John S Su

7574580, Aug 11, 2009

Mar 25, 2005

11/089459

Daniel Mahashin - Sunnyvale CA, US
Matthieu Jeanson - Sunnyvale CA, US
John Su - Santa Clara CA, US
Jeremy Alves - Mountain View CA, US

Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. - Milpitas CA

G06F 12/00

711221, 711100, 711200, 386 46, 386124

A Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is provided two FATs and two cluster sizes, a regular cluster and a “Supercluster”. In one example, each Supercluster is the size of four regular clusters. A second Supercluster FAT is added (FAT2) which works in a similar manner to the original FAT (hereinafter FAT1), but instead points to the next Supercluster in the chain. Since there are far fewer Superclusters than clusters, the Supercluster FAT (FAT2) can be stored in a cache memory. When data is streamed to and from the hard drive, it can be streamed to Superclusters and no seeks on the HDD to a FAT are required, as the FAT2 is cached in memory. Access time to and from the hard drive is decreased. The original cluster configuration is still supported. During lulls in system operation, the FAT2 data may be written to the drive and moreover, FAT1 data created and “flushed” to the hard drive. Thus, if the HDD is read by a standard computer system, it will recognize the regular clusters from the FAT1 table in a transparent manner (and ignore the FAT2 table).

20120054685, Mar 1, 2012

Aug 26, 2010

12/869615

John Su - Fountain Valley CA, US
Rob Garrett - Los Angeles CA, US
Noel Rubin - Vancouver, CA
David Nikdel - Cary NC, US

G06F 3/048

715834, 715810

A method of controlling at least a portion of a flow of program activity of a computer program including executing, by a processor, a computer program stored in memory to initiate the flow of program activity, the flow of program activity including a program environment generated by the computer program and displayed on a graphical user interface, wherein the computer program is adapted to allow an end user to interact with the program environment and at least one graphical menu being displayed on the graphical user interface in conjunction with the program environment, wherein the computer program is adapted to allow an end user to interact with the at least one graphical menu without interrupting the ability of the end user to interact with the program environment.

20120272187, Oct 25, 2012

Jun 29, 2012

13/538674

John Su - Fountain Valley CA, US
Rob Garrett - Los Angeles CA, US
Noel Rubin - , US
David Nikdel - Cary NC, US

G06F 3/048
A63F 13/00

715810, 463 31

A method of controlling at least a portion of a flow of program activity of a computer program including executing, by a processor, a computer program stored in memory to initiate the flow of program activity, the flow of program activity including a program environment generated by the computer program and displayed on a graphical user interface, wherein the computer program is adapted to allow an end user to interact with the program environment and at least one graphical menu being displayed on the graphical user interface in conjunction with the program environment, wherein the computer program is adapted to allow an end user to interact with the at least one graphical menu without interrupting the ability of the end user to interact with the program environment.

20120272189, Oct 25, 2012

Jun 29, 2012

13/538757

John Su - Fountain Valley CA, US
Rob Garrett - Los Angeles CA, US
Noel Rubin - , US
David Nikdel - Cary NC, US

G06F 3/048
G06F 17/00

715834, 715810, 463 42

A method of controlling at least a portion of a flow of program activity of a computer program including executing, by a processor, a computer program stored in memory to initiate the flow of program activity, the flow of program activity including a program environment generated by the computer program and displayed on a graphical user interface, wherein the computer program is adapted to allow an end user to interact with the program environment and at least one graphical menu being displayed on the graphical user interface in conjunction with the program environment, wherein the computer program is adapted to allow an end user to interact with the at least one graphical menu without interrupting the ability of the end user to interact with the program environment.

6950605, Sep 27, 2005

Dec 15, 2000

09/738135

Michael J. Smolenski - East Palo Alto CA, US
John Yen-Hsu Su - Santa Clara CA, US

Cirrus Logic, Inc. - Austin TX

H04N005/91

386126, 386112

In one embodiment of the present invention an apparatus and method is disclosed for recording audio/video information onto a compact disc recorder in real-time. The audio/video information is streamed at a constant rate from a source having an output buffer and so as to prevent overflowing of the output buffer, the streamed audio/video information is received at a constant rate for storage into an input buffer, the streamed audio/video information is for recording thereof onto the compact disc recorder so as to prevent underflowing of the input buffer.

20160360265, Dec 8, 2016

Jun 5, 2015

14/732575

- Cupertino CA, US
Courtney A. Kennedy - Sunnyvale CA, US
David L. Biderman - San Jose CA, US
John Y. Su - Sunnyvale CA, US
Jordan B. Schneider - San Francisco CA, US
Michel A. Rynderman - San Jose CA, US
Roger N. Pantos - Cupertino CA, US

H04N 21/44
H04N 21/2747
H04N 21/2343
H04N 21/458
H04N 21/432
H04N 21/8543
H04N 21/234
H04N 21/435
H04N 21/2665
H04N 21/4147
H04N 21/41
H04N 21/858

System and methods for storing streamed media data to memory for future playback are provided. A device may stream media data associated with a movie over a network connection. The data streamed to the device will be saved to device memory and will then be playable offline. A manifest associated with the media data will be downloaded to the device and modified to reflect the location of the locally stored media data. During subsequent playback of the media data, the manifest will indicate that at least a portion of the media data exists in local memory. Some portions of the media data not stored locally may be subsequently retrieved from a remote source. The stored data may be updated or added to as necessary.

20160337428, Nov 17, 2016

May 11, 2015

14/709149

- Cupertino CA, US
John Y. Su - Sunnyvale CA, US
Roger N. Pantos - Cupertino CA, US
Hassan A. Shojania - Mountain View CA, US

H04L 29/06
H04L 12/803
H04L 29/08

A method of streaming media may include opening a single connection between a client device and a media source; requesting a first media segment of a media stream corresponding to selected tier of a media title over the single connection; determining a download bitrate of the single connection; comparing the download bitrate to a predetermined bitrate of the media title; and in response to determining that the download bitrate is less than the predetermined bitrate, opening a plurality of connections between the client device and media source. The predetermined bitrate may be a predetermined bitrate of a next higher bitrate tier in a group of tiers containing the selected tier when the selected tier is not a highest bitrate tier in the group, and a predetermined bitrate of the selected tier otherwise. The method may further include, in response to determining that an aggregate download bitrate of the plurality of connections is less than a multiple of a download bitrate of an individual one of the connections, closing some of the plurality of connections so that only the individual connection remains.

20150350100, Dec 3, 2015

May 30, 2014

14/291889

- Cupertino CA, US
Hassan SHOJANIA - Mountain View CA, US
John Y. SU - Sunnyvale CA, US
Roger N. PANTOS - Cupertino CA, US
Jordan B. SCHNEIDER - San Francisco CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

H04L 12/863
H04L 29/06

An embodiment of a method of requesting a plurality of media streams can include, as performed by a computing device, receiving a control input to control a playback function of at least one of the plurality of media streams, determining a download bandwidth between the computing device and a media source on a network, classifying the at least one of the plurality of media streams based on the control input and total download bandwidth, and sending a plurality of requests for the plurality media streams over a single connection to the media source, wherein at least one of an order or a content of the requests is based on the classification. The sending of the media stream requests can utilize at least one of a server-side protocol for multiplexing media streams over a single connection or one or more of HTTP pipelining or HTTP range requests over a single connection.