Divx, LLC

Bitvore Corporation

Qualcomm Incorporated

Sonic Ip, Inc.

Brian T Fudge

Carl Mandel

Jason A Braness

Eric William Grab

Adam H Li

Michael John Floyd

Damien Chavarria

Heather Hitchcock

Jerome Rota

Jerald Donaldson

David Mandel

Lew Roth

Abou Ul Aala Ahsan

Stephen R Bramwell

Kadayam S Thyagarajan

Kevin Watters

Eric Carl Rosen

Ann Chris Irvine

Senthil Kumar Govindaswamy

Gregory Alan Bolcer

Steve R Bramwell

Gerry Deckert

Christopher Durham

Timothy Sayre

Benjamin Cote

Darrius Nguyen Thompson

Alastair Mayo

Roland Osborne

Mayur Srinivasan

Aaron Robinson

Lewis Roth

Alexander Van Zoest

Jack Berkowitz

Kevin Fry

Abou Ui Aala Ahsan

Ahsan Butt

Abou Ul Aala Ahsan Butt

Sander Van Zoest

Heather Hitchcook

The system provides a method and apparatus for sorting and displaying information from a BBS. The system provides a method of sorting and presenting messages from a BBS in a way so that the relationship in message threads can be easily observed and related messages can be identified. The system provides a way to view messages and map message threads in two and three dimensions so that the content of messages can be easily reviewed and the relationship between messages can be seen and followed. The system allows a user to enter into a message thread at any point and to then produce a visualization of the related threads and messages associated with each individual message. The system provides interfaces for either a linear or threaded BBS or even a hybrid BBS that is some combination of linear and threaded.

Bulletin board data mapping and presentation

A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, a complete index that can be used to locate each data chunk in each of these tracks and an abridged index that can enable the location of a subset of the data chunks in each track, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and 'meta data' concerning the contents of the file. Multimedia files in accordance with several embodiments of the present invention also include references to video tracks, audio tracks, subtitle tracks and 'meta data' external to the file.

Multimedia distribution system

A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, a complete index that can be used to locate each data chunk in each of these tracks and an abridged index that can enable the location of a subset of the data chunks in each track, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and 'meta data' concerning the contents of the file. Multimedia files in accordance with several embodiments of the present invention also include references to video tracks, audio tracks, subtitle tracks and 'meta data' external to the file. One embodiment of a multimedia file in accordance with the present invention includes a series of encoded video frames, a first index that includes information indicative of the location within the file and characteristics of each encoded video frame and a separate second index that includes information indicative of the location within the file of a subset of the encoded video frames.

A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and 'meta data' concerning the contents of the file. Multimedia files in accordance with several embodiments of the present invention also include references to video tracks, audio tracks, subtitle tracks and 'meta data' external to the file. One embodiment of a multimedia file in accordance with the present invention includes a series of encoded video frames and encoded menu information.

Multimedia distribution system for multimedia files with packed frames

Multimedia distribution system for multimedia files with interleaved media chunks of varying types

The system provides a method of sorting and presenting messages in a way so that the relationship in message threads can be easily observed and related messages can be identified. The system provides a way to view messages and map message threads and inboxes in two and three dimensions so that the content of messages can be easily reviewed and the relationship between messages can be seen and followed. The system is not limited to email messages but can present the relationship between multiple types of communications including emails, instant messages, texts, tweets, bulletin boards, wikis, blogs, voice conversations postings on social networks and other types of communications. In addition, the system allows for the inclusion of transactional information, including financial transactions, physical movement, asset deployment, or other acts or activities that may be related to, or independent of, the communications.

Relational presentation of communications and application for transaction analysis

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Brian T Fudge