Mark S Hillebrandt

7324737, Jan 29, 2008

Mar 29, 2004

10/812224

Matthew Albert Ivey - Portland OR, US
Brian Charles Dunn - Portland OR, US
Mark Scott Hillebrandt - Portland OR, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt

H04N 5/91

386 68, 386 67

Briefly, there is provided a method for manipulating content stored on a disk recorder/playback device using conventional transport commands, such as those used on a conventional videotape recorder (VTR). The method commences by detecting whether the content is in one of a prescribed set of modes, and by determining whether one of a stop, normal motion, a first rapid motion or second rapid motion buttons has been actuated. Depending on which of the stop, normal motion, a first rapid mode or second rapid motion buttons, the content is advanced in one of a first and second directions. The motion of the content is controlled in accordance with the detected content mode and to the degree to which one of the first rapid motion mode and second motion mode buttons has been actuated.

RE41987, Dec 7, 2010

Dec 4, 2009

12/631734

Matthew Albert Ivey - Portland OR, US
Brian Charles Dunn - Portland OR, US
Mark Scott Hillebrandt - Portland OR, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt

H04N 5/91

386 68, 386 67

Briefly, there is provided a method for manipulating content stored on a disk recorder/playback device using conventional transport commands, such as those used on a conventional videotape recorder (VTR). The method commences by detecting whether the content is in one of a prescribed set of modes, and by determining whether one of a stop, normal motion, a first rapid motion or second rapid motion buttons has been actuated. Depending on which of the stop, normal motion, a first rapid mode or second rapid motion buttons, the content is advanced in one of a first and second directions. The motion of the content is controlled in accordance with the detected content mode and to the degree to which one of the first rapid motion mode and second motion mode buttons has been actuated.

20090205001, Aug 13, 2009

Dec 9, 2005

11/989142

John Robert Naylor - Lake Oswego OR, US
James Edward Pearce - Portland OR, US
Mark Hillebrandt - Portland OR, US

Thomson Licensing - Boulogne-Billancourt

H04N 7/18

725 82

A system for a digital multiplex theater having a plurality of auditoriums includes a central server, playout servers, and an intelligent selection module. The central server has a local storage device configured to store digital cinema movies. The playout servers are each configured to playout the movies at a respective auditorium and have a respective local storage device configured to redundantly store the movies. The intelligent selection module selects a source for playing out, in an alternate auditorium in place of a scheduled auditorium, from a respective playout server in place of a scheduled playout server, a portion of a movie interrupted by a malfunction occurring at the scheduled auditorium. The selection is made from among any of the storage devices, and is based upon at least a current playing out ability of the scheduled playout server, and a playout schedule of the storage device at the alternate auditorium.

20140068438, Mar 6, 2014

Sep 5, 2013

14/019522

- Luxembourg, LU
Mark S. HILLEBRANDT - Portland OR, US

GVBB HOLDINGS S.A.R.L. - Luxembourg

G06F 3/0484

715719

Methods and apparatus for managing multimedia content are provided. A method of managing broadcast video data may include providing an identifier corresponding to a video clip in a designated area of a display, retrieving the video clip in response to a selection of the identifier by an operator, and providing a video feed comprising the video clip to a broadcast video production system. The video clip may be managed by a video media server and derived from a live video feed received by the video media server from one or more cameras.

6574655, Jun 3, 2003

Jun 29, 1999

09/342490

Scott A. Libert - Tigard OR
Robert J. Woolridge - Portland OR
Baochun Jin - Beaverton OR
Alex C. Tran - Tigard OR
P. Murugavel - Bangalore, IN
Mark S. Hillebrandt - Portland OR
Suhas Joshi - Bangalore, IN
Sridhar Krishnamurthy - Karnataka, IN
Rajagopal Govindakrishnan - Bangalore, IN

Thomson Licensing SA - Boulogne Cedex

G06F 1516

709200, 709201, 709202, 707 10, 7071041

Associative management of distributed multimedia assets and associated resources using multi-domain agent-based communication between heterogeneous peers is achieved using an Asset/Resource Management (ARM) platform architecture that has an ARM Framework that is used by Asset Management Agents. The ARM Framework includes an ARM Infrastructure which is a system of protocols and libraries from which communities of agents that are grouped in logical Agent Domains are built. The agents communicate via the KQML language embedded within TCP/IP messages, advertise their capabilities and cooperate together to perform meaningful work. An XML-based language is used to embed âcontentâ within the KQML language, providing a self-describing data representation using various character sets. The ARM Framework includes system agents including in each Agent Domain a Resolver for keeping track of asset logical locations, an Agent Name Server (ANS) for keeping track of security access to the assets, and the âYellow Pagesâ containing the Advertised System Knowledge (ASK) agent for keeping track of the capabilities of the Asset Management Agents.