Patents by Inventor Howard B. Soloway

Howard B. Soloway 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 distributing content information over a broadcast file system
    Patent number: 7275071
    Abstract: The present invention is suitable for use in a communications system that downloads applications over a broadcast file system (BFS). An application services interface (ASI) provides the BFS an application file including a configuration file and an image file that are stored in a service manager in set-tops. Additionally, the ASI provides the BFS a content file that is included in the application file. The provided content file is separated into service files, where each service file is associated with a particular service. When a set-top requests a service, the associated service file is subsequently loaded onto the set-top. Alternatively, a service file is stored in memory until such time as another service is requested, which at that point the older service file is removed from memory to allow space for the newly requested service file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Weyrich, Nitin K. Gupta, Rahul Gupta, Thomas R. Heagy, Jr., David Lutz, Aaron Lynch, Anthony Owens, Howard B. Soloway, Deborah A. Spencer, John DeBoard, Ching F. Wong, Yimin Zhang