Patents by Inventor Steven R. McCane

Steven R. McCane 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).

  • Data client
    Patent number: 9124601
    Abstract: Facilitating the distribution of content is disclosed. A request for content is received from a requesting peer. A peer type compatibility criteria is applied to an allocation process that allocates at least one sending peer to deliver the content to the requesting peer. The peer type compatibility criteria ensures that a lightweight peer is paired with a regular peer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Conviva Inc.
    Inventors: Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang, Steven R. McCane, Jibin Zhan, Aditya R. Ganjam