Patents by Inventor C. Covington

C. Covington 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: 20060150222
    Abstract: A system includes one or more transmitter devices constructed and adapted to transmit wireless streaming media, the transmitter device connected to at least one video source, wherein the transmitter device is further constructed and adapted to automatically detect a type of active source signal from the at least one video source and automatically to convert that signal, if necessary, to an appropriate output signal; and one or more receiver devices constructed and adapted to receive wireless signals, the receiver connected to at least one video output device, wherein the at least one receiver device is further constructed and adapted to produce, automatically, a appropriate signal for the at least one video output device connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Avocent California Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin McCafferty, Richard Moore, Iain Huntley-Playle, Sheng Li, Richard Smith, Rudolph Timmerman, C. Covington
  • Publication number: 20050108614
    Abstract: In a keyboard-video-mouse (“KVM”) system in which a target computer may be wirelessly accessed by a plurality of remote stations, a method includes, by the target computer: obtaining a frame of video data; transmitting packets for the frame; transmitting a query packet; obtaining a list of requests from at least one of the remote stations, each request from a particular remote station identifying packets missed by that particular remote station; and resending at least some of the requested packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Iain Huntly-Playle, C. Covington, Charles Lally, Sheng Li, Richard Moore
  • Publication number: 20050104892
    Abstract: In a wireless keyboard-video-mouse (“KVM”) system in which a remote computer accesses the video output data of a target computer, a method of providing video data from the target computer to the remote computer, a method includes compressing at least some of the video data using a line fitting compression scheme to produce at least one sequence of absolute coded pixel segments and relative coded pixel segments which combine to represent the video data; and providing the sequence of absolute coded pixel segments and relative coded pixel segments to the remote computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: C. Covington, Charles Lally, Sheng Li, Richard Moore, Iain Huntly-Playle
  • Publication number: 20050108451
    Abstract: In a wireless keyboard-video-mouse (“KVM”) system in which a remote computer accesses the video output data of a target computer, a method of providing video data from the target computer to the remote computer, includes obtaining an analog video signal from a target computer; disabling data compression of the video signal; determining a first phase (P) for analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion of the video signal; beginning compression of the video signal; and adjusting the first phase of the A/D conversion to produced a second phase (P?), based, at least in part, on a number of segments required to transmit the compressed video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: C. Covington, Charles Lally, Sheng Li, Richard Moore, Iain Huntly-Playle
  • Publication number: 20050052465
    Abstract: A wireless keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) system includes transmitting compressed video signals. Analog video data is converted from RGB signals to YUV signals which are compressed using a linear interpolation algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Richard Moore, Iain Huntly-Playle, Kenneth Christoffersen, Kevin McCafferty, Greg Burke, Rudolph Timmerman, Gregory Garner, C. Covington, Timothy Foster