Patents by Inventor James E. Hewitt

James E. Hewitt 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).

  • Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Generating Tactile Outputs
    Publication number: 20250348149
    Abstract: A computer system outputs audio content of media being played via a media player application. While outputting the audio content without outputting tactile outputs corresponding to the audio content, the computer system displays a tactile output control, and detect, via the one or more input devices, a first input activating the tactile output control. In response to detecting the first input activating the tactile output control, the computer system outputs a sequence of tactile outputs corresponding to a plurality of audio features of the audio content that are being output in conjunction with the sequence of tactile outputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2025
    Publication date: November 13, 2025
    Inventors: Camille Moussette, Christopher B. Fleizach, Fabio Santini, James E. Hewitt, Jules K. Fennis, Lewis K. Murphy, Jorge A. Herrera Soto, Nicholas Y. Sakamoto
  • Automatic media asset suggestions for presentations of selected user media items
    Patent number: 12174841
    Abstract: Techniques for suggesting media assets, the technique including: requesting a set of candidate media assets for a set of user media items based on a knowledge graph metadata network describing the set of user media items; receiving metadata for the set of candidate media assets; determining one or more sets of ranked media assets based on the received metadata; and outputting the determined one or more sets of ranked media assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel B. Chapman, Patrick H. Kelly, Eric Circlaeys, Kevin Bessiere, Brian J. Rogosky, Alfredo Ramos-Alvarez, Bruno J. Conejo, Matthias Mauch, Hao Yang, Bruno Di Giorgi, Jeremy P. Bogle, Zachary H. Smith, Betim Deva, Daniel Cartoon, Neil C. Foley, Menelaos D. Kokolios, Lewis Kaneshiro, Jorge A. Herrera Soto, James E. Hewitt, Casey W. Baker, Alexa Rockwell, Alexis H. Durocher, Trevor M. Slaton, Cristina N. Smith
  • Automatic Media Asset Suggestions for Presentations of Selected User Media Items
    Publication number: 20220382766
    Abstract: Techniques for suggesting media assets, the technique including: requesting a set of candidate media assets for a set of user media items based on a knowledge graph metadata network describing the set of user media items; receiving metadata for the set of candidate media assets; determining one or more sets of ranked media assets based on the received metadata; and outputting the determined one or more sets of ranked media assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Nathaniel B. Chapman, Patrick H. Kelly, Eric Circlaeys, Kevin Bessiere, Brian J. Rogosky, Alfredo Ramos-Alvarez, Bruno J. Conejo, Matthias Mauch, Hao Yang, Bruno Di Giorgi, Jeremy P. Bogle, Zachary H. Smith, Betim Deva, Daniel Cartoon, Neil C. Foley, Menelaos D. Kokolios, Lewis Kaneshiro, Jorge A. Herrera Soto, James E. Hewitt, Casey W. Baker, Alexa Rockwell, Alexis H. Durocher, Trevor M. Slaton, Cristina N. Smith