Patents by Inventor Daniel Z. Simon

Daniel Z. Simon 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: 8855130
    Abstract: Presented herein are system(s) for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for processing data. The system comprises a first circuit and a memory. The first circuit receives transport packets carrying the data. The memory stores data and comprises at least one context. The first circuit maps the data associated with at least one channel to the at least one context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Stephane W. Rodgers, Daniel Z. Simon
  • Patent number: 8478107
    Abstract: Systems and method for processing v-chip data for an MPEG-2 decoder with personal video recording functionality are provided. In one example, a system that processes V-Chip data with personal video recording functionality may include a data transport engine and a video decoder. The video decoder may be coupled to the data transport engine and may be adapted to parse out V-Chip data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick G Walls, Sandeep Bhatia, Joshua J Stults, Vijayanand Aralaguppe, Sherman (Xuemin) Chen, Daniel Z Simon
  • Patent number: 8264960
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for sharing AV/record resources in a programmable transport/demultiplexer and personal video recorder (PVR) engine. The method may involve utilizing hardware assist architecture to partially process incoming packets, retrieve information about the packets, and write the retrieved information to a memory. A processor programmed with firmware may then utilize the information in memory to perform further processing on the packet data. The processor programmed with firmware may then set up configuration parameters that may be used by the hardware assist architecture to further process the packet. The parameters may be configured such that they may be independent of the format of the packet, where the hardware assist architecture functions may be utilized for processing packets regardless of their format. The system may comprise the hardware assist architecture, the processor programmed with firmware, and a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Stephane W. Rodgers, Daniel Z. Simon
  • Publication number: 20120128008
    Abstract: Presented herein are system(s) for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for processing data. The system comprises a first circuit and a memory. The first circuit receives transport packets carrying the data. The memory stores data and comprises at least one context. The first circuit maps the data associated with at least one channel to the at least one context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephane W. Rodgers, Daniel Z. Simon
  • Patent number: 8135046
    Abstract: Presented herein are system(s) for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for processing data. The system comprises a first circuit and a memory. The first circuit receives transport packets carrying the data. The memory stores data and comprises at least one context. The first circuit maps the data associated with at least one channel to the at least one context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Stephane W. Rodgers, Daniel Z. Simon
  • Publication number: 20080232771
    Abstract: Systems and method for processing v-chip data for an MPEG-2 decoder with personal video recording functionality are provided. In one example, a system that processes V-Chip data with personal video recording functionality may include a data transport engine and a video decoder. The video decoder may be coupled to the data transport engine and may be adapted to parse out V-Chip data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederick G. Walls, Sandeep Bhatia, Joshua J. Stults, Vijayanand Aralaguppe, Sherman (Xuemin) Chen, Daniel Z. Simon
  • Patent number: 7366397
    Abstract: Systems and method for processing v-chip data for an MPEG-2 decoder with personal video recording functionality are provided. In one example, a system that processes V-Chip data with personal video recording functionality may include a data transport engine and a video decoder. The video decoder may be coupled to the data transport engine and may be adapted to parse out V-Chip data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick G. Walls, Sandeep Bhatia, Joshua J. Stults, Vijayanand Aralaguppe, Sherman (Xuemin) Chen, Daniel Z. Simon
  • Patent number: 6804782
    Abstract: A cryptography circuit provides secure processing of data by utilizing countermeasures that combat timing and power attacks. Superfluous operations such as multiplication operations, modular reductions by an integer, storage of data to memory are available for use by a processor to disguise the amount of power usage and the amount of time required to perform a cryptographic operation. A cryptographic key is available for use in order to trigger when these emulated operations occur. The occurrences of the emulated operations is controlled by the user to provide the preferred tradeoff between security and use of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventors: Xin Qiu, Eric J. Sprunk, Daniel Z. Simon, Lawrence Tang, Lawrence R. Cook
  • Publication number: 20030161612
    Abstract: Systems and method for processing v-chip data for an MPEG-2 decoder with personal video recording functionality are provided. In one example, a system that processes V-Chip data with personal video recording functionality may include a data transport engine and a video decoder. The video decoder may be coupled to the data transport engine and may be adapted to parse out V-Chip data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Frederick G. Walls, Sandeep Bhatia, Joshua J. Stults, Vijayanand Aralaguppe, Sherman (Xuemin) Chen, Daniel Z. Simon