Patents by Inventor Tirrell Payton

Tirrell Payton 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: 10289749
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for degree of separation for media artifact discovery. A method includes visually highlighting a media artifact on a Web page in response to a user's media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media, and generating for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventor: Tirrell Payton
  • Publication number: 20090193395
    Abstract: A software development methodology is to develop a software product including a plurality of units. Unit tests are generated according to a unit test framework. The unit test framework comprises a plurality of subsequently narrowing maturity levels, each maturity level outlining how a unit test at that level should be defined based on what functionality of the plurality of units should be tested and how that functionality should be tested. Each subsequent maturity level tests functionality at a more detailed level than functionality at a previous maturity level. The plurality of units are developed, and the unit tests are executed. A top maturity level includes testing whether each unit performs a function based on existence of strictly expected conditions. Maturity levels below the top maturity level include testing dependencies among the plurality of units, testing for exceptions of object functions and function dependencies, and testing for functionality to be later included in the software product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventor: Tirrell Payton
  • Publication number: 20090063973
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for degree of separation for media artifact discovery. A method includes visually highlighting a media artifact on a Web page in response to a user's media preferences and how distant from a core range of media preferences the user wants to engage more media, and generating for display to the user additional information and resources about the visually highlighted media artifact and how the visually highlighted media artifact relates to the core range of media preferences in response to a user action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Tirrell Payton