Patents by Inventor Lyne Champagne

Lyne Champagne 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).

  • Using user context information to select media files for a user in a distributed multi-user digital media system
    Patent number: 8082226
    Abstract: In a distributed or multi-user system, it is possible for a user to try to access a media file that is not optimal for the user's purposes. In other words, the best quality version of some source material might not be the most optimal version for all users. For example, some users might use less network bandwidth if they used lower resolution video data. User context information is used to limit which versions of a source may be provided to a user that requests the source. The system interprets the user context information to provide the best quality version of the source for the user's purposes. Example user context information may include a specified working resolution and/or a specified target resolution for the user. The context information may be specified for the user or may be specified for a group of users, location of the user or other characteristic related to the user, from which the user in turn inherits the context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Ayotte, Donald Carignan, Lyne Champagne, Steven Lowell, Roger Sacilotto, Roger Tawa, Jr., Stéphane Daigle
  • Using user context information to select media files for a user in a distributed multi-user digital media system
    Publication number: 20090083245
    Abstract: In a distributed or multi-user system, it is possible for a user to try to access a media file that is not optimal for the user's purposes. In other words, the best quality version of some source material might not be the most optimal version for all users. For example, some users might use less network bandwidth if they used lower resolution video data. User context information is used to limit which versions of a source may be provided to a user that requests the source. The system interprets the user context information to provide the best quality version of the source for the user's purposes. Example user context information may include a specified working resolution and/or a specified target resolution for the user. The context information may be specified for the user or may be specified for a group of users, location of the user or other characteristic related to the user, from which the user in turn inherits the context information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Louis Ayotte, Donald Carignan, Lyne Champagne, Steven Lowell, Roger Sacilotto, Roger Tawa, JR., Stephane Daigle