Patents by Inventor Todd Collart
Todd Collart 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).
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Publication number: 20230115709Abstract: Systems and methods for authorizing rendering of objects in three-dimensional spaces are described. The system may include a first system defining a virtual three-dimensional space including the placement of a plurality of objects in the three-dimensional space, and a second system including a plurality of rules associated with portions of the three-dimensional space and a device coupled to the first system and the second system. The device may receive a request to render a volume of three-dimensional space, retrieve objects for the volume of three-dimensional, retrieve rules associated with the three-dimensional, and apply the rules for the three-dimensional space to the objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventor: TODD COLLART
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Patent number: 11580243Abstract: Systems and methods for authorizing rendering of objects in three-dimensional spaces are described. The system may include a first system defining a virtual three-dimensional space including the placement of a plurality of objects in the three-dimensional space, and a second system including a plurality of rules associated with portions of the three-dimensional space and a device coupled to the first system and the second system. The device may receive a request to render a volume of three-dimensional space, retrieve objects for the volume of three-dimensional, retrieve rules associated with the three-dimensional, and apply the rules for the three-dimensional space to the objects.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Inventor: Todd Collart
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Publication number: 20210064774Abstract: Systems and methods for authorizing rendering of objects in three-dimensional spaces are described. The system may include a first system defining a virtual three-dimensional space including the placement of a plurality of objects in the three-dimensional space, and a second system including a plurality of rules associated with portions of the three-dimensional space and a device coupled to the first system and the second system. The device may receive a request to render a volume of three-dimensional space, retrieve objects for the volume of three-dimensional, retrieve rules associated with the three-dimensional, and apply the rules for the three-dimensional space to the objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventor: TODD COLLART
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Patent number: 9788048Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Deluxe Media Inc.Inventors: Todd Collart, Allan Lamkin
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Patent number: 8880714Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Deluxe Media Inc.Inventors: Todd Collart, Allan Lamkin
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Publication number: 20140310754Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Todd Collart, Allan Lamkin
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Patent number: 8782262Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Deluxe Media Inc.Inventors: Todd Collart, Allan Lamkin
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Patent number: 8775647Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Deluxe Media Inc.Inventors: Todd Collart, Allan Lamkin
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Publication number: 20140089515Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: Deluxe Digital Studios, Inc.Inventors: Todd Collart, Allan Lamkin
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Publication number: 20120030366Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: Deluxe Digital Studios, Inc.Inventors: Todd COLLART, Allan LAMKIN
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Patent number: 8060631Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Deluxe Digital Studios, Inc.Inventors: Todd Collart, Allan Lamkin
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Publication number: 20100293598Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: DELUXE DIGITAL STUDIOS, INC.Inventors: Todd Collart, Allan Lamkin
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Patent number: 7577677Abstract: A system, method, and article of manufacture is provided for updating content stored on a portable storage medium. Upon input of a portable storage medium into a machine by a user, the content stored on the portable storage medium is read. After reading the content of the portable storage medium, a separate storage medium is accessed and content is received therefrom. The content from the separate storage medium is an update of the content of the portable storage medium. This content of the separate storage medium is then displayed.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Sonic Solutions, a California corporationInventor: Todd Collart
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Publication number: 20090150553Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be established; determine whether an authorization to establish the connection has been confirmed; establish, when the authorization is confirmed, a communication connection; determine, as instructed by the content package and when the communication with the secondary device is established, whether one or more commands are received from the secondary device; and implement, as instructed by the content package and when it is determined that the one or more commands are received from the secondary device, the one or more commands in controlling playback experience of the media content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: DELUXE DIGITAL STUDIOS, INC.Inventors: Todd COLLART, Allan LAMKIN
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Patent number: 7499938Abstract: A method of playing multimedia content comprising reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium; and utilizing a control structure stored on the separate storage medium to alter the playback of the local multimedia content stored on the portable storage medium. A method of providing multimedia content comprising the steps of reading, at a local machine, local multimedia content stored on a portable storage medium; and downloading a control structure to control the display of the local multimedia content.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Sonic Solutions, A California CorporationInventor: Todd Collart
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Patent number: 7448021Abstract: A system and method for combining video/audio content with programmatic content perform the following steps: generating authoring output comprising a definition for a variable, and further comprising a representation of the video/audio content; selecting a source file, the source file comprising the variable; searching the source file for the variable, and replacing the variable with the definition for the variable; generating programmatic content in response to the searching; and generating an image as a function of the programmatic content and the representation of the audio/video content.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2000Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Sonic Solutions, a California corporationInventors: Allan Lamkin, Todd Collart, Jeff Blair
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Patent number: 7392481Abstract: An apparatus and methods for providing content-owner control in a device is optionally networked. A method for accessing media content has steps of initiating a first view providing access to at least a portion of a first content within the first view, initiating a second view providing access to a second content within the second view and preventing the second content from being accessed with the first content in the first view. Additionally, access to a third content with the first content is allowed in the first view. An apparatus includes a first view configured to provide access to a first content, a second view configured to provide access to a second content, and a graphical subsystem configured to prevent the second content from being access in the first view. In one variation, the first view is a media content view, and the second view is a web view.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Sonic Solutions, a California corporationInventors: Greg Gewickey, Todd Collart
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Publication number: 20060195600Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for use in playing back content. Some embodiments provide a method for use in content playback by accessing an embedded object embedded within object oriented programming stored on a portable storage media where the embedded object controls playback of content, communicating a navigation command from the embedded object within the object oriented programming to the content, altering a register in response to the navigation command communicated, and controlling the playback of the content in response to the altering of the register.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: August 31, 2006Applicant: Interactual Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Evgeniy Getsin, Allan Lamkin, Todd Collart, Michael Lewis
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Publication number: 20060193606Abstract: Some embodiments provide a computer readable portable storage media that includes audio/video content, a code segment to determine whether a network connection is active, a code segment to initiate a determination of whether a network connection can be established, a code segment to establish a connection in response to determining that a network connection can be established and a connection is not active, a code segment to identify instructions to access additional content over the network connection, a code segment to access the additional content associated with the audio/video over the network connection, and a code segment to cause rendering of at least one of the additional content and the audio/video content.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: August 31, 2006Applicant: Interactual Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Allan Lamkin, Todd Collart, Greg Gewickey
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Publication number: 20060182424Abstract: Some embodiments provide computer readable portable storage mediums that include multimedia content to be played back through a content playback device, a code segment to determine whether additional content is associated with the multimedia content, a codes segment to load the additional content when a determination that additional content is associated with the multimedia content based on the implementation of the code segment to determine whether the additional content is associated with the multimedia content, and a code segment to cause the additional content to be rendered when the additional content associated with the multimedia content is loaded.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: August 17, 2006Applicant: Interactual Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Allan Lamkin, Todd Collart, Greg Gewickey