Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Eric William Grab

58Patents
19h-index
37Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 8, 2003 → Feb 5, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8561104B1 Systems and methods for adaptively transmitting media and advertising content Electricity 237 Active
US7295673B2 Method and system for securing compressed digital video Electricity 100 Expired
US8918636B2 Systems and methods for protecting alternative streams in adaptive bitrate streaming systems Electricity 73 Active
US8909922B2 Systems and methods for playing back alternative streams of protected content protected using common cryptographic information Electricity 62 Active
US8201264B2 Federated digital rights management scheme including trusted systems Physics 56 Active
US8997254B2 Systems and methods for fast startup streaming of encrypted multimedia content Electricity 53 Active
US9247311B2 Systems and methods for playing back alternative streams of protected content protected using common cryptographic information Electricity 52 Active
US8731369B2 Multimedia distribution system for multimedia files having subtitle information Physics 46 Active
US9344517B2 Downloading and adaptive streaming of multimedia content to a device with cache assist Electricity 44 Active
US9343112B2 Systems and methods for supplementing content from a server Electricity 43 Active
US7515710B2 Federated digital rights management scheme including trusted systems Physics 40 Active
US9184920B2 Federated digital rights management scheme including trusted systems Physics 39 Active
US9621522B2 Systems and methods for playing back alternative streams of protected content protected using common cryptographic information Electricity 37 Active
US8656183B2 Federated digital rights management scheme including trusted systems Physics 34 Active
US9798863B2 Federated digital rights management scheme including trusted systems Physics 34 Active
US7460668B2 Optimized secure media playback control Physics 33 Active
US10225588B2 Playback devices and methods for playing back alternative streams of content protected using a common set of cryptographic keys Electricity 21 Active
US10244272B2 Systems and methods for playing back alternative streams of protected content protected using common cryptographic information Electricity 20 Active
US9369687B2 Multimedia distribution system for multimedia files with interleaved media chunks of varying types Physics 19 Active
US10341698B2 Systems and methods for distributing content using a common set of encryption keys Electricity 19 Active
US9009794B2 Systems and methods for temporary assignment and exchange of digital access rights Physics 16 Active
US10856020B2 Systems and methods for distributing content using a common set of encryption keys Electricity 13 Active
US9092646B2 Systems and methods for identifying consumer electronic products based on a product identifier Physics 13 Active
US9129087B2 Systems and methods for managing digital rights based on a union or intersection of individual rights Physics 12 Active
US10257443B2 Multimedia distribution system for multimedia files with interleaved media chunks of varying types Physics 11 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.