Howard G Page

US Patent:

6445738, Sep 3, 2002

Filed:

Apr 25, 1996

Appl. No.:

08/639284

Inventors:

Joel Zdepski - Mountain View CA
Rama Kalluri - Mountain View CA
Howard Page - Burlingame CA
Wolf-Hasso Kaubisch - Palo Alto CA

Assignee:

OpenTV, Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

H04N 724

US Classification:

37524001, 386 68, 386111

Abstract:

A system and method for generating trick play video streams, such as fast forward and fast reverse video streams, from an MPEG compressed normal play bitstream. The system receives a compressed normal play bitstream and filters the bitstream by extracting and saving only portions of the bitstream. The system preferably extracts I-frames and sequence headers, including all weighting matrices, from the MPEG bitstream and stores this information in a new file. The system then assembles or collates the filtered data into the proper order to generate a single assembled bitstream. The system also ensures that the weighting matrixes properly correspond to the respective I-frames. This produces a bitstream comprised of a plurality of sequence headers and I-frames. This assembled bitstream is MPEG-2 decoded to produce a new video sequence which comprises only one out of every X pictures of the original, uncompressed normal play bitstream. This output picture stream is then re-encoded with respective MPEG parameters desired for the trickplay stream, thus producing a trickplay stream that is a valid MPEG encoded stream, but which includes only one of every X frames.

US Patent:

6970535, Nov 29, 2005

Filed:

Apr 25, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/132605

Inventors:

Keith Edward Gregory - Acton MA, US
William Harry Kirtley - Arlington MA, US
David A. Page - Manchester MA, US
Howard Geza Page - Burlingame CA, US
Adrien Paul Raphael Schmidt - Paris, FR
Gregory Charles Warden - Belmont MA, US

Assignee:

Envoy WorldWide, Inc. - Bedford MA

International Classification:

H04M001/64

US Classification:

379 8813, 379 671, 379 70, 379 8804, 379 8807, 379 8811, 379 8812, 379 8816, 379 8817, 379 8818, 379 8822, 379 8825

Abstract:

A two way wireless hand held PDA device that allows remote mobile creation of messages and sending of those messages to recipients via different delivery modes. The recipients can be formed into groups by different criteria, the messages can be created or imported and edited from the remote device, and the messages can be delivered via more than one mode. Status of messages sent and in process is maintained as is account information related to the message and the user. Also messages can be formatted, and can be conditionally sent and receivers can perform automatic actions when specific messages are received. (And actions can be carried out in remote systems based on the responses to messages sent).

US Patent:

8418195, Apr 9, 2013

Filed:

Feb 4, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/498515

Inventors:

Howard G. Page - Burlingame CA, US
Mike O'Brien - Pacifica CA, US
Jay Cee Straley - San Carlos CA, US

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P. - Overland Park KS

International Classification:

H04N 7/10
H04N 7/025
H04H 60/32
G06Q 30/00

US Classification:

725 32, 725 20, 725 36, 725 42, 705 144

Abstract:

A video advertising insertion system is comprised of a processing system, interface, and video advertising. The video advertising insertion system receives a video stream carrying selected video content from a video-on-demand system. The video advertising insertion system selects and inserts video advertising into the video stream. The video advertising insertion system transfers the video stream carrying both the selected video content and the selected video advertising for display to a target viewer.

US Patent:

58258841, Oct 20, 1998

Filed:

Jul 1, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/674268

Inventors:

Joel Walter Zdepski - Mountain View CA
Howard Geza Page - Burlingame CA

Assignee:

Thomson Consumer Electronics - Indianapolis IN

International Classification:

H04L 932

US Classification:

380 25

Abstract:

A transactional server system for transferring subscriber information requests to information service providers, and methods of operating the same result in discouraging reconstruction of the subscriber information. The transactional server system comprises a subscriber platform which transfers an encrypted identification and a message request block. A transaction server is coupled to the subscriber platform to initiate a subscriber information request in response to the message request block and the encrypted identification, and transfer the message request block to the information service providers in response to subscriber information. A database server coupled to the transaction server and having a plurality of subscriber information receives the subscriber information request and decrypts the encrypted identification to provide the subscriber information to the transaction server.

US Patent:

57845042, Jul 21, 1998

Filed:

Jan 24, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/188600

Inventors:

William Joseph Anderson - Raleigh NC
Nicos John Anthony - Purdys NY
Doris Chin Chow - Mt. Kisco NY
Colin George Harrison - Brookfield CT
Howard Geza Page - Tinton Falls NJ

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 300

US Classification:

382309

Abstract:

An apparatus and method in a tablet computer for disambiguating a handwriting input stream generated by a stylus-based user interface. A tablet application program interface (TAPI) of the present invention receives stroke data generated by a stroke made by a user on a digitizing tablet. The TAPI inserts the stroke data into a database. If the stroke is an editing gesture, the TAPI routes the stroke to a gesture recognizer which identifies an editing dialog. The TAPI then executes the dialog to perform operations on the database. If the application program is expecting text input, the TAPI continues to receive stroke data until it detects a closure event. The TAPI then forms a stroke group entry in the database by grouping all non-gesture stroke data received since the last closure event. The TAPI routes the stroke group data to a character recognizer, which returns candidate characters. The TAPI inserts the candidate characters into the stroke group entry.