Patents by Inventor Lisa Ferrera

Lisa Ferrera 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).

  • Apparatus and method for consumer-oriented distribution of information processing capability
    Patent number: 8473569
    Abstract: In order to provide a home user with cost-effective PC processing capability, the home user is provided with a terminal which has only sufficient processing capability to communicate with a service provider over a network. Any processing and program execution is performed, in response to requests from the home user's terminal, by the service provider and the results are returned to the terminal. In addition to the processing capability, data is stored in the service provider. Because the processing and data storage is performed by the service provider, changes to the programs and/or hardware can the confined to the processing resources of the service provider. In addition, the service provider can be provided with virus and hacking protection, protection that will then not be necessary for the home user's terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Bradley K. Lane, Lisa A. Ferrera, Pascal Dorster, Timothy A. Adcock, Gene A. Frantz
  • Apparatus and method for consumer-oriented distribution of information processing capability
    Publication number: 20060190556
    Abstract: In order to provide a home user with cost-effective PC processing capability, the home user is provided with a terminal which has only sufficient processing capability to communicate with a service provider over a network. Any processing and program execution is performed, in response to requests from the home user's terminal, by the service provider and the results are returned to the terminal. In addition to the processing capability, data is stored in the service provider. Because the processing and data storage is performed by the service provider, changes to the programs and/or hardware can the confined to the processing resources of the service provider. In addition, the service provider can be provided with virus and hacking protection, protection that will then not be necessary for the home user's terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Bradley Lane, Lisa Ferrera, Pascal Dorster, Timothy Adcock, Gene Frantz