Avistar Communications Corporation Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140211811 | HIERARCHICAL CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF POLICY, GOAL, AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT USING BOTH SERVICE-SPECIFIC AND NETWORK MONITOR OBSERVATIONS - A Unified Bandwidth Manager that functions as a multi-service bandwidth manager to interface with and hierarchically manage a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems for at least one associated network resource is described. The Unified Bandwidth Manager includes a hierarchical control structure, and an interface for providing observed information relevant to policy, goal, and observed resource usage to the hierarchical control structure. At least one service-specific observation element and at least one network monitor observation element provide observation information relating to network conditions imposed on and observed in the associated network resource. The hierarchical control structure is provided with a plurality of feedback inputs that are responsive to associated ongoing observation information from each of an associated observation reporting element. The hierarchical control structure uses the plurality of feedback inputs, together with policy information or goal information, to produce at least one element of outgoing control information. | 07-31-2014 |
20140204172 | FACILITATING SCALABLE MOBILE MULTI-SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS INCLUDING 2-WAY VIDEO AND OTHER HIGH-BANDWIDTH SERVICES - A bandwidth management system for multiple-service mobile networks for use with a plurality of instances of mobile communications devices. A plurality of communications silo each provide at least one communications service using a mobile network wherein at least one communications service from at least one communications silo involving the transport of real-time two-way video or other high bandwidth communications. Call/session state information from the communications silos and packet-level network transport measurement information responsive to packet-level network transport processes in the mobile network are used by a control system to create control messages transmitted to the communications silos for controlling call/session admission application QoS parameters responsive to traffic and network operation. | 07-24-2014 |
20130091278 | HIERARCHICAL CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF POLICY, GOAL, AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT - A Unified Bandwidth Manager that functions as a multi-service bandwidth manager to interface with and hierarchically manage a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems is described. The Unified Bandwidth Manager includes at least a hierarchical control structure, and an interface for providing observed information relevant to policy, goal, and resource usage to the hierarchical control structure. The hierarchical control structure is provided with a plurality of feedback inputs that are responsive to associated ongoing observation information from each of an associated observation reporting element. The hierarchical control structure uses the plurality of feedback inputs, together with policy information or goal information, to produce at least one element of outgoing control information. | 04-11-2013 |
20130044747 | NETWORKS COMMUNICATIONS BANDWIDTH MANAGER CONTROL SYSTEM PROVIDING FOR ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATIONS PROCESSING RESOURCES - Systems and methods for network communications bandwidth management and in particular to unified bandwidth manager that interfaces with and hierarchically manages a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems. By utilizing a novel bandwidth management system, a better purpose specific bandwidth reservation system may thereby be achieved. | 02-21-2013 |
20130003543 | NEXT-GENERATION BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR MULTIPLE-SERVICE CALLS, SESSIONS, PACKET-LEVEL PROCESSES, AND QoS PARAMETERS - PART 1: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURES - System and method for addressing immense, long-standing problem of bandwidth management, for example, in enterprise networks, VPNs, real-time and stored video services, mobile applications, wireless networks, and cloud computing applications. Described features include an automatic closed-loop control system infrastructure encompassing multiple time-scales and performing control actions optimized to the extent possible with respect to administrator-provided performance metrics. One aspect utilizes available or innovatively accessible means of session and QoS control (settings in configuration files, gateway APIs, QoS parameters, application bit-rate settings, etc.) within the context of practical multiple-vendor products in evolving multiple-service networks. Another aspect utilizes available or innovatively accessible means of session and QoS observations (values in reporting log files, gateway APIs, network monitoring, etc.) within the context of practical multiple-vendor products in evolving multiple-service networks. Traffic-measurement controlled adaptive reservations for distributed myopic single-service gatekeepers effectively shapes the permitted state-space boundary over a range of arbitrary curvatures. | 01-03-2013 |
20120267512 | VIGNETTED PLANAR SPATIAL LIGHT-FIELD SENSOR AND SPATIAL SAMPLING DESIGNS FOR FAR-FIELD LENSLESS SYNTHETIC IMAGING VIA SIGNAL PROCESSING IMAGE FORMATION - Methods of implementing light field sensors for lensless synthetic imaging is provided. Relatively tall and short structures are fabricated, wherein the short structures comprise light sensing capabilities. The tall structures and short structures are arranged in an array to create an array of vignetted light sensors that partition an incoming light field into a plurality of vignetted light fields, each uniquely associated with a particular light sensor. Each light sensor generates a measurable electrical quantity responsive to the associated vignetted light field, and the collective measurable electrical quantities are responsive to incoming light field. The short structures can comprise photodiodes, LEDs, or OLEDs, and the resulting light field sensor can respond to color. Tall structures can comprise electronic components, LEDs, OLEDS, or OLETs. In an example implementation, tall structures in the array are light-emitting and act as a light-emitting visual display which further comprises an array of vignetted light sensors. | 10-25-2012 |
20120006978 | LED/OLED ARRAY APPROACH TO INTEGRATED DISPLAY, LENSLESS-CAMERA, AND TOUCH-SCREEN USER INTERFACE DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED PROCESSORS - A system for implementing a display which also serves as one or more of a tactile user interface touchscreen, light field sensor, proximate hand gesture sensor, and lensless imaging camera. In an implementation, an OLED array can be used for light sensing as well as light emission functions. In one implementation a single OLED array is used as the only optoelectronic user interface element in the system. In another implementation two OLED arrays are used, each performing and/or optimized from different functions. In another implementation, an LCD and an OLED array are used in various configurations. The resulting arrangements allow for sharing of both optoelectric devices as well as associated electronics and computational processors, and are accordingly advantageous for use in handheld devices such as cellphone, smartphones, PDAs, tablet computers, and other such devices. | 01-12-2012 |
20110243153 | NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS BANDWIDTH MANAGER CONTROL SYSTEM PROVIDING FOR ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATIONS PROCESSING RESOURCES - Systems and methods for network communications bandwidth management and in particular to unified bandwidth manager that interfaces with and hierarchically manages a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems. By utilizing a novel bandwidth management system, a better purpose specific bandwidth reservation system may thereby be achieved. | 10-06-2011 |
20110234558 | COLOR IMAGING USING COLOR LED ARRAY AS COLOR LIGHT-FIELD IMAGE SENSOR - A color light field sensor employing at least three inorganic LEDs, OLEDs, or related devices of differing emission colors to create respectively associated light amplitude measurement signals. The light amplitude measurement signals are used to produce a first output signal by subtracting a function of the light amplitude measurement signal associated with the mid-value wavelength LED from a function of the light amplitude measurement signal associated with lowest-value wavelength LED, produce a second output signal by subtracting a function of light amplitude measurement signal associated with highest-value wavelength LED from function of light amplitude measurement signal associated with mid-value wavelength LED, and produce a third output by taking function of light amplitude measurement signal associated with highest-value wavelength LED. The light sensor can be used to implement a lensless imaging camera, tactile or proximate gesture user interface, or a simultaneous combination, and can additionally simultaneously serve as an image display. | 09-29-2011 |
20110225578 | SCALABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE INTERACTIVE REAL-TIME MEDIA ARCHITECTURES FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS - Method for implementing a software application in networked desktop virtualization environment, desktop virtualization environment including desktop virtualization server and desktop virtualization endpoint device, both in communication with one another over network. Method involves: structuring software with multiple internal elements and interfaces among them; installing first instance of software on desktop virtualization server, detecting characteristics of desktop virtualization server computer; in first instance of article of software, selectively enabling first set of internal software elements and disabling remaining internal software elements based on results of detecting on server computer; installing second instance of software on desktop virtualization client endpoint device; detecting characteristics of desktop virtualization endpoint device; in second instance of article of software, selectively enabling second set of internal software elements and disabling remaining internal software elements based on results of detecting on desktop virtualization client endpoint device; and establishing an association of second instance of software with first instance of software. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225513 | SCALABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE INTERACTIVE REAL-TIME MEDIA ARCHITECTURES FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS - A system for providing interactive two-way real-time media in desktop virtualization environment, the desktop virtualization environment comprising at least one desktop virtualization server computer and at least one desktop virtualization client endpoint device with an associated video camera. The system incorporates: at least one instance of server software executing on the desktop virtualization server for providing at least interactive user interface functions to an associated desktop virtualization client endpoint device, the instance of software configured to access a network; at least one instance of endpoint software executing on a desktop virtualization client endpoint device, the instance of software further comprising access to the network; and a terminal-server/terminal-client network connection between the instance of server software and instance of endpoint software, the network connection implemented using the access to the network comprised by the instance of server software and the access to network comprised by the instance of endpoint software. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225512 | SCALABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE INTERACTIVE REAL-TIME MEDIA ARCHITECTURES FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS - System for providing interactive two-way video in desktop virtualization environment, desktop virtualization environment comprising a desktop virtualization server computer and a desktop virtualization client endpoint device with associated video camera. The system includes server software for running on a desktop virtualization server and providing at least interactive user interface functions to the desktop virtualization client endpoint device and endpoint software for running on the desktop virtualization endpoint device comprising a network port, the at least one instance of endpoint software receiving an incoming real-time video stream from the network port and providing at least real-time and display functions on the desktop virtualization client endpoint device. The desktop virtualization client endpoint is configured to: accept real-time video input from a video camera associated with the desktop virtualization client endpoint and provide outgoing real-time compressed video stream to the network port responsive to the real-time video input from the video camera. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225313 | SCALABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE INTERACTIVE REAL-TIME MEDIA ARCHITECTURES FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS - System for providing interactive two-way real-time media in a desktop virtualization environment including a desktop virtualization server computer and a desktop virtualization endpoint device with video camera. System incorporates: instance of server software running on desktop virtualization server and providing interactive user interface functions to desktop virtualization endpoint device, instance of software accessing network; instance of endpoint software running on desktop virtualization endpoint device, instance of software accessing network; first network connection between instance of server software and instance of endpoint software, first network connection implemented using access to network comprised by instance of server software and access to network comprised by instance of endpoint software; and second network connection between instance of server software and instance of endpoint software, second network connection distinct from first network connection and implemented using access to network comprised by instance of server software and access to network comprised by instance of endpoint software. | 09-15-2011 |
20110224811 | SCALABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE INTERACTIVE REAL-TIME MEDIA ARCHITECTURES FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS - System for providing interactive two-way audio in desktop virtualization environment, the desktop virtualization environment comprising desktop virtualization server computer and desktop virtualization client endpoint device with associated microphone element. The system incorporates instance of server software executing on the desktop virtualization server and providing interactive user interface functions to associated desktop virtualization client endpoint device; and instance of endpoint software executing on the desktop virtualization client endpoint device including network port, the instance of endpoint software receiving an incoming real-time audio stream from the network port and providing real-time and audio playback functions on the desktop virtualization client endpoint device. In the system, the desktop virtualization client endpoint is configured to: accept real-time audio input from a microphone element associated with the desktop virtualization client endpoint; and provide an outgoing real-time compressed audio stream to the network port responsive to the real-time audio input from the microphone element. | 09-15-2011 |
20110032370 | SYNTHETIC IMAGE FORMATION SIGNAL PROCESSING HARDWARE FOR VIGNETTED OPTOELECTRONIC ARRAYS, LENSLESS CAMERAS, AND INTEGRATED CAMERA-DISPLAYS - Hardware arrangement performing electronic image formation and refinement from overlapping measurement vignettes captured by an array of image sensors and associated micro-optics are presented. The invention is directed to a new type of image formation system that combines readily-fabricated micro-optical structures, a two-dimensional image sensor array with electronic or digital image processing to actually construct the image. Image formation is performed without a conventional large shared lens and associated separation distance between lens and image sensor, resulting in a “lensless camera.” | 02-10-2011 |
20110032369 | VIGNETTED OPTOELECTRONIC ARRAY FOR USE IN SYNTHETIC IMAGE FORMATION VIA SIGNAL PROCESSING, LENSLESS CAMERAS, AND INTEGRATED CAMERA-DISPLAYS - A vignetted optoelectronic array for systems and methods performing electronic image formation and refinement from overlapping measurement vignettes captured by an array of image sensors and associated micro-optics. The invention is directed to a new type of image formation system that combines readily-fabricated micro-optical structures, a two-dimensional image sensor array, and electronic or digital image processing to construct an image. Image formation is performed without a conventional large shared lens and associated separation distance between lens and image sensor, resulting in a “lensless camera.” | 02-10-2011 |
20110025864 | SYNTHETIC IMAGE FORMATION VIA SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR VIGNETTED OPTOELECTROINC ARRAYS, LENSLESS CAMERAS, AND INTEGRATED CAMERA-DISPLAYS - Algorithms and methods for performing electronic image formation and refinement from overlapping measurement vignettes captured by an array of image sensors and associated micro-optics are presented. The invention is directed to a new type of image formation system that combines readily-fabricated micro-optical structures, a two-dimensional image sensor array with electronic or digital image processing to actually construct the image. Image formation is performed without a conventional large shared lens and associated separation distance between lens and image sensor, resulting in a “lensless camera.” | 02-03-2011 |
20100325551 | Aggregated Unified Communication Bandwidth Management System for Control by Human Operator - A Unified Bandwidth Manager that functions as a high-level bandwidth manager to interface with and hierarchically manage a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems under human operator control. The Unified Bandwidth Manager includes at least an aggregated network communication bandwidth management information display system that functions as a high-level information display system interfacing with a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems so as to provide an integrated “view” of the enterprise networks operation is described. The system includes at least a display a user interface and one or more types of interfaces to a plurality of service-specific bandwidth managers. In an implementation, the system can include traffic modeling elements and be used as a component of a Unified Bandwidth Manager for unified communications. | 12-23-2010 |
20100314631 | DISPLAY-PIXEL AND PHOTOSENSOR-ELEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - A display-pixel and photosensor-element device for use as a display and a camera, the device comprising a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) display elements and a plurality of light-sensitive photosensor devices, together fabricated onto an essentially planar surface so as to create a device that can be used as a display and a camera. In an implementation, a plurality of micro-optic structures can be associated with the plurality of light-sensitive devices. In various exemplary implementations, the LEDs may comprise organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) or stacked organic light emitting diode (SOLED). In an implementation, the light-emitting diode and the light-sensitive device are integrated into a single element. In an implementation, the device is configured to serve as either or both of a color light sensor array and a display comprising color LEDs. | 12-16-2010 |
20100220745 | Aggregated Network Communication Bandwidth Management Information Display System - An aggregated network communication bandwidth management information display system that functions as a high-level information display system interfacing with a plurality of service-specific bandwidth reservation and session management systems so as to provide an integrated “view” of the enterprise network's operation is described. The system includes at least a display a user interface, and interfaces to a plurality of service-specific bandwidth managers. The system can include traffic modeling elements and be used as a component of a Unified Bandwidth Manager. | 09-02-2010 |
20100085959 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACHIEVING INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN ENDPOINTS OPERATING UNDER DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS - A teleconferencing system for achieving interoperability between a multiple endpoints including a first endpoint following SIP protocol, a second endpoint following H.323 protocol and a third endpoint following a proprietary protocol. The teleconferencing system incorporates a signaling gateway and a call control server. In the teleconferencing system, the signaling gateway and a call control server are configured to perform policy-based management of calls between the first endpoint, the second endpoint and the third endpoint. | 04-08-2010 |
20090290034 | IMAGE FORMATION FOR LARGE PHOTOSENSOR ARRAY SURFACES - The invention performs electronic image formation and refinement from overlapping measurement vignettes captured by an array of image sensors and associated micro-optics. The invention is directed to an alternate image formation system that combines readily-fabricated micro-optical structures, a two-dimensional image sensor array with electronic or digital image processing to actually construct the image. | 11-26-2009 |