Patents by Inventor Jan Alfons Bouwen

Jan Alfons Bouwen 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: 20060034314
    Abstract: A multimedia distribution system or interactive digital television broadcast system (iDTV) comprising several content providers (CP: CP1, CP2) broadcasting channels of video signals to a user (TV, STB) via a content selector (CS). The broadcast system comprises a user behavior analyzer (UBA) with quantitative behavior classifier (E(w)) able to analyze and to classify the quantitative consumption behavior of the user, and with a qualitative behavior classifier (F(x)) having as output classified user behaviors and prediction on future behaviors of the user. The classifiers are coupled to an opportunities selector (G(y)) that also receives information from additional content providers (ACP: ACP1, ACP2, ACP3). Under control of the opportunities selector G(y), additional content, e.g. advertisements, meta-information, iTV applications, trailers, . . . is send to a multimedia data combiner (H(z)) whereby the additional content is published, e.g. by mixing or by an overlay operation on/ over the selected channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: Toon Coppens, Lieven Leopold Trappeniers, Marc Bruno Godon, Koen Handekyn, Rony Baekeland, Sigurd Van Broeck, Hendrik Eugene Irene Dacquin, Jan Lode Mia Moons, Arjen Hendrikse, Jan Alfons Bouwen