Robert D Ebert

US Patent:

7372450, May 13, 2008

Filed:

May 5, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/840153

Inventors:

Timothy D. Twerdahl - Mountain View CA, US
Robert F. Ebert - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

Inventec Appliances Corporation - Taipei

International Classification:

G09G 5/00

US Classification:

345156, 345160, 345161, 345163, 345168

Abstract:

A first hand-held computing device includes an analog input device and a processor. The analog input device generates analog input. The processor receives the analog input and converts the analog input to coordinates. The processor then maps the coordinates to a button for a second hand-held computing device and generates an event indicating a state of the button for the second hand-held computing device.

US Patent:

8112456, Feb 7, 2012

Filed:

Apr 6, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/697634

Inventors:

Arthur Anthonie Van Hoff - Menlo Park CA, US
Robert Ebert - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P. - Round Rock TX

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707804, 707694

Abstract:

A media player device configured to store and play content for a user uses an implicit rank to add and delete content from the device. The rank is determined implicitly by gathering available information about a user directly and by monitoring user listening activity. The gathered information about the user and the monitored information are used to determine the user rank. Content is managed by comparing content stored on the media player device to the user rank to determine a preference order for storing content on the device; receiving content at the media player device; deleting one or more stored content objects from a computer readable storage medium so there is sufficient space to store the received content; and storing the received content on the computer readable storage medium.

US Patent:

20060064488, Mar 23, 2006

Filed:

Sep 17, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/943595

Inventors:

Robert Ebert - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/173
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709225000, 709217000

Abstract:

An electronic software distribution (ESD) method is provided for digitally distributing a software application. The method starts by receiving a set of user data, and then generates from the user data a digital hardware signature having a hardware identification attribute. The digital hardware signature is then appended to a software application to generate a software application package. The digital hardware signature assures that the software application package is fully executable only on a hardware device having a matching hardware identification attribute.

US Patent:

20060064756, Mar 23, 2006

Filed:

Sep 17, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/943392

Inventors:

Robert Ebert - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/16

US Classification:

726026000

Abstract:

A method for digital rights management is provided. The method is used for managing the right to use a digital software application having a main code component including application code and data resources. The method generates a security component including a hardware identification attribute and appends the security component to the main code component to form a software application package. When the software application package is installed on a hardware device, the security component enables the software application only if the hardware identification attribute is also present in the hardware device.

US Patent:

20230053276, Feb 16, 2023

Filed:

Jul 27, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/874822

Inventors:

- Seattle WA, US
Amy Marie Whitberg - San Francisco CA, US
Xiaoqing Jing - San Jose CA, US
Swetha Bijoy - Bothell WA, US
Swati S. Rao - Sunnyvale CA, US
Robert Franklin Ebert - Los Altos Hills CA, US

International Classification:

G10L 15/22
G10L 15/30
G10L 15/08
G06T 7/70
G06F 3/01

Abstract:

An autonomously motile device may be controlled by speech received by a user device. A first speech-processing system associated with the user device may determine that audio data includes a representation of a command; a second speech-processing system associated with the autonomously motile device may determine that the command should be executed by the autonomously motile device. A network connection is established between the user device and the autonomously motile device, and a device manager authorizes execution of the command.