Ahmed I Tantawy

Address:

505 Greensboro St, Eutaw, AL 35462

VIN:

5N1AN08U37C529735

Make:

NISSAN

Model:

XTERRA

Year:

2007

US Patent:

6772436, Aug 3, 2004

Filed:

Sep 1, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/144878

Inventors:

Yurdaer Nezihi Doganata - Chestnut Ridge NY
Asser Nasreldin Tantawi - Sommers NY
Ahmed Nasr-El-Din Tantawy - Yorktown Heights NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H04N 7173

US Classification:

725106, 725 99, 725100, 725131, 348 1409, 37920201

Abstract:

A system enabling television viewers to participate in an audio conference from audio-enabled remote control devices that are equipped with microphones and speakers without requiring the viewer to âdial inâ as in a conventional conference call. The system determines the TV channel being watched by the viewer and collects the viewer information that is coming from the remote control device. The user input information is transmitted to an audio conference control center. The information regarding all the viewers interested in participating in an audio conference are collected and processed at an audio conference control center. An operation entity is connected to the audio conference control center for reserving the conference resources provided in an audio bridge device for the viewed TV program channel.

US Patent:

59736852, Oct 26, 1999

Filed:

Jul 7, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/888574

Inventors:

Frank Andre Schaffa - Hartsdale NY
David Israel Seidman - New York NY
Ahmed Nasr-El-Din Tantawy - Yorktown Heights NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H04N 710
H04H 100

US Classification:

345328

Abstract:

A system architecture enables the distribution, to users connected to a digital broadcast medium, of supplementary information, which is presented and accessed in the context of the viewing of a video program. This ancillary, or "follow-up" information (FUI) is embedded in the same transport stream (digital multimedia broadcast stream) as the digital video and audio content. The FUI may take the form of video, audio or text. Alternatively, the transport stream may carry pointers to follow-up information (PFUI) instead of the information itself. In the latter case, the pointers are saved and used subsequently in the selection of FUI from a channel which carries data exclusively. In the former case, the user selects the FUI (supplementary information) which is to be extracted from the broadcast stream as it is transmitted.