Patents by Inventor Bradford Lowell Farris

Bradford Lowell Farris 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).

  • Digital multi-room, multi-source entertainment and communications network
    Patent number: 6907458
    Abstract: A peer-to-peer network of devices connected together with data being streamed over a digital network. Network devices include one or more data communication units that are locatable in two or more zones. Data communication units may be room stations and door stations connected to hub modules at an entertainment hub and local units connected to the entertainment hub. The entertainment hub may be connected to the Internet, either directly or, indirectly through one of the connected data communications units. Room stations include a sending unit, a receiving unit and an intercom unit (provide intercom, paging and station monitoring) and are located in different zones, each controlling local reception of data from the data stream and each may place data into the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: M&S Systems, L.P.
    Inventors: Stephen Robert Tomassetti, Donald C. Snedigar, Thomas Gerald Wojciechowski, Bradford Lowell Farris
  • Digital multi-room, multi-source entertainment and communications network
    Publication number: 20030023741
    Abstract: A peer-to-peer network of devices connected together with data being streamed over a digital network. Network devices include one or more data communication units that are locatable in two or more zones. Data communication units may be room stations and door stations connected to hub modules at an entertainment hub and local units connected to the entertainment hub. The entertainment hub may be connected to the Internet, either directly or, indirectly through one of the connected data communications units. Room stations include a sending unit, a receiving unit and an intercom unit (provide intercom, paging and station monitoring) and are located in different zones, each controlling local reception of data from the data stream and each may place data into the data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Stephen Robert Tomassetti, Donald C. Snedigar, Thomas Gerald Wojciechowski, Bradford Lowell Farris