Patents by Inventor Grafton Mouen

Grafton Mouen 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).

  • Method and system for facilitating analysis of audience ratings data for content
    Patent number: 8214854
    Abstract: There is provided a method for use by a content processing device for facilitating the analysis of audience ratings data for content. In one embodiment, content is received from a source. Then, the content is encoded into a target format to enable insertion of a first number of markers in the content, each of the first number of markers indexing a time period of the content. Thereafter, a content records database that includes the audience ratings data corresponding to the content are accessed. The audience ratings data are then associated with the first number of markers. The audience ratings data are displayed during playback of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitriy Zarudyanskiy, Grafton Mouen
  • Method and system for facilitating analysis of audience ratings data for content
    Publication number: 20080196054
    Abstract: There is provided a method for use by a content processing device for facilitating the analysis of audience ratings data for content. In one embodiment, content is received from a source. Then, the content is encoded into a target format to enable insertion of a first number of markers in the content, each of the first number of markers indexing a time period of the content. Thereafter, a content records database that includes the audience ratings data corresponding to the content are accessed. The audience ratings data are then associated with the first number of markers. The audience ratings data are displayed during playback of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Dmitriy Zarudyanskiy, Grafton Mouen