Patents by Inventor John Bradley Simmons

John Bradley Simmons 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).

  • System, method and program for managing file downloads
    Patent number: 9229933
    Abstract: System, method and program for managing download of a file. A current request to establish a session is received. In the session, there is a request to download the file beginning at a specified location after a start of the file. The current request does not specify a fixed length of the requested download. A length of the file to be downloaded is estimated based on prior requests to download the file beginning at other respective locations. In response to the current request, the estimated length of the file is downloaded beginning at the specified location. In response to downloading the estimated length of the file beginning at the specified location, the download of the file is suspended for a time window. If the session corresponding to the current request is not terminated within the time window, then download of the file is automatically resumed following the length in further response to the current request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Allen Campbell, Robert Franklin Pryor, John Bradley Simmons
  • SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR MANAGING FILE DOWNLOADS
    Publication number: 20080147876
    Abstract: System, method and program for managing download of a file. A current request to establish a session is received. In the session, there is a request to download the file beginning at a specified location after a start of the file. The current request does not specify a fixed length of the requested download. A length of the file to be downloaded is estimated based on prior requests to download the file beginning at other respective locations. In response to the current request, the estimated length of the file is downloaded beginning at the specified location. In response to downloading the estimated length of the file beginning at the specified location, the download of the file is suspended for a time window. If the session corresponding to the current request is not terminated within the time window, then download of the file is automatically resumed following the length in further response to the current request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Allen Campbell, Robert Franklin Pryor, John Bradley Simmons