Patents by Inventor Zac Rumford

Zac Rumford 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).

  • Systems and methods for transmitting segment-quality units of a streaming video session
    Patent number: 9794604
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing streaming video to a client computer. A system includes a broadcast sender configured to provide a plurality of video segments at each of a plurality of quality levels as segment-quality units. A load balancer is configured to transmit the segment-quality units to one of a plurality of upload servers. The upload servers are configured to update a record of received segment-quality units, and to generate updates for a streaming video manifest corresponding to the streaming video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Panopto, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Eric Burns, Timothy R. Sullivan, Zac Rumford
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING SEGMENT-QUALITY UNITS OF A STREAMING VIDEO SESSION
    Publication number: 20160142752
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing streaming video to a client computer. A system includes a broadcast sender configured to provide a plurality of video segments at each of a plurality of quality levels as segment-quality units. A load balancer is configured to transmit the segment-quality units to one of a plurality of upload servers. The upload servers are configured to update a record of received segment-quality units, and to generate updates for a streaming video manifest corresponding to the streaming video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Eric Burns, Timothy R. Sullivan, Zac Rumford