Hampstead, NH, United States of America

Claudia K Richards

This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent. Top assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.. Active years: 2001.

IDiyas Innovation Intelligence. (2026). Inventor Profile: Claudia K Richards. Retrieved from https://idiyas.com/inventor/claudia-k-richards

Data source: USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) public patent records. Weekly synchronization. How IDiyas builds this profile

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% Patents Active = 100.0

Average Co-Inventor Count = 2.0

ph-index = 1

Forward Citations = 136(Granted Patents)


Company Filing History:


Years Active: 2001

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1 patent (USPTO):Explore Patents

Title: Claudia K. Richards and Bidirectional Digital Video Communication

Introduction

Claudia K. Richards is an inventor associated with Hampstead, New Hampshire. Her patent work addresses bidirectional digital communication between cable subscribers and a cable headend.

Latest Patents

Richards is credited with 1 patent: “System and Method of Bidirectional Digital Video Communication over a Cable.” The invention describes a cable system that enables multiple subscriber Digital Video Home Terminals to communicate with a cable headend over a radio-frequency trunk. The headend calculates and stores a randomized back-off array for each terminal, which uses the array to determine when to send messages. If transmissions risk colliding, a terminal backs off and retries after random intervals until it can send without a collision.

Career Highlights

Richards is associated with Lucent Technologies Inc. Her patent reflects work on coordinating message transmissions across shared cable infrastructure, helping manage communication among multiple subscriber terminals.

Collaborations

Richards’s listed coworker is William M. Buchanan. The available information identifies their professional association but does not specify the nature of their collaboration on the patent.

Conclusion

Claudia K. Richards’s patent describes a randomized back-off approach for reducing message collisions in bidirectional digital video communication over cable networks.

Profile summary based on public USPTO records.
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