Patents by Inventor Lane Shackleton

Lane Shackleton 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: 20190180330
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for selecting advertisements for premium and non-premium content and delivering the advertisements and content to client media players. In one implementation, a request is received for a premium content item by a media player. A winning bid is determined for an auction pertaining to the request, where the winning bid is based on an advertiser-specified bid value and on an advertiser-specified bid modifier for advertisement placement in premium content. An advertisement associated with the winning bid is provided to the second media player for presentation with the premium content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Avi Fein, Lane Shackleton, Sibu Ray, Xifei Huang, Lena Elizabeth Cardell
  • Patent number: 9836536
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating collaboration between video creators/publishers and users in need of video creations and/or publication of videos are provided. A profile component receives and stores profile information regarding video creators. A video request component receives a request for at least creation of a video, the request indicating one or more characteristics associated with the creation of the video. A search component responds to the request and searches the profile information in connection with identifying one or more of the video creators that can create the video based on a correlation between their respective profile information and the one or more characteristics associated with the video creation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Lane Shackleton, Fabio Soldo, Andrew First, Anand Rangarajan, JessicaKate Ogungbadero
  • Publication number: 20160321359
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating collaboration between video creators/publishers and users in need of video creations and/or publication of videos are provided. A profile component receives and stores profile information regarding video creators. A video request component receives a request for at least creation of a video, the request indicating one or more characteristics associated with the creation of the video. A search component responds to the request and searches the profile information in connection with identifying one or more of the video creators that can create the video based on a correlation between their respective profile information and the one or more characteristics associated with the video creation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Lane Shackleton, Fabio Soldo, Andrew First, Anand Rangarajan, JessicaKate Ogungbadero
  • Patent number: 9420213
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating collaboration between video creators/publishers and users in need of video creations and/or publication of videos are provided. A profile component receives and stores profile information regarding video creators. A video request component receives a request for at least creation of a video, the request indicating one or more characteristics associated with the creation of the video. A search component responds to the request and searches the profile information in connection with identifying one or more of the video creators that can create the video based on a correlation between their respective profile information and the one or more characteristics associated with the video creation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Lane Shackleton, Fabio Soldo, Andrew First, Anand Rangarajan, JessicaKate Ogungbadero
  • Patent number: 9402113
    Abstract: Systems and methods for visualizing audience retention for a video as a function of impression frequency are provided. In an aspect, a system includes a reception component configured to receive watch history information for a plurality of users regarding their watch history of a video, and a visualization component configured to generate a visualization based on the watch history information that graphically depicts viewer retention over duration of the video as a function of impression frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Lane Shackleton, Avi Fein, Jason Carlin, Thomas James Broxton
  • Publication number: 20130343726
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating collaboration between video creators/publishers and users in need of video creations and/or publication of videos are provided. A profile component receives and stores profile information regarding video creators. A video request component receives a request for at least creation of a video, the request indicating one or more characteristics associated with the creation of the video. A search component responds to the request and searches the profile information in connection with identifying one or more of the video creators that can create the video based on a correlation between their respective profile information and the one or more characteristics associated with the video creation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Lane Shackleton, Fabio Soldo, Andrew First, Anand Rangarajan, JessicaKate Ogungbadero