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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

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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

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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.

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