Inventor · Newark, CA, US

John Pickens

18Patents
7h-index
21Co-inventors
58Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 5, 2005 → Sep 17, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7809942B2 Conditional access method and apparatus of a receiver system for controlling digital TV program start time Electricity 140 Active
US7788393B2 Switching a client from unicasting to multicasting by increasing the unicast stream rate to the client Electricity 28 Active
US7886073B2 Systems and methods of reducing media stream delay Electricity 21 Active
US8713195B2 Method and system for streaming digital video content to a client in a digital video network Electricity 16 Active
US9197857B2 IP-based stream splicing with content-specific splice points Electricity 15 Active
US8166179B2 Media streaming through a network address translation (NAT) device Electricity 11 Active
US8468572B2 Distributing digital video content to multiple end-user devices Electricity 8 Active
US7904581B2 Fast channel change with conditional return to multicasting Electricity 7 Active
US8069464B2 Architecture for scaling just-in-time placement of advertising content Electricity 6 Active
US8191101B2 Packet timing method and apparatus of a receiver system for controlling digital TV program start time Electricity 6 Active
US8214855B2 Delivery of streams to repair errored media streams in periods of unrecoverable errors Electricity 4 Active
US8015310B2 Systems and methods of adaptive playout of delayed media streams Electricity 4 Active
US8154988B2 Delivery of streams to repair errored media streams in periods of insufficient resources Electricity 4 Active
US8275898B2 Reporting status of remote media ingest Electricity 3 Active
US8145778B2 Method and system for transitioning streamed digital video content between stream servers in a digital video network Electricity 3 Active
US8140699B2 Switching a client from unicasting to multicasting by simultaneously providing unicast and multicast streams to the client Performing Operations; Transporting 3 Active
US8312493B2 Providing program restart functionality in a digital video network Electricity 3 Active
US8973065B2 IPTV off-path admission control signaling in the presence of network address translation Electricity 0 Active

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