Patents by Inventor Ronald C. Wallace
Ronald C. Wallace 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: 10650349Abstract: A collaboration server hosts software for collaborative composition and editing of a media project with project collaborators using different media editing applications each having their own native data format. Project collaborators, such as video editors, sound editors, effects and graphics artists, and producers access a shared project workspace which contains a snapshot of the current state of the media project in a canonical format, as well as source media files, native application metadata, and change notes. Each editing application includes a module enabling it to read the canonical snapshot representation, and also to flatten its native data model representation into the canonical representation for writing to the shared project workspace. A collaboration server hosts the shared project space, and includes a workflow manager for issuing change notifications and handling versions, and an application server for the shared project user interface.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Timothy H. Claman, Straker J. Coniglio, Stephane Daigle, Robert A. Gonsalves, Ronald C. Wallace
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Patent number: 10529383Abstract: A software architecture and framework based on plug-in software modules supports flexible handling of synchronous data streams by media production and editing applications. Plug-ins called by the applications convert data from synchronous data streams into a form that enables a user of such an application to view and edit time-synchronous data contained within such data streams. The synchronous data is displayed in a temporally aligned manner in a synchronous data track within a timeline display of the application user interface. In one example, closed caption data extracted from the ancillary portion of a video signal is displayed as text on a data track temporally synchronized with the source video track. Other plug-ins analyze media tracks to generate time-synchronous data which may also be displayed in a temporally aligned manner within a synchronous data track in a timeline.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: AVID Technology, Inc.Inventors: Thomas R. Ransdell, Michael D. Laird, Ronald C. Wallace
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Publication number: 20180137466Abstract: A collaboration server hosts software for collaborative composition and editing of a media project with project collaborators using different media editing applications each having their own native data format. Project collaborators, such as video editors, sound editors, effects and graphics artists, and producers access a shared project workspace which contains a snapshot of the current state of the media project in a canonical format, as well as source media files, native application metadata, and change notes. Each editing application includes a module enabling it to read the canonical snapshot representation, and also to flatten its native data model representation into the canonical representation for writing to the shared project workspace. A collaboration server hosts the shared project space, and includes a workflow manager for issuing change notifications and handling versions, and an application server for the shared project user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Timothy H. Claman, Straker J. Coniglio, Stephane Daigle, Robert A. Gonsalves, Ronald C. Wallace
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Publication number: 20180040351Abstract: A software architecture and framework based on plug-in software modules supports flexible handling of synchronous data streams by media production and editing applications. Plug-ins called by the applications convert data from synchronous data streams into a form that enables a user of such an application to view and edit time-synchronous data contained within such data streams. The synchronous data is displayed in a temporally aligned manner in a synchronous data track within a timeline display of the application user interface. In one example, closed caption data extracted from the ancillary portion of a video signal is displayed as text on a data track temporally synchronized with the source video track. Other plug-ins analyze media tracks to generate time-synchronous data which may also be displayed in a temporally aligned manner within a synchronous data track in a timeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Inventors: Thomas R. Ransdell, Michael D. Laird, Ronald C. Wallace
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Patent number: 9864973Abstract: A collaboration server hosts software for collaborative composition and editing of a media project with project collaborators using different media editing applications each having their own native data format. Project collaborators, such as video editors, sound editors, effects and graphics artists, and producers access a shared project workspace which contains a snapshot of the current state of the media project in a canonical format, as well as source media files, native application metadata, and change notes. Each editing application includes a module enabling it to read the canonical snapshot representation, and also to flatten its native data model representation into the canonical representation for writing to the shared project workspace. A collaboration server hosts the shared project space, and includes a workflow manager for issuing change notifications and handling versions, and an application server for the shared project user interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Timothy H. Claman, Straker J. Coniglio, Stephane Daigle, Robert A. Gonsalves, Ronald C. Wallace
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Publication number: 20160300596Abstract: A software architecture and framework based on plug-in software modules supports flexible handling of synchronous data streams by media production and editing applications. Plug-ins called by the applications convert data from synchronous data streams into a form that enables a user of such an application to view and edit time-synchronous data contained within such data streams. The synchronous data is displayed in a temporally aligned manner in a synchronous data track within a timeline display of the application user interface. In one example, closed caption data extracted from the ancillary portion of a video signal is displayed as text on a data track temporally synchronized with the source video track. Other plug-ins analyze media tracks to generate time-synchronous data which may also be displayed in a temporally aligned manner within a synchronous data track in a timeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Thomas R. Ransdell, Michael D. Laird, Ronald C. Wallace
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Patent number: 8787729Abstract: Computer-based methods for time-based media composition of programs that include secondary material. The methods involve searching for secondary media available from secondary material providers over a wide-area network, selecting secondary material, receiving metadata pertaining to the selected secondary material, inserting a representation of the selected secondary media into a media composition, playing back a sequence of the media composition that includes the secondary media, wherein playback of the secondary media involves playing an evaluation version of the secondary media streamed to a media composition system over the wide area network, and displaying metadata pertaining to the selected secondary material. The media composition system facilitates purchasing and transfer, and re-linking of the secondary media for inclusion within the media composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Harbaldeep Singh, Scott E. Kohnle, Ronald C. Wallace
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Publication number: 20130275312Abstract: A collaboration server hosts software for collaborative composition and editing of a media project with project collaborators using different media editing applications each having their own native data format. Project collaborators, such as video editors, sound editors, effects and graphics artists, and producers access a shared project workspace which contains a snapshot of the current state of the media project in a canonical format, as well as source media files, native application metadata, and change notes. Each editing application includes a module enabling it to read the canonical snapshot representation, and also to flatten its native data model representation into the canonical representation for writing to the shared project workspace. A collaboration server hosts the shared project space, and includes a workflow manager for issuing change notifications and handling versions, and an application server for the shared project user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Timothy H. Claman, Straker J. Coniglio, Stephane Daigle, Robert A. Gonsalves, Ronald C. Wallace
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Patent number: 8331767Abstract: Computer-based methods for time-based media composition of programs that include secondary material. The methods involve searching for secondary media available from secondary material providers over a wide-area network, selecting secondary material, receiving metadata pertaining to the selected secondary material, inserting a representation of the selected secondary media into a media composition, playing back a sequence of the media composition that includes the secondary media, wherein playback of the secondary media involves playing an evaluation version of the secondary media streamed to a media composition system over the wide area network, and displaying metadata pertaining to the selected secondary material. The media composition system facilitates purchasing and transfer, and re-linking of the secondary media for inclusion within the media composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Harbaldeep Singh, Scott E. Kohnle, Ronald C. Wallace
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Publication number: 20120257877Abstract: Computer-based methods for time-based media composition of programs that include secondary material. The methods involve searching for secondary media available from secondary material providers over a wide-area network, selecting secondary material, receiving metadata pertaining to the selected secondary material, inserting a representation of the selected secondary media into a media composition, playing back a sequence of the media composition that includes the secondary media, wherein playback of the secondary media involves playing an evaluation version of the secondary media streamed to a media composition system over the wide area network, and displaying metadata pertaining to the selected secondary material. The media composition system facilitates purchasing and transfer, and re-linking of the secondary media for inclusion within the media composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Harbaldeep Singh, Scott E. Kohnie, Ronald C. Wallace
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Publication number: 20120045189Abstract: Computer-based methods for time-based media composition of programs that include secondary material. The methods involve searching for secondary media available from secondary material providers over a wide-area network, selecting secondary material, receiving metadata pertaining to the selected secondary material, inserting a representation of the selected secondary media into a media composition, playing back a sequence of the media composition that includes the secondary media, wherein playback of the secondary media involves playing an evaluation version of the secondary media streamed to a media composition system over the wide area network, and displaying metadata pertaining to the selected secondary material. The media composition system facilitates purchasing and transfer, and re-linking of the secondary media for inclusion within the media composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: February 23, 2012Inventors: Harbaldeep Singh, Scott E. Kohnle, Ronald C. Wallace