Patents by Inventor Hugh Donal Stewart

Hugh Donal Stewart 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).

  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING QUALITY ASSURANCE
    Publication number: 20100299411
    Abstract: A network includes a media server and a service activation device. The media server may receive a request for content from a subscriber device and transmit a message. The message may identify the subscriber device and include information relating to the content. The service activation device may receive the message from the media server, identify, in response to receiving the message, bandwidth and quality of service requirements for the content, determine whether resources needed to provide the identified bandwidth and quality of service requirements exist, reserve the resources when the resources needed to provide the identified bandwidth and quality of service requirements exist, and transmit a second message to the media server in response to reserving the resources. The second message may cause the media server to provide the content to the subscriber device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Hugh Donal STEWART, Gregory Allan SIDEBOTTOM, Wladimir de Lara Filho ARAUJO, Steffen Georg RIES, Scott Joseph STEVENS
  • Systems and methods for providing quality assurance
    Patent number: 7797401
    Abstract: A server includes first logic to receive a message identifying a subscriber device and including information relating to content requested by the subscriber device; and second logic to determine whether adequate network resources exist for providing the requested content to the subscriber device, and to reserve the network resources when adequate network resources are determined to exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh Donal Stewart, Gregory Allan Sidebottom, Wladimir de Lara Filho Araujo, Steffen Georg Ries, Scott Joseph Stevens
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING QUALITY ASSURANCE
    Publication number: 20080320144
    Abstract: A network includes a media server and a service activation device. The media server may receive a request for content from a subscriber device and transmit a message. The message may identify the subscriber device and include information relating to the content. The service activation device may receive the message from the media server, identify, in response to receiving the message, bandwidth and quality of service requirements for the content, determine whether resources needed to provide the identified bandwidth and quality of service requirements exist, reserve the resources when the resources needed to provide the identified bandwidth and quality of service requirements exist, and transmit a second message to the media server in response to reserving the resources. The second message may cause the media server to provide the content to the subscriber device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Hugh Donal STEWART, Gregory Allan SIDEBOTTOM, Wladimir de Lara Filho ARAUJO, Steffen Georg RIES, Scott Joseph STEVENS
  • Systems and methods for providing quality assurance
    Patent number: 7437458
    Abstract: A network includes a media server and a service activation device. The media server may receive a request for content from a subscriber device and transmit a message. The message may identify the subscriber device and include information relating to the content. The service activation device may receive the message from the media server, identify, in response to receiving the message, bandwidth and quality of service requirements for the content, determine whether resources needed to provide the identified bandwidth and quality of service requirements exist, reserve the resources when the resources needed to provide the identified bandwidth and quality of service requirements exist, and transmit a second message to the media server in response to reserving the resources. The second message may cause the media server to provide the content to the subscriber device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh Donal Stewart, Gregory Allan Sidebottom, Wladimir de Lara Filho Araujo, Steffen Georg Ries, Scott Joseph Stevens