Patents by Inventor Gareth J. Bowen

Gareth J. Bowen 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).

  • Reconciling redundant copies of media content
    Patent number: 10423481
    Abstract: A system can include a reconciliation engine configured to evaluate metadata in a given manifest file of a plurality of manifest files generated for redundant copies of a given media asset. The metadata describes a condition of a given chunk of media content in one of the redundant copies of the given media asset. The system can also include a manifest modification function configured to modify the given manifest file for the given chunk of media content in response to the reconciliation engine detecting that the given chunk of media content is damaged based on the evaluation of the metadata associated with the given chunk of media content in the given manifest file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Carol E. Iturralde, Eric C. Friedrich, Matthew F. Caulfield, Kevin S. Kirkup, Keith Millar, Gareth J. Bowen
  • RECONCILING REDUNDANT COPIES OF MEDIA CONTENT
    Publication number: 20150261600
    Abstract: A system can include a reconciliation engine configured to evaluate metadata in a given manifest file of a plurality of manifest files generated for redundant copies of a given media asset. The metadata describes a condition of a given chunk of media content in one of the redundant copies of the given media asset. The system can also include a manifest modification function configured to modify the given manifest file for the given chunk of media content in response to the reconciliation engine detecting that the given chunk of media content is damaged based on the evaluation of the metadata associated with the given chunk of media content in the given manifest file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Carol E. Iturralde, Eric C. Friedrich, Matthew F. Caulfield, Kevin S. Kirkup, Keith Millar, Gareth J. Bowen