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Douglas D. Watts

Examiner (ID: 708)

Most Active Art Unit
3204
Art Unit(s)
3724, 3101, 3203, 2902, 3727, 3103, 3204, 2899, 3105
Total Applications
2654
Issued Applications
2350
Pending Applications
81
Abandoned Applications
222

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/730053
System for addressing on-demand TV program content on TV services platform of a digital TV services provider Dec 29, 2019 Issued
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16/730053
System for addressing on-demand TV program content on TV services platform of a digital TV services provider Dec 29, 2019 Issued
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16/716240
Digital rights managed virtual reality content sharing Dec 15, 2019 Issued
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16/710972
Automated testing for content receivers Dec 10, 2019 Issued
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16/710169
Determining a response of a crowd Dec 10, 2019 Issued
Array ( [id] => 15660163 [patent_doc_number] => 20200092612 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2020-03-19 [patent_title] => VIDEO-ON-DEMAND CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SERVICES TO TV SERVICE SUBSCRIBERS [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/692298 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2019-11-22 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 8102 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -13 [patent_words_short_claim] => 662 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16692298 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/692298
Video-on-demand content delivery method for providing video-on-demand services to TV service subscribers Nov 21, 2019 Issued
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16/671968
System for addressing on-demand TV program content on TV services platform of a digital TV services provider Oct 31, 2019 Issued
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16/659143
Systems and methods for providing access to still images derived from a video Oct 20, 2019 Issued
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16/593711
TAPPING MEDIA CONNECTIONS FOR MONITORING MEDIA DEVICES Oct 3, 2019 Abandoned
Array ( [id] => 17531223 [patent_doc_number] => 11303944 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2022-04-12 [patent_title] => Apparatus and methods for carrier allocation in a communications network [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/588804 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2019-09-30 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 7 [patent_figures_cnt] => 10 [patent_no_of_words] => 6465 [patent_no_of_claims] => 21 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 224 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16588804 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/588804
Apparatus and methods for carrier allocation in a communications network Sep 29, 2019 Issued
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16/571130
Systems and methods for predicting viewership and detecting anomalies Sep 14, 2019 Issued
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16/565310
Light weight transport stream streaming protocol for live transcoding system Sep 8, 2019 Issued
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17/255875
METHOD FOR PROCESSING LIVE STREAMING CLIPS AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Sep 4, 2019 Abandoned
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17/267998
DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM Aug 29, 2019 Abandoned
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16/557474
Apparatus and methods for provisioning in a download-enabled system Aug 29, 2019 Issued
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16/549994
Comparing video sequences using fingerprints Aug 22, 2019 Issued
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16/517459
Video distribution apparatus, distribution method, and recording medium Jul 18, 2019 Issued
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16/515536
System for addressing on-demand TV program content on TV services platform of a digital TV services provider Jul 17, 2019 Issued
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16/455377
Echo bullet screen Jun 26, 2019 Issued
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16/452411
HUMAN EVALUATION AND APPROVAL OF VIDEO APPROPRIATE FOR VIEWING BY CHILDREN Jun 24, 2019 Abandoned
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