Patents by Inventor Bill Seed

Bill Seed 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).

  • Efficient encoding and decoding methods for representing schedules and processing forward error correction codes
    Patent number: 8533555
    Abstract: A sequence of symbol operations (a “schedule representation”) within a data storage device, wherein the operations are those used to process encoding or decoding operations of a forward error correction code (an “FEC code”) upon an arbitrary block of data of a given size (where size can be measured in numbers of symbols). The method is such that the schedule representation can be used to direct the processing of these operations upon a block of data in a way that is computationally efficient. Preferably, the same method can be applied to represent schedules derived from multiple different algorithms for the encoding or decoding of a code or for multiple different codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Digital Fountain, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Chen, Mark Watson, Michael G. Luby, Bill Seed, Thomas Kunz
  • EFFICIENT ENCODING AND DECODING METHODS FOR REPRESENTING SCHEDULES AND PROCESSING FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION CODES
    Publication number: 20120036409
    Abstract: A sequence of symbol operations (a “schedule representation”) within a data storage device, wherein the operations are those used to process encoding or decoding operations of a forward error correction code (an “FEC code”) upon an arbitrary block of data of a given size (where size can be measured in numbers of symbols). The method is such that the schedule representation can be used to direct the processing of these operations upon a block of data in a way that is computationally efficient. Preferably, the same method can be applied to represent schedules derived from multiple different algorithms for the encoding or decoding of a code or for multiple different codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Digital Fountain, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Chen, Mark Watson, Michael G. Luby, Bill Seed, Thomas Kunz
  • Efficient encoding and decoding methods for representing schedules and processing forward error correction codes
    Patent number: 8006160
    Abstract: A sequence of symbol operations (a “schedule representation”) within a data storage device, wherein the operations are those used to process encoding or decoding operations of a forward error correction code (an “FEC code”) upon an arbitrary block of data of a given size (where size can be measured in numbers of symbols). The method is such that the schedule representation can be used to direct the processing of these operations upon a block of data in a way that is computationally efficient. Preferably, the same method can be applied to represent schedules derived from multiple different algorithms for the encoding or decoding of a code or for multiple different codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Digital Fountain, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Chen, Mark Watson, Michael G. Luby, Bill Seed, Thomas Kunz
  • Efficient Encoding and Decoding Methods for Representing Schedules and Processing Forward Error Correction Codes
    Publication number: 20080028275
    Abstract: A sequence of symbol operations (a “schedule representation”) within a data storage device, wherein the operations are those used to process encoding or decoding operations of a forward error correction code (an “FEC code”) upon an arbitrary block of data of a given size (where size can be measured in numbers of symbols). The method is such that the schedule representation can be used to direct the processing of these operations upon a block of data in a way that is computationally efficient. Preferably, the same method can be applied to represent schedules derived from multiple different algorithms for the encoding or decoding of a code or for multiple different codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Digital Fountain, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Chen, Mark Watson, Michael Luby, Bill Seed, Thomas Kunz