Patents by Inventor Mark Prentice

Mark Prentice 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).

  • Publication number: 20120131197
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically detecting and resolving conflicts between devices on a security network by comparing the IP addresses of all devices on the network. When one or more conflicts are detected, the user is presented with the option of reassigning the conflicting device to a DHCP address, or to a new static IP address. The new static IP address can be configured to lie within a user defined range. In one embodiment, a default changes the address to any free address on the network. The disclosed method and apparatus automates the conflict resolution process without requiring that network devices (e.g., cameras, camera encoders) be individually and sequentially connected to the security network in order to resolve conflicts. The disclosed approach results in reduced human interaction and is much faster than the traditional approach of adding devices one at a time to the network. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Prentice, Yannick Tremblay
  • Patent number: 7664880
    Abstract: Delivery of a message over a communications network from a sender based on a single delivery address. The single delivery address is generated as one unit for the message. The single delivery address has a collection of recipient addresses including one or more recipient addresses each identifying at least one recipient of the message. Each of the one or more recipient addresses includes a user level information and a domain level information. The generated single delivery address with the collection of recipient addresses is included in the message. A copy of the message is provided to the identified recipient(s) as a function of the domain level information of the one or more recipient addresses. The message is transmitted over the communications network to the identified recipient(s) recipient based on the collection of recipient addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Stephen Maine, Sergiy Kuryata, Mark Prentice, Roman Batoukov
  • Publication number: 20090049197
    Abstract: Delivery of a message over a communications network from a sender based on a single delivery address. The single delivery address is generated as one unit for the message. The single delivery address has a collection of recipient addresses including one or more recipient addresses each identifying at least one recipient of the message. Each of the one or more recipient addresses includes a user level information and a domain level information. The generated single delivery address with the collection of recipient addresses is included in the message. A copy of the message is provided to the identified recipient(s) as a function of the domain level information of the one or more recipient addresses. The message is transmitted over the communications network to the identified recipient(s) recipient based on the collection of recipient addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Stephen Maine, Sergiy Kuryata, Mark Prentice, Roman Batoukov
  • Patent number: 7376211
    Abstract: The present invention facilitates clock and data recovery for serial data streams by providing a mechanism that can be employed to detect and adjust operation and timing of clocks. The invention employs a differential analog circuit, using current steering logic, to process center and edge samples and identify an average operation of the clocks. The circuit can identify transitions between adjacent center/edge data samples and determine whether an identified transition is early or late for each bit in a set of consecutive bits of a received serial data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Floyd Payne, Richard Mark Prentice
  • Patent number: 5859669
    Abstract: A system for encoding control data onto a clock signal includes at least one clock cycle in the clock signal; a first transition in the at least one clock cycle, the first transition is from a first voltage level to a second voltage level, the first transition is in a first location in the at least one clock cycle; a second transition in the at least one clock cycle, the second transition is from the second voltage level to the first voltage level, the second transition has a variable location in the clock cycle; and an encoder circuit for positioning the second transition in the variable location in response to the control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Richard Mark Prentice