Patents by Inventor Stefan K Yap

Stefan K Yap 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: 20220303774
    Abstract: A content consumption system or device may implement device-enabled identification for automated user detection. An identifying device may be detected at a content consumption device as within proximity of the content consumption device. An identifying device may be a mobile or wearable computing device, in various embodiments. A user account associated with the identification device may be selected for accessing content at the content consumption device. Access to content may be provided according to the selected user account. In some embodiments, content recommendations or content filtering may be performed based on the automatically determined user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Edward Van Vliet, Jeremy Daniel Johnson, Stefan K Yap
  • Patent number: 11363460
    Abstract: A content consumption system or device may implement device-enabled identification for automated user detection. An identifying device may be detected at a content consumption device as within proximity of the content consumption device. An identifying device may be a mobile or wearable computing device, in various embodiments. A user account associated with the identification device may be selected for accessing content at the content consumption device. Access to content may be provided according to the selected user account. In some embodiments, content recommendations or content filtering may be performed based on the automatically determined user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Edward Van Vliet, Jeremy Daniel Johnson, Stefan K Yap
  • Patent number: 10757216
    Abstract: A network-based enterprise or other system that makes items available for selection to users may implement group profiles for group item recommendations. A request for item recommendations offered via the network-based enterprise may be received. Multiple user accounts of the network-based enterprise may be detected as associated with the request. A group profile that includes the detected user accounts may be identified. Group profiles may maintain behavioral data for the respective user accounts included in the group profiles, as well as behavioral data for the group profile as a whole. Item recommendations may be generated according to the group profile and provided to the detected users. Group profiles may available across multiple systems and devices so that item recommendations based on a group profile may be provided to different systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Edward Van Vliet, Jeremy Daniel Johnson, Stefan K Yap