Patents by Inventor Thomas Jaumann

Thomas Jaumann 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).

  • Systems and methods for providing text-based messaging services in digital broadcasting systems
    Patent number: 7590381
    Abstract: It is a finding of the present invention that a user of a broadcast receiver gets text information significantly more quickly if a reference to another text information object in the broadcasting signal is contained in a text information object included in the broadcasting signal, which is currently displayed on the display of the broadcast receiver, and the user is enabled to cause the text information to be displayed to be changed from the text information of the current text information object to the text information of the text information object to which the current text information object refers by simple operation of a user selection means. Here, the additional effort is very limited since in today's broadcast receivers there mostly is an “unoccupied” key, which only has an assigned function and thus is occupied in special situations of use of the broadcast receiver, and may be used as user selection means, as far as that goes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Alexander Zink, Markus Prosch, Olaf Korte, Michael Reichenbacher, Gerd Kilian, Thomas Jaumann, Thomas Fruhwald
  • Radio
    Publication number: 20060229056
    Abstract: It is a finding of the present invention that a user of a broadcast receiver gets text information significantly more quickly if a reference to another text information object in the broadcasting signal is contained in a text information object included in the broadcasting signal, which is currently displayed on the display of the broadcast receiver, and the user is enabled to cause the text information to be displayed to be changed from the text information of the current text information object to the text information of the text information object to which the current text information object refers by simple operation of a user selection means. Here, the additional effort is very limited since in today's broadcast receivers there mostly is an “unoccupied” key, which only has an assigned function and thus is occupied in special situations of use of the broadcast receiver, and may be used as user selection means, as far as that goes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Alexander Zink, Markus Prosch, Olaf Korte, Michael Reichenbacher, Gerd Kilian, Thomas Jaumann, Thomas Fruhwald