Richard B Walsh

US Patent:

8051195, Nov 1, 2011

Filed:

Jun 4, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/477987

Inventors:

Kunal Kandekar - Jersey City NJ, US
Richard J. Walsh - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

Qurio Holdings, Inc. - Raleigh NC

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 15/173
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

709231, 709226, 463 42

Abstract:

A method and system for providing content in a virtual environment. A host computer hosting a region in a virtual environment provides an event stream including a plurality of event data segments identifying activity occurring in the virtual environment to a client computer participating in the virtual environment. The host computer receives a request to provide virtual environment content including imagery data associated with the virtual environment to the client computer, and provides a content stream including a plurality of content data segments containing virtual environment content at a content stream bandwidth based on an event stream bandwidth associated with the event stream to the client computer.

US Patent:

8301797, Oct 30, 2012

Filed:

Oct 31, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/285329

Inventors:

Kunal Kandekar - Jersey City NJ, US
Richard J. Walsh - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

Qurio Holdings Inc. - Raleigh NC

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 15/173
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

709231, 709226, 463 42

Abstract:

A method and system for providing content in a virtual environment. A host computer hosting a region in a virtual environment provides an event stream including a plurality of event data segments identifying activity occurring in the virtual environment to a client computer participating in the virtual environment. The host computer receives a request to provide virtual environment content including imagery data associated with the virtual environment to the client computer, and provides a content stream including a plurality of content data segments containing virtual environment content at a content stream bandwidth based on an event stream bandwidth associated with the event stream to the client computer.

US Patent:

20120046936, Feb 23, 2012

Filed:

Apr 7, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/662248

Inventors:

Kunal Kandekar - Jersey City NJ, US
Alfredo C. Issa - Apex NC, US
Richard J. Walsh - Raleigh NC, US
Ravi Reddy Katpelly - Durham NC, US

Assignee:

Lemi Technology, LLC - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

G06F 17/27
G06Q 50/00
G06Q 99/00

US Classification:

704 9, 705347, 704E15001

Abstract:

A system and computer implemented method of distributed audience feedback of media content in real time or substantially real time, including: semantically analyzing, at a semantic speech analysis engine, media content from a media program and identifying relevant topic data; distributing, at a topic data publisher, the identified relevant topic data to an audience of the media program; collecting, at a server, audience opinions on the identified relevant topic data; and processing the collected audience opinions. Other embodiments are disclosed.

US Patent:

20120072611, Mar 22, 2012

Filed:

Aug 24, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/216517

Inventors:

Kunal Kandekar - Jersey City NJ, US
Richard J. Walsh - Raleigh NC, US
Alfredo C. Issa - Apex NC, US
Ravi Reddy Katpelly - Cary NC, US

Assignee:

PORTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709231

Abstract:

Systems and methods are provided for obtaining look-ahead segments for a streaming media item during playback such that the viewer can easily skip to the look-ahead segments without experiencing any substantial interruption or delay in playback. In general, a streaming media source begins streaming a media item to a streaming media client for playback. In one embodiment, the streaming media client selects one or more segments of the media item as one or more look-ahead segments to prefetch from the streaming media source. Then, while the media item is being streamed to the streaming media client for playback, the streaming media client prefetches the one or more look-ahead segments of the media item from the streaming media source. The look-ahead segments are thereafter utilized to enable the viewer to skip ahead in playback without experiencing a substantial interruption or delay in playback.

US Patent:

20140073359, Mar 13, 2014

Filed:

Nov 12, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/077591

Inventors:

Kunal Kandekar - Jersey City NJ, US
Scott Curtis - Chapel Hill NC, US
Richard J. Walsh - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

Waldeck Technology, LLC - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

H04W 4/02

US Classification:

4554563

Abstract:

Systems and methods relating to location-based applications, such as widgets, are disclosed. In general, in one embodiment, location-based application service obtains a current location of a mobile device and determines whether the current location of the mobile device is associated with one of a plurality of non-adjacent geographic locations associated with an establishment. An application identifier associated with the plurality of non-adjacent geographic locations associated with the establishment is provided based on the determination, where the application identifier at least one of identifies an application for the mobile device to activate and references a remote source for the mobile device to obtain the application.

US Patent:

20170339522, Nov 23, 2017

Filed:

Jun 5, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/614543

Inventors:

- Wilmington DE, US
Kunal Kandekar - Jersey City NJ, US
Scott Curtis - Durham NC, US
Richard J. Walsh - Raleigh NC, US

International Classification:

H04W 4/02
H04H 60/53
H04H 20/91
H04H 20/61
H04W 4/00
H04H 20/57
H04H 60/51

Abstract:

Systems and methods relating to location-based applications, such as widgets, are disclosed. In general, in one embodiment, location-based application service obtains an anticipated location of a mobile device and determines whether the anticipated location of the mobile device is associated with one of a plurality of non-adjacent geographic locations associated with an establishment. An application identifier associated with the plurality of non-adjacent geographic locations associated with the establishment is provided based on the determination, where the application identifier at least one of identifies an application for the mobile device to activate and references a remote source for the mobile device to obtain the application.

US Patent:

20160255474, Sep 1, 2016

Filed:

May 9, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/149504

Inventors:

- Wilmington DE, US
Kunal Kandekar - Jersey City NJ, US
Scott Curtis - Durham NC, US
Richard J. Walsh - Raleigh NC, US

International Classification:

H04W 4/02
H04H 60/53
H04W 4/00

Abstract:

Systems and methods relating to location-based applications, such as widgets, are disclosed. In general, in one embodiment, location-based application service obtains an anticipated location of a mobile device and determines whether the anticipated location of the mobile device is associated with one of a plurality of non-adjacent geographic locations associated with an establishment. An application identifier associated with the plurality of non-adjacent geographic locations associated with the establishment is provided based on the determination, where the application identifier at least one of identifies an application for the mobile device to activate and references a remote source for the mobile device to obtain the application.

US Patent:

20160064032, Mar 3, 2016

Filed:

Nov 9, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/935898

Inventors:

- Wilmington DE, US
Kunal Kandekar - Jersey City NJ, US
Richard J. Walsh - Raleigh NC, US

International Classification:

G11B 27/00
H04N 21/84
H04N 21/435
H04N 21/472

Abstract:

A semantic based trick play method and system in a media player is provided in which a semantic trick play command is received from a user while the user is experiencing a current content of a media item. Metadata is detected with respect to a current playback position of the media item, and at least one further playback position is determined in the current content of the media item or a related content in another media item. The further playback position is semantically related to the metadata of the current playback position. Playback is then moved to the at least one further playback position, so that the user experiences a media content of the at least one further playback position.