Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Mark S. Schmidt

46Patents
14h-index
54Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 17, 1995 → Oct 27, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6863217B2 Automatic range adjustment techniques for stand-mountable bar code scanners Physics 153 Expired
US6637655B1 Automatic range adjustment techniques for stand-mountable bar code scanners Physics 137 Expired
US5771239A Method and apparatus for modifying a transport packet stream to provide concatenated synchronization bytes at interleaver output Electricity 117 Expired
US5909454A Intermediate rate applications of punctured convolutional codes for 8PSK trellis modulation over satellite channels Electricity 57 Expired
US7578442B2 Method of and apparatus for identifying consumer products in a retail environment when bar code symbols on the products are not readable or have been removed from packaging Physics 32 Active
US9420023B2 Managing adaptive streaming of data via a communication connection Electricity 28 Active
US7753269B2 POS-based code driven retail transaction system configured to enable the reading of code symbols on cashier and customer sides thereof, during a retail transaction being carried out at a point-of-sale (POS) station, and driven by a retail transaction application program Physics 24 Active
US7555696B2 Method and apparatus for forward error correction in a content distribution system Electricity 24 Active
USD637403S1 Lint roller handle General 23 Expired
US7451361B2 Method and apparatus for forward error correction in a content distribution system Electricity 18 Active
US7831887B2 Method and apparatus for using long forward error correcting codes in a content distribution system Electricity 16 Active
US7167528B2 Modulation system for modulating data onto a carrier signal with offsets to compensate for doppler effect and allow a frequency synthesizing system to make steps equal to channel bandwidth Electricity 16 Expired
US10044466B2 Server-side adaptive bit rate control for DLNA HTTP streaming clients Electricity 15 Active
US7841524B2 POS-based checkout system configured to enable the reading of code symbols on cashier and customer sides thereof, during a retail transaction being carried out at a point-of-sale (POS) station Physics 14 Active
US8910229B2 Methods and devices for efficient adaptive bitrate streaming Electricity 13 Active
US9769235B2 Server side adaptive bit rate control for HTTP streaming clients Electricity 10 Active
US6842934B1 Adhesive roller Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US7600689B2 Tunnel-based object identification and dimensioning system Electricity 10 Active
US8874634B2 Managing adaptive streaming of data via a communication connection Electricity 8 Active
US7673803B2 Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based engine Physics 6 Active
US9191725B2 Method and apparatus for streaming video Electricity 6 Active
US7819326B2 Network of digital image capturing systems installed at retail POS-based stations and serviced by a remote image processing server in communication therewith Physics 6 Active
US6874690B2 Modular omnidirectional bar code symbol scanning system with at least one service port for removable installation of scan module insert Physics 5 Expired
US6978935B2 PLANAR LIGHT ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED SYSTEM HAVING A LINEAR IMAGE DETECTION CHIP MOUNTING ASSEMBLY WITH MEANS FOR PREVENTING MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE FIELD OF VIEW (FOV) OF SAID LINEAR IMAGE DETECTION CHIP AND THE CO-PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM (PLIB) PRODUCED BY SAID PLIIM BASED SYSTEM, IN RESPONSE TO THERMAL EXPANSION AND/OR CONTRACTION WITHIN SAID PLIIM BASED SYSTEM Electricity 5 Expired
US7600286B2 Lint roller assembly Human Necessities 4 Active

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