Patents by Inventor Gregory Allan Funk

Gregory Allan Funk 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: 20140257923
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes retrieving user interface (UI) analytics data describing interactions with a UI provided by an online service, and retrieving media player state information describing interactions with video data included in the UI. The method further includes generating, based on the UI analytics data and the media player state information, UI data describing how the video data affects usage of the online service and how one or more elements within the UI affect user access to the video data, and presenting a comparison between a first subset of the UI data where the video data is not viewed and a second subset of the UI data where the video data is viewed to facilitate evaluation of how viewing the video data on the UI affects navigation to and from the UI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Funk, Vincent Gatto, JR., Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Theodore Kent Hamilton
  • Patent number: 8732301
    Abstract: Analytics describing video data published to one or more destination sites are calculated. Metrics describing performance of the video data, such as performance in different geographical areas, in different demographics and in different devices are calculated. An interface simplifies calculation of the video metrics to simplify analysis by allowing a user to identify different videos or sets of videos for analysis. Additionally, interaction with one or more web pages including the video data is also captured and combined with video data performance metrics. For example, a report describing interaction with one or more web pages within a website and video data included on the one or more web pages is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Funk, Vincent Gatto, Jr., Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Theodore Kent Hamilton
  • Patent number: 8583489
    Abstract: Systems and methods for bookmarking media content for future availability are described. The method includes receiving a receiving a request for media content and user account data for a plurality of unique online content sources. The method also includes requesting content availability data from the plurality of unique online content sources and using received content availability data to generate a notification. Pricing information, the media format, and notification preferences may be used to further configure the searches and notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Funk, Vincent Dureau, Rich Bragg
  • Patent number: 8572243
    Abstract: Analytics describing video data published to one or more destination sites are calculated. Metrics describing performance of the video data, such as performance in different geographical areas, in different demographics and in different devices are calculated. An interface simplifies calculation of the video metrics to simplify analysis by allowing a user to identify different videos or sets of videos for analysis. Additionally, interaction with one or more web pages including the video data is also captured and combined with video data performance metrics. For example, the effect of video data on navigation between web pages within a website is described by one or more navigation paths accounting for interaction with video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Funk, Vincent Gatto, Jr., Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Theodore Kent Hamilton
  • Patent number: 8560683
    Abstract: Analytics describing video data published to one or more destination sites are calculated. Metrics describing performance of the video data, such as performance in different geographical areas, in different demographics and in different devices are calculated. An interface simplifies calculation of the video metrics to simplify analysis by allowing a user to identify different videos or sets of videos for analysis. Additionally, interaction with one or more web pages including the video data is also captured and combined with video data performance metrics. Integrating web page interaction data and video performance metrics provide a user with a more accurate description of how visitors interact with content presented using the one or more web pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Funk, Vincent Gatto, Jr., Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Theodore Kent Hamilton
  • Patent number: 8510644
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing content of a web page is disclosed. The system comprises a configuration analysis module, a request analysis module, an analytics module and an optimization module that are communicatively coupled to each other. The configuration analysis module receives first and second sets of web interaction data associated with a web page and determines first and second content configurations for the first and second sets of web interaction data, respectively. The request analysis module receives first and second requests for the first and second content configurations, respectively, and extracts a first set of event data from the first request and a second set of event data from the second request. The analytics module generates a first set and a second set of video-aware analytics data. The optimization module optimizes the content of the web page based at least in part on video-aware analytics data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Gregory Allan Funk, Theodore Kent Hamilton, Vincent Gatto, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8479228
    Abstract: Metadata associated with video data by a content management system is transmitted to one or more advertising servers to tailor advertisements, or other data, presented in addition to the video data. In one embodiment, a user specifies the metadata associated with the video data, and the management system communicates the metadata to one or more advertising servers. Responsive to a user changing a subset of the metadata using the content management system, the changed subset of the metadata is communicated to the one or more advertising servers, which modify advertisements associated with the video data responsive to the changed metadata. Hence, changes to metadata associated with video data are pushed from the management system to an advertising server, allowing the advertising server to more quickly modify the advertisements associated with the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Simon, Matias Cudich, Gregory Allan Funk
  • Publication number: 20130104024
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing content of a web page is disclosed. The system comprises a configuration analysis module, a request analysis module, an analytics module and an optimization module that are communicatively coupled to each other. The configuration analysis module receives first and second sets of web interaction data associated with a web page and determines first and second content configurations for the first and second sets of web interaction data, respectively. The request analysis module receives first and second requests for the first and second content configurations, respectively, and extracts a first set of event data from the first request and a second set of event data from the second request. The analytics module generates a first set and a second set of video-aware analytics data. The optimization module optimizes the content of the web page based at least in part on video-aware analytics data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Gregory Allan Funk, Theodore Kent Hamilton, Vincent Gatto, JR.
  • Publication number: 20130091215
    Abstract: Systems and methods for bookmarking media content for future availability are described. The method includes receiving a receiving a request for media content and user account data for a plurality of unique online content sources. The method also includes requesting content availability data from the plurality of unique online content sources and using received content availability data to generate a notification. Pricing information, the media format, and notification preferences may be used to further configure the searches and notifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Funk, Vincent Dureau, Rich Bragg
  • Publication number: 20130071087
    Abstract: A system and method for managing video data and metadata associated with the video data is disclosed. In one embodiment, a content management system receives video data and metadata associated with the video data, such as a title, a thumbnail image and a subject matter identifier. Instructions for a media player used to present the video data using a destination site are also generated to simplify distribution of the video data to one or more destination sites. The content management system further enables a user to edit the stored video data to customize placements of advertisements or other data within the video data by identifying one or more cue points in the video data. A data store is coupled to the content management system to store the video data and the metadata associated with the video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Nilofer Fakhruddin Motiwala, Matias Cudich, Randy Simon, Daniil Khidekel, Gregory Allan Funk
  • Publication number: 20120317271
    Abstract: Analytics describing video data published to one or more destination sites are calculated. Metrics describing performance of the video data, such as performance in different geographical areas, in different demographics and in different devices are calculated. An interface simplifies calculation of the video metrics to simplify analysis by allowing a user to identify different videos or sets of videos for analysis. Additionally, interaction with one or more web pages including the video data is also captured and combined with video data performance metrics. Integrating web page interaction data and video performance metrics provide a user with a more accurate description of how visitors interact with content presented using the one or more web pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Funk, Vincent Gatto, JR., Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Theodore Kent Hamilton
  • Publication number: 20120317272
    Abstract: Analytics describing video data published to one or more destination sites are calculated. Metrics describing performance of the video data, such as performance in different geographical areas, in different demographics and in different devices are calculated. An interface simplifies calculation of the video metrics to simplify analysis by allowing a user to identify different videos or sets of videos for analysis. Additionally, interaction with one or more web pages including the video data is also captured and combined with video data performance metrics. For example, the effect of video data on navigation between web pages within a website is described by one or more navigation paths accounting for interaction with video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Funk, Vincent Gatto, JR., Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Theodore Kent Hamilton
  • Patent number: 8271334
    Abstract: Systems and methods for bookmarking media content for future availability are described. The method includes receiving a receiving a request for media content and user account data for a plurality of unique online content sources. The method also includes requesting content availability data from the plurality of unique online content sources and using received content availability data to generate a notification. Pricing information, the media format, and notification preferences may be used to further configure the searches and notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allan Funk, Vincent Dureau, Rich Bragg
  • Publication number: 20090271398
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for recognizing video content represented by temporally segmented video content. An example system includes a communication module and a search and match module. The communications module may be configured to receive a source table of contents (TOC) related to a temporally segmented video content. The source TOC may include one or more titles and a source playback length. The search and match module may be configured to interrogate a video products database with the source TOC to determine one or more match results, utilizing a fuzzy matching technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Steven D. Scherf, Gregory Allan Funk