Patents by Inventor GREGORY S. ORZELL

GREGORY S. ORZELL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Upstream fault detection
    Patent number: 11507488
    Abstract: Techniques are described for detecting faults in media content based on the behavior of users viewing the media content. Embodiments stream a first instance of media content to one or more users. The behavior of the one or more users is monitored while the users are viewing the streaming first instance of media content. Embodiments then determine whether the first instance of media content is faulty, based on the monitored behavior of the one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory S. Orzell, John Funge, David Chen
  • Techniques for assessing the resiliency of a distribution computing service provided by a collection of interacting servers
    Patent number: 9858133
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for validating the resiliency of a networked application made available using a collection of interacting servers. In one embodiment, a network monitoring application observes each running server (or application) and at unspecified intervals, picks one and terminates it. In the case of a cloud based deployment, this may include terminating a virtual machine instance or terminating a process running on the server. By observing the effects of the failed server on the rest of the network application, a provider can ensure that each component can tolerate any single instance disappearing without warning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory S. Orzell, Yury Izrailevsky
  • Upstream Fault Detection
    Publication number: 20170279868
    Abstract: Techniques are described for detecting faults in media content based on the behavior of users viewing the media content. Embodiments stream a first instance of media content to one or more users. The behavior of the one or more users is monitored while the users are viewing the streaming first instance of media content. Embodiments then determine whether the first instance of media content is faulty, based on the monitored behavior of the one or more users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Gregory S. ORZELL, John FUNGE, David CHEN
  • Upstream fault detection
    Patent number: 9680906
    Abstract: Techniques are described for detecting faults in media content based on the behavior of users viewing the media content. Embodiments stream a first instance of media content to one or more users. The behavior of the one or more users is monitored while the users are viewing the streaming first instance of media content. Embodiments then determine whether the first instance of media content is faulty, based on the monitored behavior of the one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory S. Orzell, John Funge, David Chen
  • Upstream fault detection
    Patent number: 8935581
    Abstract: Techniques are described for detecting faults in media content based on the behavior of users viewing the media content. Embodiments stream a first instance of media content to one or more users. The behavior of the one or more users is monitored while the users are viewing the streaming first instance of media content. Embodiments then determine whether the first instance of media content is faulty, based on the monitored behavior of the one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory S. Orzell, John Funge, David Chen
  • UPSTREAM FAULT DETECTION
    Publication number: 20130283112
    Abstract: Techniques are described for detecting faults in media content based on the behavior of users viewing the media content. Embodiments stream a first instance of media content to one or more users. The behavior of the one or more users is monitored while the users are viewing the streaming first instance of media content. Embodiments then determine whether the first instance of media content is faulty, based on the monitored behavior of the one or more users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: NETFLIX INC.
    Inventors: Gregory S. ORZELL, John FUNGE, David CHEN
  • VALIDATING THE RESILIENCY OF NETWORKED APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20120072571
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for validating the resiliency of a networked application made available using a collection of interacting servers. In one embodiment, a network monitoring application observes each running server (or application) and at unspecified intervals, picks one and terminates it. In the case of a cloud based deployment, this may include terminating a virtual machine instance or terminating a process running on the server. By observing the effects of the failed server on the rest of the network application, a provider can ensure that each component can tolerate any single instance disappearing without warning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: GREGORY S. ORZELL, Yury Izrailevsky