Richard B Stern

US Patent:

20130086615, Apr 4, 2013

Filed:

Oct 21, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/279218

Inventors:

Robert Williams - San Francisco CA, US
Robert Glaser - Seattle WA, US
Richard Stern - Oakland CA, US
Jeff McLeman - Issaquah WA, US
Cody Bittle - Sunnyvale CA, US
Ryan Chase - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

SocialEyes, Inc. - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

H04M 1/64
H04L 12/16
H04N 7/16
H04W 24/00
H04M 11/00
H04W 4/12

US Classification:

725 62, 379 9301, 455466, 4554561, 379 8812, 370271

Abstract:

Extensible media and/or activity sharing within a voice call or concurrent real-time communication session is enabled. A concurrent voice call may contextualize shared media and/or activities. Users may share live experiences within the context of a voice call. Continuous, changing real-time media types such as periodic media (e.g., a user's current location) and streaming media (e.g., what the user is currently “seeing” through their personal video camera) may be shared, as well as interactive activities and atomic media types such as an image or a text message. Such sharing may have a unidirectional modality, for example, one party may offer to share media and/or an activity and another party may accept or reject it. Once accepted, the media and/or activity may be available until the sharing party terminates the call or ends the sharing. Conventional mobile computing environments may be adapted to enable rapid, wide-spread adoption of these communication modalities.

US Patent:

20180324472, Nov 8, 2018

Filed:

May 8, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/589187

Inventors:

- San Mateo CA, US
Richard Stern - San Mateo CA, US

International Classification:

H04N 21/2387
H04N 21/25
H04N 21/647
H04N 21/488
H04N 21/2668
H04N 21/222

Abstract:

A video streaming management system and method are disclosed, which includes controlled display of a first visual interface that is managed by a first video service provider (VSP) of a plurality of subscribed VSPs. The video streaming management system is associated with the plurality of subscribed VSPs and a plurality of unsubscribed VSPs. An input for a first video is received via the first visual interface. The first video, based on the received input, is searched across a plurality of video services managed by the plurality of subscribed VSPs and the plurality of unsubscribed VSPs. A video service managed by a second VSP is recommended to view the first video selected from the first visual interface, based on the search. Playback of the first video is controlled from the recommended video service managed by the second video service provider.