Patents by Inventor Kimberly Foerster

Kimberly Foerster 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).

  • PROFILING MEDIA CHARACTERS
    Publication number: 20240080531
    Abstract: Provided is a process of matching media characters, the process including: obtaining a plurality of character records, each character record including a trait vector specifying traits of the respective character; receiving a request from a user device to match characters in the character records, the request identifying at least one reference character record; calculating, with one or more processors, matching scores indicative of similarity between the trait vector of the reference character record and trait vectors of other character records among the plurality of character records; selecting a responsive character record from among the plurality of character records based on the matching scores; and sending instructions to the user device to display information about a character of the responsive character record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Kimberly Foerster, Pete McEntegart
  • PROFILING MEDIA CHARACTERS
    Publication number: 20220174362
    Abstract: Provided is a process of matching media characters, the process including: obtaining a plurality of character records, each character record including a trait vector specifying traits of the respective character; receiving a request from a user device to match characters in the character records, the request identifying at least one reference character record; calculating, with one or more processors, matching scores indicative of similarity between the trait vector of the reference character record and trait vectors of other character records among the plurality of character records; selecting a responsive character record from among the plurality of character records based on the matching scores; and sending instructions to the user device to display information about a character of the responsive character record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Kimberly Foerster, Pete McEntegart
  • Profiling media characters
    Patent number: 11284158
    Abstract: Provided is a process of matching media characters, the process including: obtaining a plurality of character records, each character record including a trait vector specifying traits of the respective character; receiving a request from a user device to match characters in the character records, the request identifying at least one reference character record; calculating, with one or more processors, matching scores indicative of similarity between the trait vector of the reference character record and trait vectors of other character records among the plurality of character records; selecting a responsive character record from among the plurality of character records based on the matching scores; and sending instructions to the user device to display information about a character of the responsive character record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CHARACTOUR LLC
    Inventors: Kimberly Foerster, Pete McEntegart
  • PROFILING MEDIA CHARACTERS
    Publication number: 20200037036
    Abstract: Provided is a process of matching media characters, the process including: obtaining a plurality of character records, each character record including a trait vector specifying traits of the respective character; receiving a request from a user device to match characters in the character records, the request identifying at least one reference character record; calculating, with one or more processors, matching scores indicative of similarity between the trait vector of the reference character record and trait vectors of other character records among the plurality of character records; selecting a responsive character record from among the plurality of character records based on the matching scores; and sending instructions to the user device to display information about a character of the responsive character record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kimberly Foerster, Pete McEntegart
  • Profiling media characters
    Patent number: 10419820
    Abstract: Provided is a process of matching media characters, the process including: obtaining a plurality of character records, each character record including a trait vector specifying traits of the respective character; receiving a request from a user device to match characters in the character records, the request identifying at least one reference character record; calculating, with one or more processors, matching scores indicative of similarity between the trait vector of the reference character record and trait vectors of other character records among the plurality of character records; selecting a responsive character record from among the plurality of character records based on the matching scores; and sending instructions to the user device to display information about a character of the responsive character record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CharacTour LLC
    Inventors: Kimberly Foerster, Pete McEntegart
  • PROFILING MEDIA CHARACTERS
    Publication number: 20160057499
    Abstract: Provided is a process of matching media characters, the process including: obtaining a plurality of character records, each character record including a trait vector specifying traits of the respective character; receiving a request from a user device to match characters in the character records, the request identifying at least one reference character record; calculating, with one or more processors, matching scores indicative of similarity between the trait vector of the reference character record and trait vectors of other character records among the plurality of character records; selecting a responsive character record from among the plurality of character records based on the matching scores; and sending instructions to the user device to display information about a character of the responsive character record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Kimberly Foerster, Pete McEntegart