Patents by Inventor Dawson Frank Dean

Dawson Frank Dean 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).

  • Metaserver for a multimedia distribution network
    Patent number: 6412004
    Abstract: A metaserver for managing the delivery of multimedia streams from, a plurality of multimedia servers to multiple clients over a diverse network is disclosed. The metaserver allows one to eliminate the bottleneck problem associated with the limited speed of a single multimedia server, reduce the network congestion and increase the fault tolerance of the whole system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ling Tony Chen, Dawson Frank Dean