William B. May JR.

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Sunnyvale, CA, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Packager for segmenter fluidity
- Patent number 12,244,884
- Issue date Mar 4, 2025
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- William B. May
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Surgical micro-encoding of content
- Patent number 12,126,879
- Issue date Oct 22, 2024
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Scott Labrozzi
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Packager for segmenter fluidity
- Patent number 11,877,022
- Issue date Jan 16, 2024
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- William B. May
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Transcoder conditioning for segment fluidity
- Patent number 11,757,963
- Issue date Sep 12, 2023
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Scott C. Labrozzi
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Packager for segmenter fluidity
- Patent number 11,509,949
- Issue date Nov 22, 2022
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- William B. May
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Selective pre-caching of media streams
- Patent number 11,451,603
- Issue date Sep 20, 2022
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Jeffrey Grubb
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Dynamic variant list modification to achieve bitrate reduction
- Patent number 11,368,505
- Issue date Jun 21, 2022
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Eric R. Klein
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Transcoder conditioning for segment fluidity
- Patent number 11,128,688
- Issue date Sep 21, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Scott C. Labrozzi
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 11,019,309
- Issue date May 25, 2021
- Apple Inc.
- William May
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 10,977,330
- Issue date Apr 13, 2021
- Apple Inc.
- David Biderman
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 10,693,930
- Issue date Jun 23, 2020
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 10,523,726
- Issue date Dec 31, 2019
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Switching between media streams
- Patent number 10,135,748
- Issue date Nov 20, 2018
- Apple Inc.
- William B. May
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 10,044,779
- Issue date Aug 7, 2018
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Adaptive connection switching
- Patent number 9,979,765
- Issue date May 22, 2018
- Apple Inc.
- William B. May
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 9,832,245
- Issue date Nov 28, 2017
- Apple Inc.
- David Biderman
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 9,729,830
- Issue date Aug 8, 2017
- Apple Inc.
- William May
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Multi-stream scheduling and requests
- Patent number 9,660,926
- Issue date May 23, 2017
- Apple Inc.
- David L. Biderman
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 9,558,282
- Issue date Jan 31, 2017
- Apple Inc.
- David Biderman
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 9,531,779
- Issue date Dec 27, 2016
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 8,892,691
- Issue date Nov 18, 2014
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 8,856,283
- Issue date Oct 7, 2014
- Apple Inc.
- David Biderman
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 8,843,586
- Issue date Sep 23, 2014
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 8,805,963
- Issue date Aug 12, 2014
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Estimating bandwidth based on server IP address
- Patent number 8,650,289
- Issue date Feb 11, 2014
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 8,650,192
- Issue date Feb 11, 2014
- Apple Inc.
- David Biderman
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Variant streams for real-time or near real-time streaming to provid...
- Patent number 8,639,832
- Issue date Jan 28, 2014
- Apple Inc.
- David Biderman
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Real-time or near real-time streaming
- Patent number 8,560,642
- Issue date Oct 15, 2013
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Distributed packet processing using encapsulation and decapsulation...
- Patent number 6,697,872
- Issue date Feb 24, 2004
- Cisco Technology
- Kenneth Moberg
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Packet processing using encapsulation and decapsulation chains
- Patent number 6,578,084
- Issue date Jun 10, 2003
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Kenneth A. Moberg
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
UNIQUE PLAYLIST CREATION USING VARIABLE SUBSTITUTION IN VIDEO DELIVERY
- Publication number 20240121459
- Publication date Apr 11, 2024
- Hulu, LLC
- William B. May
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
PACKAGER FOR SEGMENTER FLUIDITY
- Publication number 20240107097
- Publication date Mar 28, 2024
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- William B. MAY
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Surgical Micro-Encoding of Content
- Publication number 20240015369
- Publication date Jan 11, 2024
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Scott Labrozzi
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
PACKAGER FOR SEGMENTER FLUIDITY
- Publication number 20230083464
- Publication date Mar 16, 2023
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- William B. MAY
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC VARIANT LIST MODIFICATION TO ACHIEVE BITRATE REDUCTION
- Publication number 20220086207
- Publication date Mar 17, 2022
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Eric R. KLEIN
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TRANSCODER CONDITIONING FOR SEGMENT FLUIDITY
- Publication number 20210377329
- Publication date Dec 2, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Scott C. LABROZZI
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SELECTIVE PRE-CACHING OF MEDIA STREAMS
- Publication number 20210266353
- Publication date Aug 26, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Jeffrey GRUBB
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20210263981
- Publication date Aug 26, 2021
- Apple Inc.
- David Biderman
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TRANSCODER CONDITIONING FOR SEGMENT FLUIDITY
- Publication number 20210120061
- Publication date Apr 22, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Scott C. LABROZZI
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
PACKAGER FOR SEGMENTER FLUIDITY
- Publication number 20210084354
- Publication date Mar 18, 2021
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- William B. MAY
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20200314161
- Publication date Oct 1, 2020
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20180302452
- Publication date Oct 18, 2018
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20170374320
- Publication date Dec 28, 2017
- Apple Inc.
- William May
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20170171094
- Publication date Jun 15, 2017
- Apple Inc.
- David Biderman
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
PROTOCOL FOR GATING ACCESS TO MEDIA ITEMS
- Publication number 20170094354
- Publication date Mar 30, 2017
- Apple Inc.
- Roger N. Pantos
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20170078345
- Publication date Mar 16, 2017
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ADAPTIVE CONNECTION SWITCHING
- Publication number 20160337428
- Publication date Nov 17, 2016
- Apple Inc.
- William B. May
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SWITCHING BETWEEN MEDIA STREAMS
- Publication number 20160094468
- Publication date Mar 31, 2016
- Apple Inc.
- William B. May
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HTTP LIVE STREAMING DATERANGES
- Publication number 20150347415
- Publication date Dec 3, 2015
- Apple Inc.
- Roger N. Pantos
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MULTI-STREAM SCHEDULING AND REQUESTS
- Publication number 20150350100
- Publication date Dec 3, 2015
- Apple Inc.
- David L. BIDERMAN
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20150172343
- Publication date Jun 18, 2015
- Apple Inc.
- Roger Pantos
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20140379873
- Publication date Dec 25, 2014
- David Biderman
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20140317244
- Publication date Oct 23, 2014
- Roger Pantos
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING
- Publication number 20140143388
- Publication date May 22, 2014
- Apple Inc.
- David Biderman
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VARIANT STREAMS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING TO PROVID...
- Publication number 20130046861
- Publication date Feb 21, 2013
- David Biderman
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Multiple image artifact correction of images for a display having a...
- Publication number 20070200956
- Publication date Aug 30, 2007
- Richard T. Wales
- G09 - EDUCATION CRYPTOGRAPHY DISPLAY ADVERTISING SEALS
Information Patent Application
Faster multimedia synchronization of broadcast streams using router...
- Publication number 20060291466
- Publication date Dec 28, 2006
- William B. May
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Method and system for providing low cost set-top box
- Publication number 20060271987
- Publication date Nov 30, 2006
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Blane Eisenberg
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Distributed architecture for digital program insertion in video str...
- Publication number 20060075449
- Publication date Apr 6, 2006
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Ramanathan T. Jagadeesan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EXTENSIBLE STORAGE OF NETWORK DEVICE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION
- Publication number 20010054080
- Publication date Dec 20, 2001
- WILLIAM B. MAY
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

William B. May JR.

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Packager for segmenter fluidity

Surgical micro-encoding of content

Packager for segmenter fluidity

Transcoder conditioning for segment fluidity

Packager for segmenter fluidity

Selective pre-caching of media streams

Dynamic variant list modification to achieve bitrate reduction

Transcoder conditioning for segment fluidity

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Switching between media streams

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Adaptive connection switching

Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Multi-stream scheduling and requests

Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming

Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Estimating bandwidth based on server IP address

Playlists for real-time or near real-time streaming

Variant streams for real-time or near real-time streaming to provid...

Real-time or near real-time streaming

Distributed packet processing using encapsulation and decapsulation...

Packet processing using encapsulation and decapsulation chains

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

UNIQUE PLAYLIST CREATION USING VARIABLE SUBSTITUTION IN VIDEO DELIVERY

PACKAGER FOR SEGMENTER FLUIDITY

Surgical Micro-Encoding of Content

PACKAGER FOR SEGMENTER FLUIDITY

DYNAMIC VARIANT LIST MODIFICATION TO ACHIEVE BITRATE REDUCTION

TRANSCODER CONDITIONING FOR SEGMENT FLUIDITY

SELECTIVE PRE-CACHING OF MEDIA STREAMS

PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

TRANSCODER CONDITIONING FOR SEGMENT FLUIDITY

PACKAGER FOR SEGMENTER FLUIDITY

REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

PROTOCOL FOR GATING ACCESS TO MEDIA ITEMS

REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

ADAPTIVE CONNECTION SWITCHING

SWITCHING BETWEEN MEDIA STREAMS

HTTP LIVE STREAMING DATERANGES

MULTI-STREAM SCHEDULING AND REQUESTS

REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING

VARIANT STREAMS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING TO PROVID...

Multiple image artifact correction of images for a display having a...

Faster multimedia synchronization of broadcast streams using router...

Method and system for providing low cost set-top box

Distributed architecture for digital program insertion in video str...

EXTENSIBLE STORAGE OF NETWORK DEVICE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION