Patents

Granted Patents

1. System and Method of Predicting Field of View for Immersive Video Streaming
   Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Jackson Jarrell Pair, and Vikash Sharma
   United States Patent 10762710, Publication Date September 1, 2020.
   

2. Method of Audio-Assisted Field of View Prediction for Spherical Video Streaming
   Bo Han, Manuel Briand, and Vijay Gopalakrishnan
   United States Patent 10735882, Publication Date August 4, 2020.
   

3. Proxy Assisted Panoramic Video Streaming at Mobile Edge
   Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Rittwik Jana
   United States Patent 10735778, Publication Date August 4, 2020.
   

4. Methods, Systems and Devices for Adjusting Panoramic Video Content
   Bo Han, Shuai Hao, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Feng Qian
   United States Patent 10708494, Publication Date July 7, 2020.
   

5. Optimizing 360-Degree Video Streaming with Video Content Analysis
   Bo Han, Tan Xu, and Cheuk Yiu Ip
   United States Patent 10699154, Publication Date June 30, 2020.
   

6. Method of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming for 360-Degree Videos
   Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Jackson Jarrell Pair, Vikash Sharma, Feng Qian, and Qingyang Xiao
   United States Patent 10659815, Publication Date May 19, 2020.
   

7. Optimizing Delay-Sensitive Network-Based Communications with Latency Guidance
   Zhengye Liu, Xidong Wu, Jin Wang, and Bo Han,
   United States Patent 10659190, Publication Date May 19, 2020.
   

8. Adaptive Field of View Prediction
   Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Tan Xu
   United States Patent 10638165, Publication Date April 28, 2020.
   

9. Field of View Prediction in Live Panoramic Video Streaming
   Bo Han, Matteo Varvello, and Vijay Gopalakrishnan
   United States Patent 10623791, Publication Date April 14, 2020.
   

10. Methods and Devices for Determining Multipath Routing for Panoramic Video Content
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Feng Qian, and Matteo Varvello
    United States Patent 10616621, Publication Date April 7, 2020.
    

11. Method and Apparatus for Navigating through Panoramic Content
    Bo Han, Manuel Briand, and Vijay Gopalakrishnan
    United States Patent 10574975, Publication Date February 25, 2020.
    

12. Collaborative Augmented Reality System
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Eric Zavesky, Wenxiao Zhang, and Pan Hui
    United States Patent 10565764, Publication Date February 18, 2020.
    

13. Adaptive Cloud Offloading of Mobile Augmented Reality
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Shuai Hao
    United States Patent 10565464, Publication Date February 18, 2020.
    

14. Active Network Support on Adaptive Virtual Reality Video Transmission
    Zhengye Liu, Jin Wang, Xidong Wu, and Bo Han
    United States Patent 10560759, Publication Date February 11, 2020.
    

15. Parallelism for Virtual Network Functions in Service Function Chains
    Bo Han, Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Aman Shaikh, Joshua Reich, Yang Zhang, and Zhi-Li Zhang
    United States Patent 10432524, Publication Date October 1 2019.
    

16. Method and Apparatus for Web Browsing on Multihomed Mobile Devices
    Bo Han, Rittwik Jana, Lusheng Ji, and Feng Qian
    United States Patent 10405365, Publication Date September 3 2019.
    

17. Adaptive Video Streaming over Preference-Aware Multipath
    Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Feng Qian
    United States Patent 10348796, Publication Date July 9 2019.
    

18. Method and Apparatus for Architecting Multimedia Conferencing Services Using SDN
    Rittwik Jana, John F. Murray, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Shu Shi, Bo Han, Bo Yan, and Lusheng Ji
    United States Patent 10264035, Publication Date April 16 2019.
    

19. Resource Management for Video Streaming with Inattentive User
    Shuai Hao, Bo Han, and Moo-Ryong Ra
    United States Patent 10200753, Publication Date February 5 2019.
    

20. Facilitation of Multipath Transmission Control Protocols
    Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Feng Qian
    United States Patent 10193781, Publication Date January 29 2019.
    

21. Facilitation of Efficient Web Site Page Loading
    Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Shuai Hao, and Feng Qian
    United States Patent 10084884, Publication Date September 25 2018.
    

22. Facilitation of Multipath Scheduling
    Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Feng Qian
    United States Patent 9992786, Publication Date June 8 2018.
    

23. Wireless Network Device Buffers
    Jung Gun Lee, Bo Han, and Sung-Ju Lee
    United States Patent 9325640, Publication Date April 26, 2016.
    

24. Non-Cellular Link Integration with Cellular Networks
    Lusheng Ji, Robert R. Miller, and Bo Han
    United States Patent 9277580, Publication Date March 1 2016.
    

25. Method and Apparatus for Scheduling Communication Traffic Flows
    Lusheng Ji, Bo Han, and Robert R. Miller
    United States Patent 8848719, Publication Date September 30, 2014.
    

26. QoS in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
    Lusheng Ji, Bo Han, and Robert R. Miller
    United States Patent 8483077, Publication Date July 09, 2013.
    

27. Method for Encoding Frame Data
    Lusheng Ji, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Bo Han, Seungjoon Lee, and Robert R. Miller
    United States Patent 7940850, Publication Date May 10, 2011.
    

Filed Patents

1. Method, Systems And Devices For Providing Adjusted Video Content According To Viewing Distance
   Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, Jackson Jarrell Pair, and Feng Qian
   Filed on May 15, 2020.
   

2. Method Of Determining Occlusion Based Visibility For Volumetric Video Streaming
   Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, and Jackson Jarrell Pair
   Filed on March 20, 2020.
   

3. Method For Accelerating Three-Dimensional Object Segmentation With Point Cloud Simplifications
   Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, Eric Zavesky, and Huanle Zhang
   Filed on March 19, 2020.
   

4. System And Method of Enabling Adaptive Bitrate Streaming for Volumetric Videos
   Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, and Jackson Jarrell Pair
   Filed on March 16, 2020.
   

5. Apparatuses And Methods For Enhancing A Presentation Of Content With Surrounding Sensors
   Tan Xu, Bo Han, and Eric Zavesky
   Filed on March 9, 2020.
   

6. Transport Protocol For Latency Sensitive Applications
   Shu Shi, Bo Han, Rittwik Jana, and Bo Chen
   Filed on February 19, 2020.
   

7. Apparatus And Method For Deconflicting Competing Cross Reality Engagements
   Tan Xu, Bo Han, and Eric Zavesky
   Filed on February 17, 2020.
   

8. Apparatus And Method For Providing Content With Multiplane Image Transcoding
   Tan Xu, Bo Han, and Eric Zavesky
   Filed on February 12, 2020.
   

9. Method For Streaming Ultra High Definition Panoramic Videos
   Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, Tan Xu, Wenxiao Zhang, and Pan Hui
   Filed on December 13, 2019.
   

10. Extended Reality Anchor Caching Based On Viewport Prediction
    Tan Xu, David Gibbon, Eric Zavesky, and Bo Han,
    Filed on October 15, 2019.
    

11. Collaborative And Edge-Enhanced Augmented Reality Systems
    Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Wenxiao Zhang, and Pan Hui
    Filed on September 26, 2019.
    

12. Transcoding Ultra-High-Definition Panoramic Videos
    Bo Han, Shu Shi, and Zhengye Liu
    Filed on September 24, 2019.
    

13. Multi-User Viewport-Adaptive Immersive Visual Streaming
    Bo Han, Rittwik Jana, and Shu Shi
    Filed on September 24, 2019.
    

14. Viewport-Based Transcoding For Immersive Visual Streams
    Bo Han, Tan Xu, and Zhengye Liu
    Filed on September 24, 2019.
    

15. System And Method For Streaming Visible Portions Of Volumetric Video
    Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, and Jackson Jarrell Pair
    Filed on August 14, 2019.
    

16. Method For Scalable Volumetric Video Coding
    Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, and Jackson Jarrell Pair
    Filed on July 24, 2019.
    

17. Facilitating Panoramic Video Streaming With Brain-Computer Interactions
    Bo Han, Chenfei Gao, and Zhengye Liu
    Filed on July 17, 2019.
    

18. Mapping Network Topology For Latency Sensitive Applications In A Mobile Network
    Zhengye Liu, Donglin Hu, Bo Han, and Jin Wang
    Filed on June 21, 2019.
    

19. Multi-Viewport Transcoding For Volumetric Video Streaming
    Bo Han, Jackson Jarrell Pair, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Feng Qian
    Filed on June 20, 2019.
    

20. Proxy-Based Volumetric Video Edge Streaming
    Bo Han, Jackson Jarrell Pair, and Tan Xu
    Filed on June 20, 2019.
    

21. Methods, Devices, And Systems For Encoding Portions Of Video Content According To Priority Content Within Live Video Content
    Bo Han, Sassan Pejhan, and Vijay Gopalakrishnan
    Filed on April 1, 2019.
    

22. Optimizing Delay-Sensitive Network-Based Communications With Latency Guidance
    Zhengye Liu, Xidong Wu, Jin Wang, and Bo Han
    Filed on February 25, 2019.
    

23. Augmented Reality With Markerless, Context-Aware Object Tracking
    Bo Han, Muhammad Anwer, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Wenxiao Zhang, and Pan Hui
    Filed on December 27, 2018.
    

24. Controlling Parallel Data Processing For Service Function Chains
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Yang Zhang, and Zhi-Li Zhang
    Filed on December 14, 2018.
    

25. Parallel Data Processing For Service Function Chains Spanning Multiple Servers
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Yang Zhang, and Zhi-Li Zhang
    Filed on December 14, 2018.
    

26. Methods, Devices, And Systems For Embedding Visual Advertisements In Video Content
    Bo Han, Sassan Pejhan, and Zhengye Liu
    Filed on December 7, 2018.
    

27. VR Video Transmission With Layered Video By Re-Using Existing Network Infrastructures
    Zhengye Liu, Bo Han, Jin Wang, and Xidong Wu
    Filed on October 23, 2018.
    

28. Methods, Devices, And Systems For Decoding Portions Of Video Content According To A Schedule Based On User Viewpoint
    Bo Han, Sassan Pejhan, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Feng Qian
    Filed on October 18, 2018.
    

29. Tile Scheduler For Viewport-Adaptive Panoramic Video Streaming
    Bo Han, Peshala Pahalawatta, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, and Feng Qian
    Filed on October 18, 2018.
    

30. Method and System To Reduce Network Bandwidth Usage For Video Streaming
    Shuai Hao, Zihui Ge, and Bo Han,
    Filed on September 20, 2018.
    

31. Priority-Based Tile Transmission System And Method For Panoramic Video Streaming
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Zhengye Liu, and Feng Qian
    Filed on September 5, 2018.
    

32. Method And Apparatus For Provisioning Secondary Content Based On Primary Content
    Bo Han, Sassan Pejhan, and Vijay Gopalakrishnan
    Filed on August 21, 2018.
    

33. Network-Assisted Raft Consensus Protocol
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Marco Platania, Yang Zhang, and Zhi-Li Zhang
    Filed on August 13, 2018.
    

34. Methods, Systems And Devices For Adjusting Panoramic View Of A Camera For Capturing Video Content
    Bo Han, Shuai Hao, and Vijay Gopalakrishnan
    Filed on August 13, 2018.
    

35. Enhanced Service Function Chain
    Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Yulong Zhou, David Mahar, Michael Satterlee, Bo Han, and Vijay Gopalakrishnan
    Filed on June 29, 2018.
    

36. Apparatus, Storage Medium And Method For Heterogeneous Segmentation Of Video Streaming
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Jackson Jarrell Pair, and Vikash Sharma
    Filed on June 19, 2018.
    

37. Methods And Devices For Adapting The Rate Of Video Content Streaming
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Jackson Jarrell Pair, Vikash Sharma, and Feng Qian
    Filed on June 6, 2018.
    

38. Navigation For 360-Degree Video Streaming
    Bo Han, Manuel Briand, and Vijay Gopalakrishnan
    Filed on June 1, 2018.
    

39. System And Method For Segmenting Immersive Video
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Jackson Jarrell Pair, and Vikash Sharma
    Filed on April 10, 2018.
    

40. Collaborative Visual Enhancement Devices
    Eric Zavesky and Bo Han,
    Filed on March 6, 2018.
    

41. Selective Streaming Of Immersive Video Based On Field-Of-View Prediction
    Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Lusheng Ji, and Feng Qian
    Filed on December 1, 2017.
    

42. Energy Savings On Multihomed Mobile Devices Using A Dynamically Adjusted Inactivity Timer
    Bo Han, Shuai Hao, Lusheng Ji, and Feng Qian
    Filed on July 17, 2015.