Patents by Inventor Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
Nirmalkumar Velayudhan 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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Publication number: 20220174330Abstract: Embodiments provide efficient delivery of multiple media channels to in-transport terminals, for example, to reduce channel zapping delay in a bandwidth efficient manner. For example, an in-transport media (ITM) server can distribute multiple channel offerings to ITM clients in a transport craft. Meanwhile, the ITM server can monitor which channel offerings are presently being consumed via the ITM clients, and can transmit feedback to a remote media server, accordingly. Based on the feedback, the ITM server can receive the channel offerings from the remote media server, in such a way that one or more of the channel offerings is received as a low-fidelity instance when not presently being consumed via any of the ITM clients, and one or more of the channel offerings is received as a high-fidelity instance when presently being consumed via at least one of the ITM clients.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Joshua G. Slater, Joshua J. Righetti, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Patent number: 11303937Abstract: Embodiments provide efficient delivery of multiple media channels to in-transport terminals, for example, to reduce channel zapping delay in a bandwidth efficient manner. For example, an in-transport media (ITM) server can distribute multiple channel offerings to ITM clients in a transport craft. Meanwhile, the ITM server can monitor which channel offerings are presently being consumed via the ITM clients, and can transmit feedback to a remote media server, accordingly. Based on the feedback, the ITM server can receive the channel offerings from the remote media server, in such a way that one or more of the channel offerings is received as a low-fidelity instance when not presently being consumed via any of the ITM clients, and one or more of the channel offerings is received as a high-fidelity instance when presently being consumed via at least one of the ITM clients.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: VIASAT, INC.Inventors: Joshua G. Slater, Joshua J. Righetti, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Patent number: 11184416Abstract: Continuing electronic media entertainment on a personal electronic device (PED) after completion of a travel segment. Streaming characteristics for streaming of an electronic media item to a PED on board an aircraft via a first connection may be monitored and, if streaming of the remaining portion of the electronic media item will exceed the remaining travel time, trigger some or all of an excess portion of the electronic media item to be sent to the PED. The PED may store the excess portion in an access-controlled media file. After completion of the travel segment (e.g., at the destination location), the PED may resume playback of the electronic media item by obtaining a playback control code via a second, different connection. The second connection may be a different type of connection, or may be an indirect connection, in some cases.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: VIASAT, INC.Inventors: Nirmalkumar Velayudhan, Joshua J. Righetti, Jonathan M. Putnam
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Patent number: 11159433Abstract: Embodiments provide popularity-based adaptive bitrate management of linear programming over constrained communications links. Embodiments can operate in context of a communications network communicating with multiple mobile client devices disposed in one or more transport craft. A number of channel offerings, including channels providing linear programming, can be made available via the communications network for consumption by the client devices. Embodiments can compute channel popularity scores for the channel offerings based on a predicted popularity, an estimated popularity, a measured popularity, etc. A bitrate can be determined for each (some or all) of the channel offerings based at least in part on its channel popularity score, so that more popular channel offerings can be communicated at higher bitrates. Determined-bitrate instances of the channel offerings can be obtained and/or generated, and delivered via the communications network, to the client devices for consumption.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: VIASATInventors: Joshua G. Slater, Joshua J. Righetti, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Patent number: 11032204Abstract: Capacity enhancement of a direct communication link using a variable redundancy delivery network. An estimated information rate between a source node and a terminal node may be partitioned into a first information rate provided via the direct communication link and a second information rate to be provided via the variable redundancy delivery network. One or more parameters of the variable redundancy delivery network may be calculated to provide the second information rate based on a non-uniform probability density of messages requested by the terminal node. Capacity and reliability of storage media devices in the variable redundancy delivery network may be traded off to provide the second information rate. The variable redundancy delivery network may implement various coding schemes and per-message coding rates that may be determined based on the non-uniform probability distribution of the source message library.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Viasat, Inc.Inventor: Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Patent number: 11010270Abstract: A distributed delivery network for capacity enhancement of a communication link shared by multiple communication devices for network access service. The distributed delivery network may include one or more distributed storage devices, some of which may include at least one rotating disk storage device, a network interface, and one or more environmental sensors. Each distributed storage device may monitor data from the environmental sensor(s) and transition between an active state where messages are stored in or retrieved from the storage device, and a standby state where access is suppressed. The distributed storage devices may self-organize control operations for the distributed delivery network including message storage and retrieval and redundancy of messages, which may be determined by frequency of requests for the messages.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Viasat, Inc.Inventors: Mark Dankberg, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan, Joshua Righetti
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Patent number: 10993156Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for modifying the transmission rate of media data in order to improve craft-based media playback system performance during handover events in a communication system.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: VIASAT, INC.Inventors: Brian T. Sleight, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan, Joshua G. Slater
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Publication number: 20210029384Abstract: Embodiments provide efficient delivery of multiple media channels to in-transport terminals, for example, to reduce channel zapping delay in a bandwidth efficient manner. For example, an in-transport media (ITM) server can distribute multiple channel offerings to ITM clients in a transport craft. Meanwhile, the ITM server can monitor which channel offerings are presently being consumed via the ITM clients, and can transmit feedback to a remote media server, accordingly. Based on the feedback, the ITM server can receive the channel offerings from the remote media server, in such a way that one or more of the channel offerings is received as a low-fidelity instance when not presently being consumed via any of the ITM clients, and one or more of the channel offerings is received as a high-fidelity instance when presently being consumed via at least one of the ITM clients.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: VIASAT, INC.Inventors: Joshua G. Slater, Joshua J. Righetti, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Patent number: 10771830Abstract: Embodiments relate to methods and systems for managing media content distribution rights to a media client on a craft to ensure that the distribution of media content items is consistent with media content distribution rights.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Viasat, Inc.Inventors: Nirmalkumar Velayudhan, Brian T. Sleight
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Patent number: 10771530Abstract: Embodiments provide quality of service for media content delivery over capacity-constrained communications links to user devices by exploiting usage models and path awareness. For example, one or more uncongested beams can be identified as preceding one or more congested beams (e.g., by computing a congestion map) along a predicted transport path of a user device moving through a multi-beam satellite communications system. A prediction can be made aps to one or more future requests that are likely to be made by the user device for pre-positionable types of media content, and that are likely to be serviced by one of the subsequent congested beams. When such a request for pre-positionable media content is predicted, embodiments can schedule transmission of at least a portion of the media content over one or more of the preceding uncongested beams for storage local to the user device, thereby pre-positioning the content at the client prior to reaching the congested beam.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: VIASAT, INC.Inventors: Veena Padmanabhan, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Publication number: 20200236599Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for modifying the transmission rate of media data in order to improve craft-based media playback system performance during handover events in a communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Brian T. Sleight, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan, Joshua G. Slater
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Patent number: 10721498Abstract: Embodiments provide efficient delivery of multiple media channels to in-transport terminals, for example, to reduce channel zapping delay in a bandwidth efficient manner. For example, an in-transport media (ITM) server can distribute multiple channel offerings to ITM clients in a transport craft. Meanwhile, the ITM server can monitor which channel offerings are presently being consumed via the ITM clients, and can transmit feedback to a remote media server, accordingly. Based on the feedback, the ITM server can receive the channel offerings from the remote media server, in such a way that one or more of the channel offerings is received as a low-fidelity instance when not presently being consumed via any of the ITM clients, and one or more of the channel offerings is received as a high-fidelity instance when presently being consumed via at least one of the ITM clients.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: VIASAT, Inc.Inventors: Joshua G. Slater, Joshua J. Righetti, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Patent number: 10652791Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for modifying the transmission rate of media data in order to improve craft-based media playback system performance during handover events in a communication system.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.Inventors: Brian T. Sleight, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan, Joshua G. Slater
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Patent number: 10645010Abstract: Embodiments provide popularity-based adaptive bitrate management of linear programming over constrained communications links. Embodiments can operate in context of a communications network communicating with multiple mobile client devices disposed in one or more transport craft. A number of channel offerings, including channels providing linear programming, can be made available via the communications network for consumption by the client devices. Embodiments can compute channel popularity scores for the channel offerings based on a predicted popularity, an estimated popularity, a measured popularity, etc. A bitrate can be determined for each (some or all) of the channel offerings based at least in part on its channel popularity score, so that more popular channel offerings can be communicated at higher bitrates. Determined-bitrate instances of the channel offerings can be obtained and/or generated, and delivered via the communications network, to the client devices for consumption.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: VIASAT, inc.Inventors: Joshua G. Slater, Joshua J. Righetti, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Publication number: 20200120034Abstract: Capacity enhancement of a direct communication link using a variable redundancy delivery network. An estimated information rate between a source node and a terminal node may be partitioned into a first information rate provided via the direct communication link and a second information rate to be provided via the variable redundancy delivery network. One or more parameters of the variable redundancy delivery network may be calculated to provide the second information rate based on a non-uniform probability density of messages requested by the terminal node. Capacity and reliability of storage media devices in the variable redundancy delivery network may be traded off to provide the second information rate. The variable redundancy delivery network may implement various coding schemes and per-message coding rates that may be determined based on the non-uniform probability distribution of the source message library.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventor: Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Publication number: 20200022045Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for modifying the transmission rate of media data in order to improve craft-based media playback system performance during handover events in a communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Brian T. SLEIGHT, Nirmalkumar VELAYUDHAN, Joshua G. SLATER
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Patent number: 10536384Abstract: Capacity enhancement of a direct communication link using a variable redundancy delivery network. An estimated information rate between a source node and a terminal node may be partitioned into a first information rate provided via the direct communication link and a second information rate to be provided via the variable redundancy delivery network. One or more parameters of the variable redundancy delivery network may be calculated to provide the second information rate based on a non-uniform probability density of messages requested by the terminal node. Capacity and reliability of storage media devices in the variable redundancy delivery network may be traded off to provide the second information rate. The variable redundancy delivery network may implement various coding schemes and per-message coding rates that may be determined based on the non-uniform probability distribution of the source message library.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Viasat, Inc.Inventor: Nirmalkumar Velayudhan
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Publication number: 20200007604Abstract: Embodiments provide quality of service for media content delivery over capacity-constrained communications links to user devices by exploiting usage models and path awareness. For example, one or more uncongested beams can be identified as preceding one or more congested beams (e.g., by computing a congestion map) along a predicted transport path of a user device moving through a multi-beam satellite communications system. A prediction can be made aps to one or more future requests that are likely to be made by the user device for pre-positionable types of media content, and that are likely to be serviced by one of the subsequent congested beams. When such a request for pre-positionable media content is predicted, embodiments can schedule transmission of at least a portion of the media content over one or more of the preceding uncongested beams for storage local to the user device, thereby pre-positioning the content at the client prior to reaching the congested beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: ViaSat, Inc.Inventors: Veena PADMANABHAN, Nirmalkumar VELAYUDHAN
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Publication number: 20190364314Abstract: Embodiments relate to methods and systems for managing media content distribution rights to a media client on a craft to ensure that the distribution of media content items is consistent with media content distribution rights.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Nirmalkumar Velayudhan, Brian T. Sleight
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Patent number: 10470091Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for modifying the transmission rate of media data in order to improve craft-based media playback system performance during handover events in a communication system.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.Inventors: Brian T. Sleight, Nirmalkumar Velayudhan, Joshua G. Slater