Michael P Fitzsimmons

US Patent:

20060136305, Jun 22, 2006

Filed:

May 11, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/127770

Inventors:

Michael Fitzsimmons - San Francisco CA, US
Louis Ewens - Novato CA, US
Matthew Reid - Alameda CA, US

Assignee:

Delivery Agent, Inc. - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00

US Classification:

705026000

Abstract:

For purposes of patent searching a description includes aspects in which users of presentations of entertainment, news, education and other can research and/or purchase products observed to be involved in the presentations by using presentation placement data and a product description obtained through observation, the product description being insufficient alone to fully support such research and/or purchasing activities. Product data and presentation placement data are stored and associated. Issuance data may also be stored and associated with the product data and the presentation placement data. Various methods and systems are used to provide access to one or more of these data and associations.

US Patent:

20130019268, Jan 17, 2013

Filed:

Feb 11, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/026074

Inventors:

Michael R. Fitzsimmons - San Francisco CA, US
David M. Rudnick - Denver CO, US
Brian Joe - San Francisco CA, US
Christopher A. Lee - Denver CO, US
Wei Hu - Englewood CO, US

International Classification:

H04N 21/478

US Classification:

725 60

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for enabling a viewer to watch television in the usual manner, while providing the viewer with an opportunity to indicate interest in products contextually associated with, but not necessarily displayed, in the television programs viewed, are described. Viewer interest might be indicated, for example, by launching a widget from an icon located on the TV video receiver using a handheld remote controller in communication with a set-top box during the program. The program being viewed may then be identified, for example, by the selected channel, the name of the program, the episode, and the time of the selection, or a combination of these indicators. The selections are transmitted by the set-top box to a remote search server, which returns information to the viewer on a portion of the TV video receiver concerning available products contextually related to the program being viewed at the time the widget was launched by the viewer, as well as purchase information. A selected product may as well be purchased through the set-top box in communication with an e-commerce server. Use of a mobile telephone in combination with a TV set-top box for product purchasing is also described.

US Patent:

20190213627, Jul 11, 2019

Filed:

Jan 4, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/240661

Inventors:

- Denver CO, US
Michael Fitzsimmons - Diablo CA, US
Michael O'Donnell - Hoboken NJ, US
Josh Hamann - Denver CO, US
Christopher Lee - Denver CO, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/02
H04N 21/234
G06Q 30/08

Abstract:

In some embodiments, a method receives social data, video data, and/or statistical data for a live video being played and generates an event based on analyzing at least one of the social data, the video data, and the statistical data. The method then classifies the social data into a social score, the video data into a video score, and the statistical data into a statistical score and generates a threshold for the social score, the video score, and the statistical score. When the threshold is met using one or more of the social score, video score, and the statistical score, the event for the live video is triggered where an occurrence of the event is not predetermined for the live video. The method causes an action to be performed during the live video based on the triggering of the event.