Patents by Inventor Simon ROBBINS

Simon ROBBINS 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).

  • Method and device for filtering media packets
    Patent number: 9807134
    Abstract: A method including: receiving, at a video conferencing device, a packet of a video conferencing media stream, the video conferencing device including a processor; determining, by the video conferencing device, whether a length of the packet is sufficiently long to contain media; sending a request to a Look-up Table memory using the media stream ID as an input value while in parallel determining, with the processor, whether the packet is a valid media packet; in response to receiving a destination address in a media processing network from the Look-up Table memory and determining that the packet is a valid media packet, modifying, by the video conferencing device, a header of the packet with the destination address received from the Look-up Table memory; and transmitting, by the video conferencing device, the packet to the modified destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Robbins
  • Method and Device for Filtering Media Packets
    Publication number: 20150023223
    Abstract: A method including: receiving, at a video conferencing device, a packet of a video conferencing media stream, the video conferencing device including a processor; determining, by the video conferencing device, whether a length of the packet is sufficiently long to contain media; sending a request to a Look-up Table memory using the media stream ID as an input value while in parallel determining, with the processor, whether the packet is a valid media packet; in response to receiving a destination address in a media processing network from the Look-up Table memory and determining that the packet is a valid media packet, modifying, by the video conferencing device, a header of the packet with the destination address received from the Look-up Table memory; and transmitting, by the video conferencing device, the packet to the modified destination address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Simon Robbins
  • Method and device for filtering media packets
    Patent number: 8855120
    Abstract: A method including: receiving, at a video conferencing device, a packet of a video conferencing media stream, the video conferencing device including a processor; determining, by the video conferencing device, whether a length of the packet is sufficiently long to contain media; sending a request to a Look-up Table memory using the media stream ID as an input value while in parallel determining, with the processor, whether the packet is a valid media packet; in response to receiving a destination address in a media processing network from the Look-up Table memory and determining that the packet is a valid media packet, modifying, by the video conferencing device, a header of the packet with the destination address received from the Look-up Table memory; and transmitting, by the video conferencing device, the packet to the modified destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Robbins
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FILTERING MEDIA PACKETS
    Publication number: 20110149777
    Abstract: A method including: receiving, at a video conferencing device, a packet of a video conferencing media stream, the video conferencing device including a processor; determining, by the video conferencing device, whether a length of the packet is sufficiently long to contain media; sending a request to a Look-up Table memory using the media stream ID as an input value while in parallel determining, with the processor, whether the packet is a valid media packet; in response to receiving a destination address in a media processing network from the Look-up Table memory and determining that the packet is a valid media packet, modifying, by the video conferencing device, a header of the packet with the destination address received from the Look-up Table memory; and transmitting, by the video conferencing device, the packet to the modified destination address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: TANDBERG TELECOM AS
    Inventor: Simon ROBBINS