Patents by Inventor Neal Margulis
Neal Margulis 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).
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Patent number: 9781473Abstract: A method for effectively implementing a multi-room television system includes a digital base station that processes and combines various program sources to produce a processed stream. A communications processor then responsively transmits the processed stream as a local composite output stream to various wired and wireless display devices for flexible viewing at variable remote locations. The transmission path performance is used to determine the video encoding process, and special attention is taken to assure that all users have low-latency interactive capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20170155952Abstract: An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: Sling Media Inc.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Patent number: 9584757Abstract: An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Sling Media, Inc.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20170019704Abstract: A method for effectively implementing a multi-room television system includes a digital base station that processes and combines various program sources to produce a processed stream. A communications processor then responsively transmits the processed stream as a local composite output stream to various wired and wireless display devices for flexible viewing at variable remote locations. The transmission path performance is used to determine the video encoding process, and special attention is taken to assure that all users have low-latency interactive capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Patent number: 9491523Abstract: A method for effectively implementing a multi-room television system includes a digital base station that processes and combines various program sources to produce a processed stream. A communications processor then responsively transmits the processed stream as a local composite output stream to various wired and wireless display devices for flexible viewing at variable remote locations. The transmission path performance is used to determine the video encoding process, and special attention is taken to assure that all users have low-latency interactive capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20130003822Abstract: A method for effectively implementing a multi-room television system includes a digital base station that processes and combines various program sources to produce a processed stream. A communications processor then responsively transmits the processed stream as a local composite output stream to various wired and wireless display devices for flexible viewing at variable remote locations. The transmission path performance is used to determine the video encoding process, and special attention is taken to assure that all users have low-latency interactive capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Patent number: 8266657Abstract: A method for effectively implementing a multi-room television system includes a digital base station that processes and combines various program sources to produce a processed stream. A communications processor then responsively transmits the processed stream as a local composite output stream to various wired and wireless display devices for flexible viewing at variable remote locations. The transmission path performance is used to determine the video encoding process, and special attention is taken to assure that all users have low-latency interactive capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Sling Media Inc.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20120030718Abstract: An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20120007873Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an optimized memory architecture for computer systems and, more particularly, to integrated circuits that implement a memory subsystem that is comprised of internal memory and control for external memory. The invention includes one or more shared high-bandwidth memory subsystems, each coupled over a plurality of buses to a display subsystem, a central processing unit (CPU) subsystem, input/output (I/O) buses and other controllers. Additional buffers and multiplexers are used for the subsystems to further optimize system performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2009Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20110283332Abstract: An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Patent number: 7992176Abstract: An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Sling Media, Inc.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20100192185Abstract: An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20100192186Abstract: An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20100192184Abstract: An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Patent number: 7725912Abstract: An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system may include a communications processor and a transmitter device that combine at least one of a local-area network interface, a wide-area network interface, and one or more television data interfaces for effectively performing a wireless network transmission process. A transmitted stream from the wireless television system may be received via wireless network processing for viewing local-area network data, wide-area network data (such as Internet data), or television data by flexibly utilizing various electronic devices such as a notepad personal computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), or a handheld TV remote control device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2001Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Sling Media, Inc.Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Patent number: 7720300Abstract: A system and method for effectively performing an adaptive quantization procedure includes an energy calculator that initially determines energy values for subbands of input data. A quantizer receives initial quantization parameters that each correspond to a different respective one of the subbands. The quantizer calculates adaptive quantization parameters from the initial quantization parameters by utilizing corresponding ones of the energy values. The quantizer then utilizes the adaptive quantization parameters to generate quantized coefficients for the subbands during the adaptive quantization procedure.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2006Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Calister TechnologiesInventors: Krishna Mohan Malladi, B. Anil Kumar, Neal Margulis
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Patent number: 7460725Abstract: A system and method for effectively encoding and decoding electronic information includes an encoding system with a tiling module that initially divides source image data into data tiles. A frame differencing module then outputs only altered data tiles to various processing modules that convert the altered data tiles into corresponding tile components. A quantizer performs a compression procedure upon the tile components to generate compressed data according to an adjustable quantization parameter. An adaptive entropy selector then selects one of a plurality of available entropy encoders to most effectively perform an entropy encoding procedure to thereby produce encoded data. The entropy encoder may also utilize a feedback loop to adjust the quantization parameter in light of current transmission bandwidth characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Calista Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Krishna Mohan Malladi, B. Anil Kumar, Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20080112489Abstract: A system and method for effectively encoding and decoding electronic information includes an encoding system with a tiling module that initially divides source image data into data tiles. A frame differencing module then outputs only altered data tiles to various processing modules that convert the altered data tiles into corresponding tile components. A quantizer performs a compression procedure upon the tile components to generate compressed data according to an adjustable quantization parameter. An adaptive entropy selector then selects one of a plurality of available entropy encoders to most effectively perform an entropy encoding procedure to thereby produce encoded data. The entropy encoder may also utilize a feedback loop to adjust the quantization parameter in light of current transmission bandwidth characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2006Publication date: May 15, 2008Inventors: Krishna Mohan Malladi, B. Anil Kumar, Neal Margulis
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Publication number: 20070124474Abstract: A multi-user host computer system comprises processor blades combined with terminal services blades to provide acceleration and proxy server functions for supporting a variety of remote terminals. For each remote terminal, the terminal services blade and proxy server functions may improve the video and graphics performance. This allows the multi-user host computer system to more efficiently support multiple users. The terminal services blade may include a graphics processor that manages a virtual display for each remote terminal and provides selective updates of sub frame data. Where appropriate, the sub frame data is encoded and transmitted over the network to the remote terminals. The terminal services processor also offloads and optimizes video data streams for the intended remote terminals and their respective network connections. Processor blades may include a baseboard management controller that utilizes advanced features for supporting remote KVM administration.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2005Publication date: May 31, 2007Inventor: Neal Margulis
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Patent number: RE41413Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an optimized memory architecture for computer systems and, more particularly, to integrated circuits that implement a memory subsystem that is comprised of internal memory and control for external memory. The invention includes one or more shared high-bandwidth memory subsystems, each coupled over a plurality of buses to a display subsystem, a central processing unit (CPU) subsystem, input/output (I/O) buses and other controllers. Additional buffers and multiplexers are used for the subsystems to further optimize system performance.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Inventor: Neal Margulis