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Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC

Multitude, Inc.

Piqpiq, Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC

Unifi Scientific Advances, Inc

Entropy Processing Nv LLC

Edward Adam Lerner

James E G Morris

Kyle Granger

Jonathan B Blossom

Martin Hunt

John A Ventura

Charles Nicholson

Robert J Mical

Andrew R Thaler

Arthur W Min

Joseph Adam Lerner

Arthur Wayne Min

Miles Gabriel Kattwinkel Ceralde

Martin Hung

David Leroy Futscher

James C Allen

James E Morris

Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide a plurality of audio reactions from a plurality of client devices. The audio reactions are captured by microphones on the client devices and are time-stamped. The method also includes mixing the audio reactions by a mixer server to form a mixed audio reaction, and sending the mixed audio reaction to at least one of the client devices. The client device is adapted to play the mixed audio reaction and a mass media presentation. The mixed audio reaction and the mass media presentation are synchronized to create an audience effect for the mass media presentation. The present technology also provides echo removal, volume balancing, compression, and time stamping of an audio stream by the client device. Reactions from at least one of buttons and gestures to activate synthesized sounds, for example clapping, booing, and cheering, which are mixed into the mixed audio reaction.

Mass media presentations with synchronized audio reactions

Systems and methods for implementing a social messaging network are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method includes hosting a social messaging network, receiving a contest from a sender client device, generating a set of answer objects having a visibility region and a tap region, sending instructions for generating a graphical user interface to a recipient client device, displaying the set of answer objects on the graphical user interface, and receiving feedback from the recipient client device.

Social messaging system for real-time selection and sorting of photo and video content

Computer-implemented methods and systems for processing of online payment transactions are provided. An example method comprises registering a merchant with a payment service to create a merchant account and registering a user with the payment service to create a user account. The merchant can registers an entitlement with the payment service to receive a payment service entitlement identifier. A payment request associated with the entitlement is received from a user. The payment request includes the entitlement identifier associated with the payment service or with the merchant and a payment amount. A database is queried to validate the entitlement identifier and a price and, upon successful validation, the user account is credited with purchasing the entitlement, and the payment amount is transferred from the user account to the merchant account.

Processing of online payment transactions

Disclosed are methods and systems for determining the time for a remote computer to begin executing an application downloaded over a network. A portion of the application to begin execution of the application is determined. The portion is less than the entirety of the application. The time to start the application on a remote computer is calculated and displayed. The time to start can be calculated based on an obtained a speed of the network to the remote computer, a time to transmit the portion of the application to the remote computer based on the portion of the application and the obtained connection speed, and a loading time for the portion of the application to load on the remote computer.

Method and apparatus for providing a time period for starting an application

A method of communicating digitized speech from a transmitting forum participant comprises the step of receiving a data structure that includes said digitized speech. The data structure is analyzed to determine whether the digitized speech is redundantly represented in a plurality of forms in the data structure. A portion of the data structure is forwarded to a receiving forum participant, thereby communicating the digitized speech from the transmitting forum participant. In this method, when the digitized speech is redundantly represented in the data structure in a plurality of forms, the forwarding step includes a step of selecting one or more forms, based on a function, from the plurality of forms in the data structure. Furthermore, the portion of the data structure that is forwarded to the receiving forum participant includes data in the data structure that corresponds to each of the selected one or more forms.

System and method for providing internet based phone conferences using multiple codecs

Handling of input or output (I/O) to or from a media device may be implemented in a system having a memory, a processor unit with a main processor and an auxiliary processor having an associated local memory, and the media device. An incoming I/O request received from an application running on the processor unit may be serviced according to the schedule. A set of processor executable instructions configured to implement I/O handling may include media filter layers. I/O handling may alternatively comprise: receiving an incoming I/O request from an application running on a main processor; inserting the request into a schedule embodied in the main memory; and implementing the request according to the schedule and one or more filters, at least one of which is implemented by an auxiliary processor.

File input/output scheduler

A system is provided for social interactive content development of a plurality of art assets for an interactive video game. The system includes a proximity analyzer for determining proximity relationships amongst the plurality of art assets, each of the art assets being defined for display during execution of the interactive video game. An activity monitor is provided for monitoring access to the plurality of art assets. And a social inference engine is provided for initiating a communication in response to triggering a predefined access threshold set for a specific art asset based on a proximity relationship of the specific art asset to a proximate art asset.

Social interactive content creator development

A method of communicating digitized speech from a transmitting forum participant comprises the step of receiving a data structure that includes said digitized speech. The data structure is analyzed to determine whether the digitized speech is redundantly represented in a plurality of forms in the data structure. A portion of the data structure is forwarded to a receiving forum participant, thereby communicating the digitized speech from the transmitting forum participant. In this method, when the digitized speech is redundantly represented in the data structure in a plurality of forms, the forwarding step includes a step of selecting one or more forms, based on a function, from the plurality of forms in the data structure. A representative function includes a determination whether the receiving participant is a paid subscriber.

A method of visually identifying speaking participants in a multi-participant event such as an audio conference or an on-line game includes the step of receiving packets of digitized sound from a network connection. The identity of the participant associated with each packet is used to route the packet to a channel buffer or an overflow buffer. Each channel buffer may be assigned to a single participant in the multi-participant. A visual identifier module updates the visual identifier associated with participants that have been assigned a channel buffer. In some embodiments, the appearance of the visual identifier associated with the participant is dependent upon the differential of an acoustic parameter derived from content in the associated buffer channel and a reference value stored in a participant record.

System and method for visually identifying speaking participants in a multi-participant networked event

A system for communicating digitally-encoded acoustic information across a computer network between computers. The system includes a plurality of client computers coupled together via a computer network. Each client computer includes a communications interface, memory, a sound processor and a sound mixer. The communications interface is coupled to the computer network and receives digitally-encoded acoustic signals from the other client computers attached to the computer network. The memory is coupled to the communications interface and stores separately the received acoustic signals. The sound processor is coupled to the memory and enhances separately the stored acoustic signals. The sound mixer is coupled to the sound processor and mixes the enhanced acoustic signals to produce a mixed acoustic signal.

System and method for communicating digitally-encoded acoustic

A coffee brewer with means for dispensing controlled quantities of hot water comprising well known coffee brewing means including a main water tank having a heater therein, means for introducing water to the tank and a discharge conduit for passing coffee brewing water from the tank wherein there is provided a separate and preferably removable, closed water bottle mounted for gravity feed of water to the tank, a discharge conduit connecting the bottle to the tank, the normal operational position of the end of which proximal to the tank being located such that water normally covers it before water in the tank reaches a level sufficient to pass through the conduit for discharging brewing water, a separate, valve controlled single-cup water discharge spigot connected to the tank beneath the level in the tank of the end of the conduit connecting the bottle with the tank, a valve normally blocking the gravitational discharge of water from the bottle and valve actuating means which open the valve when the bottle is mounted in its normal operational position for gravity feed of water to the tank.

Coffee brewer with means for dispensing controlled quantities of hot

A coffee brewer with means for dispensing controlled quantities of hot water comprising a water tank, means for heating the water in the tank, water inlet means connected to the tank, a water discharge siphon connected at one end to the tank, the opposite end of the siphon being at a level beneath the first said end thereof, a water reservoir, a supply conduit connecting the reservoir to the water tank, the end of the supply conduit in the tank being positioned beneath the level of the end of the siphon in the tank, the said reservoir being closed except for said supply conduit and being positioned for gravity discharge into said water tank, a water discharge conduit connected at one end to the tank beneath the level of the end of said supply conduit therein, and valve means in the said discharge conduit.

A metering valve, preferably electromagnetically actuatable, for the successive delivery of precisely measured volumes of fluid irrespective of inlet fluid pressure, including a valve core, slidably mounted in a cavity in the valve body, the top of the core closing a normally open fluid inlet when the core is moved to an uppermost position, and the bottom of the core closing a fluid discharge outlet when in its normal lowermost position, the volume of fluid discharged being the volumetric difference between the volume of the cavity and the volumetric displacement of the core.

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Edward Adam Lerner