Patents by Inventor Shawn Englund

Shawn Englund 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: 8615547
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving by a computing device, a stream of audiovisual content, the audiovisual content including at least one quiz, poll, and/or question, are described herein. In various embodiments, the computing device may also determine one or more events in the audiovisual content and determine a set of audiovisual units from the audiovisual content, the set of audiovisual units corresponding at least in part to the determined one or more events. Further, in some embodiments, the computing device may remove from the determined set of audiovisual units one or more audiovisual units that correspond to at least a portion of the at least one quiz, poll, and/or question. In alternate embodiments, the process may be reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters (Tax & Accounting) Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Englund, Jeffrey M. Steenbergen, Derrick A. Boden, Venkata R. Madira
  • Publication number: 20070294424
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving by a computing device, a stream of audiovisual content, the audiovisual content including at least one quiz, poll, and/or question, are described herein. In various embodiments, the computing device may also determine one or more events in the audiovisual content and determine a set of audiovisual units from the audiovisual content, the set of audiovisual units corresponding at least in part to the determined one or more events. Further, in some embodiments, the computing device may remove from the determined set of audiovisual units one or more audiovisual units that correspond to at least a portion of the at least one quiz, poll, and/or question. In alternate embodiments, the process may be reversed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Shawn Englund, Jeffrey M. Steenbergen, Derrick A. Boden, Venkata R. Madira