Patents by Inventor Stephen Callahan Sterling

Stephen Callahan Sterling 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: 9317870
    Abstract: A non-transitory processor readable medium storing processor executable instructions is described. The processor executable instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to: receive application data indicative of text from a user device via a communications network; analyze the application data for one or more indicator being at least a portion of the text entered into the application and having one or more meaning; retrieve one or more selected ideograph from a database populated with ideographs received from and associated with one or more advertisers, the one or more selected ideograph being indicative of a graphical representation of the one or more meanings of the one or more indicator; transmit the one or more selected ideograph to the user device via the communications network; and charge a fee to at least one advertiser associated with the one or more selected ideograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: meemo, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Timothy Tew, Jed Keith Corenthal, Stephen Callahan Sterling, Christopher Ryan Nickless
  • Publication number: 20150339706
    Abstract: A non-transitory processor readable medium storing processor executable instructions is described. The processor executable instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to: receive application data indicative of text from a user device via a communications network; analyze the application data for one or more indicator being at least a portion of the text entered into the application and having one or more meaning; retrieve one or more selected ideograph from a database populated with ideographs received from and associated with one or more advertisers, the one or more selected ideograph being indicative of a graphical representation of the one or more meanings of the one or more indicator; transmit the one or more selected ideograph to the user device via the communications network; and charge a fee to at least one advertiser associated with the one or more selected ideograph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Matthew Timothy Tew, Jed Keith Corenthal, Stephen Callahan Sterling, Christopher Ryan Nickless
  • Patent number: 9152979
    Abstract: A non-transitory processor readable medium storing processor executable instructions is described. The processor executable instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to: receive application data indicative of text from a user device via a communications network; analyze the application data for one or more indicator being at least a portion of the text entered into the application and having one or more meaning; retrieve one or more selected ideograph from a database populated with ideographs received from and associated with one or more advertisers, the one or more selected ideograph being indicative of a graphical representation of the one or more meanings of the one or more indicator; transmit the one or more selected ideograph to the user device via the communications network; and charge a fee to at least one advertiser associated with the one or more selected ideograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: meemo, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Timothy Tew, Jed Keith Corenthal, Stephen Callahan Sterling, Christopher Ryan Nickless
  • Publication number: 20150127753
    Abstract: A non-transitory processor readable medium is described having processor executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to monitor application data from a user device via a communications network, analyze the application data for one or more indicator, retrieved one or more ideograph indicative of a graphical representation of one or more meaning of the one or more indicator, and transmit the one or more ideograph to the user device via a communications network. The application data is indicative of text entered into an application by a user via the user device. The one or more indicator is at least a portion of the text entered into the application and has one or more meaning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Matthew Timothy Tew, Jed Keith Corenthal, Stephen Callahan Sterling, Christopher Ryan Nickless
  • Publication number: 20150127453
    Abstract: A non-transitory processor readable medium storing processor executable instructions is described. The processor executable instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to: receive application data indicative of text from a user device via a communications network; analyze the application data for one or more indicator being at least a portion of the text entered into the application and having one or more meaning; retrieve one or more selected ideograph from a database populated with ideographs received from and associated with one or more advertisers, the one or more selected ideograph being indicative of a graphical representation of the one or more meanings of the one or more indicator; transmit the one or more selected ideograph to the user device via the communications network; and charge a fee to at least one advertiser associated with the one or more selected ideograph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Matthew Timothy Tew, Jed Keith Corenthal, Stephen Callahan Sterling, Christopher Ryan Nickless