Patents by Inventor Scott E. Colville

Scott E. Colville 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).

  • Startup methods and apparatuses for use in streaming content
    Patent number: 7594025
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with a client and server device connected through a communication link. The client device sends a startup request to the server device. The startup request identifies a streamable media content that is to be provided to the client device, a communication link bandwidth associated with the communication link, and an amount of the desired streamable media content that is to be provided at a bitrate greater than the encoded bitrate but no greater than about the communication link bandwidth. The server device buffers at least the amount of the streamable media content, and transmits the amount of the buffered streamable media content at the higher bitrate. The server device locates a discrete rendering point in the amount of the buffered streamable media content and initiates transmission beginning with the discrete rendering point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Scott E. Colville, Sanjay Bhatt, Anders E. Klemets, Troy Batterberry
  • Startup methods and apparatuses for use in streaming content
    Patent number: 6792449
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with a client and server device connected through a communication link. The client device sends a startup request to the server device. The startup request identifies a streamable media content that is to be provided to the client device, a communication link bandwidth associated with the communication link, and an amount of the desired streamable media content that is to be provided at a bitrate greater than the encoded bitrate but no greater than about the communication link bandwidth. The server device buffers at least the amount of the streamable media content, and transmits the amount of the buffered streamable media content at the higher bitrate. The server device locates a discrete rendering point in the amount of the buffered streamable media content and initiates transmission beginning with the discrete rendering point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Scott E. Colville, Sanjay Bhatt, Anders E. Klemets, Troy Batterberry
  • Startup methods and apparatuses for use in streaming content
    Publication number: 20030005139
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with a client and server device connected through a communication link. The client device sends a startup request to the server device. The startup request identifies a streamable media content that is to be provided to the client device, a communication link bandwidth associated with the communication link, and an amount of the desired streamable media content that is to be provided at a bitrate greater than the encoded bitrate but no greater than about the communication link bandwidth. The server device buffers at least the amount of the streamable media content, and transmits the amount of the buffered streamable media content at the higher bitrate. The server device locates a discrete rendering point in the amount of the buffered streamable media content and initiates transmission beginning with the discrete rendering point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventors: Scott E. Colville, Sanjay Bhatt, Anders E. Klemets, Troy Batterberry