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Eric M. Foster
Also filed as: FOSTER ERIC M · FOSTER ERIC MICHAEL
41 granted patents·2,363 citations·filing 1991–2008
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41 records- 0194US6714826B1Facility for simultaneously outputting both a mixed digital audio signal and an unmixed digital audio signal multiple concurrently received streams of digital audio dataIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 30, 2004·142 cites·49 claims
- 0294US6038630AShared access control device for integrated system with multiple functional units accessing external structures over multiple data busesIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 14, 2000·270 cites·22 claims
- 0393US6662329B1Processing errors in MPEG data as it is sent to a fixed storage deviceIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 9, 2003·68 cites·20 claims
- 0493US6275507B1Transport demultiplexor for an MPEG-2 compliant data streamIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 14, 2001·171 cites·15 claims
- 0593US5202943AOptoelectronic assembly with alignment memberIBM·Filed 1991·Granted Apr 13, 1993·152 cites·23 claims
- 0692US7675876B2Transport demultiplexor with bit maskable filterIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 9, 2010·16 cites·18 claims
- 0791US7356707B2Initializing, maintaining, updating and recovering secure operation within an integrated system employing a data access control functionIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 8, 2008·58 cites·4 claims
- 0891US6715085B2Initializing, maintaining, updating and recovering secure operation within an integrated system employing a data access control functionIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 30, 2004·53 cites·26 claims
- 0990US6851056B2Control function employing a requesting master id and a data address to qualify data access within an integrated systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 1, 2005·69 cites·19 claims
- 1090US6091772ABlack based filtering of MPEG-2 compliant table sectionsIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 18, 2000·131 cites·20 claims
- 1189US7266842B2Control function implementing selective transparent data authentication within an integrated systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 4, 2007·58 cites·23 claims
- 1288US6078594AProtocol and procedure for automated channel change in an MPEG-2 compliant datastreamIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 20, 2000·118 cites·16 claims
- 1387US7934046B2Access table lookup for bus bridgeIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 26, 2011·18 cites·20 claims
- 1487US7646768B2Re-mapping and interleaving transport packets of multiple transport streams for processing by a single transport demultiplexorIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 12, 2010·16 cites·18 claims
- 1587US7089419B2Control function with multiple security states for facilitating secure operation of an integrated systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 8, 2006·47 cites·16 claims
- 1687US6115422AProtocol and procedure for time base change in an MPEG-2 compliant datastreamIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 5, 2000·100 cites·10 claims
- 1786US7356147B2Method, system and program product for attaching a title key to encrypted content for synchronized transmission to a recipientIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 8, 2008·41 cites·7 claims
- 1886US6026506AConcealing errors in transport stream dataIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 15, 2000·89 cites·13 claims
- 1984US7092527B2Method, system and program product for managing a size of a key management block during content distributionIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 15, 2006·17 cites·20 claims
- 2084US6356567B2Embedded clock recovery and difference filtering for an MPEG-2 compliant transport streamIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Mar 12, 2002·83 cites·10 claims
- 2183US6731657B1Multiformat transport stream demultiplexorIBM·Filed 2000·Granted May 4, 2004·23 cites·20 claims
- 2282US7024685B1Transport demultiplexor with bit maskable filterIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 4, 2006·21 cites·9 claims
- 2381US6654835B1High bandwidth data transfer employing a multi-mode, shared line bufferIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 25, 2003·21 cites·51 claims
- 2480US6853727B1File table copy protection for a storage device when storing streaming contentIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 8, 2005·31 cites·27 claims
- 2580US6240492B1Memory interface for functional unit of integrated system allowing access to dedicated memory and shared memory, and speculative generation of lookahead fetch requestsIBM·Filed 1998·Granted May 29, 2001·67 cites·46 claims
- 2680US6101591AMethod and system for selectively independently or simultaneously updating multiple system time clocks in an MPEG systemIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 8, 2000·64 cites·27 claims
- 2778US8656178B2Method, system and program product for modifying content usage conditions during content distributionFOSTER ERIC M·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 18, 2014·15 cites·24 claims
- 2878US6957335B2Initializing, maintaining, updating and recovering secure operation within an integrated system employing a data access control functionIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 18, 2005·20 cites·15 claims
- 2978US6311161B1System and method for merging multiple audio streamsIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 30, 2001·58 cites·18 claims
- 3077US6996101B2Re-mapping and interleaving transport packets of multiple transport streams for processing by a single transport demultiplexorIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 7, 2006·23 cites·49 claims
- 3177US6229801B1Delivery of MPEG2 compliant table dataIBM·Filed 1997·Granted May 8, 2001·55 cites·4 claims
- 3275US7028095B1Block-based negative filtering of MPEG-2 compliant table sectionsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 11, 2006·13 cites·14 claims
- 3375US6801536B1Remultiplexing audio/video PES streams from an MPEG transport systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 5, 2004·21 cites·20 claims
- 3475US6701397B1Pre-arbitration request limiter for an integrated multi-master bus systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 2, 2004·16 cites·26 claims
- 3575US6181706B1Common buffer for multiple streams and control registers in an MPEG-2 compliant transport registerIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jan 30, 2001·87 cites·8 claims
- 3671US6195403B1Pulse generator for a voltage controlled oscillatorIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 27, 2001·39 cites·11 claims
- 3766US6944154B2System and method for remultiplexing of a filtered transport stream with new content in real-timeIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 13, 2005·11 cites·18 claims
- 3866US6831931B2System and method for remultiplexing of a filtered transport streamIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 14, 2004·7 cites·25 claims
- 3961US6088357AAuxiliary transport assist processor especially for an MPEG-2 compliant decoderIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 11, 2000·24 cites·15 claims
- 4053US6072771ADetection of errors in table dataIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 6, 2000·30 cites·17 claims
- 4151US9300465B2Method, system and program product for attaching a title key to encrypted content for synchronized transmission to a recipientFOSTER ERIC M·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 29, 2016·0 cites·6 claims
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