Patents by Inventor Mark Steven Brown

Mark Steven Brown 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).

  • Content caching in a network for efficient user device access
    Patent number: 9509793
    Abstract: Content (e.g., files such as streaming audio or video) may be efficiently cached and delivered in a network. In one implementation, a method may include receiving, from a requesting computing device, a request for a segment of a content item, the request indicating one or more positions in the content item that define the segment of the content item. The method may further include determining a second segment of the content item, different from the first segment of the content item, in which the second segment of the content item is aligned so that an end position of the second segment of the content item matches an end position of one of a number of predetermined segments for the content item. The method may further include obtaining the second segment of the content item and transmitting the obtained second segment of the content item to the requesting computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Steven Brown, Selvaraj Raghuraman, Brent Richard Peterson, William S Downey, Bernard Jablonka
  • CONTENT CACHING IN A NETWORK FOR EFFICIENT USER DEVICE ACCESS
    Publication number: 20150149581
    Abstract: Content (e.g., files such as streaming audio or video) may be efficiently cached and delivered in a network. In one implementation, a method may include receiving, from a requesting computing device, a request for a segment of a content item, the request indicating one or more positions in the content item that define the segment of the content item. The method may further include determining a second segment of the content item, different from the first segment of the content item, in which the second segment of the content item is aligned so that an end position of the second segment of the content item matches an end position of one of a number of predetermined segments for the content item. The method may further include obtaining the second segment of the content item and transmitting the obtained second segment of the content item to the requesting computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Mark Steven Brown, Selvaraj Raghuraman, Brent Richard Peterson, William S. Downey, Bernard Jablonka