Software · Systems · Intellectual Property

Your success begins with Task One.

Build with confidence—from firmware to cloud, and from patent analysis to technical strategy.

Start a conversation Explore services

What we do

Complex technology, made reliable and defensible.

Task One LLC provides two kinds of consulting that often go hand in hand: building production systems and understanding the intellectual property behind them.

Software & systems engineering

Architecture and implementation from low-level drivers and media pipelines to resilient cloud APIs.

  • Video streaming and multimedia
  • Embedded systems and firmware
  • Cloud architecture and APIs
  • Technical leadership and reviews

Patent & IP consulting

Technical analysis that turns complicated implementations and claims into clear, supportable findings.

  • Prior-art searches
  • Evidence-of-use claim charts
  • Software and firmware analysis
  • Multimedia technology strategy

Detailed capabilities

Software consulting

Additional detail about Task One’s software and systems engineering capabilities.

Core expertise areas

  • Video streaming and multimedia: HTTP adaptive streaming, live transcoding, video-compression algorithms, and quality-monitoring systems
  • Embedded systems: Camera-platform firmware, device drivers, Linux kernel modifications, and real-time video processing
  • Cloud architecture: AWS-based solutions, microservices design, RESTful APIs, and scalable video-processing pipelines
  • Technical leadership: Cross-functional team management, architecture reviews, and mentoring distributed engineering teams

Discuss a software project

Detailed capabilities

Intellectual property services

Additional detail about Task One’s patent-analysis services and working process.

Specializations

  • Online live and video-on-demand streaming for client and server applications
  • Video and audio compression and decompression standards
  • Visual search, trick play, and stream indexing
  • Media guides, television guides, and related technologies

Evidence-of-use claim charts

We generate evidence-of-use claim charts with specific examples of potential infringement for assertions in independent and dependent claims. This work draws on deep debugging, monitoring, and reverse-engineering experience, as well as evaluation of public APIs and software available from public sources.

Years of evaluating patents and their application across technology fields provide the foundation for this detailed technical analysis.

Prior-art searches

Our primary aim is to assess patent claims under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102 and 103. A typical search includes:

  1. Reviewing the patent and understanding the claims under review
  2. Reviewing inventors’ backgrounds, publications, and standards-body attendance records when applicable
  3. Searching Google Patents, the USPTO, Espacenet, and other available patent sources
  4. Searching technical literature through publicly available databases
Discuss patent consulting

Selected work

Patents and publications

Issued United States patents and selected publications by the co-founders of Task One LLC.

Issued U.S. patents

Patent numberIssue dateTitle
12,088,892 B12024-09-10System and method for monitoring HLS streams and tracking SCTE-35 markers
12,028,584 B12024-07-02Monitoring adaptive streaming content with selectable alert sensitivity modes and playlist alerting functionality
10,531,134 B22020-01-07Determining a time budget for transcoding of video
10,452,715 B22019-10-22Systems and methods for compressing geotagged video
9,986,269 B12018-05-29Maintaining stream continuity counter in a stateless multiplexing system
9,955,195 B22018-04-24Systems and methods for encoding and streaming video encoded using a plurality of maximum bitrate levels
9,936,267 B22018-04-03System and method for decreasing an initial buffering period of an adaptive streaming system
9,485,456 B22016-11-01Frame-rate conversion in a distributed computing system
9,467,708 B22016-10-11Selection of resolutions for seamless resolution switching of multimedia content
9,354,799 B22016-05-31Systems and methods for adaptive streaming systems with interactive video timelines
9,197,685 B22015-11-24Systems and methods for fast video startup using trick play streams
9,143,812 B22015-09-22Adaptive streaming of multimedia
9,092,646 B22015-07-28Systems and methods for identifying consumer electronic products based on a product identifier
9,069,764 B22015-06-30Systems and methods for facilitating communication between users receiving a common media asset
9,060,184 B22015-06-16Systems and methods for adaptive streaming with augmented video stream transitions using a media server
8,997,161 B22015-03-31Systems and methods for fast startup streaming of encrypted multimedia content
8,997,254 B22015-03-31Systems and methods for fast startup streaming of encrypted multimedia content
8,964,977 B22015-02-24Systems and methods for saving encoded media streamed using adaptive bitrate streaming
8,856,847 B22014-10-07Systems and methods for providing a customized program lineup
8,832,297 B22014-09-09Systems and methods for performing multiphase adaptive bitrate streaming
8,818,171 B22014-08-26Systems and methods for encoding alternative streams of video for playback on playback devices having predetermined display aspect ratios and network connection maximum data rates
8,812,662 B22014-08-19Systems and methods for encoding alternative streams of video for playback on playback devices having predetermined display aspect ratios and network connection maximum data rates
8,799,647 B22014-08-05Systems and methods for application identification
8,781,122 B22014-07-15Elementary bitstream cryptographic material transport systems and methods
8,649,669 B22014-02-11Systems and methods for performing smooth visual search of media encoded for adaptive bitrate streaming via hypertext transfer protocol using trick play streams
8,611,418 B22013-12-17Decoding a progressive JPEG bitstream as a sequentially-predicted hybrid video bitstream
8,510,303 B22013-08-13Singular, collective and automated creation of a media guide for online content
8,301,793 B22012-10-30Chunk header incorporating binary flags and correlated variable-length fields
8,289,338 B22012-10-16Systems and methods for font file optimization for multimedia files
8,243,804 B22012-08-14Hierarchical motion estimation for images with varying horizontal and/or vertical dimensions
8,233,768 B22012-07-31Hierarchical and reduced index structures for multimedia files
8,184,660 B22012-05-22Transparent methods for altering the video decoder frame-rate in a fixed-frame-rate audio-video multiplex structure
7,970,056 B22011-06-28Method and/or apparatus for decoding an intra-only MPEG-2 stream composed of two separate fields encoded as a special frame picture
7,961,792 B22011-06-14Robust system for maintaining audio/video synchronization during playback of multimedia streams with no embedded time stamps
7,929,842 B22011-04-19Realtime recording of audio video interleaved streams
6,115,499 A2000-09-05Repeat field detection using checkerboard pattern
5,973,758 A1999-10-26Video synchronization

Publications

DateTitle
2018/3Learning advantages of newness: A reconceptualization and contingent framework
2018/1From Student to Entrepreneur: How Mentorships and Affect Influence Student Venture Launch
2016/9Doing more with less, systematically? Bricolage and ingenieuring in successful social ventures
2015/11Social Entrepreneurial Intentions: China versus the USA—Is There a Difference?
2013/7Asset or constraint: Corporate reputation and MNCs’ involvement in the least developed countries
2012/9Does it transfer? The effects of pre-internationalization experience on post-entry organizational learning in entrepreneurial Chinese firms
2012/6Isomorphic influences and aspiration: Reference group choice in entry mode decisions
2012/1Community building as institutional entrepreneurship: Exploring the emergence of a popular music community
2012Beyond risk propensity—the influence of evaluation period and information relevance on risk-taking behavior
2011/4Strategic commitment and timing of internationalization from emerging markets: Evidence from China, India, Mexico, and South Africa
2010/10Learning vicariously from failure: The case of Major League Soccer and the collapse of the North American Soccer League
2009/10An institutional perspective on foreign direct investment
2008/10H.264 parameter optimizations for internet-based distribution of high-quality video
2005/9Capability development, learning and growth in international entrepreneurial firms: Evidence from China

Discuss patent consulting

Engineering depth

From a bitstream to a distributed platform.

With more than 25 years of engineering leadership in video streaming and multimedia technologies, Task One brings experience across embedded systems, real-time video processing, cloud platforms, and production delivery.

Technologies and standards: C/C++, Go, Python, JavaScript, Linux, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, FFmpeg, GStreamer, MPEG-TS, MP4, HLS, DASH, H.264/AVC, and H.265/HEVC.

Intellectual property

Analysis grounded in working systems.

Our patent work focuses on software, firmware, algorithms, streaming, compression, visual search, trick play, indexing, and media-guide technologies.

Prior-art work includes claim review, inventor and standards research, patent-database searches, and technical literature review. Evidence-of-use analysis draws on debugging, monitoring, public APIs, and reverse engineering of publicly available products.