Patents by Inventor Alan Swartz

Alan Swartz 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).

  • Patent number: 9633694
    Abstract: Video editing methods and systems enable an editor to edit a video project for which source media assets are located at a media storage server located remotely from the editor with substantially the same fidelity and editing feature set that would be available if the source media assets and editor were co-located. A video editing client used by the editor maintains a persistent cache of proxy media with the layers of the video project stored independently, facilitating editing with combinations locally originated assets and remote assets. The client requests frames not already cached from the remote server via a low bandwidth network. Unless a frame is purged from the cache, no frame is requested from the server more than once. A multi-level priority prefetching scheme, including sequence-based prefetching, populates the cache with frames likely to be requested during editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Forget, Francis A. Capria, Daniel Desbois, Thomas G. Fincher, Richard Gratton, Stephane R. Harnois, Alan Swartz, Min Wei
  • Publication number: 20160225407
    Abstract: Video editing methods and systems enable an editor to edit a video project for which source media assets are located at a media storage server located remotely from the editor with substantially the same fidelity and editing feature set that would be available if the source media assets and editor were co-located. A video editing client used by the editor maintains a persistent cache of proxy media with the layers of the video project stored independently, facilitating editing with combinations locally originated assets and remote assets. The client requests frames not already cached from the remote server via a low bandwidth network. Unless a frame is purged from the cache, no frame is requested from the server more than once. A multi-level priority prefetching scheme, including sequence-based prefetching, populates the cache with frames likely to be requested during editing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Eric Forget, Francis A. Capria, Daniel Desbois, Thomas G. Fincher, Richard Gratton, Stephane R. Harnois, Alan Swartz, Min Wei
  • Patent number: 9318150
    Abstract: Video editing methods and systems enable an editor to edit a video project for which source media assets are located at a media storage server located remotely from the editor with substantially the same fidelity and editing feature set that would be available if the source media assets and editor were co-located. A video editing client used by the editor maintains a persistent cache of proxy media with the layers of the video project stored independently, facilitating editing with combinations locally originated assets and remote assets. The client requests frames not already cached from the remote server via a low bandwidth network. Unless a frame is purged from the cache, no frame is requested from the server more than once. A multi-level priority prefetching scheme, including sequence-based prefetching, populates the cache with frames likely to be requested during editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Forget, Francis A. Capria, Daniel Desbois, Thomas G. Fincher, Richard Gratton, Stephane R. Harnois, Alan Swartz, Min Wei
  • Publication number: 20140304603
    Abstract: Video editing methods and systems enable an editor to edit a video project for which source media assets are located at a media storage server located remotely from the editor with substantially the same fidelity and editing feature set that would be available if the source media assets and editor were co-located. A video editing client used by the editor maintains a persistent cache of proxy media with the layers of the video project stored independently, facilitating editing with combinations locally originated assets and remote assets. The client requests frames not already cached from the remote server via a low bandwidth network. Unless a frame is purged from the cache, no frame is requested from the server more than once. A multi-level priority prefetching scheme, including sequence-based prefetching, populates the cache with frames likely to be requested during editing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Forget, Francis A. Capria, Daniel Desbois, Thomas G. Fincher, Richard Gratton, Stephane R. Harnois, Alan Swartz, Min Wei
  • Publication number: 20090025543
    Abstract: A box installed in an instrument with a cut out where a pick up coil can be instantly slid in and out or side to side. The coils are slid into the box unit which has a slice in it to allow the coils to be slid side to side along a path of the strings to achieve different tonal effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventor: Rick Alan Swartz