Patents by Inventor Nathan Allan Rickey

Nathan Allan Rickey 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).

  • Video pause indication in video telephony
    Patent number: 9398253
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to video telephony and, more particularly, to techniques for detecting a video pause in a video telephony application. In one example of the disclosure, a method for video telephony comprises detecting, at a receiving device, that video data packets associated with a video telephony call have stopped arriving from a sending device, and determining that the sending device has paused a video portion of the video telephony call based on information contained in video control packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien-Hsin Lee, Min Wang, Radhika Agrawal, Vikram Singh, Nathan Allan Rickey
  • VIDEO PAUSE INDICATION IN VIDEO TELEPHONY
    Publication number: 20150029303
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to video telephony and, more particularly, to techniques for detecting a video pause in a video telephony application. In one example of the disclosure, a method for video telephony comprises detecting, at a receiving device, that video data packets associated with a video telephony call have stopped arriving from a sending device, and determining that the sending device has paused a video portion of the video telephony call based on information contained in video control packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tien-Hsin Lee, Min Wang, Radhika Agrawal, Vikram Singh, Nathan Allan Rickey