Patents Examined by Adil Ocak
  • Patent number: 11425466
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method and a display device. The method includes: while an environment scene image is presented on a user interface, in response to an instruction for acquiring the environment scene image from a user, upload to a server image information corresponding to the environment scene image acquired from a camera of the display device; receiving an address message associated with the image information sent from the server, and controlling a display of the display device to present in a first area of the user interface a scene recognition image associated with the address message, and to present in a second area of the user interface the environment scene image; wherein the first are and the second area have an overlap portion; where the scene recognition image is able to be scanned by another device for downloading the environment scene image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenqin Yu, Shuo Zhu, Yansong Fu
  • Patent number: 11412314
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving information about a content item of interest to a content consumer, determining a context of the content consumer, curating a summary segment for the content consumer based on the context of the content consumer, and presenting the summary segment to the content consumer at a context-appropriate time and in a context-appropriate manner to orient the content consumer to the content item of interest at a current viewing time of the content consumer. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Taylor Gift, James H. Pratt, Barkha Pathik Patel, Michael Gonzales
  • Patent number: 11388384
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for using selective resolution reduction on images to be transmitted and/or used by a playback device are described. Prior to transmission one or more images of an environment are captured. Based on image content, motion detection and/or user input a resolution reduction operation is selected and performed. The reduced resolution image is communicated to a playback device along with information indicating a UV map corresponding to the selected resolution allocation that should be used by the playback device for rendering the communicated image. By changing the resolution allocation used and which UV map is used by the playback device different resolution allocations can be made with respect to different portions of the environment while allowing the number of pixels in transmitted images to remain constant. The playback device renders the individual images with the UV map corresponding to the resolution allocation used to generate the individual images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Nevermind Capital LLC
    Inventors: David Cole, Alan Moss, Hector Medina
  • Patent number: 11375295
    Abstract: The present application belongs to the technical field of audio and video, and relates to a method and device for obtaining a video clip, a server, and a storage medium. The method includes in response to obtaining a clip in live stream video data of a performance live stream room, using audio data from the live stream video data and audio data of an original performer to determine a target timepoint parameter of the live stream video data. The method includes obtaining a target video clip according to a start timepoint and an end timepoint in the target timepoint parameter. The present application is used to capture a more complete video clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenjian Geng, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11349954
    Abstract: In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for transcoding digital media in an optimized manner based on media priority. For instance, in one example, a method includes obtaining a plurality of media content items awaiting transcoding before being distributed over a content distribution network, identifying a plurality of transcoding resources available to transcode the plurality of media items, and generating a schedule for transcoding the plurality of media content items using the plurality of transcoding resources, wherein the schedule prioritizes those media content items of the plurality of media content items that have the highest relative business value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC
    Inventor: Anthony Hooper
  • Patent number: 11336547
    Abstract: Technologies for dynamically managing resources in disaggregated accelerators include an accelerator. The accelerator includes acceleration circuitry with multiple logic portions, each capable of executing a different workload. Additionally, the accelerator includes communication circuitry to receive a workload to be executed by a logic portion of the accelerator and a dynamic resource allocation logic unit to identify a resource utilization threshold associated with one or more shared resources of the accelerator to be used by a logic portion in the execution of the workload, limit, as a function of the resource utilization threshold, the utilization of the one or more shared resources by the logic portion as the logic portion executes the workload, and subsequently adjust the resource utilization threshold as the workload is executed. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Susanne M. Balle, Rahul Khanna, Sujoy Sen, Karthik Kumar
  • Patent number: 11334220
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for propagating cropped images over a web socket connection in a networked collaboration workspace, including transmitting a representation of a collaboration workspace hosted on a server and including images, detecting a user input selecting an image portion of an image, the user input corresponding to coordinates, transmitting the coordinates to a transparent layer, the transparent layer comprising an application programming interface configured to interface with the operating system or applications, capturing the image portion based at least in part on the coordinates, detecting a second user input to drag the selected image portion to a location, and transmitting a plurality of commands to the server, the plurality of commands being configured to cause the image to be removed from the collaboration workspace and cause the image portion to be inserted into the collaboration workspace based at least in part on the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: RE MAGO LTD.
    Inventors: Marco Valerio Masi, Cristiano Fumagalli
  • Patent number: 11336926
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for streaming a video game from a server to a client. One example system includes the server configured to generate video frames for the video game responsive to input received from the client. An encoder that processes the video frames to generate compressed video frames and storing past encoder states in memory associated with the encoder. The server is configured to transmit the compressed video frames to the client. The server is configured to receive a feedback signal from the client to determine when one or more of the compressed video frames that were sent were not been received by the client. The encoder is configured to generate one or more next video frames as compressed video frames that are dependent on compressed video frames that are known to have been successfully received based on the feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Michael Toy, Timothy S. Cotter, Jérôme Poichet, Paul Andrew Olbrich
  • Patent number: 11336970
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement flexible commercial monitoring for television audience measurement are disclosed. Example television audience measurement systems disclosed herein include a flexible commercial detector to detect whether a first watermark decoded from a television program broadcast signal is a bridge watermark that indicates a portion of the television broadcast signal including the bridge watermark is associated with a flexible commercial insertion event, the flexible commercial insertion event corresponding to insertion of a flexible commercial in the portion of the television broadcast signal. Disclosed example television audience measurement systems also include a commercial metric calculator to credit audience exposure associated with the portion of the television broadcast signal to a flexible commercial crediting metric in response to a determination that the first watermark is the bridge watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Brian Fuhrer, Marie Kramer
  • Patent number: 11336455
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a chain of blocks from a blockchain comprising a directed acyclic graph (DAG) format in which blocks are independently hash-linked to multiple blocks, identifying temporal relationships between blocks in the chain of blocks based on a structure of the chain of blocks in the DAG format, determining a sequential linear order of the chain of blocks in the DAG format based on the identified temporal relationships, and storing the sequential linear order of the chain of blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Ford
  • Patent number: 11330345
    Abstract: A verification code generation method is performed in an electronic device which is for performing encoding to generate a video/audio stream having multiple data segments. The verification code generation method includes the following steps. Each time one of the data segments is generated by the encoding, a first-level checksum associated with the data segment is generated, and the first-level checksum is recorded in an accompanying verification file. At an interval of every N data segments of the data segments, a second-level checksum is generated for W consecutive first-level checksums, and the second-level checksum is recorded in the accompanying verification file, such that a subsequent verification method can quickly verify integrity of a part of data according to the accompanying verification file. Wherein, W is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, N is a positive integer greater than 0 and smaller or equal to W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Shian Chen, Kuo-Yang Tseng
  • Patent number: 11323759
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for allocating content elements addressed for a content opportunity in a transport stream within a household-addressable media network. A content opportunity may include an advertising slot in a programming stream. The content elements may include advertising content configured to be run during the advertising slot. The advertising slot may be transmitted in a programming stream providing television programming and the advertising content may be provided in a commercial feed. The media network may be configured to transmit various content formats, such as high definition (HD), standard definition (SD), and variations thereof. Systems may be configured to allocate the highest profile corresponding content elements if there is sufficient resources available. If sufficient resources are not available, the system may allocate lower profile versions of the content elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: FreeWheel Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Haberman, Gerrit Niemeijer
  • Patent number: 11316603
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining increasing robustness of media signatures are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a characteristic analyzer to determine a first difference between (A) a first characteristic of an audio signal at a first time and (B) a second characteristic of the audio signal at a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Topchy, Venugopal Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11317172
    Abstract: Techniques for video fragment aware audio packaging that ensure a periodic and best alignment of audio and video fragments at any corresponding audio and video fragments are described. As one example, a video fragment aware audio packaging service determines a number of audio frames for a corresponding video fragment of video frames and generates an audio fragment that includes those audio frames, with flexible choices of video fragment duration, which may be considered and decided for device compatibility or content encoding optimization purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Wu, Vasanthakumar Soundararajan, Yang Yang, Sitaraman Ganapathy, Mukund Manikarnike
  • Patent number: 11284170
    Abstract: A system and method including: a request to display a message stream for a context account of a social media platform may be received by a client device; a preview video including a set of video snippets of a source video may be identified by the client device; automatic playback of the preview video in a playback area displayed inline with the message stream may be initiated; a user input indicating a request to play the source video may be received by the client device; and playback of the source video may be initiated in response to the request for the source video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Baljeet Singh, David Regan, Yi Wang, Noah Vihinen
  • Patent number: 11265605
    Abstract: A system for content advisory ratings information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11259066
    Abstract: A computer system or method may be provided for modulating content based on a person's brainwave data, including modifying presentation of digital content at at least one computing device. The content may also be modulated based on a set of rules maintained by or accessible to the computer system. The content may also be modulated based on user input, including through receipt of a presentation control command that may be processed by the computer system of the present invention to modify presentation of content. Content may also be shared with associated brain state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: INTERAXON INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Aimone, Trevor Ce Coleman, Ariel Stephanie Garten, Locillo (Lou) Giuseppe Pino, Kapil Jay Mishra Vidyarthi, Paul Harrison Baranowski, Raul Rajiv Rupsingh, Tracy Nicole Chong
  • Patent number: 11240303
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes a message ordering system for processing and synchronizing chat messages in partitions to maintain messaging order and load balancing in a distributed system at scale. Messages are placed in partitions based on session identifiers (IDs). Messaging order is secured by a session receiver holding a lock over particular partitions. Receivers having subscription to messages in service bus are enabled to terminate on occurrence of a predetermined event, such as threshold wait time without receiving additional messages with a selected session ID from their partitions, activity level on a node, number of receivers on a node or other metrics. Session ID locks are released after a session ends, a receiver terminates or a node crashes for failure handling. New receivers are created to handle new incoming messages for additional load balancing and/or failover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chukwunwike I. J. Onianwa, Krishna Kannan, Vignesh Somasundaram
  • Patent number: 11233840
    Abstract: As a media client receives a media stream for presentation, the media client could receive, in-band with the media stream, metadata identifying the media stream, such as a media-stream identifier encoded as a watermark in the media stream or carried together with the media stream in a packet-based transport stream, among other possibilities. And while the media client is processing the media stream for presentation, the media client could then convey the received metadata out-of-band to a server to enable the server to readily obtain reference fingerprints representing the media stream and to thereby facilitate, based on the reference fingerprints, a content-related action such as dynamic content modification for instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Cormie, Brian Jentz
  • Patent number: 11234035
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for receiving a hybrid broadcast service and a method for transmitting the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sejin Oh, Kyoungsoo Moon