Patents by Inventor Tim Lett

Tim Lett 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).

  • Bandwidth aware digital video recording (DVR) scheduling
    Patent number: 9641791
    Abstract: A scheduler is used to identify a schedule conflict that affects a client device receiving multiple media programs over a network. The scheduler is associated with the client device or a head-end source from which the programs are received. The scheduler accesses a schedule, which specifies a scheduled time at which multiple media programs are to be received by the client device. The scheduler obtains the actual bitrate to be consumed by each of the media programs as they are to be streamed to the client device. Based at least in part on the bitrates obtained for each of the media programs, the scheduler identifies a conflict that prevents at least one of the media programs from being streamed to the client device over the network. The scheduler enumerates at least one solution to the conflict to thereby resolve the conflict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Tozer, Bharath Shetty, Saul Wyner, Yvonne Ellefson, Jeffery C. Truong, Tim Lett
  • BANDWIDTH AWARE DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDING (DVR) SCHEDULING
    Publication number: 20150249803
    Abstract: A scheduler is used to identify a schedule conflict that affects a client device receiving multiple media programs over a network. The scheduler is associated with the client device or a head-end source from which the programs are received. The scheduler accesses a schedule, which specifies a scheduled time at which multiple media programs are to be received by the client device. The scheduler obtains the actual bitrate to be consumed by each of the media programs as they are to be streamed to the client device. Based at least in part on the bitrates obtained for each of the media programs, the scheduler identifies a conflict that prevents at least one of the media programs from being streamed to the client device over the network. The scheduler enumerates at least one solution to the conflict to thereby resolve the conflict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Tozer, Bharath Shetty, Saul Wyner, Yvonne Ellefson, Jeffery C. Truong, Tim Lett