Patents by Inventor Rob Menard

Rob Menard 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: 6810526
    Abstract: A system for monitoring broadcast channels, includes a device for receiving a plurality of broadcast channels, a central search engine operable to search the received channels for a match with a pre-stored profile, a central memory connected to the search engine for storing the profile, and a plurality of user terminals connected to the search engine over a network. The search engine is responsive to commands from the user terminals to store the profiles to be searched in the memory in association with the identity of the user terminal from which the command was received. A device sends an alert signal over the network when a match is found with a pre-stored profile to the user terminal associated with the pre-stored profile. The alert signal identifies the broadcast channel matching the pre-stored profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: March Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Rob Menard, Paul Streatch, Roger MacLean, Jim Reed
  • Patent number: 6415000
    Abstract: A method of processing a video stream, involves contemporaneously selecting first and second pairs of frames in the video stream with a predetermined period. The second pairs of frames have a longer period than the first pair. For each of the first and second pairs of frames, there is determined a difference value representing the number of pixels whose value has changed between the first and second frames of the pair. A particular logic level is generated depending on whether this difference value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: March Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Nael Hirzalla, Paul Streatch, Roger MacLean, Rob Menard