Patents by Inventor Marcel Villaflor
Marcel Villaflor 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: 10616300Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for managing the wireless delivery of streaming media content to a user equipment (UE) device. A UE device establishes a network connection with a local wireless network, which in turn is associated with a wireless network region with a corresponding data infrastructure server. The UE device then requests predetermined streaming media content from the data infrastructure server. A determination is made whether the requested streaming media content is stored in transcoded form on the data infrastructure server. If so, then a control information network is implemented to transmit and receive streaming media content control data between the UE device and the data infrastructure server. In turn, the streaming media content control data is used by the data infrastructure server to control the transmission of the transcoded streaming media content over a data network for delivery to the UE device.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Arnold Sheynman, Mark Pecen, Marcel Villaflor, Dake He
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Publication number: 20170244773Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for managing the wireless delivery of streaming media content to a user equipment (UE) device. A UE device establishes a network connection with a local wireless network, which in turn is associated with a wireless network region with a corresponding data infrastructure server. The UE device then requests predetermined streaming media content from the data infrastructure server. A determination is made whether the requested streaming media content is stored in transcoded form on the data infrastructure server. If so, then a control information network is implemented to transmit and receive streaming media content control data between the UE device and the data infrastructure server. In turn, the streaming media content control data is used by the data infrastructure server to control the transmission of the transcoded streaming media content over a data network for delivery to the UE device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Arnold Sheynman, Mark Pecen, Marcel Villaflor, Dake He
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Patent number: 9680896Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for managing the wireless delivery of streaming media content to a user equipment (UE) device. A UE device establishes a network connection with a local wireless network, which in turn is associated with a wireless network region with a corresponding data infrastructure server. The UE device then requests predetermined streaming media content from the data infrastructure server. A determination is made whether the requested streaming media content is stored in transcoded form on the data infrastructure server. If so, then a control information network is implemented to transmit and receive streaming media content control data between the UE device and the data infrastructure server. In turn, the streaming media content control data is used by the data infrastructure server to control the transmission of the transcoded streaming media content over a data network for delivery to the UE device.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Arnold Sheynman, Mark Pecen, Marcel Villaflor, Dake He
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Patent number: 9100448Abstract: A communication device and method for throttling transmitted data is provided. Token parameters of an aggregate token bucket, associated with a communication application, are distributed, at a processing unit, to respective application token buckets associated with at least two further applications. The communication application is enabled to receive respective data from the at least two further applications for transmission to a network via a communication interfaces. The respective data received from the at least two further applications is throttled via the respective application token buckets.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Wael Midani, Ling Zou, Marcel Villaflor
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Publication number: 20130188485Abstract: A communication device and method for throttling transmitted data is provided. Token parameters of an aggregate token bucket, associated with a communication application, are distributed, at a processing unit, to respective application token buckets associated with at least two further applications. The communication application is enabled to receive respective data from the at least two further applications for transmission to a network via a communication interfaces. The respective data received from the at least two further applications is throttled via the respective application token buckets.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Wael MIDANI, Ling ZOU, Marcel VILLAFLOR
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Patent number: 7324552Abstract: A method is given for sharing reserved bandwidth between a plurality of connections issuing from a port of a node. A connection bandwidth is determined for each connection of the plurality of connections. An aggregate bandwidth is determined for all connections of the plurality of connections issuing from the port, the aggregate bandwidth being less than a sum of the connection bandwidth for all connections. The aggregate bandwidth is compared with a maximum access rate for the port, and in the event that the aggregate bandwidth does not exceed the maximum access rate, reserving the aggregate bandwidth for the port.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2003Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Claude Galand, Marcel Villaflor
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Patent number: 6647008Abstract: A method for establishing a network connection through a link issuing from a physical port is disclosed. The link has an aggregation of connections. The network connection has a required capacity. The method first computes, from mean bit rates of the aggregation of connections, a mean aggregate bit rate over the aggregation of connections. The method secondly computes, from burst durations from the aggregation of connections, a mean aggregate burst duration over the aggregation of connections. The method thirdly computes an equivalent capacity required on the link by the aggregation of connections, the equivalent capacity being a function of the mean aggregate bit rate and the mean aggregate burst duration. The method fourthly computes an aggregate equivalent capacity, the aggregate equivalent capacity being a function of the equivalent capacity and the required capacity of the connection.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1998Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: IBM CorporationInventors: Claude Galand, Marcel Villaflor
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Patent number: 6628670Abstract: The present application discloses a method and system of sharing reserved bandwidth among several connections issuing from a same physical port in an origin node of a packet switching communication network comprising a plurality of nodes interconnected with transmission links. At each request for establishing a connection i from an origin node to a destination node, the dependent connection management process: selects for connection i a routing path comprising one or a plurality of links from the origin node to the destination node: identifies on the selected path all consecutive links starting from the origin node and shared with another connection issuing from the same physical port; reserves on each link of these identified consecutive links an aggregate bandwidth for all connections issuing from the same physical port, said aggregate bandwidth being less than the sum of the bandwidth reserved for each connection considered individually.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1999Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Claude Galand, Marcel Villaflor
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Patent number: 6262974Abstract: A method based on predefined connection priorities for assigning link bandwidth to a requesting user in a high speed digital network interconnecting network users through a path including network nodes connected through high speed links. According to this method, a predefined reservable link bandwidth is split into so-called nominal bandwidth portions and common bandwidth portions, both assignable to the same connections on a priority basis. Each of the common bandwidth priorities is individually related to a nominal bandwidth priority through a predefined relationship, making the common bandwidth priorities always lower than any nominal priority. In this way the requested link connection bandwidth, whatever be its nominal priority, is made preemptable primarily on all common bandwidth, thus avoiding the disruption of any network connection which is already established.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1998Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denis Chevalier, Olivier Bertin, Claude Galand, Yves Ouvry, Marcel Villaflor
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Patent number: 5881050Abstract: A method based on predefined connection priorities for assigning link bandwidth to a requesting user in a high speed digital network interconnecting network users through a path including network nodes connected through high speed links. According to this method, a predefined reservable link bandwidth is split into so-called nominal bandwidth portions and common bandwidth portions, both assignable to the same connections on a priority basis. Each of the common bandwidth priorities is individually related to a nominal bandwidth priority through a predefined relationship, making the common bandwidth priorities always lower than any nominal priority. In this way the requested link connection bandwidth, whatever be its nominal priority, is made preemptable primarily on all common bandwidth, thus avoiding the disruption of any network connection which is already established.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1997Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Denis Chevalier, Olivier Bertin, Claude Galand, Yves Ouvry, Marcel Villaflor