Barry A Weber

7020710, Mar 28, 2006

Jun 21, 2002

10/177514

Barry Jay Weber - Carmel IN, US
Kerry Wayne Calvert - Indianapolis IN, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt

G06F 13/00

709232, 709231, 725 96, 725 95

A system for personalizing received transmissions includes a content source that provides multiple transmission streams over a transmission media. A plurality of receivers is included wherein each receiver selects portions of one or more of the transmission streams in accordance with a playlist for each user. The receiver renders the portions of the received transmissions in accordance with a schedule.

7054361, May 30, 2006

May 31, 2000

09/585803

Kurt William Otte - Indianapolis IN, US
Barry Weber - Carmel IN, US
Steven Charles Rhoads - Carmel IN, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt

H03K 9/06
H03D 3/22

375239, 375333

An apparatus and method for providing control signals, comprising a processor coupled to a memory, for generating a signal sequence. The processor encodes the signal sequence into a plurality of symbols using a 5 pulse position modulated (5 PPM) scheme. Advantageously, the last position of each symbol encoded under the 5 PPM scheme is set to a low bit. The symbol sequence represents a signaling protocol having a payload portion and a header portion, wherein the header portion comprises a plurality of fields for defining the payload portion. The payload portion indicates keyboard characters or coordinates for a pointing device.

7284032, Oct 16, 2007

Dec 19, 2001

10/025161

Barry Jay Weber - Carmel IN, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt

G06F 15/13

709204, 725 37, 725 87, 725109

A method for sharing information in a network includes steps of enabling a user to define a data segment, recording the defined data segment, transmitting first information associated with the defined data segment to a remote location, and receiving second information associated with the defined data segment from the remote location. An apparatus for performing the foregoing steps is also provided.

7548962, Jun 16, 2009

Sep 28, 2001

10/381860

Barry Jay Weber - Carmel IN, US
Kerry Wayne Calvert - Indianapolis IN, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt

G06F 15/16

709219, 719311, 725 32, 725 35

Architecture is provided for selecting an ad insertion system/server from a plurality of ad insertion systems/server for receiving broadcast transmissions and inserted advertisements. A gateway, as part of the architecture, selects an ad insertion system, in accordance with a developed client profile and a network factor associated with the communication performance of the ad insertion system. The gateway associates the developed profile with a client, and the gateway receives information relating the network factor from at least one ad insertion system. The gateway also ascertains the casting services (IP multicasting, IP multicasting proxy, and IP unicasting) supported by client. The ad insertion system may use the information about the supported casting services, with a developed client profile and a network factor for selecting an ad insertion system.

7752546, Jul 6, 2010

Jun 29, 2001

09/896966

Steve Mannheimer - Carmel IN, US
Barry Jay Weber - Carmel IN, US
Kerry Wayne Calvert - Indianapolis IN, US
Jonathan Paul Griffin - Greenfield IN, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne, Billancourt

G06F 3/00

715716, 715727, 715729, 715810, 715853

The present invention is directed towards a system and process for navigating through a large amount of information (e. g. , audio files, text files, video files, device functions, etc. ) using audio cues representative of the information. The audio cues are arranged in a multi-level tree data structure such that the user can select general categories (e. g. , music classification) and navigate down to a specific data segment (e. g. , a particular song or song list). Each audio cue is a brief burst of sound (e. g. , a lyric from a particular song) representative of a predetermined number of additional audio cues or a particular data segment. The audio cues are selectable by a user and permit the user to navigate through the information or data segments without having to remember visual or alphanumeric elements (e. g. , song title, artist name, or track number). The audio cues are stored in a storage device that can be accessed using a wireless device (e. g.

8079049, Dec 13, 2011

Jun 26, 2007

11/823072

Barry Jay Weber - Carmel IN, US
Mark A. McCleary - Indianapolis IN, US
Steven Ray True - Indianapolis IN, US

Thomson Licensing - Issy les Moulineaux

H04N 7/20
H04N 7/18
H04L 12/28

725 71, 725 67, 725 78, 370389

The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for inserting sync bytes into a video transport stream. More specifically, there is provided a method comprising determining a parsing procedure supported by a first set top box, appending a first transport packet to comply with the parsing procedure of the first set top box, and transmitting the first transport packet to the first set top box.

8082355, Dec 20, 2011

Nov 15, 2000

09/712887

Barry Jay Weber - Carmel IN, US
Kerry Wayne Calvert - Indianpolis IN, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt

G06F 15/16

709231, 709201, 709218, 709225, 725 25, 725 32, 726 4

An architecture for inserting listener targeted advertisements into Internet retransmission of terrestrial radio broadcasts is provided. An Internet server provides aggregation of a plurality of radio broadcast programming for dissemination over the Internet to a plurality of listeners/users. Each Internet provided radio broadcast includes advertisements targeted for each individual listener/user based on a demographics profile. The demographics profile for each listener/user provides a basis for the targeted advertisements. A readily scaleable architecture is capable of supporting rapid growth in listeners/users. Scheduling data is used to predict and prestage advertising content. Timestamping of the radio broadcast aids in calculating where in the broadcast data sequence to pick up after an advertisement. Scalability is preferably achieved by a multiplexer in order to support large numbers of listener connections for streaming audio.

8135035, Mar 13, 2012

Jan 12, 2007

12/225273

Barry Jay Weber - Carmel IN, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billcourt

H04J 3/24

370474

Disclosed is a system including a plurality of modulators for receiving at least one of first data signals from a termination and for receiving at least one of second data signals from other than the termination and for combining the at least one of first data signals and the at least one second data signals into an output signal having a plurality of data channels for delivery to a plurality of modems where the at least one of second data signals bypass the termination.