Patents by Inventor Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams

Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams 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: 8768844
    Abstract: A personal video recorder (PVR) enables delivery of audio-visual content and associated metadata to storage devices. The PVR is configured to access a plurality of services using a plurality of storage modules. Each storage module is dedicated to a single designated content provider. One or more of the storage modules are removably coupled to the PVR. A disconnected storage module can be reconnected to another PVR different from the PVR from which the storage module was disconnected. Where authorization is required to access content stored on the storage module, authentication is performed each time the removable storage module is reconnected to a PVR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ravi Gauba, Curtis Ray Eubanks, Klaus Hofrichter, Annie Wang, Clement Lau, Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams
  • Patent number: 8108898
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for identifying, accessing, and managing service applications for use with associated consumer electronic devices in a home network system. A client side process, executed by a client computing system in the home network system, operates in conjunction with a server side process executed by a server computing system that is coupled with the client computing system via the Internet. The client computing system is implemented by a gateway device coupled with each of the devices via the home network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Klaus Hofrichter, Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams, David Gabriel Gaxiola
  • Publication number: 20100191833
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for identifying, accessing, and managing service applications for use with associated consumer electronic devices in a home network system. A client side process, executed by a client computing system in the home network system, operates in conjunction with a server side process executed by a server computing system that is coupled with the client computing system via the Internet. The client computing system is implemented by a gateway device coupled with each of the devices via the home network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Klaus Hofrichter, Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams, David Gabriel Gaxiola
  • Patent number: 7707606
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for identifying, accessing, and managing service applications for use with associated consumer electronic devices in a home network system. A client side process, executed by a client computing system in the home network system, operates in conjunction with a server side process executed by a server computing system that is coupled with the client computing system via the Internet. The client computing system is implemented by a gateway device coupled with each of the devices via the home network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Klaus Hofrichter, Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams, David Gabriel Gaxiola
  • Publication number: 20080255692
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for identifying, accessing, and managing service applications for use with associated consumer electronic devices in a home network system. A client side process, executed by a client computing system in the home network system, operates in conjunction with a server side process executed by a server computing system that is coupled with the client computing system via the Internet. The client computing system is implemented by a gateway device coupled with each of the devices via the home network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Klaus Hofrichter, Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams, David Gabriel Gaxiola
  • Patent number: 7271825
    Abstract: A sending conversant uses a sending communication device to transmit voice and body state information over a communication network to a receiving communication device used by a receiving conversant. Model based rendering is used such that the model is transferred from the sending conversant to the receiving conversant along with the transmitted data. The sending device includes means for sensing the body state of the sending conversant, collected as body state measurements. The sending communication device also includes means for detecting speech uttered by the sending conversant, such as an audio microphone. The detected speech and body state measurements are encoded in a temporally synchronized manner and multiplexed into a communication signal which is transmitted to the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams
  • Patent number: 7260597
    Abstract: A process is provided for identifying and managing support service applications associated with consumer electronic devices. The process is executed by a gateway device communicatively coupled with each of the electronic devices via a home network, the gateway device being operative to access the Internet and being communicatively coupled with a display unit. The process includes the steps of: determining device ID information associated with a selected one of the electronic devices for which a support service application is required; providing the device ID information to a selected server computing system via the Internet; downloading a support service application associated with the selected device from the selected server computing system; and executing the downloaded support service application at the gateway device to provide a remote interactive support service process for the selected device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Klaus Hofrichter, Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams, David Gabriel Gaxiola
  • Publication number: 20030126135
    Abstract: Remote resource management of local devices through a remote resource management service provider is described. The remote resource management service provider performs resource management operations on a local device upon an indication that resource management on the local device is necessary to perform a specific service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: David Gaxiola, Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams, Ravi Gauba, Jun Ouyang, Klaus Hofrichter
  • Publication number: 20030120750
    Abstract: The provisioning of user preferences to a device or service is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, upon detecting a coupling of a device, a presumed user of the device is determined. The user preferences of the presumed user are retrieved and used to configure the device. In addition, particular services are loaded and unloaded from the device based on the user preferences of the presumed user of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2001
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: David Gaxiola, Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams, Ravi Gauba, Jun Ouyang, Klaus Hofrichter
  • Patent number: 6456892
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a user interface for a networked target device within a home audio/visual network. The DDI allows any DDI target to describe its physical appearance including controls and displays, etc., to a DDI controller. The controller can be a remote physical device or can be a software program resident on the same or separate device as the target. The controller interfaces with the target to obtain the DDI data and generates a user interface for the target including: 1) interactive controls; and 2) user display information pertinent to the target. The DDI allows the controller to trigger actions on the target as if a user had physically manipulated the controls of the target. The controller and the target are connected to the same communication network. A particular embodiment operates within the HAVi architecture. The controller communicates with the user by using the input and output devices of (typically) the device upon which the controller is executing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignees: Sony Electronics, Inc., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams, Harold Aaron Ludtke, Thomas Edward Birmingham, Neil David Matthews, Yoshifumi Yanagawa, Wim Bronnenberg
  • Patent number: 6259707
    Abstract: A method and system for communicating state information for a target consumer electronic device in a home network to multiple controller devices, where the controller devices are each implementing a controller software element that conforms to a different protocol than the other. The target consumer electronic device is represented within the home network by a target software element. A first controller software element conforming to a data driven interaction (DDI) protocol accesses the target software element. A second controller software element conforming to a protocol different from the DDI protocol concurrently accesses the target software element. The first controller software element and the second controller software element cause a change in state of the consumer electronic device. The target software element notifies the first controller software element and the second controller software element of the state information for the target consumer electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Alexander Dara-Abrams, Simon J. Gibbs, Arunachalam Balaraman, Neil David Matthews, Jon Fairhurst