CHARLES RAYMOND BURR, JR
Pilots at Hield Rd, Melbourne, FL

2003010, May 29, 2003

Nov 28, 2001

09/995969

Charles Burr - Palm Bay FL, US
Charles Nowell - Longwood FL, US
George Waters - Indialantic FL, US

International Communications Products, Inc. - West Melbourne FL

H04Q007/20

455/418000, 455/419000, 455/420000, 455/427000

A store and forward receiver for a satellite communication system employs a multi-threaded command interpreter, and an associated reduced complexity audio control language (ACL) to define commands for controlling actions at different receiver sites, each of which is programmable for its own local programming purposes. Upon receipt of a relatively simple command from the headend, the interpreter accesses and executes an associated sequence of potentially locally unique, previously stored commands, causing performance of a sequence of actions, e.g., play back of potentially locally unique, previously stored information files, interleaved with portions of a headend-source commercial audio program being rebroadcast at the receiver site. This allows different affiliate stations to produce separate potentially locally unique complex sequences of actions from a single headend-sourced command for all receivers in a network grouping.

4389671, Jun 21, 1983

Sep 29, 1980

6/191844

Ronald S. Posner - Indian Harbor Beach FL
Charles R. Burr - Palm Bay FL
David K. Campbell - Melbourne Beach FL

Harris Corporation - Melbourne FL

H04N 716

358124

An apparatus for scrambling a television signal in which horizontal lines of the transmitted television picture are selectively inverted in accordance with the state of a pseudorandom noise generator. In order to permit correction of the throughput gain as well as the throughput offset at the receiving end of the communication link so as to obtain a desired level of picture quality, particularly in a satellite communication system, an analog calibration signal representing both black and white levels is inserted into a horizontal line of the vertical retrace interval at the transmission end of the link. This calibration signal is then detected at the receiving end of the link and the signal levels are adjusted as needed. In addition, a randomly-varying key code signal for resetting the pseudorandom noise generator is randomly inserted into another horizontal line of the vertical retrace period to control scrambling. The audio portion of the television signal is also scrambled by randomly shifting the audio carrier between first and second offset frequencies.

4932070, Jun 5, 1990

Aug 22, 1988

7/234937

George W. Waters - Indialantic FL
Charles R. Burr - Palm Bay FL
Charles W. Richards - Melbourne Beach FL

Scientific Atlanta - Atlanta GA

H04B 160, H04J 306

455 10

Accurate tuning of a satellite system's burst demodulator to a signal which is subject to frequency offset in the course of its transmission over the satellite link is achieved without the use of high precision oscillators at remote sites, or the transmission of a dedicated pilot tone. Instead, a dedicated high precision clock is used for the purpose of establishing both the outlink carrier and the return channel carrier. The modulation of the data on the outlink carrier is also derived from the precision clock source. At each remote station, the outlink channel is monitored to recover the high precision clock. This recovered clock is then used as a reference for generating the return channel carrier. The burst demodulator equipment at the master station monitors both the outlink channel continuous carrier and burst mode transmissions from the remote stations. Each of the continuous and burst mode carriers, having been transmitted through the satellite, will undergo the same frequency offset or modification, so that the frequency difference between the outlink channel carrier and the return link channel carrier will always be constant.

3995231, Nov 30, 1976

Oct 28, 1975

5/626137

Richard Howard Johnson - Palm Bay FL
Eddie Hung Chung Young - Indialantic FL
Charles Raymond Burr - Melbourne FL
Robert Morris Montgomery - Indialantic FL

Harris-Intertype Corporation - Cleveland OH

H01S 3098

331 945M

A mode-locked cavity-dumped laser in which the dumping is phase-coherently synchronized with the mode locking. An acousto-optic modulator is employed in the cavity for dumping. On two passes through the modulator, an envelope pulse of light has two portions deflected to a common output path, one of the portions being shifted upward in frequency and the other downward, by an amount equal to the acoustic excitation frequency. The ability of the modulator to provide output power is therefore envelope-modulated at twice the acoustic frequency. The power of successive output pulses is maintained uniform by synchronizing the phase of the circulating mode-locked pulses with respect to the phase of the envelope modulation.