Don Ryan

Don Ryan

New York City Metropolitan Area
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Accomplished executive with 25+ years of experience building successful businesses…

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Education

  • Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management Graphic

    Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  • Specialized in Computer Engineering program which combined elements of computer science and electrical engineering with a focus on microelectronics, electrical circuits and devices, networks, communications systems, computer architecture, hardware design and systems analysis. Projects included robotics, neural networks and control systems.

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Junior Achievement of New Jersey Graphic

    State Board of Directors

    Junior Achievement of New Jersey

    - 2 years

    Economic Empowerment

    Junior Achievement (JA) is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating young people about business, economics and free enterprise, reaching over 4 million students per year worldwide.

  • Member Role Model Program

    HISPA

    - 2 years

    Economic Empowerment

    HISPA is a NJ-based non-profit dedicated to inspiring Hispanic students to higher academic performance and achievement.

  • Junior Achievement of New Jersey Graphic

    Volunteer Instructor

    Junior Achievement of New Jersey

    - 3 years

    Economic Empowerment

    Taught 7th-12th grade students to build critical personal finance and entrepreneurial skills through classroom instruction and experiential, real-life simulations including JA Finance Park, JA Economics for Success, JA Global Marketplace, JA Economics and the 12-week JA Company Program.

  • Junior Achievement of New York Graphic

    Business Plan Competition Judge

    Junior Achievement of New York

    - 2 years

    Economic Empowerment

    225 teams of New York City and Long Island high school students work for six weeks under the direction of corporate volunteers to conceive and plan new business ideas then participate in increasingly competitive rounds of judging by a panel of experienced business executives and entrepreneurs.

Patents

  • XML-based template language for devices and services

    Issued US 6910068

    A universal plug and play (UPnP) device makes itself known through a set of processes-discovery, description, control, eventing, and presentation. Following discovery of a UPnP device, an entity can learn more about the device and its capabilities by retrieving the device's description. The description includes vendor-specific manufacturer information like the model name and number, serial number, manufacturer name, URLs to vendor-specific Web sites, etc. The description also includes a list of…

    A universal plug and play (UPnP) device makes itself known through a set of processes-discovery, description, control, eventing, and presentation. Following discovery of a UPnP device, an entity can learn more about the device and its capabilities by retrieving the device's description. The description includes vendor-specific manufacturer information like the model name and number, serial number, manufacturer name, URLs to vendor-specific Web sites, etc. The description also includes a list of any embedded devices or services, as well as URLs for control, eventing, and presentation. The description is written by a vendor, and is usually based on a device template produced by a UPnP forum working committee. The template is derived from a template language that is used to define elements to describe the device and any services supported by the device. The template language is written using an XML-based syntax that organizes and structures the elements.

    Other inventors
    • Amar Gandhi
    • Ye Gu
    • Shyamalan Pather
    • Jeffrey Schlimmer
    • Christopher Rude
    • Daniel Weisman
    • Paul Leach
    • Ting Cai
    • Peter Ford

  • Multimedia communications software with network streaming and multi-format conferencing

    Issued US 6839734

    Computers, particularly personal computers, have become everyday communications devices, nearly as common as telephones and televisions. A big reason for this is the expansion of computer networks, such as the Internet, which allow sending and receiving information, including audio and video information, from one computer to one or more other computers. Communicating audio and video information between computers can be problematic because users have to wait for the information to be fully…

    Computers, particularly personal computers, have become everyday communications devices, nearly as common as telephones and televisions. A big reason for this is the expansion of computer networks, such as the Internet, which allow sending and receiving information, including audio and video information, from one computer to one or more other computers. Communicating audio and video information between computers can be problematic because users have to wait for the information to be fully downloaded before viewing or hearing it and because different computers sometimes communicate using incompatible communications protocols, which prevents comprehension. Accordingly, the inventors devised new methods, software, and computer systems that support interactive data streaming (real-time exchange of multimedia data) and full-duplex communications, for example, network conferencing, using more than one communications protocol.

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  • Computer telephony application programming interface

    Issued US 6343116

    Computer telephony application programming interface is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes at least one call control object and at least one media control object. The call control objects are to initiate and terminate a computer telephony call having a media stream. The media control objects are to end-point the media stream of the computer telephony call. In a further embodiment, there is also a media control manager to instantiate a media control object for each multimedia device…

    Computer telephony application programming interface is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes at least one call control object and at least one media control object. The call control objects are to initiate and terminate a computer telephony call having a media stream. The media control objects are to end-point the media stream of the computer telephony call. In a further embodiment, there is also a media control manager to instantiate a media control object for each multimedia device of the system.

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