Patents by Inventor Karl R. Burgess

Karl R. Burgess 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).

  • Color quality and packet shaping features for displaying an application on various client devices
    Patent number: 7360162
    Abstract: In a client-server architecture, data transmission performance enhancing features are described, including a color quality approach and a packet shaping approach. A method includes a color quality data transformation including: selecting a quality level to apply to a set of image data having a number of significant color bits defining an initial number of possible colors; applying a pixel mask to the set of image data, the initial number of possible colors reduced to a smaller number of possible colors as a function of the quality level; loading the set of image data into an output buffer; and sending the set of image data from the output buffer to a display engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Shaw, Karl R. Burgess
  • Color quality and packet shaping features for displaying an application on a variety of client devices
    Patent number: 6925606
    Abstract: In a client-server architecture, data transmission performance enhancing features and mechanisms are described, including a color quality approach and a packet shaping approach. A method includes a color quality data transformation including: selecting a quality level to apply to a set of image data having a number of significant color bits defining an initial number of possible colors; applying a pixel mask to the set of image data, the initial number of possible colors reduced to a smaller number of possible colors as a function of the quality level; loading the set of image data into an output buffer; and sending the set of image data from the output buffer to a display engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Tarantella, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Shaw, Karl R. Burgess
  • Color quality and packet shaping features for displaying an application on a variety of client devices
    Publication number: 20030055327
    Abstract: In a client-server architecture, data transmission performance enhancing features and mechanisms are described, including a color quality approach and a packet shaping approach. A method includes a color quality data transformation including: selecting a quality level to apply to a set of image data having a number of significant color bits defining an initial number of possible colors; applying a pixel mask to the set of image data, the initial number of possible colors reduced to a smaller number of possible colors as a function of the quality level; loading the set of image data into an output buffer; and sending the set of image data from the output buffer to a display engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Andrew Shaw, Karl R. Burgess