Patents by Inventor Timothy William Stephani

Timothy William Stephani 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).

  • Generating description pages for media entities
    Patent number: 12436994
    Abstract: Pages describing episodes of podcasts or other media entities are constructed by interpreting content of the media entities. A transcript of an episode is determined by one or more natural language understanding techniques and divided into chapters. For each of the chapters, a summary sentence of the chapter and one or more key phrases are determined from the transcript, and participants in the chapter are identified. A summary of the episode is determined from the summary sentences of each of the chapters. A page that describes the episode of the podcast including the summary of the episode, as well as one or more of the key phrases and identities of the participants is generated and provided to prospective listeners to the episode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Garcia Siagian, Vedant Ulhas Shete, Timothy William Stephani, Jobel Kyle Petallana Vecino, Gordon Zheng
  • Generating description pages for media entities
    Patent number: 12026199
    Abstract: Pages describing episodes of podcasts or other media entities are constructed by interpreting content of the media entities. A transcript of an episode is determined by one or more natural language understanding techniques and divided into chapters. For each of the chapters, a summary sentence of the chapter and one or more key phrases are determined from the transcript, and participants in the chapter are identified. A summary of the episode is determined from the summary sentences of each of the chapters. A page that describes the episode of the podcast including the summary of the episode, as well as one or more of the key phrases and identities of the participants is generated and provided to prospective listeners to the episode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Garcia Siagian, Vedant Ulhas Shete, Timothy William Stephani, Jobel Kyle Petallana Vecino, Gordon Zheng