Patents by Inventor Charles C. Debergh

Charles C. Debergh 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).

  • Method and apparatus for managing software downloads in a broadcast communication system
    Patent number: 10200500
    Abstract: A system and method for a system for communicating with a user device includes a broadcast management system generating content channel data signals. The system also includes a software download manager in communication with the broadcast management system. The software download manager generates an announcement file and a download resolution file. The download manager communicates the announcement file. The user device has user device identifier data and receives the download resolution file in response to the announcement file and stores the software image in the user device in response to the download resolution file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Subbaraya Kumar Deverakonda Venkata, Jianming Yu, Charles C. Debergh, Gilbert Zaldivar, Joseph T. Hayes, Romulo Pontual, Lonnie Scott Clabaugh
  • Method and system for accessing content in another format in a communications system
    Patent number: 9872057
    Abstract: A method and system for accessing content includes a user device and a subscription manager that generates a first identifier associated with a first content in a first format and a second identifier associated with the first content in a second format. The system also includes a conditional access system that communicates a first identifier, the second identifier and rules to the user device. The user device accesses the first content with the first format in response purchasing the first content in the first format. The user device selects the first content in the second format and accesses the first content in the second format in response to purchasing the first content in the first format and the rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Raynold M. Kahn, Dien L. Nguyen, Joseph T. Hayes, Jianming Yu, Kapil Chaudhry, An T. Lam, Don E. Cansino, Yeung K. Chan, Charles C. DeBergh, Lonnie Scott Clabaugh
  • Method and apparatus for monitoring a transport processing system in a software download broadcast communication system
    Patent number: 9602628
    Abstract: A system and method for a system for communicating with a user device includes a first transport processing system and a second transport processing system. The system also includes a software download manager that monitors a first transport processing system communicating a software image, generates a first announcement for the software image, communicates the first announcement to the user device, determines a failure of the first transport processing system, discontinues the first announcement for the software image in response to the failure and communicating the software image through the second transport processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianming Yu, Subbaraya Kumar Deverakonda Venkata, Charles C. Debergh, Lonnie Scott Clabaugh
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS IN A BROADCAST COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100211942
    Abstract: A system and method for a system for communicating with a user device includes a broadcast management system generating content channel data signals. The system also includes a software download manager in communication with the broadcast management system. The software download manager generates an announcement file and a download resolution file. The download manager communicates the announcement file. The user device has user device identifier data and receives the download resolution file in response to the announcement file and stores the software image in the user device in response to the download resolution file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: The DIRCTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: SUBBARAYA KUMAR DEVERAKONDA VENKATA, Jianming Yu, Charles C. Debergh, Gilbert Zaldivar, Joseph T. Hayes, Romulo Pontual, Lonnie Scott Clabaugh
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A TRANSPORT PROCESSING SYSTEM IN A SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD BROADCAST COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100205647
    Abstract: A system and method for a system for communicating with a user device includes a first transport processing system and a second transport processing system. The system also includes a software download manager that monitors a first transport processing system communicating a software image, generates a first announcement for the software image, communicates the first announcement to the user device, determines a failure of the first transport processing system, discontinues the first announcement for the software image in response to the failure and communicating the software image through the second transport processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: JIANMING YU, Subbaraya Kumar Deverakonda Venkata, Charles C. Debergh, Lonnie Scott Clabaugh