Patents by Inventor Alan Messer

Alan Messer 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).

  • Publication number: 20100182994
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for providing voice communications in a packet switched network protocol through a home network is provided, the method comprising: receiving, at a first home network device, an incoming call in the packet switched network protocol; notifying a second home network device of the incoming call; receiving an indication from the second home network device that the second home network device accepts the call; and forwarding the incoming call to the second home network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mahfuzur RAHMAN, Alan MESSER
  • Patent number: 7751321
    Abstract: A method and system for remote access to UPnP devices is provided, which allows remote access to UPnP devices in a private network, and utilizes message forwarding at the UPnP layer. Existing UPnP control points can remotely access UPnP devices in a private network without modification to UPnP standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Song, Doreen Cheng, Alan Messer
  • Patent number: 7739411
    Abstract: A method and system implementing a process for content synchronization that detects and prevents synchronization recursion in CDS transfer operations. A synchronization relationship is formed between the CDS containers in multiple devices. Then content synchronization processes are performed based on that relationship to avoid synchronization recursion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alan Messer, Mahfuzur Rahman, Wonseok Kwon, Seung Jae Oh, Jian Huang
  • Patent number: 7716317
    Abstract: A system for providing single view of content in a network of devices includes a communication module that detects devices connected to the network, a directory module that discovers content in each detected device via the communication module and maintains a directory of such available content providing a single view of the discovered content for access thereto, and a content manager that provides access to the single view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Praveen Kumar, Victor Zhu, Alan Messer
  • Patent number: 7716361
    Abstract: A method and system for providing persistent media across Web pages using only browser plug-ins. Media selected through a Web browser can play in a way that is embedded in the content, but the media can continue to play while Web pages transition. The content providers benefit from the flexibility of content use, while the user can enjoy playing media without interruptions. The media can stop persisting when the content provider so chooses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20100077058
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for providing a user interface to a client device is provided, the method comprising: sending, to the client device, a browser web page compatible with a browser operable on the client device, the browser web page including a capability to receive content updates from a server according to a server-defined protocol and a capability to send events from the client device to the server; receiving content from a content source; sending the content to the client device according to the server-defined protocol; and sending a partial update of the content to the client device according to the server-defined protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Alan MESSER
  • Publication number: 20100070895
    Abstract: A method and system for providing access to content on an electronic device is provided. One embodiment includes receiving contextual information and querying a packaged content source for content related to the contextual information. Available content relating to the contextual information from the packaged content source is then indicated for user access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20090292672
    Abstract: A method and system for facilitating access to content on an electronic device is provided. Facilitating access involves maintaining a temporal log of metadata for content accessed by one or more users, segregated based on time slots; searching the log to detect a pattern related to the metadata for one or more times slots; and constructing a temporal usage profile based on the pattern. The temporal usage profile may be used for recommending appropriate content to a user at an appropriate time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Simon J. Gibbs, Priyang Rathod, Mithun Sheshagiri, Phuong Nguyen, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20090231999
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for establishing Quality of Service (QoS) in a home network is provided. The method comprises: receiving a request for bandwidth in a virtual private network (VPN); receiving a traffic specification of an application on a control point retrieving a traffic policy; retrieving path characteristics of the VPN; and reserving resources in the VPN based on the path characteristics, the traffic policy, and the traffic specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sanjeev VERMA, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20090133059
    Abstract: A media device suitable for playing video content including television programming is provided. The media device comprises a device usage monitor configured to substantially automatically monitor selected usage information related to video content that is played on the media device; a rating engine configured to substantially automatically generate content ratings for specific video content that has been played by the media device, wherein the content ratings are based at least in part of the usage information; and a user interface suitable for presenting a plurality of content channels to the user, wherein at least some of the presented channels are personalized channels that include video content that is selected based at least in part on the content ratings generated by the rating engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Simon J. Gibbs, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20090112848
    Abstract: A method and system implementing a process for suggesting search queries on an electronic device is provided. The process involves displaying terms related to content accessed by a user for selection by the user, obtaining one or more key terms related to a user-selected term, and displaying the one or more key terms to the user as query suggestions corresponding to the selected term. Obtaining one or more key terms involves obtaining one or more key terms related to the selected term, based on local content information and/or external content information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Priyang Rathod, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20090077065
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for information searching based on user interest awareness. Information that represents user interest is obtained. One or more key terms are obtained from the user interest information. Then, a given query is enhanced based on one or more of the key terms for generating an enhanced query for searching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Song, Doreen Cheng, Swaroop Kalasapur, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20090070318
    Abstract: A method and system for selecting personalized search engines for accessing information is provided. Each personalized search engine represents one or more base search engines. Characteristic information, representing searching capabilities of each of the multiple personalized search engines is obtained. A personalized search engine is selected among the multiple personalized search engines for executing a query based on said characteristic information and the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Song, Doreen Cheng, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20090055388
    Abstract: A method and system for access to information using search engines is provided. A search engine is selected for executing a query based on search engine characteristic information and the query. The characteristic information for each search engine includes information representing searching capabilities of each search engine. Selecting a search engine further involves determining a similarity between the query and the characteristic information for each search engine, and selecting a search engine based on the similarities such that a search engine with the highest similarity may be selected for executing the query and returning search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Song, Doreen Cheng, Swaroop Kalasapur, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20090055393
    Abstract: A method and system for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device is provided. One implementation involves, on a client side, obtaining metadata for content accessed by a user via the electronic device, displaying terms based on said metadata for user selection, receiving a user selection including receiving selection of one or more of said terms from the user, forming a query based on the user selection to search for related data, and extracting data of interest to the user based on said query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alan Messer, Phuong Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20090025054
    Abstract: A method and system for access to content is provided. Providing access to content involves constructing a smart channel that facilitates adaptive content selection, identifying known content matching the smart channel content selection, performing a smart channel query to discover new content that is related to the known content, and prefetching newly discovered relevant content from a content space. The content includes video content for display on a display such as a TV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Simon J. Gibbs, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20080313190
    Abstract: A method and system for a searchable Web service is disclosed, which involve gathering service information, using the gathered information for constructing a service definition file in a pre-defined format and enabling one or more search engines to discover information in the service definition file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Doreen Cheng, Yu Song, Swaroop Kalasapur, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20080313320
    Abstract: A method and system implementing a process for generating a signature for a network space using existing resources in the space. The process for generating a signature for a space involves discovering the resources in the space and generating a signature for the space using the identification of the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Doreen Cheng, Yu Song, Swaroop Kalasapur, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20080307093
    Abstract: A method and system for managing resource consumption by TCP connections. After establishing a TCP connection between two devices, such as a client and a server, the TCP connection is placed into a dormant mode when the server has no data to send to the client. Only when there is data to be sent, is the TCP connection awakened and the required resources for communication allocated for the TCP connection. This approach reduces resource usage for a TCP connection, and enables a TCP server to push information to a large number of clients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Song, Doreen Cheng, Alan Messer
  • Publication number: 20080288641
    Abstract: A method and system for providing information to a user of a device on a local network is provided. This involves obtaining information about current user activity on the local network, obtaining contextual information about current user activity on the local network and obtaining additional information interrelated to the contextual information and the user activity information. Then correlations are identified between the additional information, the contextual information and the user activity information. The correlations are used in forming a query to search for information related to the current user activity, to provide to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alan Messer, Doreen Cheng, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Priyang Rathod