Enhanced block-request streaming using cooperative parallel HTTP and forward error correction

MG Luby, B Wang, M Watson, L Vicisano… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
Related US Application Data filed on Nov. 3, 2009, provisional application No. 61/258,088,
filed on Nov. 4, 2009, provisional application No. 61/285779, filed on Dec. 11, 2009 …

Manifest file updates for network streaming of coded multimedia data

Y Chen, T Stockhammer, M Watson - US Patent 8,806,050, 2014 - Google Patents
Int. Cl. In one example, a device for retrieving multimedia data, the G6F 5/16(2006.01)
device comprising one or more processors configured to HO) 4N 7/173(2011.01) retrieve …

Enhanced block-request streaming system for handling low-latency streaming

MG Luby, M Watson, L Vicisano, P Pakzad… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A block-request streaming system provides for low-latency streaming of a
media presentation. A plurality of media seg ments are generated according to an encoding …

Digital fountains: A survey and look forward

M Mitzenmacher - Information theory workshop, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We survey constructions and applications of digital fountains, an abstraction of erasure
coding for network communication. Digital fountains effectively change the standard …

Enhanced block-request streaming system using signaling or block creation

MG Luby, M Watson, L Vicisano, P Pakzad… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A block-request streaming system provides for improve ments in the user
experience and bandwidth efficiency of Such systems, typically using an ingestion system …

Network streaming of media data

GK Walker, MG Luby - US Patent 9,843,844, 2017 - Google Patents
In one example, a device includes one or more processors configured to receive a first
segment of media data, wherein the media data of the first segment comprises a stream …

Switch signaling methods providing improved switching between representations for adaptive HTTP streaming

MG Luby, LC Minder - US Patent 9,253,233, 2016 - Google Patents
H04N21/2343—Processing of video elementary streams, eg splicing of video streams,
manipulating MPEG-4 scene graphs involving reformatting operations of video signals for …

Information additive code generator and decoder for communication systems

MG Luby - US Patent 6,307,487, 2001 - Google Patents
Positions O 1 2 an output Symbol. An output Symbol with key I is generated by determining a
weight, W (I), for the output symbol to be generated, selecting W (I) of the input symbols …

Enhanced block-request streaming using block partitioning or request controls for improved client-side handling

MG Luby, M Watson, L Vicisano, P Pakzad… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
A block-request streaming system provides for improvements in the user experience and
bandwidth efficiency of such systems, typically using an ingestion system that generates …

Methods and apparatus for scheduling, serving, receiving media-on demand for clients, servers arranged according to constraints on resources

G Horn, MG Luby, J Rasmussen, P Knudsgaard… - US Patent …, 2007 - Google Patents
A media object is scheduled for transmission between a server and a client. The media
object is partitioned into segments of blocks, wherein each block is a unit of media for which …