Patents by Inventor Graham Clift

Graham Clift 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: 20250126332
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. A receiver, to automatically switch from presenting a service on a first frequency to a second frequency such as when a mobile receiver is moving through a boundary region between two broadcasters, can temporarily use a satellite link or 5G wireless telephony or other over the top (OTT) source to acquire a service until an OTA link satisfies quality requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 12223192
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. To improve robustness for datacast files to limited memory platforms, each file is divided into partitions and then the packets in a partition are arranged out of order (OOO), with the partitions then being sent in order with their respective packets OOO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay
  • Publication number: 20240414392
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol. In an ATSC 3.0 environment, receivers (including consumer and professional receivers) have signal reception parameters and antenna factors available to them. These reception parameters, together with time and location data are transmitted to one or more servers that maintain databases of reception characteristics. This data is analyzed such that a set of likely receivable signals (based on reception parameters, date/time, location, geographical features, transmitter information, etc.) is identified. Receivers query the servers to receive information indicating the set of likely receivable signals to reduce channel scan time by scanning only or first for more-receivable channels. Also, difficult reception locations identified in the data collected by the servers are used in aggregate to guide RF improvements (e.g., adding SFN transmitters).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 12108109
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol. In an ATSC 3.0 environment, receivers (including consumer and professional receivers) have signal reception parameters and antenna factors available to them. These reception parameters, together with time and location data are transmitted to one or more servers that maintain databases of reception characteristics. This data is analyzed such that a set of likely receivable signals (based on reception parameters, date/time, location, geographical features, transmitter information, etc.) is identified. Receivers query the servers to receive information indicating the set of likely receivable signals to reduce channel scan time by scanning only or first for more-receivable channels. Also, difficult reception locations identified in the data collected by the servers are used in aggregate to guide RF improvements (e.g., adding SFN transmitters).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 12101526
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. An ATSC 3.0 receiver backs off the live point of a broadcast by a short delay period such that channel change may be rendered perceptibly faster by pre-fetching segments identified in a SegmentTemplate MPD from broadband before the broadcast channel is fully tuned to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Graham Clift
  • Patent number: 12081831
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol and more specifically various types of ATSC 3.0 signaling to deliver private content for signage to kiosks and other public displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luke Fay, Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift
  • Publication number: 20240283464
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. To improve robustness for datacast files, a checksum is provided for each source block in the file, allowing the receiver to discard only a portion of the data as defined by the length of a corrupted block in the AL-FEC parameters. A list of checksums for each source block can be included in the RepairFlow element of the service transport session instance description (S-TSID) since RepairFlow element and AL-FEC provide the breakdown of the data into source blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay
  • Publication number: 20240281164
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. To improve robustness for datacast files to limited memory platforms, each file is divided into partitions and then the packets in a partition are arranged out of order (OOO), with the partitions then being sent in order with their respective packets OOO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay
  • Patent number: 11996925
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. A receiver uses relative location and direction of motion of the receiver with respect to each broadcaster to determine which tuner/demodulator(s) to use to present a service and which to use to scan for services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Luke Fay, Graham Clift
  • Publication number: 20240107111
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol. In an ATSC 3.0 environment, receivers (including consumer and professional receivers) have signal reception parameters and antenna factors available to them. These reception parameters, together with time and location data are transmitted to one or more servers that maintain databases of reception characteristics. This data is analyzed such that a set of likely receivable signals (based on reception parameters, date/time, location, geographical features, transmitter information, etc.) is identified. Receivers query the servers to receive information indicating the set of likely receivable signals to reduce channel scan time by scanning only or first for more-receivable channels. Also, difficult reception locations identified in the data collected by the servers are used in aggregate to guide RF improvements (e.g., adding SFN transmitters).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Goldberg, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11895345
    Abstract: Techniques are described for concealing aspects of RC in the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In this way, by delivering information needed to play the RC very shortly before insertion is to occur, skipping strategies can be foiled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay
  • Publication number: 20230412858
    Abstract: Techniques are described for concealing aspects of RC in the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In this way, by delivering information needed to play the RC very shortly before insertion is to occur, skipping strategies can be foiled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay
  • Patent number: 11848716
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In a boundary region between first and second broadcast stations in which a receiver can pick up signals from both stations, a lower level signaling PLP is used to identify a channel quality metric for identifying the best frequency to receive a broadcast service on which is sent from both stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11838680
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In a boundary region between first and second broadcast stations in which a receiver can pick up signals from both stations, a lower level signaling PLP is used to identify frequencies duplicatively carrying the same service and then higher level PLPs are activated for each duplicate to determine a channel quality metric for identifying the best frequency to receive the service on, which is sent from both stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11825155
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. A receiver, to automatically switch from presenting a service on a first frequency to a second frequency such as when a mobile receiver is moving through a boundary region between two broadcasters, can temporarily use a satellite link or 5G wireless telephony or other over the top (OTT) source to acquire a service until an OTA link satisfies quality requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11818414
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. Telepresence is provided through over-the-air (OTA) virtual reality (VR) broadcast streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Graham Clift, Loren Pineda
  • Patent number: 11792473
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. Multiple memory buffers are used to manage broadcast packet repair and presentation or storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Graham Clift, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11711568
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. In a boundary region between first and second broadcast stations in which a receiver can pick up signals from both stations, a primary tuner receiving signals from plural antennae presents a demanded service while a secondary tuner uses a single antenna to scan for duplicate transmissions of the service, with handing off between the tuners being effected between scanning and service presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11611799
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. When automatically switching from presenting a service on a first frequency to a second frequency such as when a mobile receiver is moving through a boundary region between two broadcasters, the current broadcaster application is notified and depending on the context, may continue executing or send data to the new broadcaster application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Goldberg, Brant Candelore, Graham Clift, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda
  • Patent number: 11611792
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. A receiver, to automatically switch from presenting a service on a first frequency to a second frequency such as when a mobile receiver is moving through a boundary region between two broadcasters, can consider not just signal strength and error rates of two frequencies carrying the same service to select which frequency to tune to, but also relative location and direction of motion of the receiver with respect to each broadcaster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Goldberg, Brant Candelore, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Fred Ansfield, Loren F. Pineda