Patents by Inventor Kenn W. Heinrich

Kenn W. Heinrich 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).

  • Patent number: 9628832
    Abstract: Systems and methods for combining a plurality of transport streams into a single transport stream for transmission to, e.g., a single frequency network via a satellite. Embodiments provide receiving a plurality of original, e.g., MPEG-compliant, data streams, where each original data stream has its own timing information, combining the plurality of original data streams into a single combined data stream which is also, e.g., MPEG compliant, modulating the single combined data stream for uplink to a satellite, receiving a downlink transmission from the satellite, where the downlink transmission includes the single combined data stream, de-combining the single combined data stream into the plurality of original data streams, and passing respective original data steams to, e.g., one or more DVB-T modulators for broadcast into a single frequency network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Crookes, David Verbrugge, Kenn W. Heinrich, Wayne S. Sheldrick, Keith Gammie
  • Publication number: 20160150254
    Abstract: Systems and methods for combining a plurality of transport streams into a single transport stream for transmission to, e.g., a single frequency network via a satellite. Embodiments provide receiving a plurality of original, e.g., MPEG-compliant, data streams, where each original data stream has its own timing information, combining the plurality of original data streams into a single combined data stream which is also, e.g., MPEG compliant, modulating the single combined data stream for uplink to a satellite, receiving a downlink transmission from the satellite, where the downlink transmission includes the single combined data stream, de-combining the single combined data stream into the plurality of original data streams, and passing respective original data steams to, e.g., one or more DVB-T modulators for broadcast into a single frequency network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Brian E. Crookes, David Verbrugge, Kenn W. Heinrich, Wayne S. Sheldrick, Keith Gammie
  • Patent number: 9258582
    Abstract: Systems and methods for combining a plurality of transport streams into a single transport stream for transmission to, e.g., a single frequency network via a satellite. Embodiments provide receiving a plurality of original, e.g., MPEG-compliant, data streams, where each original data stream has its own timing information, combining the plurality of original data streams into a single combined data stream which is also, e.g., MPEG compliant, modulating the single combined data stream for uplink to a satellite, receiving a downlink transmission from the satellite, where the downlink transmission includes the single combined data stream, de-combining the single combined data stream into the plurality of original data streams, and passing respective original data steams to, e.g., one or more DVB-T modulators for broadcast into a single frequency network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Crookes, David Verbrugge, Kenn W. Heinrich, Wayne S. Sheldrick, Keith Gammie
  • Patent number: 9009518
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems of conveying and reproducing independent timebases in a network. The methods include distributing a common measurement clock and a common measurement clock counter to a plurality of cards in a master chassis in the network. Distributed master clock counters are locked to an external input signal in each of the plurality of cards. Periodic snapshots of a count value generated by the master clock counter are taken. A counter speed of the master clock counter is analyzed to create a future snapshot of the count value. The future snapshot of the count value is transmitted from the master chassis to at least one receiving chassis in the network. The association between master counters and slave counters is programmable by various means including modifying the routing of the snapshot packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenn W. Heinrich
  • Patent number: 8432882
    Abstract: Systems and methods for de-combining a single combined data stream into a plurality of original data streams, where each original data stream has its own timing information, and passing respective original data steams to, e.g., one or more DVB-T modulators for broadcast into, e.g., a single frequency network. The original data streams and the single combined data stream may be, e.g., MPEG-compliant data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Crookes, David Verbrugge, Wayne S. Sheldrick, Kenn W. Heinrich
  • Publication number: 20120192238
    Abstract: Systems and methods for combining a plurality of transport streams into a single transport stream for transmission to, e.g., a single frequency network via a satellite. Embodiments provide receiving a plurality of original, e.g., MPEG-compliant, data streams, where each original data stream has its own timing information, combining the plurality of original data streams into a single combined data stream which is also, e.g., MPEG compliant, modulating the single combined data stream for uplink to a satellite, receiving a downlink transmission from the satellite, where the downlink transmission includes the single combined data stream, de-combining the single combined data stream into the plurality of original data streams, and passing respective original data steams to, e.g., one or more DVB-T modulators for broadcast into a single frequency network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: BRIAN E. CROOKES, David Verbrugge, Kenn W. Heinrich, Wayne S. Sheldrick, Keith Gammie
  • Patent number: 8155151
    Abstract: Systems and methods for combining a plurality of transport streams into a single transport stream for transmission to, e.g., a single frequency network via a satellite. Embodiments provide receiving a plurality of original, e.g., MPEG-compliant, data streams, where each original data stream has its own timing information, combining the plurality of original data streams into a single combined data stream which is also, e.g., MPEG compliant, modulating the single combined data stream for uplink to a satellite, receiving a downlink transmission from the satellite, where the downlink transmission includes the single combined data stream, de-combining the single combined data stream into the plurality of original data streams, and passing respective original data steams to, e.g., one or more DVB-T modulators for broadcast into a single frequency network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Crookes, David Verbrugge, Kenn W. Heinrich, Wayne S. Sheldrick, Keith Gammie
  • Patent number: 8139704
    Abstract: A variable bandwidth phase locked loop (PLL) includes renormalizable circuitry configured to allow a gain of the PLL to be changed without causing a disturbance, and a phase compensation circuit configured to adjust a final output phase of the PLL based on parameter changes supplied to the PLL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenn W. Heinrich
  • Publication number: 20120025884
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems of conveying and reproducing independent timebases in a network. The methods include distributing a common measurement clock and a common measurement clock counter to a plurality of cards in a master chassis in the network. Distributed master clock counters are locked to an external input signal in each of the plurality of cards. Periodic snapshots of a count value generated by the master clock counter are taken. A counter speed of the master clock counter is analyzed to create a future snapshot of the count value. The future snapshot of the count value is transmitted from the master chassis to at least one receiving chassis in the network. The association between master counters and slave counters is programmable by various means including modifying the routing of the snapshot packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenn W. Heinrich
  • Publication number: 20100020911
    Abstract: A variable bandwidth phase locked loop (PLL) includes renormalizable circuitry configured to allow a gain of the PLL to be changed without causing a disturbance, and a phase compensation circuit configured to adjust a final output phase of the PLL based on parameter changes supplied to the PLL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Kenn W. Heinrich
  • Publication number: 20090168812
    Abstract: Systems and methods for combining a plurality of transport streams into a single transport stream for transmission to, e.g., a single frequency network via a satellite. Embodiments provide receiving a plurality of original, e.g., MPEG-compliant, data streams, where each original data stream has its own timing information, combining the plurality of original data streams into a single combined data stream which is also, e.g., MPEG compliant, modulating the single combined data stream for uplink to a satellite, receiving a downlink transmission from the satellite, where the downlink transmission includes the single combined data stream, de-combining the single combined data stream into the plurality of original data streams, and passing respective original data steams to, e.g., one or more DVB-T modulators for broadcast into a single frequency network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian E. Crookes, David Verbrugge, Kenn W. Heinrich, Wayne S. Sheldrick, Keith Gammie
  • Publication number: 20090168813
    Abstract: Systems and methods for de-combining a single combined data stream into a plurality of original data streams, where each original data stream has its own timing information, and passing respective original data steams to, e.g., one or more DVB-T modulators for broadcast into, e.g., a single frequency network. The original data streams and the single combined data stream may be, e.g., MPEG-compliant data streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian E. Crookes, David Verbrugge, Wayne S. Sheldrick, Kenn W. Heinrich