Huy Trong Tran, 60Torrance, CA

2009003, Jan 29, 2009

Jul 26, 2007

11/828935

JEFFREY L. SHARKEY - HERMOSA BEACH CA, US
HUY Q. TRAN - WESTMINSTER CA, US

THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC. - EL SEGUNDO CA

G06F 17/30

707 3, 707E17014

A method and system for performing multi-level searches includes a user device and a display associated with the user device. A guide system receives a content provider category for a first content and receives a global guide category different than the content provider category for the first content. A communication network communicates the global guide category and the provider category to the user device. The user device performs a global search and displays on the display the first content in response to the global guide category and displays on the display a provider homepage with the first content displayed under the content provider category.

2009023, Sep 17, 2009

Mar 13, 2008

12/047406

Jeffrey L. Sharkey - Hermosa Beach CA, US
Tam T. Leminh - Cypress CA, US
Alistair E. Jeffs - Los Angeles CA, US
Robert G. Arsenault - Redondo Beach CA, US
Huy Q. Tran - Westminster CA, US
Tommi J. Iten - Redondo Beach CA, US
David Eric Shanks - Los Angeles CA, US
Eric J. Bennett - Los Angeles CA, US

H04N 7/20

725 68

A receiving device and method for operating the same includes a tuner tuned to a first channel having a first program, a memory storing program guide data therein and a controller in communication with the tuner and the memory. The controller determines the first channel is a blacked out channel, searches the program data in the memory for a second program equivalent to the first program, determines a second channel associated with the second program and tunes the tuner device to the second channel.

2012005, Mar 1, 2012

Aug 31, 2011

13/222986

Robert G. Arsenault - Redondo Beach CA, US
Eric J. Bennett - Los Angeles CA, US
Eric H. Chang - Torrance CA, US
Gordon H. Chen - Manhattan Beach CA, US
Kenny C. Chen - Fountain Valley CA, US
Justin T. Dick - Salt Lake City UT, US
Flemming R. Hansen - Los Angeles CA, US
Yoonjung Kim - Los Angeles CA, US
Peter Leong - Redondo Beach CA, US
Andrew J. Schneider - Irvine CA, US
Jeffrey L. Sharkey - Hermosa Beach CA, US
Marcin Spatzier - Los Angeles CA, US
Huy Q. Tran - Westminster CA, US
Melissa H. Tullues - Culver City CA, US
Leo Wu - Irvine CA, US

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. - El Segundo CA

G06F 17/30

707755, 707E17058

A system and method for searching for content in a user device includes a receiver receiving a plurality of data objects. The user device includes a search module comprising a parsing module parsing search data from the plurality of data objects and a memory interface module storing search data within a memory of the user device. The search module comprises a search performance module searching the search data in response to a search query. The search module comprises a search results module generating search results from the search data. The user device is associated with a display that displays the search results.

2012016, Jun 28, 2012

Dec 20, 2011

13/331969

Leo Wu - Irvine CA, US
Diem V. Nguyen - Anaheim CA, US
Huy Q. Tran - Westminster CA, US
Manuel J. Ham - Downey CA, US
Duc V. Tran - Westminster CA, US
Thinh Hoang - Ho Chi Minh City, VN

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. - El Segundo CA

H04N 17/00

348181, 348E17001

A system and method for testing a set top box includes a test manager module in communication with the set top box having a test script including a bitstream. A bitstream player in communication with the test manager module receives the bitstream and communicates the bitstream to the set top box. The test manager module receives a screen image from the set top box that is generated in response to the bitstream. An optical character recognition module performs optical character recognition to obtain a test text string from the screen image. The test manager module compares the test text string with an expected text string. A report module generates a report in response to comparing.

2013012, May 16, 2013

Nov 10, 2011

13/294146

Leyland Needham - El Segundo CA, US
Andrew J. Schneider - Irvine CA, US
Justin T. Dick - Salt Lake City UT, US
Huy Q. Tran - Westminster CA, US

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. - El Segundo CA

G06T 11/20

345582

A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to a destination rectangle in the frame buffer that is displayed on the screen.

2013012, May 16, 2013

Nov 10, 2011

13/294139

Justin T. Dick - Salt Lake City UT, US
Andrew J. Schneider - Irvine CA, US
Huy Q. Tran - Westminster CA, US

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. - El Segundo CA

G09G 5/00
H04N 5/00

348607, 348E05001

Text is rendered to a television screen using only the alpha channel. This is accomplished by delaying blending with underlying video until the end of the process to thereby preserve the alpha channel information. Glyphs are used to graphically represent character data in the text to be rendered. Glyphs can be stored in a character texture. In addition, the glyphs can be contained in rectangles having identifiable locations in the character texture. The rectangles can have sizes dependent upon the glyph the rectangle contains.

2018031, Nov 1, 2018

Jul 9, 2018

16/029782

- El Segundo CA, US
Huy Q. Tran - Westminster CA, US
Flemming R. Hansen - Los Angeles CA, US
Peter Leong - Mountain View CA, US
Eric H. Chang - Torrance CA, US
Gordon H. Chen - Manhattan Beach CA, US

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. - El Segundo CA

G06F 3/00

A system and method for operating system includes a first user device, a second user device, and a first device having a controller and a first database storing a first data object of a first type of data associated therewith and a second database storing a second data object of a second type of data associated therewith different than the first type of data. The second database is accessible separately from and simultaneously with the first database. The second data object forms a second portion of a display. The controller has an application interface selecting a selected database from the first, second database or both and separately and simultaneously accessing the first and second database based on the first user input command and the second user input command to obtain stored data and separately and simultaneously communicating stored data to the first user device and to the second user device.

2015035, Dec 10, 2015

Jun 5, 2015

14/732103

- Los Angeles CA, US
Amir Atighehchi - Los Angeles CA, US
Owen Zheng - Los Angeles CA, US
Huy Tran - Los Angeles CA, US
Jazzmin Martinez - Los Angeles CA, US

F16B 41/00

A tamper-resistant fastener such as a nut for a bicycle has a smoothly rounded generally dome-shaped body and one or more recesses formed into the body. Each recess has a first and open ended portion which is bounded on radially inward side but not on the radially outward side, and a second and closed ended portion which is bounded on both the radially inward side and the radially outward side. Additionally, each recess can have an additional notch formed therein, the recess and notch together forming a major and minor recess. A wall which bounds the radially inward side of the recess decreases in radial distance from the central axis of the nut as the recess proceeds in the circumferential direction. A mating wrench has teeth that match the recesses and, if present, the notches.