Patents by Inventor Chris Bastian
Chris Bastian 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).
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Publication number: 20240137613Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for tailoring related episode content within an episode, thereby improving a user's experience. In response to receiving a request for an episode, several factors may be considered when determining how much of the related episode content to provide. These factors may include information such as whether the user has already viewed a previous episode, the elapsed time since viewing the previous episode and a user preference. Related episode content may be modified to remove portions previously viewed by a user, depending on factors such as the elapsed time and a user preference.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Ross Gilson, Michael Sallas, Chris Bastian, Slade Mitchell, Amit Garg, John Leddy
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Publication number: 20230306464Abstract: Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods to determine when a user remains engaged or stops paying attention to a content item. In response, a snapshot of the user's activity and environment may be obtained to ascertain the reason the user stopped paying attention. If the user stopped paying attention as a result of being uninterested in the content item, the system may replace the content item, such as an advertisement, with a different content item to regain the user's attention. Further, demographic information and the user's interests may be updated for use in scheduling future content items.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Michael Sallas, Ross Gilson, Chris Bastian, Slade Mitchell, Amit Garg, John Leddy
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Patent number: 11750886Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for tailoring related episode content within an episode, thereby improving a user's experience. In response to receiving a request for an episode, several factors may be considered when determining how much of the related episode content to provide. These factors may include information such as whether the user has already viewed a previous episode, the elapsed time since viewing the previous episode and a user preference. Related episode content may be modified to remove portions previously viewed by a user, depending on factors such as the elapsed time and a user preference.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Ross Gilson, Michael Sallas, Chris Bastian, Slade Mitchell, Amit Garg, John Leddy
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Patent number: 11551262Abstract: Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods to determine when a user remains engaged or stops paying attention to a content item. In response, a snapshot of the user's activity and environment may be obtained to ascertain the reason the user stopped paying attention. If the user stopped paying attention as a result of being uninterested in the content item, the system may replace the content item, such as an advertisement, with a different content item to regain the user's attention. Further, demographic information and the user's interests may be updated for use in scheduling future content items.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Michael Sallas, Ross Gilson, Chris Bastian, Slade Mitchell, Amit Garg, John Leddy
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Publication number: 20210192569Abstract: Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods to determine when a user remains engaged or stops paying attention to a content item. In response, a snapshot of the user's activity and environment may be obtained to ascertain the reason the user stopped paying attention. If the user stopped paying attention as a result of being uninterested in the content item, the system may replace the content item, such as an advertisement, with a different content item to regain the user's attention. Further, demographic information and the user's interests may be updated for use in scheduling future content items.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Michael Sallas, Ross Gilson, Chris Bastian, Slade Mitchell, Amit Garg, John Leddy
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Patent number: 10776823Abstract: Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods to determine when a user remains engaged or stops paying attention to a content item. In response, a snapshot of the user's activity and environment may be obtained to ascertain the reason the user stopped paying attention. If the user stopped paying attention as a result of being uninterested in the content item, the system may replace the content item, such as an advertisement, with a different content item to regain the user's attention. Further, demographic information and the user's interests may be updated for use in scheduling future content items.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Michael Sallas, Ross Gilson, Chris Bastian, Slade Mitchell, Amit Garg, John Leddy
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Publication number: 20200036606Abstract: Information from multiple sources can be communicated to a policy server. Based on that information, the policy server can determine allocation of bandwidth, transmission priority and/or other network resources based on preferences and/or service selections provided by a subscriber and communicate information about those determinations to other network elements for policy implementation. The information provided to a policy server for determining network resource allocation can include information about one or more applications executing at a customer equipment device, information about access network bandwidth usage, information about services for which one or more devices is authorized, and/or information about network conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Richard M. Woundy, Chris Bastian
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Patent number: 10263860Abstract: Information from multiple sources can be communicated to a policy server. Based on that information, the policy server can determine allocation of bandwidth, transmission priority and/or other network resources based on preferences and/or service selections provided by a subscriber and communicate information about those determinations to other network elements for policy implementation. The information provided to a policy server for determining network resource allocation can include information about one or more applications executing at a customer equipment device, information about access network bandwidth usage, information about services for which one or more devices is authorized, and/or information about network conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Richard Woundy, Chris Bastian
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Patent number: 9935871Abstract: According to some aspects as described herein, a user may purchase or otherwise be provided with an accelerated service for selected software applications, devices, and/or ports to experience a high level of communication. The accelerated service may be created, for example, by using a dedicated network data flow such that the user's customer premise equipment (CPE) network access device may put priority traffic in a different upstream data flow than the commonly shared flow, which may involve tagging the traffic upstream to the network with a priority indicator such as a flow identifier. Based on similar factors, the user may also control local priority of data received downstream from the network for distribution to one or more local devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Chris Bastian, Sam Chernak, Daniel Herscovici, Bryan Witkowski
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Publication number: 20170228774Abstract: Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods to determine when a user remains engaged or stops paying attention to a content item. In response, a snapshot of the user's activity and environment may be obtained to ascertain the reason the user stopped paying attention. If the user stopped paying attention as a result of being uninterested in the content item, the system may replace the content item, such as an advertisement, with a different content item to regain the user's attention. Further, demographic information and the user's interests may be updated for use in scheduling future content items.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Michael Sallas, Ross Gilson, Chris Bastian, Slade Mitchell, Amit Garg, John Leddy
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Publication number: 20160173941Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for tailoring related episode content within an episode, thereby improving a user's experience. In response to receiving a request for an episode, several factors may be considered when determining how much of the related episode content to provide. These factors may include information such as whether the user has already viewed a previous episode, the elapsed time since viewing the previous episode and a user preference. Related episode content may be modified to remove portions previously viewed by a user, depending on factors such as the elapsed time and a user preference.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Ross Gilson, Michael Sallas, Chris Bastian, Slade Mitchell, Amit Garg, John Leddy
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Patent number: 9118496Abstract: A subscriber network architecture includes a packet processing node that communicates with a network backbone and with a plurality of access nodes. The access nodes also communicate with a plurality of subscriber devices. The packet processing node controls Quality of Service (QoS) levels for the subscriber devices, routes user data to subscriber devices based on downstream communication channels of the access nodes and QoS levels, and receives data from subscriber devices (via the access nodes) for forwarding across the network backbone.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Jorge Daniel Salinger, Sam Chernak, Chris Bastian, David Urban, Vik Saxena
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Publication number: 20150229561Abstract: According to some aspects as described herein, a user may purchase or otherwise be provided with an accelerated service for selected software applications, devices, and/or ports to experience a high level of communication. The accelerated service may be created, for example, by using a dedicated network data flow such that the user's customer premise equipment (CPE) network access device may put priority traffic in a different upstream data flow than the commonly shared flow, which may involve tagging the traffic upstream to the network with a priority indicator such as a flow identifier. Based on similar factors, the user may also control local priority of data received downstream from the network for distribution to one or more local devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Chris Bastian, Sam Chernak, Daniel Herscovici, Bryan Witkowski
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Patent number: 8972537Abstract: According to some aspects as described herein, a user may purchase or otherwise be provided with an accelerated service for selected software applications, devices, and/or ports to experience a high level of communication. The accelerated service may be created, for example, by using a dedicated network data flow such that the user's customer premise equipment (CPE) network access device may put priority traffic in a different upstream data flow than the commonly shared flow, which may involve tagging the traffic upstream to the network with a priority indicator such as a flow identifier. Based on similar factors, the user may also control local priority of data received downstream from the network for distribution to one or more local devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Chris Bastian, Sam Chernak, Daniel Herscovici, Bryan Witkowski
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Patent number: 8644161Abstract: A shared channel used to communicate between a cable modem termination system and multiple cable modems is managed to prevent and/or reduce the impact of congestion. If the average channel utilization is above a near-congestion threshold, a cable modem in an extended high consumption state is assigned a reduced data transmission priority for managed traffic. Priority for that cable modem is restored to a default preferred level when the channel usage by that cable modem drops below a predetermined level or when the average aggregate channel utilization by all cable modems drops below the near-congestion threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Richard Woundy, Jason Livingood, Chris Bastian, Thomas E. Klieber, James Cary Mills, II, Matthew J. Scully, Peter J. Sevcik, John Reed Bartlett
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Publication number: 20130046863Abstract: According to some aspects as described herein, a user may purchase or otherwise be provided with an accelerated service for selected software applications, devices, and/or ports to experience a high level of communication. The accelerated service may be created, for example, by using a dedicated network data flow such that the user's customer premise equipment (CPE) network access device may put priority traffic in a different upstream data flow than the commonly shared flow, which may involve tagging the traffic upstream to the network with a priority indicator such as a flow identifier. Based on similar factors, the user may also control local priority of data received downstream from the network for distribution to one or more local devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2011Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLCInventors: Chris Bastian, Sam Chernak, Daniel Herscovici, Bryan Witkowski
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Publication number: 20120120807Abstract: A shared channel used to communicate between a cable modem termination system and multiple cable modems is managed to prevent and/or reduce the impact of congestion. If the average channel utilization is above a near-congestion threshold, a cable modem in an extended high consumption state is assigned a reduced data transmission priority for managed traffic. Priority for that cable modem is restored to a default preferred level when the channel usage by that cable modem drops below a predetermined level or when the average aggregate channel utilization by all cable modems drops below the near-congestion threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Richard Woundy, Jason Livingood, Chris Bastian, Thomas E. Klieber, James Mills, II, Matthew J. Scully, Peter J. Sevcik, John Reed Bartlett
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Publication number: 20120075997Abstract: A subscriber network architecture includes a packet processing node that communicates with a network backbone and with a plurality of access nodes. The access nodes also communicate with a plurality of subscriber devices. The packet processing node controls Quality of Service (QoS) levels for the subscriber devices, routes user data to subscriber devices based on downstream communication channels of the access nodes and QoS levels, and receives data from subscriber devices (via the access nodes) for forwarding across the network backbone.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLCInventors: Jorge Salinger, Sam Chernak, Chris Bastian, David Urban, Vik Saxena
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Patent number: 8144594Abstract: A shared channel used to communicate between a cable modem termination system and multiple cable modems is managed to prevent and/or reduce the impact of congestion. If the average channel utilization is above a near-congestion threshold, a cable modem in an extended high consumption state is assigned a reduced data transmission priority for managed traffic. Priority for that cable modem is restored to a default preferred level when the channel usage by that cable modem drops below a predetermined level or when the average aggregate channel utilization by all cable modems drops below the near-congestion threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Richard Woundy, Jason Livingood, Chris Bastian, Thomas E. Klieber, James Cary Mills, II, Matthew J. Scully, Peter J. Sevcik, John Reed Bartlett
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Patent number: 8094661Abstract: A subscriber network architecture includes a packet processing node that communicates with a network backbone and with a plurality of access nodes. The access nodes also communicate with a plurality of subscriber devices. The packet processing node controls Quality of Service (QoS) levels for the subscriber devices, routes user data to subscriber devices based on downstream communication channels of the access nodes and QoS levels, and receives data from subscriber devices (via the access nodes) for forwarding across the network backbone.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Jorge Daniel Salinger, Sam Chernak, Chris Bastian, David Urban, Vik Saxena