Patents by Inventor Stephen Watson
Stephen Watson 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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Publication number: 20120281967Abstract: Selection and presentation of media streams, in which presentation is not limited by order imposed by the digital content representative of those media streams, in response to bookmarks and watchpoints settable and usable by a user. Bookmarks reference a location within the media stream, not necessarily pre-selected and possibly dynamically selected, in which a presentation can be started or restarted therefrom. Watchpoints reference a location within the media stream, or a presentation state for the media stream, in which an action can be triggered thereby. Bookmarks and watchpoints provide a general technique for presenting selections from media streams in response to metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: Paul Rechsteiner, Shawn R. Neely, Lawrence Kesteloot, Michael A. Malcolm, Stephen Watson
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Publication number: 20120284292Abstract: Selection and presentation of media streams, in which presentation is not limited by order imposed by the digital content representative of those media streams, in response to bookmarks and watchpoints settable and usable by a user. Bookmarks reference a location within the media stream, not necessarily pre-selected and possibly dynamically selected, in which a presentation can be started or restarted therefrom. Watchpoints reference a location within the media stream, or a presentation state for the media stream, in which an action can be triggered thereby. Bookmarks and watchpoints provide a general technique for presenting selections from media streams in response to metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: Paul Rechsteiner, Shawn R. Neely, Lawrence Kesteloot, Michael A. Malcolm, Stephen Watson
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Publication number: 20120281968Abstract: Selection and presentation of media streams, in which presentation is not limited by order imposed by the digital content representative of those media streams, in response to bookmarks and watchpoints settable and usable by a user. Bookmarks reference a location within the media stream, not necessarily pre-selected and possibly dynamically selected, in which a presentation can be started or restarted therefrom. Watchpoints reference a location within the media stream, or a presentation state for the media stream, in which an action can be triggered thereby. Bookmarks and watchpoints provide a general technique for presenting selections from media streams in response to metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: KALEIDESCAPE, INC.Inventors: Paul Rechsteiner, Shawn R. Neely, Lawrence Kesteloot, Michael A. Malcolm, Stephen Watson
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Patent number: 8280051Abstract: Secure presentation of media streams includes encoding the media streams into digital content, encrypting a portion of that digital content, the portion being required for presentation, in which the encrypted version is substantially unchanged in formatting parameters from the clear version of the digital content. Selecting those portions for encryption so there is no change in distribution of the media stream: packetization of the digital data, or synchronization of audio with video portions of the media stream. When encoding the media stream into MPEG-2, refraining from encrypting information by which the video block data is described, packet formatting information, and encrypting the video block data using a block-substitution cipher. A block-substitution cipher can be used to encrypt each sequence of 16 bytes of video data in each packet, possibly leaving as many as 15 bytes of video data in each packet in the clear.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: Michael A. Malcolm, Daniel A. Collins, Stephen Watson, Paul Rechsteiner, Kevin Hui
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Publication number: 20120237078Abstract: A method of embedding information in digital content representing media streams. The method includes (1) selecting a set of locations within that digital content reprensenting the media stream to embed information, (2) selecting a set of possible alterations to make at those locations, and (3) making a subset of the possible alterations. The set of locations and possible alterations is herein sometimes called a “watermark.” The subset of actual alterations that are made is herein sometimes called a “fingerprint.” The method determines a set of locations at which there are alternative versions of digital content representing the same media stream, such as one being the original and one being an alternative version of the same digital content, herein sometimes called the “original movie” and the “alt-movie,” or herein sometimes called the “original block” and the “alt-block” for a particular block in the digital content representing the media stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: KALEIDESCAPE, INC.Inventors: Stephen Watson, Daniel A. Collens, Kevin Hui, Michael A. Malcolm
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Patent number: 8225194Abstract: Selection and presentation of media streams, in which presentation is not limited by order imposed by the digital content representative of those media streams, in response to bookmarks and watchpoints settable and usable by a user. Bookmarks reference a location within the media stream, not necessarily pre-selected and possibly dynamically selected, in which a presentation can be started or restarted therefrom. Watchpoints reference a location within the media stream, or a presentation state for the media stream, in which an action can be triggered thereby. Bookmarks and watchpoints provide a general technique for presenting selections from media streams in response to metadata.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2003Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: Paul Rechsteiner, Shawn R. Neely, Lawrence Kesteloot, Michael A. Malcolm, Stephen Watson
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Patent number: 8189854Abstract: A method of embedding information in digital content representing media streams. The method includes (1) selecting a set of locations within that digital content representing the media stream to embed information, (2) selecting a set of possible alterations to make at those locations, and (3) making a subset of the possible alterations. The set of locations and possible alterations is herein sometimes called a “watermark.” The subset of actual alterations that are made is herein sometimes called a “fingerprint.” The method determines a set of locations at which there are alternative versions of digital content representing the same media stream, such as one being the original and one being an alternative version of the same digital content, herein sometimes called the “original movie” and the “alt-movie,” or herein sometimes called the “original block” and the “alt-block” for a particular block in the digital content representing the media stream.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Watson, Daniel A. Collens, Kevin Hui, Michael A. Malcolm
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Patent number: 8154886Abstract: A cable organization unit includes a housing. A tray is attached to the housing by at least one slide, and is movable between a first position and a second position relative to the housing. A hood is removably secured to the tray. A user may remove the hood from the tray to access adapters attached to a bulkhead on the tray. The tray may include a latch for securing the tray to the housing in the first position, and the hood may be removed from the tray while the tray is in the first or second positions. A retainer is optionally attached to the housing. The retainer includes an adjustable opening which may be reduced in size such that edges of the opening frictionally engage and hold a jacket of a cable passing therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North CarolinaInventors: Mark Hendrix, Stephen Watson, Chuck Mann
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Publication number: 20110255839Abstract: A system is described, which includes an optical drive and a media server. The media server includes a storage device, and is coupled to the optical drive. The media server is configured to determine whether the optical drive contains an optical disc associated with digital content, and is further configured to receive a request for access to the digital content.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: KALEIDESCAPE, INC.Inventors: Stephen Watson, Paul Rechsteiner, Lee Payne, Kevin Hui, Tom Barnett
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Publication number: 20110255842Abstract: A method of providing a uniform user experience is described. The method entails receiving general preference information, and mapping the general preference information to format-specific preference information. This format-specific preference information can then be applied when accessing content.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: James Hindle, Paul Rechsteiner, Ian Bell, Michael Malcolm, Tom Barnett, Stephen Watson
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Publication number: 20110258644Abstract: A system is described, which includes a disc vault, which may hold a number of discs, and a media server. The media server includes a storage device, and is coupled to the disc vault. The media server is configured to determine whether a disc associated with digital content is present in the disc vault, and is further configured to receive a request for access to the digital content.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: KALEIDESCAPE, INC.Inventors: Stephen Watson, Paul Rechsteiner, Lee Payne, Kevin Hui, Tom Barnett
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Publication number: 20110100197Abstract: A home theater system includes construction, presentation, and commerce in, songs. Presentation includes at least one of: metadata about songs or sounds, a function capable of transitioning from one song to a next song, and user preferences; and can determine in what manner to transition from one song to a next song. Construction of songs includes either factors above, or at least one of: a function or a user extension capable of selecting a next song, and an element capable of determining whether the song is perceptually random. A user interface is capable of searching playlists and selecting them for presentation, representing each playlist with a substantially unique pictorial representation, distinguishing in presentation between those playlists licensed to the user and those that are not, and capable of substantially immediate purchase of playlist licenses either individually or in bulk and either automatically or with minimal intervention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2011Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: KALEIDESCAPE, INC.Inventors: Paul Rechsteiner, Ian Epperson, Lawrence Kesteloot, Elliott Pearl, Stephen Watson, Brian Young
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Patent number: 7888582Abstract: A home theater system includes construction, presentation, and commerce in, songs. Presentation includes at least one of: metadata about songs or sounds, a function capable of transitioning from one song to a next song, and user preferences; and can determine in what manner to transition from one song to a next song. Construction of songs includes either factors above, or at least one of: a function or a user extension capable of selecting a next song, and an element capable of determining whether the song is perceptually random. A user interface is capable of searching playlists and selecting them for presentation, representing each playlist with a substantially unique pictorial representation, distinguishing in presentation between those playlists licensed to the user and those that are not, and capable of substantially immediate purchase of playlist licenses either individually or in bulk and either automatically or with minimal intervention.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: Paul Rechsteiner, Ian Epperson, Lawrence Kesteloot, Elliott Pearl, Stephen Watson, Brian Young
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Publication number: 20100172498Abstract: Secure presentation of media streams includes encoding the media streams into digital content, encrypting a portion of that digital content, the portion being required for presentation, in which the encrypted version is substantially unchanged in formatting parameters from the clear version of the digital content. Selecting those portions for encryption so there is no change in distribution of the media stream: packetization of the digital data, or synchronization of audio with video portions of the media stream. When encoding the media stream into MPEG-2, refraining from encrypting information by which the video block data is described, packet formatting information, and encrypting the video block data using a block-substitution cipher. A block-substitution cipher can be used to encrypt each sequence of 16 bytes of video data in each packet, possibly leaving as many as 15 bytes of video data in each packet in the clear.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2010Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: KALEIDESCAPE, INC.Inventors: Michael A. Malcolm, Daniel A. Collens, Stephen Watson, Paul Rechsteiner, Kevin Hui
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Patent number: 7702101Abstract: Secure presentation of media streams includes encoding the media streams into digital content, encrypting a portion of that digital content, the portion being required for presentation, in which the encrypted version is substantially unchanged in formatting parameters from the clear version of the digital content. Selecting those portions for encryption so there is no change in distribution of the media stream: packetization of the digital data, or synchronization of audio with video portions of the media stream. When encoding the media stream into MPEG-2, refraining from encrypting information by which the video block data is described, packet formatting information, and encrypting the video block data using a block-substitution cipher. A block-substitution cipher can be used to encrypt each sequence of 16 bytes of video data in each packet, possibly leaving as many as 15 bytes of video data in each packet in the clear.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2003Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: Michael A. Malcolm, Daniel A. Collens, Stephen Watson, Paul Rechsteiner, Kevin Hui
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Publication number: 20100092111Abstract: A containment device for personnel, animals or objects to be transported in a vehicle so as to avoid cross-contamination, and comprising an envelope (11) having a size and shape approximating to, for example, the rear seating area of a vehicle and having one or more closable panels (12) for access to and removal from the envelope. The flexible envelope (11) is readily transformable between a collapsed and compact condition for storage and an expanded condition for deployment within a vehicle, thus to be readily usable, and in some cases re-usable, and avoiding the conventional method of wrapping the interior surfaces of the vehicle in impermeable sheeting.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: April 15, 2010Inventor: Stephen Watson
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Patent number: 7645338Abstract: The present invention includes (E)-2-(5-Chlorothien-2-yl)-N-{(3S)-1-[(1S)-1-methyl-2-morpholin-4-yl-2-oxoethyl]-2-oxopyrrolidin-3-yl}ethenesulfonamide in substantially crystalline form, pharmaceutical formulations thereof, processes for preparing it, and its use in medicine, particularly use in the amelioration of a clinical condition for which a Factor Xa inhibitor is indicated.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2003Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Philip C. Dell 'Orco, Henry Anderson Kelly, Gita Punjabhai Shah, Nigel Stephen Watson, Robert John Young
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Publication number: 20090276619Abstract: Distributing information, including the steps of watermarking the digital content, distributing the digital content using a multi-source system, and partially fingerprinting digital content at each stage of moving information from a point of origin to the viewer. “Adaptation” of the digital content to the recipient includes maintaining the digital content in encrypted form at each such intermediate device, including decrypting the digital content with a key unique to both the device and the specific movie, selecting a portion of the watermark locations into which to embed information, embedding fingerprinting information into those locations sufficient to identify the recipient, and encrypting the fingerprinted digital content with a new such key.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: Daniel A. Collens, Stephen Watson, Michael A. Malcolm
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Patent number: 7568105Abstract: Distributing information, including the steps of watermarking the digital content, distributing the digital content using a multi-source system, and partially fingerprinting digital content at each stage of moving information from a point of origin to the viewer. “Adaptation” of the digital content to the recipient includes maintaining the digital content in encrypted form at each such intermediate device, including decrypting the digital content with a key unique to both the device and the specific movie, selecting a portion of the watermark locations into which to embed information, embedding fingerprinting information into those locations sufficient to identify the recipient, and encrypting the fingerprinted digital content with a new such key.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2006Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Kaleidescape, Inc.Inventors: Daniel A. Collens, Stephen Watson, Michael A. Malcolm
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Publication number: 20090099231Abstract: The present invention provides pyrrolidinone derivatives as Factor Xa inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of such compounds, and the use of such compounds in medicine, particularly in the amelioration of a clinical condition for which a Factor Xa inhibitor is indicated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2006Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: John David Harling, Nigel Stephen Watson, Robert John Young