Patents by Inventor Craig D. Mautner

Craig D. Mautner 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 PLACEMENT OF AUXILIARY CONTENT IN A STREAM OF INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20040261128
    Abstract: A method and apparatus located at the end-user of a communications system that inserts auxiliary information, which is stored in a local storage, into a stream of information containing markers therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: PIONEER DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: James Benjamin Fahy, Craig D. Mautner, David M. Eltinge
  • A PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER STORING DIGITAL INFORMATION IN A DOUBLY LINKED LIST
    Publication number: 20040175094
    Abstract: A portion of a video and/or audio stream of information is stored in a buffer memory as a plurality of data blocks connected together by a doubly linked list. This lets a user view television programs in a time-shifted mode and apply functionality to the television programs such as forward, reverse, playback, and skipping commercials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: PIONEER DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Craig D. Mautner, James B. Fahy, David M. Eltinge
  • Virtual addressing of optical storage media as magnetic tape equivalents
    Patent number: 5455926
    Abstract: An optical disk storage system emulates a magnetic tape subsystem by virtual addressing of data recorded on write once optical disk media having a predetermined group of available sectors for rewriting a disk ID, a predetermined plurality of bands of available sectors for rewriting a virtual tape directory to virtual tape VSNs, and, available sectors for rewriting virtual tape maps and rewriting user records, the tape maps have data portions for simulating tape marks and interblock gap and for addressing blocks of data within the virtual tapes, the virtual tape directory has pointers for pointing to tape maps, and the system rewrites the tape directory, tape maps and user records so as to function as a rewritable magnetic tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Data/Ware Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard V. Keele, Craig D. Mautner, Tracy J. Thorpe, Sidney R. Thompson, Michael C. Goodsell, Philip J. Erdelsky
  • Optical disk system emulating magnetic tape units
    Patent number: 5438674
    Abstract: An optical disk system emulating a 3480 magnetic tape subsystem having one or more magnetic tape drives, includes a VMEGate channel attached processor for receiving CCW tape commands, a SCSI board for controlling SCSI optical disk drives, a serial I/O board for controlling jukebox optical disk media handlers for automatically robotically loading and unloading optical disks containing virtual tape data into the optical disk drives, a cache RAM for buffering data between the channel and the optical disk drives, operator consoles for emulating the 3480 magnetic tape subsystem control panels, an SBC computer and VME bus for central control of the system, and floppy and hard disk drives for storing emulation SBC programs and disk directories, to enable the system to exhibit an organization of virtual tape data into a system of pointers and user records of the virtual tapes, a reallocatable mapping between magnetic tape drives and the optical disk drives, disk directories cross referencing virtual tapes VSNs to opt
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Data/Ware Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard V. Keele, Craig D. Mautner, Tracy J. Thorpe, Sidney R. Thompson, Michael C. Goodsell