Mark Watson

Person

San Francisco, CA, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Fast-expiring licenses used to speculatively authorize access to st...
- Patent number 12,061,676
- Issue date Aug 13, 2024
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Staggered key frame video encoding
- Patent number 11,973,996
- Issue date Apr 30, 2024
- Netflix, Inc.
- Aditya Mavlankar
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Techniques for advancing playback of interactive media titles in re...
- Patent number 11,917,271
- Issue date Feb 27, 2024
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Temporal placement of a rebuffering event
- Patent number 11,863,814
- Issue date Jan 2, 2024
- Netflix, Inc.
- Ioannis Katsavounidis
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for verifying a route taken by a communication
- Patent number 11,804,967
- Issue date Oct 31, 2023
- Neustar, Inc.
- Brian R. Knopf
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Enhanced block-request streaming system for handling low-latency st...
- Patent number 11,770,432
- Issue date Sep 26, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Michael G. Luby
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Global approach to buffering media content
- Patent number 11,770,565
- Issue date Sep 26, 2023
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Enhanced block-request streaming using block partitioning or reques...
- Patent number 11,743,317
- Issue date Aug 29, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Michael George Luby
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Audio transitions when streaming audiovisual media titles
- Patent number 11,700,415
- Issue date Jul 11, 2023
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Dynamic topology generation for branching narratives
- Patent number 11,696,002
- Issue date Jul 4, 2023
- Netflix, Inc.
- Maxine Cheung
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Fast-expiring licenses used to speculatively authorize access to st...
- Patent number 11,593,459
- Issue date Feb 28, 2023
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Techniques for modifying audiovisual media titles to improve audio...
- Patent number 11,503,264
- Issue date Nov 15, 2022
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- G10 - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ACOUSTICS
Information Patent Grant
Enhanced block-request streaming system using signaling or block cr...
- Patent number 11,477,253
- Issue date Oct 18, 2022
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Michael G. Luby
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Temporal placement of a rebuffering event
- Patent number 11,388,472
- Issue date Jul 12, 2022
- Netflix, Inc.
- Ioannis Katsavounidis
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Speculative pre-authorization of encrypted data streams
- Patent number 11,349,699
- Issue date May 31, 2022
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Audio transitions when streaming audiovisual media titles
- Patent number 11,336,947
- Issue date May 17, 2022
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Techniques for advancing playback of interactive media titles in re...
- Patent number 11,265,623
- Issue date Mar 1, 2022
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Dynamic topology generation for branching narratives
- Patent number 11,223,884
- Issue date Jan 11, 2022
- Netflix, Inc.
- Maxine Cheung
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Global approach to buffering media content
- Patent number 11,115,688
- Issue date Sep 7, 2021
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for verifying a route taken by a communication
- Patent number 11,108,562
- Issue date Aug 31, 2021
- Neustar, Inc.
- Brian R. Knopf
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Temporal placement of a rebuffering event
- Patent number 11,025,986
- Issue date Jun 1, 2021
- Netflix, Inc.
- Ioannis Katsavounidis
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Staggered key frame video encoding
- Patent number 10,873,775
- Issue date Dec 22, 2020
- Netflix, Inc.
- Aditya Mavlankar
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Enhanced block-request streaming using block partitioning or reques...
- Patent number 10,855,736
- Issue date Dec 1, 2020
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Michael G. Luby
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Techniques for advancing playback of interactive media titles in re...
- Patent number 10,771,865
- Issue date Sep 8, 2020
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Multi-CDN digital content streaming
- Patent number 10,523,732
- Issue date Dec 31, 2019
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Temporal placement of a rebuffering event
- Patent number 10,425,683
- Issue date Sep 24, 2019
- Netflix, Inc.
- Ioannis Katsavounidis
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Web server constraint support
- Patent number 10,425,500
- Issue date Sep 24, 2019
- Netflix, Inc.
- John Funge
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Site-based server selection
- Patent number 10,320,874
- Issue date Jun 11, 2019
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Measuring user quality of experience for a streaming media service
- Patent number 10,200,436
- Issue date Feb 5, 2019
- Netflix, Inc.
- John Funge
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Multi-CDN digital content streaming
- Patent number 10,142,405
- Issue date Nov 27, 2018
- Netflix, Inc.
- Mark Watson
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
STAGGERED KEY FRAME VIDEO ENCODING
- Publication number 20240251116
- Publication date Jul 25, 2024
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Aditya MAVLANKAR
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING A ROUTE TAKEN BY A COMMUNICATION
- Publication number 20240146538
- Publication date May 2, 2024
- Neustar , Inc.
- Brian R. KNOPF
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF A REBUFFERING EVENT
- Publication number 20240089530
- Publication date Mar 14, 2024
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Ioannis Katsavounidis
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR REUSING PORTIONS OF ENCODED ORIGINAL VIDEOS WHEN ENC...
- Publication number 20230396837
- Publication date Dec 7, 2023
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC TOPOLOGY GENERATION FOR BRANCHING NARRATIVES
- Publication number 20230345088
- Publication date Oct 26, 2023
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Maxine CHEUNG
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
AUDIO TRANSITIONS WHEN STREAMING AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TITLES
- Publication number 20230336809
- Publication date Oct 19, 2023
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
FAST-EXPIRING LICENSES USED TO SPECULATIVELY AUTHORIZE ACCESS TO ST...
- Publication number 20230205852
- Publication date Jun 29, 2023
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark Watson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF A REBUFFERING EVENT
- Publication number 20220345776
- Publication date Oct 27, 2022
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Ioannis Katsavounidis
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUDIO TRANSITIONS WHEN STREAMING AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TITLES
- Publication number 20220279232
- Publication date Sep 1, 2022
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING SYSTEM FOR HANDLING LOW-LATENCY ST...
- Publication number 20220247807
- Publication date Aug 4, 2022
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Michael George LUBY
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING A ROUTE TAKEN BY A COMMUNICATION
- Publication number 20220231859
- Publication date Jul 21, 2022
- Neustar, Inc.
- Brian R. Knopf
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR ADVANCING PLAYBACK OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA TITLES IN RE...
- Publication number 20220182737
- Publication date Jun 9, 2022
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC TOPOLOGY GENERATION FOR BRANCHING NARRATIVES
- Publication number 20220053247
- Publication date Feb 17, 2022
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Maxine CHEUNG
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
GLOBAL APPROACH TO BUFFERING MEDIA CONTENT
- Publication number 20210400318
- Publication date Dec 23, 2021
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF A REBUFFERING EVENT
- Publication number 20210289258
- Publication date Sep 16, 2021
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Ioannis Katsavounidis
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING USING BLOCK PARTITIONING OR REQUES...
- Publication number 20210211483
- Publication date Jul 8, 2021
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Michael Luby
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
GLOBAL APPROACH TO BUFFERING MEDIA CONTENT
- Publication number 20210185369
- Publication date Jun 17, 2021
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
STAGGERED KEY FRAME VIDEO ENCODING
- Publication number 20210112291
- Publication date Apr 15, 2021
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Aditya MAVLANKAR
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR MODIFYING AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TITLES TO IMPROVE AUDIO...
- Publication number 20210084277
- Publication date Mar 18, 2021
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- G10 - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ACOUSTICS
Information Patent Application
AUDIO TRANSITIONS WHEN STREAMING AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TITLES
- Publication number 20210084358
- Publication date Mar 18, 2021
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING USING BLOCK PARTITIONING OR REQUES...
- Publication number 20210051190
- Publication date Feb 18, 2021
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Michael G. LUBY
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR ADVANCING PLAYBACK OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA TITLES IN RE...
- Publication number 20200404398
- Publication date Dec 24, 2020
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR ADVANCING PLAYBACK OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA TITLES IN RE...
- Publication number 20200260160
- Publication date Aug 13, 2020
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark WATSON
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC TOPOLOGY GENERATION FOR BRANCHING NARRATIVES
- Publication number 20200037048
- Publication date Jan 30, 2020
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Maxine CHEUNG
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC TOPOLOGY GENERATION FOR BRANCHING NARRATIVES
- Publication number 20200037047
- Publication date Jan 30, 2020
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Maxine CHEUNG
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF A REBUFFERING EVENT
- Publication number 20200007930
- Publication date Jan 2, 2020
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Ioannis Katsavounidis
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
FAST-EXPIRING LICENSES USED TO SPECULATIVELY AUTHORIZE ACCESS TO ST...
- Publication number 20190057195
- Publication date Feb 21, 2019
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Mark Watson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
STAGGERED KEY FRAME VIDEO ENCODING
- Publication number 20180359499
- Publication date Dec 13, 2018
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Aditya MAVLANKAR
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Temporal Placement of a Rebuffering Event
- Publication number 20180352292
- Publication date Dec 6, 2018
- NETFLIX, INC.
- Ioannis Katsavounidis
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING USING BLOCK PARTITIONING OR REQUES...
- Publication number 20180152498
- Publication date May 31, 2018
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Michael G. LUBY
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Mark Watson

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Fast-expiring licenses used to speculatively authorize access to st...

Staggered key frame video encoding

Techniques for advancing playback of interactive media titles in re...

Temporal placement of a rebuffering event

Systems and methods for verifying a route taken by a communication

Enhanced block-request streaming system for handling low-latency st...

Global approach to buffering media content

Enhanced block-request streaming using block partitioning or reques...

Audio transitions when streaming audiovisual media titles

Dynamic topology generation for branching narratives

Fast-expiring licenses used to speculatively authorize access to st...

Techniques for modifying audiovisual media titles to improve audio...

Enhanced block-request streaming system using signaling or block cr...

Temporal placement of a rebuffering event

Speculative pre-authorization of encrypted data streams

Audio transitions when streaming audiovisual media titles

Techniques for advancing playback of interactive media titles in re...

Dynamic topology generation for branching narratives

Global approach to buffering media content

Systems and methods for verifying a route taken by a communication

Temporal placement of a rebuffering event

Staggered key frame video encoding

Enhanced block-request streaming using block partitioning or reques...

Techniques for advancing playback of interactive media titles in re...

Multi-CDN digital content streaming

Temporal placement of a rebuffering event

Web server constraint support

Site-based server selection

Measuring user quality of experience for a streaming media service

Multi-CDN digital content streaming

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

STAGGERED KEY FRAME VIDEO ENCODING

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING A ROUTE TAKEN BY A COMMUNICATION

TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF A REBUFFERING EVENT

TECHNIQUES FOR REUSING PORTIONS OF ENCODED ORIGINAL VIDEOS WHEN ENC...

DYNAMIC TOPOLOGY GENERATION FOR BRANCHING NARRATIVES

AUDIO TRANSITIONS WHEN STREAMING AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TITLES

FAST-EXPIRING LICENSES USED TO SPECULATIVELY AUTHORIZE ACCESS TO ST...

TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF A REBUFFERING EVENT

AUDIO TRANSITIONS WHEN STREAMING AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TITLES

ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING SYSTEM FOR HANDLING LOW-LATENCY ST...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING A ROUTE TAKEN BY A COMMUNICATION

TECHNIQUES FOR ADVANCING PLAYBACK OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA TITLES IN RE...

DYNAMIC TOPOLOGY GENERATION FOR BRANCHING NARRATIVES

GLOBAL APPROACH TO BUFFERING MEDIA CONTENT

TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF A REBUFFERING EVENT

ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING USING BLOCK PARTITIONING OR REQUES...

GLOBAL APPROACH TO BUFFERING MEDIA CONTENT

STAGGERED KEY FRAME VIDEO ENCODING

TECHNIQUES FOR MODIFYING AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TITLES TO IMPROVE AUDIO...

AUDIO TRANSITIONS WHEN STREAMING AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TITLES

ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING USING BLOCK PARTITIONING OR REQUES...

TECHNIQUES FOR ADVANCING PLAYBACK OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA TITLES IN RE...

TECHNIQUES FOR ADVANCING PLAYBACK OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA TITLES IN RE...

DYNAMIC TOPOLOGY GENERATION FOR BRANCHING NARRATIVES

DYNAMIC TOPOLOGY GENERATION FOR BRANCHING NARRATIVES

TEMPORAL PLACEMENT OF A REBUFFERING EVENT

FAST-EXPIRING LICENSES USED TO SPECULATIVELY AUTHORIZE ACCESS TO ST...

STAGGERED KEY FRAME VIDEO ENCODING

Temporal Placement of a Rebuffering Event

ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING USING BLOCK PARTITIONING OR REQUES...