Patents by Inventor Aron Roberts

Aron Roberts 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).

  • Distributed production system for digitally encoding information
    Patent number: 6873877
    Abstract: A method and system for encoding digital information is disclosed. According to the method, media program information is captured and used to produce a media program file. An encoding request is received from a client which requests that the media program information be encoded in one or more encoding formats. A set of encoding engines are selected that can encode the media program information in each of the one or more encoding formats. The media program file is then sent to the selected set of encoding engines to encode the media program information in the one or more encoding formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Loudeye Corp.
    Inventors: Martin Tobias, Beverley Kite, Mathews Brown, Eric Lindvall, Jeffrey Oberlander, Aron Roberts, Anna Hansen, Gregory Malley, Ken Suzuki