Paul A Gardner

US Patent:

62437135, Jun 5, 2001

Filed:

Aug 24, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/139290

Inventors:

Paul E. Nelson - Woodstock MD
Christopher H. Anderson - Baltimore MD
Ronald M. Whitman - Washington DC
Paul C. Gardner - Escondido CA
Mark R. David - Sunnyvale CA

Assignee:

Excalibur Technologies Corp. - Vienna VA

International Classification:

G06F 1730

US Classification:

707104

Abstract:

A system, method and software product provides for true multimedia document retrieval by receiving multimedia queries containing various types of data, such as text keywords, images, audio or other data types, and processing such queries against a multimedia index that commonly indexes multimedia documents, including any of their multimedia components. The unified index allows query retrieval by evaluation of a query structure which can contain any of the multimedia data types, and operators which can be evaluated on any of these data types. The system indexes multimedia documents by separating them into their multimedia components, and processing each component into a number of tokens. The tokens are stored in the index along with information identifying the documents that contain the token, and reference data describing the position of the token within the documents, and any other data extracted from the multimedia component of the document, such as color, texture, luminance, recognized speech, or the like. During retrieval, a query is decomposed into multimedia components, which are then converted to a set of tokens and query structure including mathematical and proximity operators.

US Patent:

20160248845, Aug 25, 2016

Filed:

May 2, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/144729

Inventors:

- Gainesville FL, US
An Van Nguyen - Fairfax VA, US
Lakshmi Santosh - Columbia MD, US
Dinh Van Nguyen - San Jose CA, US
Brian James Gentry - Bristow VA, US
Binh Kien Thai - Centerville VA, US
Paul Richard Gardner - Sterling VA, US
Jonathan Douglas Petty - Owens Mills MD, US

International Classification:

H04L 29/08
H04W 88/02
H04L 29/06

Abstract:

The disclosure relates to a portable computing device configured to selectably switch between a wired zero client mode in which the portable computing device operates as a terminal for a host computer via a wired communication channel, a wireless zero client mode in which the portable computing device operates as a terminal for the host computer via a wireless communication channel, and a local mode in which the portable computing device operates independently from the host computer. The portable computing device may include one or more zero client processors that facilitate operation in the wired or wireless zero client mode and one or more local control processors that facilitate operation in the local mode. The portable computing device may include input devices used to receive inputs for the host computer during the wireless or wired zero client modes or for the local control processors during the local mode.

US Patent:

20150244571, Aug 27, 2015

Filed:

May 12, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/710181

Inventors:

- Gainesville VA, US
An Van NGUYEN - Fairfax VA, US
Lakshmi SANTOSH - Columbia MD, US
Dinh Van NGUYEN - San Jose CA, US
Brian James GENTRY - Bristow VA, US
Binh Kien THAI - Centerville VA, US
Paul Richard GARDNER - Sterling VA, US
Jonathan Douglas PETTY - Owens Mills MD, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/24
H04W 80/04
H04L 29/06

Abstract:

The disclosure relates to a portable computing device configured to selectably switch between a wired zero client mode in which the portable computing device operates as a terminal for a host computer via a wired communication channel, a wireless zero client mode in which the portable computing device operates as a terminal for the host computer via a wireless communication channel, and a local mode in which the portable computing device operates independently from the host computer. The portable computing device may include one or more zero client processors that facilitate operation in the wired or wireless zero client mode and one or more local control processors that facilitate operation in the local mode. The portable computing device may include input devices used to receive inputs for the host computer during the wireless or wired zero client modes or for the local control processors during the local mode.