Patents by Inventor Nicholas Newell

Nicholas Newell 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: 20120301127
    Abstract: Systems and methods are operable to acquire device information from film set devices used to film a media content event. An exemplary film production information acquisition device has at least a sensor device configured to sense an operation characteristic of a film set device, a film production information management system (IMS) communication interface configured to communicatively couple the film production information acquisition device to a film production information management system, and a processor system communicatively coupled to the film production IMS communication interface and the sensor device, and configured to process the sensed operation characteristic of the film set device into information that is communicated to the film production information management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventors: David Elliott, Nicholas Newell, Mi Chen
  • Patent number: 8286202
    Abstract: Systems and methods of memorializing a viewer's viewing experience are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment presents a movie to the viewer, detects an occurrence of one of a plurality of event capture triggers, captures at least one image of the viewer in response to detecting the event capture trigger, and stores the image of the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Nicholas Newell
  • Publication number: 20120200571
    Abstract: Systems and methods are operable to concurrently present images on a small display of a mobile media device and a large display of a media presentation system. An exemplary method receives emulated information from a mobile media device, wherein the emulated information corresponds to at least one image that is being currently presented on a display of the mobile media device; generates at least one image based upon the received emulated information, wherein the at least one image is configured for presentation on a display of a media system; and communicates the at least one image to a display of the media system. The image presented on the display of the media system is substantially the same image presented on the display of the mobile media device. The image presented on the display of the media system is substantially larger than the image presented on the display of the mobile media device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventor: Nicholas Newell
  • Publication number: 20120197930
    Abstract: Systems and methods are operable to process production information related metadata content. An exemplary embodiment receives a user specification identifying at least one production information search parameter, searches production information metadata content associated with a media content event for instances of the user specified at least one production information search parameter, and generates a production information report configured to present information pertaining to the identified instances of the user specified at least one production information search parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventors: Nicholas Newell, Mi Chen, David Elliott
  • Publication number: 20120185887
    Abstract: Systems and methods of memorializing a viewer's viewing experience are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment presents a movie to the viewer, detects an occurrence of one of a plurality of event capture triggers, captures at least one image of the viewer in response to detecting the event capture trigger, and stores the image of the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventor: Nicholas Newell
  • Patent number: 8161504
    Abstract: Systems and methods of memorializing a viewer's viewing experience are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment presents a program stream to the viewer, detects an occurrence of one of a plurality of event capture triggers, captures at least one image of the viewer in response to detecting the event capture trigger, and stores the image of the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Inventor: Nicholas Newell
  • Publication number: 20110321114
    Abstract: Various systems and methods allow supplemental information such as recipes, parts lists, instructions, notes, outlines or other information associated with a television program to be delivered in the same transport stream that carries the television program to the viewer. The transport stream includes at least two elementary streams, wherein the first elementary stream conveys video content associated with the television program and the second elementary stream conveys supplemental information that summarizes at least a portion of the television program. The device receiving the digital transport stream identifies the first and second elementary streams in the digital transport stream, processes the first elementary stream to present the video content associated with the television program to the viewer, and makes the supplemental information in the second elementary stream available to the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas Newell
  • Publication number: 20110320057
    Abstract: Electronic device communication systems and methods are operable to decrease power consumption in an electronic device during user defined power conservation periods. An exemplary embodiment identifies an occurrence of a start of a user defined power conservation period, maintains power to a first group of components in the electronic device, and shuts off a second group of components in the electronic device in response to the occurrence of the start of the user defined power conservation period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventor: Nicholas Newell
  • Publication number: 20110113454
    Abstract: A television provider receives content from a plurality of users. The user generated content is aggregated and scheduled for broadcast across a channel of the television provider. The user generated content is then broadcast at the scheduled time for reception by communication devices associated with the television provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Newell, Markus Wayne Jackson
  • Publication number: 20100260473
    Abstract: Program recording systems and methods are operable to adjust recording times of a program of interest in response to an occurrence of an interrupting program that alters the scheduled recording times of the program of interest. An exemplary embodiment receives an unscheduled program flag (UPF) corresponding to an occurrence of an unscheduled program; adjusts at least one of a scheduled recording start time associated with the program of interest to an updated record start time and a scheduled recording end time associated with the program of interest to an updated record end time in response to receiving the UPF; and records the program of interest based upon at least one of the updated record start time and the updated record end time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Nicholas Newell, Ryan Gorsuch
  • Publication number: 20100238303
    Abstract: Systems and methods of memorializing a viewer's viewing experience are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment presents a program stream to the viewer, detects an occurrence of one of a plurality of event capture triggers, captures at least one image of the viewer in response to detecting the event capture trigger, and stores the image of the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Nicholas Newell