Patents by Inventor Thomas Scott Webster

Thomas Scott Webster 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).

  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING GEOGRAPHICALLY RESTRICTED VIDEO DATA IN AN INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION (IPTV) SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20110173650
    Abstract: A method for distributing geographical restriction data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is disclosed. The method includes accepting at an IPTV server, a request from an IPTV client for the geographical restriction data related to geographically restricted video data, determining at the server, a plurality of geographic restriction zones for the geographically restricted video data and sending from the server to the client a message containing the restriction data related to at least one of the restriction zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: SBC Knowledge Ventures L.P.
    Inventors: Richard G. Jankins, Thomas Scott Webster, Eric Cababing
  • Method and apparatus for distributing geographically restricted video data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system
    Patent number: 7877767
    Abstract: A method for distributing geographical restriction data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is disclosed. The method includes accepting at an IPTV server, a request from an IPTV client for the geographical restriction data related to geographically restricted video data, determining at the server, a plurality of geographic restriction zones for the geographically restricted video data and sending from the server to the client a message containing the restriction data related to at least one of the restriction zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard G. Jankins, Thomas Scott Webster, Eric Cabading
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING GEOGRAPHICALLY RESTRICTED VIDEO DATA IN AN INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION (IPTV) SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100287583
    Abstract: A method for distributing geographical restriction data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is disclosed. The method includes accepting at an IPTV server, a request from an IPTV client for the geographical restriction data related to geographically restricted video data, determining at the server, a plurality of geographic restriction zones for the geographically restricted video data and sending from the server to the client a message containing the restriction data related to at least one of the restriction zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: SBC Knowledge Ventures I..P.
    Inventors: Richard G. Jankins, Thomas Scott Webster, Eric Cabading
  • Method and apparatus for distributing geographically restricted video data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system
    Patent number: 7774808
    Abstract: A method for distributing geographical restriction data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is disclosed. The method includes accepting at an IPTV server, a request from an IPTV client for the geographical restriction data related to geographically restricted video data, determining at the server, a plurality of geographic restriction zones for the geographically restricted video data and sending from the server to the client a message containing the restriction data related to at least one of the restriction zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: ATT Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard G. Jankins, Thomas Scott Webster, Eric Cabading
  • STB/DVR video surveillance
    Publication number: 20080309759
    Abstract: There are provided a method, a system and machine-readable medium for managing surveillance video at a broadcast video terminal device. The method comprises detecting a security event associated with at least one surveillance video camera communicatively coupled to the broadcast video terminal device and requesting insertion of a surveillance entry associated with storage of a surveillance video of each of the at least one surveillance video camera into an electronic program guide that includes at least one broadcast entry. There is also provided a method, system and machine-readable medium for managing surveillance video entries and a method, system and machine-readable medium for playing a surveillance video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Brian Wilson, Roger A. Cockrell, Elaine Jureczki, Thomas Scott Webster
  • Method and apparatus for distributing geographically restricted video data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system
    Publication number: 20080046922
    Abstract: A method for distributing geographical restriction data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is disclosed. The method includes accepting at an IPTV server, a request from an IPTV client for the geographical restriction data related to geographically restricted video data, determining at the server, a plurality of geographic restriction zones for the geographically restricted video data and sending from the server to the client a message containing the restriction data related to at least one of the restriction zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: SBC Knowledge Ventures L.P.
    Inventors: Richard G. Jankins, Thomas Scott Webster, Erick Cababing
  • Method and apparatus for emergency remote video monitoring
    Publication number: 20080043641
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for sending video data over an internet protocol (IPTV) network. The method includes receiving an emergency call from a remote client IPTV device over the IPTV network at a video monitoring system (VMS), receiving over the IPTV network at VMS video data from a video camera at the remote client, locating a mobile video device (MVD) proximate of the remote client and sending the video data to the MVD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: SBC Knowledge Ventures L.P.
    Inventors: Brian B. Wilson, John Anthony McClenny, Thomas Scott Webster, Roger A. Cockroll, Steven M. Wollmershauser