Inventor

Robert Hammond Forsman

Inventor

Sugar Hill, GA, US

Overview

2015–2021

Patent span

Electricity

Primary field (CPC H)

Patents· 50 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

H04Nprimary

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television45%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication37%

H04MTelephonic communication6%

H04WWireless communication networks6%

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general2%

G06FElectric digital data processing1%

G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes1%

H04HBroadcast communication1%

PatentTitleYear

11,109,089Bitrate control in virtual reality (VR) environments using time-shifting and unicast delivery2021 10,939,153Bandwidth and ABR video QoE management based on OTT video providers and devices2021 10,873,780System and method for effectuating fast channel change in an adaptive streaming environment2020 10,841,662System and method for inserting advertisement content in 360deg immersive video2020 10,841,353System and method for optimizing defragmentation of content in a content delivery network2020 10,812,775System and method for providing 360deg immersive video based on gaze vector information2020 10,757,389Client optimization for providing quality control in 360deg immersive video during pause2020 10,652,165Merging multicast ABR and unicast ABR with progressive download ABR in a customer premises device within the same video delivery pipe2020 10,623,736Tile selection and bandwidth optimization for providing 360deg immersive video2020 10,567,780System and method for encoding 360deg immersive video2020 10,523,451System, apparatus, and method providing data cap avoidance2019 10,523,914System and method for providing multiple 360deg immersive video sessions in a network2019 10,516,908Bitrate control in virtual reality (VR) environments using time-shifting and unicast delivery2019 10,476,926System and method for managing ABR bitrate delivery responsive to video buffer characteristics of a client2019 10,440,416System and method for providing quality control in 360deg immersive video during pause2019 10,432,970System and method for encoding 360deg immersive video2019 10,419,738System and method for providing 360deg immersive video based on gaze vector information2019 10,404,541Smart data cap avoidance with personalized predictions based on linear regression or historical usage alpha-generation patterns2019 10,389,783Virtualization in adaptive stream creation and delivery2019 10,356,387Bookmarking system and method in 360deg immersive video based on gaze vector information2019 10,349,104System and method for managing segment delivery and bandwidth responsive to encoding complexity metrics2019 10,194,181Fast channel change in a multicast adaptive bitrate (MABR) streaming network using multicast repeat segment bursts in a dedicated bandwidth pipe2019 10,104,413Bandwidth and ABR video QoE management based on OTT video providers and devices2018 10,069,885Bandwidth management for over-the-top adaptive streaming2018 9,942,290Fast channel change in a multicast adaptive bitrate (MABR) streaming network using HTTP download segment recovery in a shared progressive ABR download pipe2018 9,923,763'Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for communicating content files based on destination priority'2018 9,906,458'System and method for managing bandwidth responsive to the duty cycle of an ABR client'2018 9,888,278'Bandwidth and ABR video QoE management based on OTT video providers and devices'2018 9,843,828'System and method for providing non-guaranteed channel content in a switched digital video network using multicast ABR streaming'2017 9,826,261'Fast channel change in a multicast adaptive bitrate (MABR) streaming network using multicast repeat segment bursts in a dedicated bandwidth pipe'2017 9,826,262'Fast channel change in a multicast adaptive bitrate (MABR) streaming network using multicast repeat segment bursts in a shared progressive ABR download pipe'2017 9,813,470'Unicast ABR streaming'2017 9,807,137'Virtualization in adaptive stream creation and delivery'2017 9,788,053'Fast channel change in a multicast adaptive bitrate (MABR) streaming network using HTTP download segment recovery in a dedicated bandwidth pipe'2017 9,788,028'System and method for providing guaranteed channel content in a switched digital video network using multicast ABR streaming'2017 9,756,374'Advertisement targeting scheme in a multicast ABR environment based on throttled ad channel streaming'2017 9,712,408'Bandwidth management in a content distribution network'2017 9,628,405'Merging multicast ABR and unicast ABR with progressive download ABR in a customer premises device within the same video delivery pipe'2017 9,621,614'Regulating content streams from a weighted fair queuing scheduler using weights defined for user equipment nodes'2017 9,621,938'Advertisement targeting scheme in a multicast ABR environment based on switched video'2017 9,621,933'System and method for providing VOD content in a switched digital video network using unicast ABR streaming'2017 9,584,598'Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for allocating bandwidth for push and pull content requests in a content delivery network'2017 9,560,404'Advertisement targeting scheme in a multicast ABR environment based on ad caching'2017 9,516,084'System and method for pre-provisioning adaptive bitrate (ABR) assets in a content delivery network'2016 9,467,387'System and method for managing bandwidth responsive to the duty cycle of an ABR client'2016 9,444,856'System and method for managing adjacent channels in an adaptive streaming environment'2016 9,088,813'Network personal video recorder savings with scalable video coding'2015 9,065,811'Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for communicating content files based on destination priority'2015 8,973,073'Weighted ingest policy management in a content distribution network'2015 8,973,067'Methods and apparatus for managing network resources used by multimedia streams in a virtual pipe'2015

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2015–2021Patents assigned to ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M (20)· patent assignee history

2015–2018Patents assigned to ERICSSON TELEVISION INC (16)· patent assignee history

2015–2021Based in Sugar Hill, GA, US· patent location history

2016–2020Patents assigned to ERICSSON AB (29)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
ERICSSON AB	29	2016–2020
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M	20	2015–2021
ERICSSON TELEVISION INC	16	2015–2018

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Sugar Hill, Georgia, US	50	2015–2021