Patents by Inventor Todd Johnsgard

Todd Johnsgard 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).

  • Architecture for content awareness and control among peer-to-peer communication devices
    Patent number: 8990364
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for collaboratively presenting content that is distributed among a plurality of communication devices are disclosed. The method includes providing a control service at a player device to enable communicatively coupled controller devices to control playback of media on the player device, and creating a single play queue at the player device that includes identifiers of media content selected by the controller devices. A stream of particular media content from one of the multiple source devices is received when the particular media content is identified at a top of the single play queue, the particular media content is rendered at the player device, and the rendered media content is presented to users associated with the controller devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Spencer, Steven J. Kinneberg, Todd Johnsgard
  • ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTENT AWARENESS AND CONTROL AMONG PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION DEVICES
    Publication number: 20130290419
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for collaboratively presenting content that is distributed among a plurality of communication devices are disclosed. The method includes providing a control service at a player device to enable communicatively coupled controller devices to control playback of media on the player device, and creating a single play queue at the player device that includes identifiers of media content selected by the controller devices. A stream of particular media content from one of the multiple source devices is received when the particular media content is identified at a top of the single play queue, the particular media content is rendered at the player device, and the rendered media content is presented to users associated with the controller devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INNOVATION CENTER, INC.
    Inventors: Brian J. Spencer, Steven J. Kinneberg, Todd Johnsgard