Patents by Inventor Nick Herodotou

Nick Herodotou 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).

  • Patent number: 8370881
    Abstract: A STB resource sharing (RS) group of a home network comprises a plurality of STBs. In the STB RS group, a STB communicates with one or more other STBs to mutually share available device resources comprising hardware and software resources, and/or capabilities. The STB functions as an elected master (EM) or a STB RS client in the STB RS group. As an EM, the STB receives advertisements from other STBs to determine available resources. The determined available resources are announced to other STBs in the STB RS group. The STB manages the use of the determined available resources according to resource sharing requests received from other STBs. As a STB RS client, the STB advertises inherent resources to an EM of the STB RS group. The STB receives announcements from the EM for available resources in the STB RS group. The STB shares its available resources, accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Predrag Kostic, Nick Herodotou, Rajesh Mamidwar, Sanjeev Sood
  • Publication number: 20110030017
    Abstract: A STB resource sharing (RS) group of a home network comprises a plurality of STBs. In the STB RS group, a STB communicates with one or more other STBs to mutually share available device resources comprising hardware and software resources, and/or capabilities. The STB functions as an elected master (EM) or a STB RS client in the STB RS group. As an EM, the STB receives advertisements from other STBs to determine available resources. The determined available resources are announced to other STBs in the STB RS group. The STB manages the use of the determined available resources according to resource sharing requests received from other STBs. As a STB RS client, the STB advertises inherent resources to an EM of the STB RS group. The STB receives announcements from the EM for available resources in the STB RS group. The STB shares its available resources, accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Predrag Kostic, Nick Herodotou, Rajesh Mamidwar, Sanjeev Sood
  • Publication number: 20100309913
    Abstract: A home network (HN) server is configured to terminate IP-based multicast packets received from, for example, an external IPTV service distribution network and record in storage of the HN server. The HN server transmits the terminated multicast packets to a plurality of HN clients based on corresponding link quality between each of the HN clients and the HN server. A transmission mode and local IP protocols are determined based on corresponding link quality for each of the HN clients. The recorded multicast packets are reformatted based on the determined local IP protocols and transmitted in the determined transmission mode to corresponding HN clients. The HN server acquires expected recorded multicast packets when not available in its storage from peer HN servers and reformats the acquired expected recorded multicast packets based on the determined local IP protocols for transmission. Packet transmission are suspended or resumed according to a client service pause.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Nick Herodotou, Rajesh Mamidwar, Sanjeev Sood