Patents by Inventor Hugh Selway

Hugh Selway 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).

  • Processing content streams that include additional content segments added in response to detection of insertion messages
    Patent number: 9521435
    Abstract: A reader device monitors a content stream which includes a source stream that is received from a content source and modified by adding an additional content segment in response to detection of an insertion message. The reader detects an insertion message and signals a stream processing device. In response, the processing device performs an operation on the portion of the content stream that includes the additional content segment corresponding to the detected insertion message, which may include omitting performance of an operation that would have otherwise been performed. In some implementations, the reader and the processing device may be separate while in other implementations the reader may be integrated into the processing device. In various implementations, the reader and the processing device may be connected via one or more contact closures and the reader may signal the processing device by activating the contact closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Hugh A. Selway
  • Processing Content Streams that Include Additional Content Segments Added in Response to Detection of Insertion Messages
    Publication number: 20130151634
    Abstract: A reader device monitors a content stream which includes a source stream that is received from a content source and modified by adding an additional content segment in response to detection of an insertion message. The reader detects an insertion message and signals a stream processing device. In response, the processing device performs an operation on the portion of the content stream that includes the additional content segment corresponding to the detected insertion message, which may include omitting performance of an operation that would have otherwise been performed. In some implementations, the reader and the processing device may be separate while in other implementations the reader may be integrated into the processing device. In various implementations, the reader and the processing device may be connected via one or more contact closures and the reader may signal the processing device by activating the contact closure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Hugh A. Selway
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TOASTED VIDEO DISTRIBUTION
    Publication number: 20070039032
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed transmit a composite channel to a receiver. The composite channel may be a static channel that contains different original channels of content in different locations on a displayed page, or may be a dynamic channel that is processed by the receiver to display a multiple different video streams on a single display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicant: EchoStar Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Goldey, Casey Paiz, Kerry Miller, John Card, David St. John-Larkin, Scott Higgins, Hugh Selway, Daniel Overbaugh