Patents by Inventor Thomas Stephen Woolway

Thomas Stephen Woolway 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).

  • Video preview generation
    Patent number: 9715901
    Abstract: A system and method including: a source video for broadcast by a social media platform may be received; a set of video snippets may be extracted from the source video; a subset of the video snippets may be joined to form a preview video; a request for content for an account of the social media platform may be received from a client device; and the preview video may be provided to the client device for automatic playback by the client device in a playback area displayed inline with a message stream of the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Baljeet Singh, Michael Folgner, Ryan Cunningham, David Regan, Yi Wang, Noah Vihinen, Thomas Stephen Woolway