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Consulting
Activities
OpenCable™
Project Participation
| Evaluated
the entire OpenCable system end-to-end. Identified gaps and recommended
solutions.
| Identified,
proposed and helped implement strategies to align the business interests of
key vendors with project goals.
| Drive
overall system architecture and specifications.
| Work
with key vendors to review, analyze, and propose responses to schedule
issues for retail availability deliverables.
| Contribute
to strategy and lead technical specification of copy protection for the
OpenCable system.
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Enhancement of the 8-VSB Television
Broadcast Standard.
| Worked
with NxtWave engineers and management to craft an effective proposal from
their industry leading technology for enhancing the “8-VSB” Digital TV
broadcast standard.
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co-author and principal editor Jeff led the drafting effort while
contributing to the proposal’s structure, text and graphics.
| Proposal
received an enthusiastic response and was the most complete and detailed
submission to the ATSC T3/S9 committee (charged with rewriting the DTV
standard).
| Worked
with NxtWave and Zenith on the successful merging of their two proposals.
| Enhanced
system prototypes for the merged system were successfully tested leading to addition of the enhanced-VSB technology to the television transmission standard.
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Standards Participation and
Representation.
| CPTWG,
Copy Protection Technical Working Group, representation and reporting.
| SCTE
Digital Video Subcommittee. Active participant and contributor.
| SCTE
Digital Program Insertion. Contributed to developing this technology which allows flexible and seamless ad
insertion into digital video streams.
| ATSC,
Advanced Television Systems Committee, representation and advocacy.
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Intellectual Property Creation and
Defense
| Expert
Witness work including a major patent suit between Intel and Broadcom.
| Testimony
covers the development of the digital TV compression business.
| Principal
expert on technical details of video compression methods relating to MPEG,
DVI, and their extensive prior art.
| Invention
of new art in digital video origination and manipulation. Patents applied
for.
| Explain
technology in understandable terms to attorneys and legal staff. |
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