Patents by Inventor Steven TRUE

Steven TRUE 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 and method for setting time and date in a device without access to network time protocol
    Patent number: 10979541
    Abstract: A system and method for setting time and date in a device (e.g., a set top box (614), or similar client device) through a network connection when a network time standard server (606, 620) (e.g., a NTP server) is unavailable (e.g., blocked or blacklisted) are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure involves sending (404) a request over a network from a device for information from an Internet address (618), receiving (406) a packet (500) from the Internet address (618) in response to the request, extracting (408) time and date information from a header (502) in the packet (500), and using the extracted time and date information to set (416) the current time and date for the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Interdigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS
    Inventors: Scott Edward Klopfenstein, Steven True, Chad Andrew Lefevre
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SETTING TIME AND DATE IN A DEVICE WITHOUT ACCESS TO NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL
    Publication number: 20180124219
    Abstract: A system and method for setting time and date in a device (e.g., a set top box (614), or similar client device) through a network connection when a network time standard server (606, 620) (e.g., a NTP server) is unavailable (e.g., blocked or blacklisted) are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure involves sending (404) a request over a network from a device for information from an Internet address (618), receiving (406) a packet (500) from the Internet address (618) in response to the request, extracting (408) time and date information from a header (502) in the packet (500), and using the extracted time and date information to set (416) the current time and date for the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Scott Edward KLOPFENSTEIN, Steven TRUE, Chad Andrew LEFEVRE