Patents by Inventor Bill Ataras

Bill Ataras 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: 11966337
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing rolling updates of distributed systems with a shared cache. An embodiment operates by receiving a data item key corresponding to a request from a user profile operating on a media player and receiving a version identifier corresponding to a first version of an application operating on the media player. It is determined that a shared cache includes a first value and second value for the data item key. A key component is generated corresponding to the user profile. Both the generated key component and the data item key are provided to the shared cache, and the first value of the data item as stored in the shared cache is received. The first value of the first version of the data item is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Bill Ataras
  • Publication number: 20230205697
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing rolling updates of distributed systems with a shared cache. An embodiment operates by receiving a data item key corresponding to a request from a user profile operating on a media player and receiving a version identifier corresponding to a first version of an application operating on the media player. It is determined that a shared cache includes a first value and second value for the data item key. A key component is generated corresponding to the user profile. Both the generated key component and the data item key are provided to the shared cache, and the first value of the data item as stored in the shared cache is received. The first value of the first version of the data item is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: ROKU, INC.
    Inventor: Bill ATARAS
  • Patent number: 11630775
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing rolling updates of distributed systems with a shared cache. An embodiment operates by receiving a platform update request to update data item information associated with a first version of a data item cached in a shared cache memory. The embodiment may further operate by transmitting a cache update request to update the data item information of the first version of the data item cached in the shared cache memory, and isolating the first version of the data item cached in the shared cache memory based on a collection of version specific identifiers and a version agnostic identifier associated with the data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Bill Ataras
  • Publication number: 20190188135
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing rolling updates of distributed systems with a shared cache. An embodiment operates by receiving a platform update request to update data item information associated with a first version of a data item cached in a shared cache memory. The embodiment may further operate by transmitting a cache update request to update the data item information of the first version of the data item cached in the shared cache memory, and isolating the first version of the data item cached in the shared cache memory based on a collection of version specific identifiers and a version agnostic identifier associated with the data item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: ROKU, INC.
    Inventor: Bill ATARAS
  • Patent number: 10229058
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing rolling updates of distributed systems with a shared cache. An embodiment operates by receiving a platform update request to update data item information associated with a first version of a data item cached in a shared cache memory. The embodiment may further operate by transmitting a cache update request to update the data item information of the first version of the data item cached in the shared cache memory, and isolating the first version of the data item cached in the shared cache memory based on a collection of version specific identifiers and a version agnostic identifier associated with the data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: Bill Ataras
  • Patent number: 9705947
    Abstract: A method for a computer system includes receiving an identifier associated with a client streaming player, determining one or more attributes associated with the identifier from a data structure in response to the identifier, determining available channels from a plurality of channels that are to be made available to the client streaming player in response to the identifier, wherein available channels comprises a first channel, but not the second channel, determining a first graphical identifier associated with the first channel, providing the first graphical identifier to the client streaming player, receiving a user selection of the first graphical identifier indicating a user request to associate the first channel with the computer system, and providing an indicator of a server network address associated with the first channel to the client streaming player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Wood, David Stern, David Westerhoff, Bill Ataras, Mark Goodwin, Aaron Graham, Matt Emerson, Kevin Phillips
  • Publication number: 20170192884
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing rolling updates of distributed systems with a shared cache. An embodiment operates by receiving a platform update request to update data item information associated with a first version of a data item cached in a shared cache memory. The embodiment may further operate by transmitting a cache update request to update the data item information of the first version of the data item cached in the shared cache memory, and isolating the first version of the data item cached in the shared cache memory based on a collection of version specific identifiers and a version agnostic identifier associated with the data item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Bill Ataras
  • Publication number: 20140330940
    Abstract: A method for a computer system includes receiving an identifier associated with a client streaming player, determining one or more attributes associated with the identifier from a data structure in response to the identifier, determining available channels from a plurality of channels that are to be made available to the client streaming player in response to the identifier, wherein available channels comprises a first channel, but not the second channel, determining a first graphical identifier associated with the first channel, providing the first graphical identifier to the client streaming player, receiving a user selection of the first graphical identifier indicating a user request to associate the first channel with the computer system, and providing an indicator of a server network address associated with the first channel to the client streaming player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Wood, David Stern, David Westerhoff, Bill Ataras, Mark Goodwin, Aaron Graham, Matt Emerson, Kevin Phillips
  • Patent number: 8788578
    Abstract: A method for a computer system includes receiving an identifier associated with a client streaming player, determining one or more attributes associated with the identifier from a data structure in response to the identifier, determining available channels from a plurality of channels that are to be made available to the client streaming player in response to the identifier, wherein available channels comprises a first channel, but not the second channel, determining a first graphical identifier associated with the first channel, providing the first graphical identifier to the client streaming player, receiving a user selection of the first graphical identifier indicating a user request to associate the first channel with the computer system, and providing an indicator of a server network address associated with the first channel to the client streaming player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Wood, David Stern, David Westerhoff, Bill Ataras, Mark Goodwin, Aaron Graham, Matt Emerson, Kevin Phillips
  • Publication number: 20130018938
    Abstract: A method for a computer system includes receiving an identifier associated with a client streaming player, determining one or more attributes associated with the identifier from a data structure in response to the identifier, determining available channels from a plurality of channels that are to be made available to the client streaming player in response to the identifier, wherein available channels comprises a first channel, but not the second channel, determining a first graphical identifier associated with the first channel, providing the first graphical identifier to the client streaming player, receiving a user selection of the first graphical identifier indicating a user request to associate the first channel with the computer system, and providing an indicator of a server network address associated with the first channel to the client streaming player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Roku, Incorporated
    Inventors: Anthony WOOD, David Stern, David Westerhoff, Bill Ataras, Mark Goodwin, Aaron Graham, Matt Emerson, Kevin Phillips