Michael L. Craner

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Exton, PA, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for using playlists
- Patent number 12,120,395
- Issue date Oct 15, 2024
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recordin...
- Patent number 12,101,584
- Issue date Sep 24, 2024
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for enhanced trick-play functions
- Patent number 11,956,514
- Issue date Apr 9, 2024
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for managing local storage of on-demand content
- Patent number 11,800,181
- Issue date Oct 24, 2023
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recordin...
- Patent number 11,765,329
- Issue date Sep 19, 2023
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recordin...
- Patent number 11,558,594
- Issue date Jan 17, 2023
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for managing local storage of on-demand content
- Patent number 11,115,707
- Issue date Sep 7, 2021
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for using playlists
- Patent number 11,115,719
- Issue date Sep 7, 2021
- ROVl GUIDES, INC.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for generating time based preview image for a v...
- Patent number 11,109,113
- Issue date Aug 31, 2021
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recordin...
- Patent number 11,102,464
- Issue date Aug 24, 2021
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for using playlists
- Patent number 10,587,835
- Issue date Mar 10, 2020
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for managing local storage of on-demand content
- Patent number 10,419,810
- Issue date Sep 17, 2019
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for generating time based preview image for a v...
- Patent number 10,057,655
- Issue date Aug 21, 2018
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for using playlists
- Patent number 9,967,509
- Issue date May 8, 2018
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for detecting inconsistent user actions and pro...
- Patent number 9,654,825
- Issue date May 16, 2017
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for allocating bandwidth in switched digital vi...
- Patent number 9,516,367
- Issue date Dec 6, 2016
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method for generating time based preview image for a video stream
- Patent number 9,271,042
- Issue date Feb 23, 2016
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for providing a scan
- Patent number 9,185,332
- Issue date Nov 10, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Gerard Kunkel
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for ranking assets relative to a group of viewers
- Patent number 9,148,701
- Issue date Sep 29, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for managing local storage of on-demand content
- Patent number 9,143,736
- Issue date Sep 22, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for using playlists
- Patent number 9,118,868
- Issue date Aug 25, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for enhanced trick-play functions
- Patent number 9,088,827
- Issue date Jul 21, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for detecting inconsistent user actions and pro...
- Patent number 9,077,934
- Issue date Jul 7, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for content surfing
- Patent number 9,038,103
- Issue date May 19, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Parental media palettes
- Patent number 8,984,550
- Issue date Mar 17, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Media control system with viewer rewards
- Patent number 8,863,168
- Issue date Oct 14, 2014
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for providing a scan
- Patent number 8,787,736
- Issue date Jul 22, 2014
- Rovi Guides, LLC
- Gerard Kunkel
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for recording programs with a network recording...
- Patent number 8,731,379
- Issue date May 20, 2014
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for episodic advertisement tracking
- Patent number 8,694,396
- Issue date Apr 8, 2014
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for content surfing
- Patent number 8,640,166
- Issue date Jan 28, 2014
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...
- Publication number 20230379444
- Publication date Nov 23, 2023
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...
- Publication number 20230239445
- Publication date Jul 27, 2023
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS
- Publication number 20220030311
- Publication date Jan 27, 2022
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...
- Publication number 20220014721
- Publication date Jan 13, 2022
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCAL STORAGE OF ON-DEMAND CONTENT
- Publication number 20210368229
- Publication date Nov 25, 2021
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED TRICK-PLAY FUNCTIONS
- Publication number 20210360331
- Publication date Nov 18, 2021
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS
- Publication number 20200236321
- Publication date Jul 23, 2020
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCAL STORAGE OF ON-DEMAND CONTENT
- Publication number 20190356945
- Publication date Nov 21, 2019
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...
- Publication number 20190268582
- Publication date Aug 29, 2019
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
System and methods for generating time based preview image for a vi...
- Publication number 20190141408
- Publication date May 9, 2019
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN IN-CONTEXT NOTIFICATION OF A REA...
- Publication number 20180276891
- Publication date Sep 27, 2018
- PCMS Holdings, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS
- Publication number 20180227533
- Publication date Aug 9, 2018
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TIME BASED PREVIEW IMAGE FOR A V...
- Publication number 20160182968
- Publication date Jun 23, 2016
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCAL STORAGE OF ON-DEMAND CONTENT
- Publication number 20160066027
- Publication date Mar 3, 2016
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING INCONSISTENT USER ACTIONS AND PRO...
- Publication number 20150296257
- Publication date Oct 15, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
MEDIA CONTROL SYSTEM WITH VIEWER REWARDS
- Publication number 20150033249
- Publication date Jan 29, 2015
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR GENERATING TIME BASED PREVIEW IMAGE FOR A VIDEO STREAM
- Publication number 20140373037
- Publication date Dec 18, 2014
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOCATING BANDWIDTH IN SWITCHED DIGITAL VI...
- Publication number 20140189730
- Publication date Jul 3, 2014
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EPISODIC ADVERTISEMENT TRACKING
- Publication number 20140164078
- Publication date Jun 12, 2014
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT SURFING
- Publication number 20140109143
- Publication date Apr 17, 2014
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael Craner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRANSITIONING FROM BUFFERING VIDEO TO RECORD...
- Publication number 20140093223
- Publication date Apr 3, 2014
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Robert A. Knee
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...
- Publication number 20140037270
- Publication date Feb 6, 2014
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING ASSETS RELATIVE TO A GROUP OF VIEWERS
- Publication number 20130305290
- Publication date Nov 14, 2013
- Michael L. Craner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR GENERATING TIME BASED PREVIEW IMAGE FOR A VIDEO STREAM
- Publication number 20130185757
- Publication date Jul 18, 2013
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING CUSTOM VIDEO MOSAIC PAGES WITH LOC...
- Publication number 20130145398
- Publication date Jun 6, 2013
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
STORAGE MANAGEMENT OF A RECORDING DEVICE IN A MULTI-USER SYSTEM
- Publication number 20120230649
- Publication date Sep 13, 2012
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael L. Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING INCONSISTENT USER ACTIONS AND PRO...
- Publication number 20120210347
- Publication date Aug 16, 2012
- UNITED VIDEO PROPERTIES, INC.
- Michael Craner
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SCAN
- Publication number 20120131616
- Publication date May 24, 2012
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Gerard Kunkel
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS
- Publication number 20120079385
- Publication date Mar 29, 2012
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Michael D. Ellis
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SCAN
- Publication number 20120076473
- Publication date Mar 29, 2012
- Rovi Guides, Inc.
- Gerard Kunkel
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Michael L. Craner

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Systems and methods for using playlists

Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recordin...

Systems and methods for enhanced trick-play functions

Systems and methods for managing local storage of on-demand content

Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recordin...

Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recordin...

Systems and methods for managing local storage of on-demand content

Systems and methods for using playlists

Systems and methods for generating time based preview image for a v...

Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recordin...

Systems and methods for using playlists

Systems and methods for managing local storage of on-demand content

Systems and methods for generating time based preview image for a v...

Systems and methods for using playlists

Systems and methods for detecting inconsistent user actions and pro...

Systems and methods for allocating bandwidth in switched digital vi...

Method for generating time based preview image for a video stream

Systems and methods for providing a scan

Systems and methods for ranking assets relative to a group of viewers

Systems and methods for managing local storage of on-demand content

Systems and methods for using playlists

Systems and methods for enhanced trick-play functions

Systems and methods for detecting inconsistent user actions and pro...

Systems and methods for content surfing

Parental media palettes

Media control system with viewer rewards

Systems and methods for providing a scan

Systems and methods for recording programs with a network recording...

Systems and methods for episodic advertisement tracking

Systems and methods for content surfing

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCAL STORAGE OF ON-DEMAND CONTENT

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED TRICK-PLAY FUNCTIONS

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCAL STORAGE OF ON-DEMAND CONTENT

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...

System and methods for generating time based preview image for a vi...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN IN-CONTEXT NOTIFICATION OF A REA...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TIME BASED PREVIEW IMAGE FOR A V...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING LOCAL STORAGE OF ON-DEMAND CONTENT

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING INCONSISTENT USER ACTIONS AND PRO...

MEDIA CONTROL SYSTEM WITH VIEWER REWARDS

METHOD FOR GENERATING TIME BASED PREVIEW IMAGE FOR A VIDEO STREAM

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALLOCATING BANDWIDTH IN SWITCHED DIGITAL VI...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EPISODIC ADVERTISEMENT TRACKING

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT SURFING

SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRANSITIONING FROM BUFFERING VIDEO TO RECORD...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING PROGRAMS USING A NETWORK RECORDIN...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING ASSETS RELATIVE TO A GROUP OF VIEWERS

METHOD FOR GENERATING TIME BASED PREVIEW IMAGE FOR A VIDEO STREAM

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING CUSTOM VIDEO MOSAIC PAGES WITH LOC...

STORAGE MANAGEMENT OF A RECORDING DEVICE IN A MULTI-USER SYSTEM

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING INCONSISTENT USER ACTIONS AND PRO...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SCAN

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SCAN