Patents by Inventor Lenard Wintfeld

Lenard Wintfeld 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).

  • Information retrieval system for providing downstream loading of remote data and processing control thereof
    Patent number: 4054911
    Abstract: An information retrieval system capable of capturing packets or rows of video displayable data and/or control program instructions continuously transmitted in a common predetermined format, such as pseudo video scan lines, over a common predetermined video signal transmission media, such as television signal distribution means, captures these packets from a continuously transmitting remote data base comprising a plurality of different control programs and different data rows in order to provide a selected purpose variable function terminal with information display as well as particular type of processing thereof can individually be substantially simultaneously varied for each terminal of a plurality of terminals in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Assignee: IDR, Inc.
    Inventors: Maurice Fletcher, Lenard Wintfeld