Patents by Inventor John La

John La 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).

  • Context relevant interactive television
    Patent number: 9866915
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable medium with program instructions for providing contextually relevant information for multimedia content streaming through a rendering device, includes detecting a selection of the multimedia content for rendering on the rendering device. An audio signal of the multimedia content is retrieved and analyzed to generate an audio fingerprint. The generated audio fingerprint is used to identify the multimedia content that is selected for rendering. Contextually relevant content for a portion of the multimedia content being rendered on the rendering device is dynamically retrieved from one or more sources and mapped to data associated with the portion of the multimedia content. The mapping results in the rendering of the relevant content during the rendering of the portion of the multimedia content and provides additional information that is contextually relevant to the portion of the multimedia content that is currently being rendered on the rendering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Roger Urrabazo, Dave Rice, John La, Todd R. Glidden, Vishwas Raman
  • Context Relevant Interactive Television
    Publication number: 20130139209
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable medium with program instructions for providing contextually relevant information for multimedia content streaming through a rendering device, includes detecting a selection of the multimedia content for rendering on the rendering device. An audio signal of the multimedia content is retrieved and analyzed to generate an audio fingerprint. The generated audio fingerprint is used to identify the multimedia content that is selected for rendering. Contextually relevant content for a portion of the multimedia content being rendered on the rendering device is dynamically retrieved from one or more sources and mapped to data associated with the portion of the multimedia content. The mapping results in the rendering of the relevant content during the rendering of the portion of the multimedia content and provides additional information that is contextually relevant to the portion of the multimedia content that is currently being rendered on the rendering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Urrabazo, Dave Rice, John La, Todd R. Glidden, Vishwas Raman
  • System and method for the visualization of sports information
    Patent number: 8108795
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for visualizing information, e.g., information regarding a sporting event. The method may comprise identifying an event type and generating a plurality of buttons, the plurality of buttons arranged in a button hierarchy. A first level of the button hierarchy comprising one or more first level buttons is displayed with a lens further displayed on a given one of the one or more first level buttons, the lens operative to present first level data for the given first level button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Urrabazo, Kumiko T. Toft, Eric Lin, John La, Sushant Kumar, Eric Del Balso, Michael Mills, Manlio Armando Lo Conte
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE VISUALIZATION OF SPORTS INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20080066011
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for visualizing information, e.g., information regarding a sporting event. The method may comprise identifying an event type and generating a plurality of buttons, the plurality of buttons arranged in a button hierarchy. A first level of the button hierarchy comprising one or more first level buttons is displayed with a lens further displayed on a given one of the one or more first level buttons, the lens operative to present first level data for the given first level button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Roger Urrabazo, Kumiko T. Toft, Eric Lin, John La, Sushant Kumar, Eric Del Balso, Michael Mills, Manlio Armando Lo Conte