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Robert O. Eifrig — 28 Patents

GIGeneral Instrument: 15 patents #24 of 950Top 3%
AEArris Enterprises: 5 patents #205 of 1,262Top 20%
ATAkamai Technologies: 2 patents #231 of 429Top 55%
Motorola Mobility: 1 patents #1,445 of 2,103Top 70%
Tektronix: 1 patents #823 of 1,698Top 50%
Motorola: 1 patents #10,965 of 14,142Top 80%
San Jose, CA: #2,229 of 32,062 inventorsTop 7%
California: #19,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Robert O. Eifrig has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Instrument. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in September 2021. Robert O. Eifrig ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Robert O. Eifrig in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1999.peak 41997: 1 patents19971999: 4 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 3 patents2006: 1 patents20062010: 1 patents2013: 4 patents20132014: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 1 patents20182020: 2 patents2021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11128881 Personal video recorder Mandayam Narasimhan 2021-09-21
10687106 System and method for distributed control of segmented media Dariush Afshar, Scott B. Steele 2020-06-16
10674173 Personal video recorder Mandayam Narasimhan 2020-06-02
9961359 Personal video recorder Mandayam Narasimhan 2018-05-01 $6,199,000
9609049 Frame-rate conversion in a distributed computing system Kourosh Soroushian, Nikolay Topilski 2017-03-28 $34,970,000
9582157 User interface and program guide for a multi-program video viewing apparatus Chanchal Chatterjee 2017-02-28
9549179 Personal video recorder Mandayam Narasimhan 2017-01-17 $13,411,000
9485456 Frame-rate conversion in a distributed computing system Kourosh Soroushian, Nikolay Topilski 2016-11-01 $51,107,000
9374577 Method and apparatus for selecting a coding mode Limin Wang, Yue Yu, Jian Zhou, David M. Baylon, Krit Panusopone +2 more 2016-06-21 $8,977,000
8908765 Method and apparatus for performing motion estimation Krit Panusopone, Chanchal Chatterjee, Ajay Luthra, Limin Wang 2014-12-09
8582652 Method and apparatus for selecting a coding mode Limin Wang, Yue Yu, Jian Zhou, David M. Baylon, Krit Panusopone +2 more 2013-11-12
8526489 Personal video recorder Mandayam Narasimhan 2013-09-03
8503541 Method and apparatus for determining timing information from a bit stream Mandayam Narasimhan 2013-08-06 $4,109,000
8351514 Method, protocol, and apparatus for transporting advanced video coding content Mandayam Narasimhan 2013-01-08
7840119 Methods and apparatus for processing progressive I-slice refreshed MPEG data streams to enable trick play mode features on a display device Walter H. Anderes, Bridget Kimball, Paul D. Baker 2010-11-23
7020198 Rate control for an MPEG transcoder without a priori knowledge picture type Limin Wang, Ajay Luthra 2006-03-28
RE38563 Prediction and coding of bi-directionally predicted video object planes for interlaced digital video Xuemin Chen, Ajay Luthra 2004-08-10
RE38564 Motion estimation and compensation of video object planes for interlaced digital video Xuemin Chen, Ajay Luthra 2004-08-10
6748020 Transcoder-multiplexer (transmux) software architecture Fan Ling, Xuemin Chen 2004-06-08
6570922 Rate control for an MPEG transcoder without a priori knowledge of picture type Limin Wang, Ajay Luthra 2003-05-27
6289129 Video rate buffer for use with push dataflow Xuemin Chen 2001-09-11
6259741 Method of architecture for converting MPEG-2 4:2:2-profile bitstreams into main-profile bitstreams Xuemin Chen, Limin Wang, Ajay Luthra 2001-07-10
6026195 Motion estimation and compensation of video object planes for interlaced digital video Xuemin Chen, Ajay Luthra 2000-02-15
6005980 Motion estimation and compensation of video object planes for interlaced digital video Xuemin Chen, Ajay Luthra 1999-12-21 $171,235,000
5995151 Bit rate control mechanism for digital image and video data compression Thumpudi Naveen, Ali Tabatabai 1999-11-30 $7,815,000