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Chris G. Rankine, Forest Hills, NY US
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20150106856 | MEDIA PLAYER SYSTEM FOR PRODUCT PLACEMENTS - A media player system for product placements, including: a controller; a computer-readable non-transitory memory in communication with the controller including instructions that when executed by the controller cause it to: display a user interface including a video frame and a product information area, wherein the product information area is adjacent or overlaps the video frame; display contents of a video in the video frame, wherein the video includes corresponding video metadata; receive a current location of a cursor; and when the current location of the cursor is within a product hotspot, display product information associated with the product hotspot in the product information area, wherein the product hotspot is defined by the video metadata as a location within the video frame, at one or more points in time, that is associated with the product information. | 04-16-2015 |
David John Gordon Robert Rankine, London GB
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20110282878 | GENERATING A TAXONOMY FOR DOCUMENTS FROM TAG DATA - A method and system for generating a taxonomy for documents from tag data are provided. The method includes obtaining tag data in the form of tags on documents with tag weightings for a document and clustering the tags using the tag weightings for documents, wherein each cluster is an identified subject. The documents are associated with each identified subject and the subjects are compared to identifying relationships between subjects to build a taxonomy of subjects. A tag weighting for a document is the number of times the tag is applied to the document with a user rating of the relevance of the tag to the document. The steps are carried out automatically without user intervention. | 11-17-2011 |
20120191718 | GENERATING A TAXONOMY FOR DOCUMENTS FROM TAG DATA - A method and system for generating a taxonomy for documents from tag data are provided. The method includes obtaining tag data in the form of tags on documents with tag weightings for a document and clustering the tags using the tag weightings for documents, wherein each cluster is an identified subject. The documents are associated with each identified subject and the subjects are compared to identifying relationships between subjects to build a taxonomy of subjects. A tag weighting for a document is the number of times the tag is applied to the document with a user rating of the relevance of the tag to the document. The steps are carried out automatically without user intervention. | 07-26-2012 |
20130013608 | GENERATING A TAXONOMY FOR DOCUMENTS FROM TAG DATA - Tags on documents are clustered using tag weightings of the tags on the documents. Each cluster includes an identified subject. The identified subjects are compared to identify relationships between the identified subjects. A taxonomy of subjects is built using the identified relationships between the identified subjects programmatically without user intervention. | 01-10-2013 |
Philip Rankine, Victoria CA
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20130135115 | Exercise Usage Monitoring System - The disclosed embodiments relate to real time monitoring of usage of multiple pieces of exercise equipment and providing exercise based metric data based thereon to devices for aggregation, display or other processing thereof. In particular, the disclosed embodiments facilitate collection of exercise based metric data from various pieces of exercise equipment, such as stationary bikes, treadmills, and the like, in real time, i.e. as the equipment is utilized by an exercising user, combine the collected data in a form suitable for use by various interested devices and broadcast or otherwise disseminate the combined data to the various devices wherein the various devices may access the broadcasted combined data to access the usage metric data from any one or more of the pieces of exercise equipment from which it was collected for subsequent aggregation, display and/or further processing. | 05-30-2013 |
Scott Rankine, Toronto CA
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20090259971 | Media mashing across multiple heterogeneous platforms and devices - Systems and methods providing for improved navigation and aggregation of a multiplicity of Internet based media and communication types are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a Internet experience Manager (IEM) is adapted to present, to a user, a user interface. The user interface is defined in an interface window. The user interface includes a playback window, a graphic control interface, and an icon pallet. In an embodiment, the graphic control interface and the icon palette are adapted to operate together to enable the user to manipulate a selectable plurality of graphically manipulable icons within the user interface window such that the items of digital content associated with each of the plurality of icons are aggregated and managed as a collective in response to the graphic control interface. | 10-15-2009 |