Patents by Inventor Samuel T. Scott, III

Samuel T. Scott, III 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).

  • Methods and systems for managing a local digital video recording system
    Patent number: 9955213
    Abstract: An exemplary web services provider system remote from and communicatively coupled to a local digital video recording (“DVR”) system by way of a network detects an input command provided by a user and representative of a request for the local DVR system to perform a DVR operation with respect to a media program provided by a television service, identifies, in response to the request, a status of the media program, determines, based on the identified status of the media program, an optimal manner in which to perform the DVR operation, and directs the local DVR system to perform the DVR operation in accordance with the optimal manner. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiying Jin, Wei Xia, Sandeep G. Rathi, Samuel T. Scott, III, Johannes P. Schmidt
  • Methods and Systems for Managing a Local Digital Video Recording System
    Publication number: 20160323633
    Abstract: An exemplary web services provider system remote from and communicatively coupled to a local digital video recording (“DVR”) system by way of a network detects an input command provided by a user and representative of a request for the local DVR system to perform a DVR operation with respect to a media program provided by a television service, identifies, in response to the request, a status of the media program, determines, based on the identified status of the media program, an optimal manner in which to perform the DVR operation, and directs the local DVR system to perform the DVR operation in accordance with the optimal manner. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Zhiying Jin, Wei Xia, Sandeep G. Rathi, Samuel T. Scott, III, Johannes P. Schmidt