Timothy L Elliott

US Patent:

7577973, Aug 18, 2009

Filed:

May 31, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/872197

Inventors:

Timothy J. Elliott - Fullerton CA, US
Peter Jay Schwartz - Fullerton CA, US

Assignee:

Keen Personal Media, Inc. - Lake Forest CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 13/00
H04N 5/445

US Classification:

725 44, 725 39, 725 46, 725 47, 725 52, 715716

Abstract:

A client terminal providing an on-screen program guide that allows a user to easily navigate through program guide information within a pop-up for different programs on a selected channel. A head end provides program guide information (PGI) to the client terminal. The PGI includes first program data (FPD) associated with a first program and second program data (SPD) associated with a second program. The client terminal includes a terminal controller responsive to an on-screen display control program that causes: the display of channel identifiers, the selection of one of the channel identifiers in response to a first input, and the display of a pop-up for the selected channel identifier. The pop-up displays the FPD associated with the first program in response to the first input. In response to a second input, the pop-up displays the SPD associated with the second program.

US Patent:

20090193479, Jul 30, 2009

Filed:

Jan 30, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/022792

Inventors:

Jeffery Andrew Briller - Sherman Oaks CA, US
William Pat Price - Rhome TX, US
Timothy Elliott - Huntington Beach CA, US

Assignee:

VIZIO - Irvine CA

International Classification:

H04N 7/173

US Classification:

725109

Abstract:

Digital content contained on physical media rented to a customer who fails to return said media once the rental term has expired. Date information encoded onto the media or encoded within the content is used to determine that the rental period has expired. If the media containing the expired content is residing in a media player, the user is notified through a plurality of notification schemes. Customers of expired digital content can also be notified if the media player is connected to the internet even if the media containing the content is not currently residing in the media player. This invention solves several problems currently effecting content rental services and allows the rental services to conserve costs normally associated with notifying customers that their rental has expired.

US Patent:

59461578, Aug 31, 1999

Filed:

Jul 21, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/895248

Inventors:

Raffi Codilian - San Dimas CA
Timothy Elliott - Huntington Beach CA
Ara W. Nazarian - Tustin CA
Brian Tanner - San Jose CA

Assignee:

Western Digital Corporation - Irvine CA

International Classification:

G11B 502

US Classification:

360 75

Abstract:

The invention relates generally to rotating magnetic storage disk drive and, more particularly, to a method of seamlessly recording circumferentially overlapping servo bursts on a magnetic disk with successive passes of a write head that is guided by a servo track writer wherein the servo bursts are contained in at least two servo burst groups that each have at least one circumferential burst position which may contain a servo burst. The method comprises the steps of turning a write current ON while passing the write head over a current ramp region that does not contain servo data and is located in front of an "active" servo burst group that will be modified on this pass, modifying a servo burst in at least one circumferential position of the active servo burst group with the write current ON; turning the write current OFF while passing the write head over a current ramp region that does not contain servo data and is located in front of a "passive" servo burst group that will not be modified on this pass; and skipping over at least one circumferential burst position of the passive servo burst group with the write current OFF.

US Patent:

60915641, Jul 18, 2000

Filed:

Apr 30, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/071390

Inventors:

Raffi Codilian - San Dimas CA
Timothy Elliott - Fountain Valley CA

Assignee:

Western Digital Corporation - Irvine CA

International Classification:

G11B 2102

US Classification:

360 75

Abstract:

A disk drive with a disk having a servo pattern including a special "calibration track" wherein a plurality of calibration burst pairs are recorded on a spiral centerline to define null points that are radially shifted from a burst pair centerline by precise, predefined or subsequently measured, fractional track amounts to collectively provide accurate information about servo signal values generated as a function of real displacement. The calibration burst pairs beneficially allow for calibrating the PES signal after the drive is removed from the servowriter during a manufacturing phase called Intelligent Burn-In. The calibration bursts are recorded on a spiral to reduce the recording time and are preferably written in data regions so that they are disposable and may be selectively written over with data to maximize storage space. Some or all of the calibration burst pairs may be retained for a subsequent recalibration.