Patents by Inventor Alex Sakharov

Alex Sakharov 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).

  • Patent number: 9047375
    Abstract: A method for delivering video content to a user, including accessing a website that hosts a plurality of video content, causing a search to be performed of the website based on a keyword in the set of keywords, identifying, based on a result of the search, a set of video content, of the plurality of video content, related to the keyword, identifying a format of a particular video content in the set of video content, determining whether the format is compatible with a video client device, and outputting identifying information that identifies the particular video content when the format is compatible with the video client device, where the identifying information allows the video client device to access the particular video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Zhiying Jin, Alex Sakharov, Fang Zhu
  • Patent number: 8965920
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, from a first user device associated with a user profile, a first request for a media file and streaming the media file over a network to the first user device in a first format appropriate for the first device. The method may also include stopping the streaming of the media file and associating a stop time with the stopping, wherein the stop time indicates a position in the media file and receiving, from a second user device different from the first user device, a second request for the media file, the second user device being associated with the user profile. The method may also include streaming, starting at the stop time, the media file over the network to the second user device in a second format appropriate for the second device and different than the first format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiying Jin, Jack Jianxiu Hao, Fang Zhu, Wei Xia, Guanrao Chen, Alex Sakharov, Gaurav D Mehta
  • Publication number: 20120023126
    Abstract: A method for delivering video content to a user, including accessing a website that hosts a plurality of video content, causing a search to be performed of the website based on a keyword in the set of keywords, identifying, based on a result of the search, a set of video content, of the plurality of video content, related to the keyword, identifying a format of a particular video content in the set of video content, determining whether the format is compatible with a video client device, and outputting identifying information that identifies the particular video content when the format is compatible with the video client device, where the identifying information allows the video client device to access the particular video content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Zhiying JIN, Alex SAKHAROV, Fang ZHU
  • Publication number: 20100153410
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, from a first user device associated with a user profile, a first request for a media file and streaming the media file over a network to the first user device in a first format appropriate for the first device. The method may also include stopping the streaming of the media file and associating a stop time with the stopping, wherein the stop time indicates a position in the media file and receiving, from a second user device different from the first user device, a second request for the media file, the second user device being associated with the user profile. The method may also include streaming, starting at the stop time, the media file over the network to the second user device in a second format appropriate for the second device and different than the first format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Zhiying Jin, Jack Jianxiu Hao, Fang Zhu, Wei Xia, Guanrao Chen, Alex Sakharov, Gaurav D. Mehta