Michael D Burks

US Patent:

20090209347, Aug 20, 2009

Filed:

Dec 15, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/335460

Inventors:

STEVEN F. ROBERTS - San Francisco CA, US
Michael Burks - San Francisco CA, US
Han Park - Edgewater NJ, US
Craig Levine - New York NY, US

Assignee:

THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

A63F 9/24

US Classification:

463 40

Abstract:

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for presenting video game contests via television. A system in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention comprises a network of gaming platforms, wherein the network of gaming platforms comprise at least one player platform and at least one spectator platform, each gaming platform in the network of gaming platforms having a video output, wherein the at least one spectator platform has a delayed start in the video game contest, a plurality of converters, each converter in the plurality of converters respectively coupled to the video outputs of the gaming platforms, a production facility, coupled to the plurality of converters, for viewing the video outputs of the gaming platforms via the plurality of converters and for selecting a chosen video output to be broadcast, and a broadcast system, coupled to the production facility, for distributing the chosen video output.

US Patent:

20090209348, Aug 20, 2009

Filed:

Dec 15, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/335465

Inventors:

STEVEN F. ROBERTS - San Francisco CA, US
Michael Burks - San Francisco CA, US
Han Park - Edgewater NJ, US
Craig Levine - New York NY, US

Assignee:

THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

A63F 13/00

US Classification:

463 40

Abstract:

Systems, methods, and devices for presenting video game contests via television are presented. A system in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention comprises a network of gaming platforms, wherein the network of gaming platforms comprise at least one player platform and at least one spectator platform, the at least one spectator platform having a viewing perspective different from that of the at least one player platform, each gaming platform in the network of gaming platforms having a video output, a plurality of converters, each converter in the plurality of converters respectively coupled to the video outputs of the gaming platforms, a production facility, coupled to the plurality of converters, for viewing the video outputs of the gaming platforms via the plurality of converters and for selecting a chosen video output to be broadcast, and a broadcast system, coupled to the production facility, for distributing the chosen video output.

US Patent:

20230013536, Jan 19, 2023

Filed:

Jul 18, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/866969

Inventors:

- Atherton CA, US
John Edward Walecka - San Francisco CA, US
Aleksey Novicov - Palo Alto CA, US
Michael Dewey Burks - Menlo Park CA, US
Pablo Castellanos Macin - Mexico City, MX

International Classification:

G11B 27/031
G06F 3/0488
G06F 3/044

Abstract:

This disclosure is directed to systems, methods, apparatuses, and techniques that utilize enhanced gesture-based input mechanisms to facilitate rapid creation and editing of digital music compositions. These technologies can be specially designed and configured to optimize creation, editing, and/or sharing of digital music compositions on mobile electronic devices that include capacitive sensing mechanisms. The technologies include multi-gesture functionalities that enable users to view and access various notation customization features in a compact space of a mobile device display. Additionally, the technologies encompass improved data storage models that enable underlying notation data to be accessed in multiple operational modes, and permit frequencies or pitches of notations to be accurately generated and incorporated into audio signals.

US Patent:

20180196854, Jul 12, 2018

Filed:

Jan 11, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/403822

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Michael Burks - Los Altos CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 3/0488
G06F 3/0482

Abstract:

In general, this disclosure is directed to techniques for enabling an application extension executing as part of an application of a computing device to: automatically predict, based on contextual information associated with the computing device or the application, potential search queries from a set of predetermined search queries, and display graphical elements (e.g., icons, images, or other types of graphical elements) indicative of the predicted search queries within the graphical keyboard. The application extension may analyze the contextual information for use in the search query prediction only after receiving express consent from a user of the computing device to do so. The application extension may execute, or cause to be executed, a search based on a predicted search query in response to the computing device detecting a user input that selects, from directly within the graphical keyboard, the graphical element that is associated with the predicted search query.

US Patent:

20170308586, Oct 26, 2017

Filed:

Apr 20, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/134243

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Pranay Gupta - San Francisco CA, US
Michael Burks - Los Altos CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 17/30
G06F 17/30
G06F 17/24
G06F 3/0482
G06F 3/0488
G06F 3/0488
G06F 3/0484
G06T 13/80
G06F 17/30

Abstract:

A computing device may include a presence-sensitive display, at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to output, for display at the presence-sensitive display, a graphical keyboard including a plurality of keys and a suggestion region; determine, based on a selection of the suggestion region or one or more keys from the plurality of keys, a search query; retrieve one or more search results determined based on the search query; and output, in place of at least a portion of the graphical keyboard, a visual representation of a particular search result of the one or more search results.

US Patent:

20170308591, Oct 26, 2017

Filed:

Oct 24, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/332409

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Pranay Gupta - San Francisco CA, US
Michael Burks - Los Altos CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 3/0482
G06F 3/0488
G06F 3/0488

Abstract:

A computing device may include a presence-sensitive display, at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to output, for display at the presence-sensitive display, a graphical keyboard including a plurality of keys and a suggestion region; determine, based on a selection of the suggestion region or one or more keys from the plurality of keys, a search query; retrieve one or more search results determined based on the search query; and output, in place of at least a portion of the graphical keyboard, a visual representation of a particular search result of the one or more search results.