Patents by Inventor Devavrat Shah

Devavrat Shah 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).

  • Feedback-based online network coding
    Patent number: 8068426
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for feedback-based online network coding is presented. In one embodiment, a transmitting node determines a linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue. The transmitting node transmits the linear combination of packets. The transmitting node determines whether a packet can be removed from the transmit queue, wherein when a determination is made that a packet can be removed from the transmit queue then removing the packet from the transmit queue, and when a determination is made that a packet cannot be removed from the transmit queue then refraining from removing the packet from the transmit queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Devavrat Shah, Muriel Medard, Parastoo Sadeghi
  • FEEDBACK-BASED ONLINE NETWORK CODING
    Publication number: 20100046371
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for feedback-based online network coding is presented. In one embodiment, a transmitting node determines a linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue. The transmitting node transmits the linear combination of packets. The transmitting node determines whether a packet can be removed from the transmit queue, wherein when a determination is made that a packet can be removed from the transmit queue then removing the packet from the transmit queue, and when a determination is made that a packet cannot be removed from the transmit queue then refraining from removing the packet from the transmit queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Devavrat Shah, Muriel Medard, Parastoo Sadeghi