Patents by Inventor Niraj K. Sharma

Niraj K. Sharma 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).

  • Write operations to and from multiple buffers
    Patent number: 9032167
    Abstract: Computer readable media, methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be configured for sequentially reading data of a file stored on a storage medium. The disclosure also provides for alternating writing, in a sequential order, portions of the file data to a first buffer and a second buffer. The disclosure also provides for writing from a first buffer and a second buffer to a first track until the first track is filled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Niraj K. Sharma
  • EFFICIENT READ AND WRITE OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20140189266
    Abstract: Computer readable media, methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be configured for sequentially reading data of a file stored on a storage medium. The disclosure also provides for alternating transferring of fixed size portions of the file data to a first buffer and a second buffer, alternating processing of data blocks of the fixed sized portions in parallel from the first and second buffers by a plurality of processing threads, and outputting the processed data blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Niraj K. Sharma
  • Efficient read and write operations
    Patent number: 8639894
    Abstract: Computer readable media, methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be configured for sequentially reading data of a file stored on a storage medium. The disclosure also provides for alternating transferring of fixed size portions of the file data to a first buffer and a second buffer, alternating processing of data blocks of the fixed sized portions in parallel from the first and second buffers by a plurality of processing threads, and outputting the processed data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Niraj K. Sharma
  • EFFICIENT READ AND WRITE OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20130198464
    Abstract: Computer readable media, methods and apparatuses are disclosed that may be configured for sequentially reading data of a file stored on a storage medium. The disclosure also provides for alternating transferring of fixed size portions of the file data to a first buffer and a second buffer, alternating processing of data blocks of the fixed sized portions in parallel from the first and second buffers by a plurality of processing threads, and outputting the processed data blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Niraj K. Sharma
  • Method and apparatus to search for information
    Patent number: 7133863
    Abstract: A method and system for searching for information is disclosed. The method includes storing a plurality of content categories and identifying, according to properties returned by a plurality of search engines, at least one search engine suited to service a query where the query has at least one content category of the plurality of content categories. The system includes a processor and a machine-readable medium including instructions that when executed by the processor result in performance of the disclosed method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Albert Y. Teng, Niraj K. Sharma, Ahritta J. Kim
  • Method and apparatus to search for information
    Patent number: 6976018
    Abstract: A method includes querying a plurality of search engines for properties to identify for which content categories the search engines are suited. A query to locate content is communicated to those of the plurality of search engines suited to service the query to locate content, based on at least one content category of the query to locate content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Albert Y. Teng, Niraj K. Sharma, Ahritta J. Kim, Mark L. Bennett
  • Method and apparatus to search for information
    Publication number: 20040030690
    Abstract: A method includes querying a plurality of search engines for properties to identify for which content categories the search engines are suited. A query to locate content is communicated to those of the plurality of search engines suited to service the query to locate content, based on at least one content category of the query to locate content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Albert Y. Teng, Niraj K. Sharma, Ahritta J. Kim, Mark L. Bennett
  • Method and apparatus to search for information
    Patent number: 6631367
    Abstract: A method includes querying a plurality of search engines for properties to identify for which content categories the search engines are suited. A query to locate content is communicated to those of the plurality of search engines suited to service the query to locate content, based on at least one content category of the query to locate content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Albert Y. Teng, Niraj K. Sharma, Ahritta J. Kim, Mark L. Bennett
  • Method and apparatus to search for information
    Publication number: 20020152199
    Abstract: A method includes storing a plurality of content categories and identifying, according to properties returned by a plurality of search engines, at least one search engine suited to service a query having at least one content category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Albert Y. Teng, Niraj K. Sharma, Ahritta J. Kim
  • Method and apparatus to search for information
    Publication number: 20020143744
    Abstract: A method includes querying a plurality of search engines for properties to identify for which content categories the search engines are suited. A query to locate content is communicated to those of the plurality of search engines suited to service the query to locate content, based on at least one content category of the query to locate content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Albert Y. Teng, Niraj K. Sharma, Ahritta J. Kim, Mark L. Bennett
  • Gateway metering and bandwidth management
    Publication number: 20020133613
    Abstract: A customer premises gateway including a traffic analyzer with usage tracking to detect fraud such as in the case of masquerading by a router attached to the gateway, and a head-end server including fraud detection and a billing system for providing a maximum bandwidth specifier to the gateway. In the case of Internet Protocol, the traffic and fraud analysis may utilize the address:port combination and also the traffic type specifier to detect fraud and masquerading and to control bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Albert Y. Teng, Niraj K. Sharma, Michael S. Richmond, Pingfen Lin, Animesh Mishra