Ramprakash Masina

TL;DR: In this article, an intelligent gateway device is provided at a premise (home or business) for providing and managing application services associated with use and support of a plurality of digital endpoint devices associated with the premises.

TL;DR: In this paper, a media content manager residing at a user's premises having a tuner coupled to at least one media source operable to selectively receive and convert the media stream to a predetermined data format is defined.

TL;DR: In this article, a wireless device for enabling communication with a gateway device within a user premises is described, which includes a wireless local area network transceiver for bidirectional wireless data communication at the premises, an interface for wired communication, a processor for converting data between the wireless and wired interfaces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a gateway device for operation at a user premises to provide and manage application services provided for endpoint devices associated with the gateway device, including a communications client program to enable client-server communications between the gateway devices and a remote communications server via the wide area network using a presence and networking message protocol.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a system for decreasing the perceived end user latency while interacting with a database, which consists of the database storing metadata associated with one or more of media, files, data, devices and services, a user interface operable to receive a user generated query selected from a plurality of user generated queries, and a processor having a predictive module having a capability to generate at least one background query of a database prior to the user interface receiving the query.