Patents by Inventor Jayson D. Sellers

Jayson D. Sellers 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).

  • Frame sharing
    Patent number: 9332206
    Abstract: A method including providing television content (TC) to a user; receiving a TC capture request; capturing TC frames based on the TC capture request; displaying to the user one or more TC frames included in the captured TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more TC frames included in the displayed one or more TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more destinations to send the selected one or more TC frames; and sending the selected one or more TC frames to the one or more destinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Ruchir Rodrigues, Kristopher T. Frazier, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • Interactive user-prediction of content
    Patent number: 8935714
    Abstract: A method including providing at least one of a television service or an Internet access service to a customer; generating predictive options pertaining to content delivered to the customer, wherein the predictive options correspond to possible future events that could occur with respect to the content; receiving a customer selection of one of the predictive options; determining whether the customer-selected predictive option matches an outcome with respect to the content; and assigning a score to the customer based on whether the selected predictive option successfully or unsuccessfully predicted the outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kristopher Frazier, Ruchir Rodrigues, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • INTERACTIVE USER-PREDICTION OF CONTENT
    Publication number: 20120174145
    Abstract: A method including providing at least one of a television service or an Internet access service to a customer; generating predictive options pertaining to content delivered to the customer, wherein the predictive options correspond to possible future events that could occur with respect to the content; receiving a customer selection of one of the predictive options; determining whether the customer-selected predictive option matches an outcome with respect to the content; and assigning a score to the customer based on whether the selected predictive option successfully or unsuccessfully predicted the outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Kristopher Frazier, Ruchir Rodrigues, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • FRAME SHARING
    Publication number: 20120096501
    Abstract: A method including providing television content (TC) to a user; receiving a TC capture request; capturing TC frames based on the TC capture request; displaying to the user one or more TC frames included in the captured TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more TC frames included in the displayed one or more TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more destinations to send the selected one or more TC frames; and sending the selected one or more TC frames to the one or more destinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Ruchir Rodrigues, Kristopher T. Frazier, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • Communication Management
    Publication number: 20100153855
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a communication thread and identifying at least some items of interest in the communication thread. The method may also include displaying the communication thread with the identified items of interest being highlighted or displayed in a different manner than other portions of the communication thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Brian F. Roberts, Jayson D. Sellers, Heath Stallings, Donald H. Relyea, Kristopher T. Frazier