Patents by Inventor Brian Lee Bickford

Brian Lee Bickford 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).

  • Vehicle audio system having random access player with play list control
    Patent number: 6185163
    Abstract: A method is provided for altering a play list of a Random Access Player without interrupting the generation of output by the Player. The method includes initiating a reproduction mode that activates the Random Access Player, commencing the generating of output by the Random Access Player and receiving play list requests while the Random Access Player is generating the output, and processing the received play list requests while the Random Access Player is generating the output such that the play list is altered without interrupting the generation of output by the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Delco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Lee Bickford, Amahl Kenneth Brown, Dan Darryl Carman, Edward Dickson Catlett, Gary Edward Goodwin, James Alan Kleiss, Ronald Julius Szabo
  • Broadcast receiver providing selectable categories of available broadcast signals
    Patent number: 6021320
    Abstract: A Broadcast receiver system includes a SNAPSHOT feature which searches one or more broadcast bands for currently receivable broadcast signals. Supplemental information accompanying each of the received broadcast signals are processed to determine a program type thereof, e.g. country, jazz, rock, news and the like. Only currently available program types are stored in memory along with all broadcast frequencies corresponding thereto. The receiver system provides means by which a user may select any of the currently available program types, whereupon the user is presented with a number of preset keys automatically programmed with the corresponding number of available broadcast frequencies within the selected program type category. The user may then depress any of the preset keys to tune to a broadcast station broadcasting the selected program type. Alternatively, the user may actuate seek or scan keys to select the broadcast stations within the selected program type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Delco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Lee Bickford, Scott Alan Wright, Mark David Adamski, Brian L. McNett
  • Play list control method and system for
    Patent number: 5986979
    Abstract: A method is provided for altering a play list of a Random Access Player without interrupting the generation of output by the Player. The method includes initiating a reproduction mode that activates the Random Access Player, commencing the generating of output by the Random Access Player and receiving play list requests while the Random Access Player is generating the output, and processing the received play list requests while the Random Access Player is generating the output such that the play list is altered without interrupting the generation of output by the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Delco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Lee Bickford, Amahl Kenneth Brown, Dan Darryl Carman, Edward Dickson Catlett, Gary Edward Goodwin, James Alan Kleiss, Ronald Julius Szabo