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Alfonso Castro

Examiner (ID: 16716, Phone: (571)270-3950 , Office: P/2421 )

Most Active Art Unit
2421
Art Unit(s)
2421, 2623, 2423
Total Applications
482
Issued Applications
218
Pending Applications
54
Abandoned Applications
222

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/671826
Generating unified metadata for a plurality of distribution platforms Oct 31, 2019 Issued
Array ( [id] => 17404203 [patent_doc_number] => 20220046294 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2022-02-10 [patent_title] => VIDEO INFORMATION PERIODIC BROADCASTING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND VIDEO INFORMATION RECEIVING METHOD AND APPARATUS [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/298347 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2019-10-28 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 7248 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -10 [patent_words_short_claim] => 2 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17298347 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/298347
Video information periodic broadcasting method and apparatus, and video information receiving method and apparatus Oct 27, 2019 Issued
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16/595137
Video content placement optimization based on behavior and content analysis Oct 6, 2019 Issued
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16/594682
METHOD TO CREATE A LIVE VIDEO STREAM FROM SHARED MEMORY OBJECT CONTAINING IMAGE BUFFER Oct 6, 2019 Abandoned
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16/586552
Method and system for use of earlier and/or later single-match as basis to disambiguate channel multi-match with non-matching programs Sep 26, 2019 Issued
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16/585549
SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR SCANNING BROADCASTS Sep 26, 2019 Abandoned
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16/566733
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME VIEWER INTERACTION WITH A MEDIA PRESENTATION Sep 9, 2019 Abandoned
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17/252363
EVALUATING THE USAGE BEHAVIOR OF A USER OF A PORTABLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE IN A MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION Jul 2, 2019 Abandoned
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16/455384
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROXIMITY-BASED PLAY OF PREFERRED CONTENT Jun 26, 2019 Abandoned
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16/441949
Media content identification on mobile devices Jun 13, 2019 Issued
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16/434884
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AN INTERACTIVE SESSION IN AN INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION Jun 6, 2019 Abandoned
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16/428397
Systems and methods to select targeted advertising May 30, 2019 Issued
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16/396638
BASE LINEAR STREAM CREATER FOR PERSONALIZED CHANNELS Apr 26, 2019 Pending
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16/390768
Digital display viewer based on location Apr 21, 2019 Issued
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16/389807
Authoring comments including typed hyperlinks that reference video content Apr 18, 2019 Issued
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16/388630
Methods and apparatus to estimate demographics of a household Apr 17, 2019 Issued
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16/371057
Systems and Methods for Scheduling Content Mar 30, 2019 Abandoned
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17/438590
LIVE STREAMING SYSTEM AND LIVE STREAMING METHOD Mar 12, 2019 Abandoned
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16/294072
Systems and methods for personalized feature setup and parental guidance sensing Mar 5, 2019 Issued
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16/264861
Intelligent display of content based on event monitoring Jan 31, 2019 Issued
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