Oracle International Corporation

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Adaptive Media Technologies

Iengineer.com, Inc.

Timothy J Burr

Jeyendran Balakrishnan

Kowsik Guruswamy

Devendra Kalra

Karnamadakala Krishnamohan

Venkatasubbarao Ramamoorthy

The present invention provides an apparatus and method for encoding, storing, transmitting and decoding multimedia information in the form of scalable, streamed digital data. A base stream containing basic informational content and subsequent streams containing additive informational content are initially created from standard digital multimedia data by a transcoder. Client computers, each of which may have different configurations and capabilities are capable of accessing a stream server that contains the scalable streamed digital data. Each different client computer, therefore, may access different stream combinations according to a profile associated with each different client computer. Thus, the streams accessed from the server are tailored to match the profile of each client computer so that the best combination of streams can be provided to maximize the resolution of the 3D, audio and video components.

Method and apparatus for storing base and additive streams of video

A power cord coupling device comprising: a compressible base with a first end and a second end, and the second end is threaded; a threaded cap, configured to thread onto the second end of the compressible base; and where compressible base is configured to compress about a coupled plug and receptacle located within the compressible base upon a tightening of the threaded cap onto the second end of the compressible base. A power cord coupling device comprising: an inner compressible member of a first length, the inner compressible member comprising: a plug-receptacle volume located within the inner compressible member; an inner slot extending along the first length; a first end with a first end slot that is contiguous with the inner slot; a second end, the second end being generally opened; an inner set of teeth located on an outer surface of the inner compressible member; an outer member of a second length, removeably attachable to the inner compressible member; the outer member comprising: an outer slot extending along the second length; a first end, the first end being generally opened; a second end with a second end slot that is contiguous with the inner slot; an outer set of teeth located on an inner surface of the outer member, the outer set of teeth configured to mesh with the inner set of teeth to hold the inner compressible member within the outer member. To be completed upon approval of claim scope.

Power cord coupling device

Method and apparatus that provides a scalable media delivery system

A method and apparatus that provides for off-line generation of, and run-time evaluation for, continuous LODs. The off-line multiresolution generation process is modified and constrained such that a progressive mesh representation for continuous LODs is created that allows properly designed run-time topological data structures to be overloaded to support both LOD construction and optimized rendering. More specifically, the offline generation process initially preprocesses the mesh to generate a triangle-fan covering composed of only complete cycles. The multiresolution generation process is then constrained to maintain this complete cycle covering for every interim mesh. For run-time evaluation, a topological adjacency representation is used that can serve dual uses. This supportive run-time representation is partitioned so as to allow efficient access by the renderer to the subset of the adjacency information that is the fan covering. The multiresolution representation can be generated so as to allow discontinuities to be rendered at some cost to rendering performance.

Method and apparatus for providing continuous level of detail

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Timothy J Burr