Patents by Inventor Anita Mal James

Anita Mal James 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).

  • Program guide data management for media content access systems and methods
    Patent number: 9473476
    Abstract: An exemplary system includes a data loader and a data slicer. The data loader is configured to receive and process raw program guide data, and to store the processed program guide data in a data store, the processing including generating a unique program identifier for each program represented in the raw program guide data. The data slicer is configured to generate a program guide data configuration from the processed program guide data, the program guide data configuration including program guide data organized into a plurality of data structures based on categories of the program guide data. The plurality of data structures includes at least one channel data structure, at least one schedule data structure, at least one detailed program information data structure, and indices for use as references between different ones of the data structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mukunda Raju, Laxmi Patel, Anita Mal James, Enrique Ruiz-Velasco
  • PROGRAM GUIDE DATA MANAGEMENT FOR MEDIA CONTENT ACCESS SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20080256575
    Abstract: An exemplary system includes a data loader and a data slicer. The data loader is configured to receive and process raw program guide data, and to store the processed program guide data in a data store, the processing including generating a unique program identifier for each program represented in the raw program guide data. The data slicer is configured to generate a program guide data configuration from the processed program guide data, the program guide data configuration including program guide data organized into a plurality of data structures based on categories of the program guide data. The plurality of data structures includes at least one channel data structure, at least one schedule data structure, at least one detailed program information data structure, and indices for use as references between different ones of the data structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicants: Verizon Data Services Inc., Verizon Data Services India Private Limited
    Inventors: Munkunda Raju, Laxmi Patel, Anita Mal James, Enrique Ruiz-Velasco