Avistar Subsidiary's New Patent Covers Audio and Video Marking for Subsequent Search, Retrieval and Playback; Complements Previous Patents Related to Video Storage Area Network Technology.REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Avistar Communications Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :AVSR (Audio Visual Speech Recognition) Using lip reading software to enhance speech recognition. In noisy environments where a camera can be included, AVSR improves the computer's ability to recognize the speaker's words by visually tracking lip movement and ), a provider of desktop video collaboration platforms, and its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , Collaboration Properties Inc. (CPI (1) (Characters Per Inch) The measurement of the density of characters per inch on tape or paper. A printer's CPI button switches character pitch. (2) (Counts Per I ), today announced that CPI has been granted a new patent related to network and services-based storage of video and associated multimedia applications. This brings to 71 the total number of US and international patents issued to CPI. Patent No. U.S. 7,054,904, issued May 30, 2006 with a 1993 priority date, covers marking and searching of recorded audio and video for subsequent playback of selected portions. The recorded audio and video may come from an audio/video workstation, a studio editing system, or teleconference recording. Searches can be based on elapsed time e·lapsed time n. The measured duration of an event. Noun 1. elapsed time - the time that elapses while some event is occurring , marked tags, audio and temporally associated graphics events such as slide changes in a recorded slide presentation, or events in a graphics animation. "This is yet another important facet of CPI's broad, early dated patent coverage in the stored video applications area," said Dr. Anton F. Rodde, President of Collaboration Properties Inc. "We have also applied for a number of related patents as we look to expand our intellectual property foundation in this area. Our goal is to make available to partners and to Avistar the best possible storage area network technology intellectual property in the rich-media marketplace." Search functionalities covered in CPI's new patent may be contextual, text or time-based and include the ability to mark (or edit markings) and store audio and video from workstations or production studio systems for subsequent search and playback over a communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. . Text and visual data -- including slide presentations, whiteboard sessions and document annotations -- can also be recorded with synchronized audio and video for later search and playback. (For full details of the patent and claims, see www.uspto.gov). Complementary patents previously issued to CPI in this area, include: --U.S. 6,816,904, which covers storage management, playback, and distribution of recorded video (based on capacity and bandwidth constraints) over a networked array of servers and storage disks; --U.S. 6,789,105, which relates to the synchronization of slides, text, and other static media with recorded audio and video streams; --U.S. 5,915,091 and U.S. 5,978,835, where audio and video are recorded at the same time as shared text or graphics. Also included in CPI's extensive portfolio are patents covering the core videoconferencing functionalities and designs embodied in the AvistarVOS(TM) video operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and Avistar's networked video collaboration products See collaborative software. . CPI patents technologies independently and makes its intellectual property available to Avistar and potential partners and licensees through an active licensing program. Inquiries for licensing of this or any other CPI patent may be directed to Stephanie Neutz, Esq., at (650) 610-2900. About Collaboration Properties Incorporated Collaboration Properties, Inc Collaboration Properties, Inc. (CPI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar Communications Corporation. It holds US and foreign patents in the primary areas of presence-based interactions, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, . (CPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar Communications Corporation, holds a current portfolio of 71 patents for inventions in the primary areas of video and network technology. CPI pursues patents for presence-based interactions, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. , and a service-rich video network architecture to support Avistar's product suite and customers. CPI offers licenses to its patent portfolio and Avistar's video-enabling technologies to companies in the video conferencing, rich-media services, public networking, and related industries. Avistar develops, markets, and supports a video collaboration platform for the enterprise, all powered by the AvistarVOS(TM) software. From the desktop, Avistar delivers business-quality video calling, recording, publishing to web and e-mails, video-on-demand, broadcast origination and distribution, and document sharing. Avistar video-enables business processes by integrating visual communications into the daily workflow and connecting communities of users within and across enterprises. Founded in 1993, Avistar is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California Redwood Shores is an upscale and desirable [1] waterfront neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is located on the eastern edge of Belmont, but is actually part of incorporated Redwood City. , with sales offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London. Avistar's technology is used in more than 35 countries. For more information, visit www.avistar.com. Copyright (c) 2006 Avistar Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. Avistar, AvistarVOS, and the Avistar logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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