Patents by Inventor Jimin Gao
Jimin Gao 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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Patent number: 8909806Abstract: A smooth streaming system provides a stateless protocol between a client and server in which the server embeds incremental control information in media fragments. The server provides uniform media fragment responses to media fragment requests that are cacheable by existing Internet cache infrastructure. The smooth streaming system receives media data in fragments from one or more encoders, creates an index of each fragment, and stores the fragments. The server provides fragments to clients that contain metadata information describing the encodings available on the server and the encoding of the fragment. The server may also provide information within each fragment that allows the client to determine whether the client is requesting data too fast or too slow, so that the client can adapt its request rate to a cadence in tune with the rate at which the server is receiving encoder data.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John A. Bocharov, Gegiang (Sam) Zhang, Krishna Prakash (Prakash) Duggaraju, Sudheer Sirivara, Lin Liu, Anirban Roy, Jimin Gao, Jack E. Freelander, Christopher G. Knowlton, Vishal Sood
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Patent number: 8904457Abstract: A computer-implemented method for archiving a live media presentation includes archiving the live media presentation as it is being streamed from a live server, wherein the archiving includes recording the live media presentation in fixed-length segments. A segment name is associated with each of the segments, wherein each of the segment names includes a time stamp. The fixed-length segments are stored on a video on-demand (VOD) server. A manifest is generated that describes at least a portion of the live media presentation and identifies a uniform resource locator (URL) to be used by a client device to access a first one of the segments, wherein the URL includes the segment name of the first segment.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Vishal Sood, Krishna P. Duggaraju, Geqiang Zhang, Anton Kucer, Raymond W. C. Cheng, Jimin Gao
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Publication number: 20140189761Abstract: A computer-implemented method for archiving a live media presentation includes archiving the live media presentation as it is being streamed from a live server, wherein the archiving includes recording the live media presentation in fixed-length segments. A segment name is associated with each of the segments, wherein each of the segment names includes a time stamp. The fixed-length segments are stored on a video on-demand (VOD) server. A manifest is generated that describes at least a portion of the live media presentation and identifies a uniform resource locator (URL) to be used by a client device to access a first one of the segments, wherein the URL includes the segment name of the first segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Vishal Sood, Krishna P. Duggaraju, Geqiang Zhang, Anton Kucer, Raymond W.C. Cheng, Jimin Gao
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Patent number: 8392748Abstract: A reliable streaming system increases reliability of live and on-demand streaming media events through a robust server architecture that allows fast failover and recovery in the event of network, hardware, or other failures. The system provides for failover of encoders, ingest servers, which receive encoded media data from encoders, and origin servers, which serve as the retrieval point of last resort for connecting clients. The system also provides a push proxy mechanism that allows one copy of data to feed redundant servers and pre-warm caches, saving on provisioned bandwidth. In addition, the system provides a distribution server role that allows content to be automatically syndicated to a region when needed. Thus, the reliable streaming system provides a streaming solution with no single point of failure and redundancy and fast failover built into the content network architecture.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John A. Bocharov, Geqiang (Sam) Zhang, Krishna Prakash Duggaraju, Lin Liu, Jimin Gao
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Publication number: 20110083037Abstract: A reliable streaming system increases reliability of live and on-demand streaming media events through a robust server architecture that allows fast failover and recovery in the event of network, hardware, or other failures. The system provides for failover of encoders, ingest servers, which receive encoded media data from encoders, and origin servers, which serve as the retrieval point of last resort for connecting clients. The system also provides a push proxy mechanism that allows one copy of data to feed redundant servers and pre-warm caches, saving on provisioned bandwidth. In addition, the system provides a distribution server role that allows content to be automatically syndicated to a region when needed. Thus, the reliable streaming system provides a streaming solution with no single point of failure and redundancy and fast failover built into the content network architecture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2009Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: John A. Bocharov, Geqiang (Sam) Zhang, Krishna Prakash Duggaraju, Lin Liu, Jimin Gao
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Publication number: 20100235528Abstract: A smooth streaming system provides a stateless protocol between a client and server in which the server embeds incremental control information in media fragments. The server provides uniform media fragment responses to media fragment requests that are cacheable by existing Internet cache infrastructure. The smooth streaming system receives media data in fragments from one or more encoders, creates an index of each fragment, and stores the fragments. The server provides fragments to clients that contain metadata information describing the encodings available on the server and the encoding of the fragment. The server may also provide information within each fragment that allows the client to determine whether the client is requesting data too fast or too slow, so that the client can adapt its request rate to a cadence in tune with the rate at which the server is receiving encoder data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2009Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: John A. Bocharov, Geqiang (Sam) Zhang, Krishna Prakash Duggaraju, Sudheer Sirivara, Lin Liu, Anirban Roy, Jimin Gao, Jack E. Freelander, Christopher G. Knowlton, Vishal Sood