Patents by Inventor Jeff S. Froelicher

Jeff S. Froelicher 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).

  • Patent number: 9106651
    Abstract: A source device in a wireless display (WD) system stores a plurality of preconfigured formats. Each of the preconfigured formats is associated with a different type of human input device (HID). The source device receives one or more Internet Protocol (IP) packets from a sink device in the WD system. The one or more IP packets include a HID command (HIDC) input report. The source device identifies, based on data in the one or more IP packets, one of the preconfigured formats and parses the HIDC input report based on the identified preconfigured format in order to determine a user input. The source device then generates media data in response to the user input and sends the media data to the sink device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeff S. Froelicher, Xiaolong Huang, Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran
  • Patent number: 8914187
    Abstract: A wireless source and an automobile dashboard configured to function as a wireless sink device are configured to communicate with one another including authenticating the source device for communications with the dashboard sink, transmitting user inputs received at the dashboard sink back to the wireless source device to enable a user to control the source device and interact with and control the content that is being transmitted from the source device to the dashboard sink, controlling the operational state of the source device based on the operational state of the automobile in which the dashboard sink is arranged, and transmitting data generated by the automobile from the dashboard sink to the source device so as to enable the source device to process at least some of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaodong Wang, Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran, Xiaolong Huang, Jeff S. Froelicher
  • Publication number: 20130246565
    Abstract: A source device in a wireless display (WD) system stores a plurality of preconfigured formats. Each of the preconfigured formats is associated with a different type of human input device (HID). The source device receives one or more Internet Protocol (IP) packets from a sink device in the WD system. The one or more IP packets include a HID command (HIDC) input report. The source device identifies, based on data in the one or more IP packets, one of the preconfigured formats and parses the HIDC input report based on the identified preconfigured format in order to determine a user input. The source device then generates media data in response to the user input and sends the media data to the sink device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: QUALCOMN Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeff S. Froelicher, Xiaolong Huang, Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran
  • Publication number: 20130195119
    Abstract: A sink device in a Wireless Display (WD) system may send performance information feedback to a source device to adjust media data processing at the source device. The performance information feedback may include performance indicators of the WD system that are capable of being measured or calculated at the sink device based on received media data or request to adjust the transmission of media data. For example, the performance information feedback may include one or more of round trip delay, delay jitter, packet loss ratio, error distribution, and received signal strength indication (RSSI). The feedback channel may be piggybacked on a reverse channel architecture referred to as the User Input Back Channel (UIBC) implemented between the source device and the sink device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaolong Huang, Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran, PhaniKumar K. Bhamidipati, Fawad Shaukat, Xiaodong Wang, Jeff S. Froelicher