Patents by Inventor Bradford Ward Holcombe

Bradford Ward Holcombe 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).

  • Three part architecture for digital television data broadcasting
    Patent number: 7305696
    Abstract: This invention provides technology (including apparatus, method, software, and/or data structures) to broadcast data from one or more content providers via one or more broadcast channels to one or more content recipients. This technology meets the different needs of the three major stakeholders—the content providers, the broadcasters, and the content recipients. The technology provides support for identifying the data to be broadcast, setting the broadcast schedule, getting the data inserted into the broadcast stream, extracting it from the broadcast stream at the receiver, and many ancillary activities such as compression, error correction, bandwidth management, bandwidth usage reporting, and content filtering at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Triveni Digital, Inc.
    Inventors: C. Gomer Thomas, Nagaraj Nandhakumar, Dinkar Bhat, James Kenealy, Ilya Shnayder, Patricia Lee Crabtree, Bradford Ward Holcombe
  • Three part architecture for digital television data broadcasting
    Publication number: 20020023270
    Abstract: This invention provides technology (including apparatus, method, software, and/or data structures) to broadcast data from one or more content providers via one or more broadcast channels to one or more content recipients. This technology meets the different needs of the three major stakeholders—the content providers, the broadcasters, and the content recipients. The technology provides support for identifying the data to be broadcast, setting the broadcast schedule, getting the data inserted into the broadcast stream, extracting it from the broadcast stream at the receiver, and many ancillary activities such as compression, error correction, bandwidth management, bandwidth usage reporting, and content filtering at the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: C. Gomer Thomas, Nagaraj Nandhakumar, Dinkar Bhat, James Kenealy, Ilya Shnayder, Patricia Lee Crabtree, Bradford Ward Holcombe