Patents by Inventor Charles R. Payette

Charles R. Payette 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: 10382356
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally discloses a scheduling control capability for controlling scheduling of transmissions where adaptive bitrate streaming is used for delivery of content (e.g., video content or other types of content which may be streamed using adaptive bitrate streaming) from source devices to end devices. The scheduling control capability may be configured to control scheduling of transmissions of adaptive bitrate streaming flows based on priority levels assigned to the adaptive bitrate streaming flows. The scheduling control capability may be configured to dynamically control the priority levels assigned to the adaptive bitrate streaming flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: Nokia of America Corporation, Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Kamakshi Sridhar, Jonathan Segel, Charles R. Payette, Zulfiquar Sayeed, Edward Grinshpun
  • Publication number: 20180191628
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally discloses a scheduling granularity capability. The scheduling granularity capability is configured to improve scheduling granularity in a wireless communication system supporting transport of application flows via radio bearers. The scheduling granularity capability may be configured to support improved scheduling granularity by controlling scheduling at various levels of granularity, such as at the bearer level (e.g., for scheduling bearers with respect to each other), at the application flow level (e.g., for scheduling the application flow of a bearer when the bearer includes a single application flow, for scheduling application flows of a bearer with respect to each other when the bearer includes multiple application flows, or the like), or the like, as well as various combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicants: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Alcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Francini, Charles R. Payette, Kamakshi Sridhar, Jonathan Segel, Edward Grinshpun
  • Publication number: 20180109468
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally discloses a scheduling control capability for controlling scheduling of transmissions where adaptive bitrate streaming is used for delivery of content (e.g., video content or other types of content which may be streamed using adaptive bitrate streaming) from source devices to end devices. The scheduling control capability may be configured to control scheduling of transmissions of adaptive bitrate streaming flows based on priority levels assigned to the adaptive bitrate streaming flows. The scheduling control capability may be configured to dynamically control the priority levels assigned to the adaptive bitrate streaming flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicants: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Alcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Kamakshi Sridhar, Jonathan Segel, Charles R. Payette, Zulfiquar Sayeed, Edward Grinshpun
  • Publication number: 20170163821
    Abstract: A wireless service provider server includes a transceiver to provide data for transmission to and receive data from one or more subscribers to a wireless service plan at a quality-of-service (QoS). The wireless service provider server also includes a processor to modify the QoS for the at least one subscriber based on a comparison of data usage by the at least one subscriber during a time interval specified by the wireless service plan and an elapsed portion of the time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Charles R. Payette, Glenn R. Bruns, Bruce R. Cilli, Atul Divekar
  • Patent number: 9119111
    Abstract: A video session management capability is disclosed. The video session management capability enables management of potential and/or established video sessions of mobile devices of a cellular sector (e.g., for supporting dynamic changes to the transmission bit rates of established video sessions in a cellular sector). In response to an indication of a condition associated with the cellular sector, a manager determines, for each of a plurality video senders of a respective plurality of uplink video sessions of the cellular sector, a modified transmission bit rate for the video sender for the uplink video session and propagates, toward the video sender, a message for instructing the video sender to use the modified transmission bit rate for its uplink video session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Charles R. Payette, Bruce R. Cilli
  • Patent number: 9113486
    Abstract: A video session scheduling capability is disclosed. The video session scheduling capability enables scheduling of video transmissions by mobile devices of a cellular sector. In response to a request by a mobile device to transmit a video via a wireless uplink of the cellular sector, a scheduler determines scheduling of the video session. The scheduler receives information indicative of an amount of wireless uplink resources available for supporting uplink video sessions within the cellular sector, receives information associated with the request by the mobile device to establish a video session for transmission of video content from the mobile device via a wireless uplink in the cellular sector, and determines, using the information indicative of an amount of wireless uplink resources available within the cellular sector and the information associated with the video session request, scheduling of the video session via the wireless uplink in the cellular sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Charles R. Payette, Bruce R. Cilli, Zulfiquar Sayeed
  • Publication number: 20150007214
    Abstract: A Wireless Service Provider (WSP) receives a request for a video stream from a user device. The WSP determines if the video stream should have the video portion modified or removed, based upon a user's manual request or a predetermined condition being met. The modification can be removal of the video portion or the replacement of the original video portion with a lower bandwidth video portion. The modified video stream is then sent to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC.
    Inventors: Glenn R. Bruns, Bruce R. Cilli, Atul Divekar, Charles R. Payette
  • Publication number: 20140189760
    Abstract: A system and method for allocating wireless video resources among video streaming sources at an event (or events) according to a crowd selection mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: CHARLES R. PAYETTE, BRUCE R. CILLI, GLEN R. BRUNS, ATUL DIVEKAR
  • Publication number: 20140189064
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for efficiently archiving variable quality streaming video by contemporaneously storing higher quality video stream segments and subsequently storing lower quality video stream segments via a backfilling process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: BRUCE R. CILLI, CHARLES R. PAYETTE
  • Publication number: 20130042275
    Abstract: A video session scheduling capability is disclosed. The video session scheduling capability enables scheduling of video transmissions by mobile devices of a cellular sector. In response to a request by a mobile device to transmit a video via a wireless uplink of the cellular sector, a scheduler determines scheduling of the video session. The scheduler receives information indicative of an amount of wireless uplink resources available for supporting uplink video sessions within the cellular sector, receives information associated with the request by the mobile device to establish a video session for transmission of video content from the mobile device via a wireless uplink in the cellular sector, and determines, using the information indicative of an amount of wireless uplink resources available within the cellular sector and the information associated with the video session request, scheduling of the video session via the wireless uplink in the cellular sector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Charles R. Payette, Bruce R. Cilli, Zulfiquar Sayeed
  • Publication number: 20130042276
    Abstract: A video session management capability is disclosed. The video session management capability enables management of potential and/or established video sessions of mobile devices of a cellular sector (e.g., for supporting dynamic changes to the transmission bit rates of established video sessions in a cellular sector). In response to an indication of a condition associated with the cellular sector, a manager determines, for each of a plurality video senders of a respective plurality of uplink video sessions of the cellular sector, a modified transmission bit rate for the video sender for the uplink video session and propagates, toward the video sender, a message for instructing the video sender to use the modified transmission bit rate for its uplink video session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Charles R. Payette, Bruce R. Cilli