Patents by Inventor Lorin Bird

Lorin Bird 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: 12562834
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting secondary content. Particularly, the secondary content may be presented on a first device (such as a smartphone, for example) and may be based on primary content that is being presented to the user via a second device. For example, if a product is shown during a television show being presented to the user via a television, and the user desires to view additional information about the product, the user may interact with a smartphone application. Based on the interaction, the first device may being processing audio produced by the television. Embedded within the primary content may be a number of “tones” that include frequencies that are inaudible to humans. The first device may detect a tone and the tone may be decoded to obtain a timestamp associated with the primary content. This timestamp may then be used to determine which secondary content associated with that timestamp to present to the user on the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Mohan, Eugene Ren, Syed Abdullah Nauroze, Abhay Abhay, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Kari Ellen McMinn, Lorin Bird, Pradnya Gajanan Chavarkar, Ioannis Katsavrias, Wayne Andrew Purboo