Patents by Inventor Kent Barrows Wittenburg

Kent Barrows Wittenburg 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).

  • Methods and systems for selection of multimedia presentations
    Patent number: 7281199
    Abstract: A variety of techniques for both (1) viewing multimedia-based information in accordance with user controls for speed and direction of the multimedia presentation and in accordance with a user selection device being in a particular location and (2) presenting multimedia data items. When a user device is within the defined area, the speed and direction control are on, and when it leaves the defined area, the speed and direction are off. Also described is a system using a browser tool for displaying multimedia data in accordance with these viewing techniques which are indices into multimedia presentations. A user selection is made by viewing the multimedia data items and control is transferred accordingly to an appropriate application to present a multimedia presentation corresponding to a selected multimedia data item. An index database of the multimedia data items is used as indices into the multimedia presentations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignees: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc., Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: John Raymond Nicol, Christopher Michael Martin, James Edward Paschetto, Kent Barrows Wittenburg
  • Synchronized spatial-temporal browsing of images for assessment of content
    Patent number: 6515656
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for viewing multimedia-based information in accordance with user controls for the speed and direction of the multimedia presentation. Different techniques for presenting multimedia data items are disclosed. User controls provide control for speed and direction in accordance with a user selection device being in a particular location. When a user device is within the defined area, the speed and direction control are turned on. When the user device leaves the defined area, the speed and direction are turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Kent Barrows Wittenburg, Thomas Richard Lanning, Wissam Yussef Ali-Ahmad
  • Multidimensional information visualization using attribute rods
    Patent number: 6366299
    Abstract: A system for browsing multidimensional information includes a digital data storage circuit 48 that stores the multidimensional information in a database and a digital logic circuit 44 that imports, manipulates and outputs the multidimensional information in the database in accordance with a mapping model maps each dimension of multidimensional information space to a location in abstract physical space, and a user interface 70 interactively accepts input from a user and, using the mapping model, renders a graphical representation 78 of the multidimensional information space. The graphical representation 78 is responsive to input of user-initiated restrictions on the multidimensional information space by effecting corresponding visible manifestations in the graphical representation 78.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Richard Lanning, Kent Barrows Wittenburg, Michael Scott Heinrichs, Christina Lynn Fyock, Guangjun Li