multiple attributes, including licensing models, predefined value tiers, collections, and albums. Value tiers define varying ranges of price, resolution, or other qualities. Collections comprise groups of content assets within families, each specified by a license model and a value tier. Albums comprise groups of content assets that share a common topic, and albums have a predefined duration. An interface enables a user to filter by selecting any combination of the attributes, and to search the filtered content assets by keywords. Collection states and asset states determine which content assets are accessible for filtering and searching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Corbis Corporation
    Inventors: Mary Katherine Cole, Glen Arthur O'Connor, Peter Christian Speyer
  • Publication number: 20090048860
    Abstract: Automatically determining pricing for at least one unit of content that can be selected and licensed or purchased over a network. Pricing is determined based on an initial price, and at least one of the following: a reviewer rating, content activity, or a customer offer price. Each of these factors may be weighted. The initial price may be a minimum price, a maximum price, a suggested price from a content owner, a pre-calculated market price, or other initial price. Content activity generally reflects user behaviors related to a content item, such as selecting a content item from a search results list, saving it as a favorite, returning to view it, placing it in a virtual shopping cart, or licensing it. Content activity combined with reviewer rating and/or offer price, indicates a “snappyness” score. A new price is dynamically calculated based on the initial price and snappyness score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: Corbis Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Bennett Brotman, Glen Arthur O'Connor, Nandini Ranjitkumar, Todd Brian Guill, Daniel Martin Snell, William G. Bronske
  • Publication number: 20080270309
    Abstract: Automatically determining pricing for at least one unit of content that can be selected and licensed or purchased over a network. Pricing is determined based on an initial price, and at least one of the following: a reviewer rating, content activity, or a customer offer price. Each of these factors may be weighted. The initial price may be a minimum price, a maximum price, a suggested price from a content owner, a pre-calculated market price, or other initial price. Content activity generally reflects user behaviors related to a content item, such as selecting a content item from a search results list, saving it as a favorite, returning to view it, placing it in a virtual shopping cart, or licensing it. Content activity combined with reviewer rating and/or offer price, indicates a “snappyness” score. A new price is dynamically calculated based on the initial price and snappyness score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Corbis Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Bennett Brotman, Glen Arthur O'Connor, Nandini Ranjitkumar, Todd Brian Guill, Daniel Martin Snell, William G. Bronske