Patents Assigned to CBS
  • Publication number: 20140045597
    Abstract: An application development center system is described. A method may comprise receiving an application at a server computing device; accessing test data from one or more data sources; testing the application within a development environment resident on the server computing device utilizing the test data; and presenting test results on a user interface accessible by a client computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Antonio L. Fernandez, Jeffrey H. Platter, Louis E. Miller
  • Publication number: 20140040239
    Abstract: An organization data management system is described. A method may comprise receiving organization information, by a processor accessible by a server computing device, associated with a sports organization; relating statistics, received by the processor, associated with one or more events involving the sports organization to the organization information, the statistics being related to provide statistics levels comprising at least game, season, and career statistics levels; generating one or more customized reports comprising the statistics and the organization information; and presenting the statistics and the organization information on a user interface accessible from a display of a client computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: CBS, INTERACTIVE, INC.
    Inventor: Mary P. Hirsch
  • Publication number: 20140038708
    Abstract: A virtual viewpoint management system is described. An aspect provides for accessing video game information implemented in a video game application operating on a computing device; monitoring for one or more selection triggers; and presenting one or more virtual viewpoints on one or more display devices responsive to the one or more selection triggers, the one or more virtual viewpoints being presented according to the video game information during live game play of the video game application in substantially real-time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE INC.
    Inventors: John Davison, Zachary Edson, Robyn Tas, Boubou Guiro, Simon Whitcombe
  • Publication number: 20140040760
    Abstract: An entertainment content personalization system is described. A method may comprise accessing content for presentation on a user interface, the content comprising entertainment services content associated with content data; generating user data comprising user profile data and user interaction data, the user interaction data based on interactions with the content through the user interface; and presenting personalized content on the user interface comprising content selected based on the user data and the content data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Randell, Erik Johnson, Eric Anderson
  • Publication number: 20140031114
    Abstract: Various embodiments for providing a narrative summary for content related to competitive gaming are described. An aspect may provide receiving data about a competitive gaming event, the data comprising one or more data items; selecting a narrative template for the competitive gaming event according to the data, the narrative template comprising one or more word slots and one or more data slots; filling a data slot in the narrative template with a data item; filling a word slot in the narrative template with a word selected from a word list configured for the word slot; and publishing the narrative template with the one or more word slots and the one or more data slots filled as competitive gaming narrative content. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE, INC.
    Inventors: John Davison, Boubou Guiro
  • Publication number: 20140033081
    Abstract: A sports content personalization system is described. A method may comprise receiving sports content at a server computing device, the sports content associated with content data related to subject matter of the sports content; generating a user profile comprising user data, the user data indicating one or more sports content interests; and presenting personalized sports content on a user interface comprising sports content selected based on the user data and the content data, the user interface presented on a display of a client computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE INC.
    Inventors: Antonio Fernandez, Ronnie Paskin, Vinh Tran
  • Patent number: 8639096
    Abstract: A system and method of managing a digital video recorder using a user customizable television broadcast list which includes a list of a plurality of user selected television programs being displayed on a website. The television programs on the list are identified based on date and time broadcast information which are retrieved from a storage medium. The list includes television programs only to be broadcast on a particular user selected date. At least one of the user selected television programs from the list is exported to a digital video recorder (DVR) upon the user selecting the at least one user selected television program from the list. The DVR is instructed to automatically record the television programs at a predetermined date and time based on the date and time broadcast information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Soohoo, John Russell, Kris Wainscott, Jeff Clark, Carlos Teran
  • Patent number: 8635267
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking a user's lifestyle and activity profile. This profile can be automatically updated in real time. User activity on a site is tracked. User activity from third party feeds is also received. The user activity is then combined to generate the user's total profile. A pulse engine processes the feeds, updates the profiles, creates pulse alerts, routes updates to APIs or user interfaces, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20140018135
    Abstract: An entertainment content personalization system is described. A method may comprise receiving fantasy data; generating rankings of event content based on the fantasy data and content data associated with the event content; and presenting event content selected based on the rankings on a user interface. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE INC.
    Inventors: Antonio Fernandez, Patrick Quinlivan
  • Patent number: 8630919
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically generating a self-updating naturally-reading narrative product summary including assertions about a selected product. In one embodiment, the system and method includes evaluating an existing narrative product summary, comparing an existing attribute name, attribute value, attribute unit, and assertion model, respectively, to a current attribute name, attribute value, attribute unit, and assertion model to determine if one of the comparisons shows a change. The system and method further determines a new attribute associated with the selected product, selects an alternative product, retrieves a new assertion model with assertions that describe the selected product and identify an alternative product in a natural manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Baran, Timothy Allen Musgrove, Robin Hiroko Walsh
  • Publication number: 20130326037
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for consistently associating a user ID with a user. In one aspect, a method may comprise receiving a data request at a transceiver accessible by a server computing device, wherein, in response to receiving the data request, the server computing device is configured to: access, by one or more processors coupled to the transceiver, a first value embedded in a first cookie associated with a first expiration time; set a second cookie embedded with a second value; and reset the first cookie responsive to receiving an indication that the first cookie is expiring, wherein to reset the first cookie comprises replacing the first cookie with a third cookie set with a value equal to the first value and a third expiration time later than the first expiration time. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Clifford Lyon, Ron Rothman
  • Publication number: 20130321388
    Abstract: A live event information reporting system is described. An apparatus may comprise a live event information reporting application operative on a processor circuit to provide user interfaces for reporting and viewing information reported for live events. The live event information reporting application may comprise a context information component operative to access context information associated with one or more live events; a reporting user interface component operative to display a live event reporting user interface, the live event reporting user interface configured to provide the context information and one or more event information elements corresponding to the one or more live events; and a live event information component operative to receive live event information associated with the one or more live events entered via the event information elements. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Locke, Andrew Beal, Megan Peasha, Steven Montoya
  • Publication number: 20130311899
    Abstract: Techniques to provide a topic-based social environment are disclosed. A topic-based social environment may generate a user account and a user profile. The topic-based social environment may allow a user to follow other users, discussions, content, and specific activities of interest. The environment may retrieve contributions of followed entities according to the user's profile and display the contributions in one user interface. The environment may generate a feed from the retrieved contributions to display to a user. The environment may allow a user to build a profile that is specific to the topic of the community. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Boubou Guiro, Samuel Parker
  • Patent number: 8583818
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for segmenting video. A system configured to practice the method determines a total duration of a video asset. The system identifies an optimal streaming chunk duration and a minimum streaming chunk duration. Then the system segments the video asset into a set of chunks, wherein at least one of a final chunk and a penultimate chunk is less than the optimal streaming chunk duration and greater than the minimum streaming chunk duration, and wherein each remaining chunk is of the optimal streaming chunk duration. The system can segment the video asset based on keyframes or codecs. The system can optionally compile a video manifest file, such as an m3u8 file, containing pointers to each chunk in the set of chunks. Then the system can optionally stream the video asset to a video playback device based on the video manifest file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventors: Jignesh Yashwant Dhruv, Shalitha Arosha Senanayake
  • Patent number: 8560099
    Abstract: A technique to automatically provide assistance with the selection of an app for an electronic game is described. An apparatus may comprise an app rating application arranged to receive as input game performance information representing gameplay of an electronic game. The app rating application may process the game performance information and output an app rating indicator of an app corresponding to the app identifier parameter based on the performance information to assist a user in selecting the app. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: CBS Interactive, Inc.
    Inventor: Antonio Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20130268408
    Abstract: The principles set forth herein describe building a product finder. One aspect comprises receiving a request at a computing device to develop a product finder for a specified product category; receiving input at the computing device to configure the product finder, the input comprising data representing product information associated with the specified product category; developing, via a processor accessible by the computing device, the product finder based on an existing template, wherein developing the product finder based on the existing template reduces writing of computer code; and utilizing the input to customize the product finder. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventors: Waheed Mebed, Dmitry Chechuy
  • Patent number: 8554345
    Abstract: A technique to automatically provide assistance with the selection of an app for an electronic game is described. An apparatus may comprise an app rating application arranged to receive as input game performance information representing gameplay of an electronic game. The app rating application may process the game performance information and output an app rating indicator of an app corresponding to the app identifier parameter based on the performance information to assist a user in selecting the app. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: CBS Interactive, Inc.
    Inventor: Antonio Fernandez
  • Publication number: 20130262936
    Abstract: A method of assessing a computer program under actual working conditions according to one embodiment comprises executing the computer program multiple times under actual working conditions, in response to each unhandled exception encountered during execution of the computer program, creating a corresponding stack frame signature to characterize the state of the program, and comparing the stack frame signatures to determine which unhandled exceptions are likely to have resulted from similar features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: CBS INTERACTIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Clementson Elliott, Kenneth A. Gengler
  • Patent number: 8548969
    Abstract: Systems and methods for clustering content according to similarity are provided that identify and group similar content using a set of tags associated with the content. A topic model of a group of content is built, producing a probability distribution of topic membership for the content. Individual items of content are then clustered using a clustering algorithm, and a distance matrix from the probability distribution is built. Based on the distance matrix, individual items of content are labeled as “must-link” or “cannot-link” pairs with the group of content. The topic model is then embedded into successively smaller dimensions using a kernel method, until the clustering is stable with respect to both the behavioral and content domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventors: Ned Rhinelander, Clifford Lyon
  • Publication number: 20130226961
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for navigating a database including a plurality of records having attributes, the method including transmitting a webpage configured to display selectable filters associated with record attributes; receiving at least one attribute value based on a filter selection; transmitting a mini query to the database for a count of records in the database that satisfy the at least one attribute value; receiving the count of records; transmitting the count of records to be rendered on a display device; transmitting a full query to the database for record indicators in the database that satisfy the at least one attribute value; receiving the one or more record indicators; and transmitting the one or more record indicators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventor: CBS Interactive Inc.