Patents by Inventor James Ryan Kelley

James Ryan Kelley 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: 8926436
    Abstract: A method and device generates probability-based recommendations for a fantasy sports game. The method includes receiving first and second rosters for a first and second user, respectively; receiving parameter values for each sport player on the rosters; determining a score value for the sport players based on the parameter values; determining first and second lineups for the first and second users, respectively, the first lineup having a first projected probability distribution and the second lineup having a second projected probability distribution, the first and second projected probability distributions determined as a function of the score values; and determining a win probability value based on the first and second projected probability distributions, the win probability value indicative of a prediction of a comparison between a first actual total score value and a second actual total score value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Nathaniel Sloan, Michael A. Polikoff, James Ryan Kelley, Robert Paul Smith
  • Publication number: 20130344964
    Abstract: A method and device generates probability-based recommendations for a fantasy sports game. The method includes receiving first and second rosters for a first and second user, respectively; receiving parameter values for each sport player on the rosters; determining a score value for the sport players based on the parameter values; determining first and second lineups for the first and second users, respectively, the first lineup having a first projected probability distribution and the second lineup having a second projected probability distribution, the first and second projected probability distributions determined as a function of the score values; and determining a win probability value based on the first and second projected probability distributions, the win probability value indicative of a prediction of a comparison between a first actual total score value and a second actual total score value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: J. Nathaniel SLOAN, Michael A. Polikoff, James Ryan Kelley, Robert Paul Smith