Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Peter Monta

23Patents
15h-index
9Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 26, 1990 → Dec 30, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7039048B1 Headend cherrypicker multiplexer with switched front end Electricity 563 Expired
US6889385B1 Home network for receiving video-on-demand and other requested programs and services Electricity 320 Expired
US7046677B2 Method and apparatus for time-multiplexed processing of multiple digital video programs Electricity 173 Expired
US7089577B1 Process for supplying video-on-demand and other requested programs and services from a headend Electricity 136 Expired
US6857132B1 Head end multiplexer to select and transmit video-on-demand and other requested programs and services Electricity 117 Expired
US6678740B1 Process carried out by a gateway in a home network to receive video-on-demand and other requested programs and services Electricity 107 Expired
US5218435A Digital advanced television systems Electricity 77 Expired
US6996129B2 Advanced, adaptive video multiplexer system Electricity 61 Expired
US7804856B2 Advanced, self-balancing video multiplexer system Electricity 38 Active
US5754733A Method and apparatus for generating and encoding line spectral square roots Physics 27 Expired
US8855189B1 Multi-stream transcoding system with cache memory management Electricity 26 Active
US5485210A Digital advanced television systems Electricity 23 Expired
US8161519B2 Video multiplexer system providing low-latency VCR-like effects and program changes Electricity 19 Active
US7590237B2 Time-multiplexed multi-program encryption system Electricity 18 Active
US7864808B2 Advanced, self-balancing video multiplexer system Electricity 16 Active
US5161006A Method for separating chrominance and luminance components of a television signal Electricity 10 Expired
US7068730B2 Wideband multi-channel quadrature amplitude modulation of cable television signals Electricity 8 Expired
US9451197B1 Cloud-based system using video compression for interactive applications Physics 6 Active
US8856827B1 System for conveying and reproducing images for interactive applications Electricity 5 Active
US7852854B2 Method and apparatus for time-multiplexed processing of multiple digital video programs Electricity 3 Active
US8904426B2 Preconditioning ad content for digital program insertion Electricity 1 Active
US7801213B2 Method and apparatus for modifying a data rate of a video signal Electricity 1 Active
US8937920B2 High capacity network communication link using multiple cellular devices Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.