Patents Examined by Kenneth R. Coulter
  • Patent number: 12166633
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, device and storage medium for networking. A method for networking is provided, applied to the first device to be networked and including: when the first device s in a election stage, receiving a confirmation message or an election message transmitted by other device to be networked, making a decision to confirm whether the other device transmitting the election message or the first device itself serves as a master device, if the election message is received, entering a confirmation stage in response to the confirmation message or the election message transmitted by the other device; when the first device is in the confirmation stage, setting the first device as a master device or a slave device in response to receiving the confirmation message transmitted by the other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TP-LINK CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Kui Wang, Guangjie Yang, Kaiwen Hu
  • Patent number: 12165206
    Abstract: Systems for and methods of evaluating messaging, comprising, receiving, via at least one server device, one or more messages, and said at least one server device processing at least one of the one or more messages by grading content included in said at least one message, applying a weighting factor to said at least one message according to said grading, thereby determining a weighted message count for said at least one message, aggregating the weighted message count for said at least one message, and initiating an action if the aggregated weighted message count meets or exceeds a predetermined count threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Wassersug, Charles Vice, Mayur Kapani
  • Patent number: 12155579
    Abstract: A communications management system and an AoIP gateway server are disclosed. The AoIP gateway server is configured to send a first ACARS downlink message via an AoIP communication link. While the first ACARS downlink message is pending transmission, the communications management system is configured to send one or more ACARS downlink messages of a store and forward message type to the AoIP gateway server. The AoIP gateway server is configured to store each of the ACARS downlink messages while the first ACARS downlink message is pending transmission, and, for each store and forward message, send a pseudo-acknowledgment response back to the communications management system that indicates that the store and forward message was successfully transmitted to at least one ground system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Sathish Pakki, Thomas D. Judd
  • Patent number: 12155712
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for streaming content. The embodiments described herein may apply to ABR streaming and output an optimized ABR ladder enabling a playback device to maximize the perceived video quality of received content, provide substantially constant visual quality, and/or minimize rebuffering content. The playback device may request an ABR representation associated with an ABR ladder that has been optimized based on one or more neural networks. The one or more neural networks may be pre-trained based on one or more properties and characteristics/features of the video content. The one or more neural networks may process the video content to dynamically determine parameters such as the bitrates of each ABR representation for the content. The parameters may be used to output the encoded ABR representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Grois, Alexander Giladi
  • Patent number: 12155546
    Abstract: Example apparatus disclosed herein are to send a request to a media provider that is to cause the media provider to initiate transmission of a transport stream that is to provide streaming media to a media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus are also to extract metering metadata from a data file to be received by the media presentation device after the transmission of the transport stream is initiated by the media provider but before receipt by the media presentation device of the transport stream that is to provide the streaming media to the media presentation device, the data file associated with the transport stream. Disclosed example apparatus are further to report the metering metadata to a server in response to a detected event, and access an identification of secondary media responsive to the report of the metering metadata, the secondary media to be presented by the media presentation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Arun Ramaswamy, Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 12149583
    Abstract: There are provided a method and a system for selecting an optimal synchronization broker for each workload. A system for selecting an optimal synchronization broker for each workload according to an embodiment includes: a storage unit including a database that contains specialist recommendation information including information on a correct protocol that is recommended by a specialist with respect to a service specification and data transmission requirements; and a processor configured to determine an optimal in-bound protocol and an optimal out-bound protocol according to the data transmission requirements through a decision tree model that is trained by using the specialist recommendation information as training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute
    Inventors: Won Gi Choi, Sang Shin Lee, Min Hwan Song, Jee Hyeong Kim
  • Patent number: 12132650
    Abstract: Network traffic between a source node and a destination node in a network fabric can be routed by distributing the network traffic from the source node to a set of one-hop neighbors of the source node. Each one-hop neighbor of the source node can be set as a first waypoint. A one-hop neighbor of the destination node mapped to the corresponding one-hop neighbor of the source node is identified and set as a second waypoint. The distributed traffic is then routed from the first waypoint to the second waypoint via a network fabric having network nodes connected according to harmonics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Giacomo Bernardi, Ratul Mahajan, Saurabh Kumar
  • Patent number: 12127306
    Abstract: An ‘open control network’ is described, wherein the control plane functions within the Radio Access Network (such as eNodeB and gNodeB) and Core Network (such as MME, AMF and SMF) provide an interface towards the operator and 3rd party control applications. Applications are allowed to securely register to signaling protocols within the control plane, specifically to the RAN or the Core Network control functions to view, intercept and intervene certain types of control messages or procedures. Innovative applications can be developed to view and modify control plane behavior utilizing both traditional methods as well as upcoming Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms to provide services that are not part of standard operator offerings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Netsia, Inc.
    Inventors: Arda Akman, Burcu Yargicoglu
  • Patent number: 12120014
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method for migrating a multi-region network including multiple autonomous systems into a single autonomous system comprises allocating a unique identifier to each autonomous system of a plurality of autonomous systems, wherein each autonomous system includes a corresponding regional route reflector; tagging the routing instruction advertised to a global route reflector by a regional route reflector included in one of the plurality of autonomous systems with the unique identifier of the autonomous system corresponding to the regional route reflector that advertised the routing instruction; instructing the regional route reflectors included in the plurality of autonomous systems to ignore routing instructions received from the global route reflector that are tagged with one of the unique identifiers allocated to the plurality of autonomous systems; and migrating one autonomous system of the plurality of autonomous systems by: removing the unique identifier from routing instructions advertise
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Mason, Thomas Gregory Dowers, Mark G. Cloud
  • Patent number: 12120195
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communication technology, and disclose a resource acquisition method, including: receiving a user input event from a first browser on a client; acquiring an event result triggered at a second browser by the user input event, where the second browser runs on the server for the WebVPN; acquiring, using the second browser, resources from a source station according to the event result; and feeding back the resources to the client, to present the resources at the first browser. Embodiments of the present disclosure further disclose a proxy server for a WebVPN, a resource acquisition system, and a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: WANGSU SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenwei Xie
  • Patent number: 12113846
    Abstract: The technology described herein is directed towards an uplink video streaming technology including for private networks that use low-cost mobile devices with reduced hardware capabilities (RedCap in 3GPP). The technology adapts the video quality (bitrate) from the content producer side based on the device capability data of the content consumer, leveraging that both are co-located in the same network. The technology can use machine learning to identify correlated devices with suboptimal video quality, and to propose new uplink data rate limiting data (e.g., PRB quota) for the content provider, to enforce an updated (e.g., reduced) video quality independent of any streaming application. The technology reduces spectrum loss, energy consumption and video rebuffering that otherwise often occur when videos are generated with high quality beyond the capabilities of the video consumers (e.g., including RedCap devices).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventor: Ramy Atawia
  • Patent number: 12113836
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and system related to wireless communications are disclosed. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a first access node in a first type of communication network, a request from a wireless device to establish a voice session with an Internet Protocol Multimedia System (IMS); initiating, by the first access node, an IMS voice session establishment for the wireless device; configuring, by the first access node, a Quality of Service (QOS) for the IMS voice session using a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session modification request; and determining, in part based on one or more capabilities of the wireless device, to refrain from triggering a fallback to a second type of communication network for the IMS voice session establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman
  • Patent number: 12113793
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, to coordinate data exchange among a plurality of devices. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method includes receiving, from a client server, an indicator associated with authorization of a service, and receiving, from a service server, first verification data and a request. The first verification data is associated with performance of the service and the request includes a request for payment for performance of the service. The method further includes sending, to an exchange server, second verification data. The second verification data is based on the first verification data. The method also includes receiving, from the exchange server in response to receipt of the second verification data and the request by the exchange server, a reply. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Sandata Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vrajesh Bhavsar, John Kalivas
  • Patent number: 12081598
    Abstract: A method for streaming media assets using a redundant cache managed by a media streaming server in a media streaming network may be provided. The method may include receiving, by a media streaming server, immersive media stream comprising one or more immersive media assets associated with one or more scenes, determining that a subset of the one or more immersive media assets are included for a plurality of times in the one or more scenes, storing a redundant copy of each of the subset of the one or more immersive media assets in a cache maintained by the media streaming network to ensure that the each of the subset is accessible to both the media streaming server and a client, and streaming at least one media asset of the subset of the one or more immersive media assets in response to a local cache of the client not storing the at least one media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Arianne Hinds, Rohit Abhishek, Stephan Wenger
  • Patent number: 12074919
    Abstract: In some implementations, a network device may receive a subscription request to subscribe to receive notifications associated with context data related to a registered session associated with a user equipment (UE). The registered session may be associated with a reauthorization timer that is associated with triggering the network device to provide a request for reauthorization of the registered session. The network device may provide, based on an expiration of the reauthorization timer, the request for reauthorization of the registered session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah, Jerry Steben, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Lalit R. Kotecha
  • Patent number: 12069122
    Abstract: A method for managing Quality of Experience (QoE) for video streaming traffic flow on a network, the method including: collecting data associated with a plurality of video streaming traffic flows; creating a model based on the collected data; determining factors associated with a new video streaming traffic flow; analyzing the factors based on the model; determining a QoE score based on the analysis. A system for managing QoE for video streaming traffic flow on a network, the system including: a factor determination module configured to collect data associated with a plurality of video streaming traffic flows; a model module configured to create a model based on the collected data; an analysis module configured to determine factors associated with a new video streaming traffic flow and analyze the factors based on the model; and a QoE engine configured to determine a QoE score based on the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Inventors: Srinidhi Chakravarthy Ramanujam, Pradeep Karanth, Sandeep Kumar
  • Patent number: 12052303
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for managing content delivery in a packetized network. In one embodiment, the network provide content to a plurality of clients via a plurality of nodes and origin points, and resources are discreetly represented (e.g., with IP addresses, such as those afforded under the IPv6 protocol) to allows for direct advertisement of resources. Exemplary solutions described herein further advantageously leverage extant architectures and protocols (such as BGP), and make use of a common control plane, which can be utilized for example by different content delivery network (CDN) operators and different delivery components to advertise resources. Internally within a given CDN, increased granularity of resource addressing and advertisement may provide benefits including: (i) resource affinity; (ii) resource-level balancing; (iii) dynamic resource scoping; and (iv) “zero-touch” provisioning and resource relocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: James Panagos, Justin Slaughter
  • Patent number: 12052280
    Abstract: Obtain, by a controller, from at least one provisioning database of an internet service provider, assigned bandwidth per customer for a plurality of internet service provider customers. Obtain, by the controller, from a plurality of peering entry points of the internet service provider, currently used bandwidth per customer for the plurality of internet service provider customers. Compare, by the controller, for the plurality of internet service provider customers, the assigned bandwidth per customer to the currently used bandwidth per customer, to determine at least one given customer of the plurality of internet service provider customers putatively suffering from a distributed denial of service attack. Initiate at least one remedial action for the at least one given customer of the plurality of internet service provider customers putatively suffering from the distributed denial of service attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventor: Sandeep Reddy Mereddy
  • Patent number: 12052462
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a media player when receiving a live stream which comprising a sequence of media segments, each media segment comprising a plurality of media fragments. The method comprises determining a tune-in segment and a tune-in fragment of the live stream, at which the media player intends to start consuming the live stream, transmitting a media request towards a media providing entity, the media request comprising an indication indicating that the tune-in segment should start with the tune-in fragment as first media fragment, receiving a media response originating from the media providing entity, the media response comprising the tune-in segment which starts with the tune-in fragment as first media fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Thorsten Lohmar, Ali El Essaili, Mohamed Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 12047462
    Abstract: A service implemented at a first isolated virtual network of a provider network is added to a database of privately-accessible services. Configuration changes that enable network packets to flow between the first isolated virtual network and a second isolated virtual network without utilizing a network address accessible from the public Internet are implemented. Service requests originating at the second isolated virtual network are transmitted to the first isolated virtual network via private pathways of the provider network. Metrics corresponding to service requests directed from the second isolated network to the service are collected and provided to the respective owners of one or both isolated virtual networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Tailor Akers, Michael Siaosi Voegele, Kevin Christopher Miller, Chao Yuan, David Brian Lennon, Patrick Stephenson