Patents by Inventor Charles H. Stier

Charles H. Stier 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).

  • Patent number: 5708961
    Abstract: A digital network delivers multiplexed channels to a customer premises. Each multiplexed channel contains a digitally multiplexed data stream including digitized broadband information relating to a number of programs. At the customer premise, a shared processing system includes several channel selectors and program selectors. Each channel selector selects one of the multiplexed channels, and each program selector selects digitized broadband information relating to a selected program from a selected channel. A multiplexer combines the selected digitized broadband information from the program selectors into a transport stream. A transmitter system, for example comprising a digital modulator, a spread spectrum modulator and a broadcast antenna, provides a wireless broadcast of the digital transport stream throughout the customer premise and possibly one or more near by premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Bell Atlantic Network Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Denny L. Hylton, Robert D. Farris, Stephen J. Flaherty, Richard G. Backus, Faye M. Smith, John Andrew Herhei, Raymond Ian Millet, Nolan Marcus Forness, Charles H. Stier