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Broadcom Assigned Patent

Broadcom, Corp., Irvine, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,813,136) developed by Kenneth Ma, Cupertino, CA, for “data on demand using a centralized storage device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Herein described is a system and a method of storing and distributing multimedia data selections to the tenants or occupants of a multi-unit building. The multi-unit building may comprise a hotel, motel, office complex, or apartment complex, for example. The storage capacity of the storage device may be easily expanded by way of adding one or more additional HDD drives. The storage device may be conveniently located in a front office or manager’s office of the multi-unit building. The system distributes one or more of the stored multimedia data selections to one or more display devices communicatively coupled to the storage device. Each of the one or more display devices may be located in corresponding units of the multi-unit building. The one or more display devices are used to view the multimedia data selections requested by a tenant or occupant.”

The patent application was filed on Feb. 3, 2005 (11/049,771).

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