ReQuest, the company whose leadership in the audio and video server market for high-end music, home-theater, and whole-house music systems is well established, has been granted a U.S. patent for its acclaimed NetSync(TM) technology. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted ReQuest, Inc. patent no. 09/884,661 which covers the synchronization of media including audio, video, and digital photos from a central media server to additional media servers and portable devices over a LAN or the Internet, via wired or wireless communications. The patent was filed on June 19th, 2001, which predates by several months Apple Computer’s original introduction of its popular iPod(TM).
NetSync is ReQuest’s proprietary, key enabling technology that allows its music servers and other audio-video component designs to share and exchange audio-video entertainment, setup and operations data, and to interact under the control of external "clients" including personal computers and personal wireless devices.
This patent underscores ReQuest’s unique innovations in providing consumers and businesses alike the ability to automatically synchronize entire media collections between different devices, whether in different rooms via the home’s local network, or in different homes or even on different continents over the Internet. Today, that technology is expanded with support of synchronizing content and playlists directly from Apple Computer’s very popular iTunes(TM) software, to ReQuest servers in the same home as well as vacation homes.
"We’re very happy to have received our NetSync patent," says company CEO Peter Cholnoky, "And we look upon this as an important milestone for our company. The patent validates ReQuest’s place as an innovator in home entertainment overall, and we look forward to actively marketing our technology to third-party providers and marketers of media devices and solutions, offering the opportunity to leverage our technology to add sharing and syncing of music, playlists, and movies or videos, to their own designs."
