Patents by Inventor Arthur Cavalcanti Alem

Arthur Cavalcanti Alem 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).

  • Systems and methods for optimizing simulcast streams in group video calls
    Patent number: 10715568
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a set of participants in a group video call, wherein each participant is associated with an uplink capacity and a downlink capacity, and the set of participants includes a set of sender participants and a set of subscriber participants. For a first sender participant of the set of sender participants, one or more video stream layers to be uploaded by the first sender participant are determined based on downlink capacities of one or more subscriber participants of the set of subscriber participants. Each subscriber participant of the one or more subscriber participants is assigned to receive one video stream layer of the one or more video stream layers to be uploaded by the first sender participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Cavalcanti Alem, Bret Lorimore, Shyam Sadhwani, Chi Wang Ho
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING SIMULCAST STREAMS IN GROUP VIDEO CALLS
    Publication number: 20200007597
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a set of participants in a group video call, wherein each participant is associated with an uplink capacity and a downlink capacity, and the set of participants includes a set of sender participants and a set of subscriber participants. For a first sender participant of the set of sender participants, one or more video stream layers to be uploaded by the first sender participant are determined based on downlink capacities of one or more subscriber participants of the set of subscriber participants. Each subscriber participant of the one or more subscriber participants is assigned to receive one video stream layer of the one or more video stream layers to be uploaded by the first sender participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Arthur Cavalcanti Alem, Bret Lorimore, Shyam Sadhwani, Chi Wang Ho
  • Systems and methods for optimizing simulcast streams in group video calls
    Patent number: 10389772
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a set of participants in a group video call, wherein each participant is associated with an uplink capacity and a downlink capacity, and the set of participants includes a set of sender participants and a set of subscriber participants. For a first sender participant of the set of sender participants, one or more video stream layers to be uploaded by the first sender participant are determined based on downlink capacities of one or more subscriber participants of the set of subscriber participants. Each subscriber participant of the one or more subscriber participants is assigned to receive one video stream layer of the one or more video stream layers to be uploaded by the first sender participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Cavalcanti Alem, Bret Lorimore, Shyam Sadhwani, Chi Wang Ho
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING SIMULCAST STREAMS IN GROUP VIDEO CALLS
    Publication number: 20190238600
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a set of participants in a group video call, wherein each participant is associated with an uplink capacity and a downlink capacity, and the set of participants includes a set of sender participants and a set of subscriber participants. For a first sender participant of the set of sender participants, one or more video stream layers to be uploaded by the first sender participant are determined based on downlink capacities of one or more subscriber participants of the set of subscriber participants. Each subscriber participant of the one or more subscriber participants is assigned to receive one video stream layer of the one or more video stream layers to be uploaded by the first sender participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Arthur Cavalcanti Alem, Bret Lorimore, Shyam Sadhwani, Chi Wang Ho