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Thomas M. Dougherty

Examiner (ID: 15094, Phone: (571)272-2022 , Office: P/2837 )

Most Active Art Unit
2837
Art Unit(s)
3102, 2102, 2899, 2834, 2837
Total Applications
3722
Issued Applications
3182
Pending Applications
118
Abandoned Applications
430

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/733987
Methods and apparatus to detect audio engineering problems using identification of isolated watermarks Jan 2, 2020 Issued
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16/727521
Dynamic binding of video content Dec 25, 2019 Issued
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16/725936
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING REDUNDANT SEGMENTED STREAMS Dec 22, 2019 Pending
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17/437619
Information processing apparatus, server, user apparatus, and information processing system Dec 17, 2019 Issued
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16/717909
Systems and methods that match search queries to television subtitles Dec 16, 2019 Issued
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16/713788
Display device for displaying various types of contents Dec 12, 2019 Issued
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16/708108
System for targeted display of content Dec 8, 2019 Issued
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16/697450
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERNET AUDIO/VIDEO DELIVERY Nov 26, 2019 Abandoned
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16/698625
Systems and methods for deep recommendations using signature analysis Nov 26, 2019 Issued
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16/692093
Memorial facility with memorabilia, meeting room, secure memorial database, and data needed for an interactive computer conversation with the deceased Nov 21, 2019 Issued
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16/680146
WATERMARK-BASED DATA RECOVERY FOR CONTENT WITH MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVE COMPONENTS Nov 10, 2019 Abandoned
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16/660615
Media usage monitoring and measurement system and method Oct 21, 2019 Issued
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16/660624
Media usage monitoring and measurement system and method Oct 21, 2019 Issued
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16/660633
Media usage monitoring and measurement system and method Oct 21, 2019 Issued
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16/600916
Methods, systems, and media for presenting supplemental information corresponding to on-demand media content Oct 13, 2019 Issued
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17/418233
Image transmission and reception system, data transmission and reception system, transmission and reception method, computer program, image transmission system, image reception device, transmission system, reception device Sep 24, 2019 Issued
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16/555250
First-screen navigation with channel surfing, backdrop reviewing and content peeking Aug 28, 2019 Issued
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16/553809
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM AND MEDIA PLAYBACK METHOD THEREOF Aug 27, 2019 Abandoned
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16/550887
System and method for temporally adaptive media playback Aug 25, 2019 Issued
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16/512784
Gaze-responsive advertisement Jul 15, 2019 Issued
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