Patents by Inventor James H. Pratt

James H. Pratt 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: 20220360348
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a machine-readable medium with executable instructions that facilitate performance of operations by a processor including receiving a registration for a trajectory of a satellite; estimating a zone of occupancy at a future time for the satellite; determining an interference of the satellite from the zone of occupancy at the future time; determining a deconfliction for minimizing or eliminating the interference; and sending the deconfliction to a controller of the satellite. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, James H. Pratt, Nigel Bradley, David Crawford Gibbon, Timothy Innes
  • Publication number: 20220345797
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about a content item of interest to a content consumer, determining a context of the content consumer, curating a summary segment for the content consumer based on the context of the content consumer, and presenting the summary segment to the content consumer at a context-appropriate time and in a context-appropriate manner to orient the content consumer to the content item of interest at a current viewing time of the content consumer. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Taylor Gift, James H. Pratt, Barkha Pathik Patel, Michael Gonzales
  • Publication number: 20220332440
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, including receiving a request for an observation of an overhead viewing area from an observer location; discovering an interference of a satellite with the observation of the overhead viewing area; determining possible solutions to the interference; selecting a solution of the possible solutions; receiving the observation from one or more satellites responding to the solution selected; and providing a response to the request including the observation received. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, James H. Pratt
  • Publication number: 20220303601
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a plurality of users in relation to a presentation of a first content item, identifying a respective location of each user of the plurality of users relative to a presentation equipment, assigning a first value for a first parameter of the presentation equipment based on the identifying of the respective location of each user, assigning a second value for a second parameter of a satellite based on the identifying of the respective location of each user, and commanding the satellite to provide first data to the presentation equipment, in accordance with the second value, to facilitate the presentation of the first content item. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, James H. Pratt
  • Patent number: 11449595
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products authenticate users for access to devices, applications, and services. Skills of a user are learned over time, such that an electronic model of random subject matter may be generated. The user is prompted to interpret the random subject matter, such as with an electronic drawing. The user's interpretation is then compared to the electronic model of the random subject matter. If the user's interpretation matches the electronic model, the user may be authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin A. Li, Troy C. Meuninck, Robert Raymond Miller, II, James H. Pratt, Horst J. Schroeter, Behzad Shahraray
  • Publication number: 20220256332
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first user associated with a first mobile device, and determining a first user type associated with the first user. Further embodiments can include identifying a first identity associated with the first user based on the first user type and identifying a second identity associated with the first user based on the first user type. Additional embodiments can include providing first alternate content to the first mobile device to mask the first identity and providing second alternate content to the first mobile device associated with the second identity. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Cassioppi, Eric Zavesky, James H. Pratt
  • Patent number: 11412314
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about a content item of interest to a content consumer, determining a context of the content consumer, curating a summary segment for the content consumer based on the context of the content consumer, and presenting the summary segment to the content consumer at a context-appropriate time and in a context-appropriate manner to orient the content consumer to the content item of interest at a current viewing time of the content consumer. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Taylor Gift, James H. Pratt, Barkha Pathik Patel, Michael Gonzales
  • Patent number: 11405484
    Abstract: An example method includes obtaining a profile of a user using a user device to present an immersive experience, wherein the profile specifies a user reaction indicator and a value that represents a baseline for the user reaction indicator, presenting the immersive experience on the user device, receiving user state data including a current value of the user reaction indicator, determining that the current value of the user reaction indicator deviates from the value that represents the baseline by more than a threshold, in response to the determining, selecting, from among a plurality of variants for a segment of the immersive experience, a variant that is expected to cause the current value of the user reaction indicator to adjust to a value that does not deviate from the value that represents the baseline by more than the threshold, and presenting the variant that is selected on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Terrel Lecesne, John Oetting, Eric Zavesky, James H. Pratt, Jason Decuir
  • Publication number: 20220174099
    Abstract: An example method includes presenting a remote broadcast event by delivering content from a first user endpoint device to a plurality of user endpoint devices of a plurality of audience members, estimating reactions of the audience members, based on streams of data received from the plurality of user endpoint devices, grouping the audience members into a plurality of groups, based on the reactions, wherein each group of the plurality of groups is associated with a different reaction, and wherein each audience member who is a member of the each group was estimated to demonstrate a common reaction of the plurality of reactions, wherein the common reaction is associated with the each group, selecting, for a first group, a first audience member from the first group to be representative of the first group, and presenting, to the first user endpoint device, an image of the first audience member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Wiley Wilkins, James H. Pratt, Eric Zavesky
  • Publication number: 20220174131
    Abstract: An example method includes obtaining a profile of a user using a user device to present an immersive experience, wherein the profile specifies a user reaction indicator and a value that represents a baseline for the user reaction indicator, presenting the immersive experience on the user device, receiving user state data including a current value of the user reaction indicator, determining that the current value of the user reaction indicator deviates from the value that represents the baseline by more than a threshold, in response to the determining, selecting, from among a plurality of variants for a segment of the immersive experience, a variant that is expected to cause the current value of the user reaction indicator to adjust to a value that does not deviate from the value that represents the baseline by more than the threshold, and presenting the variant that is selected on the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Terrel Lecesne, John Oetting, Eric Zavesky, James H. Pratt, Jason Decuir
  • Publication number: 20220172415
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes presenting a virtual event to a plurality of user endpoint devices associated with a plurality of participants, receiving, while the virtual event is in progress, a first signal from a first user endpoint device, wherein the first signal indicates that a first participant wishes to join the virtual event, admitting the first participant to the virtual event, and selecting, from among a plurality of candidate locations, a first location in the virtual event in which to place the first participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: John Oetting, Eric Zavesky, Terrel Lecesne, James H. Pratt, Jason Decuir
  • Publication number: 20220174357
    Abstract: An example method includes presenting a remote broadcast event to a first set of user endpoint devices including at least one host device and a second set of user endpoint devices including a plurality of audience devices, monitoring reactions of audience members of the remote broadcast event, based on streams of data received from the second set of user endpoint devices, and displaying, to the first set of user endpoint devices, a measure of the reactions of the audience members, based on the monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, John Oetting, Terrel Lecesne, James H. Pratt, Jason Decuir
  • Publication number: 20220167052
    Abstract: An example method includes detecting an audience for a first item of media content being delivered to a user endpoint device, wherein the audience includes at least a first user, monitoring a reaction of the first user to the first item of media content during a presentation of the first item of media content on the user endpoint device, determining an adaptation to be made to the presentation of the first item of media content in response to the reaction of the first user, and sending an instruction to at least one device to make the adaptation to the presentation in response to the reaction of the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Barkha Pathik Patel, Michael J. Gonzales, Taylor Gift, James H. Pratt, Eric Zavesky
  • Publication number: 20220165018
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing an immersive environment accessible by a plurality of user devices associated with a plurality of users, assigning rendering resources for rendering the immersive environment, detecting a user interaction by a user with a virtual object in the immersive environment, rendering the virtual object in full detail, and rendering other objects in the immersive environment in less than full detail to reduce requirement for rendering resources for the immersive environment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James H. Pratt, Zhi Cui, Eric Zavesky, John Oetting, Roger Wickes, Sherry Simon
  • Publication number: 20220167068
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about a content item of interest to a content consumer, determining a context of the content consumer, curating a summary segment for the content consumer based on the context of the content consumer, and presenting the summary segment to the content consumer at a context-appropriate time and in a context-appropriate manner to orient the content consumer to the content item of interest at a current viewing time of the content consumer. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Taylor Gift, James H. Pratt, Barkha Pathik Patel, Michael Gonzales
  • Publication number: 20220165035
    Abstract: In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes receiving an extended reality stream from a remote server over a network connection, presenting an extended reality experience to a user endpoint device by playing back the extended reality stream, measuring a latency of the network connection between the processing system and the remote server, and displaying a visual indicator of the latency that was measured on a display of the user endpoint device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, James H. Pratt, John Oetting, Roger Wickes
  • Publication number: 20220164153
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a group of content layers from a group of media content sources, and identifying metadata for each of the group of content layers resulting in a group of metadata. Further embodiments can include obtaining a group of user preferences, and selecting a first portion of the group of content layers according to the group of metadata and the group of user preferences resulting in a first selected portion of the group of content layers. Additional embodiments can include providing first instructions to a first display of a first communication device to present the first selected portion of the group of content layers resulting in a first presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, David Crawford Gibbon, James H. Pratt
  • Publication number: 20220006864
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for receiving nutritional information are disclosed. For example, the method receives a profile of a user, receives over the communications network, grocery information on one or more grocery items at one or more locations of the user, receives over the communications network, ingestion information on ingestion by the user of at least one grocery item from the one or more grocery items, generates nutritional information, wherein the nutritional information is determined by performing an analysis based on the profile of the user, the grocery information, and the ingestion information, and provides over the communications network, the nutritional information, to an endpoint device of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Belz, Greg W. Edwards, Michael Lattanzi, Constance Missimer, James H. Pratt
  • Patent number: 11210336
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products help users recall memories and search for content of those memories. When a user cannot recall a memory, the user is prompted with questions to help recall the memory. As the user answers the questions, a virtual recollection of the memory is synthesized from the answers to the questions. When the user is satisfied with the virtual recollection of the memory, a database of content may be searched for the virtual recollection of the memory. Video data, for example, may be retrieved that matches the virtual recollection of the memory. The video data is thus historical data documenting past events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin A. Li, Troy C. Meuninck, Robert Raymond Miller, II, James H. Pratt, Horst J. Schroeter, Behzad Shahraray
  • Patent number: 11151774
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing an immersive environment accessible by a plurality of user devices associated with a plurality of users, assigning rendering resources for rendering the immersive environment, detecting a user interaction by a user with a virtual object in the immersive environment, rendering the virtual object in full detail, and rendering other objects in the immersive environment in less than full detail to reduce requirement for rendering resources for the immersive environment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James H. Pratt, Zhi Cui, Eric Zavesky, John Oetting, Roger Wickes, Sherry Simon