Patents by Inventor Michael Raft
Michael Raft 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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Patent number: 10805675Abstract: A method and system for remote viewing of multimedia content using a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) is configured to duplicate multimedia content displayed on a first MCDN terminal device and route the duplicate multimedia content to a second MCDN terminal device. The MCDN terminal devices may be coupled to a local network at an MCDN client premises. The MCDN terminal devices may also include wireless telephony devices for mobile remote viewing functionality. The method may include transcoding of the multimedia content into a format suitable for the second MCDN terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jerald Robert Howcroft, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 10785521Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top-box (STB) having a controller to join a multicast group having an associated multicast address, wherein the multicast address is associated with a first content type of a plurality of content types, access encoded content associated with the first content type from the multicast address, wherein the encoded content is transmitted by at least one source associated with the multicast group to the multicast address, decode the accessed encoded content, and display the decoded content on a channel mapped to the multicast address. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Savard, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 10531143Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller configured to identify audio content of interest associated with an audio portion of a media program. Alternate audio content is identified. Responsive to a detection of the audio content of interest within a textual representation of the audio portion, an indicator including a pointer is inserted into the media program. The pointer points to the alternate audio content and is inserted at a start point of the occurrence of the audio content of interest within the media program. The alternate audio content is retrieved based on the pointer and substituted with the alternate audio content beginning at the start point. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jerald R. Howcroft, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 10506271Abstract: An application server that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, web interface for receiving a client request from a web server operating within an interactive TV network and application logic operatively coupled to the web interface for executing source code and generating HTML code according to the client request where the application logic is operatively coupled to a database that serves as a repository for executable source code, images and user information indexed according to the client request where the application logic receives the executed source code from the database and supplies the HTML code to the web server by way of the web interface and where the web server submits to a client device that generated the client request the HTML code for rendering a presentation at the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Michael Raftelis, Bryan P. Davis
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Publication number: 20190335236Abstract: A method and system for remote viewing of multimedia content using a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) is configured to duplicate multimedia content displayed on a first MCDN terminal device and route the duplicate multimedia content to a second MCDN terminal device. The MCDN terminal devices may be coupled to a local network at an MCDN client premises. The MCDN terminal devices may also include wireless telephony devices for mobile remote viewing functionality. The method may include transcoding of the multimedia content into a format suitable for the second MCDN terminal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jerald Robert Howcroft, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 10397648Abstract: A method and system for remote viewing of multimedia content using a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) is configured to duplicate multimedia content displayed on a first MCDN terminal device and route the duplicate multimedia content to a second MCDN terminal device. The MCDN terminal devices may be coupled to a local network at an MCDN client premises. The MCDN terminal devices may also include wireless telephony devices for mobile remote viewing functionality. The method may include transcoding of the multimedia content into a format suitable for the second MCDN terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jerald Robert Howcroft, Michael Raftelis
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Publication number: 20180160175Abstract: A method and system for remote viewing of multimedia content using a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) is configured to duplicate multimedia content displayed on a first MCDN terminal device and route the duplicate multimedia content to a second MCDN terminal device. The MCDN terminal devices may be coupled to a local network at an MCDN client premises. The MCDN terminal devices may also include wireless telephony devices for mobile remote viewing functionality. The method may include transcoding of the multimedia content into a format suitable for the second MCDN terminal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jerald Robert Howcroft, Michael Raftelis
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Publication number: 20180139483Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller configured to identify audio content of interest associated with an audio portion of a media program. Alternate audio content is identified. Responsive to a detection of the audio content of interest within a textual representation of the audio portion, an indicator including a pointer is inserted into the media program. The pointer points to the alternate audio content and is inserted at a start point of the occurrence of the audio content of interest within the media program. The alternate audio content is retrieved based on the pointer and substituted with the alternate audio content beginning at the start point. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jerald R. Howcroft, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 9973726Abstract: A method includes performing, at a media recorder device, a comparison of a user defined criterion to information descriptive of content items associated with a set of series subscriptions. The content items and the set of series subscriptions are stored at the media recorder device. The user defined criterion indicates that reruns of episodes associated with a particular series subscription of the set of series subscriptions have not been recorded within a time period. The method includes identifying, at the media recorder device, multiple series subscriptions of the set of series subscriptions based on the comparison. The method includes deleting the multiple series subscriptions from the media recorder device. The method further includes sending, from the media recorder device, a notification to a display device, the notification indicating that a cleanup operation has been performed on the set of series subscription stored at the media recorder device.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Jerald Howcroft, Kathy Goode, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 9918125Abstract: A method and system for remote viewing of multimedia content using a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) is configured to duplicate multimedia content displayed on a first MCDN terminal device and route the duplicate multimedia content to a second MCDN terminal device. The MCDN terminal devices may be coupled to a local network at an MCDN client premises. The MCDN terminal devices may also include wireless telephony devices for mobile remote viewing functionality. The method may include transcoding of the multimedia content into a format suitable for the second MCDN terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Jerald Robert Howcroft, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 9912552Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating configuration information for a communication system is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network policy manager can have a collection element that receives a plurality of service component definitions associated with a corresponding plurality of services of a communication system, a service bundle generation element that generates a plurality of service bundles from the plurality of service component definitions, and a policy element that determines a network configuration for each of the plurality of service bundles. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Inventors: Chou Lan Pok, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 9906826Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller configured to identify audio content of interest associated with an audio portion of a media program. Alternate audio content is identified. Responsive to a detection of the audio content of interest within a textual representation of the audio portion, an indicator including a pointer is inserted into the media program. The pointer points to the alternate audio content and is inserted at a start point of the occurrence of the audio content of interest within the media program. The alternate audio content is retrieved based on the pointer and substituted with the alternate audio content beginning at the start point. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jerald R. Howcroft, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 9888275Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top-box (STB) having a controller to join a multicast group having an associated multicast address, wherein the multicast address is associated with a first content type of a plurality of content types, access encoded content associated with the first content type from the multicast address, wherein the encoded content is transmitted by at least one source associated with the multicast group to the multicast address, decode the accessed encoded content, and display the decoded content on a channel mapped to the multicast address. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Savard, Michael Raftelis
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Publication number: 20170311017Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top-box (STB) having a controller to join a multicast group having an associated multicast address, wherein the multicast address is associated with a first content type of a plurality of content types, access encoded content associated with the first content type from the multicast address, wherein the encoded content is transmitted by at least one source associated with the multicast group to the multicast address, decode the accessed encoded content, and display the decoded content on a channel mapped to the multicast address. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Jason Savard, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 9773049Abstract: A method includes receiving a first request from a first user device for first data, where the first request identifies a first data source and sending a first data access request to the first data source, where the first data access request is based on a first reader object associated with the first data source. The method also includes receiving the first data from the first data source, where the first data has a first format, and transforming the first data to normalized data in a normalized format based on the first reader object. The method further includes selecting a first presentation object from a database comprising a plurality of presentation objects based on a first device type of the first user device and transforming the normalized data to output data in an output format based on the first presentation object.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Bryan Davis, Dan Musgrove, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 9743122Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top-box (STB) having a controller to join a multicast group having an associated multicast address, wherein the multicast address is associated with a first content type of a plurality of content types, access encoded content associated with the first content type from the multicast address, wherein the encoded content is transmitted by at least one source associated with the multicast group to the multicast address, decode the accessed encoded content, and display the decoded content on a channel mapped to the multicast address. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Savard, Michael Raftelis
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Publication number: 20170171584Abstract: An application server that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, web interface for receiving a client request from a web server operating within an interactive TV network and application logic operatively coupled to the web interface for executing source code and generating HTML code according to the client request where the application logic is operatively coupled to a database that serves as a repository for executable source code, images and user information indexed according to the client request where the application logic receives the executed source code from the database and supplies the HTML code to the web server by way of the web interface and where the web server submits to a client device that generated the client request the HTML code for rendering a presentation at the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Michael Raftelis, Bryan P. Davis
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Publication number: 20160330085Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating configuration information for a communication system is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network policy manager can have a collection element that receives a plurality of service component definitions associated with a corresponding plurality of services of a communication system, a service bundle generation element that generates a plurality of service bundles from the plurality of service component definitions, and a policy element that determines a network configuration for each of the plurality of service bundles. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Chou Lan Pok, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 9419865Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating configuration information for a communication system is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network policy manager can have a collection element that receives a plurality of service component definitions associated with a corresponding plurality of services of a communication system, a service bundle generation element that generates a plurality of service bundles from the plurality of service component definitions, and a policy element that determines a network configuration for each of the plurality of service bundles. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LPInventors: Chou Lan Pok, Michael Raftelis
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Patent number: 9374627Abstract: A method and system for remote viewing of multimedia content using a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) is configured to duplicate multimedia content displayed on a first MCDN terminal device and route the duplicate multimedia content to a second MCDN terminal device. The MCDN terminal devices may be coupled to a local network at an MCDN client premises. The MCDN terminal devices may also include wireless telephony devices for mobile remote viewing functionality. The method may include transcoding of the multimedia content into a format suitable for the second MCDN terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LPInventors: Jerald Robert Howcroft, Michael Raftelis