Patents by Inventor Randell E. Jesup
Randell E. Jesup 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: 8089502Abstract: A videophone system providing high resolution video transmission between videophones utilizes compressed video signals and audio signals which may be transmitted through any communications network, with the system providing real time adaptive error recovery and synchronization between the audio and video signals to produce high quality video images and sound. The system is highly resilient, adapting in real time to changing conditions in a network or to network errors due to data corruption or loss that can be produced, for example, by noise or line losses, thereby substantially eliminating fitter, signal packet loss or delay, or other errors which produce signal degradation.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2005Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Worldgate Service, Inc.Inventors: Hal M. Krisbergh, Joseph E. Augenbraun, Randell E. Jesup, Maire D. Reavy, Randall J. Gort, Navneeth Kannan, Whitney D. Blackmon, Richard W. Westerfer, David E. Wachob
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Patent number: 8063928Abstract: System and method for providing personal videotelephony in which a plurality of videophones are connected to a communications network that is configured for transmitted video and audio communications. Each of the videophones typically includes a camera, display device, telephone keypad, speaker and microphone all of which are operatively connected. The videophones further include means for selectably receiving and transmitting signals over the communications network, which signals represent images and/or sound, and for selectably displaying the signals representing any received signals representing the images on the display screen, and for playing any received signals representing the sounds on said speaker. Means are also provided for selectably accessing a remote location, such as, but not limited to, another videophone, using information entered or selected by a user of the videophone, and to retrieve the signals representing the images and sounds being transmitted from the remote location.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2006Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Worldgate Service, Inc.Inventors: Hal M. Krisbergh, Joseph E. Augenbraun, Randell E. Jesup, Randall J. Gort, Maire D. Reavy, Navneeth Kannan, Whitney D. Blackmon, Richard W. Westerfer, David E. Wachob
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Publication number: 20110228041Abstract: System and method for providing personal videotelephony in which a plurality of videophones are connected to a communications network that is configured for transmitted video and audio communications. Each of the videophones typically includes a camera, display device, telephone keypad, speaker and microphone all of which are operatively connected. The videophones further include means for selectably receiving and transmitting signals over the communications network, which signals represent images and/or sound, and for selectably displaying the signals representing any received signals representing the images on the display screen, and for playing any received signals representing the sounds on said speaker. Means are also provided for selectably accessing a remote location, such as, but not limited to, another videophone, using information entered or selected by a user of the videophone, and to retrieve the signals representing the images and sounds being transmitted from the remote location.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventors: Hal M. Krisbergh, Joseph E. Augenbraun, Randell E. Jesup, Randall J. Gort, Maire D. Reavy, Navneeth Kannan, Whitney D. Blackmon, Richard W. Westerfer, David E. Wachob
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Publication number: 20080158333Abstract: A videophone system providing high resolution video transmission between videophones utilizes compressed video signals and audio signals which may be transmitted through any communications network, with the system providing real time adaptive error recovery and synchronization between the audio and video signals to produce high quality video images and sound. The system is highly resilient, adapting in real time to changing conditions in a network or to network errors due to data corruption or loss that can be produced, for example, by noise or line losses, thereby substantially eliminating fitter, signal packet loss or delay, or other errors which produce signal degradation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2005Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: WORLDGATE SERVICE, INC.Inventors: Hal M. Krisbergh, Joseph E. Augenbraun, Randell E. Jesup, Maire D. Reavy, Randall J. Gort, Navneeth Kannan, Whitney D. Blackmon, Richard E. Westerfer, David E. Wachob
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Patent number: 7239338Abstract: System and method for providing personal videotelephony in which a plurality of videophones are connected to a communications network that is configured for transmitted video and audio communications. Each of the videophones typically includes a camera, display device, telephone keypad, speaker and microphone all of which are operatively connected. The videophones further include means for selectably receiving and transmitting signals over the communications network, which signals represent images and/or sound, and for selectably displaying the signals representing any received signals representing the images on the display screen, and for playing any received signals representing the sounds on said speaker. Means are also provided for selectably accessing a remote location, such as, but not limited to, another videophone, using information entered or selected by a user of the videophone, and to retrieve the signals representing the images and sounds being transmitted from the remote location.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2003Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Worldgate Service, Inc.Inventors: Hal M. Krisbergh, Joseph A. Augenbraun, Randell E. Jesup, Randall J. Gort, Maire D. Reavy, Navneeth Kannan, Whitney D. Blackmon, Richard W. Westerfer, David E. Wachob
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Publication number: 20020035731Abstract: A national level information service system collects local and national interest information and advertisements from a plurality of remote providers that may be located around the country or the world, and distributes this information to one or more television distribution systems for viewing by the system viewers. The system provides timely information relating to various areas of interest, including, for example, news, sports, weather, stock information and the like, that can be viewed on one or more television channels. Providers of the national and local interest information periodically collect the raw data containing the information to be broadcast, and store the data at a designated location, preferably on the provider's Internet server. These stored files are then periodically retrieved and compared to previously retrieved files to determine whether they have been updated by the information provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Inventors: Bruce Plotnick, Joseph E. Augenbraun, Randell E. Jesup, Michael Mathiesen, Errol J. D'Souza
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Publication number: 20020023271Abstract: Navigation techniques enable Internet web pages and other image frames to be navigated using a conventional keyboard or a television remote control, for example. In a first technique, a guide mapping application links objects in the various frames contained in an accessed web page so that when a user actuates a directional button on a remote control or a keyboard, the guide mapping application navigates the user to an object in the present frame or in another frame to which a currently selected object is linked. The guide mapping application also employs “edge of frame” indicators in those objects which are located on an edge of a frame. When an “edge of frame” indicator is detected, the application searches for and locates the appropriate adjacent frame, as well as the object within the adjacent frame that is located in the closest proximity to the object containing the “edge of frame” indicator, and then navigates the user to that object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2000Publication date: February 21, 2002Inventors: Joseph E. Augenbraun, Gerard K. Kunkel, Michael Mathiesen, Kitsel Outlaw, Scott A. Piette, Randell E. Jesup, Malia C. Flynn, Richard W. Westerfer, Richard L. Booth, Philip M. Faustine