Patents by Inventor James S. Manchester
James S. Manchester 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).
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Publication number: 20240007517Abstract: An encoder resource receives segments of content on one or more data feeds. The encoder resource receives and/or produces encoder control information specifying multiple different bit rate data streams on which to encode the segments of content. As specified by the encoder control information, in accordance with encoding rules, the encoder resource adaptively encodes the segments of content into a varying number of different bit rate data streams. Clients in a network environment initiate retrieval of the varying number of different bit rate data streams to playback content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: James S. Manchester, Wilfred Jaime Miles, Matthew Zelesko, Ethan Wolf
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Patent number: 11792250Abstract: An encoder resource receives segments of content on one or more data feeds. The encoder resource receives and/or produces encoder control information specifying multiple different bit rate data streams on which to encode the segments of content. As specified by the encoder control information, in accordance with encoding rules, the encoder resource adaptively encodes the segments of content into a varying number of different bit rate data streams. Clients in a network environment initiate retrieval of the varying number of different bit rate data streams to playback content.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLCInventors: James S. Manchester, Wilfred Jaime Miles, Matthew Zelesko, Ethan Wolf
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Patent number: 11575950Abstract: A server resource provides notification to subscribers in a respective network environment that the content is available for retrieval at a particular bit rate (e.g., a promotional bit rate) or particular level of quality (e.g., promotional level of quality) amongst multiple levels of quality for a limited duration of time. For example, an especially high level of quality (or bit rate) of the content may be available only for the limited duration of time. After making the especially high level of quality of content available for retrieval during a promotional period, the content may be subsequently available for retrieval only at lower levels of quality. Accordingly, one or more configurations as discussed herein include changing the ability to access content encoded at different levels of quality over time.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLCInventors: Wilfred Jaime Miles, James S. Manchester
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Publication number: 20200287954Abstract: An encoder resource receives segments of content on one or more data feeds. The encoder resource receives and/or produces encoder control information specifying multiple different bit rate data streams on which to encode the segments of content. As specified by the encoder control information, in accordance with encoding rules, the encoder resource adaptively encodes the segments of content into a varying number of different bit rate data streams. Clients in a network environment initiate retrieval of the varying number of different bit rate data streams to playback content.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: James S. Manchester, Wilfred Jaime Miles, Matthew Zelesko, Ethan Wolf
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Patent number: 10708335Abstract: An encoder resource receives segments of content on one or more data feeds. The encoder resource receives and/or produces encoder control information specifying multiple different bit rate data streams on which to encode the segments of content. As specified by the encoder control information, in accordance with encoding rules, the encoder resource adaptively encodes the segments of content into a varying number of different bit rate data streams. Clients in a network environment initiate retrieval of the varying number of different bit rate data streams to playback content.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLCInventors: James S. Manchester, Wilfred Jaime Miles, Matthew Zelesko, Ethan Wolf
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Patent number: 9774892Abstract: A server resource provides notification to subscribers in a respective network environment that the content is available for retrieval at a particular bit rate (e.g., a promotional bit rate) or particular level of quality (e.g., promotional level of quality) amongst multiple levels of quality for a limited duration of time. For example, an especially high level of quality (or bit rate) of the content may be available only for the limited duration of time. After making the especially high level of quality of content available for retrieval during a promotional period, the content may be subsequently available for retrieval only at lower levels of quality. Accordingly, one or more configurations as discussed herein include changing the ability to access content encoded at different levels of quality over time.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLCInventors: Wilfred Jaime Miles, James S. Manchester
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Publication number: 20170272790Abstract: A server resource provides notification to subscribers in a respective network environment that the content is available for retrieval at a particular bit rate (e.g., a promotional bit rate) or particular level of quality (e.g., promotional level of quality) amongst multiple levels of quality for a limited duration of time. For example, an especially high level of quality (or bit rate) of the content may be available only for the limited duration of time. After making the especially high level of quality of content available for retrieval during a promotional period, the content may be subsequently available for retrieval only at lower levels of quality. Accordingly, one or more configurations as discussed herein include changing the ability to access content encoded at different levels of quality over time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Wilfred Jaime Miles, James S. Manchester
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Publication number: 20170134772Abstract: A content delivery resource in a cable network receives a request for specified content. The content delivery resource retrieves profile information assigned to the subscriber domain. The profile information indicates multiple different playback formats assigned to the subscriber domain. To service the request, the content delivery resource utilizes the profile information associated with the subscriber domain to select versions of the specified content encoded in accordance with the multiple different playback formats. The content delivery resource then initiates transmission of the versions of the specified content in the multiple different playback formats to the subscriber domain for playback on multiple types of playback devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: James S. Manchester, Michael Angus, Wilfred Jaime Miles
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Patent number: 9578352Abstract: A content delivery resource in a cable network receives a request for specified content. The content delivery resource retrieves profile information assigned to the subscriber domain. The profile information indicates multiple different playback formats assigned to the subscriber domain. To service the request, the content delivery resource utilizes the profile information associated with the subscriber domain to select versions of the specified content encoded in accordance with the multiple different playback formats. The content delivery resource then initiates transmission of the versions of the specified content in the multiple different playback formats to the subscriber domain for playback on multiple types of playback devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLCInventors: James S. Manchester, Michael Angus, Wilfred Jaime Miles
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Publication number: 20150074733Abstract: A content delivery resource in a cable network receives a request for specified content. The content delivery resource retrieves profile information assigned to the subscriber domain. The profile information indicates multiple different playback formats assigned to the subscriber domain. To service the request, the content delivery resource utilizes the profile information associated with the subscriber domain to select versions of the specified content encoded in accordance with the multiple different playback formats. The content delivery resource then initiates transmission of the versions of the specified content in the multiple different playback formats to the subscriber domain for playback on multiple types of playback devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: James S. Manchester, Michael Angus, Wilfred Jaime Miles
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Patent number: 8910220Abstract: A content delivery resource in a cable network receives a request for specified content. The content delivery resource retrieves profile information assigned to the subscriber domain. The profile information indicates multiple different playback formats assigned to the subscriber domain. To service the request, the content delivery resource utilizes the profile information associated with the subscriber domain to select versions of the specified content encoded in accordance with the multiple different playback formats. The content delivery resource then initiates transmission of the versions of the specified content in the multiple different playback formats to the subscriber domain for playback on multiple types of playback devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLCInventors: James S. Manchester, Michael Angus, Wilfred Jaime Miles
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Publication number: 20140259054Abstract: A server resource provides notification to subscribers in a respective network environment that the content is available for retrieval at a particular bit rate (e.g., a promotional bit rate) or particular level of quality (e.g., promotional level of quality) amongst multiple levels of quality for a limited duration of time. For example, an especially high level of quality (or bit rate) of the content may be available only for the limited duration of time. After making the especially high level of quality of content available for retrieval during a promotional period, the content may be subsequently available for retrieval only at lower levels of quality. Accordingly, one or more configurations as discussed herein include changing the ability to access content encoded at different levels of quality over time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Inventors: Jaime Miles, James S. Manchester
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Patent number: 8806529Abstract: A server resource provides notification to subscribers in a respective network environment that the content is available for retrieval at a particular bit rate (e.g., a promotional bit rate) or particular level of quality (e.g., promotional level of quality) amongst multiple levels of quality for a limited duration of time. For example, an especially high level of quality (or bit rate) of the content may be available only for the limited duration of time. After making the especially high level of quality of content available for retrieval during a promotional period, the content may be subsequently available for retrieval only at lower levels of quality. Accordingly, one or more configurations as discussed herein include changing the ability to access content encoded at different levels of quality over time.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLCInventors: Wilfred Jaime Miles, James S. Manchester
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Publication number: 20140143823Abstract: An encoder resource receives segments of content on one or more data feeds. The encoder resource receives and/or produces encoder control information specifying multiple different bit rate data streams on which to encode the segments of content. As specified by the encoder control information, in accordance with encoding rules, the encoder resource adaptively encodes the segments of content into a varying number of different bit rate data streams. Clients in a network environment initiate retrieval of the varying number of different bit rate data streams to playback content.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Inventors: James S. Manchester, Wilfred Jaime Miles, Matthew Zelesko, Ethan Wolf
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Publication number: 20140020034Abstract: A content delivery resource in a cable network receives a request for specified content. The content delivery resource retrieves profile information assigned to the subscriber domain. The profile information indicates multiple different playback formats assigned to the subscriber domain. To service the request, the content delivery resource utilizes the profile information associated with the subscriber domain to select versions of the specified content encoded in accordance with the multiple different playback formats. The content delivery resource then initiates transmission of the versions of the specified content in the multiple different playback formats to the subscriber domain for playback on multiple types of playback devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: James S. Manchester, Michael Angus, Wilfred Jaime Miles
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Publication number: 20130268961Abstract: A server resource provides notification to subscribers in a respective network environment that the content is available for retrieval at a particular bit rate (e.g., a promotional bit rate) or particular level of quality (e.g., promotional level of quality) amongst multiple levels of quality for a limited duration of time. For example, an especially high level of quality (or bit rate) of the content may be available only for the limited duration of time. After making the especially high level of quality of content available for retrieval during a promotional period, the content may be subsequently available for retrieval only at lower levels of quality. Accordingly, one or more configurations as discussed herein include changing the ability to access content encoded at different levels of quality over time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Wilfred Jaime Miles, James S. Manchester
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Patent number: 6263443Abstract: A simplified data link protocol which may be implemented in a very high-speed transmission system, e.g., SONET, processes a datagram received from an IP facility according to QoS considerations and scrambles a datagram before it is again scrambled by a transmission system, e.g., a SONET transmitter, to ensure that the pattern of a user's data does not match the transmission scrambling pattern. The data link protocol scrambler also employs a novel synchronization scheme. We also use a pointer system which identifies the location of a datagram in a frame to eliminate flags and the need to process user data to ensure that it does not contain and a boundary flag.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1997Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Agere Systems Guardian Corp.Inventors: Jon Anderson, Bharat Tarachand Doshi, Subrahmanyam Dravida, Enrique Hernandez-Valencia, Murali Krishnaswamy, James S. Manchester
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Patent number: 6049523Abstract: The delineation and quick invocation of protection switching is achieved by generating a protection indicator having an initial state at the point that a transmission facility failure is detected and passing the indicator downstream. A switch that receives the indicator either increments or decrements the indicator in accordance with predetermined rules. However, a switch that receives the indicator when it reaches an active state immediately invokes protection switching if that switch is at the sink end of an associated protection path.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1997Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Jon Anderson, James S. Manchester, Maarten Petrus Joseph Vissers
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Patent number: 5793745Abstract: Protection Bundles (PB) facilitate efficient protection switching in a network and can be applied at any network layer. A PB is preferably assigned to all working signals sharing the exact same protection facilities. The working facilities that a PB traverses define a Bundled Protection Fragment (BPF)(560, 564, 568). The end-points of the BPF exchange coordination protocol messages along the protection facilities when necessary. The protection facilities between the end-points of a BPF define each BPFs Common Protection Route (CPR)(562, 566, 570).Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1996Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: Bell Communications Research, Inc.Inventor: James S. Manchester
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Patent number: RE40923Abstract: A simplified data link protocol which may be implemented in a very high-speed transmission system, e.g., SONET, processes a datagram received from an IP facility according to QoS considerations and scrambles a datagram before it is again scrambled by a transmission system, e.g., a SONET transmitter, to ensure that the pattern of a user's data does not match the transmission scrambling pattern. The data link protocol scrambler also employs a novel synchronization scheme. We also use a pointer system which identifies the location of a datagram in a frame to eliminate flags and the need to process user data to ensure that it does not contain and a boundary flag.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2003Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.Inventors: Jon Anderson, Bharat Tarachand Doshi, Subrahmanyam Dravida, Enrique Hernandez-Valencia, Murali Krishnaswamy, James S. Manchester