Patents by Inventor Edward Blaine Eytchison

Edward Blaine Eytchison 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 of managing resources within a network of consumer electronic devices
    Patent number: 6363434
    Abstract: A method of managing resources within a network for consumer electronic media devices. In one embodiment, the method is implemented as a software resource manager which provides a centralized resource allocation, reservation and access control functionalities for a home entertainment server. Particularly, user applications of the home server receive instructions from a user or other entities for a media service, and converts the instructions into a request that identifies the necessary resources for providing the media service. The software resource manager then determines whether such resources are available upon receiving the request. Importantly, the software resource manager also determines whether a routing path between the necessary resources has sufficient bandwidth for performing the requested media service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignees: Sony Corporation of Japan, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Blaine Eytchison