Patents by Inventor Mike Cristofalo

Mike Cristofalo 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: 20020152117
    Abstract: A system and process for targeting programming (including, but not limited to, advertising) to users by utilizing media object to provide specific content to a user, or groups of users, based upon user profiling information is described. More specifically, the system and method provides for the generation of media object based content, formatting and transmitting the content, and receiving and presenting the content to a user based upon user profile information. The system includes a media object creator, which creates media objects utilized in a programming signal, a transmitting system for transmitting the media objects, a receiving system connected to a presentation device for receiving and presenting the media objects and a user profiling system which determines which media objects a user is to received based upon user profile information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Mike Cristofalo, Frank Paul Deo