Integration Of Diverse Media Patents (Class 715/201)
  • Patent number: 11907643
    Abstract: Embodiments of the technology described herein are directed to a persona-specific navigation interface for a document. Initially, a user may select a persona associated with a document through a document navigation interface. A machine-learning model may identify an interest within a portion of the document. The interest may be mapped to the persona. A navigation interface that includes a navigable link to the portion of the document is generated and output for display. A user interaction with the navigable link is received. In response to the interaction, the portion of the document corresponding to the navigable link is output for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Sumit Shekhar, Tanvi V. Karandikar, Nethraa Sivakumar, Shelly Jain, Himanshu Maheshwari, Vinay Aggarwal, Navita Goyal
  • Patent number: 11908462
    Abstract: The systems and methods of the present disclosure generally relate to a data processing system that can identify and surface alternative requests when presented with ambiguous, unclear, or other requests to which a data processing system may not be able to respond. The data processing system can improve the efficiency of network transmissions to reduce network bandwidth usage and processor utilization by selecting alternative requests that are responsive to the intent of the original request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gleb Skobeltsyn, Mihaly Kozsevnyikov, Vladimir Vuskovic
  • Patent number: 11907508
    Abstract: Content creation techniques are described that leverage content analytics to provide insight and guidance as part of content creation. To do so, content features are extracted by a content analytics system from a plurality of content and used by the content analytics system as a basis to generate a content dataset. Event data is also collected by the content analytics system from an event data source. Event data describes user interaction with respective items of content, including subsequent activities in both online and physical environments. The event data is then used to generate an event dataset. An analytics user interface is then generated by the content analytics system using the content dataset and the event dataset and is usable to guide subsequent content creation and editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Yaman Kumar, Somesh Singh, William Brandon George, Timothy Chia-chi Liu, Suman Basetty, Pranjal Prasoon, Nikaash Puri, Mihir Naware, Mihai Corlan, Joshua Marshall Butikofer, Abhinav Chauhan, Kumar Mrityunjay Singh, James Patrick O'Reilly, Hyman Chung, Lauren Dest, Clinton Hansen Goudie-Nice, Brandon John Pack, Balaji Krishnamurthy, Kunal Kumar Jain, Alexander Klimetschek, Matthew William Rozen
  • Patent number: 11908218
    Abstract: A data processing method includes detecting a first operation for a first page, determining a layout type of the first page, the first page including a first section and a second section, and in response to the layout type being same as a preset type, adjusting a relative position between the first section and the second section so that both of the first section and the second section are visible when moving along a first direction in a display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chendi Zang, Yaqiang Wu, Hui Li, Xinfeng Chang
  • Patent number: 11899689
    Abstract: A blockchain-based data synchronization method, executed by a first service node, includes: acquiring target block data having a minimum block height that is greater than a first local block height, the first local block height being a maximum block height of local block data of the first service node before the first service node acquires the target block data; determining a block height of missing block data according to a block height of the target block data and the first local block height, the block height of the missing block data being less than the minimum block height of the target block data and greater than the first local block height; and requesting a target service node to synchronize the missing block data according to the block height of the missing block data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Huankun Huang, Zongyou Wang, Pan Liu, Jinsong Zhang, Gengliang Zhu, Yifang Shi, Zhiyong Liao, Kaiban Zhou, Qucheng Liu, Changqing Yang, Hu Lan
  • Patent number: 11886489
    Abstract: A system and method of identifying objects is provided. In one aspect, the system and method includes a hand-held device with a display, camera and processor. As the camera captures images and displays them on the display, the processor compares the information retrieved in connection with one image with information retrieved in connection with subsequent images. The processor uses the result of such comparison to determine the object that is likely to be of greatest interest to the user. The display simultaneously displays the images the images as they are captured, the location of the object in an image, and information retrieved for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: David Petrou, Matthew Bridges, Shailesh Nalawadi, Hartwig Adam, Matthew R. Casey, Hartmut Neven, Andrew Harp
  • Patent number: 11887333
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining a solar mask for a facility that comprises a step (E10) of positioning a mobile terminal at a predetermined location of a photovoltaic panel. Following the step (E10), the method comprises a step (E20) of taking a single photograph with a camera of the mobile terminal and a step (E30) of determining an orientation of the camera, during the step (E20), by means of an orientation detection device and a controller of the mobile terminal. The method further comprises a step (E40) of extending at least one contour of the photograph, in at least one direction, and a step (E60) of superimposing data from the extended photograph with a sun path diagram, in a common reference frame, so as to determine the solar mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventor: Fabien Rousseau
  • Patent number: 11886841
    Abstract: A method for Python programming on a handheld device is provided that includes activating, by a Python program editor executing on the handheld device and responsive to programmer input, a first argument helper for a first parameter of a Python function, wherein the first argument helper includes first valid argument values for the first parameter, receiving, by the Python program editor, programmer selection of a first valid argument value of the first valid argument values, and displaying, by the Python program editor, the Python function with the first valid argument value in an editor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Stephen Lindor Reid
  • Patent number: 11880752
    Abstract: Certain aspects and features of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods that generate machine-learning models to predict whether user devices are likely to meet defined objectives. For example, a machine-learning model can be generated to predict whether or not a user device is likely to access a resource. In some implementations, a semi-supervised model can be used to determine to what extent user devices are predicted to satisfy the defined objective(s). For example, a resource-affinity parameter can be generated as a result of inputting various data points into a semi-supervised model. The various data points can be access from a plurality of data sources, and can represent one or more activities or attributes associated with a user. The value of the resource-affinity parameter can be evaluated to determine the extent to which the user is likely to meet an objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Live Nation Entertainments, Inc.
    Inventors: John Carnahan, Ajay Pondicherry, Vasanth Kumar
  • Patent number: 11875218
    Abstract: In one aspect, the technology processes image data depicting a physical object to extract payload data that is encoded on the object in the form of tiled code blocks. The payload data is encoded in conjunction with an associated reference signal. To account for possible inversion of the imagery, the decoding includes determining spatial correspondence between the image data and the reference signal. A patch of the image data smaller than the block size is then selected, and correlated with a spatially-corresponding patch of the reference signal. From the correlation it may be concluded that the chosen patch exhibits inversion. In such case a subset of the image data is adjusted prior to decoding to compensate for the inversion. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Adnan M. Alattar, Vojtech Holub
  • Patent number: 11875385
    Abstract: An information communication system acquires first user information indicating a first user and second user information indicating a second user based on transmission of a message from a first terminal device used by the first user to a second terminal device used by the second user. The information communication system transmits, to the first terminal device, a first advertisement corresponding to an attribute of the first user indicated by the acquired first user information. The information communication system transmits, to the second terminal device, a second advertisement corresponding to an attribute of the second user indicated by the acquired second user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Ishii, Takehito Nohara, Sungsu Kim, Fuminori Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11863806
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in conventional systems by correcting an erroneous term in on-screen caption text for a media asset. In some aspects, the systems and methods identify the erroneous term in a text segment of the on-screen caption text, and identify one or more video frames of the media asset corresponding to the text segment. The systems and methods further identify a contextual term related to the erroneous term from the one or more video frames. By accessing a knowledge graph, the systems and methods identify a candidate correction based on the contextual term and a portion of the text segment. Lastly, the systems and methods replaces the erroneous term with the candidate correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Kumar Gupta, Abhijit Satchidanand Savarkar
  • Patent number: 11856129
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing models for call data are disclosed. For example, the system may include one or more memory units storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving, from a user device, an input indicating a segment of a first recorded call and an attribute associated with the segment. The operations may include determining a parameter of a model, wherein the model is associated with the attribute. The operations may include changing the parameter based on the input. The operations may include generating an updated model based on the changed parameter, wherein the updated model may be configured to analyze recorded calls having one or more segments with the same attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Sara McDole, Premkumar Dhayalan, Thomas Zahorik, Saiteja Kamuni, Sri Penmatsa, Vamsi Rallabandi, Danni Tang, Suresh Pothireddy
  • Patent number: 11848009
    Abstract: The systems and methods of the present disclosure generally relate to a data processing system that can identify and surface alternative requests when presented with ambiguous, unclear, or other requests to which a data processing system may not be able to respond. The data processing system can improve the efficiency of network transmissions to reduce network bandwidth usage and processor utilization by selecting alternative requests that are responsive to the intent of the original request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gleb Skobeltsyn, Mihaly Kozsevnyikov, Vladimir Vuskovic
  • Patent number: 11825160
    Abstract: “Binge watching” of multiple episodes of a program is improved by the player device automatically skipping repeated portions of the program. Opening and closing credit scenes, for example, can be automatically skipped to thereby allow the viewer to progress through the entire season of programming at an even faster rate than was previously thought possible. Programming to be skipped may be identified by detecting audio or other digital fingerprints in the content itself, for example. Content to be skipped may be identified to the playback device according to anchor points or other references in the programming itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert Drew Major, Steven Casagrande
  • Patent number: 11818417
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system provides substantially synchronized streaming. The system comprises at least one server, in communication with a user profile database, and operable to communicate, over a network, with client devices connected to the Internet; and provide a media stream to the client devices such that the media stream is displayed, in a substantially synchronized manner, on display screens of the client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Paramount Pictures Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene M. Lee, Stephanie Anne Simard, Abraham Chee Shun Wong, Alyson Elise Grove
  • Patent number: 11811851
    Abstract: A method and system for a content broker, including a unified object index, where the content broker is coupled to the unified object index and receives, from a requesting entity, a request to perform an action on an object and the object is stored in the content repository. The method further including obtaining the object associated with the request from a content repository, determining, using the unified object index, a normalized object type associated with the object, obtaining a governance rule based on the normalized object type, and servicing the request using the governance rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael T. Mohen, Raman Walia, Chandra Mouli Addaguduru, Pardeep Kumar
  • Patent number: 11790029
    Abstract: A system and method that converts the digital typesetting documents used in publishing to a device-specific format for electronic publishing. A “smart file and device-specific application” approach maintains the “look and feel” (design) of the source document used for print publication while typesetting for a specific device. Although this approach requires considerably more resources to create a smart file for each device-specific format, the smart file retains the unique typesetting characteristics of the printed book, is more aesthetically pleasing, and is easier to read. Furthermore, the device-specific application can render the smart file more quickly thereby eliminating any latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Language Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Nicholas, Edward J. Maher, II, Kristen L. Pruett, Lee H. Berendt
  • Patent number: 11783610
    Abstract: A method comprises determining instance bounds associated with each of one or more structural elements in a document using a machine learning model. The method further comprises determining an error in the instance bounds associated with a particular one of the one or more structural elements. The method further comprises correcting the error in the instance bounds associated with the particular structural element using document content associated with the particular structural element, thereby generating corrected instance bounds associated with the particular structural element. The method further comprises generating a structural map of the document based on the corrected instance bounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Ashutosh Mehra, Md Nadeem Akhtar, Pranav Kumar
  • Patent number: 11762931
    Abstract: Provided are a feedback method and apparatus based on an online document comment, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The feedback method based on an online document comment includes receiving comment push information sent by a server, where the comment push information is generated by the server according to a comment feedback addition request sent by a terminal and includes a document identifier, a comment identifier, and a comment feedback type; determining a first target document matching the document identifier and determining a first comment matching the comment identifier in the first target document; and acquiring comment feedback matching the comment feedback type and adding the comment feedback in a comment feedback display region matching the first comment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chaocai You, Longteng Peng
  • Patent number: 11758012
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for optimizing remuneration for computing services. Computing services are registered which stores registration data comprising remuneration associations between computing services and consumers. A hierarchical computer model is generated based on the registration data, where the model represents dependencies between consumers and providers of computing services. For a service request from a consumer, each transaction with each computing service in a service invocation chain associated with the service request is identified and a cost of each transaction is calculated. The calculated cost of the service invocation chain is optimized based on applying an optimization algorithm to a cost function applied to a selected portion of the hierarchical computer model corresponding to the service invocation chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Swaminathan Balasubramanian, Rajiv Joshi, Renganathan Sundararaman, Pierre C. Berlandier
  • Patent number: 11743520
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate a management file which stores information regarding object selection information for selecting object audio data in accordance with a display state of an image, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the management file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Katsumata, Toshiya Hamada, Naotaka Ojiro
  • Patent number: 11734491
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for linguistically-driven automated text formatting are described herein. Data representing the linguistic structure of input text may be received from Natural Language Processing (NLP) Services, including but not limited to constituents, dependencies, and coreference relationships. A text model of the input text may be built using the linguistic components and relationships. Cascade rules may be applied to the text model to generate a cascaded text data structure. Cascaded data may be displayed on a range of media, including a phone, tablet, laptop, monitor, VR/AR devices. Cascaded data may be presented in dual screen formats to promote more accurate and efficient reading comprehension, greater ease in teaching native and foreign language grammatical structures, and tools for remediation of reading-related disabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Cascade Reading, Inc.
    Inventors: Julie A. Van Dyke, Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek
  • Patent number: 11734782
    Abstract: Manual human processing of documents often generates results that are subjective and include human-error. The cost and relatively slow speed of manual, human analysis makes it effectively impossible or impracticable to perform document analysis at the scale, speed, and cost desired in many industries. Accordingly, it may be advantageous to employ objective, accurate rule-based techniques to evaluate and process documents. This application discloses data processing equipment and methods specially adapted for a specific application: analysis of the breadth of documents. The processing may include context-dependent pre-processing of documents and sub-portions of the documents. The sub-portions may be analyzed based on word count and commonality of words in the respective sub-portions. The equipment and methods disclosed herein improve upon other automated techniques to provide document processing by achieving a result that quantitatively improves upon manual, human processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventors: William Michael Edmund, John E. Bradley, III, Daniel Crouse
  • Patent number: 11726640
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for shared electronic documents are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve enabling access to an electronic word processing document including blocks of text, wherein each block of text has an associated address; accessing at least one data structure containing block-based permissions for each block of text, and wherein the permissions include at least one permission to view an associated block of text; receiving from an entity a request to access the electronic word processing document; performing a lookup in the at least one data structure to determine that the entity lacks permission to view at least one specific block within the electronic word processing document; and causing to be rendered on a display associated with the entity, the electronic word processing document with the at least one specific block omitted from the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MONDAY.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Roy Mann, Ron Zionpour, Tal Haramati, Amir Bardugo
  • Patent number: 11710174
    Abstract: A mobile computer system accesses a data base of products. On the display screen of the mobile computer system, a central image of a product is presented in a central position of the display. A first image of another product is presented on the display to a first side of central position of the display. A second image of another product is presented on the display on the second side of central position of the display. The second side of the display is opposite the first side with respect to the central position. Information is acquired with respect to the user and with respect to the product being presented in the central position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventor: Roy Ittah
  • Patent number: 11711593
    Abstract: Example systems and methods for automated generation of banner images are disclosed. A program identifier associated with a particular media program may be received by a system, and used for accessing a set of iconic digital images and corresponding metadata associated with the particular media program. The system may select a particular iconic digital image for placing a banner of text associated with the particular media program, by applying an analytical model of banner-placement criteria to the iconic digital images. The system may apply another analytical model for banner generation to the particular iconic image to determine (i) dimensions and placement of a bounding box for containing the text, (ii) segmentation of the text for display within the bounding box, and (iii) selection of font, text size, and font color for display of the text. The system may store the particular iconic digital image and banner metadata specifying the banner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventor: Aneesh Vartakavi
  • Patent number: 11709952
    Abstract: A method of data access control in an intermediation server includes: storing a record containing: a record identifier; a plurality of sections each containing data; and in association with each section, an owner identifier selected from a set of requester identifiers corresponding to respective requester subsystems; storing access control data corresponding to each requester identifier; wherein the access control data for a given requester identifier indicates which other requester identifiers are permitted to access a section of the record having the given requester identifier associated therewith as the owner identifier; responsive to receiving, from one of the requester subsystems, a request containing the record identifier and an active one of the requester identifiers corresponding to the active requester subsystem: granting access to a subset of the sections according to the active requester identifier, the owner identifiers and the access control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: AMADEUS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Catherine Bignotti, Bertrand Alberola, Veronique Leroy, Jean-Chafic Hays, Pierre Brun
  • Patent number: 11710199
    Abstract: Methods and systems for improved environmental impact and attribution using distributed ledgers are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes retrieving transaction data concerning an energy transaction from a distributed database. A delivery process and/or a production process for the energy transaction may be identified based on the transaction data. Environmental impact measures may be determined for the production process, the delivery process, and/or consuming an energy resource. One or more attributions may be created for the environmental impact measures and may be stored on within the distributed database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: ENERGYXCHAIN, LLC
    Inventors: Umit Cali, David A. Doctor, Robert W. Norris
  • Patent number: 11704847
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating geocoded user information is disclosed. The method comprises searching user data across multiple different data corpuses for entries having location-related information and determining locations for the location-related information. The method further comprises generating a map showing a current location of a mobile device along with representations of the entries having location-related information, at the determined locations, for entries from the multiple different data corpuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Adam Bliss, David P. Conway
  • Patent number: 11699028
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying an online document, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method for displaying an online document includes, in response to receiving an interactive instruction for a first user through the online document, generating an online document notification message in the instant messaging session list of the first user, where the interactive instruction includes that a second user mentions the first user or that the second user mentions the content published by the first user in the online document; in response to receiving an instruction triggering the online document notification message, acquiring a target link address; and jumping to the target link address in an instant messaging window through a document container and displaying the online document in the instant messaging window, where the document container is integrated into an instant messaging framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Xu, Shimin Xu
  • Patent number: 11699432
    Abstract: Provided is a method including obtaining a corpus and an associated set of domain indicators. The method includes learning a set of vectors in an embedding space based on n-grams of the corpus. The method includes updating ontology graphs comprising a set of vertices and edges associating the set of vertices with each other. The method also includes determining a vector cluster using hierarchical clustering based on distances of the set of vectors with respect to each other in the embedding space and determining a hierarchy of the ontology graphs based on a set of domain indicators of a respective set of vertices corresponding to vectors of the vector cluster. The method also includes updating an index based on the ontology graphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Sorcero, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Bender, Unai Garay Maestre, Carlos Fernandez Musoles, Adam Tomkins
  • Patent number: 11687208
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating interactions with a user interface are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of mutation events specifying changes to the structure of a user interface that occurred during the user session, and generating user interface states specifying different structures of the user interface throughout the given user session. Based at least in part on the user interface states, playback data that present visual changes of the user interface corresponding to the set of mutation events that occurred during the user session are generated. Session activity data describing user interactions that occurred during the user session are also generated. At least a portion of the playback data and the session activity data are output to a requesting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: FullStory, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Grayson Webber, Stephanie Jill Brubaker, Hollis Bruce Johnson, Jr., Ian Thomas Rose, Scott Mitchell Voigt, Jaime Michael Yap, Joshua Calvin Teague
  • Patent number: 11682401
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for processing recordings of events. The technique includes applying a machine learning model to a plurality of samples from one or more recordings of the events to generate a plurality of embeddings representing the plurality of samples. The technique also includes generating a plurality of labels that identify speakers associated with the plurality of samples based on metadata comprising timestamps of voice activity during the events and participants associated with the voice activity. The technique further includes storing mappings of the plurality of embeddings to the plurality of labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc
    Inventors: Kareem Aladdin Nassar, David Abraham Wiener
  • Patent number: 11681769
    Abstract: A system for preparing and delivering digital information, particularly digital newspaper editions, to mobile application users. The system includes mobile applications (apps) for both mobile phone and tablet devices, with content display and interactivity of each app optimized for device type. The system also includes a suite of back-office software modules which allow writers and editors to prepare stories, images and other content for delivery to the apps. One such module is a story creator, which includes an interface to a content management system allowing plain text stories and images to be imported, formatted and made interactive for delivery to the apps. The story creator module also includes interfaces to providers of data such as obituaries, classified ads and weather, and functionality for publishing daily editions of the digital newspaper using the imported content. Other features of the system include breaking news alerts, paywall integration, and interfaces to social media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BLOCK COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: John David Crisp, Joseph Michael Holub, Stephen Raymond Bumbaugh, Charles Aaron Ryder, Joshua Sherman Jacob
  • Patent number: 11662970
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a remote interactive experience are provided. The systems and methods may include computer executable code stored in a non-transitory memory and run on a processor. The remote interactive experience may be provided via a digital platform. The platform may provide management of a shared browser. The shared browser may be shared by a plurality of participant devices. The platform may store the shared browser in a cloud-based location. The shared browser may thus be cloud-based. The platform may enable the plurality of participant devices to access the cloud-based shared browser. The platform may receive, as input, actions performed to each of the plurality of participant devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Switchboard Visual Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Ashkenazi, Chris Jones, Marco Iacono, Daniel Shteremberg
  • Patent number: 11657556
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes displaying one or more objects on a display device and receiving a user input corresponding to a movement along the display device. The method further includes determining a motion of each of the one or more objects on the display device. The determined motion corresponds to the user input and includes: a first motion that includes a translation of each of the objects along a particular path across at least a portion of the display device and a second motion that includes a decaying oscillatory motion of each of the objects where an amplitude of the decaying oscillatory motion decreases with time. The method also includes applying the determined motion to the one or more objects displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventor: Paul J. Hultgren
  • Patent number: 11651700
    Abstract: A method for improving learning comprehension regarding a lesson includes modifying a fundamental illustrative model to illustrate a first set of learning assets of a first learning object using an illustration approach to produce a first learning illustrative model. The lesson includes learning objects which includes the first learning object. The fundamental illustrative model is based on illustrative assets of the lesson. The method further includes obtaining a first comprehension evaluation for the first learning illustrative model and modifying the illustration approach based on the first comprehension evaluation for the first learning illustrative model to produce an updated illustration approach. The method further includes modifying the fundamental illustrative model to illustrate a second set of learning assets of a second learning object using the updated illustration approach to produce a second learning illustrative model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Enduvo, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Bramlet, Justin Douglas Drawz, Steven J. Garrou, Joseph Thomas Tieu, Gary W. Grube
  • Patent number: 11651332
    Abstract: One example of a computer-implemented method comprises receiving content data for a first physical note removably attached to a first display area of a first collaborative board located in a first location. The content data includes information displayed on the first physical note. The method further comprises determining a position of the first physical note on the first collaborative board; and outputting instructions to a second collaborative board located in a second location to generate a first virtual note in a second display area of the second collaborative board such that information displayed on the first virtual note corresponds to the information displayed on the first physical note and a position of the first virtual note on the second display area corresponds to the position of the first physical note on the first collaborative board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jill Dhillon, Michael Bender, Steven Edward Atkin, John F. Kelley
  • Patent number: 11640423
    Abstract: A server system obtains a collection of images, each image in the collection of images being associated with a first set of text descriptors. The server system obtains a media item being associated with a second set of text descriptors. The server system selects a subset of the collection of images, including: selecting an initial subset of the collection of images, wherein the initial subset of the collection of images consists of images that share a text descriptor with the media item; obtaining a set of preferences for a user of the media-providing service; and selecting the subset of the collection of images from the initial subset of the collection of images based on the set of preferences for the user of the media-providing service. The server system concurrently presents: a respective image of the subset of the collection of images; and the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventor: Mikael Simon David Klamra
  • Patent number: 11637880
    Abstract: A system for device discovery for social playback is disclosed. The system operates to connect a host media playback device to a media output device and broadcast a social playback session to guest media playback devices. Upon joining a social playback session, a guest media playback device may control the media playback at the host media playback device. Where the media output for the social playback session is provided by the media output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Mikael Ragnhult, Rifat Ordulu, Aron Manucheri, Kenny Christer Öberg Falguera, Cecilia Humlelu, Gustav Mattias Over Bergström
  • Patent number: 11615817
    Abstract: Indexing of media sources available to media composition applications, such as video editing applications and digital audio workstations, is extended to sources of an arbitrary type, including non-file type sources. Examples of such sources include devices using baseband video and audio protocols, network ports and physical devices connected via USB, Thunderbolt, etc. The sources are discovered and indexed even when not previously known to the application with the result that any available bitstream becomes available to the application. Applications access the sources via feeders, which are addressable portals through which media essence is received. The indexing methods involve the instantiation of a hierarchy of plug-in software modules by a format-handling subsystem of the application or by a media indexing service servicing one or more applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Shailendra Mathur
  • Patent number: 11606309
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method includes accessing information related to a playback session in which at least a portion of requested multimedia content is streamed over a network to a client electronic device. The method further includes accessing network topology information for the network to identify which route through the network was used to provide the requested multimedia content during the playback session, including indicating which end node was used to provide the multimedia content. Still further, the method includes accessing network steering factors that indicate why the requested multimedia content was steered through the identified network route, determining, based on the network steering factors, which end node would have been more suited to providing the requested multimedia content for the playback session, and then transferring the requested multimedia content to the determined end node for provisioning during subsequent playback sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Lara Deek, Ishaan Shastri, Mohit Vora
  • Patent number: 11604559
    Abstract: A portable electronic device displays icons (e.g., graphical objects) in one or more regions of a user interface of a touch-sensitive display, and detects user input specifying an exchange of positions of icons in the user interface. In some aspects, the respective positions of two icons in a user interface can be selected to exchange positions in the one or more regions of the user interface, and one or both icons can change their visual appearance to indicate their selection status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Bas Ording, Steven P. Jobs
  • Patent number: 11595670
    Abstract: Described are methods, apparatuses and computer program products for signaling and storing compressed point clouds. Sub-sample entries associated with sequences of sub-samples within sequences of samples may indicate whether sequences of sub-samples were encapsulated alone in a track, without other sub-samples or additional header data. Sub-sample entry types can be indexed at track-level sub-sample description boxes. Point cloud compression coded bitstream component types may be signaled by including respective point cloud unit header information in a codec-specific parameters-related field of track level sub-sample description boxes. Sub-sample information boxes may indicate sub-sample entry indices for respective sub-samples. A flag in such information boxes may indicate the presence of sub-sample description entry indexes. Description index boxes can contain sub-sample description entry indexes in the same container as sub-sample information boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Emre Baris Aksu, Miska Matias Hannuksela
  • Patent number: 11593906
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for content presentation. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for a content item to be presented to a user; for a collection of content items, identifying one or more candidate content items including using image keywords derived from images associated with the user to identify the one or more candidate content items; selecting a content item responsive to the content request from the candidate content items; and sending the selected content item for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Subhadip Sarkar, Ravi Jain
  • Patent number: 11593724
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for integrated management of animate and inanimate objects of an enterprise, including a cloud-based server having a database, a website, and configured for running computer programs thereon; a user device including a smartphone, tablet and/or personal computer (PC) running an application or software including a gamified user interface (UI) configured to connect to the database and function as a data entry and display device; automated devices including a sensor, electronic switch, pump and/or a hydroponic dosing device connected to the database and configured to collect and transmit data or to react to received commands; an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered engine configured to monitor statuses of animate and inanimate objects of an enterprise, as well as external conditions and actors that affect the enterprise, and based on analysis of the statuses, configured to task employees and/or the automated devices of the enterprise, and configured to employ cognitiv
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: COGNITIVE SEEDS LLC
    Inventors: Michael B. Sundel, Thomas A. Murphy
  • Patent number: 11589129
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for operating a group watching session. Group communication is initiated for a group watching session displaying a media content item. A bandwidth available to at least one computing device participating in the group watching session is determined. A group communication mode for a segment of the media content item is determined. A communication parameter of the group communication and/or a buffering parameter for the media content item is set in response to determining the group communication mode for the segment of the media content item and the bandwidth available to each computing device participating in the group watching session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ROVi GUIDES, INC.
    Inventors: Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah, Vikram Makam Gupta
  • Patent number: 11579869
    Abstract: A device, and a method and a system for editing command sets applied to the device are provided. The system includes an editor installed in a computer device for initiating an editing interface used to edit one or more command sets applied to the device and a writer used to convert the command sets into profiles with a format specified to the device. The command sets are used to form the profiles configured to be written to the device via the writer. The command sets including a set of scripts of commands and input codes specified to the device can be edited through the editor. The device is a computer mouse with multiple keys. The keys can be used to switch the profiles stored in the device, and the command set of the profile being activated is applied to the device for operating the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventor: Jr-Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11580297
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed provide a What-You-See-Is-What-You Get (WYSIWYG) editor for web content, allowing the conversion of previously generated web content to reusable templates or components. Embodiments thus allow, among other advantages, users such as web content developers to easily repurpose or reuse previously developed pages or content by giving these users the ability to review and edit previously developed pages or content in a WYSIWYG editor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT CORPORATION
    Inventors: John W. Chang, Paul Kieron Carl Narth, Sampada Khare, Sunil Menon