Patents by Inventor Steve A. Benno

Steve A. Benno 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).

  • Method and apparatus for improving adaptive streaming video quality by optimizing resource allocation
    Patent number: 9456387
    Abstract: A method of allocating resources for transmitting content from a network element in a communications network to one or more mobile devices each in communication with the network element may include receiving, at the network element, characteristic information corresponding to each of the one or more mobile devices; and generating one or more adaptive guaranteed bit rate (AGBR) values at the network element corresponding to each of the one or more mobile devices, respectively. The AGBR values may be GBR values generated for each of the one or more mobile devices based on the corresponding characteristic information. A first scheduling algorithm may be executed at the network element based on the one or more AGBR values; and resources may be allocated to the one or more mobile devices based on an output of the scheduling algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Harish Viswanathan, Nandu Gopalakrishnan, Mark M. Clougherty, Andre Beck, Gang Li, Danny De Vleesschawuer, Steve A. Benno, Ashok N. Rudrapatna
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING ADAPTIVE STREAMING VIDEO QUALITY BY OPTIMIZING RESOURCE ALLOCATION
    Publication number: 20130091248
    Abstract: A method of allocating resources for transmitting content from a network element in a communications network to one or more mobile devices each in communication with the network element may include receiving, at the network element, characteristic information corresponding to each of the one or more mobile devices; and generating one or more adaptive guaranteed bit rate (AGBR) values at the network element corresponding to each of the one or more mobile devices, respectively. The AGBR values may be GBR values generated for each of the one or more mobile devices based on the corresponding characteristic information. A first scheduling algorithm may be executed at the network element based on the one or more AGBR values; and resources may be allocated to the one or more mobile devices based on an output of the scheduling algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicants: Alcatel-Lucent Bell N.V., ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC.
    Inventors: Harish Viswanathan, Nandu Gopalakrishnan, Mark M. Clougherty, Andre Beck, Gang Li, Danny De Vleeschauwer, Steve A. Benno, Ashok N. Rudrapatna