Patents by Inventor William Geoffrey Prior

William Geoffrey Prior 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).

  • Self-describing error correction of consolidated media content
    Patent number: 10263732
    Abstract: Presented herein are downstream recovery (error correction) techniques for an aggregated/consolidated media stream. In one example, a consolidated media stream that includes source media packets from one or more sources is sent to one or more downstream receiving devices. Based on the source media packets, one or more self-describing recovery packets for downstream error correction of the source media packets are generated. The self-describing recovery packets include a mapping to the source media packets used to generate the self-describing recovery packets, thereby avoiding the addition of error correction information in the consolidated media stream. The one or more self-describing recovery packets are sent to each of the downstream receiving devices as a separate stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul G. Bright-Thomas, Greg Hakonsen, Geir Sandbakken, William Geoffrey Prior, Marcello Caramma, Michael A. Ramalho
  • SELF-DESCRIBING ERROR CORRECTION OF CONSOLIDATED MEDIA CONTENT
    Publication number: 20170093522
    Abstract: Presented herein are downstream recovery (error correction) techniques for an aggregated/consolidated media stream. In one example, a consolidated media stream that includes source media packets from one or more sources is sent to one or more downstream receiving devices. Based on the source media packets, one or more self-describing recovery packets for downstream error correction of the source media packets are generated. The self-describing recovery packets include a mapping to the source media packets used to generate the self-describing recovery packets, thereby avoiding the addition of error correction information in the consolidated media stream. The one or more self-describing recovery packets are sent to each of the downstream receiving devices as a separate stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Paul G. Bright-Thomas, Greg Hakonsen, Geir Sandbakken, William Geoffrey Prior, Marcello Caramma, Michael A. Ramalho
  • Self-describing error correction of consolidated media content
    Patent number: 9559805
    Abstract: Presented herein are downstream recovery (error correction) techniques for an aggregated/consolidated media stream. In one example, a consolidated media stream that includes source media packets from one or more sources is sent to one or more downstream receiving devices. Based on the source media packets, one or more self-describing recovery packets for downstream error correction of the source media packets are generated. The self-describing recovery packets include a mapping to the source media packets used to generate the self-describing recovery packets, thereby avoiding the addition of error correction information in the consolidated media stream. The one or more self-describing recovery packets are sent to each of the downstream receiving devices as a separate stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul G. Bright-Thomas, Greg Hakonsen, Geir Sandbakken, William Geoffrey Prior, Marcello Caramma, Michael A. Ramalho
  • Self-Describing Error Correction of Consolidated Media Content
    Publication number: 20160127077
    Abstract: Presented herein are downstream recovery (error correction) techniques for an aggregated/consolidated media stream. In one example, a consolidated media stream that includes source media packets from one or more sources is sent to one or more downstream receiving devices. Based on the source media packets, one or more self-describing recovery packets for downstream error correction of the source media packets are generated. The self-describing recovery packets include a mapping to the source media packets used to generate the self-describing recovery packets, thereby avoiding the addition of error correction information in the consolidated media stream. The one or more self-describing recovery packets are sent to each of the downstream receiving devices as a separate stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Paul G. Bright-Thomas, Greg Hakonsen, Geir Sandbakken, William Geoffrey Prior, Marcello Caramma, Michael A. Ramalho