Patents by Inventor Scott White

Scott White 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).

  • System for Exchanging Media Content Between a Media Content Processor and a Communication Device
    Publication number: 20190158891
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller adapted to detect an event associated with recorded media content derived from one among a plurality of media content sources, select a communication device of a subscriber of the media content processor, retrieve a portion of the recorded media content, generate a notice describing the event, and transmit the notice with the portion of the recorded media content to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott White, James Cansler
  • System and Method for Configuring Media Services
    Publication number: 20190141386
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring media services is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a portal having a controller element to detect an installation of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) media receiver in an IPTV media system and adapt at least a portion of the portal according to the installation. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White
  • GENERATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS
    Publication number: 20190134970
    Abstract: According to one example, there is provided a system for managing the generation of three-dimension objects by an additive manufacturing system. The system comprises a processor to receive one or multiple virtual objects, to generate a spatial arrangement of those objects within a virtual build volume, to control an additive manufacturing system to process the virtual build volume, to modify the virtual build volume in response to a request, and to control the additive manufacturing system to process the modified virtual build volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jun ZENG, Sebastia Cortes i Herms, Scott A. White
  • 3D PRINT DEFINITION PROCEDURES
    Publication number: 20190126560
    Abstract: There is disclosed a non-transitory machine readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor and comprising instructions to: receive object data corresponding to a three-dimensional object to be generated; define print data for each of a plurality of slices of the object to control a respective layer forming operation in which print agent is ejected on a layer of build material in a pattern corresponding to selective fusing of the build material, wherein the print data and the respective pattern is defined for each slice according to object a print defmition procedure; and select the print definition procedure from a plurality of print definition procedures based on a user input. There is also disclosed a corresponding method and additive manufacturing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Luis Garcia Garcia, Scott White, Salvador Sanchez Ribes
  • INDEXING VOXELS FOR 3D PRINTING
    Publication number: 20190122427
    Abstract: One example includes a non-transitory machine readable storage medium including voxels organized by an octree and at least one quad-tree index. The octree defines an object to be three-dimensionally printed and includes a list of nodes for each depth of the octree where each node includes nodal content representing at least one voxel. The at least one quad-tree index is to index at least one node of the octree and has a depth less than or equal to a maximum resolved depth. The at least one quad-tree index is to be accessed by computer executable instructions to retrieve nodal content from the octree to control a processor to process the object to be three-dimensionally printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jun Zeng, Ana Del Angel, Scott White, Sebastia Cortes i Herms, Gary Dispoto
  • GENERATING SLICE DATA FROM A VOXEL REPRESENTATION
    Publication number: 20190108675
    Abstract: An example technique for generating slice data from a voxel representation can include obtaining a shape specification of the 3-D object. The example technique for generating slice data from a voxel representation can also include obtaining a material specification of the 3-D object. The example technique for generating slice data from a voxel representation can also include merging the shape specification and the material specification to create a voxel representation of the 3-D object, wherein each voxel in the voxel representation includes a plurality of data types. The example technique for generating slice data from a voxel representation can also include generating slice data from the voxel representation, wherein the slice data provides a higher resolution than that provided by the voxel representation using the plurality of data types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jun ZENG, Pu HUANG, Sebastia CORTES, Scott A. WHITE, Gary J. DISPOTO
  • DOCUMENT OPERATION COMPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20190056897
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to receiving a request to perform an operation on a document, determining whether the document complies with a plurality of operation policies, and in response to determining that the document complies with the plurality of operation policies, providing a notification that the operation is ready to be performed and digitally signing the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Helen Balinsky, Scott White, Shivaun Albright
  • Generation of three-dimensional objects
    Patent number: 10201961
    Abstract: According to one example, there is provided a system for managing the generation of three-dimension objects by an additive manufacturing system. The system comprises a processor to receive one or multiple virtual objects, to generate a spatial arrangement of those objects within a virtual build volume, to control an additive manufacturing system to process the virtual build volume, to modify the virtual build volume in response to a request, and to control the additive manufacturing system to process the modified virtual build volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Jun Zeng, Sebastia Cortes I Herms, Scott A. White
  • 3D Print Selection Based On Voxel Property Association and Conflict Resolution
    Publication number: 20190039368
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to selecting a 3D printing parameter based on voxel property association and conflict resolution. In one implementation, a processor assigns properties to a voxel of a 3D print object based on a first and second zone including the voxel and a condition of a first property associated with the first zone and a condition of a second property associated with the second zone. The processor may update the assigned properties to resolve conflicts between the properties and select a 3D printing parameter based on the assigned properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Jun ZENG, Scott WHITE, Federico MARTINEZ, Ana DEL ANGEL, Gary J. DISPOTO, Sebastia CORTES I HERMS
  • System and method for configuring media services
    Patent number: 10200739
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring media services is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a portal having a controller element to detect an installation of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) media receiver in an IPTV media system and adapt at least a portion of the portal according to the installation. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White
  • System for exchanging media content between a media content processor and a communication device
    Patent number: 10200726
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller adapted to detect an event associated with recorded media content derived from one among a plurality of media content sources, select a communication device of a subscriber of the media content processor, retrieve a portion of the recorded media content, generate a notice describing the event, and transmit the notice with the portion of the recorded media content to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott White, James Cansler
  • GENERATING A SHAPE PROFILE FOR A 3D OBJECT
    Publication number: 20190026953
    Abstract: According to an example, a processing device may slice a 3D model along a first direction to generate a plurality of layers in parallel planes defined across a second direction and a third direction, in which each of the plurality of layers is composed of respective polygons representing portions of the 3D model. The plurality of layers may be partitioned into a plurality of stacked boxes containing the respective polygons and for each stacked box of the plurality of stacked boxes, the polygons in the stacked box may be assembled into a superset polygon and the superset polygon may be partitioned into bounding shapes. A shape profile of the 3D object may be generated using the bounding shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ana Patricia Del Angel, Jun Zeng, Sebastia Cortes i Herms, Scott White
  • Object data representations for additive manufacturing
    Patent number: 10186037
    Abstract: In an example, three-dimensional (3D) models of objects are combined for additive manufacturing. Two-dimensional (2D) slices are determined for each 3D model. If the 2D slices are determined to be complete, the 2D slices are combined according to a Boolean operation to generate combined 2D slices printable by an additive manufacturing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jun Zeng, Ana Del Angel, Scott White, Sebastia Cortes I Herms
  • Generating slice data from a voxel representation
    Patent number: 10181216
    Abstract: An example technique for generating slice data from a voxel representation can include obtaining a shape specification of the 3-D object. The example technique for generating slice data from a voxel representation can also include obtaining a material specification of the 3-D object. The example technique for generating slice data from a voxel representation can also include merging the shape specification and the material specification to create a voxel representation of the 3-D object, wherein each voxel in the voxel representation includes a plurality of data types. The example technique for generating slice data from a voxel representation can also include generating slice data from the voxel representation, wherein the slice data provides a higher resolution than that provided by the voxel representation using the plurality of data types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Jun Zeng, Pu Huang, Sebastia Cortes, Scott A. White, Gary J. Dispoto
  • Method and Apparatus for Presenting Media Content
    Publication number: 20190012050
    Abstract: A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving a selection from a media device corresponding to a first media content, generating a play list at a server where the play list includes second media content that is associated with the first media content by at least one of genre, artist and being published in temporal proximity, and providing play list content comprising at least a portion of the first and second media content to the media device, where at least one of the generation of the play list and the providing of the play list content is based on metadata pointers associated with the first and second media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles V. Scott, James Cansler, Scott White
  • Method and system for presenting electronic programming guides
    Patent number: 10110965
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to present a graphic user interface (GUI) for customizing an electronic programming guide (EPG), the GUI including a plurality of scrollable media channels, each media channel accompanied by an image, a description of the media channel, an option to select the media channel for inclusion in the EPG, a first button to customize the EPG according to one or more media channels selected, and a second button to request additional information about a media channel highlighted in the GUI. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White
  • Method and apparatus for fulfilling purchases
    Publication number: 20180300704
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fulfilling purchases is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure can include, for example, a portable communication device having a controller element that receives from an online system a barcode image as an object of acknowledgment of a product purchased from said online system, and presents on a display of the portable communication device said barcode image to complete a purchase fulfillment process by way of at least one among a visual inspection of the barcode image by a merchant employee and processing of said barcode image by a point of sale (POS) device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White
  • Method and apparatus for presenting media content
    Patent number: 10101881
    Abstract: A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving a selection from a media device corresponding to a first media content, generating a play list at a server where the play list includes second media content that is associated with the first media content by at least one of genre, artist and being published in temporal proximity, and providing play list content comprising at least a portion of the first and second media content to the media device, where at least one of the generation of the play list and the providing of the play list content is based on metadata pointers associated with the first and second media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles V. Scott, James Cansler, Scott White
  • System and method for processing opinion data
    Patent number: 10083457
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to solicit an appraisal for each of a plurality of media programs presented by the media processor for composing a proposal to update one or more operational features of the media processor according to one or more consumer preferences determined from one or more supplied appraisals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White
  • System and method for presenting progressively downloaded media programs
    Patent number: 10075776
    Abstract: A system and method for presenting progressively downloaded media programs is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, obtaining an estimated length of a media program where the estimated length is based on a plurality of different reported lengths of the media program in reported media program information, presenting at a display device a portion of the media program while it is being delivered by a media delivery system via a progressive download, and enabling bookmark and chaptering functions for the media program based on the estimated length of the media program until a true time index is generated using an index file at an end of the progressive download of the media program. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White