Patents by Inventor Benjamin A. Tober

Benjamin A. Tober 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).

  • POWER MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTED AUDIO PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR PLAYBACK DEVICES
    Publication number: 20240361977
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to power management techniques for reducing the power consumption of playback devices. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure related to distributed processing techniques for processing audio across two or more processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Rajasekaran Ramasubramanian, James M. Dolan, Allen Antony, Benjamin A. Tober, Mark S. Viscusi
  • Power management and distributed audio processing techniques for playback devices
    Patent number: 12045541
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to power management techniques for reducing the power consumption of playback devices. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure related to distributed processing techniques for processing audio across two or more processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajasekaran Ramasubramanian, James M. Dolan, Allen Antony, Benjamin A. Tober, Mark S. Viscusi
  • POWER MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTED AUDIO PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR PLAYBACK DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220276828
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to power management techniques for reducing the power consumption of playback devices. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure related to distributed processing techniques for processing audio across two or more processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Allen Antony, Jason Victor Rosenman, Madhur Murli, Matthew David Moore, Benjamin A. Tober, Mark S. Viscusi
  • POWER MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTED AUDIO PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR PLAYBACK DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220164162
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to power management techniques for reducing the power consumption of playback devices. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure related to distributed processing techniques for processing audio across two or more processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Rajasekaran Ramasubramanian, James M. Dolan, Allen Antony, Benjamin A. Tober, Mark S. Viscusi
  • Managing resources for IP networking
    Patent number: 8799513
    Abstract: Resources for IP networking are managed. A field is added to an operating system kernel software procedure. The field references a virtual router context. Packet processing software code is modified to cause the packet processing software code to execute in accordance with the virtual router context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Tober, Matthew H. Harper, Leonard Schwartz