Patents by Inventor K. William Woodward

K. William Woodward 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 load balancing across media server instances
    Patent number: 11303703
    Abstract: A system is presented for load balancing across media server instances. In an embodiment, media is broken out into a multi-tenanted service allowing the media to be scaled independently of the number of organizations supported on a cloud-based collaboration platform. Scaling may occur in a scaling-out or a scaling-in operation. States for a media service may comprise in-service, quiescing, quiesced, failed, etc. The states may be used to monitor sessions associated with an instance and determine which media instances to terminate during a scaling-in operation. In an embodiment, new instances may be added to a collection of media instances in response to an increased workload in a scaling-out operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Glenn Thomas Nethercutt, Roderick M. Francisco, Felix Immanuel Wyss, K. William Woodward
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOAD BALANCING ACROSS MEDIA SERVER INSTANCES
    Publication number: 20200322426
    Abstract: A system is presented for load balancing across media server instances. In an embodiment, media is broken out into a multi-tenanted service allowing the media to be scaled independently of the number of organizations supported on a cloud-based collaboration platform. Scaling may occur in a scaling-out or a scaling-in operation. States for a media service may comprise in-service, quiescing, quiesced, failed, etc. The states may be used to monitor sessions associated with an instance and determine which media instances to terminate during a scaling-in operation. In an embodiment, new instances may be added to a collection of media instances in response to an increased workload in a scaling-out operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Thomas Nethercutt, Roderick M. Francisco, Felix Immanuel Wyss, K. William Woodward
  • Systems and methods for load balancing across media server instances
    Patent number: 10701142
    Abstract: A system and method are presented for load balancing across media server instances. In an embodiment, media is broken out into a multi-tenanted service allowing the media to be scaled independently of the number of organizations supported on a cloud-based collaboration platform. Scaling may occur in a scaling-out or a scaling-in operation. States for a media service may comprise in-service, quiescing, quiesced, failed, etc. The states may be used to monitor sessions associated with an instance and determine which media instances to terminate during a scaling-in operation. In an embodiment, new instances may be added to a collection of media instances in response to an increased workload in a scaling-out operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Inventors: Glenn Thomas Nethercutt, Roderick M. Francisco, Felix Immanuel Wyss, K. William Woodward
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOAD BALANCING ACROSS MEDIA SERVER INSTANCES
    Publication number: 20190068699
    Abstract: A system and method are presented for load balancing across media server instances. In an embodiment, media is broken out into a multi-tenanted service allowing the media to be scaled independently of the number of organizations supported on a cloud-based collaboration platform. Scaling may occur in a scaling-out or a scaling-in operation. States for a media service may comprise in-service, quiescing, quiesced, failed, etc. The states may be used to monitor sessions associated with an instance and determine which media instances to terminate during a scaling-in operation. In an embodiment, new instances may be added to a collection of media instances in response to an increased workload in a scaling-out operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Glenn Thomas Nethercutt, Roderick M. Francisco, Felix Immanuel Wyss, K. William Woodward