Patents by Inventor Saamer Akhshabi

Saamer Akhshabi 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).

  • Stabilization of adaptive streaming video clients through rate limiting
    Patent number: 9306994
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a current encoding rate requested by a client device for content received from a content source, setting at a network device a rate limit to limit the rate at which the content is received at the client device based on the current encoding rate, and adjusting the rate limit based on changes in the current encoding rate. The rate limit is set to allow the client device to change the current encoding rate to a next higher available encoding rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua B. Gahm, Saamer Akhshabi, Ali C. Begen, David R. Oran, Biswaranjan Panda, Frederick Baker
  • STABILIZATION OF ADAPTIVE STREAMING VIDEO CLIENTS THROUGH RATE LIMITING
    Publication number: 20130332620
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a current encoding rate requested by a client device for content received from a content source, setting at a network device a rate limit to limit the rate at which the content is received at the client device based on the current encoding rate, and adjusting the rate limit based on changes in the current encoding rate. The rate limit is set to allow the client device to change the current encoding rate to a next higher available encoding rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua B. Gahm, Saamer Akhshabi, Ali C. Begen, David R. Oran, Biswaranjan Panda, Frederick Baker