Inventor · Collegeville, PA, US

Robert E. Mack

15Patents
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18Co-inventors
59Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 21, 1999 → Dec 7, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6400720B1 Method for transporting variable length and fixed length packets in a standard digital transmission frame Electricity 67 Expired
US8561102B1 Location specific video content retrieval enabling regional blackouts to be maintained Electricity 22 Active
US9225762B2 Method and apparatus for network based adaptive streaming Electricity 7 Active
US7590886B2 Method and apparatus for facilitating device redundancy in a fault-tolerant system Electricity 6 Active
US8989006B2 Method and apparatus for glitchless failover to redundant stream Electricity 6 Active
US9544628B2 Method and apparatus for network based adaptive streaming Electricity 5 Active
US9043854B2 Provisioning a set-top box Electricity 3 Active
US7414984B2 System and method for efficient addition of network resources Electricity 3 Active
US8774062B2 IP multicast management and service provision system and method Electricity 3 Active
US8885823B2 Method and apparatus for delivering encrypted on-demand content without use of an application defined protocol Electricity 3 Active
US10476923B2 Filtering content for adaptive streaming Electricity 1 Active
US8904425B2 Method for controlling and implementing blackout in IPTV networks Electricity 1 Active
US8441963B2 IP multicast management and service provision system and method Electricity 1 Active
US7765566B2 In-band signaling to control encryption and transcoding resources in VOD/On-Demand system Electricity 0 Active
US9161095B2 Extending blackout control Electricity 0 Active

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