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EP0744731
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| EP0744731 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing video and graphics data in a multimedia display system including a shared frame buffer [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 01.09.2000 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 01.09.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 18.10.2000 [2000/42] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation New Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10504 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/48] | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation Old Orchard Road Armonk, N.Y. 10504 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Lee, William Robert 1224 Teaberry Court Apex, NC 27502 / US | 02 /
Rumph, Darryl Jonathan 107 N. Woodshed Court Cary, NC 27513 / US | [1996/48] | Representative(s) | de Pena, Alain, et al Compagnie IBM France Département de la Propriété Intellectuelle 06610 La Gaude / FR | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/12] | de Pena, Alain, et al Compagnie IBM France Département de Propriété Intellectuelle 06610 La Gaude / FR | ||
| Former [1996/48] | Lattard, Nicole Compagnie IBM France Département de Propriété Intellectuelle 06610 La Gaude / FR | Application number, filing date | 96480044.5 | 23.04.1996 | [1996/48] | Priority number, date | US19950449047 | 24.05.1995 Original published format: US 449047 | [1996/48] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0744731 | Date: | 27.11.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/48] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0744731 | Date: | 14.01.1998 | [1998/03] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0744731 | Date: | 03.11.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/44] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 27.11.1997 | Classification | IPC: | G09G5/12 | [1996/48] | CPC: |
G09G5/12 (EP,US);
H04N5/04 (KR);
G09G2340/125 (EP,US);
H04N5/073 (EP,US);
H04N9/641 (EP,US);
Y10S715/972 (US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1996/48] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Einrichtung zur Synchronisierung von Videodaten und graphischen Daten in einem Multimediaanzeigesystem mit einem gemeinsamen Rasterpufferspeicher | [1996/48] | English: | Method and apparatus for synchronizing video and graphics data in a multimedia display system including a shared frame buffer | [1996/48] | French: | Méthode et dispositif de synchronisation de données vidéo et de données graphiques dans un système d'affichage multimédia utilisant un tampon de trame partagé | [1996/48] | Examination procedure | 25.03.1997 | Examination requested [1997/22] | 04.05.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 10.09.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.12.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 04.05.1999 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 20.05.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 20.05.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 04.08.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/42] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 21.04.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 20.04.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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