Patents by Inventor Francis A. Honoré

Francis A. Honoré 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).

  • Publication number: 20050004977
    Abstract: Internet content is coordinated with audio communications, such that two or more parties can view the same media content on the Internet while simultaneously communicating over a traditional telephony network or via voice over network. A user computer displays shared content that corresponds to a second computer's display, such that both parties view the same content on their browsers. Either of the parties is allowed to update the visual content of their browsers. Updates in the visual content are transmitted to the other parties so that all parties view the same, shared content. The shared content can include web pages, forms, applications, images, conferences, and files among other information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Applicant: Cisco Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Pasha Roberts, Firdaus Bhathena, Francis Honore
  • Patent number: 6754693
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described whereby Internet content is coordinated with audio communications, such that two or more parties can view the same media content on the Internet while also simultaneously communicating over a traditional telephony network or by using voice over network implementations. The visual interaction is achieved by having a user computer display shared content that corresponds to a second computer's display, such that both parties will be viewing a copy containing the same content on each of their browsers. The visual interaction further provides a method for allowing either of the parties to update the visual content of their browsers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pasha Roberts, Firdaus Bhathena, Francis A. Honoré
  • Patent number: 6650694
    Abstract: A programmable, flexible, vector correlation engine for CDMA mobile and base station chip rate signal processing. A correlator co-processor (CCP) performs the de-spreading tasks for a RAKE receiver, early/late correlations for time tracking, and has provision for coherent accumulation of different lengths. The CCP also performs energy estimation and non-coherent accumulation functions. The CCP can also perform correlation functions required for delay profile estimation, and for search/acquisition functions. The same centralized Data Path is used to perform all these functions; a common controller generates signals into the Data Path in response to tasks initiated by a host processor (e.g., DSP). The tasks written into the CCP are performed effectively in parallel by the CCP Data Path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Katherine G. Brown, Sundararajan Sriram, Francis Honore, Kang Lee
  • Patent number: 6295551
    Abstract: A call center system allows a representative and a user to jointly browse World Wide Web content while simultaneously conducting a voice conversation over either a circuit switched or packet switched network. A user may initiate a joint browsing, or synchronous collaboration, session by accessing a web page associated with the call center. A call center server downloads a user applet to the user's computer. The user applet communicates state information about the user computer's browser display, or user view, to the server. The server stores this state information. The server then downloads a service applet to the browser of a selected call center representative. The service applet generates a service view including a representation of the user view and a script frame that controls the representation of the user view. The representative may, for example, alter the representation of the user view by selecting a hyperlink or entering information into an HTML form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pasha Roberts, Firdaus Bhathena, Francis A. Honoré