Patents by Inventor Benjamin Payne

Benjamin Payne 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).

  • Technique for updating a resident application and associated parameters in a user terminal through a communications network
    Publication number: 20050055685
    Abstract: A resident application (RA) in set-top terminals (STTs) is updated by providing an upgrade channel application (UCA) over a network. Those STTs that are selected to receive the UCA are identified. The selected STTs download the UCA from the network. Once the UCA begins to execute on an STT, it retrieves the user parameters stored in the STT, and transmits them to a remote location for storage. A new RA is then installed in the STT. The original user parameters are converted at the remote location to become compatible with the new RA. The converted user parameters are transferred to the STT for use by the new RA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Maynard, Jed Reed, John Callahan, Benjamin Payne