Patents by Inventor Colin N. B. Cook

Colin N. B. Cook 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: 8881023
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for synchronizing the virtual and physical mouse cursors of a local computer and a remotely controlled computer. Video signals generated by a host computer are transmitted to a client computer in order to allow the user of a client computer to have a virtual presence on the host computer. However, the signals transmitted by the host computer may contain errors that can cause a physical mouse to lose synchronization with a virtual mouse. Therefore this virtual presence architecture uses USB protocol and human interface descriptors that support the movement of a mouse to an absolute position in order to synchronize a virtual mouse cursor with a physical mouse cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Avocent Utah
    Inventors: Colin N. B. Cook, Warren K. Unice, Adam J. Boyle
  • Patent number: 8412269
    Abstract: A system for providing additional functionality to a mobile device is described. The system includes a mobile enhancing device that is capable of being in electronic communication with the mobile device, the enhancing device comprising a keyboard functionality, display screen functionality, and pointing device functionality. The system may be designed such that the mobile device is a smartphone, mobile phone or a USB flash drive that includes an operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Celio Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Colin N. B. Cook
  • Patent number: 8165558
    Abstract: A new class of thin client called a trans client for operation with a smart cellular telephone as its server does not contain its own user interface (UI) and operating system (OS) and has no capability to run user programs as a standalone apparatus. Its purpose and capability is to display remote content and to provide user input interface. It is built with the slowest processing and lowest power consumption possible with the lowest cost and has security features to assure integrity of operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Celio Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Colin N. B. Cook, Donald T. Saxby, Joseph A. Harris
  • Patent number: 8127310
    Abstract: A method and a system for dynamically switching, without initialization, display drivers of a mobile telephone or personal digital assistant having a processing unit operative with a mobile device operating system, wherein a display driver interface manager is embedded with the operating system that is operative to receive captured video application program interface messages, which redirects values of the video API messages to an alternative video driver, enabling a remote video display device to display a reconstructed image based on the video API messages. The ability to dynamically switch from a primary display to a secondary display is desirable to prevent disruptions in display content, including current display view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Celio Corporation
    Inventors: Colin N. B. Cook, Donald T. Saxby, Douglas Boling
  • Patent number: 7065078
    Abstract: A switched platform management architecture and related methods are generally described. In accordance with but one aspect of the present invention, a method is presented comprising receiving a datagram through an intelligent platform management communication channel, and analyzing at least a subset of the received datagram for information necessary to identify routing information of the received content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Pete A. Hawkins, Colin N. B. Cook
  • Patent number: 6754759
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention uses a processor to transfer information from a first device to a common area. The information is then transferred from the common area to a second device, thereby bypassing restrictions that may impede a transfer of the information directly from the first device to the second device. In an exemplary implementation, a PCI card initiates the transfer of information from a video frame buffer of an AGP video card to a memory buffer on the PCI card, using an interrupt handler loaded during configuration of the PCI bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Colin N. B. Cook, Warren K. Unice
  • Patent number: D595288
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Celio Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Leonard B. Roach, David Kirt Bailey, Colin N. B. Cook, Brad Warnock