Patents by Inventor Benjamin McAllister

Benjamin McAllister has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method, system, and computer program product for producing and distributing enhanced media
    Publication number: 20030001880
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product are provided to edit and encode enriched multimedia productions for live, delayed, or on-demand web casts or other distribution. The present invention is configured to operate independent of the system platform and media format. Hence, the present invention has the ability to operate with any type of manual or automated video production system. The multimedia production is produced according to an electronic show rundown. The rundown includes instructions for encoding the production for webcasting. In an embodiment, the multimedia is produced and broadcast over conventional channels simultaneously with a live or delayed web cast. The web cast material is edited, fragmented, tagged and/or archived during the simulcast. In another embodiment, the multimedia is produced and archived for on-demand web cast. Auxiliary information is added to enhance the multimedia production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: ParkerVision, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Holtz, Robert J. Snyder, Marcel LaRocque, William H. Couch, Benjamin McAllister, Charles M. Hoeppner, Keith Gregory Tingle, David A. Armbruster