Patents by Inventor Mark N. Ely

Mark N. Ely 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 use in maintaining media data quality upon conversion to a different data format
    Patent number: 8392826
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in maintaining data quality upon conversion to a different data format. Some embodiments provide methods that receive media data in a first format, initiate a first conversion of the media data at the first format to a second converted format, identify parameters dictating the conversion to the second converted format, record the parameters, and distribute the recorded parameters to remote systems such that the parameters at least in part control the remote systems during a conversion of the media data to the second converted format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sonic Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Bruce W. Randall, James H. Taylor, Mark N. Ely, Kenneth G. Oetzel
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USE IN MAINTAINING MEDIA DATA QUALITY UPON CONVERSION TO A DIFFERENT DATA FORMAT
    Publication number: 20090265617
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in maintaining data quality upon conversion to a different data format. Some embodiments provide methods that receive media data in a first format, initiate a first conversion of the media data at the first format to a second converted format, identify parameters dictating the conversion to the second converted format, record the parameters, and distribute the recorded parameters to remote systems such that the parameters at least in part control the remote systems during a conversion of the media data to the second converted format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: SONIC SOLUTIONS, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bruce W. Randall, James H. Taylor, Mark N. Ely, Kenneth G. Oetzel
  • Methods and systems for use in maintaining media data quality upon conversion to a different data format
    Patent number: 7555715
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in maintaining data quality upon conversion to a different data format. Some embodiments provide methods that receive media data in a first format, initiate a first conversion of the media data at the first format to a second converted format, identify parameters dictating the conversion to the second converted format, record the parameters, and distribute the recorded parameters to remote systems such that the parameters at least in part control the remote systems during a conversion of the media data to the second converted format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Sonic Solutions
    Inventors: Bruce W. Randall, James H. Taylor, Mark N. Ely, Kenneth G. Oetzel