Patents by Inventor Chao Beck

Chao Beck 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: 20190132069
    Abstract: A computer program product, system, and method for determining a time to end recording of a program in a media stream using content recognition. A determination is made of a start time at which recording of media program content for a scheduled program begins from a media stream into the media storage device. An estimated end time of the scheduled program from the determined start time is determined. The media stream is continually processed at the estimated end time to determine whether content in the media stream matches expected end content for an end of the scheduled program until the content in the media stream is determined to match the expected end content. The recording of the media program content in the media stream in the media storage device is terminated in response to determining that the content in the media stream matches the expected end content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Chao Beck, Christopher M. Durham
  • Publication number: 20190132070
    Abstract: A computer program product, system, and method for determining a time to end recording of a program in a media stream using content recognition. A determination is made of a start time at which recording of media program content for a scheduled program begins from a media stream into the media storage device. An estimated end time of the scheduled program from the determined start time is determined. The media stream is continually processed at the estimated end time to determine whether content in the media stream matches expected end content for an end of the scheduled program until the content in the media stream is determined to match the expected end content. The recording of the media program content in the media stream in the media storage device is terminated in response to determining that the content in the media stream matches the expected end content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Chao Beck, Christopher M. Durham
  • Publication number: 20050035949
    Abstract: A software application has certain keyboard hot key combinations. If the application is active the pressing of a key is detected for the application. A number of keyboard keys are selected responsive to the key pressed. The selected keys correspond to hot key combinations that include the pressed key. The keyboard is signaled to differentiate the selected keys. Further, the application is operable to have a number of contexts, where certain ones of the hot key combinations are only valid for certain of the contexts. For example, where the application includes a word processing function one of the application contexts is a circumstance in which text is selected. Accordingly, the method includes detecting the context of the application and the selecting is responsive to that context. In this situation the selected keys correspond to hot key combinations that include the pressed key and that are valid for the detected context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chao Beck, Hypatia Rojas, David Rundell