Patents by Inventor Steven James Chin

Steven James Chin 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).

  • Changing streaming media quality level based on current device resource usage
    Patent number: 8510763
    Abstract: Streaming media is received from a source system. A current overall resource usage of a resource of the device (such as a CPU or memory of the device) is obtained. A check is made as to whether the current overall resource usage exceeds a resource threshold value. If the current overall resource usage exceeds the resource threshold value, then an indication is provided to the source system to reduce a quality level of the streaming media. The streaming media is received from the source system at the reduced quality level until there is sufficient resource capacity at the device to increase the quality level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Pradip K. Fatehpuria, Vivek Thukral, Steven James Chin
  • CHANGING STREAMING MEDIA QUALITY LEVEL BASED ON CURRENT DEVICE RESOURCE USAGE
    Publication number: 20110307900
    Abstract: Streaming media is received from a source system. A current overall resource usage of a resource of the device (such as a CPU or memory of the device) is obtained. A check is made as to whether the current overall resource usage exceeds a resource threshold value. If the current overall resource usage exceeds the resource threshold value, then an indication is provided to the source system to reduce a quality level of the streaming media. The streaming media is received from the source system at the reduced quality level until there is sufficient resource capacity at the device to increase the quality level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pradip K. Fatehpuria, Vivek Thukral, Steven James Chin