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).
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Patent number: 12143295Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: FARJAMI & FARJAMI LLPInventors: Michael J. Strein, Benjamin H. Kepler, Nishith Shah, David E. Potter, Nigel Brownett
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Publication number: 20230318967Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Michael J. STREIN, Benjamin H. KEPLER, Nishith SHAH, David E. POTTER, Nigel BROWNETT
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Patent number: 11728917Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Craig L. Beardsley, Jerome G. Liscano, Michael J. Strein, Carl A. Brown, Nishith Shah, Benjamin H. Kepler
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Patent number: 11695732Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Benjamin H. Kepler
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Publication number: 20230077580Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Ryan N. McCormick, Benjamin H. Kepler
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Publication number: 20220368673Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Michael J. STREIN, Benjamin H. KEPLER
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Patent number: 11362994Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Douglas R. Mason, Craig L. Beardsley, Benjamin H. Kepler
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Publication number: 20220069932Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Craig L. BEARDSLEY, Jerome G. LISCANO, Michael J. STREIN, Carl A. BROWN, Nishith SHAH, Benjamin H. KEPLER
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Patent number: 11239934Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Craig L. Beardsley, Jerome G. Liscano, Michael J. Strein, Carl A. Brown, Nishith Shah, Benjamin H. Kepler
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Publication number: 20210028876Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Craig L. Beardsley, Jerome G. Liscano, Michael J. Strein, Carl A. Brown, Nishith Shah, Benjamin H. Kepler
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Publication number: 20200403972Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Douglas R. Mason, Craig L. Beardsley, Benjamin H. Kepler
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Patent number: 10678569Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Rabindra Mukraj, Ralph Maese, Michael J. Strein, Benjamin H. Kepler
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Publication number: 20190272185Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Rabindra MUKRAJ, Ralph MAESE, Michael J. STREIN, Benjamin H. KEPLER