Patents by Inventor Brian Silston

Brian Silston has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240022796
    Abstract: Instructions are transmitted to first and second client devices to facilitate rendering of a video relating to an event (e.g., a broadcast of a live sporting event) together with event information (e.g., score information, online gaming information, team/player statistics). The first and second client devices are both instructed to receive the event information from an event socket of a socket server so that both client devices are synchronized and client-by-client latency is significantly reduced or mitigated. In one example, viewer latency between the event and the rendered video is on the order of two seconds or less. Event information is regularly updated at the event socket to also significantly reduce latency between the video and the event information. Event information may be rendered as one or more user-interactive features overlaid on or adjacent to the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin APRIL, Peter AZUOLAS, Philip Nicholas SCHUPAK, Brian SILSTON
  • Patent number: 11871088
    Abstract: A broadcaster device generates a live stream including video-based commentary regarding a live event combined with an audio and/or video feed of the live event itself. A viewer device receives a copy of the integrated live event and commentator stream and synchronized event information (e.g., real-time scores), and displays the integrated stream and the event information (e.g., as a “scorebug”). Viewers of a given live event may seamlessly select amongst different broadcasters for the same live event to access different integrated live event and commentator streams respectively synchronized with the event information. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream, and send digital gifts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SportsCastr, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Azuolas, Kevin April, Brian Silston, Philip Nicholas Schupak
  • Patent number: 11770591
    Abstract: Multiple broadcasters create live streams of digital content relating to live events, and multiple viewers of each broadcaster receive copies of the live streams. Viewer latency is significantly reduced, and event information relating to live events is synchronized amongst all broadcasters and viewers of live streams relating to the same event. Scalable and flexible access to live streams is provided to different types and numbers of viewers with different qualities of service. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events, to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream and send digital gifts. In one example, the broadcasters' digital content relates to live sporting events, and studio-quality graphics and animations are provided on mobile client devices in tandem with the broadcasters' digital content and social networking functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SportsCastr, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin April, Peter Azuolas, Philip Nicholas Schupak, Brian Silston
  • Publication number: 20230126229
    Abstract: A broadcaster device generates a live stream including video-based commentary regarding a live event combined with an audio and/or video feed of the live event itself. A viewer device receives a copy of the integrated live event and commentator stream and synchronized event information (e.g., real-time scores), and displays the integrated stream and the event information (e.g., as a “scorebug”). Viewers of a given live event may seamlessly select amongst different broadcasters for the same live event to access different integrated live event and commentator streams respectively synchronized with the event information. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream, and send digital gifts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: SportsCastr, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter AZUOLAS, Kevin APRIL, Brian SILSTON, Philip Nicholas SCHUPAK
  • Patent number: 11356742
    Abstract: A broadcaster device generates a live stream including video-based commentary regarding a live event combined with an audio and/or video feed of the live event itself. A viewer device receives a copy of the integrated live event and commentator stream and synchronized event information (e.g., real-time scores), and displays the integrated stream and the event information (e.g., as a “scorebug”). Viewers of a given live event may seamlessly select amongst different broadcasters for the same live event to access different integrated live event and commentator streams respectively synchronized with the event information. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream, and send digital gifts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SportsCastr, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Azuolas, Kevin April, Brian Silston, Philip Nicholas Schupak
  • Patent number: 11039218
    Abstract: Instructions are transmitted to a client device that includes a display. The instructions cause the display to render a video relating to a sporting event and also render online gaming information relating to the sporting event. In one example, the instructions cause the first client device to: receive, on a first communication channel, first digital content corresponding to the video relating to the first sporting event; render, on the display of the client device, the video relating to the sporting event based on the first digital content received on the first communication channel; receive, on a second communication channel different from the first communication channel, second digital content corresponding to the online gaming information; and render, on the display of the client device, the online gaming information based on the second digital content received on the second communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SPORTSCASTR.LIVE LLC
    Inventors: Kevin April, Peter Azuolas, Philip Nicholas Schupak, Brian Silston
  • Publication number: 20210168462
    Abstract: Multiple broadcasters create live streams of digital content relating to live events, and multiple viewers of each broadcaster receive copies of the live streams. Viewer latency is significantly reduced, and event information relating to live events is synchronized amongst all broadcasters and viewers of live streams relating to the same event. Scalable and flexible access to live streams is provided to different types and numbers of viewers with different qualities of service. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events, to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream and send digital gifts. In one example, the broadcasters' digital content relates to live sporting events, and studio-quality graphics and animations are provided on mobile client devices in tandem with the broadcasters' digital content and social networking functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin APRIL, Peter AZUOLAS, Philip Nicholas SCHUPAK, Brian SILSTON
  • Publication number: 20210160584
    Abstract: Instructions are transmitted to a client device that includes a display. The instructions cause the display to render a video relating to a sporting event and also render online gaming information relating to the sporting event. In one example, the instructions cause the first client device to: receive, on a first communication channel, first digital content corresponding to the video relating to the first sporting event; render, on the display of the client device, the video relating to the sporting event based on the first digital content received on the first communication channel; receive, on a second communication channel different from the first communication channel, second digital content corresponding to the online gaming information; and render, on the display of the client device, the online gaming information based on the second digital content received on the second communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin APRIL, Peter AZUOLAS, Philip Nicholas SCHUPAK, Brian SILSTON
  • Patent number: 10805687
    Abstract: Multiple broadcasters create live streams of digital content relating to live events, and multiple viewers of each broadcaster receive copies of the live streams. Viewer latency is significantly reduced, and event information relating to live events is synchronized amongst all broadcasters and viewers of live streams relating to the same event. Scalable and flexible access to live streams is provided to different types and numbers of viewers with different qualities of service. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events, to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream and send digital gifts. In one example, the broadcasters' digital content relates to live sporting events, and studio-quality graphics and animations are provided on mobile client devices in tandem with the broadcasters' digital content and social networking functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SportsCastr.LIVE
    Inventors: Kevin April, Peter Azuolas, Philip Nicholas Schupak, Brian Silston
  • Publication number: 20200162796
    Abstract: A broadcaster device generates a live stream including video-based commentary regarding a live event combined with an audio and/or video feed of the live event itself. A viewer device receives a copy of the integrated live event and commentator stream and synchronized event information (e.g., real-time scores), and displays the integrated stream and the event information (e.g., as a “scorebug”). Viewers of a given live event may seamlessly select amongst different broadcasters for the same live event to access different integrated live event and commentator streams respectively synchronized with the event information. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream, and send digital gifts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Azuolas, Kevin APRIL, Brian SILSTON, Philip Nicholas SCHUPAK
  • Publication number: 20200021892
    Abstract: Multiple broadcasters create live streams of digital content relating to live events, and multiple viewers of each broadcaster receive copies of the live streams. Viewer latency is significantly reduced, and event information relating to live events is synchronized amongst all broadcasters and viewers of live streams relating to the same event. Scalable and flexible access to live streams is provided to different types and numbers of viewers with different qualities of service. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events, to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream and send digital gifts. In one example, the broadcasters' digital content relates to live sporting events, and studio-quality graphics and animations are provided on mobile client devices in tandem with the broadcasters' digital content and social networking functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin APRIL, Peter AZUOLAS, Philip Nicholas SCHUPAK, Brian SILSTON
  • Patent number: 10425697
    Abstract: Multiple broadcasters create live streams of digital content relating to live events, and multiple viewers of each broadcaster receive copies of the live streams. Viewer latency is significantly reduced, and event information relating to live events is synchronized amongst all broadcasters and viewers of live streams relating to the same event. Scalable and flexible access to live streams is provided to different types and numbers of viewers with different qualities of service. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events, to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream, and send digital gifts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SportsCastr.LIVE
    Inventors: Kevin April, Peter Azuolas, Philip Nicholas Schupak, Brian Silston
  • Publication number: 20190182554
    Abstract: Multiple broadcasters create live streams of digital content relating to live events, and multiple viewers of each broadcaster receive copies of the live streams. Viewer latency is significantly reduced, and event information relating to live events is synchronized amongst all broadcasters and viewers of live streams relating to the same event. Scalable and flexible access to live streams is provided to different types and numbers of viewers with different qualities of service. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events, to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream, and send digital gifts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Nicholas Schupak, Brian SILSTON, Kevin APRIL, Peter AZUOLAS
  • Publication number: 20190151759
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for selecting, distributing, and/or consuming content, including but not limited to recorded speech, written productions, images, recorded music, and video recordings. A multiplayer game based on content curation includes information associated with a graphically simulated multiplayer gaming environment including a plurality of different locations, a plurality of different compositions, a plurality of user profiles, and a plurality of playlists, each electronically linked to a user profile and specifying at least one composition of a plurality of different compositions, a map representing at least a subset of the plurality of different locations and at least one user icon occupying a location of at least the subset of the plurality of different locations based on associated user location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Nick Schupak, Brian Silston, Donald Schupak
  • Publication number: 20180229120
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for selecting, distributing, and/or consuming content, including but not limited to recorded speech, written productions, images, recorded music, and video recordings. A multiplayer game based on content curation includes information associated with a graphically simulated multiplayer gaming environment including a plurality of different locations, a plurality of different compositions, a plurality of user profiles, and a plurality of playlists, each electronically linked to a user profile and specifying at least one composition of a plurality of different compositions, a map representing at least a subset of the plurality of different locations and at least one user icon occupying a location of at least the subset of the plurality of different locations based on associated user location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Nick Schupak, Brian Silston, Donald Schupak
  • Patent number: 10035065
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for selecting, distributing, and/or consuming content, including but not limited to recorded speech, written productions, images, recorded music, and video recordings. A multiplayer game based on content curation includes information associated with a graphically simulated multiplayer gaming environment including a plurality of different locations, a plurality of different compositions, a plurality of user profiles, and a plurality of playlists, each electronically linked to a user profile and specifying at least one composition of a plurality of different compositions, a map representing at least a subset of the plurality of different locations and at least one user icon occupying a location of at least the subset of the plurality of different locations based on associated user location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Music Social, LLC
    Inventors: Nick Schupak, Brian Silston, Donald Schupak
  • Publication number: 20180015369
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for selecting, distributing, and/or consuming content, including but not limited to recorded speech, written productions, images, recorded music, and video recordings. A multiplayer game based on content curation includes information associated with a graphically simulated multiplayer gaming environment including a plurality of different locations, a plurality of different compositions, a plurality of user profiles, and a plurality of playlists, each electronically linked to a user profile and specifying at least one composition of a plurality of different compositions, a map representing at least a subset of the plurality of different locations and at least one user icon occupying a location of at least the subset of the plurality of different locations based on associated user location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Nick Schupak, Brian Silston, Donald Schupak