Patents by Inventor Saurabh Srivastava

Saurabh Srivastava 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).

  • Task-driven distributed multimedia consumer system
    Patent number: 5959536
    Abstract: A control system comprises multiple consumer electronics devices and task-driven control means coupled to the devices for controlling an interaction among the devices. The control means acts on respective software representations of each respective one of the consumer devices. By encapsulating the variable complexity of the task within a software representation, it can be made as simple or as sophisticated as needed to bring the capabilities up to a common level. Since the level of interface is common to the devices, applications can uniformly manipulate devices which embody very different levels of sophistication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Philips Electronics North America Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Chambers, Saurabh Srivastava