ROBERT LEWIS RICHMOND
Pilots at Perkins Ln, Seattle, WA

6976216, Dec 13, 2005

Nov 17, 2000

09/716052

Jonah Peskin - Lunenburg MA, US
Robert Richmond - Seattle WA, US

StreamZap, Inc. - Hood River OR

G06F003/00, G09G005/00

715716, 345169

Computer software allowing enhanced control of the playout of audio/video works on a computer system. In various embodiments, the software allows key events from dedicated audio/video keys, whether part of a full sized keyboard or on a hand held remote, to control the actions of an audio/video playout program without requiring the user to direct the key event focus of the operating system to the audio/video playout program. Also, the invention distinguishes between key presses from a local, full sized keyboard and key presses from a remote keyboard so that the audio/video playout program can enlarge its screen display when a key event is received from the remote keyboard. In one embodiment, the invention constantly instructs the operating system to move the focus to the audio/video playout program. In another embodiment, if the focus is received by any of various windows in a display, software associated with the window forwards to the audio/video playout program any key events received from audio/video keys. In a third embodiment, audio/video key event data is routed to the audio/video playout program by a method that does not use the key event features of the operating system, such as by using a key board wedge server program to serve key events to audio/video client programs.

5327493, Jul 5, 1994

May 2, 1991

7/694697

Robert L. Richmond - Seattle WA
Martin Richmond - Lexington MA
Richard Aydelotte - Kirkland WA
Bennet Blake - Lynnwood WA

Active Voice, Inc. - Seattle WA

H04M 164

379372

Device for detecting and identifying call progress tones on telephone lines. The application discloses a device for converting auditory call progress tones to visual indications and a novel circuit for identifying and distinguishing call progress tones based on their on-off cadence, if any, along with various alternative embodiments including: (1) a device which converts call progress tones to visual indications as for use by the deaf, (2) a device which is programmed to automatically go off-hook at certain times, detect a tone such as a stuttered dial tone indicating a message waiting, and activate a visual indicator, and (3) the use of a capacitor or rechargeable battery which is periodically refreshed by the device automatically going off-hook and which, while the device is on-hook, provides power required by the device.

5070526, Dec 3, 1991

Aug 8, 1990

7/564805

Robert L. Richmond - Seattle WA
Michael Robinson - Seattle WA

Active Voice, Inc. - Seattle WA

H04M 164

379372

An analog communication signal such as the signal transmitted over a telephone line is converted to digital form for storage in the memory of a computer. Segments of the digital representation of the signal are analyzed to determine whether or not the signal has uniform frequency components repeating at regular intervals. Detection of such regularly repeating uniform frequency components is useful in an automated telephone system to determine whether a telephone signal consists of voice or a call progress signal.

8418062, Apr 9, 2013

Jun 24, 2005

11/166319

Jonah Peskin - Lunenburg MA, US
Robert Richmond - Seattle WA, US

G06F 3/00, G09G 5/00

715716, 715719, 715727, 715760

Computer software allowing enhanced control of the playout of audio/video works on a computer system. In various embodiments, the software allows key events from dedicated audio/video keys, whether part of a full sized keyboard or on a hand-held remote, to control the actions of an audio/video playout program running within a browser environment without requiring the user to direct the key event focus of the operating system to the audio/video playout program. In one embodiment, software associated with the browser window forwards to the audio/video playout program any key events received from audio/video keys.