Jared David McNeill

Title: Jared David McNeill: Patents in Digital Television and Video Streaming

Introduction

Jared David McNeill is an inventor associated with Kanata, Canada, and Alcatel Lucent. His work includes inventions related to electronic program guides and the handling of MPEG video packets. His patent portfolio includes 2 patents.

Latest Patents

McNeill’s patent titled “3D Electronic Program Guide” describes a method and apparatus for presenting an electronic program guide within a three-dimensional rendered landscape. Programs appear as vertical blocks organized by channel and time, alongside channel information blocks. Users can navigate through the landscape, while flags highlight programs that match criteria such as a favorite show. Perspective compresses blocks for more distant channels, allowing users to view a broad selection and navigate toward programs of interest.

His patent titled “Facilitating Intelligent Marking and Discarding of MPEG Video Packets in IP Packet Stream” describes a computer-implemented method for creating an IP packet containing MPEG packets. The packet header includes a value computed from bit values in the MPEG packets. Analyzing that value helps determine the packets’ importance to the decoded quality of the video stream.

Career Highlights

McNeill’s listed work connects digital television interfaces with video-stream processing. The electronic program guide invention focuses on making program discovery more navigable, while the packet-processing invention addresses how packet importance can be assessed in relation to video quality.

Collaborations

McNeill is associated with Alcatel Lucent. His listed coworkers include Alistair John Parker and Gino Dion.

Conclusion

Jared David McNeill’s patents address two aspects of digital media: navigating television programming in a three-dimensional guide and evaluating MPEG packets within IP video streams.