Patents by Inventor Douglas Berrett

Douglas Berrett 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).

  • Aggregated tuner scheduling
    Patent number: 9191692
    Abstract: A television recording system in which multiple client devices can form a group, sharing tuners and channel lineups. The clients may be desktop or laptop computers, digital video recorders or other set top boxes. A device within the group may act as a master, maintaining a master recording schedule and assigning tuners to record programs when scheduled or when a client requests use of a tuner for display live programming. Clients may register with the master, revealing the capabilities of their tuners. The master may, each time a tuner is desired, select an appropriate tuner based on multiple criteria, including bandwidth considerations and capabilities of the tuner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Berrett, Cory Cirrincione, Joseph McClanahan, Sean Kollenkark
  • AGGREGATED TUNER SCHEDULING
    Publication number: 20110302606
    Abstract: A television recording system in which multiple client devices can form a group, sharing tuners and channel lineups. The clients may be desktop or laptop computers, digital video recorders or other set top boxes. A device within the group may act as a master, maintaining a master recording schedule and assigning tuners to record programs when scheduled or when a client requests use of a tuner for display live programming. Clients may register with the master, revealing the capabilities of their tuners. The master may, each time a tuner is desired, select an appropriate tuner based on multiple criteria, including bandwidth considerations and capabilities of the tuner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Berrett, Cory Cirrincione, Joseph McClanahan, Sean Kollenkark
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDIA PUBLISHING
    Publication number: 20080133603
    Abstract: A method and system for publishing a media set. The method includes selecting a publishing platform, compiling a set of data regarding the media set, analyzing the set of data, creating a playlist based on the analyzing the set of data for said media set, and publishing the media set on the publishing platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Lawrence Fischer, Douglas Berrett, Joshua Kampel, Mark Weary