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20140111598 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COVIEWING VIDEO - A method, apparatus, and system to provide the ability for a user to make audio and/or audio-video phone calls simultaneously while watching (co-viewing) provider video content in remote locations. A control system is provided to set up call, direct provider video content, and provide for the phone calls and video content to be delivered and then synchronized. The phone calls may be routed by the control system to PSTN destinations or Internet based destinations and calls made or received may be bridged to other Internet based sources. The provider video content may be provided directly from its source or routed through NAT traversal or through the control system. | 04-24-2014 |
20140111700 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECOND SCREEN CONTROL - A method, apparatus and system to provide the ability for the user interfaces (i.e. viewing, navigating, searching, finding) of modern entertainment system devices to be operated on and controlled by commercially available handheld electronic devices. Applicants' second screen control method and apparatus comprises a Primary Screen and a Secondary screen. The Secondary Screen, embodied on a handheld electronic device, displays the typical on-screen information and may also display Internet content and allow one to simultaneously interact with the social media systems. The Primary Screen, typically embodied as TV set, displays the selected program. Social media information relating may also be displayed on the Primary Screen simultaneously with the selected video content, as directed by the Secondary Screen, in a variety of modalities including overlay and squeeze back. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPOKEN DIAGNOSTICS - A method, apparatus and system to provide the ability for an analog telephone adapter (or other consumer electronics device) to provide spoken information to a consumer to help diagnose problems. The spoken diagnostics system and method for comprises a central analysis server and an analog telephone adapter (“ATA”). When in operation, when a consumer (as an end user) pick up a telephone which is connected to and/or operating through the ATA and enters a preset diagnostic code, defined a telephone number in one embodiment, the ATA and the central analysis server perform a series of diagnostic functions and cause one or more verbal messages relating to the status of the ATA as determined through the diagnostic functions to be spoken over the phone so as to be communicated to the consumer. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115113 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PORT FORWARDING - A method, apparatus and system to provide the ability for a user to grant permission and enable a technician or other entity to remotely access the user's computer networking device, such as a router, through an ATA or other electronic consumer device which is connected to the network provided by the computer networking device. The technician is then provided with the ability to access from a remote location the configuration and operation screens of the user's router and provide assistance related to the same. Permission to access the router through the electronic consumer device is granted by performing some local action on the electronic consumer device, such as pressing a specified button or dialing a code on the electronic consumer device or a device connected to the electronic consumer device. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115648 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROADCAST TV CONTROL - A method, apparatus and system to provide the ability for a user to have improved OTA reception of TV signals. The system employs an antenna, a media receiver/player and/or display, and a datacenter. The antenna is placed with line of sight to broadcast towers and is provided with clean wiring from the antenna through the building to a the TV. A high performance TV tuner and a demodulator are included in the TV or STB. A datacenter located in relevant Television Market Area is incorporated to receive, process and make available correction packets over a network. Under typical circumstances, an OTV television signal as broadcast contains degradation in the form of a number of error packets in the broadcast stream by the time it is received by an antenna. The system employed detects and marks of error packets and replaces them with good packets delivered over a network. | 04-24-2014 |
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20110143081 | MODIFIED PLY DROPS FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATE MATERIALS - A composite laminate material is disclosed. The composite laminate material includes a plurality of adjacently disposed plies. At least one of the plies is configured as a terminated ply. Additionally, a ply drop is defined by the terminated ply, wherein the ply drop is modified to reduce stress concentrations within the composite laminate material. | 06-16-2011 |
20110143082 | PLY DROPS MODIFICATIONS FOR COMPOSITE LAMINATE MATERIALS AND RELATED METHODS - A composite laminate material is disclosed. The composite laminate material includes a plurality of adjacently disposed plies. At least one of the plies is configured as a terminated ply. Additionally, a ply drop is defined by the terminated ply, wherein the ply drop includes a modification configured to reduce stress concentrations within the composite laminate material. | 06-16-2011 |
20120141286 | MULTI-SEGMENT WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE WITH SPAN-WISE OFFSET JOINTS - A wind turbine blade includes a first blade segment and a second blade segment, with each of the blade segments having a pressure side shell member, a suction side shell member, and internal support structure. The first and second blade segments have respective adjacent ends with complimentary joint sections that are joinable at a chord-wise joint. Each of the joint sections includes a joint profile that is offset in a span-wise direction from the pressure side shell member to the suction side shell member such that the joint sections are joinable to each other along their respective joint profiles and overlie each other in a span-wise direction. | 06-07-2012 |
20130091705 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A MULTI-SEGMENT WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE WITH SPAN-WISE OFFSET JOINTS - A method provides for assembling a wind turbine blade from at least two blade segments, with each of the blade segments having a pressure side shell member, a suction side shell member, internal support structure, and ends with joint sections that are offset span-wise from the pressure side shell member to the suction side shell member. The blade segments are aligned in an end-to-end orientation and moved into a mating configuration with relative movement that includes overlapping the respective joint sections of adjacent blade segments. The overlapped joint sections are subsequently moved into engagement with each other and joined along respective joint profiles at a chord-wise joint. | 04-18-2013 |
20140169980 | ROOT ASSEMBLIES WITH EXTERNAL STRUCTURAL CONNECTION SUPPORTS FOR ROTOR BLADES - Root assemblies for rotor blades include a root portion having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the root portion is configured to extend from an airfoil portion of the rotor blade. The root assemblies further include at least one external structural connection support connected to at least the inner surface or the outer surface of the root portion, wherein the at least one external structural connection support connects to a hub of a wind turbine to facilitate the connection of the rotor blade. | 06-19-2014 |