Patents by Inventor Gordon Bechtel
Gordon Bechtel 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).
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Patent number: 9420340Abstract: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored content and delivery information representative of at least a duration for delivering the token. The trigger mechanism indicates an instruction to deliver a token over the television network, generating a signal indicating a respective one of the stored tokens and a time for starting the delivery of the respective token. The communications interface has a channel in communication with a television set top box device for transferring the respective token to the television set top box device. The packet generator generates packets within a stream of television content to be broadcast over the television network.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.Inventors: Michael Kokernak, Madeleine Noland, Colin Campbell, Gordon Bechtel
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Publication number: 20150289020Abstract: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored content and delivery information representative of at least a duration for delivering the token. The trigger mechanism indicates an instruction to deliver a token over the television network, generating a signal indicating a respective one of the stored tokens and a time for starting the delivery of the respective token. The communications interface has a channel in communication with a television set top box device for transferring the respective token to the television set top box device. The packet generator generates packets within a stream of television content to be broadcast over the television network.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.Inventors: Michael KOKERNAK, Madeleine NOLAND, Colin CAMPBELL, Gordon BECHTEL
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Patent number: 9094721Abstract: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored content and delivery information representative of at least a duration for delivering the token. The trigger mechanism indicates an instruction to deliver a token over the television network, generating a signal indicating a respective one of the stored tokens and a time for starting the delivery of the respective token. The communications interface has a channel in communication with a television set top box device for transferring the respective token to the television set top box device. The packet generator generates packets within a stream of television content to be broadcast over the television network.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.Inventors: Michael Kokernak, Madeleine Noland, Colin Campbell, Gordon Bechtel
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Patent number: 9088831Abstract: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored content and delivery information representative of at least a duration for delivering the token. The trigger mechanism indicates an instruction to deliver a token over the television network, generating a signal indicating a respective one of the stored tokens and a time for starting the delivery of the respective token. The communications interface has a channel in communication with a television, set top box device for transferring the respective token to the television set top box device. The packet generator generates packets within a stream of television content to be broadcast over the television network.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.Inventors: Michael Kokernak, Madeleine Noland, Colin Campbell, Gordon Bechtel
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Publication number: 20120174142Abstract: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored content and delivery information representative of at least a duration for delivering the token. The trigger mechanism indicates an instruction to deliver a token over the television network, generating a signal indicating a respective one of the stored tokens and a time for starting the delivery of the respective token. The communications interface has a channel in communication with a television, set top box device for transferring the respective token to the television set top box device. The packet generator generates packets within a stream of television content to be broadcast over the television network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Backchannelmedia Inc.Inventors: Michael Kokernak, Madeleine Noland, Colin Campbell, Gordon Bechtel
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Patent number: 8160064Abstract: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored content and delivery information representative of at least a duration for delivering the token. The trigger mechanism indicates an instruction to deliver a token over the television network, generating a signal indicating a respective one of the stored tokens and a time for starting the delivery of the respective token. The communications interface has a channel in communication with a television set top box device for transferring the respective token to the television set top box device. The packet generator generates packets within a stream of television content to be broadcast over the television network.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Backchannelmedia Inc.Inventors: Michael Kokernak, Madeleine Noland, Colin Campbell, Gordon Bechtel
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Publication number: 20110072450Abstract: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored content and delivery information representative of at least a duration for delivering the token. The trigger mechanism indicates an instruction to deliver a token over the television network, generating a signal indicating a respective one of the stored tokens and a time for starting the delivery of the respective token. The communications interface has a channel in communication with a television set top box device for transferring the respective token to the television set top box device. The packet generator generates packets within a stream of television content to be broadcast over the television network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: Backchannelmedia Inc.Inventors: Michael Kokernak, Madeleine Noland, Colin Campbell, Gordon Bechtel
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Publication number: 20100098074Abstract: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored content and delivery information representative of at least a duration for delivering the token. The trigger mechanism indicates an instruction to deliver a token over the television network, generating a signal indicating a respective one of the stored tokens and a time for starting the delivery of the respective token. The communications interface has a channel in communication with a television set box device for transferring the respective token to the television set box device. The packet generator generates packets within a stream of television content to be broadcast over the television network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Backchannelmedia Inc.Inventors: Michael Kokernak, Madeleine Noland, Colin Campbell, Gordon Bechtel
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Publication number: 20100098075Abstract: The invention relates, in various aspects, to systems and methods for linking content stored on a computer network with content broadcast over a television network. The system includes a database, a trigger mechanism, a communications interface, and a packet generator. The database stores tokens representative of links to the stored content and delivery information representative of at least a duration for delivering the token. The trigger mechanism indicates an instruction to deliver a token over the television network, generating a signal indicating a respective one of the stored tokens and a time for starting the delivery of the respective token. The communications interface has a channel in communication with a television set top box device for transferring the respective token to the television set top box device. The packet generator generates packets within a stream of television content to be broadcast over the television network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: Backchannelmedia Inc.Inventors: Michael Kokernak, Madeleine Noland, Colin Campbell, Gordon Bechtel
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Publication number: 20020138500Abstract: A carousel file server at a headend of a broadband network periodically and repeatedly streams application data files over in-band or out-of-band delivery paths (or a combination of both) to client applications running on a population of set-top terminals in a network. The carousel server streams multiple virtual streams carrying multicast addresses into a single downstream service (i.e., a PID stream) within a stream set using standard MPEG-2 transport protocols. The virtual streaming implemented by the multicast addressing provides another level of filtering so that set-top terminals in the network may access application data files beyond that enabled by PID filtering. The application data files in the virtual file system are flexibly partitioned among the virtual streams (or across the stream set) to thereby create a virtual file system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2002Publication date: September 26, 2002Applicant: General Instrument CorporationInventors: Gordon Bechtel, Terence Brogan, John Marcolini