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Richard W. Tom
Also filed as: TOM RICHARD · TOM RICHARD W · TOM RICHARD WAIVEN
23 granted patents·5 pending applications·246 citations·filing 2004–2018
95Inventor score
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28 records- 0196US8850471B2Method and apparatus for providing user control of advertising breaks associated with a media programKILAR JASON A·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 30, 2014·52 cites·30 claims
- 0293US8713603B2Method and apparatus for user selection of advertising combinationsKILAR JASON A·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 29, 2014·19 cites·49 claims
- 0392US8533066B2Method and apparatus for recommending media programs based on correlated user feedbackWEI XUAN·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 10, 2013·18 cites·20 claims
- 0491US9596514B2Method and apparatus for providing user control of advertising breaks associated with a media programHULU LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 14, 2017·11 cites·21 claims
- 0590US8239889B2Method and apparatus for collecting viewer survey data and for providing compensation for sameWONG ROBERT MASAO·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 7, 2012·15 cites·50 claims
- 0689US8966520B2Video ad swapping in a video streaming systemTOM RICHARD W·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 24, 2015·17 cites·21 claims
- 0788US9712850B2Dynamic maintenance and distribution of video content on content delivery networksHULU LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 18, 2017·6 cites·20 claims
- 0888US9066145B2Commenting correlated to temporal point of video dataKILAR JASON A·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 23, 2015·22 cites·32 claims
- 0987US8997150B2Method and apparatus for permitting user interruption of an advertisement and the substitution of alternate advertisement versionKILAR JASON A·Filed 2011·Granted Mar 31, 2015·10 cites·39 claims
- 1087US8578408B2Method and apparatus for providing directed advertising based on user preferencesTOM RICHARD W·Filed 2009·Granted Nov 5, 2013·13 cites·15 claims
- 1185US9078020B2Dynamic optimization of video content distributionHULU LLC·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 7, 2015·6 cites·23 claims
- 1279US9286616B2Method and apparatus for providing directed advertising based on user preferencesKILAR JASON A·Filed 2011·Granted Mar 15, 2016·4 cites·77 claims
- 1379US7613751B2Well-known transactions in data replicationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 3, 2009·10 cites·10 claims
- 1478US7143123B2Well-known transactions in data replicationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 28, 2006·26 cites·34 claims
- 1576US8756184B2Predicting users' attributes based on users' behaviorsLI HANG·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 17, 2014·9 cites·32 claims
- 1675US8707343B2Method and apparatus for collecting viewer survey data and for providing compensation for sameWONG ROBERT MASAO·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 22, 2014·3 cites·32 claims
- 1768US10506299B2Media player configuration to provide viewing data feedbackHULU LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Dec 10, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 1868US9202224B2Providing a survey during an advertisement opportunity to improve advertising experienceKILAR JASON A·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 1, 2015·2 cites·32 claims
- 1967US9426537B2Providing directed advertising based on user preferencesHULU LLC·Filed 2013·Granted Aug 23, 2016·1 cites·20 claims
- 2064US2013325879A1Method and apparatus for recommending media programs based on correlated user feedbackHULU LLC·Filed 2013·Application pending·0 cites
- 2162US10070183B2Processing techniques in audio-visual streaming systemsVERIZON DIGITAL MEDIA SERVICES INC·Filed 2015·Granted Sep 4, 2018·1 cites·18 claims
- 2251US2012072286A1Method and apparatus for providing a user-editable playlist of advertisementsKILAR JASON A·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 2351US2012072272A1Method and apparatus for saving or bookmarking advertisements for later viewingKILAR JASON A·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 2450US11006176B2Processing techniques in audio-visual streaming systemsVERIZON DIGITAL MEDIA SERVICES INC·Filed 2018·Granted May 11, 2021·0 cites·18 claims
- 2540US2009083732A1Creation and deployment of distributed, extensible applicationsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2637US10764284B2Method and system for dynamic data flow enforcementVERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 1, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 2737US2019220036A1Systems and Methods for Implementing Vehicle Assignments using Vehicle State InformationUBER TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2018·Application pending·0 cites
- 2826US11386931B2Methods and systems for altering video clip objectsVERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC·Filed 2017·Granted Jul 12, 2022·0 cites·19 claims
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