Geoffrey R. Smith

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Mountain View, CA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Patent number 11,412,288
- Issue date Aug 9, 2022
- Rovi Technologies Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Patent number 10,757,465
- Issue date Aug 25, 2020
- Rovi Technologies Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Patent number 9,854,293
- Issue date Dec 26, 2017
- Rovi Technologies Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Patent number 9,084,007
- Issue date Jul 14, 2015
- Rovi Technologies Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Determining automatically generated channel tunes based on channel...
- Patent number 8,966,516
- Issue date Feb 24, 2015
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Patent number 8,928,819
- Issue date Jan 6, 2015
- Rovi Technologies Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Log processing to determine impressions using an impression time wi...
- Patent number 8,739,199
- Issue date May 27, 2014
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Exposure based customization of surveys
- Patent number 8,495,682
- Issue date Jul 23, 2013
- Google Inc.
- Timothy M. Dierks
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Channel tune dwell time log processing
- Patent number 8,438,591
- Issue date May 7, 2013
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Log processing to determine impression values using reliable durations
- Patent number 8,127,325
- Issue date Feb 28, 2012
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Channel tune dwell time log processing
- Patent number 8,091,101
- Issue date Jan 3, 2012
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments
- Patent number 7,944,863
- Issue date May 17, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Log processing to determine impression values using reliable durations
- Patent number 7,853,969
- Issue date Dec 14, 2010
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment
- Patent number 7,813,268
- Issue date Oct 12, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Dustin L. Green
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Retry request overload protection
- Patent number 7,765,305
- Issue date Jul 27, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Log processing of channel tunes and channel tune times generated fr...
- Patent number 7,743,394
- Issue date Jun 22, 2010
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Patent number 7,701,516
- Issue date Apr 20, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
MediaDescription data structures for carrying descriptive content m...
- Patent number 7,644,103
- Issue date Jan 5, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R Smith
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
DVR-based targeted advertising
- Patent number 7,634,785
- Issue date Dec 15, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R Smith
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Selectively receiving broadcast data according to one of multiple d...
- Patent number 7,606,255
- Issue date Oct 20, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Strategies for configuring a server-based information-transmission...
- Patent number 7,574,490
- Issue date Aug 11, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Enabling broadcast of multiple data configurations
- Patent number 7,546,383
- Issue date Jun 9, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Mixed-media service collections for multimedia platforms
- Patent number 7,480,701
- Issue date Jan 20, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments
- Patent number 7,477,653
- Issue date Jan 13, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment
- Patent number 7,370,129
- Issue date May 6, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Dustin L. Green
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Tiered sequential processing media data through multiple processor...
- Patent number 7,278,009
- Issue date Oct 2, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R Smith
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Patent number 7,277,137
- Issue date Oct 2, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Optimizing use of storage space in a video data recording system
- Patent number 7,088,910
- Issue date Aug 8, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Patent number 6,897,904
- Issue date May 24, 2005
- Microsoft Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods using multiple tuners
- Patent number 6,804,824
- Issue date Oct 12, 2004
- Microsoft Corporation
- Peter Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AMONG MULTIPLE TUNERS
- Publication number 20200344513
- Publication date Oct 29, 2020
- Rovi Technologies Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AMONG MULTIPLE TUNERS
- Publication number 20180176626
- Publication date Jun 21, 2018
- Rovi Technologies Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AMONG MULTIPLE TUNERS
- Publication number 20150245089
- Publication date Aug 27, 2015
- ROVI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
CHANNEL TUNE DWELL TIMES
- Publication number 20140223458
- Publication date Aug 7, 2014
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AMONG MULTIPLE TUNERS
- Publication number 20130014201
- Publication date Jan 10, 2013
- Microsoft Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
LOG PROCESSING
- Publication number 20120124619
- Publication date May 17, 2012
- Google Inc.
- Simon M. Rowe
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
CHANNEL TUNE DWELL TIME LOG PROCESSING
- Publication number 20120072935
- Publication date Mar 22, 2012
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. SMITH
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EXPOSURE BASED CUSTOMIZATION OF SURVEYS
- Publication number 20110239243
- Publication date Sep 29, 2011
- Google Inc.
- Timothy M. Dierks
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Log Processing
- Publication number 20100262496
- Publication date Oct 14, 2010
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RECONCILING FORECAST DATA WITH MEASURED DATA
- Publication number 20100235219
- Publication date Sep 16, 2010
- Google Inc.
- Iain Merrick
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method and Apparatus for Selecting Among Multiple Tuners
- Publication number 20100205646
- Publication date Aug 12, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Management of network-based services and servers within a server cl...
- Publication number 20090150548
- Publication date Jun 11, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
ESTIMATING TV AD IMPRESSIONS
- Publication number 20090150198
- Publication date Jun 11, 2009
- Yaroslav Volovich
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ACCELERATED CHANNEL CHANGE IN RATE-LIMITED ENVIRONMENTS
- Publication number 20090077255
- Publication date Mar 19, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Retry Strategies for Use in a Streaming Environment
- Publication number 20080273455
- Publication date Nov 6, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Dustin L. Green
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Log Processing
- Publication number 20080250447
- Publication date Oct 9, 2008
- Google Inc.
- Simon Rowe
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Log Processing
- Publication number 20080250448
- Publication date Oct 9, 2008
- Google Inc.
- Simon Rowe
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Log Processing
- Publication number 20080250453
- Publication date Oct 9, 2008
- Google Inc.
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
INSERTING CONTENT INTO A CONNECTION USING AN INTERMEDIARY
- Publication number 20070223668
- Publication date Sep 27, 2007
- Phonebites, Inc.
- Steven Blumenfeld
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
DVR-based targeted advertising
- Publication number 20060277569
- Publication date Dec 7, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Retry request overload protection
- Publication number 20060230305
- Publication date Oct 12, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Tiered command distribution
- Publication number 20060230406
- Publication date Oct 12, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MediaDescription data structures for carrying descriptive content m...
- Publication number 20060167903
- Publication date Jul 27, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Mixed-media service collections for multimedia platforms
- Publication number 20060156352
- Publication date Jul 13, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Strategies for configuring a server-based information-transmission...
- Publication number 20060136581
- Publication date Jun 22, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments
- Publication number 20060126667
- Publication date Jun 15, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Geoffrey R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment
- Publication number 20060129723
- Publication date Jun 15, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Dustin L. Green
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Failover and load balancing for server clusters
- Publication number 20060089935
- Publication date Apr 27, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- David Clifford
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Publication number 20050237435
- Publication date Oct 27, 2005
- Microsoft Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners
- Publication number 20050073613
- Publication date Apr 7, 2005
- Microsoft Corporation
- Peter J. Potrebic
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Geoffrey R. Smith

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners

Determining automatically generated channel tunes based on channel...

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners

Log processing to determine impressions using an impression time wi...

Exposure based customization of surveys

Channel tune dwell time log processing

Log processing to determine impression values using reliable durations

Channel tune dwell time log processing

Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments

Log processing to determine impression values using reliable durations

Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment

Retry request overload protection

Log processing of channel tunes and channel tune times generated fr...

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners

MediaDescription data structures for carrying descriptive content m...

DVR-based targeted advertising

Selectively receiving broadcast data according to one of multiple d...

Strategies for configuring a server-based information-transmission...

Enabling broadcast of multiple data configurations

Mixed-media service collections for multimedia platforms

Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments

Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment

Tiered sequential processing media data through multiple processor...

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners

Optimizing use of storage space in a video data recording system

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners

Systems and methods using multiple tuners

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AMONG MULTIPLE TUNERS

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AMONG MULTIPLE TUNERS

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AMONG MULTIPLE TUNERS

CHANNEL TUNE DWELL TIMES

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AMONG MULTIPLE TUNERS

LOG PROCESSING

CHANNEL TUNE DWELL TIME LOG PROCESSING

EXPOSURE BASED CUSTOMIZATION OF SURVEYS

Log Processing

RECONCILING FORECAST DATA WITH MEASURED DATA

Method and Apparatus for Selecting Among Multiple Tuners

Management of network-based services and servers within a server cl...

ESTIMATING TV AD IMPRESSIONS

ACCELERATED CHANNEL CHANGE IN RATE-LIMITED ENVIRONMENTS

Retry Strategies for Use in a Streaming Environment

Log Processing

Log Processing

Log Processing

INSERTING CONTENT INTO A CONNECTION USING AN INTERMEDIARY

DVR-based targeted advertising

Retry request overload protection

Tiered command distribution

MediaDescription data structures for carrying descriptive content m...

Mixed-media service collections for multimedia platforms

Strategies for configuring a server-based information-transmission...

Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments

Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment

Failover and load balancing for server clusters

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners

Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners