Patents by Inventor Stephen J. McErlain

Stephen J. McErlain 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).

  • Publication number: 20190394457
    Abstract: Data compression and decompression methods for compressing and decompressing data based on an actual or expected throughput (bandwidth) of a system. In one embodiment, a controller tracks and monitors the throughput (data storage and retrieval) of a data compression system and generates control signals to enable/disable different compression algorithms when, e.g., a bottleneck occurs so as to increase the throughput and eliminate the bottleneck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC
    Inventors: James J. FALLON, Stephen J. MCERLAIN
  • Patent number: 10419021
    Abstract: The transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, is accelerated over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency. Broadcast data may include packets having fields. Encoders associated with particular fields may be selected to compress those particular fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Realtime Data, LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Paul F. Pickel, Stephen J. McErlain, Carlton J. Melone, II
  • Patent number: 10284225
    Abstract: The transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, is accelerated over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency. Broadcast data may include packets having fields. Encoders associated with particular fields may be selected to compress those particular fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Realtime Data, LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Paul F. Pickel, Stephen J. McErlain, Carlton J. Melone, II
  • Patent number: 10212417
    Abstract: A system having one or more different asymmetric data decompression algorithms and a processor. A first asymmetric data decompression routine is configured to produce decompressed data with a higher data rate for a given data throughput than a second asymmetric data decompression routine of the plurality of different asymmetric data decompression routines. The processor is configured to analyze one or more data parameters from one or more data blocks containing video data and to select two or more different data decompression routines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Stephen J. McErlain
  • Publication number: 20180359467
    Abstract: Data compression and decompression methods for compressing and decompressing data based on an actual or expected throughput (bandwidth) of a system. In one embodiment, a controller tracks and monitors the throughput (data storage and retrieval) of a data compression system and generates control signals to enable/disable different compression algorithms when, e.g., a bottleneck occurs so as to increase the throughput and eliminate the bottleneck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: REALTIME ADAPTIVE STREAMING LLC
    Inventors: James J. FALLON, Stephen J. MCERLAIN
  • Publication number: 20180351572
    Abstract: The transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, is accelerated over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency. Broadcast data may include packets having fields. Encoders associated with particular fields may be selected to compress those particular fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: James J. FALLON, Paul F. PICKEL, Stephen J. MCERLAIN, Carlton J. MELONE, II
  • Publication number: 20180285393
    Abstract: Systems for data compression using content estimation. In one aspect, a system includes a dictionary encoder and one or more additional data compression encoders. One or more processors are configured to determine compression statistics related to a first data block, estimate a size of a first compressed data block, estimate a size of a second compressed data block, compare the estimated sizes, compress the first data block using the dictionary encoder when the estimated size of the first compressed data block is smaller than the estimated size of the second compressed data block, and compress the first data block using the additional data compression encoder when the estimated size of the second compressed data block is smaller than the estimated size of the first compressed data block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Realtime Data LLC
    Inventors: James J. FALLON, Paul F. PICKEL, Stephen J. MCERLAIN, John BUCK
  • Publication number: 20180234108
    Abstract: The transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, is accelerated over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency. Broadcast data may include packets having fields. Encoders associated with particular fields may be selected to compress those particular fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Realtime Data LLC
    Inventors: James J. FALLON, Paul F. PICKEL, Stephen J. MCERLAIN, Carlton J. MELONE, II
  • Patent number: 10045018
    Abstract: A system having one or more different asymmetric data decompression algorithms and a processor. A first asymmetric data decompression routine is configured to produce decompressed data with a higher data rate for a given data throughput than a second asymmetric data decompression routine of the plurality of different asymmetric data decompression routines. The processor is configured to analyze one or more data parameters from one or more data blocks containing video data and to select two or more different data decompression routines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Stephen J. McErlain
  • Publication number: 20180143840
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing accelerated loading of operating system and application programs upon system boot or application launch are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for providing accelerated loading of an operating system comprises the steps of: maintaining a list of boot data used for booting a computer system; preloading the boot data upon initialization of the computer system; and servicing requests for boot data from the computer system using the preloaded boot data. In another aspect, a method for providing accelerated launching of an application program comprises the steps of: maintaining a list of application data associated with an application program; preloading the application data upon launching the application program; and servicing requests for application data from a computer system using the preloaded application data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, John Buck, Paul F. Pickel, Stephen J. McErlain
  • Patent number: 9967368
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing accelerated transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency associated with data transmission of conventional systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Realtime Data LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Paul F. Pickel, Stephen J. McErlain
  • Patent number: 9859919
    Abstract: The transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, is accelerated over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency. Broadcast data may include packets having fields. Encoders associated with particular fields may be selected to compress those particular fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Realtime Data LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Paul F. Pickel, Stephen J. McErlain, Carlton J. Melone, II
  • Patent number: 9792128
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing accelerated loading of operating system and application programs upon system boot or application launch are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for providing accelerated loading of an operating system comprises the steps of: maintaining a list of boot data used for booting a computer system; preloading the boot data upon initialization of the computer system; and servicing requests for boot data from the computer system using the preloaded boot data. In another aspect, a method for providing accelerated launching of an application program comprises the steps of: maintaining a list of application data associated with an application program; preloading the application data upon launching the application program; and servicing requests for application data from a computer system using the preloaded application data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Realtime Data, LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, John Buck, Paul F. Pickel, Stephen J. McErlain
  • Patent number: 9792308
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for providing fast and efficient data compression using a combination of content dependent, content estimation, and content independent data compression. In one aspect of the disclosure a method for compressing data comprises the steps of: analyzing a data block of an input data stream to identify a data type of the data block, the input data stream comprising a plurality of disparate data types; performing content dependent data compression on the data block, if the data type of the data block is identified; performing content estimation data compression if the content is estimable; and performing content independent data compression on the data block, if the data type of the data block is not identified or estimable. In another aspect of the present invention LZDR compression is applied to simultaneously perform one method of compression while computing statistics useful in estimating the optimal form of compression to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Realtime Data, LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Paul F. Pickel, Stephen J. McErlain, John Buck
  • Patent number: 9769477
    Abstract: A system and method including one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms is disclosed. A first asymmetric data compression algorithm of the one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms compresses data at a higher data compression rate than a second asymmetric data compression algorithm of the one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms. The system and method also include one or more processors that determine one or more data parameters from one or more data blocks and select one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms from among the one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms based upon, at least in part, the determined one or more data parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Realtime Adaptive Streaming, LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Stephen J. McErlain
  • Patent number: 9762907
    Abstract: A system and method for compressing data is disclosed. The system and method include one or more data compression algorithms with at least one data compression algorithm from among the one or more data compression algorithms utilizing an asymmetric data compression. The system and method determine a type of data having one or more parameters, attributes, or values of the data from at least a portion of a data block; select one or more data compression algorithms from among the one or more data compression algorithms based upon the determined type of data and a throughput of a communications channel; and perform data compression with the selected one or more data compression algorithms on at least the portion of the data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Realtime Adaptive Streaming, LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Stephen J. McErlain
  • Publication number: 20170257629
    Abstract: Data compression and decompression methods for compressing and decompressing data based on an actual or expected throughput (bandwidth) of a system. In one embodiment, a controller tracks and monitors the throughput (data storage and retrieval) of a data compression system and generates control signals to enable/disable different compression algorithms when, e.g., a bottleneck occurs so as to increase the throughput and eliminate the bottleneck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Realtime Data LLC
    Inventors: James J. FALLON, Stephen J. MCERLAIN
  • Publication number: 20170237446
    Abstract: The transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, is accelerated over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency. Broadcast data may include packets having fields. Encoders associated with particular fields may be selected to compress those particular fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: James J. FALLON, Paul F. PICKEL, Stephen J. MCERLAIN, Carlton J. MELONE, II
  • Patent number: 9667751
    Abstract: The transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, is accelerated over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency. Broadcast data may include packets having fields. Encoders associated with particular fields may be selected to compress those particular fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Realtime Data, LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Paul F. Pickel, Stephen J. McErlain, Carlton J. Melone, II
  • Patent number: 9560357
    Abstract: A system and method for compressing data is disclosed. The system and method include one or more data compression algorithms with at least one data compression algorithm from among the one or more data compression algorithms utilizing an asymmetric data compression. The system and method determine a type of data having one or more parameters, attributes, or values of the data from at least a portion of a data block; select one or more data compression algorithms from among the one or more data compression algorithms based upon the determined type of data and a throughput of a communications channel; and perform data compression with the selected one or more data compression algorithms on at least the portion of the data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Realtime Data LLC
    Inventors: James J. Fallon, Stephen J. McErlain