Patents by Inventor Benjamin Lebrato Ahern

Benjamin Lebrato Ahern 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).

  • Advertising processing engine service
    Patent number: 9100719
    Abstract: Techniques described herein provide for an advertising processing engine service to act as an intermediary between client applications and advertising networks. The advertising processing engine service can provide an interface with which the client can interact, via an application programming interface (API) or directly through the use of a standardized language, thereby allowing client applications to receive advertisement data without the need to be customized to communicate with specific advertising networks. On the other hand, the advertising processing engine service can receive requests from clients and communicate these requests to advertising networks in the corresponding language and/or format they require.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Brightcove, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Lebrato Ahern, David Morel, Matthew A. Johnson, Albert John McGowan
  • Clock locking for live media streaming
    Patent number: 8935432
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing live media streaming over a communication network. Timing data of a received live media stream is mapped to time values from a system clock. The time values are used for transmission of the media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Inventors: Albert John McGowan, Benjamin Lebrato Ahern, Jared Kenneth Marshall, Nicholas Maultsby, Niko Thomas John Huffman
  • ADVERTISING PROCESSING ENGINE SERVICE
    Publication number: 20140157308
    Abstract: Techniques described herein provide for an advertising processing engine service to act as an intermediary between client applications and advertising networks. The advertising processing engine service can provide an interface with which the client can interact, via an application programming interface (API) or directly through the use of a standardized language, thereby allowing client applications to receive advertisement data without the need to be customized to communicate with specific advertising networks. On the other hand, the advertising processing engine service can receive requests from clients and communicate these requests to advertising networks in the corresponding language and/or format they require.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: UNICORN MEDIA, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Lebrato Ahern, David Morel, Matthew A. Johnson, Albert John McGowan