Patents by Inventor Thomas Michael Raith

Thomas Michael Raith 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 ane system for streaming media data in heterogeneous environments
    Publication number: 20010034786
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a new method and system for streaming media data in a heterogeneous network environment. In addition to existing standard streaming products, e.g. standard Media Player and Stream Server, a Stream Server Portal which controls a set of Stream Servers is provided by the present invention. The Stream Server Portal offers a service called prepareStreaming to applications which returns the streaming meta data necessary to initiate streaming for given media instances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Applicant: IBM
    Inventors: Sascha Baumeister, Thomas Michael Raith, Ephraim Feig