Patents by Inventor Guy A. Molinari

Guy A. Molinari 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: 9836984
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques for dynamically creating a story for playback using a plurality of storytelling devices. Embodiments identify a plurality of storytelling devices available to participate in a storytelling experience. User input associated with the storytelling experience is received. Embodiments further include retrieving a story template based at least in part on the identified plurality of storytelling devices. Additionally, embodiments dynamically create a first story by mapping actions from the retrieved story template to storytelling devices in the plurality of storytelling devices, based at least in part on the received user input, such that the plurality of storytelling devices will perform a respective one or more actions during playback of the first story based on the mapped actions from the retrieved story template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric C. Haseltine, Gary K.- W. Lau, Theodore W.- Y. Leung, Jason E. Lewis, Guy A. Molinari, Deva D. Visamsetty, William D. Watts
  • Publication number: 20150079573
    Abstract: Embodiments provide techniques for dynamically creating a story for playback using a plurality of storytelling devices. Embodiments identify a plurality of storytelling devices available to participate in a storytelling experience. User input associated with the storytelling experience is received. Embodiments further include retrieving a story template based at least in part on the identified plurality of storytelling devices. Additionally, embodiments dynamically create a first story by mapping actions from the retrieved story template to storytelling devices in the plurality of storytelling devices, based at least in part on the received user input, such that the plurality of storytelling devices will perform a respective one or more actions during playback of the first story based on the mapped actions from the retrieved story template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Eric C. HASELTINE, Gary K.-W. LAU, Theodore W.-Y. LEUNG, Jason E. LEWIS, Guy A. MOLINARI, Deva D. VISAMSETTY, William D. WATTS
  • Patent number: 8788783
    Abstract: A system and method configured to dynamically tune the size of a cache stored in a shared memory minimizes the amount of the shared memory consumed by the cache while achieving a desired cache hit ratio. A maximum size of the cache is computed based on a slope, the current cache size, a target hit ratio, and a current hit ratio. The maximum size is then used to dynamically adjust the size of the cache, decreasing or increasing the size based on the computed maximum size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Sravana Kumar Karnati, Guy A. Molinari, David T. Parkinson
  • Patent number: 8667472
    Abstract: A system and method configured to instrument code for in-production monitoring provides a polling thread. A main thread executes the code of an instrumented application program and the polling thread executes in the background. Therefore the polling thread does not reduce the performance of the application program execution while monitoring activities are performed. Additionally, the polling thread is configured to simplify the process of instrumenting code for Java management extensions (JMX) by navigating the application program structure to locate administrative objects to bind to JMX and registering the administrative objects with JMX to enable monitoring of the instrumented code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Guy A. Molinari