Patents by Inventor Nelson G. Blish

Nelson G. Blish 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).

  • Preview function in a digital data preservation system
    Patent number: 7212322
    Abstract: A digital preservation system (10) for accepting a digital data record as input, for providing a preview of the digital data record on a display screen (80), for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (210), for storage of the medium (210), and for retrieval of the data record from the medium (210). The digital preservation system (10) preserves a data record in human-readable form, along with an associated metadata record, allowing the human-readable preserved data record to be readable in the distant future, independent of specific reading hardware. The preview function allows an operator to specify storage and retrieval characteristics for the data record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Lou Horvath, Nelson G. Blish
  • Preview function in a digital data preservation system
    Publication number: 20030174349
    Abstract: A digital preservation system (10) for accepting a digital data record as input, for providing a preview of the digital data record on a display screen (80), for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (210), for storage of the medium (210), and for retrieval of the data record from the medium (210). The digital preservation system (10) preserves a data record in human-readable form, along with an associated metadata record, allowing the human-readable preserved data record to be readable in the distant future, independent of specific reading hardware. The preview function allows an operator to specify storage and retrieval characteristics for the data record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Lou Horvath, Nelson G. Blish