Patents by Inventor Varun Ram
Varun Ram 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: 20240048820Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can processing video attributes, audio attributes and social media feeds to dynamically determine insertion points for supplemental content. Additionally, the video packaging and origination service can identify supplemental content utilizing the same attribute information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Varun Ram, Ki Myung Han, Meera Jindal, Viriya Ratanasangpunth, Chris Price
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Patent number: 11825176Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can processing video attributes, audio attributes and social media feeds to dynamically determine insertion points for supplemental content. Additionally, the video packaging and origination service can identify supplemental content utilizing the same attribute information.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Varun Ram, Ki Myung Han, Meera Jindal, Viriya Ratanasangpunth, Chris Price
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Publication number: 20220224992Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can processing video attributes, audio attributes and social media feeds to dynamically determine insertion points for supplemental content. Additionally, the video packaging and origination service can identify supplemental content utilizing the same attribute information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Varun Ram, Ki Myung Han, Meera Jindal, Viriya Ratanasangpunth, Chris Price
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Patent number: 11350143Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can utilize analytic rules and other information to characterize performance of the user device, such as detection of the presence of ad blocking software applications.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Varun Ram, Ki Myung Han, Chris Price, Meera Jindal
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Publication number: 20220141507Abstract: Dynamic transcoding can be used to provide supplemental content, selected to be played during breaks in a stream of primary content, that has the same format as the primary content. It can be desirable to provide supplemental content that is personalized. This may include additional content or advertising that may be of interest or relevance to a viewer. In many instances, the supplemental content will come from a different source and thus can be in a different format. Approaches in accordance with various embodiments can take advantage of dynamic transcoding of the supplemental content to provide properly formatted supplemental content through the same stream as the primary content. A custom manifest can be provided to the media player that points to the transcoded supplemental content. At an appropriate break in the playback, the media player can use the manifest to obtain the formatted supplemental content.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Varun Ram, William Dirks, Meera Jindal, Sierra Anderson, John Cowgill, Kenneth Victor Chamberlin, Mark DeSpain, Matthew Brinkley, Khawaja Salman Shams, Alex Xiaoye Zhang
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Patent number: 11234059Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can processing video attributes, audio attributes and social media feeds to dynamically determine insertion points for supplemental content. Additionally, the video packaging and origination service can identify supplemental content utilizing the same attribute information.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Varun Ram, Ki Myung Han, Meera Jindal, Viriya Ratanasangpunth, Chris Price
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Patent number: 11228792Abstract: Dynamic transcoding can be used to provide supplemental content, selected to be played during breaks in a stream of primary content, that has the same format as the primary content. It can be desirable to provide supplemental content that is personalized. This may include additional content or advertising that may be of interest or relevance to a viewer. In many instances, the supplemental content will come from a different source and thus can be in a different format. Approaches in accordance with various embodiments can take advantage of dynamic transcoding of the supplemental content to provide properly formatted supplemental content through the same stream as the primary content. A custom manifest can be provided to the media player that points to the transcoded supplemental content. At an appropriate break in the playback, the media player can use the manifest to obtain the formatted supplemental content.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Varun Ram, William Dirks, Meera Jindal, Sierra Anderson, John Cowgill, Kenneth Victor Chamberlin, Mark DeSpain, Matthew Brinkley, Khawaja Salman Shams, Alex Xiaoye Zhang
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Patent number: 11064237Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can processing video attributes, audio attributes and social media feeds to dynamically determine insertion points for supplemental content. Additionally, the video packaging and origination service can identify supplemental content utilizing the same attribute information.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Varun Ram, Ki Myung Han, Meera Jindal, Viriya Ratanasangpunth
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Publication number: 20210204004Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can utilize analytic rules and other information to characterize performance of the user device, such as detection of the presence of ad blocking software applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Varun Ram, Ki Myung Han, Chris Price, Meera Jindal
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Patent number: 10951932Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can utilize analytic rules and other information to characterize performance of the user device, such as detection of the presence of ad blocking software applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Varun Ram, Ki Myung Han, Chris Price, Meera Jindal
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Patent number: 10939152Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can utilize various techniques to address performance of the user device, such as detection of the presence of ad blocking software applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Meera Jindal, Varun Ram, Chris Price
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Patent number: 10904593Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can process requests for content segments from requesting user devices. The video packaging and origination service can utilize various techniques to address performance of the user device responsive to detection of the presence of ad blocking software applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Meera Jindal, Varun Ram
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Patent number: 10230812Abstract: A set of transcoding techniques are described for transcoding or otherwise processing content, such as media content that includes textual information (e.g., subtitles), to implement subtitles container conversion from one streaming media format to another, with the ability to combine and split input subtitle segments to create subtitle streams of differing lengths with minimal processing overhead. A copy of textual information is stored at a content delivery network (CDN) point-of-presence (POP) server, network edge server device, or other device. When a device requests the content, the CDN POP server determines the type of device based on the information contained in the request and transcodes the textual information substantially in real-time into the correct encoding for that particular type of device when providing the textual information to the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Varun Ram
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Patent number: 9024170Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a circuit for a MIDI controller that may be used with keyboard and drawbar interfaces provided by a variety of models of drawbar-type electric organs. Such a circuit may be connected to numerous different configurations of drawbar-type organ interfaces having differing numbers of keys, switches, and drawbars, as well as stand-alone units having only keys and drawbars, only foot pedals and drawbars, or only drawbars. Embodiments of the present invention further provide a method for determining the position of each drawbar of a drawbar-type organ interface using binary logic.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Analog Outfitters, Inc.Inventors: Robert Marshall, Varun Ram, Glenn Francisco