Patents by Inventor Benjamin H. KEPLER

Benjamin H. KEPLER 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: 12143295
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and techniques for a network architecture design for a converged media facility. An example system includes a plurality of internet protocol (IP) networks, where each IP network is configured to provide a different service for the media facility. At least one of the IP networks is a production media network configured to route multicast media traffic. The system also includes a plurality of first network devices coupled to the plurality of IP networks and a controller configured to manage at least one IP traffic flow within at least one of the plurality of IP networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: FARJAMI & FARJAMI LLP
    Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Benjamin H. Kepler, Nishith Shah, David E. Potter, Nigel Brownett
  • Publication number: 20230318967
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and techniques for a network architecture design for a converged media facility. An example system includes a plurality of internet protocol (IP) networks, where each IP network is configured to provide a different service for the media facility. At least one of the IP networks is a production media network configured to route multicast media traffic. The system also includes a plurality of first network devices coupled to the plurality of IP networks and a controller configured to manage at least one IP traffic flow within at least one of the plurality of IP networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Michael J. STREIN, Benjamin H. KEPLER, Nishith SHAH, David E. POTTER, Nigel BROWNETT
  • Patent number: 11728917
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques to selectively distribute Precision Time Protocol (PTP) data in a network. The network can include multiple different network devices (e.g., switches) connected to form a network architecture (e.g., a spine/leaf architecture). Rather than distributing the PTP data (e.g., PTP timestamps) through all the network devices in order to synchronize local clocks to a global, master clock, the embodiments herein describe an out-of-band distribution network which selectively distributes the PTP data to select network devices in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig L. Beardsley, Jerome G. Liscano, Michael J. Strein, Carl A. Brown, Nishith Shah, Benjamin H. Kepler
  • Patent number: 11695732
    Abstract: The embodiments herein describe a firewall for a media production system to provide flexible security between an on-premises production environment and remote media production applications and devices (e.g., cloud-based virtual production environments). As new media devices and applications (referred to generally as media nodes) are added at remote locations, the firewall is updated to permit the media nodes to communicate with the on-premises production environment. The embodiments herein described an automatic (e.g., software driven) process where a network orchestrator can detect a change in the media nodes and update the rule set in the firewall accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Benjamin H. Kepler
  • Publication number: 20230077580
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a system comprises a priority-based production load balancer including a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive production data describing a media workflow, determine, using the production data, a priority status of the media workflow, identify production resources for processing the media workflow, and allocate, based on the priority status, one or more of the production resources to processing of the media workflow. In some implementations, the priority status is determined based on the type of content included in the media workflow. Moreover, in some implementations, the priority status is determined further based on a distribution schedule of a content feed corresponding to the media workflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Ryan N. McCormick, Benjamin H. Kepler
  • Publication number: 20220368673
    Abstract: The embodiments herein describe a firewall for a media production system to provide flexible security between an on-premises production environment and remote media production applications and devices (e.g., cloud-based virtual production environments). As new media devices and applications (referred to generally as media nodes) are added at remote locations, the firewall is updated to permit the media nodes to communicate with the on-premises production environment. The embodiments herein described an automatic (e.g., software driven) process where a network orchestrator can detect a change in the media nodes and update the rule set in the firewall accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Michael J. STREIN, Benjamin H. KEPLER
  • Patent number: 11362994
    Abstract: A media flow transport security manager of a hybrid cloud-based media production system having a network orchestrator and an extensible resource manager (ERM) includes a firewall communicatively coupled to a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a security software code. The hardware processor executes the security software code to communicate with the network orchestrator to identify multicast production media flow(s) for processing in a cloud-based virtual production environment, and to communicate with the ERM to obtain an identifier of each cloud-based resource used for processing cloud production media flow(s) corresponding to the identified multicast production media flow(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Douglas R. Mason, Craig L. Beardsley, Benjamin H. Kepler
  • Publication number: 20220069932
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques to selectively distribute Precision Time Protocol (PTP) data in a network. The network can include multiple different network devices (e.g., switches) connected to form a network architecture (e.g., a spine/leaf architecture). Rather than distributing the PTP data (e.g., PTP timestamps) through all the network devices in order to synchronize local clocks to a global, master clock, the embodiments herein describe an out-of-band distribution network which selectively distributes the PTP data to select network devices in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Craig L. BEARDSLEY, Jerome G. LISCANO, Michael J. STREIN, Carl A. BROWN, Nishith SHAH, Benjamin H. KEPLER
  • Patent number: 11239934
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques to selectively distribute Precision Time Protocol (PTP) data in a network. The network can include multiple different network devices (e.g., switches) connected to form a network architecture (e.g., a spine/leaf architecture). Rather than distributing the PTP data (e.g., PTP timestamps) through all the network devices in order to synchronize local clocks to a global, master clock, the embodiments herein describe an out-of-band distribution network which selectively distributes the PTP data to select network devices in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig L. Beardsley, Jerome G. Liscano, Michael J. Strein, Carl A. Brown, Nishith Shah, Benjamin H. Kepler
  • Publication number: 20210028876
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques to selectively distribute Precision Time Protocol (PTP) data in a network. The network can include multiple different network devices (e.g., switches) connected to form a network architecture (e.g., a spine/leaf architecture). Rather than distributing the PTP data (e.g., PTP timestamps) through all the network devices in order to synchronize local clocks to a global, master clock, the embodiments herein describe an out-of-band distribution network which selectively distributes the PTP data to select network devices in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Craig L. Beardsley, Jerome G. Liscano, Michael J. Strein, Carl A. Brown, Nishith Shah, Benjamin H. Kepler
  • Publication number: 20200403972
    Abstract: A media flow transport security manager of a hybrid cloud-based media production system having a network orchestrator and an extensible resource manager (ERM) includes a firewall communicatively coupled to a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a security software code. The hardware processor executes the security software code to communicate with the network orchestrator to identify multicast production media flow(s) for processing in a cloud-based virtual production environment, and to communicate with the ERM to obtain an identifier of each cloud-based resource used for processing cloud production media flow(s) corresponding to the identified multicast production media flow(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Douglas R. Mason, Craig L. Beardsley, Benjamin H. Kepler
  • Patent number: 10678569
    Abstract: Performing an operation comprising providing, by a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) client, access to an application executing on a host system to a first client system via a network, receiving, from the first client system, at least one internet protocol (IP) packet specifying attributes of an input provided by an input/output (I/O) device of the client system, receiving a timestamp from a time source, and storing the attributes of the input and the timestamp as metadata of a first image corresponding to a first frame of a video output of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Rabindra Mukraj, Ralph Maese, Michael J. Strein, Benjamin H. Kepler
  • Publication number: 20190272185
    Abstract: Performing an operation comprising providing, by a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) client, access to an application executing on a host system to a first client system via a network, receiving, from the first client system, at least one internet protocol (IP) packet specifying attributes of an input provided by an input/output (I/O) device of the client system, receiving a timestamp from a time source, and storing the attributes of the input and the timestamp as metadata of a first image corresponding to a first frame of a video output of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Rabindra MUKRAJ, Ralph MAESE, Michael J. STREIN, Benjamin H. KEPLER