Patents by Inventor Bill Carroll VerSteeg

Bill Carroll VerSteeg 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).

  • Utilizing latency control to alleviate bufferbloat
    Patent number: 9246829
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes estimating a current queuing latency, the estimated current queuing latency being associated with a queue of packets maintained in a buffer. The method also includes calculating a current drop or mark probability, the current drop or mark probability being associated with a probability that packets associated with the queue of packets will be dropped or marked. A rate at which the packets associated with the queue of packets are dequeued from the buffer is estimated in order to estimate the current queuing latency. The current drop or mark probability is calculated using the current estimated queuing latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rong Pan, Preethi Natarajan, Chiara Piglione, Mythili Suryanarayana Prabhu, Frederick Juergens Baker, Bill Carroll VerSteeg, Vijaynarayanan Subramanian
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RATE CONTROLLED CONTENT STREAMING FROM CACHE
    Publication number: 20150271072
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes measuring at a cache node located on a data path between a content source and an adaptive streaming client, a time to retrieve content from the content source, and rate limiting streaming of the content from the cache node to the adaptive streaming client based on the measured time to retrieve the content. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Moreman, Bill Carroll VerSteeg, David R. Oran, Ashok Narayanan
  • UTILIZING LATENCY CONTROL TO ALLEVIATE BUFFERBLOAT
    Publication number: 20140328175
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes estimating a current queuing latency, the estimated current queuing latency being associated with a queue of packets maintained in a buffer. The method also includes calculating a current drop or mark probability, the current drop or mark probability being associated with a probability that packets associated with the queue of packets will be dropped or marked. A rate at which the packets associated with the queue of packets are dequeued from the buffer is estimated in order to estimate the current queuing latency. The current drop or mark probability is calculated using the current estimated queuing latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rong Pan, Preethi Natarajan, Chiara Piglione, Mythili Suryanarayana Prabhu, Frederick Juergens Baker, Bill Carroll VerSteeg, Vijaynarayanan Subramanian