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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Steve Alex Hales, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Steve Alex Hales, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Danger, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method implemented on a data processing device is described comprising: generating supplemental data defining one or more characteristics of one or more light-emitting diodes ('LEDs') on the data processing device; embedding the supplemental data within a musical instrument digital interface ('MIDI') stream; decoding the supplemental data concurrently with decoding the MIDI stream; and modifying the one or more characteristics of one or more of the LEDs responsive to decoding the supplemental data.