Patents by Inventor Christopher Lord

Christopher Lord 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: 20050108440
    Abstract: A method for performing virtualization includes executing a plurality of input output (IO) instructions from an instruction stream during a single virtualization event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Daniel Baumberger, Christopher Lord
  • Publication number: 20050078193
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method is presented for controlling a video image compression system. In this method a video frame of raw video image data is compressed using a processor. Then it is determined whether the processor is limited in its ability to compress video image data. Then, a target frame rate is adjusted based on a current amount of time taken to compress said video frame of raw video image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Ing, Christopher Lord
  • Publication number: 20050076217
    Abstract: A method of integrating a device into a secure network. The method includes establishing a tunnel between an authenticator, which has a first public key and a first secret, and a device, which has a second secret and a second public key. The method also includes hashing the first secret at the authenticator using the first public key, the second public key and a random number generated from the tunnel protocol to produce a hash of the first secret. The method further includes establishing an authenticated session between the device and the authenticator when the hash of the first secret matches a hash of the second secret.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventors: Christopher Lord, Carl Ellison, David Bowler
  • Publication number: 20050030956
    Abstract: Nodes on a wide area network (“WAN”) such as the Internet may communicate with multiple Internet Protocol Version 6 (“IPv6”) nodes on a private network despite the lack of domain name service (“DNS”) server support. The nodes on the private network may obtain router advertisements and utilize this information to generate IPv6 addresses (6-to-4 addresses). A detection process may detect these IPv6 addresses and create web pages including these addresses. When the nodes on the WAN attempt to reach the private nodes using an address of the gateway separating the WAN from the private network, the nodes may instead reach the web pages created by the detection process. These web pages may redirect the nodes to communicate with each of the private nodes using their respective IPv6 addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Christopher Lord, Ajay Garg
  • Patent number: 6108447
    Abstract: A method for managing data in a video sequence includes estimating a frame rate of the video sequence using time stamps of instructions received from an application program interface. A number of bits is allocated for encoding frames in the video sequence according to a data rate and the frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Lord, Jeffrey S. McVeigh
  • Patent number: 5832140
    Abstract: An image processing system with a quality assurance feature is disclosed for determining the quality of the images being processed. The system includes a plurality of sections operating independently and concurrently to insure reliability. One section includes calculation of a quality assurance parameter dependent on the fill factor and the compression ratio determined before and after compression respectively. A second section includes histogram hardware for generating qualified histograms representative of foreground data, and background data transitions and a comparator for detecting overlap therebetween. A third section develops a histogram parameter based on the areas of the histograms and compares this parameter to the quality assurance parameter for concurrence. The system also includes autosizing means for detecting the borders of an image using fuzzy logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Staplevision Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Stapleton, Christopher Lord
  • Patent number: 5537483
    Abstract: An image processing system with a quality assurance feature is disclosed for determining the quality of the images being processed. The system includes a plurality of sections operating independently and concurrently to insure reliability. One section includes calculation of a quality assurance parameter dependent on the fill factor and the compression ratio determined before and after compression respectively. A second section includes histogram hardware for generating qualified histograms representative of foreground data, and background data transitions and a comparator for detecting overlap therebetween. A third section develops a histogram parameter based on the areas of the histograms and compares this parameter to the quality assurance parameter for concurrence. The system also includes autosizing means for detecting the borders of an image using fuzzy logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Staplevision, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Stapleton, Christopher Lord