Patents by Inventor Jim Wei Chien Tsang

Jim Wei Chien Tsang 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).

  • Method and system for prioritizing content in a delivery queue of a content delivery system
    Patent number: 8533767
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating content to users that includes a prioritizer and a listing module communicating the category and content identifier for a content to the prioritizer. The prioritizer associates a lifecycle having a plurality of lifecycle states with the category, assigns a first priority to the content in response to a first lifecycle state of the plurality of lifecycle states, changes the first lifecycle state to a second lifecycle state and changes the first priority to a second priority in response to changing the first lifecycle state to the second lifecycle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Wei Chien Tsang, Raynold M. Kahn, Lonnie Scott Clabaugh, John D. Choi