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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2011
Applicants:
Erik Herz, Farmington, CT (US);
Douglas Uhl, Harwinton, CT (US);
Inventors:
Erik Herz, Farmington, CT (US);
Douglas Uhl, Harwinton, CT (US);
Assignee:
vBrick Systems, Inc., Wallingford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Improved methods and apparatus for sharing and collaborating around a video source by maintaining and providing to users a list of a plurality of contacts containing both video source device contacts and interactive message source contacts. This allows for collaboration among users by permitting them to communicate with each other around an automatically-shared video source, to interact with automatically shared video sources, and to make decisions based on these shared video sources.