Patents by Inventor Randall McCaskill

Randall McCaskill 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: 10367689
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to monitoring internet usage on home networks of panelist users. One examples method includes after determining that a user has accepted an offer to modify a home network of the user to monitor network traffic generated by devices connected to the home network, identifying a gateway device on the home network configured to receive network traffic from devices connected to the home network and communicate with an external network on behalf of the devices; determining that the gateway device is operable to be modified over the home network to include a monitoring application; and in response to determining that the gateway device is operable to be modified, modifying the gateway device over the home network to include the monitoring application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: comScore, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Brown, Yvonne Bigbee, Randall McCaskill
  • Patent number: 10116535
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to monitoring internet usage on home networks of panelist users. One example method includes, after receiving informed consent from a user, identifying the user's home network including one or more devices and a gateway configured to receive network traffic from the devices and send the received network traffic to an external network; configuring the home network to send network traffic from the devices to a measurement device connected to the gateway; and after configuring the home network, monitoring, at the measurement device, network traffic received from the devices on the home network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: comScore, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Brown, Yvonne Bigbee, Randall McCaskill
  • Publication number: 20160119182
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to monitoring internet usage on home networks of panelist users. One examples method includes after determining that a user has accepted an offer to modify a home network of the user to monitor network traffic generated by devices connected to the home network, identifying a gateway device on the home network configured to receive network traffic from devices connected to the home network and communicate with an external network on behalf of the devices; determining that the gateway device is operable to be modified over the home network to include a monitoring application; and in response to determining that the gateway device is operable to be modified, modifying the gateway device over the home network to include the monitoring application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Michael A. Brown, Yvonne Bigbee, Randall McCaskill
  • Patent number: 8856215
    Abstract: A displayable object is accessed and one or more portions of the accessed displayable object are selected. A screenshot of a client system display is accessed and a determination is made that the accessed screenshot includes the one or more selected portions of the displayable object. In response to determining that the accessed screenshot includes the one or more selected portions, display information about the displayable object is determined. The determined display information is sent to a server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: comScore, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Brown, Randall McCaskill
  • Publication number: 20120047203
    Abstract: A displayable object is accessed and one or more portions of the accessed displayable object are selected. A screenshot of a client system display is accessed and a determination is made that the accessed screenshot includes the one or more selected portions of the displayable object. In response to determining that the accessed screenshot includes the one or more selected portions, display information about the displayable object is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: comScore Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Brown, Randall McCaskill