Russel B Mcdonald

US Patent:

20050044561, Feb 24, 2005

Filed:

Aug 20, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/644350

Inventors:

Russel McDonald - Pflugerville TX, US

Assignee:

Gotuit Audio, Inc. - Andover MA

International Classification:

H04N007/16
G06K009/00
H04N007/10
H04N007/025
H04H009/00

US Classification:

725018000, 725032000, 725019000, 382181000

Abstract:

A broadcast program receiving and recording device which identifies songs and commercials within the recorded content by searching the content for repeating segments, and bookmarking segments that substantially duplicate other segments as being either songs (if longer than about two minutes) or commercials (if shorter than about two minutes). Repeating duplicate segments are identified by using a Haar wavelet transform to identification values that are placed in a searchable database for comparison with identification values representative of other content. Bookmarking records are used to identify repeating segments.

US Patent:

20120117033, May 10, 2012

Filed:

Dec 21, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/975035

Inventors:

Chandrashekhar Madhukar Vaidya - Sugar Land TX, US
Russel Bruce McDonald - Pflugerville TX, US
Brett Derek Hawton - Alamo CA, US

Assignee:

BBS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - Houston TX

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707679, 707E17007

Abstract:

Some embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for performing a near-instantaneous restore of a database. During operation, the system intercepts a database management system restore request to restore a database from a backup file to a data file, wherein the backup file comprises a first number (e.g., N) of data pages. Next, in response to intercepting the database management system restore request, the system sends information to the database management system indicating that the backup file comprises a second number (e.g., N) of data pages, wherein the second number of data pages is less than the first number of data pages (e.g., N