Patents Assigned to DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
  • Patent number: 12164606
    Abstract: A central asset registry and associated satellite registries tie Digital Asset Management (DAM) repositories and satellite repositories into a unified enterprise system. The system removes rights and asset relationship tracking from the DAMs and the satellites by gathering asset metadata tags and capturing digital asset rights and relationships between assets to improve speed, scalability, and flexibility in analyzing and traversing networks of rights and relationships of digital assets. The central asset registry and the satellite registries use a pluggable architecture and track and store multi-dimensional relationships as an asset hierarchy. The asset hierarchy and rights model depicts rights and relationship data between the assets and provides a flexible array of asset types and properties for addition of new assets, new asset types, and new rights without re-factoring the other data, nodes, and edges. The system uses asset metadata to create edge relationships between the assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Beth Jackson, William C. Hurst, Chris Goodacre, Melissa Roberts, Lisa Seeto, Pedro Lopez, Jarrod Clift, Brant Boehmann, Dennis Killingsworth
  • Publication number: 20240160701
    Abstract: A central asset registry and associated satellite registries tie Digital Asset Management (DAM) repositories and satellite repositories into a unified enterprise system. The system removes rights and asset relationship tracking from the DAMs and the satellites by gathering asset metadata tags and capturing digital asset rights and relationships between assets to improve speed, scalability, and flexibility in analyzing and traversing networks of rights and relationships of digital assets. The central asset registry and the satellite registries use a pluggable architecture and track and store multi-dimensional relationships as an asset hierarchy. The asset hierarchy and rights model depicts rights and relationship data between the assets and provides a flexible array of asset types and properties for addition of new assets, new asset types, and new rights without re-factoring the other data, nodes, and edges. The system uses asset metadata to create edge relationships between the assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Beth JACKSON, William C. HURST, Chris GOODACRE, Melissa ROBERTS, Lisa SEETO, Pedro LOPEZ, Jarrod CLIFT, Brant BOEHMANN, Dennis KILLINGSWORTH
  • Patent number: 11979623
    Abstract: Systems and methods create new viewership estimates to drive linear ad schedule optimizations. The systems use machine learning techniques to predict granular-level television viewership metrics for any consumer segment measurable at a national level. The systems provide capabilities beyond merely estimating and forecasting television viewership for age- and gender-based demographic segments. The systems accurately estimate viewership for any consumer segment, including behavioral, demographic, and other segmentation techniques and provide reliable viewership predictions. The systems model viewership by training an ensemble of machine learning models using historical consumer segments data and TV viewership data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Diana Saafi
  • Patent number: 11868445
    Abstract: A central asset registry and associated satellite registries tie Digital Asset Management (DAM) repositories and satellite repositories into a unified enterprise system. The system removes rights and asset relationship tracking from the DAMs and the satellites by gathering asset metadata tags and capturing digital asset rights and relationships between assets to improve speed, scalability, and flexibility in analyzing and traversing networks of rights and relationships of digital assets. The central asset registry and the satellite registries use a pluggable architecture and track and store multi-dimensional relationships as an asset hierarchy. The asset hierarchy and rights model depicts rights and relationship data between the assets and provides a flexible array of asset types and properties for addition of new assets, new asset types, and new rights without re-factoring the other data, nodes, and edges. The system uses asset metadata to create edge relationships between the assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Beth Jackson, William C. Hurst, Chris Goodacre, Melissa Roberts, Lisa Seeto, Pedro Lopez, Jarrod Clift, Brant Boehmann, Dennis Killingsworth
  • Patent number: 11582534
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include: receiving, by a first computer server, content provider data and content item data; identifying a plurality of profile elements by applying machine learning techniques to the received content provider data and content item data; calculating a first plurality of profile element scores for the content provider in each of the plurality of profile elements and a second plurality of profile element scores for the plurality of content items in each of the plurality of profile elements; determining, by utilizing one or more distance algorithms, profile element vector distances between the first plurality of profile element scores for the content provider and the plurality of second profile element scores for the plurality of content items; ranking the plurality of content items based on the determined profile element vector distances; and generating an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) displaying a plurality of radar graphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Fredy Alexander Montano Pinilla, Paolo Miscia, Lina Roncancio
  • Patent number: 11196980
    Abstract: The invention includes systems and methods to provide a non-intrusive 360 view without a camera at the viewpoint. The invention processes video feeds from an array of cameras to track an object in the video feeds and generates an immersive media from the video feeds. The system identifies a primary object and tracks the primary object with an array of mounted sets of at least two cameras. Each of the sets including a camera directed at the object and another camera directed at a background of the object. The system then stitches the video feeds to generate the immersive media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Leon Vogelzang
  • Publication number: 20210176448
    Abstract: The invention includes systems and methods to provide a non-intrusive 360 view without a camera at the viewpoint. The invention processes video feeds from an array of cameras to track an object in the video feeds and generates an immersive media from the video feeds. The system identifies a primary object and tracks the primary object with an array of mounted sets of at least two cameras. Each of the sets including a camera directed at the object and another camera directed at a background of the object. The system then stitches the video feeds to generate the immersive media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Leon VOGELZANG
  • Patent number: 10878296
    Abstract: The invention relates to image processing systems, methods, and storage media for recognizing a scene type. The invention performs dynamic content analysis to extract features from an image and creates labels that include a text-based description of the items and the environment of the image. The invention then trains multiple predictive models and determines characterization labels for the image or scene. The invention can create multi-label classifications as well as multi-class classifiers. The text-based labels created by the invention extend generic classification labels into a domain-specific manner of defining and naming groups of images. The characterizing labels can be tagged to the image as metadata for further organization and consumption of the images or scenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Shane Murphy
  • Publication number: 20190362052
    Abstract: A central asset registry and associated satellite registries tie Digital Asset Management (DAM) repositories and satellite repositories into a unified enterprise system. The system removes rights and asset relationship tracking from the DAMs and the satellites by gathering asset metadata tags and capturing digital asset rights and relationships between assets to improve speed, scalability, and flexibility in analyzing and traversing networks of rights and relationships of digital assets. The central asset registry and the satellite registries use a pluggable architecture and track and store multi-dimensional relationships as an asset hierarchy. The asset hierarchy and rights model depicts rights and relationship data between the assets and provides a flexible array of asset types and properties for addition of new assets, new asset types, and new rights without re-factoring the other data, nodes, and edges. The system uses asset metadata to create edge relationships between the assets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: William C. HURST, Alex GARRISON, Alden HART, Beth JACKSON, Melissa ROBERTS, Brant BOEHMANN, Ramesh MENDU
  • Patent number: 10104409
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for segmenting television audience data are disclosed. The methods include receiving program level viewing data for one or more individuals. The methods also include creating one or more segments for the one or more individuals based upon the program level viewing data. The methods further include combining the one or more segments into one or more groups by applying a grouping function and performing analysis on the one or more groups, and generating reports based upon the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth Rockwood Fulton, David Ernst, Steve Ozzano
  • Publication number: 20140201638
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for previewing a recording. In one aspect, the methods and systems are configured to display a video recording/stream in a first viewing window on a display, receive a selection of a time within the video recording/stream at which to preview a portion of the video recording/stream, display a second viewing window on the display, and display the preview of the portion of the video recording/stream that corresponds to the selection within the second viewing window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Lee, Joel Fiser