Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

William P. Franks

21Patents
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20Co-inventors
59Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 5, 2012 → Oct 27, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9584557B2 Proxy for facilitating streaming of media from server to client Electricity 51 Active
US9681197B2 Methods of implementing multi mode trickplay Electricity 5 Active
US8826346B1 Methods of implementing trickplay Electricity 5 Active
US9549000B2 Streaming media from a server delivering individualized content streams to clients Electricity 4 Active
US11388463B2 Reduction of startup time in remote HLS Electricity 2 Active
US8930446B2 Altering transcoding priority Electricity 2 Active
US11838451B2 Reduction of startup time in remote HLS Electricity 1 Active
US9497514B2 DTCP converter for HLS Electricity 1 Active
US12010377B2 System and method for adaptive storage of video data Electricity 0 Active
US12231710B2 Reduction of startup time in remote HLS Electricity 0 Active
US11496727B2 Streaming to display array Physics 0 Active
US11616997B2 Methods and systems for trick play using partial video file chunks Electricity 0 Active
US10728599B2 Gateway server conditioned media streaming Electricity 0 Active
US12022158B2 Technologies for controlling the flow of subscriber media content outside of a home media content delivery network Electricity 0 Active
US11778014B2 Throttling content download in adaptive HTTP live streaming Electricity 0 Active
US11595457B2 System and method for dynamic adjustment of content streaming rates Electricity 0 Active
US10015542B2 Method and apparatus for secure storage and retrieval of live off disk media programs Electricity 0 Active
US11647063B2 Method and apparatus for presentation of video content Electricity 0 Active
US11985379B2 System and method for seamless content transition Electricity 0 Active
US10652296B2 Method and apparatus to efficiently smooth adaptive content playback in HTTP live streaming Electricity 0 Active
US11595734B2 Technologies for providing stream metadata to clients Electricity 0 Active

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