Patents by Inventor Rakesh Tangirala

Rakesh Tangirala 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).

  • Providing metadata for live media streams
    Patent number: 10911813
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing metadata corresponding to primary content of live media streams that include secondary content inserted into the streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Wu, Matthew Scharr, Rakesh Tangirala, Amarsingh Buckthasingh Winston, Khawaja Salman Shams, Matthew Brinkley
  • Server-side fragment insertion and delivery
    Patent number: 10904639
    Abstract: Techniques are described for server-side fragment insertion and delivery of media content. After receiving a request to play back media content, a manifest is generated that includes fragments associated with the requested media content and fragments associated with different media content. A client device requests fragments from a media server according to the manifest, and the media server provides the correct fragment in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas James Benson, Andrew Glass, Srikanth Kiran Kotagiri, Lei Li, Stefan Christian Richter, Rakesh Tangirala, Amarsingh Buckthasingh Winston, Yongjun Wu
  • Manifest data for server-side media fragment insertion
    Patent number: 10863211
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for providing media presentations that include content originating from multiple sources. Techniques disclosed include server-side logic for inserting secondary content, such as advertisements, into primary content, such as a VOD presentation. Systems implementing the disclosed techniques can support different viewer device capabilities relating to displaying media presentations that include content from multiple sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Wu, Tarun Jindal, Kyle Woo, Rakesh Tangirala, Manish Rao, Sitaraman Ganapathy, Mairo Pedrini
  • System and methods for facilitating a multiparty communications session with a dynamically designated session manager
    Patent number: 7987233
    Abstract: A system and methods for facilitating multiparty communications sessions with a plurality of participants and for dynamically designating a communications session manager. More particularly, a system and methods, including protocols, for: establishing a multiparty communications session between a plurality of participants and their respective communication devices in a full-mesh topology; establishing a dynamically designated session manager uniquely associated with a first participant of the multiparty session and, hence, such participant's communication device; as necessary, adding and removing participants and their respective communication devices from the multiparty communications session; and, designating, or electing, another participant as session manager when the first participant exits the multiparty communications session. The methods also enable participants to maintain consistent lists of session participants and establish peer to peer communication links between the participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert John Osborne, Ling-Cheung Aaron Lo, Ajay P. Chitturi, Leon Chih Wen Wong, David J. Simons, Vishal Thakkar, Rakesh Tangirala