Patents by Inventor Jeffrey W. Sult

Jeffrey W. Sult 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: 20160192018
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to previewing media content available for streaming. One example provides a media consumption device comprising a communications subsystem configured to connect to one or more media sources, a logic device configured to execute instructions, and a storage device having instructions executable by the logic device to, for each of the one or more media sources, send a request for information on a media content item currently being received by the media source and in response, receive a reduced fidelity representation of the media content item being received by the media source, output the reduced fidelity representation of each media content item currently being received by each media source for presentation, receive a user input selecting a selected media content item for viewing, and output the higher fidelity representation of the selected media content item for presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Sult, Nicholas Jie Fang