Patents by Inventor Charles Gomer Thomas

Charles Gomer Thomas 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: 20040022278
    Abstract: A method of providing localized data includes receiving, at least one of a plurality of local broadcast sites, a broadcast stream carrying global data; and inserting, at least one of local broadcast sites, localized data associated with the one of local broadcast sites into the received broadcast stream, so as to generate a modified broadcast stream carrying the global data and the localized data at the local broadcast site. A method of providing targeted data includes receiving a broadcast including a plurality of content streams, each of the content streams carrying targeted content data having certain targeting attributes; and selecting, by a selection device, one of the content streams based on the targeting attributes and attributes of a receiving party serviced by the selection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Charles Gomer Thomas, David Catapano, Dinkar Bhat, Nagaraj Nandhakumar