Patents by Inventor William R. May

William R. May 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: 20240107097
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for methods, computer program products, and systems to improve media playback comprising receiving a variant stream, identifying respective maximum segment durations for a plurality of different types of client devices that will play media content contained in the variant stream, generating, using the variant stream, a respective playlist for each of the plurality of different types of client devices, wherein the respective playlists each contain different maximum segment durations, and delivering the respective playlists to at least one of the plurality of different types of client devices via a distribution network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: William B. MAY, JR., Eric R. KLEIN, William J. ZURAT
  • Patent number: 10304121
    Abstract: An e-commerce outsourcing system and method provides hosts with transparent, context-sensitive e-commerce supported pages. The look and feel of a target host is captured for future use. The host is provided with one or more links for inclusion within a page on the host website that correlates with a selected commerce object, which may be contextually related to material in the page. The commerce object can be a product, a product category, or a dynamic selection indicator. Upon activation of the provided link, a visitor computer is served with a page with the look and feel of the host website and with content based upon the associated commerce object. Where the commerce object is a dynamic selection indicator, the content is selected at the time of activation based upon an analysis of the page containing the activated link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: DDR HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: D Delano Ross, Jr., Daniel D Ross, Joseph R Michaels, William R May, Richard A Anderson
  • Patent number: 9639876
    Abstract: An ecommerce outsourcing system and method provides hosts with transparent, context-sensitive e-commerce supported pages. The look and feel of a target host is captured for future use. The host is provided with one or more links for inclusion within a page on the host website that correlates with a selected commerce object, which may be contextually related to material in the page. The commerce object can be a product, a product category, or a dynamic selection indicator. Upon activation of the provided link, a visitor computer is served with a page with the look and feel of the host website and with content based upon the associated commerce object. Where the commerce object is a dynamic selection indicator, the content is selected at the time of activation based upon an analysis of the page containing the activated link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: DDR HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: D Delano Ross, Jr., Daniel D Ross, Joseph R Michaels, William R May, Richard A Anderson
  • Patent number: 9043228
    Abstract: An e-commerce outsourcing system and method provides hosts with transparent, context-sensitive e-commerce supported pages. The look and feel of a target host is captured for future use. The host is provided with one or more links for inclusion within a page on the host website that correlates with a selected commerce object, which may be contextually related to material in the page. The commerce object can be a product, a product category, or a dynamic selection indicator. Upon activation of the provided link, a visitor computer is served with a page with the look and feel of the host website and with content based upon the associated commerce object. Where the commerce object is a dynamic selection indicator, the content is selected at the time of activation based upon an analysis of the page containing the activated link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: DDR HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: D Delano Ross, Jr., Daniel D Ross, Joseph R Michaels, William R May, Richard A Anderson
  • Patent number: 8515825
    Abstract: An e-commerce outsourcing system and method provides hosts with transparent, context-sensitive e-commerce supported pages. The look and feel of a target host is captured for future use. The host is provided with one or more links for inclusion within a page on the host website that correlates with a selected commerce object, which may be contextually related to material in the page. The commerce object can be a product, a product category, or a dynamic selection indicator. Upon activation of the provided link, a visitor computer is served with a page with the look and feel of the host website and with content based upon the associated commerce object. Where the commerce object is a dynamic selection indicator, the content is selected at the time of activation based upon an analysis of the page containing the activated link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: DDR Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: D. Delano Ross, Jr., Daniel D. Ross, Joseph R. Michaels, William R. May, Richard A. Anderson
  • Patent number: 7818399
    Abstract: An e-commerce outsourcing system and method provides hosts with transparent, context-sensitive e-commerce supported pages. A plurality of visually perceptible elements associated with and identifying a source of a host's web page are stored in the form of data in a computer database for future use. The host includes one or more links within a page on the host website that correlate with a selected commerce object, which may be contextually related to material in the page. The commerce object can be a buying opportunity for a product of a third-party merchant, a product category containing a plurality of products of third-party merchants, or a dynamic selection indicator of a merchant's product. A plurality of hosts may choose to link to the same commerce object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: DDR Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: D. Delano Ross, Jr., Daniel D. Ross, Joseph R. Michaels, William R. May, Richard A. Anderson
  • Patent number: 6993572
    Abstract: An e-commerce outsourcing system and method provides hosts with transparent, context-sensitive e-commerce supported pages. The look and feel of a target host is captured for future use. The host is provided with one or more links for inclusion within a page on the host website that correlates with a selected commerce object, which may be contextually related to material in the page. The commerce object can be a product, a product category, or a dynamic selection indicator. Upon activation of the provided link, a visitor computer is served with a page with the look and feel of the host website and with content based upon the associated commerce object. Where the commerce object is a dynamic selection indicator, the content is selected at the time of activation based upon an analysis of the page containing the activated link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: DDR Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: D. Delano Ross, Jr., Daniel D. Ross, Joseph R. Michaels, William R. May, Richard A. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20040148366
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an e-commerce outsourcing system and method that provides hosts with transparent, context sensitive e-commerce supported pages. The look and feel of a target host is captured for future use. The look and feel is captured by receiving the identification of an example page on the target host, retrieving the page, identifying the look and feel elements of the identified page and storing the identified elements. The host is provided with links correlating the host with a link for inclusion within a page on the host website for serving to a visitor computer, wherein the provided link correlates the host website with a selected commerce object contextually related to material in the page. The commerce object can be a product, a product category or a dynamic selection indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: D. Delano Ross, Daniel D. Ross, Joseph R. Michaels, William R. May, Richard A. Anderson
  • Patent number: 6629135
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an e-commerce outsourcing system and method that provides hosts with transparent, context sensitive e-commerce supported pages. The look and feel of a target host is captured for future use. The look and feel is captured by receiving the identification of an example page on the target host, retrieving the page, identifying the look and feel elements of the identified page and storing the identified elements. The host is provided with links correlating the host with a link for inclusion within a page on the host website for serving to a visitor computer, wherein the provided link correlates the host website with a selected commerce object contextually related to material in the page. The commerce object can be a product, a product category or a dynamic selection indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: DDR Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: D. Delano Ross, Jr., Daniel D. Ross, Joseph R. Michaels, William R. May, Richard A. Anderson