Patents by Inventor Benny J. Pruden

Benny J. Pruden 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: 20200145722
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing data and/or operations on data such as content are disclosed. A method can comprise transmitting content to facilitate playback of the content. A trick play operation relating to the transmitted content can be detected. A threshold bandwidth can be determined based on normal playback of the content. A frame rate of the transmitted content can be adjusted during the trick play operation such that a bandwidth of the trick play operation is less than or equal to the determined threshold bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Benny J. PRUDEN, Stephen ALLINSON
  • Patent number: 10419815
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing data and/or operations on data such as content are disclosed. A method can comprise transmitting content to facilitate playback of the content. A trick play operation relating to the transmitted content can be detected. A threshold bandwidth can be determined based on normal playback of the content. A frame rate of the transmitted content can be adjusted during the trick play operation such that a bandwidth of the trick play operation is less than or equal to the determined threshold bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Benny J. Pruden, Stephen Allinson
  • Publication number: 20170085953
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing data and/or operations on data such as content are disclosed. A method can comprise transmitting content to facilitate playback of the content. A trick play operation relating to the transmitted content can be detected. A threshold bandwidth can be determined based on normal playback of the content. A frame rate of the transmitted content can be adjusted during the trick play operation such that a bandwidth of the trick play operation is less than or equal to the determined threshold bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Benny J. Pruden, Stephen Allinson
  • Publication number: 20120006894
    Abstract: A printed media product, such as a trading card, that has a substrate and an encoded data element applied to a surface of the substrate containing information. The encoded data element includes first, second, and third data layers with first, second, and third patterns of encoded, colored dots defined by a binary encoding scheme. The dots of the first, second, and third layers are different colors separately resolvable by a scanner with decoding software. The colors of the dots are cyan, yellow, and magenta, and the layers are printed so that the dots overlap. The binary encoding scheme includes a two dimensional run length limited code. The printed media product includes a graphics element that can be interpreted by a human user, and typically, the information encoded in the encoded data element layers is related to the information in the graphics element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Benny J. Pruden, Peter W. LeMasters
  • Patent number: 8045219
    Abstract: A printed media product, such as a trading card, that has a substrate and an encoded data element applied to a surface of the substrate containing information. The encoded data element includes first, second, and third data layers with first, second, and third patterns of encoded, colored dots defined by a binary encoding scheme. The dots of the first, second, and third layers are different colors separately resolvable by a scanner with decoding software. The colors of the dots are cyan, yellow, and magenta, and the layers are printed so that the dots overlap. The binary encoding scheme includes a two dimensional run length limited code. The printed media product includes a graphics element that can be interpreted by a human user, and typically, the information encoded in the encoded data element layers is related to the information in the graphics element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Benny J. Pruden, Peter W. LeMasters
  • Publication number: 20040246529
    Abstract: A printed media product, such as a trading card, that has a substrate and an encoded data element applied to a surface of the substrate containing information. The encoded data element includes first, second, and third data layers with first, second, and third patterns of encoded, colored dots defined by a binary encoding scheme. The dots of the first, second, and third layers are different colors separately resolvable by a scanner with decoding software. The colors of the dots are cyan, yellow, and magenta, and the layers are printed so that the dots overlap. The binary encoding scheme includes a two dimensional run length limited code. The printed media product includes a graphics element that can be interpreted by a human user, and typically, the information encoded in the encoded data element layers is related to the information in the graphics element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Benny J. Pruden, Peter W. LeMasters
  • Patent number: 4979208
    Abstract: Control apparatus for a line operated telephone is described. This control circuitry is designed to be primarily telephone line powered and to not employ a large capacitor for storing power to sustain the circuitry during open switch intervals in which the telephone line is not powered. Rather, the present circuity includes a telephone line monitoring circuit for sensing a power down condition, a processing means such as a microprocessor with an associated power down program for storing process status at a time just prior to power down and for resetting the processing at the appropriate place upon power up, and low power state monitoring latches for monitoring important events, such as an on hook condition, coin collection and refund operations occurring during an open switch interval. In combination, a low power operation is achieved primarily utilizing a regularly interrupted source, the phone lines, and requiring only small battery to power the low power monitoring state monitoring latches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Benny J. Pruden, Howard Wisnik, Scott Hudis