DR. JEFFREY ALLEN BROWN, PH.D.
Social Work at Portland Ave, Saint Paul, MN

7739711, Jun 15, 2010

Feb 4, 2004

10/771701

Craig A. Finseth - St. Paul MN, US
Philip E. Hsiao - Eden Prairie MN, US
Jeffrey A. Brown - Roseville MN, US

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. - El Segundo CA

G06F 3/00, G06F 13/00, H04N 5/445

725 52, 725 53

The present invention is described by an electronic program guide with a calendar tool, and a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving the electronic program guide. The apparatus includes a transmission station and a plurality of receiver stations. The transmission station creates program guide data that is in an “object” format. The transmission station combines the program guide objects with digital audio and video television signals, and transmits an output stream to the plurality of receiver stations. Each of the plurality of receiver stations stores electronic program guide objects. Using data from the electronic program guide objects, the plurality of receiver stations generate a listing of television program representations, and a calendar image separate from and adjacent to the plurality of television program representations. The calendar image includes a selection indicator for selecting a date and time, and includes a plurality of program indicators that provide indications of the dates on which a set of television programs will be broadcast.

7146626, Dec 5, 2006

Mar 24, 2000

09/535105

Robert G. Arsenault - Redondo Beach CA, US
Glenn C. Creel - Seal Beach CA, US
Kenneth D. Seibert - Redondo Beach CA, US
Tam T. Leminh - Cypress CA, US
Craig A. Finseth - St. Paul MN, US
Philip E. Hsiao - Eden Prairie MN, US
Jeffrey A. Brown - Roseville MN, US

The DirecTV Group, Inc. - El Segundo CA

G06F 3/00, G06F 13/00, H04N 5/445

725 46, 725 34, 725 47, 725 63, 725 70

The apparatus and method of the present invention provides a direct-to-home integrated receiver/decoder (IRD) and a program for storing and displaying digital objects associated with an electronic television program guide using fuzzy logic. The method and apparatus maintains and adapts a user profile in order to efficiently select digital objects associated with an electronic program guide. The fuzzy logic based user profile may be used to select digital program guide objects for deletion from memory and/or to efficiently select digital program guide objects for display in an electronic program guide. Selection is based on fuzzy variables associated with the objects. In this manner, memory requirements and the number of programs displayed are reduced to decrease cost and reduce the amount of time a user must spend viewing the program guide.

2007026, Nov 8, 2007

Jul 11, 2007

11/827233

Jeffrey Brown - Roseville MN, US
Philip Hsiao - Eden Prairie MN, US
Craig Finseth - St. Paul MN, US

H04N 7/16

725009000

A device that detects and displays similar programs within a video system includes a memory, a display and a receiver that receives an input stream of television program content and electronic program guide data, wherein the program guide data includes a plurality of attributes characterizing television programs within the television program content. The receiver separates electronic program guide data from the input stream while the memory stores the electronic program guide data separated from the input stream. Upon receiving a first user request, a controller compares a first set of attributes relating to at least one television program within the television content with second sets of attributes relating to further television programs within the television program content to determine a correlation between the first television program and each of the further television programs. In this manner, the controller identifies the television programs that have attributes that are similar to the attributes of the first television program based on the correlation and displays indications of the television programs found to be similar.

2010010, Apr 22, 2010

Dec 21, 2009

12/643736

Robert G. Arsenault - Redondo Beach CA, US
Tam T. Leminh - Cypress CA, US
Craig A. Finseth - St. Paul MN, US
Jeffrey A. Brown - Roseville MN, US
Philip E. Hsiao - Eden Prairie MN, US

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. - El Segundo CA

H04N 7/20, G06F 13/00

725 70, 725 63, 725 39, 386E05003

Content used in creating an electronic program guide and/or channels for a television reception system is delivered to a local receiving device, such as a direct to home satellite receiver, as individual digital objects. Rules (i.e., conditional expressions) may be embedded in the digital objects to allow different actions in different situations. These rules can be used to determine whether an object should be stored, which objects should be included in an electronic program guide, and/or what content should be used to create a particular channel.

6098068, Aug 1, 2000

Oct 16, 1997

8/951993

Jeffrey R. Brown - Plymouth MN

Micron Electronics, Inc. - Nampa ID

G06F 1730

707 10

One embodiment of the present invention can be characterized as a method for designing a circuit that facilitates sharing of design parameters between separately designed modules of the circuit. The method includes receiving module information, including parameters relating to design of a module of the circuit, and storing the module information in a database. The method also includes retrieving the module information from the database, and generating automatically a constraint file from the module information. In one embodiment, this constraint file includes constraints in a format suitable for use by a synthesis tool to synthesize circuitry for the module.

6018792, Jan 25, 2000

Jul 2, 1997

8/886908

Joseph Jeddeloh - Minneapolis MN
James Meyer - Shoreview MN
Jeffrey R. Brown - Plymouth MN

Micron Electronics, Inc. - Nampa ID

G06F 1200, G06F 1300

711146

A computer system has a system memory, cache memory, system controller that process memory transactions. The system controller transmits a memory request to the system memory without waiting for the cache memory to be snooped to determine whether the cache memory stores information in an address corresponding to a selected address of the system memory. The system controller may transmit a snoop request to the cache memory concurrently with or after the memory request is transmitted to the system memory. The system controller may have a control switch that uses a first pathway for the memory request and a second pathway for the snoop request so that the snoop and memory requests can be transmitted simultaneously.

D598960, Aug 25, 2009

Jun 22, 2007

29/281428

Jeffrey Carl Brown - Minneapolis MN, US

Scythe, Inc. - Minneapolis MN

2101

D21389