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Dirk Adolph — 39 Patents

TLThomson Licensing: 34 patents #40 of 2,575Top 2%
DGDeutsche Thomson-Brandt Gmbh: 5 patents #51 of 329Top 20%
Ronnenberg, DE: #3 of 65 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
Dirk Adolph has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at Thomson Licensing. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in January 2017. Dirk Adolph ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Dirk Adolph in Ronnenberg, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2008.peak 51998: 2 patents19981999: 2 patents2000: 1 patents20002002: 3 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 5 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 2 patents2017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9557888 Method for representing animated menu buttons Jobst Hörentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Harald Schiller, Hui Li 2017-01-31
9183886 Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data Harald Schiller, Jobst Hoerentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Hartmut Peters 2015-11-10
8990694 Method for representing animated menu buttons Jobst Hörentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Harald Schiller, Hui Li 2015-03-24
8902314 Transcoding MPEG bittstreams for adding sub-picture content Ralf Ostermann 2014-12-02
8867890 Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data Harald Schiller, Jobst Hörentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Hartmut Peters 2014-10-21
8792771 Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data Harald Schiller, Jobst Hoerentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Hartmut Peters 2014-07-29
8792770 Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data Harald Schiller, Jobst Hoerentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Hartmut Peters 2014-07-29
8387091 Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data Harald Schiller, Jobst Hörentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Hartmut Peters 2013-02-26
8381254 Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data Harald Schiller, Jobst Hörentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Hartmut Peters 2013-02-19
8326125 Method and device for linking multimedia data Hui Li, Meinolf Blawat, Jobst Hörentrup, Uwe Janssen, Wolfgang Klausberger +6 more 2012-12-04
8028096 Method for using the hand-held device in a multimedia home network Thomas Brune, Axel Kochale, Andrei Chevtsov 2011-09-27
7934195 Method for controlling the propagation of metadata items Harald Schiller, Jobst Hörentrup, Wolfgang Klausberger, Axel Kochale, Marco Winter 2011-04-26
7924916 Method and apparatus for decoding encoded groups of pictures of a video sequence and presenting said video sequence and said groups of pictures in temporally backward direction Carsten Herpel, Jobst Hörentrup, Uwe Janssen, Ralf Ostermann, Hartmut Peters +2 more 2011-04-12
7852411 Method and apparatus for composition of subtitles Jobst Hörentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Hartmut Peters, Harald Schiller 2010-12-14 $24,000
7715685 Recording media maintenance support Stefan Kubsch, Marco Winter, Meinolf Blawat, Hui Li, Harald Schiller +6 more 2010-05-11 $93,000
7653882 Method for representing animated menu buttons Jobst Hörentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Harald Schiller, Hui Li 2010-01-26 $211,000
7653284 Method and apparatus for editing a data stream Uwe Janssen, Hui Li, Harald Schiller, Marco Winter 2010-01-26 $211,000
7634174 Method data recorder for recording data packet timestamps Wolfgang Klausberger, Hui Li, Ralf Ostermann 2009-12-15 $290,000
7565064 Method and device for updating a local copy of metadata Stefan Kubsch, Hui Li, Harald Schiller, Wolfgang Klausberger 2009-07-21 $200,000
7409409 Method for editing a recorded stream of application packets, and corresponding stream recorder Wolfgang Klausberger, Hui Li, Ralf Ostermann 2008-08-05 $298,000
7395318 Method for communication between nodes in peer-to peer networks using common group label Meinolf Blawat, Dietmar Hepper, Stefan Kubsch, Wolfgang Klausberger 2008-07-01 $834,000
7382964 Digital video recorder and methods for digital recording Stefan Kubsch, Marco Winter 2008-06-03 $381,000
7359917 Method and apparatus for automatic detection of data types for data type dependent processing Marco Winter, Jobst Hörentrup 2008-04-15 $321,000
7317866 Reproducing a digital datastream containing program information for trick mode display Ralf Ostermann 2008-01-08 $491,000
7302167 Method for recording or reproduction of sub-picture data accompanying video signals corresponding apparatus signal and data carrier Marco Winter 2007-11-27 $566,000