Patents by Inventor Nathan Garret Brothers

Nathan Garret Brothers 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: 20220107953
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for automatically facilitating knowledge sharing using information collected during meetings. Collected information may include both the content and context of a meeting. The meeting content may comprise text collected by automatic speech recognition or entered manually at a user device. The meeting context may comprise information such as the identities of meeting participants and subject matter from a meeting agenda. The content and context information may be used to identify relevant topics for which knowledge is available, and the available knowledge may be presented to one or more of the meeting participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Douglas Scott Goldstein, Ajay Arora, Nathan Garret Brothers, Douglas Cho Hwang, Guy Ashley Story, JR.
  • Publication number: 20180039634
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for automatically facilitating knowledge sharing using information collected during meetings. Collected information may include both the content and context of a meeting. The meeting content may comprise text collected by automatic speech recognition or entered manually at a user device. The meeting context may comprise information such as the identities of meeting participants and subject matter from a meeting agenda. The content and context information may be used to identify relevant topics for which knowledge is available, and the available knowledge may be presented to one or more of the meeting participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Douglas Scott Goldstein, Ajay Arora, Nathan Garret Brothers, Douglas Cho Hwang, Guy Ashley Story, JR.
  • Patent number: 9734208
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for automatically facilitating knowledge sharing using information collected during meetings. Collected information may include both the content and context of a meeting. The meeting content may comprise text collected by automatic speech recognition or entered manually at a user device. The meeting context may comprise information such as the identities of meeting participants and subject matter from a meeting agenda. The content and context information may be used to identify relevant topics for which knowledge is available, and the available knowledge may be presented to one or more of the meeting participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Audible, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Scott Goldstein, Ajay Arora, Nathan Garret Brothers, Douglas Cho Hwang, Guy Ashley Story, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9678637
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for recommending a portion of one or more content items to be consumed in a given context. For example, a recommendation service may receive context information associated with a user's current context, where the context may be associated with a geographic location, an activity or other information. The recommendation service may then determine one or more recommended portions of one or more content items to be consumed in the given context, where the determination may be based in part on content characteristics of the one or more recommended portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Audible, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Garret Brothers, Guy Ashley Story, Jr., Douglas Cho Hwang, Ajay Arora, Douglas Scott Goldstein
  • Patent number: 9606622
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for facilitating content presentation and consumption based on input regarding a user's gaze. Gaze tracking or eye tracking information can be obtained from, e.g., a user-facing camera. A content presentation system can determine whether the user's eyes have closed and how long they have closed, whether the user's gaze is directed at the portion of content currently being presented or at some other location, etc. Based on such determinations, presentation of content may be modified. In some cases, a current presentation position may be changed, highlights may be applied, a special bookmark may be generated, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Audible, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Garret Brothers, Timothy Jaeger, Shiranchal Taneja, Guy Ashley Story, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9335819
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for facilitating content presentation and consumption based on input regarding a user's gaze. Gaze tracking or eye tracking information can be obtained from, e.g., a user-facing camera. A content presentation system can determine whether the user's eyes have closed and how long they have closed, whether the user's gaze is directed at the portion of content currently being presented or at some other location, etc. Based on such determinations, presentation of content may be modified. In some cases, a current presentation position may be changed, highlights may be applied, a special bookmark may be generated, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Audible, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Jaeger, Shiranchal Taneja, Nathan Garret Brothers
  • Patent number: 9317486
    Abstract: A computing device may provide a visual cue to items of content (for example, words in a book) synchronized with the playback of companion content (for example, audio content corresponding to the book). Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a content playback synchronization system for use with physical books (or other physical media). In an embodiment, the computing device captures images of the physical book and may display a visual cue (for example, an underline, box, dot, cursor, or the like) to identify a current location in textual content of the captured and displayed images of the physical book corresponding to a current output position of companion audio content. As the audio content is presented (i.e., as it “plays back”), the highlight and/or visual cue may be advanced to maintain synchronization between the output position within the audio content and a corresponding position in the displayed physical textual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: AUDIBLE, INC.
    Inventors: Guy Ashley Story, Jr., Nathan Garret Brothers, Ajay Arora, Douglas Scott Goldstein