JEFFREY P. TANG, M.A
Marriage and Family Therapists at 4 Ave, San Diego, CA

2012011, May 10, 2012

May 16, 2011

13/108977

Ludovic Douillet - Escondido CA, US
Bryan Mihalov - San Diego CA, US
Aran Sadja - San Diego CA, US
Nobukazu Sugiyama - San Diego CA, US
Jeffrey Tang - San Diego CA, US

SONY CORPORATION - Tokyo

G06F 15/16

709203

A system and method for detecting a user operating a first client device at an intermediary server communicatively coupled to one or more client devices including the first client device and further communicatively coupled to one or more other intermediary servers each communicatively coupled with one or more other client devices, establishing communication with at least one social networking server maintaining information corresponding to the user comprising one or more of user preferences, a plurality of user connections, and user connection preferences corresponding to each of the plurality of user connections, querying the at least one social networking server for the information, receiving the information and generating a local viewing social network for the user comprising generating a user profile according to the information, detecting one or more local connections and establishing direct communication between the user and at least one of the one or more local connections.

2012011, May 10, 2012

May 16, 2011

13/108973

Aran Sadja - San Diego CA, US
Jeffrey Tang - San Diego CA, US
Bryan Mihalov - Escondido CA, US
Ludovic Douillet - Escondido CA, US
Nobukazu Sugiyama - San Diego CA, US

SONY CORPORATION - Tokyo

G06F 15/16

709206, 709217

Method and systems are provided for initiating communication with a social networking server maintaining user information corresponding to a user, the user information for the user comprising media preferences for the user, one or more connections associated with the user, and media preferences for each of the one or more connections, retrieving at least a portion of the user information for the user from the social networking server and generating a viewing recommendation for the user at least in part based on at least one of the media preferences of the user, and the media preferences of the one or more connections, the viewing recommendation comprising one or more multi-media content.

2012011, May 10, 2012

May 17, 2011

13/109969

Nobukazu Sugiyama - San Diego CA, US
Srivastava Nanduri - San Diego CA, US
Andy Nguyen - San Diego CA, US
Kai Liu - San Diego CA, US
Lobrenzo Wingo - San Diego CA, US
Jeffrey Tang - San Diego CA, US
Aran Sadja - San Diego CA, US
Ludovic Douillet - Escondido CA, US
William Collins - San Diego CA, US

SONY CORPORATION, A JAPANESE CORPORATION - Tokyo

G06F 15/16

709206

A method and device is provided for platform independent device communication by detecting a request at a processor-based device to perform a function, determining an external device corresponding to the request, retrieving a tag for the external device for performing a function corresponding to the request and generating a message implemented in XMPP, having embedded therein the tag, wherein the tag is essential at the external device for performing the function corresponding to the request. Receiving the message at a device, determining whether the message comprises a device message, retrieving a tag included in the message, wherein the tag corresponds to an executable command to perform a function and executing the tag to perform the function.

2013002, Jan 24, 2013

Jul 22, 2011

13/189115

Ludovic Douillet - Escondido CA, US
Nobukazu Sugiyama - San Diego CA, US
William Collins - San Diego CA, US
Jeffrey Tang - San Diego CA, US

SONY CORPORATION - Tokyo

G06F 3/048, G06F 15/16

715752

An electronic device designed for electronic messaging is configured to provide multiple options for including content into an electrical communication. For example, the device can provide content including one or combinations of letters, numbers, audio, video, graphics such as pictures, icons, or emoticons. The user of such an electronic communication device can select certain input options on a user interface to select from among various types of content to include in an electronic communication. The content from which the user may choose can be updated and changed on a periodic basis through communication between the user's electronic communication device and a central computing device. The central computing device can be controlled by a manufacturer of the computing device, a communication service provider, the user, or other third party to periodically change the messaging content options for a user.

8572165, Oct 29, 2013

Jul 8, 2011

13/179371

Jeffrey Tang - San Diego CA, US
Aran Sadja - San Diego CA, US

Sony Corporation - Tokyo

G06F 15/16

709203, 709219

Embodiments generally relate to aggregating mentions. In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving a plurality of mentions from a social networking service, where each mention is associated with one or more users of the social networking service. The method also includes aggregating the mentions, and displaying the mentions based on one or more formats.

2012012, May 24, 2012

Nov 18, 2010

12/948907

Steven Friedlander - San Diego CA, US
Manish Gupta - San Diego CA, US
Jeffrey Tang - San Diego CA, US
Jenny Su Chow - San Diego CA, US

SONY CORPORATION - Tokyo

G05B 19/00

340 551

Methods and apparatus are provided for generating an access code. In one embodiment, a method may include detecting user activation of a directional input of a device, wherein the user activation relates to a plurality of directional input commands, and determining an access code based on the user activation of the directional input, the access code including a plurality of code elements wherein each code element of the access code is associated with a direction of the directional input based on the user activation. The method may further include outputting code elements of the access code.