Patents by Inventor Padmanabha R. Rao
Padmanabha R. Rao 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).
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Patent number: 10091557Abstract: Systems, processes and devices identify content on the Internet or another network. A media player device receives an identifier that is uniquely associated with a particular media program. The identifier is submitted from the media player device to a registry service accessible via the digital network to thereby locate the particular media program for playback by the media player device or for performing other actions, and a message containing the identifier is initiated and transmitted to a recipient media player device via the digital network to thereby allow the recipient media player device to locate the same particular media program on the digital network using the identifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: SLING MEDIA L.L.C.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Publication number: 20180262818Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing variable-length media clips based upon a received media stream. An exemplary system for providing media clips to users includes a database comprising a list of rules associated with a plurality of programs, as well as a first server and a second server. The first server receives information about a particular program being viewed by a media player and obtains rules from the database for the identified program that are transmitted to the media player. The second server receives a media clip of the particular program being viewed from the media player, wherein the media clip is created at the media player in accordance with the rules corresponding to the program, and subsequently makes the media clip available to the users.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: SLING MEDIA L.L.C.Inventors: Padmanabha R. Rao, Brian J. Griffin, Jason Hirschhorn, Brian Lucas, Sean Curtis, Frank Conway
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Publication number: 20180242033Abstract: Systems, devices and methods automatically select content that is transferred from an encoder to a portable media streaming device for later playback. Security is maintained during the synchronization or transfer process to prevent unauthorized use or copying of the protected content.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: SLING MEDIA L.L.C.Inventors: Dmitry Dimov, Naga Vendata Gnana Meherkanth Vurimi, Padmanabha R. Rao
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Patent number: 10045062Abstract: A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: SLING MEDIA INC.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Publication number: 20180199086Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securely providing a media stream from a server device to a remote player via a communications network. A request for a connection is received from the remote player at the server device via the communications network. In response to the request for the connection, an authorization credential is requested from a central server via the communications network. Further, in response to the authorization credential received from the central server, the media stream between the server device and the remote player can be established over the communications network. At least a portion of the media stream may be encrypted based upon the authorization credential.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: SLING MEDIA L.L.C.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Patent number: 9998802Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing variable-length media clips based upon a received media stream. An exemplary system for providing media clips to users includes a database comprising a list of rules associated with a plurality of programs, as well as a first server and a second server. The first server receives information about a particular program being viewed by a media player and obtains rules from the database for the identified program that are transmitted to the media player. The second server receives a media clip of the particular program being viewed from the media player, wherein the media clip is created at the media player in accordance with the rules corresponding to the program, and subsequently makes the media clip available to the users.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SLING MEDIA LLCInventors: Frank Conway, Sean Curtis, Brian J. Griffin, Jason Hirschhorn, Brian Lucas, Padmanabha R. Rao
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Patent number: 9942587Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securely providing a media stream from a server device to a remote player via a communications network. A request for a connection is received from the remote player at the server device via the communications network. In response to the request for the connection, an authorization credential is requested from a central server via the communications network. Further, in response to the authorization credential received from the central server, the media stream between the server device and the remote player can be established over the communications network. At least a portion of the media stream may be encrypted based upon the authorization credential.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: SLING MEDIA L.L.C.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Publication number: 20180070124Abstract: A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: Sling Media Inc.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Patent number: 9813750Abstract: A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Sling Media Inc.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Publication number: 20170272496Abstract: Systems, methods and devices are described to encode, deliver and playback a placeshifted media stream via the Internet or another network. The media stream is appropriately encoded at a quality level (e.g., at a bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.) that allows content to be delivered faster than it is played back. This sort of “faster than real time” encoding allows the placeshifted media stream to be buffered at the remote device for more effective performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.Inventors: David Randolph Eyler, Padmanabha R. Rao, Raghuveer Tarra, Ilya Asnis
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Publication number: 20170164012Abstract: A system includes a computing device programmed to generate an aggregated media item that includes individual media items from a plurality of inputs. The aggregated media item combines one or more of the individual media items for a common display. The computing device is further programmed to send the aggregated media item to a media device and receive commands from the media device. The commands identify data from the aggregated media content item to be included in a media output item. The computing device is further programmed to generate the media output item based on the aggregated media content item and the commands.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Padmanabha R. Rao, Satish Iyer
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Patent number: 9674257Abstract: Systems, methods and devices are described to encode, deliver and playback a placeshifted media stream via the Internet or another network. The media stream is appropriately encoded at a quality level (e.g., at a bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.) that allows content to be delivered faster than it is played back. This sort of “faster than real time” encoding allows the placeshifted media stream to be buffered at the remote device for more effective performance.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.Inventors: David Randolph Eyler, Padmanabha R. Rao, Raghuveer Tarra, Ilya Asnis
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Publication number: 20170078723Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securely providing a media stream from a server device to a remote player via a communications network. A request for a connection is received from the remote player at the server device via the communications network. In response to the request for the connection, an authorization credential is requested from a central server via the communications network. Further, in response to the authorization credential received from the central server, the media stream between the server device and the remote player can be established over the communications network. At least a portion of the media stream may be encrypted based upon the authorization credential.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Patent number: 9510035Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securely providing a media stream from a server device to a remote player via a communications network. A request for a connection is received from the remote player at the server device via the communications network. In response to the request for the connection, an authorization credential is requested from a central server via the communications network. Further, in response to the authorization credential received from the central server, the media stream between the server device and the remote player can be established over the communications network. At least a portion of the media stream may be encrypted based upon the authorization credential.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Sling Media, Inc.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Publication number: 20160337684Abstract: A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: Sling Media Inc.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Patent number: 9479816Abstract: A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Sling Media, Inc.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Publication number: 20160192012Abstract: Systems, processes and devices identify content on the Internet or another network. A media player device receives an identifier that is uniquely associated with a particular media program. The identifier is submitted from the media player device to a registry service accessible via the digital network to thereby locate the particular media program for playback by the media player device or for performing other actions, and a message containing the identifier is initiated and transmitted to a recipient media player device via the digital network to thereby allow the recipient media player device to locate the same particular media program on the digital network using the identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Publication number: 20160182936Abstract: A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: Sling Media Inc.Inventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Patent number: 9307289Abstract: A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Sling Media IncInventor: Padmanabha R. Rao
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Publication number: 20150373384Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securely providing a media stream from a server device to a remote player via a communications network. A request for a connection is received from the remote player at the server device via the communications network. In response to the request for the connection, an authorization credential is requested from a central server via the communications network. Further, in response to the authorization credential received from the central server, the media stream between the server device and the remote player can be established over the communications network. At least a portion of the media stream may be encrypted based upon the authorization credential.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventor: Padmanabha R. RAO