Patents by Inventor Tom Furukawa

Tom Furukawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20200084512
    Abstract: For automated post roll production, a selection module (320) generates a link video list (240) from a video database (110). Each link video (200) in the link video list (240) includes at least one clip characteristic (215) matching a video characteristic of a target video (105) and each link video (200) is associated with a video clip (210) and a video address (205). The selection module (320) further selects a link video 200 from the link video list (240) according to a policy (115). A script generation module (325) generates a mask script (285) that specifies a mask dimension (415), a mask mark in (420), and a mask location (410) of the video clip (210) of the selected link video (200) within the target video (105). The script generation module (325) further generates an annotation script (280) that specifies a link location for a navigation link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Kaelin E. Burns, Tom Furukawa, Rod Afshar, Erica Alshuler, Jennifer Altimier, David Axelgard, Ushma Bhatt, Brandon Folkman, Christopher Gaudet, Alan Joos, Ruth Kaufman, Mark Kawakami, Anthony Parakian, Marjorie van Schoor
  • Publication number: 20170287014
    Abstract: An automated direct response advertising system can include: collecting information of a consumer; routing and matching the consumer to an offer of a product; providing content to the consumer with a reusable page, reusable page components, reusable multi-tenant components, and white-labeling components; requesting contact information from the consumer; requesting billing information from the consumer; providing a cross-sell offer for complimentary products of the product; providing an up-sell offer for upgrades to the product; aggregating information within an advanced analytics module; and displaying the information from the advanced analytics module on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Hung D. Vu, Peter Nguyen, Jay D. Bose, Tom Furukawa, Andrew Puchalski, Justin Durham, James Durham, Daniel Eichler, James Nguyen, Matthew P.H. Kam, Kayvan Fayazkhah, Brendan Paul, Dong Derek Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20100131360
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for allowing networks and publishers to manage the rates of their inventory to optimize their yield. The yield is determined based on a set of rates which may be stored in a rate card. The rates may be established based on targeting attributes. A publisher may adjust its rates on the rate card by selecting a particular attribute and/or rate and modifying the rate by an amount or percentage. The publisher may download its rate card and then upload a modified rate card that includes the adjusted rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Shifflett, Steven Hartman, Matthew Plummer, Kara Perry, Tom Furukawa, Jacqueline Bleth