Patents by Inventor David Randolph Eyler

David Randolph Eyler 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).

  • System for controlling access to an account
    Patent number: 11188636
    Abstract: An account management server, a communication device and a service device are provided for managing access to an account. The account management server, for example, includes, but is not limited to, a storage device configured to store identifying information for each of a plurality of service devices and configured to store an account associated with each of the plurality of service devices, and a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor is configured to: receive identifying information from a communication device; identify at least one service device whose stored identifying information matches the received identifying information; and grant management access to the account associated with the identified at least one service device to the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SLING MEDIA L.L.C.
    Inventor: David Randolph Eyler
  • SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN ACCOUNT
    Publication number: 20200175149
    Abstract: An account management server, a communication device and a service device are provided for managing access to an account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: SLING MEDIA L.L.C.
    Inventor: David Randolph Eyler
  • System for controlling access to an account
    Patent number: 10586035
    Abstract: An account management server, a communication device and a service device are provided for managing access to an account. The account management server, for example, includes, but is not limited to, a storage device configured to store identifying information for each of a plurality of service devices and configured to store an account associated with each of the plurality of service devices, and a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor is configured to: receive identifying information from a communication device; identify at least one service device whose stored identifying information matches the received identifying information; and grant management access to the account associated with the identified at least one service device to the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Sling Media LLC
    Inventor: David Randolph Eyler
  • Placeshifting live encoded video faster than real time
    Patent number: 10250664
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices are described to encode, deliver and playback a placeshifted media stream via the Internet or another network. The media stream is appropriately encoded at a quality level (e.g., at a bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.) that allows content to be delivered faster than it is played back. This sort of “faster than real time” encoding allows the placeshifted media stream to be buffered at the remote device for more effective performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SLING MEDIA LLC
    Inventors: David Randolph Eyler, Padmanabha R. Rao, Raghuveer Tarra, Ilya Asnis
  • SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN ACCOUNT
    Publication number: 20170316199
    Abstract: An account management server, a communication device and a service device are provided for managing access to an account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sling Media Inc.
    Inventor: David Randolph Eyler
  • PLACESHIFTING LIVE ENCODED VIDEO FASTER THAN REAL TIME
    Publication number: 20170272496
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices are described to encode, deliver and playback a placeshifted media stream via the Internet or another network. The media stream is appropriately encoded at a quality level (e.g., at a bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.) that allows content to be delivered faster than it is played back. This sort of “faster than real time” encoding allows the placeshifted media stream to be buffered at the remote device for more effective performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: David Randolph Eyler, Padmanabha R. Rao, Raghuveer Tarra, Ilya Asnis
  • System for controlling access to an account
    Patent number: 9721084
    Abstract: An account management server, a communication device and a service device are provided for managing access to an account. The account management server, for example, includes, but is not limited to, a storage device configured to store identifying information for each of a plurality of service devices and configured to store an account associated with each of the plurality of service devices, and a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor is configured to: receive identifying information from a communication device; identify at least one service device whose stored identifying information matches the received identifying information; and grant management access to the account associated with the identified at least one service device to the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Sling Media, Inc.
    Inventor: David Randolph Eyler
  • Placeshifting live encoded video faster than real time
    Patent number: 9674257
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices are described to encode, deliver and playback a placeshifted media stream via the Internet or another network. The media stream is appropriately encoded at a quality level (e.g., at a bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.) that allows content to be delivered faster than it is played back. This sort of “faster than real time” encoding allows the placeshifted media stream to be buffered at the remote device for more effective performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: David Randolph Eyler, Padmanabha R. Rao, Raghuveer Tarra, Ilya Asnis
  • PLACESHIFTING LIVE ENCODED VIDEO FASTER THAN REAL TIME
    Publication number: 20150188966
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices are described to encode, deliver and playback a placeshifted media stream via the Internet or another network. The media stream is appropriately encoded at a quality level (e.g., at a bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.) that allows content to be delivered faster than it is played back. This sort of “faster than real time” encoding allows the placeshifted media stream to be buffered at the remote device for more effective performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: David Randolph Eyler, Padmanabha R. Rao, Raghuveer Tarra, Ilya Asnis
  • SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN ACCOUNT
    Publication number: 20140189836
    Abstract: An account management server, a communication device and a service device are provided for managing access to an account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SLING MEDIA INC.
    Inventor: David Randolph Eyler