Patents by Inventor Nasir Mahmood ANSARI

Nasir Mahmood ANSARI 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).

  • Method and system for managing bandwidth
    Patent number: 8443408
    Abstract: A bandwidth management system, receiver, and method of managing bandwidth in a content delivery system are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: identifying two or more content items which are associated with at least some common content and which are temporally related; determining a relative priority of the least some of the identified content items; and allowing a receiver requesting the content associated with a lower priority content item to access a multicast associated with a higher priority content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Rogers Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Lisa Etsuko Kamitakahara, Antonio Colantonio, Sandip Singh, Nasir Mahmood Ansari, Clinton Alexander Pierce Sheridan
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BANDWIDTH
    Publication number: 20130067523
    Abstract: A bandwidth management system, receiver, and method of managing bandwidth in a content delivery system are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: identifying two or more content items which are associated with at least some common content and which are temporally related; determining a relative priority of the least some of the identified content items; and allowing a receiver requesting the content associated with a lower priority content item to access a multicast associated with a higher priority content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Lisa Etsuko KAMITAKAHARA, Antonio COLANTONIO, Sandip SINGH, Nasir Mahmood ANSARI, Clinton Alexander Pierce SHERIDAN