Patents by Inventor Gordon Kent Walker

Gordon Kent Walker 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: 11470374
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices enable a receiver device to determine completeness of low level signaling (LLS) tables received via broadcast transmissions. In various embodiments, broadcast service signaling may include determining whether a received LLS table is a directory table identifying each of a complete set of LLS tables, parsing the directory table, determining whether the directory table is confirmed based at least in part on a digital signature in the directory table, determining whether a complete set of LLS tables is received based at least in part on the identification of each of the complete set of LLS tables in the directory table, and determining available services based at least in part on the complete set of LLS tables before an expiration a repetition time period after receiving the directory table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gordon Kent Walker, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Charles Nung Lo
  • Patent number: 11321516
    Abstract: In one example, a device for retrieving media data includes a memory configured to store an ISO Base Media File Format (ISO BMFF) file including one or more samples including hypertext markup language (HTML) elements defining dynamic web content, and a processing unit implemented in circuitry and configured to: retrieve the ISO BMFF file, extract the HTML elements from the samples of the file, and processing the HTML elements to present the dynamic web content. The HTML elements may include JavaScript elements. The processing unit may also present the dynamic web content in a manner that is synchronized with corresponding media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Waqar Zia, Charles Nung Lo, Thomas Stockhammer, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Ye-Kui Wang, Gordon Kent Walker
  • Publication number: 20220046307
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices enable a receiver device to determine completeness of low level signaling (LLS) tables received via broadcast transmissions. In various embodiments, broadcast service signaling may include determining whether a received LLS table is a directory table identifying each of a complete set of LLS tables, parsing the directory table, determining whether the directory table is confirmed based at least in part on a digital signature in the directory table, determining whether a complete set of LLS tables is received based at least in part on the identification of each of the complete set of LLS tables in the directory table, and determining available services based at least in part on the complete set of LLS tables before an expiration a repetition time period after receiving the directory table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Gordon Kent WALKER, Giridhar Dhati MANDYAM, Charles Nung LO
  • Patent number: 11190827
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices enable a receiver device to determine completeness of low level signaling (LLS) tables received via broadcast transmissions. In various embodiments, broadcast service signaling may include generating a directory table identifying one or more LLS tables to be broadcast and sending the directory table in a broadcast stream of the one or more LLS tables. In various embodiments, broadcast service signaling may include calculating a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code for, generating a hash value for, and/or applying a digital signature to one or more LLS tables in a broadcast stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gordon Kent Walker, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Charles Nung Lo
  • Patent number: 10938872
    Abstract: An example device for retrieving media data includes a streaming client and a media presentation application configured in one or more processors implemented in circuitry. The streaming client is configured to determine a start time for an event message corresponding to an interactivity window during which one or more application-specific interactivity events can occur during presentation of media data, the application-specific interactivity events comprising times during which a user of the device can interact with the presented media data, determine an end time for the event message corresponding to the interactivity window, receive data representative of at least one of the application-specific interactivity events during the interactivity window corresponding to the event message, and forward the data representative of the at least one of the application-specific interactivity events to the media presentation application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles Nung Lo, Thomas Stockhammer, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Gordon Kent Walker, Waqar Zia, Ralph Akram Gholmieh
  • Patent number: 10931763
    Abstract: Systems and methods for delivery of opaque objects provided by a content provider to network nodes within a communication network are described. Opaque objects may comprise data objects whose data structure is not natively defined in the network interface and thus have a data type and/or structure that would be unknown to systems of the network. Communication systems may be configured according to embodiments to facilitate delivery of such opaque objects, such as by providing a robust network interface between a content provider system and the network through which network information is provided from the network to the content provider system and/or delivery manifest information for opaque objects is provided from the content provider system to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Gordon Kent Walker, Thomas Stockhammer, Charles Nung Lo
  • Patent number: 10902474
    Abstract: In one example, a method of retrieving media data includes, by a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) client of a client device: receiving advertisement media data of one or more advertisement groups, receiving an identifier value for one of the advertisement groups from a dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) client of the client device, extracting the advertisement media data of the advertisement group corresponding to the identifier value, and providing the extracted advertisement media data to the DASH client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles Nung Lo, Thomas Stockhammer, Gordon Kent Walker, Jun Wang, Nagaraju Naik, Carlos Marcelo Dias Pazos
  • Patent number: 10779057
    Abstract: Systems and methods for handling and outputting broadcast content and secondary content based on metadata embedded in the broadcast content are provided. Embodiments may include receiving broadcast content, wherein the received broadcast content includes metadata embedded into the broadcast content. Embodiments may also include decoding the broadcast content to extract the metadata from the broadcast content and outputting the broadcast content in collaboration with the extracted metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Giridhar Mandyam, Gordon Kent Walker, Charles Nung Lo, Thomas Stockhammer
  • Patent number: 10708666
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of various embodiments enable the provision of providing terrestrial broadcast television services over a cellular broadcast system. In various embodiments, a processor of a network element of the cellular broadcast system may parse a terrestrial broadcast television service for one or more information elements. The processor may configure a service description of the cellular broadcast system to include the one or more information elements of the terrestrial broadcast television service. The processor may send the configured service description over the cellular broadcast system to a receiving device to enable the receiving device to receive the terrestrial broadcast television service over the cellular broadcast system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles Nung Lo, Thomas Stockhammer, Nagaraju Naik, Carlos Marcelo Dias Pazos, Gordon Kent Walker
  • Patent number: 10666961
    Abstract: A method of transporting media data includes, by a file-based protocol sending unit of a source device, receiving a stream of data comprising Segments of media data from a segmenter of the source device that forms the Segments, each of the Segments comprising a respective individually retrievable file associated with a unique uniform resource locator (URL), determining locations of media delivery events (MDEs) in the stream of media data, wherein the MDEs include data for at least a portion of one of the Segments, determining one or more transmission time requirements for the MDEs representing times at which the MDEs are to be sent to a client device, and providing the MDEs and data representing the transmission time requirements to a physical layer sending unit of the source device according to available delivery slots for the physical layer sending unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Gordon Kent Walker, Thomas Stockhammer
  • Patent number: 10560509
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable HTTP redirect messages to indicate content access policy information. In this manner, policy rules may be implemented based on the policy information in the HTTP redirect messages to control network congestion and/or quality of service (“QOS”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles Nung Lo, Thomas Stockhammer, Kevin Roland Fall, Carlos Marcelo Dias Pazos, Jun Wang, Nikolai Konrad Leung, Gordon Kent Walker
  • Patent number: 10506059
    Abstract: Various embodiments for delivering application content signaling information to a receiver device may include a server generating a metadata fragment for application content items of an application to be acquired by a receiver device, adding to the metadata fragment a first set of attributes including a list of other linear services that use the application content items described by the metadata fragment, and transmitting the metadata fragment to the receiver device. The first set of attributes further may include an application launch page or launch file indicator for the application and/or an indication of required capabilities for rendering the application and its associated one or more application content items. The first set of attributes further may include a start time and an end time for at least one distribution window for the application, the distribution window may be associated with information about auxiliary application content delivered during the distribution window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles Nung Lo, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Thomas Stockhammer, Gordon Kent Walker
  • Patent number: 10506058
    Abstract: Methods for delivering application content signaling information may include a generating a metadata fragment for application content items of an application to be acquired by a receiver device, adding to the metadata fragment a first set of attributes indicating that rendering of a linear service or a group of linear services is performed by a media player embedded in the application, and transmitting the metadata fragment to the receiver device. The first set of attributes may include an application launch page or launch file indicator for the application, and/or an indication of required capabilities for rendering the application and associated application content items. The first set of attributes may include a start time and an end time for at least one distribution window for the application, and the at least one distribution window may be associated with information about auxiliary application content delivered during the at least one distribution window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles Nung Lo, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Thomas Stockhammer, Gordon Kent Walker
  • Publication number: 20190335221
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices enable a receiver device to determine completeness of low level signaling (LLS) tables received via broadcast transmissions. In various embodiments, broadcast service signaling may include generating a directory table identifying one or more LLS tables to be broadcast and sending the directory table in a broadcast stream of the one or more LLS tables. In various embodiments, broadcast service signaling may include calculating a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code for, generating a hash value for, and/or applying a digital signature to one or more LLS tables in a broadcast stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Gordon Kent Walker, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Charles Nung Lo
  • Patent number: 10454985
    Abstract: In one example, a device includes one or more media decoders configured to decode media data, a network interface configured to receive a layered coding transport (LCT) Session Instance Description (LSID), the LSID including information representing a plurality of LCT sessions, each of the LCT sessions including data of a respective one of a plurality of representations of a DASH media presentation and data of one or more of the LCT sessions, and a processor configured to initiate consumption of one or more of the representations of the DASH media presentation using the LSID and without using a manifest file for the DASH media presentation, wherein to initiate consumption, the processor is configured to receive, via the network interface, packets of the LCT sessions including portions of data of the one or more of the representations; and provide data of the packets to the one or more media decoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Stockhammer, Gordon Kent Walker, Ye-Kui Wang
  • Publication number: 20190281100
    Abstract: An example device for retrieving media data includes a streaming client and a media presentation application configured in one or more processors implemented in circuitry. The streaming client is configured to determine a start time for an event message corresponding to an interactivity window during which one or more application-specific interactivity events can occur during presentation of media data, the application-specific interactivity events comprising times during which a user of the device can interact with the presented media data, determine an end time for the event message corresponding to the interactivity window, receive data representative of at least one of the application-specific interactivity events during the interactivity window corresponding to the event message, and forward the data representative of the at least one of the application-specific interactivity events to the media presentation application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Charles Nung Lo, Thomas Stockhammer, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Gordon Kent Walker, Waqar Zia, Ralph Akram Gholmieh
  • Publication number: 20190243881
    Abstract: In one example, a device for retrieving media data includes a memory configured to store an ISO Base Media File Format (ISO BMFF) file including one or more samples including hypertext markup language (HTML) elements defining dynamic web content, and a processing unit implemented in circuitry and configured to: retrieve the ISO BMFF file, extract the HTML elements from the samples of the file, and processing the HTML elements to present the dynamic web content. The HTML elements may include JavaScript elements. The processing unit may also present the dynamic web content in a manner that is synchronized with corresponding media data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Waqar Zia, Charles Nung Lo, Thomas Stockhammer, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam, Ye-Kui Wang, Gordon Kent Walker
  • Publication number: 20190238950
    Abstract: In one example, a device for retrieving media data includes a memory configured to store media data including advertisement content and main media data, and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: send advertisement information to an advertisement server device; in response to sending the advertisement information, receive the advertisement content from the advertisement server; retrieve the main media data; and provision the advertisement content to the main media data. The device may further include a coded picture buffer (CPB) and a video decoder that retrieves encoded video data from the CPB for decoding. The one or more processors may provision the advertisement content to the main media content by sending both the advertisement content and the main media content to the CPB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Stockhammer, Charles Nung Lo, Gordon Kent Walker, Giridhar Dhati Mandyam
  • Patent number: 10298647
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable managing a start time of media content in a media receiver device. A processor of the receiver device may receive media content labeled with a transmission time from a sending device. The processor may determine a service construction delay of the media content of the media content. The processor may determine a time offset of the media content based on the service construction delay. The processor may deliver the media content to a streaming media client in the receiver device using the time offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Gordon Kent Walker, Thomas Stockhammer
  • Patent number: 10285159
    Abstract: Diversity enhancement for multiple carrier systems is disclosed which includes generation of a multiplexed multicarrier radio frequency (RF) signal having N carriers organized to be accessed at a rate of one carrier access per multicast channel (MCH) scheduling period (MSP) per carrier of the N carriers, thereby requiring N accesses per MSP duration across the N carriers. The method may also include the base station transmitting the RF signal to a user equipment (UE). In other aspects, the diversity enhancements include the UE receiving a multiplexed multicarrier RF signal having N carriers. The UE may access the N carriers by performing one carrier access per MSP per carrier of the N carriers, thereby performing N accesses per MSP duration across the N carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gordon Kent Walker, Ralph Akram Gholmieh, Jun Wang, Xiaoxia Zhang, Kuo-Chun Lee, Nagaraju Naik