Patents by Inventor Stephen Kent Necessary

Stephen Kent Necessary 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).

  • Correlating video quality with video playback view
    Patent number: 10045055
    Abstract: Video streaming is delivered through a communication network to one or more client computing devices/systems. A number of video display or bandwidth control profiles are used in part to control an amount of bandwidth used by each client to stream video at various quality levels or audio-only. Video display profiles can be configured according to a particular device/system being used to stream video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: James Alan Strothmann, Stephen Kent Necessary, Yousef Wasef Nijim, Jay Paul Langa
  • Correlating video quality with video playback view
    Patent number: 9253229
    Abstract: Video streaming is delivered through a communication network to one or more client computing devices/systems. A number of video display or bandwidth control profiles are used in part to control an amount of bandwidth used by each client to stream video at various quality levels or audio-only. Video display profiles can be configured according to a particular device/system being used to stream video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: James Alan Strothmann, Stephen Kent Necessary, Yousef Wasef Nijim, Jay Paul Langa