Patents by Inventor Steven Geach
Steven Geach 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: 9680949Abstract: A personal media system implemented as a tuple service allows remote access, selection, authorization, and transmission of personal media stored in a collection on a home network across a network to a guest network. A mobile client device enables browsing/searching for content, shows media players within a domain, finds a media player within a domain for a given media type, gets a media object, and renders a media object on a given media player within a domain. Each gateway has an agent that registers to the server and responds to commands from the server. The server acts as a hub for moving digital content objects between domains, provides media services on behalf of domains (e.g., transcoding, proxy streaming, etc.), provides a web interface to mobile client devices for control over user domains, sends commands to the personal media agents, and creates an accessible set of domains for a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mark Leslie Caunter, Bruce Kelly Jackson, Steven Geach
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Publication number: 20150149599Abstract: A personal media system implemented as a tuple service allows remote access, selection, authorization, and transmission of personal media stored in a collection on a home network across a network to a guest network. A mobile client device enables browsing/searching for content, shows media players within a domain, finds a media player within a domain for a given media type, gets a media object, and renders a media object on a given media player within a domain. Each gateway has an agent that registers to the server and responds from commands from the server. The server acts as a hub for moving digital content objects between domains, provides media services on behalf of domains (e.g., transcoding, proxy streaming, etc.), provides a web interface to mobile client devices for control over user domains, sends commands to the personal media agents, and creates an accessible set of domains for a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Mark Leslie Caunter, Bruce Kelly Jackson, Steven Geach
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Patent number: 8977710Abstract: A personal media system implemented as a tuple service allows remote access, selection, authorization, and transmission of personal media stored in a collection on a home network across a network to a guest network. A mobile client device enables browsing/searching for content, shows media players within a domain, finds a media player within a domain for a given media type, gets a media object, and renders a media object on a given media player within a domain. Each gateway has an agent that registers to the server and responds to commands from the server. The server acts as a hub for moving digital content objects between domains, provides media services on behalf of domains (e.g., transcoding, proxy streaming, etc.), provides a web interface to mobile client devices for control over user domains, sends commands to the personal media agents, and creates an accessible set of domains for a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM, IncorporatedInventors: Mark Leslie Caunter, Bruce Kelly Jackson, Steven Geach
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Patent number: 8930531Abstract: A persistent personal messaging system provides shared memory space functionality supporting a user changing between a plurality of client devices, even within a loosely coupled, distributed system for persistent personal messaging. A user, irrespective of which messaging client they are using, logs on to the system. The act of logging on places user data, representing the user, into the shared memory space. A “contacts” service agent finds the friends and groups that the user belongs to and notifies other users that the user has logged on. Given the on-line status of other users and groups, a “history” service agent will retrieve previous messages from the shared memory space that formed the user's conversations with users and groups, as if the user had never logged off or switched devices. When the user adds a new message to any conversation, the message is added to the shared memory space.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mark Leslie Caunter, Bruce Kelly Jackson, Steven Geach
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Publication number: 20120059900Abstract: A persistent personal messaging system provides shared memory space functionality supporting a user changing between a plurality of client devices, even within a loosely coupled, distributed system for persistent personal messaging. A user, irrespective of which messaging client they are using, logs on to the system. The act of logging on places user data, representing the user, into the shared memory space. A “contacts” service agent finds the friends and groups that the user belongs to and notifies other users that the user has logged on. Given the on-line status of other users and groups, a “history” service agent will retrieve previous messages from the shared memory space that formed the user's conversations with users and groups, as if the user had never logged off or switched devices. When the user adds a new message to any conversation, the message is added to the shared memory space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Mark Leslie CAUNTER, Bruce KELLY JACKSON, Steven GEACH
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Patent number: 8060603Abstract: A persistent personal messaging system provides tuple space functionality supporting a user changing between a plurality of client devices, even within a loosely coupled, distributed system for persistent personal messaging. A user, irrespective of which messaging client they are using, logs on to the system. The act of logging on places a tuple, representing the user, into the tuple space. A “contacts” service agent finds the friends and groups that the user belongs to and notifies other users that the user has logged on. Given the on-line status of other users and groups, a “history” service agent will retrieve previous messages from the tuple space that formed the user's conversations with users and groups, as if the user had never logged off or switched devices. When the user adds a new message to any conversation, the message is added as a tuple to the tuple space.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mark Leslie Caunter, Bruce Kelly Jackson, Steven Geach
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Publication number: 20090319599Abstract: A personal media system implemented as a tuple service allows remote access, selection, authorization, and transmission of personal media stored in a collection on a home network across a network to a guest network. A mobile client device enables browsing/searching for content, shows media players within a domain, finds a media player within a domain for a given media type, gets a media object, and renders a media object on a given media player within a domain. Each gateway has an agent that registers to the server and responds from commands from the server. The server acts as a hub for moving digital content objects between domains, provides media services on behalf of domains (e.g., transcoding, proxy streaming, etc.), provides a web interface to mobile client devices for control over user domains, sends commands to the personal media agents, and creates an accessible set of domains for a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventors: Mark Leslie CAUNTER, Bruce Kelly JACKSON, Steven GEACH
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Publication number: 20090319615Abstract: A persistent personal messaging system provides tuple space functionality supporting a user changing between a plurality of client devices, even within a loosely coupled, distributed system for persistent personal messaging. A user, irrespective of which messaging client they are using, logs on to the system. The act of logging on places a tuple, representing the user, into the tuple space. A “contacts” service agent finds the friends and groups that the user belongs to and notifies other users that the user has logged on. Given the on-line status of other users and groups, a “history” service agent will retrieve previous messages from the tuple space that formed the user's conversations with users and groups, as if the user had never logged off or switched devices. When the user adds a new message to any conversation, the message is added as a tuple to the tuple space.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventors: Mark Leslie CAUNTER, Bruce Kelly JACKSON, Steven GEACH
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Publication number: 20090319385Abstract: An operator provides services to a population of client device, such as mobile communication devices, including search services accessed via an operator portal. A search gateway places a search object, in which user privacy is protected, into a distributed, transactional object (tuple) space. Resolvers monitoring the space read the search descriptors and coordinate an external search to be performed with result objects placed back in the space. The gateway removes the search result objects from the space, matching them with the user search for reporting to a user of the client device. Thereby, an increased amount of content is accessible across a distributed system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventors: Bruce Kelly JACKSON, Mark Leslie CAUNTER, Steven GEACH
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Publication number: 20090320097Abstract: An operator provides services to a population of client device, such as mobile communication devices, including search services accessed via an operator portal. A search gateway places a search object, in which user privacy is protected, into a distributed, transactional object (tuple) space. Resolvers monitoring the space read the search descriptors and coordinate an external search to be performed with result objects placed back in the space. The gateway removes the search result objects from the space, matching them with the user search for reporting to a user of the client device. Thereby, an increased amount of content is accessible across a distributed system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventors: Bruce Kelly JACKSON, Mark Leslie CAUNTER, Steven GEACH
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Publication number: 20090077480Abstract: Apparatus and methods of discovering and managing electronic communities include placing data tuples into a tuple space, discovering the attributes of the data tuple via a community formation tuple, and generating one or more community tuples based on the discovered relationships.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Mark Leslie CAUNTER, Bruce Kelly JACKSON, Steven GEACH
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Publication number: 20090063423Abstract: A service object user interface responds to a number of different types of client devices, especially handheld communication devices, by providing tuple space interface attributes in a service tuple. Thereby, dynamically changing services (e.g., search engines, online shopping, media content selection, etc.) and a population of client devices can be accommodated even within a loosely coupled, distributed system. By facilitating interfacing within tuple space, inconvenient configuring at the client device is avoided, expanding computer platform independence to encompass alternative user interfaces based upon JAVA™ classes, uiOne™ trigs, FLASH multimedia, and/or other evolving protocols.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Bruce Kelly JACKSON, Mark Leslie CAUNTER, Steven GEACH