Patents by Inventor James H Snyder
James H Snyder 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: 10171539Abstract: A special rendering mode for the first few seconds of play out of multimedia data minimizes the delay caused by pre-buffering of data packets in multimedia streaming applications. Instead of pre-buffering all incoming data packets until a certain threshold is reached, the streaming application starts playing out some of the data packets immediately after the arrival of the first data packet. Immediate play out of the first data packet, for example, results in minimum delay between channel selection and perception, thereby allowing a user to quickly scan through all available channels to quickly get a notion of the content. The immediate play out is done at a reduced speed.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventors: Mathias R. Kretschmer, James H. Snyder
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Patent number: 10014977Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
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Publication number: 20160366205Abstract: A special rendering mode for the first few seconds of play out of multimedia data minimizes the delay caused by pre-buffering of data packets in multimedia streaming applications. Instead of pre-buffering all incoming data packets until a certain threshold is reached, the streaming application starts playing out some of the data packets immediately after the arrival of the first data packet. Immediate play out of the first data packet, for example, results in minimum delay between channel selection and perception, thereby allowing a user to quickly scan through all available channels to quickly get a notion of the content. The immediate play out is done at a reduced speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Inventors: Mathias R. KRETSCHMER, James H. Snyder
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Patent number: 9432434Abstract: A special rendering mode for the first few seconds of play out of multimedia data minimizes the delay caused by pre-buffering of data packets in multimedia streaming applications. Instead of pre-buffering all incoming data packets until a certain threshold is reached, the streaming application starts playing out some of the data packets immediately after the arrival of the first data packet. Immediate play out of the first data packet, for example, results in minimum delay between channel selection and perception, thereby allowing a user to quickly scan through all available channels to quickly get a notion of the content. The immediate play out is done at a reduced speed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Mathias R. Kretschmer, James H. Snyder
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Publication number: 20160013886Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
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Patent number: 9160495Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
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Publication number: 20140334499Abstract: A special rendering mode for the first few seconds of play out of multimedia data minimizes the delay caused by pre-buffering of data packets in multimedia streaming applications. Instead of pre-buffering all incoming data packets until a certain threshold is reached, the streaming application starts playing out some of the data packets immediately after the arrival of the first data packet. Immediate play out of the first data packet, for example, results in minimum delay between channel selection and perception, thereby allowing a user to quickly scan through all available channels to quickly get a notion of the content. The immediate play out is done at a reduced speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Mathias R. KRETSCHMER, James H. Snyder
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Patent number: 8798041Abstract: A special rendering mode for the first few seconds of play out of multimedia data minimizes the delay caused by pre-buffering of data packets in multimedia streaming applications. Instead of pre-buffering all incoming data packets until a certain threshold is reached, the streaming application starts playing out some of the data packets immediately after the arrival of the first data packet. Immediate play out of the first data packet, for example, results in minimum delay between channel selection and perception, thereby allowing a user to quickly scan through all available channels to quickly get a notion of the content. The immediate play out is done at a reduced speed.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Mathias R. Kretschmer, James H. Snyder
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Publication number: 20130293773Abstract: A special rendering mode for the first few seconds of play out of multimedia data minimizes the delay caused by pre-buffering of data packets in multimedia streaming applications. Instead of pre-buffering all incoming data packets until a certain threshold is reached, the streaming application starts playing out some of the data packets immediately after the arrival of the first data packet. Immediate play out of the first data packet, for example, results in minimum delay between channel selection and perception, thereby allowing a user to quickly scan through all available channels to quickly get a notion of the content. The immediate play out is done at a reduced speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Mathias R. Kretschmer, James H. Snyder
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Publication number: 20130229908Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
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Patent number: 8483208Abstract: A special rendering mode for the first few seconds of play out of multimedia data minimizes the delay caused by pre-buffering of data packets in multimedia streaming applications. Instead of pre-buffering all incoming data packets until a certain threshold is reached, the streaming application starts playing out some of the data packets immediately after the arrival of the first data packet. Immediate play out of the first data packet, for example, results in minimum delay between channel selection and perception, thereby allowing a user to quickly scan through all available channels to quickly get a notion of the content. The immediate play out is done at a reduced speed.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2003Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Mathias R. Kretchmer, James H. Snyder
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Patent number: 8428185Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
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Publication number: 20120033812Abstract: An apparatus for compressing media content is disclosed. The apparatus divides the media content into at least three predetermined portions, compresses each of the at least three portions using one of at least three different compression algorithms and makes the at least three compressed predetermined portions publicly available. Making the portions publicly available includes, for example, transmitting the portions over a computer network such as the Internet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: John Blakeway Lacy, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
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Patent number: 8041038Abstract: An apparatus for compressing media content is disclosed. The apparatus divides the media content into at least three predetermined portions, compresses each of the at least three portions using one of at least three different compression algorithms and makes the at least three compressed predetermined portions publicly available. Making the portions publicly available includes, for example, transmitting the portions over a computer network such as the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: John Blakeway Lacy, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H Snyder
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Patent number: 7492902Abstract: An apparatus for compressing media content is disclosed. The apparatus divides the media content into at least three predetermined portions, compresses each of the at least three portions using one of at least three different compression algorithms and makes the at least three compressed predetermined portions publicly available. Making the portions publicly available includes, for example, transmitting the portions over a computer network such as the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2004Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: John Blakeway Lacy, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
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Publication number: 20080250091Abstract: An apparatus for compressing media content is disclosed. The apparatus divides the media content into at least three predetermined portions, compresses each of the at least three portions using one of at least three different compression algorithms and makes the at least three compressed predetermined portions publicly available. Making the portions publicly available includes, for example, transmitting the portions over a computer network such as the Internet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: AT&T Corp.Inventors: John Blakeway Lacy, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
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Patent number: 7042933Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2004Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H Snyder
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Patent number: 6885749Abstract: This invention provides methods and apparatus for protecting data transmitted using standard compression techniques such as Huffman coding. After input data is preprocessed (filtered, quantized, etc.), the data is encoded using a Huffman coder based on Huffman codes or code books which have been scrambled to change the order of the code books and/or codes from established standard Huffman code books and/or codes. When the transmitted information is received by a Huffman code receiver, the received data may be decoded using the scrambled Huffman code book/codes to obtain the data that was transmitted by the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1999Date of Patent: April 26, 2005Assignee: AT&T CorpInventors: Tzu-Chieh Chang, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H Snyder
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Patent number: 6850559Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H Snyder
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Publication number: 20040205485Abstract: An apparatus for compressing media content is disclosed. The apparatus divides the media content into at least three predetermined portions, compresses each of the at least three portions using one of at least three different compression algorithms and makes the at least three compressed predetermined portions publicly available. Making the portions publicly available includes, for example, transmitting the portions over a computer network such as the Internet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2004Publication date: October 14, 2004Applicant: AT&T Corp.Inventors: John Blakeway Lacy, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder