Michael Richard Alexander
Accountancy in Denver, CO

2013025, Sep 26, 2013

May 22, 2013

13/900362

Michael Alexander - Denver CO, US

EchoStar Technologies L.L.C. - Englewood CO

H04N 9/87

386344

In various embodiments, a recording and playback manager of a digital video recorder (DVR), set top box, receiver or other device stores and accesses statistics in a statistics file related to average distances between reference frames (e.g., intra frames or I-frames) within blocks of the video data of the recording. Accessing these statistics during playback enables the system to more accurately locate reference frames to display while executing the playback in a trick mode such as fast forward, rewind or skip. The average distance between reference frames for a particular block of video data may be used to jump from one reference frame to the next reference frame in that block during playback in trick mode.

8472783, Jun 25, 2013

Nov 30, 2010

12/957148

Michael Alexander - Denver CO, US

EchoStar Technologies L.L.C. - Englewood CO

H04N 9/80

386241, 386 E9011

In various embodiments, a recording and playback manager of a digital video recorder (DVR), set top box, receiver or other device stores and accesses statistics in a statistics file related to average distances between reference frames (e. g. , intra frames or I-frames) within blocks of the video data of the recording. Accessing these statistics during playback enables the system to more accurately locate reference frames to display while executing the playback in a trick mode such as fast forward, rewind or skip. The average distance between reference frames for a particular block of video data may be used to jump from one reference frame to the next reference frame in that block during playback in trick mode.

2012024, Sep 27, 2012

Mar 24, 2011

13/071279

Michael Alexander - Denver CO, US

EchoStar Technologies L.L.C. - Englewood CO

G06F 17/30

707781, 707E17059

A content player receives user-specific information from different users and associates the information with content. Subsequently, the player receives a request to perform a content-altering operation. In response, the player performs the operation such that the information for the requesting user is affected, but not the information for other users. The information may include a placeholder, an indication as to whether the content and/or the entire content has been accessed, a protection status indicating whether or not the content can be deleted, and so on. The information may be added to and/or configured to accompany and/or otherwise be associated with the content. The player may identify the user so that different information for different users can be associated with the content for the respective user, such as by prompting the user to select an identifier from a list or perform a “log in.”

2010032, Dec 23, 2010

Jun 17, 2009

12/486683

Matthew Moore Skinner - Parker CO, US
Michael Alexander - Denver CO, US

EchoStar Technologies, L.L.C. - Englewood CO

G06F 3/00, G06F 17/00

715762, 715234

The various embodiments described herein provide for the layout and rendering of graphical interfaces to be independent from the underlying functionality of the application. The layout functionality for a graphical interface of an application is detached from the application itself, allowing the application and its associated graphical interface to be moved to different platforms utilizing different graphical application programming interfaces (APIs).

2010030, Dec 9, 2010

Jun 9, 2009

12/480936

Michael Thomas Alexander - Denver CO, US

EchoStar Technologies, LLC - Englewood CO

H04N 5/50

348570, 348E05097

A method of managing a graphical display incorporating individual graphical elements is presented. In the method, a data set is created for each of the graphical elements, wherein each of the data sets describes a graphical feature of the associated graphical element. A separate function is associated with each of the data sets, wherein each of the functions is configured modify the data set of the associated graphical element to alter a graphical feature of the associated graphical element. A signal influencing the graphical display is generated. In response to the signal, the function associated with each of at least one of the data sets is initiated. The graphical display is transferred to an output device for viewing by a user.

2012024, Sep 27, 2012

Mar 24, 2011

13/071179

Michael Alexander - Denver CO, US

EchoStar Technologies L.L.C. - Englewood CO

G06F 17/30, G06F 7/00

707741, 707736, 707E17014

A player utilizes a bookmark file to process content. The bookmark file includes a sequential series of bookmarks that each include information specifying how to process content. In one or more implementations, only some bookmarks are indicated as searchable. When the player searches for a particular bookmark, it only searches bookmarks indicated as searchable. In various other implementations, the player utilizes an index to search for a particular bookmark. In some cases, the index contains an entry for each bookmark in the bookmark file that includes only the type and location of the respective bookmark. In other cases, only some of the bookmarks may be indicated as searchable and the index may only include entries for the searchable bookmarks. However, in these cases, the index may not include entries for bookmarks indicated as non-searchable. In either set of cases, the index may be updated if the bookmark file changes.

2011019, Aug 11, 2011

Feb 8, 2010

12/702090

Michael Alexander - Denver CO, US

ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES LLC - Englewood CO

H04N 5/91, H04N 5/76

386293, 386E05003, 386296

Systems and methods allow for automatic scheduling of audio/video recordings made by in a digital video recorder (DVR) or similar device. The various times during which each of the programming events will be available are determined and maintained in a list. Conflicting periods of time during which multiple programming events are simultaneously received are identified, and a schedule by which each of the programming events is to be recorded is created. Conflicts can be resolved by automatically scheduling the recording of one or more programming events to occur during a re-broadcast of the event at a different time that does not conflict with the other events.