Patents by Inventor James Wilde
James Wilde 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).
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Publication number: 20250097494Abstract: Various arrangements for authorizing content viewing are detailed herein. Sports wager data corresponding to a sports wager placed by a user may be provided to a provider system. The provider system can perform a lookup action to determine a content event based on the sports wager data. In response to the received sports wager data, a user account may be authorized using a rights scheme for access to content. The provider system may deauthorized the user account for access to the content by removing the rights scheme such that access to the content is later blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Matthew Polson, Robert Sadler, James Wilde, Timothy Meyer, Christopher Kuhrt, Shaun Ryan, Jesse Montgomery
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Patent number: 12192551Abstract: Various arrangements for authorizing content viewing are detailed herein. Sports wager data corresponding to a sports wager placed by a user may be provided to a television service provider system. The television service provider system can perform a lookup action to determine a content event based on the sports wager data. In response to the received sports wager data, a user account may be authorized using a rights scheme for access to a television channel on which the content event is scheduled to be broadcast. The television service provider system may deauthorized the user account for access to the television channel by removing the rights scheme such that access to the television channel on which the content event was broadcast is blocked after the event.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Matthew Polson, Robert Sadler, James Wilde, Timothy Meyer, Christopher Kuhrt, Shaun Ryan, Jesse Montgomery
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Patent number: 12177524Abstract: A television receiver may present live television programming along with a sports gaming interface that indicates various betting options that are selectable by a television viewer via a remote control. The television receiver may receive a selection of a betting option presented in the sports gaming interface. A request may then be sent to a mobile device of the television viewer. The television receiver may in response to the selection, transmit a bet identifier of the selected betting option and an account identifier to the television service provider system. After a user has funded the bet and completed the transaction via a mobile device, the sports gaming interface may indicate the active bet.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Jesse Montgomery, Christopher Bennett, Shaun Ryan, Kumar Kothari, James Wilde, Christopher Kuhrt
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Patent number: 12143059Abstract: A mounting system for supporting a plurality of photovoltaic modules on a sloped support surface, such as a sloped roof, is disclosed herein. The mounting system may include one or more support surface attachment devices, each support surface attachment device configured to attach one or more photovoltaic modules to a support surface; and one or more module coupling devices, each module coupling device configured to couple a plurality of photovoltaic modules to one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: UNIRAC INC.Inventor: Brian James Wildes
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Patent number: 11979642Abstract: Systems, and methods are described for navigating non-dynamic pages at a client device served up from voice search requests by selecting a feature on the image page by a user request for navigating the feature viewed on the image page wherein the feature selected has an appearance of a dynamic feature when served up on the display wherein the user request selects a location on the image page; identifying the feature by the voice cloud server by location data of a selected location on the page; executing a feature request on a corresponding page which contains dynamic script at the voice cloud server to receive a linked page from a third-party search service; and removing dynamic scripts, at the voice cloud search server, of the linked page for serving up as an image page of the linked page at the client device.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk McGinty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
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Publication number: 20230421091Abstract: A support assembly for mounting photovoltaic modules on a support surface and a mounting system including the same are disclosed herein. The support assembly may comprise a the body portion including a base portion and at least one upright support member coupled to the base portion, the at least one upright support member comprising an integrally formed ballast tray slot in one side thereof for receiving an upturned edge of a ballast tray; and at least one clamp subassembly coupled to the at least one upright support member of the body portion, the at least one clamp subassembly configured to be coupled to one or more photovoltaic modules. In addition to a plurality of support assemblies, the mounting system may further comprise at least one ballast tray support bracket, the ballast tray support bracket supporting a portion of a ballast tray on the support surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Andrew Brian Dick, Brian James Wildes, Ridhvik Gopal
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Patent number: 11849192Abstract: Systems and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text set wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk McGinty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
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Patent number: 11843837Abstract: Various arrangements for group-based content viewing are presented herein. A television service provider system may receive wager data corresponding to a live content event for multiple user accounts that are grouped together. A viewing group for the live content event may be created for the grouped user accounts. Wager data corresponding to the user accounts may be transmitted to content viewing devices for the multiple user accounts. The live content event can be output for presentation concurrently with presentation of an indication of the at least one wager on the live content event linked to each user account.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Jesse Montgomery, Timothy Meyer, Matthew Polson, Robert Sadler, Christopher Kuhrt, Shaun Ryan, James Wilde
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Patent number: 11689148Abstract: A support assembly for mounting photovoltaic modules on a support surface and a mounting system including the same are disclosed herein. The support assembly may comprise a the body portion including a base portion and at least one upright support member coupled to the base portion, the at least one upright support member comprising an integrally formed ballast tray slot in one side thereof for receiving an upturned edge of a ballast tray; and at least one clamp subassembly coupled to the at least one upright support member of the body portion, the at least one clamp subassembly configured to be coupled to one or more photovoltaic modules. In addition to a plurality of support assemblies, the mounting system may further comprise at least one ballast tray support bracket, the ballast tray support bracket supporting a portion of a ballast tray on the support surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Unirac Inc.Inventors: Andrew Brian Dick, Brian James Wildes, Ridhvik Gopal
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Publication number: 20230199238Abstract: Various arrangements for authorizing content viewing are detailed herein. Sports wager data corresponding to a sports wager placed by a user may be provided to a television service provider system. The television service provider system can perform a lookup action to determine a content event based on the sports wager data. In response to the received sports wager data, a user account may be authorized using a rights scheme for access to a television channel on which the content event is scheduled to be broadcast. The television service provider system may deauthorized the user account for access to the television channel by removing the rights scheme such that access to the television channel on which the content event was broadcast is blocked after the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Matthew Polson, Robert Sadler, James Wilde, Timothy Meyer, Christopher Kuhrt, Shaun Ryan, Jesse Montgomery
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Patent number: 11668958Abstract: A modular, wearable electronic system is disclosed. The modular, wearable electronic system can include an eyewear unit which can be worn on a user's head and one or more modular units which can removably couple with the eyewear unit via one or more ports and/or connectors. The eyewear unit and the modular unit can communicate with each other via the port or connector to which the eyewear unit and the modular unit are coupled. The modular units can supplement the functionality of the eyewear unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Anderson, Benjamin John Meunier, Ryan Neil Saylor, Timothy James Wilde
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Patent number: 11616998Abstract: Various arrangements for authorizing content viewing are detailed herein. Sports wager data corresponding to a sports wager placed by a user may be provided to a television service provider system. The television service provider system can perform a lookup action to determine a content event based on the sports wager data. In response to the received sports wager data, a user account may be authorized using a rights scheme for access to a television channel on which the content event is scheduled to be broadcast. The television service provider system may deauthorized the user account for access to the television channel by removing the rights scheme such that access to the television channel on which the content event was broadcast is blocked after the event.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Matthew Polson, Robert Sadler, James Wilde, Timothy Meyer, Christopher Kuhrt, Shaun Ryan, Jesse Montgomery
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Patent number: 11589126Abstract: A television receiver may present live television programming along with a sports gaming interface that indicates various betting options that are selectable by a television viewer via a remote control. The television receiver may receive a selection of a betting option presented in the sports gaming interface. A request may then be sent to a mobile device of the television viewer. The television receiver may in response to the selection, transmit a bet identifier of the selected betting option and an account identifier to the television service provider system. After a user has funded the bet and completed the transaction via a mobile device, the sports gaming interface may indicate the active bet.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Jesse Montgomery, Christopher Bennett, Shaun Ryan, Kumar Kothari, James Wilde, Christopher Kuhrt
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Publication number: 20220417574Abstract: Various arrangements for authorizing content viewing are detailed herein. Sports wager data corresponding to a sports wager placed by a user may be provided to a television service provider system. The television service provider system can perform a lookup action to determine a content event based on the sports wager data. In response to the received sports wager data, a user account may be authorized using a rights scheme for access to a television channel on which the content event is scheduled to be broadcast. The television service provider system may deauthorized the user account for access to the television channel by removing the rights scheme such that access to the television channel on which the content event was broadcast is blocked after the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Matthew Polson, Robert Sadler, James Wilde, Timothy Meyer, Christopher Kuhrt, Shaun Ryan, Jesse Montgomery
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Publication number: 20220377427Abstract: Various arrangements for group-based content viewing are presented herein. A television service provider system may receive wager data corresponding to a live content event for multiple user accounts that are grouped together. A viewing group for the live content event may be created for the grouped user accounts. Wager data corresponding to the user accounts may be transmitted to content viewing devices for the multiple user accounts. The live content event can be output for presentation concurrently with presentation of an indication of the at least one wager on the live content event linked to each user account.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Jesse Montgomery, Timothy Meyer, Matthew Polson, Robert Sadler, Christopher Kuhrt, Shaun Ryan, James Wilde
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Patent number: 11477536Abstract: Systems, and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text sets wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a search service for performing an elastic search for related data from a plurality of different search sources and returning search results and error codes to a requester.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: DISH Network L.L.CInventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk McGinty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
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Publication number: 20220279252Abstract: Systems and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text set wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: JAMES WILDE, ASHOK SONI, HAWK MCGINTY, JAMES SHULER, LIXING ZHANG, MICHAEL DISANTE, NARAYANAN SEKHAR, XIAOMEI SUN, XINHUA YANG
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Publication number: 20220255494Abstract: A mounting system for supporting a plurality of photovoltaic modules on a sloped support surface, such as a sloped roof, is disclosed herein. The mounting system may include one or more support surface attachment devices, each support surface attachment device configured to attach one or more photovoltaic modules to a support surface; and one or more module coupling devices, each module coupling device configured to couple a plurality of photovoltaic modules to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventor: Brian James Wildes
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Publication number: 20220232295Abstract: Systems, and methods are described for navigating non-dynamic pages at a client device served up from voice search requests by selecting a feature on the image page by a user request for navigating the feature viewed on the image page wherein the feature selected has an appearance of a dynamic feature when served up on the display wherein the user request selects a location on the image page; identifying the feature by the voice cloud server by location data of a selected location on the page; executing a feature request on a corresponding page which contains dynamic script at the voice cloud server to receive a linked page from a third-party search service; and removing dynamic scripts, at the voice cloud search server, of the linked page for serving up as an image page of the linked page at the client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk Mcginty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
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Publication number: 20220173690Abstract: A support assembly for mounting photovoltaic modules on a support surface and a mounting system including the same are disclosed herein. The support assembly may comprise a the body portion including a base portion and at least one upright support member coupled to the base portion, the at least one upright support member comprising an integrally formed ballast tray slot in one side thereof for receiving an upturned edge of a ballast tray; and at least one clamp subassembly coupled to the at least one upright support member of the body portion, the at least one clamp subassembly configured to be coupled to one or more photovoltaic modules. In addition to a plurality of support assemblies, the mounting system may further comprise at least one ballast tray support bracket, the ballast tray support bracket supporting a portion of a ballast tray on the support surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Andrew Brian Dick, Brian James Wildes, Ridhvik Gopal