Patents by Inventor Rafael Sotomayor

Rafael Sotomayor 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: 7869779
    Abstract: A method and system for processing channels in a FM communication system are provided. The FM communication system using the method or program may include adjusting a tuning frequency of a FM receiver for scanning and detecting an FM channel based on one or more of knowledge of location of said FM receiver, received signal strength indicator (RSSI), and/or carrier error of a related FM signal. Frequency offsets and channel spacing of the detected FM channels may be derived based on a self measurement routine. The aforementioned information may be preprogrammed, updated from a previous scan, or from external inputs to configure the receiver for subsequent selective tuning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: John Stuart Walley, Rafael Sotomayor, Prasan Kumar Pai
  • Publication number: 20080299925
    Abstract: A method and system for processing channels in a FM communication system are provided. The FM communication system using the method or program may include adjusting a tuning frequency of a FM receiver for scanning and detecting an FM channel based on one or more of knowledge of location of said FM receiver, received signal strength indicator (RSSI), and/or carrier error of a related FM signal. Frequency offsets and channel spacing of the detected FM channels may be derived based on a self measurement routine. The aforementioned information may be preprogrammed, updated from a previous scan, or from external inputs to configure the receiver for subsequent selective tuning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: John Stuart Walley, Rafael Sotomayor, Prasan Kumar Pai
  • Patent number: 5708825
    Abstract: Method and apparatus to enable scanning one or more documents, automatically identifying significant key topics, concepts, and phrases in the documents, and creating summary pages for, and hyperlinks between, some or all of these key topics. Optionally, documents are divided into segments, in order that only the needed segment of a hyperlinked-to document need be transferred to a viewer's display. A process running on a computer can be used which (a) allows an author to select source documents and then, using a semantic analyzer program running on a computer, (b) automatically identifies significant key topics within the selected documents, (c) compiles those key topics into summary pages, (d) generates presentation pages and optionally segmenting the selected documents into smaller pieces, and (e) embeds hyperlinks from these summary pages to the locations where key topics appear in the presentation pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Iconovex Corporation
    Inventor: Bernardo Rafael Sotomayor