Patents by Inventor Michael J. Tobias

Michael J. Tobias 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: 7075919
    Abstract: A method for providing integrated voice, video, and data content in an integrated service offering to one or more customer premises includes receiving television programming from a programming source, receiving data from a data network, and receiving telephone communications from a telephone network. The method further includes placing the television programming, data, and telephone communications in a common format for integrated communication over a single network infrastructure using a common communication protocol. In addition, the method includes communicating the integrated television programming, data, and telephone communications in the common format over the single network infrastructure using the common communication protocol to one or more customer premises to provide the integrated service offering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Wendt, Patrick T. Robbins, Allen D. Easty, Michael J. Tobias
  • Patent number: 5537908
    Abstract: A method for improving the sound producing ability of musical instruments by securing at least some components of the instrument to a supporting surface and then vibrating the surface at various frequencies across a broad bandwidth for an optimal time. This method may be applied to partially assembled instruments during the manufacturing process, to completed instruments with strings and/or hardware removed, and to fully assembled new and old instruments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Inventors: Steven W. Rabe, Michael J. Tobias