Matthew Michael Wong

US Patent:

8578405, Nov 5, 2013

Filed:

Aug 17, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/542036

Inventors:

Oleg B. Rashkovskiy - Cupertino CA, US
Thomas J. Morgan - San Mateo CA, US
Matthew Wong - Palo Alto CA, US
Brian T. Duersch - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

Blackarrow, Inc. - San Jose CA

International Classification:

H04N 7/025
H04N 5/445
H04N 7/16

US Classification:

725 32, 725 42, 725142

Abstract:

A system includes a receiver to receive content and an advertisement. The system further includes a cache, coupled to the receiver, to store the content and the advertisement. An interface in the receiver receives an updated advertisement and updating instructions, the updating instructions to enable the receiver to replace the stored advertisement with the updated advertisement. The receiver detects a starting point of the advertisement and creates a marker and inserts it into the content to indicate said starting point, and stores the advertisement from the content to a memory storage location separate from the content, and creates and stores a pointer to the memory location. The interface detects a user-initiated pause in the viewing of content, retrieves the updated advertisement from storage, and provides a user interface that enables the user to view the retrieved advertisement for as long as the viewing of the content remains paused. The receiver is configured to overlay the retrieved advertisement with material descriptive of upcoming content in the received content.

US Patent:

8640161, Jan 28, 2014

Filed:

Aug 17, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/542040

Inventors:

Oleg B. Rashkovskiy - Cupertino CA, US
Thomas J. Morgan - San Mateo CA, US
Matthew Wong - Palo Alto CA, US
Brian T. Duersch - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

BlackArrow - San Jose CA

International Classification:

H04N 7/025
H04N 5/445
H04N 7/16
H04N 9/80

US Classification:

725 32, 725 42, 725142, 386250

Abstract:

A system includes a cache, coupled to a receiver, to store received content and advertisements. An interface in the receiver detects the occurrence of an advantageous condition during the play of content retrieved from the cache. The receiver locates one or more advertisements in the cache, and enables the display of a user interface in place of the content so long as the advantageous condition is detected. The user interface includes selectable indicia of the located advertisements and an indicia of the content. The interface is adapted to locate one or more advertisements using markers that are inserted into the content by the interface, and pointers to the one or more advertisements associated with the markers, the pointers having a stored association to the markers.

US Patent:

20070162951, Jul 12, 2007

Filed:

Mar 7, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/715171

Inventors:

Oleg Rashkovskiy - Cupertino CA, US
Thomas Morgan - San Mateo CA, US
Matthew Wong - Palo Alto CA, US
Brian Duersch - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/173
H04N 7/16

US Classification:

725134000, 725142000, 725131000

Abstract:

Content which users may wish to receive may be distributed with interrupting content such that the use of the content on the user's receiver may be interrupted and replaced with the interrupting content. The content which the user wishes to receive may be software, audio, video, graphics or other material and the interrupting content in one embodiment of the prevent invention may be advertisements. In this way, the user's receiver may be utilized to determine when it is appropriate to interrupt the interruptible content with the interrupting content. This may provide a convenient mechanism for reduced price or free distribution of a wide variety of media currently provided only in physical form or only for free without any compensation to the content provider.

US Patent:

20090171784, Jul 2, 2009

Filed:

Dec 27, 2007

Appl. No.:

12/005531

Inventors:

Thomas J. Morgan - San Mateo CA, US
Christopher A. White - Redwood City CA, US
Matthew Wong - Palo Alto CA, US
Leslie M. Carter - San Jose CA, US
Mason T. Jones - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00
G06Q 10/00
G06Q 20/00

US Classification:

705 14, 705 39, 705 30

Abstract:

A dynamic advertising insertion system automatically inserts advertisements in response to opportunities that arise in the course of content playback. For example, when a user hits a pause button, an advertising opportunity may be created and an appropriate advertisement may be inserted. One basis for determining which advertisement to insert is to enforce a predetermined agreement between a content provider and one or more distributors that sets forth a percentage of advertising opportunities that each entity will be afforded. Thus, the decision of what advertisement to insert may be based on a number of factors, including the type of content, the particular user's equipment, information about the user, and the need to adjust the playback of advertisements to enforce the percentage split between the advertising entities.

US Patent:

20130117353, May 9, 2013

Filed:

Aug 20, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/589335

Inventors:

Matthew Wong - Castro Valley CA, US
Kim Man Chan - Palo Alto CA, US

Assignee:

SALESFORCE.COM, INC. - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709203

Abstract:

Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media for processing a preference indication for a feed item of an information feed. In some implementations, a preference indication associated with a feed item is received. In some instances, it is determined whether the feed item is associated with a custom rule, where the custom rule defines one or more actions to modify information associated with feed items of designated one more content types. In some instances, one or more actions are selected to perform based on an identified content type of the feed item in response to the determination that the feed item is associated with the custom rule.

US Patent:

20200073770, Mar 5, 2020

Filed:

Aug 28, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/115472

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Matthew Wong - Castro Valley CA, US
Matthew Bahrenburg - San Francisco CA, US
Puneet Dhaliwal - Hayward CA, US
Anupam Jain - Vancouver, CA
Steven S. Lawrance - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 11/20
H04L 29/12

Abstract:

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing tenant-to-tenant failover in a multi-tenant could computing environment. An exemplary system having at least a processor and a memory therein includes means for identifying a first one of a plurality of tenants in a multi-tenant cloud computing system as a primary tenant for providing a function, identifying a second one of the plurality of tenants in the multi-tenant cloud computing system as a secondary tenant for providing the function should the primary tenant become unavailable, providing the function in the multi-tenant cloud computing system via the primary tenant when the primary tenant is available, and switching to providing the function in the multi-tenant cloud computing environment via the secondary tenant when the primary tenant is unavailable and the secondary tenant is available.

US Patent:

20180038706, Feb 8, 2018

Filed:

Aug 2, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/666883

Inventors:

- LOS ANGELES CA, US
Thomas William Ellenby - San Jose CA, US
Roderick Perkins - Menlo Park CA, US
Matthew Wong - Palo Alto CA, US
John Ellenby - SAN FRANCISCO CA, US

International Classification:

G01C 21/34
G01C 21/36
G06F 17/30

Abstract:

A computer system and associated methods performed by the computer system creates routes, optionally including differing types of transit, based on one or more of a traveler's allotted time to arrive at a destination, the traveler's reason or purpose for a trip and the traveler's selected interests or environmental factors that may affect or alter the traveler's journey. Using user preferences and pre-set thresholds related to specific types of points of interest or geolocated object a route from a start location to a desired destination is created to achieve a desired arrival time while optionally including various proposed combinations of additional stops and/or a transit types.