Patents by Inventor Marek Milbar
Marek Milbar 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).
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Publication number: 20230422028Abstract: A server includes a communication port connected to an internet of things (IoT) cloud, at least one hardware processor connected to the communication port, and memory including instructions. The instructions, when performed by the at least one hardware processor, cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations comprising identifying, to a client application of a separate computing device, one or more available radio broadcast stations available for transmitting a message in a radio broadcast signal to one or more end devices of an IoT; receiving a message from the client application indicating one or more of the available radio broadcast stations for transmitting the message; and sending the encrypted message via the IoT cloud to one or more other servers included with radio broadcast automation equipment of the one or more indicated available radio broadcast stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventors: Ashwini Pahuja, Catherine P. Gooi, Gabriel Olochwoszcz, Marek Milbar
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Patent number: 11790774Abstract: A method comprises: generating a traffic sign message configured to configure an active traffic sign that is electronically configurable; encrypting the traffic sign message to produce an encrypted traffic sign message; sending the encrypted traffic sign message to a radio broadcast transmitter; and at the radio broadcast transmitter, transmitting the encrypted traffic sign message in a radio broadcast signal; and at the active traffic sign: receiving the radio broadcast signal and recovering the encrypted traffic sign message from the radio broadcast signal; decrypting the encrypted traffic sign message to produce the traffic sign message; and configuring the active traffic sign according to the traffic sign message.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: IBIQUITY DIGITAL CORPORATIONInventors: Ashwini Pahuja, Armaan Pahuja, Catherine P. Gooi, Gabriel Olochwoszcz, Marek Milbar
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Publication number: 20230155708Abstract: An audio delivery system (100) can include an alert processor (108) configured to parse alert content. The alert processor can receive first data representing the alert content. The alert processor can convert the alert content to an alert message that includes alert text and parameters. A connected radio server (120), coupled to the alert processor via internet protocol, can insert the alert content into a data stream. The connected radio server can receive second data representing the alert message from the alert processor via internet protocol. The connected radio server can receive instructions from the alert processor via internet protocol to incorporate the alert message into the data stream. The data stream can include an audio stream and the alert message. The connected radio server can provide the data stream to a connected radio receiver (102) via internet protocol.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Marek Milbar, Paul Venezia
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Publication number: 20230005365Abstract: A method comprises: generating a traffic sign message configured to configure an active traffic sign that is electronically configurable; encrypting the traffic sign message to produce an encrypted traffic sign message; sending the encrypted traffic sign message to a radio broadcast transmitter; and at the radio broadcast transmitter, transmitting the encrypted traffic sign message in a radio broadcast signal; and at the active traffic sign: receiving the radio broadcast signal and recovering the encrypted traffic sign message from the radio broadcast signal; decrypting the encrypted traffic sign message to produce the traffic sign message; and configuring the active traffic sign according to the traffic sign message.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Ashwini Pahuja, Armaan Pahuja, Catherine P. Gooi, Gabriel Olochwoszcz, Marek Milbar
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Patent number: 11038622Abstract: Service modes specify how digital content is formatted in sidebands of an FM radio channel. In an improved service mode, encoded bits can be distributed between an in-band encoded component and a cross-band encoded component, where the encoded bits in the in-band encoded component are desynchronized by a specified duration with respect to the encoded bits in the cross-band encoded component. The encoded bits in the in-band encoded component can be allocated into frequency partitions that are used by a legacy service mode, such as MP1 or MP3, which can provide backward compatibility with the legacy service mode. The encoded bits in the cross-band encoded component can be allocated into frequency partitions that are not used by the legacy service mode, and are found in the opposite sideband, compared with the legacy service mode, which can provide time diversity within a single sideband.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Ibiquity Digital CorporationInventor: Marek Milbar
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Patent number: 10867501Abstract: A housing can be wearable by a user. At least one microphone in or on the housing can sense ambient audio and produce at least one time-domain audio signal. The housing can be passive, such that the sensed ambient audio does not include any sound emitted from the housing. A transformation circuit can transform the at least one time-domain audio signal to form at least one frequency-domain audio signal. An identification circuit can identify a spectral feature in the at least one frequency-domain audio signal. A tracking circuit can track a time evolution of the spectral feature. A determination circuit can determine from the tracked time evolution of the spectral feature that the spectral feature corresponds to an object moving toward the housing. An alert circuit can alert the user, in response to the determination circuit determining that the object is moving toward the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Ibiquity Digital CorporationInventor: Marek Milbar
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Publication number: 20190260505Abstract: Service modes specify how digital content is formatted in sidebands of an FM radio channel. In an improved service mode, encoded bits can be distributed between an in-band encoded component and a cross-band encoded component, where the encoded bits in the in-band encoded component are desynchronized by a specified duration with respect to the encoded bits in the cross-band encoded component. The encoded bits in the in-band encoded component can be allocated into frequency partitions that are used by a legacy service mode, such as MP1 or MP3, which can provide backward compatibility with the legacy service mode. The encoded bits in the cross-band encoded component can be allocated into frequency partitions that are not used by the legacy service mode, and are found in the opposite sideband, compared with the legacy service mode, which can provide time diversity within a single sideband.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventor: Marek Milbar
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Publication number: 20180357874Abstract: A housing can be wearable by a user. At least one microphone in or on the housing can sense ambient audio and produce at least one time-domain audio signal. The housing can be passive, such that the sensed ambient audio does not include any sound emitted from the housing. A transformation circuit can transform the at least one time-domain audio signal to form at least one frequency-domain audio signal. An identification circuit can identify a spectral feature in the at least one frequency-domain audio signal. A tracking circuit can track a time evolution of the spectral feature. A determination circuit can determine from the tracked time evolution of the spectral feature that the spectral feature corresponds to an object moving toward the housing. An alert circuit can alert the user, in response to the determination circuit determining that the object is moving toward the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventor: Marek Milbar
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Patent number: 9842048Abstract: A method of block deinterleaving data received at a digital radio broadcast receiver is described. The method includes providing a block of memory having a n×k addresses, wherein the block comprises a single table, receiving a digital radio broadcast signal at the receiver, and demodulating the digital radio broadcast signal into a plurality of interleaved data units. For at least one series of n×k data units a pointer step size is determined, and for each data unit in the series, an address in the block is calculated based on the pointer step size, and an output data unit is read from the block at the address, such that said output data units represent block deinterleaved data units. An input data unit from the plurality of interleaved data units is then written to the block at the address. Associated systems and computer readable storage media are presented.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Ibiquity Digital CorporationInventor: Marek Milbar
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Publication number: 20170019215Abstract: Systems and methods are described for rendering content at a digital radio broadcast receiver system. A digital radio broadcast signal comprises data for rendering content at the digital radio broadcast receiver. The digital radio broadcast signal is processed to determine whether the data from the digital radio broadcast transmission contains a data error. A portion of the data containing the data error is identified. A download request is transmitted to a computing system, where the download request requests duplicate data for the portion of the data containing the data error. The duplicate data is received at the digital radio broadcast receiver for the portion of the data containing the error via other wireless communication other than the digital radio broadcast. The duplicate data is processed to provide an uninterrupted rendering of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Marek Milbar, Ashruf S. El-Dinary, Jason K. Carlock, Jeffrey Jury, Jeffrey R. Detweiler, Timothy L. Tenniswood, James DeRidder
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Patent number: 9467255Abstract: Systems and methods are described for rendering content at a digital radio broadcast receiver system. A digital radio broadcast signal comprises data for rendering content at the digital radio broadcast receiver. The digital radio broadcast signal is processed to determine whether the data from the digital radio broadcast transmission contains a data error. A portion of the data containing the data error is identified. A download request is transmitted to a computing system, where the download request requests duplicate data for the portion of the data containing the data error. The duplicate data is received at the digital radio broadcast receiver for the portion of the data containing the error via other wireless communication other than the digital radio broadcast. The duplicate data is processed to provide an uninterrupted rendering of the content.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventors: Marek Milbar, Ashruf S. El-Dinary, Jason K. Carlock, Jeffrey Jury, Jeffrey R. Detweiler, Timothy L. Tenniswood, James DeRidder
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Patent number: 9407383Abstract: A translator includes: an input configured to receive a bit stream having a plurality of digitally encoded contents and control information; processing circuitry configured to select one of the digitally encoded contents, to use the selected digitally encoded content to produce an analog modulated signal, to use the digitally encoded contents to produce a digitally modulated signal, and to combine the analog modulated signal and the digitally modulated signal to produce a hybrid signal; and an output configured to output the hybrid signal. A method performed by the radio signal translator is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventors: Marek Milbar, Ashruf El-Dinary, Jeffrey R. Detweiler
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Patent number: 9379918Abstract: Enhanced digital broad cast signals are transmitted on a digital radio broadcast signal by allocating spectral resources of the digital radio broadcast signal to simultaneously serve existing receivers (which can decode default content but not new content from the enhanced digital broadcast signal) and new receivers (which can decode default content and can decode new digital content from the enhanced digital broadcast signal) by modulating a first plurality of reference subcarriers with a first signal constellation, and modulating a second plurality of reference subcarriers with a second modified signal constellation such that a receiver processes the digital radio broadcast signal to produce a first coherent reference signal estimate for the first plurality of reference subcarriers to extract the default content for playback and to produce a second coherent reference signal estimate for the second plurality of reference subcarriers to disregard the new content.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventor: Marek Milbar
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Publication number: 20160182171Abstract: A translator includes: an input configured to receive a bit stream having a plurality of digitally encoded contents and control information; processing circuitry configured to select one of the digitally encoded contents, to use the selected digitally encoded content to produce an analog modulated signal, to use the digitally encoded contents to produce a digitally modulated signal, and to combine the analog modulated signal and the digitally modulated signal to produce a hybrid signal; and an output configured to output the hybrid signal. A method performed by the radio signal translator is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Marek Milbar, Ashruf El-Dinary, Jeffrey R. Detweiler
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Publication number: 20160182192Abstract: Systems and methods are described for rendering content at a digital radio broadcast receiver system. A digital radio broadcast signal comprises data for rendering content at the digital radio broadcast receiver. The digital radio broadcast signal is processed to determine whether the data from the digital radio broadcast transmission contains a data error. A portion of the data containing the data error is identified. A download request is transmitted to a computing system, where the download request requests duplicate data for the portion of the data containing the data error. The duplicate data is received at the digital radio broadcast receiver for the portion of the data containing the error via other wireless communication other than the digital radio broadcast. The duplicate data is processed to provide an uninterrupted rendering of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Marek Milbar, Ashruf S. El-Dinary, Jason K. Carlock, Jeffrey Jury, Jeffrey R. Detweiler, Timothy L. Tenniswood, James DeRidder
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Patent number: 9350471Abstract: Methods and systems for transmitting and receiving large objects via digital radio broadcast involve retrieving an object and an object description; assigning a unique identifier to the object; segmenting the object into a plurality of fragments; generating at least one long message having selected ones of the fragments and a long header including the unique identifier and the object description; generating at least one short message having selected ones of the fragments and a short header including the unique identifier; and communicating the at least the long message or the short message to a digital radio broadcast transmitter. In accordance with certain embodiments, reassembly of the object can begin with either a long message or a short message.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventors: Joseph P Haggerty, Chinmay M Shah, Marek Milbar, James C Stekas
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Publication number: 20160140037Abstract: A method of block deinterleaving data received at a digital radio broadcast receiver is described. The method includes providing a block of memory having a n×k addresses, wherein the block comprises a single table, receiving a digital radio broadcast signal at the receiver, and demodulating the digital radio broadcast signal into a plurality of interleaved data units. For at least one series of n×k data units a pointer step size is determined, and for each data unit in the series, an address in the block is calculated based on the pointer step size, and an output data unit is read from the block at the address, such that said output data units represent block deinterleaved data units. An input data unit from the plurality of interleaved data units is then written to the block at the address. Associated systems and computer readable storage media are presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventor: Marek Milbar
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Patent number: 9219573Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for recovering audio packet location fields and/or frame boundary information from a received digital radio broadcast signal frame in which there are detected errors in the signal frame header by using selected header elements and/or protocol data unit (PDU) structured data block parameters relating to minimum, maximum, and average packet length or PDU length in a scalable recovery process that may be throttled dynamically or configured statically based on available computation resources within a specific implementation and/or at a specific time.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventor: Marek Milbar
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Patent number: 9203668Abstract: A method of block deinterleaving data received at a digital radio broadcast receiver is described. The method includes providing a block of memory having n×k addresses, wherein the block comprises a single table, receiving a digital radio broadcast signal at the receiver, and demodulating the digital radio broadcast signal into a plurality of interleaved data units. For at least one series of n×k data units a pointer step size is determined, and for each data unit in the series, an address in the block is calculated based on the pointer step size, and an output data unit is read from the block at the address, such that said output data units represent block deinterleaved data units. An input data unit from the plurality of interleaved data units is then written to the block at the address. Associated systems and computer readable storage media are presented.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventor: Marek Milbar
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Patent number: 8983365Abstract: Methods and systems for preparing data for broadcast via digital radio broadcast transmission is disclosed comprising the steps of receiving a plurality of content files corresponding to programming information for program content to be broadcast; receiving an index file having a pointer for each of the plurality of content files, wherein the index file is associated with a first logical address; storing the index file and the plurality of content files; scheduling a broadcast rotation of the index file and the plurality of content files (wherein the index file is scheduled for repeated transmission intermittently relative to selected ones of the content files); and transmitting the index file and the plurality of content files to an importer in accordance with the broadcast rotation.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventors: Armond R. Capparelli, Joseph F. D'Angelo, Joseph P. Haggerty, Steven A. Johnson, Bei Li, Lia Meller, Marek Milbar, Jordan Scott, Chinmay M. Shah, Kun Wang, Girish K. Warrier, Christopher R. Gould