Patents by Inventor Peter B. Friedmann

Peter B. Friedmann 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).

  • Context-based interactive plush toy
    Patent number: 9421475
    Abstract: An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video. In one embodiment, the toy is configured to detect only certain types of triggering prompts in certain states, such as, for example, triggering phrases or triggering terms. In this embodiment, and others, the toy is configured to switch between states such that it can at times respond to triggering terms and at other times respond to triggering phrases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HALLMARK CARDS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jennifer R. Garbos, Timothy G. Bodendistel, Peter B. Friedmann, Randy D. Smith, William L. Brown, Jr., Mary E. Gentry, Kevin W. Swanson, Robert E. Langley
  • CONTEXT-BASED INTERACTIVE PLUSH TOY
    Publication number: 20150100320
    Abstract: A literary work defining a narrative, the literary work having phrases therein. The phrases including triggering phrases, non-triggering phrases, and non-stored triggering phrases. An interactive toy or device for interacting with a user while the phrases are being made audible. The toy or device includes a speech recognition unit that receives the audible phrases and detects the triggering and non-triggering phrases as they are audibilized. The triggering phrases may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with non-triggering phrases from the literary work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: JENNIFER R. GARBOS, TIMOTHY G. BODENDISTEL, PETER B. FRIEDMANN
  • Context-based interactive plush toy
    Patent number: 8911277
    Abstract: An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jennifer R. Garbos, Timothy G. Bodendistel, Peter B. Friedmann
  • CONTEXT-BASED INTERACTIVE PLUSH TOY
    Publication number: 20130289997
    Abstract: An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: JENNIFER R. GARBOS, TIMOTHY G. BODENDISTEL, PETER B. FRIEDMANN
  • Context-based interactive plush toy
    Patent number: 8568189
    Abstract: An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jennifer R. Garbos, Timothy G. Bodendistel, Peter B. Friedmann
  • CONTEXT-BASED INTERACTIVE PLUSH TOY
    Publication number: 20110223827
    Abstract: An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Jennifer R. Garbos, Timothy G. Bodendistel, Peter B. Friedmann