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Gino Dion Phones & Addresses

  • Mansfield, MA
  • 7805 White Stallion Trl, McKinney, TX 75070
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • Colton, TX

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Us Patents

Picture-In-Picture Mosaic

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US Patent:
7644425, Jan 5, 2010
Filed:
Mar 22, 2006
Appl. No.:
11/385735
Inventors:
Alistair John Parker - Quispamsis, CA
Jeff Furlong - Grand Bay-Westfield, CA
Gino Louis Dion - McKinney TX, US
Sean Gordon Higgins - Saint John, CA
David Cecil Robinson - Aldbrourne, GB
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent - Paris
International Classification:
G06F 13/00
G06F 3/00
H04N 5/445
US Classification:
725 41, 725 43, 725 52, 725 56, 725 61, 348563
Abstract:
The PIP system enables display of a mosaic of favorite channels in a Picture-in-Picture (PIP) format to a subscriber terminal. Picture-in-Picture support is efficiently provided by sending only I-Frames of the secondary video channel to the end-user. That is, any unnecessary packets (null, B-P frames, audio, etc. ) in the secondary video channel are stripped away. This method uses very little bandwidth and is STB agnostic.

Client Side Pid Translation

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US Patent:
20070098005, May 3, 2007
Filed:
Nov 2, 2005
Appl. No.:
11/264132
Inventors:
Jeff Furlong - Grand Bay-Westfield, CA
Alistair Parker - Quispamsis, CA
Sean Higgins - Saint John, CA
Gino Dion - McKinney TX, US
Assignee:
ALCATEL - Paris
International Classification:
H04J 3/16
US Classification:
370437000
Abstract:
In a system that provides decoding of A/V streams, this invention reduces switching delays between different streams by modifying the Program Identification (PID) values of the Audio and Video data to common PID values that are already known by the decoder. This technique allows the decoder to stay in a run state when switching between A/V streams, thereby reducing channel change times.

Network Based Instant Replay And Time Shifted Playback

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US Patent:
20070130597, Jun 7, 2007
Filed:
Dec 2, 2005
Appl. No.:
11/292345
Inventors:
Alistair Parker - Quispamsis, CA
Jeff Furlong - Grand Bay-Westfield, CA
Gino Dion - McKinney TX, US
Sean Higgins - Saint John, CA
Assignee:
Alcatel - Paris
International Classification:
H04N 7/173
US Classification:
725094000, 725115000, 725114000, 725096000
Abstract:
A circular buffer in a video delivery server tracks a second copy of a live video stream to provide instant replay capability. When an end-user initiates the instant replay function, the circular buffer is copied to an instant-replay buffer, from which a replay of the video is sent to the end-user. During replay the end-user can use playback functions such as pause, slow-play, freeze frame, etc. Upon leaving the replay function the end user rejoins the live stream. The circular buffer also enables transmission of delayed copies of the live stream, time-shifted by predetermined intervals, which copies are multicasted to end-users. Upon request, an end-user may join a delayed version of interest. This allows the user to replay interesting content by jumping to a time-delayed version without missing the show and to catch up with real-time during e.g. commercial breaks.
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