Patents by Inventor Joshua Jacob Inch

Joshua Jacob Inch 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).

  • Patent number: 12346396
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an artificial reality (XR) browser configured to trigger an immersive experience. Implementations display an element at a browser chrome of the XR browser when an immersive experience is loaded. For example, the XR browser can include an application programming interface (API) that supports configuration of a browser chrome element by components of a webpage. The API call can cause the display of the browser chrome element, change a display property for the browser chrome element, or configure the browser chrome element in any other suitable manner. Upon receiving input at the browser chrome element (configured by the API call), the XR browser can transition from displaying a two-dimensional panel view of a webpage supported by loaded web resources (e.g., hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) pages, graphic images, etc.) to a three-dimensional environment supported by preloaded immersive resources (e.g., three-dimensional models, graphic images, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Jacob Inch, Henricus Maria Cabanier, Cristobal Alvaro Castilla Lacomba, Reilly Donovan
  • Publication number: 20240070215
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an artificial reality (XR) browser configured to trigger an immersive experience. Implementations display an element at a browser chrome of the XR browser when an immersive experience is loaded. For example, the XR browser can include an application programming interface (API) that supports configuration of a browser chrome element by components of a webpage. The API call can cause the display of the browser chrome element, change a display property for the browser chrome element, or configure the browser chrome element in any other suitable manner. Upon receiving input at the browser chrome element (configured by the API call), the XR browser can transition from displaying a two-dimensional panel view of a webpage supported by loaded web resources (e.g., hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) pages, graphic images, etc.) to a three-dimensional environment supported by preloaded immersive resources (e.g., three-dimensional models, graphic images, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Joshua Jacob INCH, Henricus Maria CABANIER, Cristobal Alvaro CASTILLA LACOMBA, Reilly DONOVAN
  • Publication number: 20240005608
    Abstract: In some implementations, the disclosed systems and methods a user can be at a source location (e.g., XR environment, two-dimensional webpage/browser, etc.) and input received can trigger traveling the user to a target XR environment (e.g., an immersive environment). In some implementations, the disclosed systems and methods a user can spawn a virtual portal in an origin virtual world for travel to a destination virtual world for the creating user and a group of other users having avatars near that of the creating user. In some implementations, the disclosed systems and methods a user can be at a source location (e.g., XR environment, two-dimensional webpage/browser, etc.) and input received can trigger traveling the user to a target XR environment (e.g., an immersive environment).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Joshua Jacob INCH, Zoe SINNER, Kris NARUNATVANICH, Michael MACADAAN, Eyal OHANA, Zhe WANG, Danyang ZHAO, Sarah HASSAN, Brian Michael JEW
  • Patent number: 11836205
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an artificial reality (XR) browser configured to trigger an immersive experience. Implementations display an element at a browser chrome of the XR browser when an immersive experience is loaded. For example, the XR browser can include an application programming interface (API) that supports configuration of a browser chrome element by components of a webpage. The API call can cause the display of the browser chrome element, change a display property for the browser chrome element, or configure the browser chrome element in any other suitable manner. Upon receiving input at the browser chrome element (configured by the API call), the XR browser can transition from displaying a two-dimensional panel view of a webpage supported by loaded web resources (e.g., hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) pages, graphic images, etc.) to a three-dimensional environment supported by preloaded immersive resources (e.g., three-dimensional models, graphic images, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Jacob Inch, Henricus Maria Cabanier, Cristobal Alvaro Castilla Lacomba, Reilly Donovan
  • Publication number: 20230342409
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an artificial reality (XR) browser configured to trigger an immersive experience. Implementations display an element at a browser chrome of the XR browser when an immersive experience is loaded. For example, the XR browser can include an application programming interface (API) that supports configuration of a browser chrome element by components of a webpage. The API call can cause the display of the browser chrome element, change a display property for the browser chrome element, or configure the browser chrome element in any other suitable manner. Upon receiving input at the browser chrome element (configured by the API call), the XR browser can transition from displaying a two-dimensional panel view of a webpage supported by loaded web resources (e.g., hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) pages, graphic images, etc.) to a three-dimensional environment supported by preloaded immersive resources (e.g., three-dimensional models, graphic images, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Joshua Jacob INCH, Henricus Maria CABANIER, Cristobal Alvaro CASTILLA LACOMBA, Reilly DONOVAN
  • Publication number: 20230152936
    Abstract: Embodiments of a 3D web interaction system are disclosed that allow a user to select a content item from a browser, displayed in an artificial reality environment, and present a corresponding version of the content item in the artificial reality environment. The 3D web interaction system can create the version of the selected content item in different ways depending on whether the selected content item is associated with 3D content and, if so, the type of the associated 3D content. For example, the 3D web interaction system can create and present different versions of the selected content item depending on whether the selected content item is(a) not associated with 3D content, (b) associated with “environment content,” or (c) associated with one or more 3D models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Joshua Jacob INCH, Reilly DONOVAN, Diana Min LIAO, Justin ROGERS
  • Patent number: 11556220
    Abstract: Embodiments of a 3D web interaction system are disclosed that allow a user to select a content item from a browser, displayed in an artificial reality environment, and present a corresponding version of the content item in the artificial reality environment. The 3D web interaction system can create the version of the selected content item in different ways depending on whether the selected content item is associated with 3D content and, if so, the type of the associated 3D content. For example, the 3D web interaction system can create and present different versions of the selected content item depending on whether the selected content item is (a) not associated with 3D content, (b) associated with “environment content,” or (c) associated with one or more 3D models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Jacob Inch, Reilly Donovan, Diana Min Liao, Justin Rogers
  • Patent number: 11402980
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering VR content at a VR rendering device include identifying, by a content facilitator, that that first content presented via a first device to a user includes metadata indicating availability of second content. The second content includes at least one of a three-dimensional (3D) video, 360° image, or virtual reality (VR) content. The content facilitator provides an interface element to the user at the first device responsive to the metadata indicating availability of the second content. The content facilitator receives a user selection of the interface element. The content facilitator provides access to the second content via a VR rendering device for the user responsive to the user selection. The VR rendering device is configured to render the second content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Rossi, Joshua Jacob Inch, Jordan D. Andersen
  • Patent number: 11093123
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering VR content at a VR rendering device include identifying, by a content facilitator, that that first content presented via a first device to a user includes metadata indicating availability of second content. The second content includes at least one of a three-dimensional (3D) video, 360° image, or virtual reality (VR) content. The content facilitator provides an interface element to the user at the first device responsive to the metadata indicating availability of the second content. The content facilitator receives a user selection of the interface element. The content facilitator provides access to the second content via a VR rendering device for the user responsive to the user selection. The VR rendering device is configured to render the second content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Rossi, Joshua Jacob Inch, Jordan D. Andersen