Patents by Inventor Konstantinos Roussos

Konstantinos Roussos 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).

  • Caching media data using content-sensitive identifiers
    Patent number: 6813690
    Abstract: Techniques for caching media data, including streaming media data, using content-sensitive identifiers. The content-sensitive identifiers enable a caching proxy or a caching server to unambiguously determine the version or contents of media data cached by the caching proxy for a particular data pointer or data reference (e.g., a URL) such that an appropriate version of the media data can be served to a requesting client system in an efficient and economical manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Lango, Jeffrey Dale Merrick, Konstantinos Roussos, Robert Tsai, J. Christopher Wagner
  • Pre-computing streaming media payload method and apparatus
    Patent number: 6742082
    Abstract: A method for pre-computing a streaming media payload in a server includes receiving a data file from a streaming media server, determining a plurality of data packets from the data file, dividing the plurality of data packets into a plurality of sets of data packets, forming a plurality of data objects, each data object comprising a set of data packets from the plurality of sets of data packets, and storing the plurality of data objects in a server memory, wherein each data object is individually accessible from the server memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Network Appliance
    Inventors: Jason Lango, Ram Kesavan, Konstantinos Roussos, Robert Tsai, Christopher Wagner