Patents Assigned to Mux, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11653040
    Abstract: A method for streaming an audio-video file can include: receiving a request for a playback segment of the audio-video file in a rendition from a computational device; in response to identifying absence of the playback segment in the rendition from a rendition cache and identifying absence of an assignment to transcode the playback segment in the rendition: assigning a worker to transcode the playback segment in the rendition. The method can also include, at the worker: identifying a subset of mezzanine segments in the set of mezzanine segments coinciding with a playback interval in the audio-video file; and for each mezzanine segment in the subset of mezzanine segments: concurrently transcoding the mezzanine segment into a rendition segment in the rendition and transmitting the rendition segment coinciding with the playback interval to the computational device via a peer-to-peer stream; and storing the rendition segment in the rendition cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Dahl, Adam Brown, Nick Chadwick, Matt Ward, Scott Kidder
  • Patent number: 11641496
    Abstract: A method including: ingesting a video segment and a set of video features of the video segment; estimating a part size distribution for the video segment based on the set of video features and a first rendition of the video segment; calculating a maximum expected part size based on a threshold percentile in the part size distribution; at a first time, transmitting, to an video player, a manifest file indicating a set of byterange-addressable parts of the video segment in the first rendition, each byterange addressed part characterized by the maximum expected part size; at a second time, receiving, a playback request for a first byterange-addressable part; transcoding the first byterange-addressable part; in response to the maximum expected part size exceeding a size of the first byterange-addressable part in the first rendition, appending padding data to the first byterange-addressable part; and transmitting the first byterange-addressable part to the AV player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Nick Chadwick, Matthew Szatmary, Adam Brown
  • Patent number: 11570490
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving a script configured to modify the audio-video file; calculating a performance metric based on execution of the script on a set of test files; classifying the script as performant based on the performance metric; defining a metadata store associated with the script and the audio-video file; receiving a playback request specifying a rendition of the audio-video file from a computational device; in response to receiving the playback request: accessing a set of data inputs from the metadata store; executing the script on a frame of the audio-video file based on the set of data inputs to generate a modified frame of the audio-video file; transcoding the modified frame of the audio-video file into the rendition to generate an output frame of the audio-video file; and transmitting the output frame of the audio-video file to the computational device for playback at the computational device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Szatmary, Adam Brown, Jon Dahl, Matthew Ward, Nicholas Chadwick
  • Patent number: 11570497
    Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
  • Patent number: 11425435
    Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
  • Patent number: 11343492
    Abstract: A method including: extracting a set of video features representing properties of a video segment; generating a set of bitrate-resolution pairs based on the set of video features, each bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs defining a bitrate and defining a resolution estimated to maximize a quality score characterizing the video segment encoded at the bitrate; accessing a distribution of audience bandwidths; selecting a top bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs; selecting a bottom bitrate-resolution pair in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs; selecting a subset of bitrate-resolution pairs in the set of bitrate-resolution pairs based on the distribution of audience bandwidths, the subset of bitrate-resolution pairs defining bitrates less than the top bitrate and greater than the bottom bitrate; and generating an encoding ladder for the video segment comprising the top bitrate-resolution pair, the bottom bitrate-resolution pair, and the subset of bitrate-resolu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Nick Chadwick, Adam Brown, Jon Dahl, Masroor Hasan, Ben Dodson
  • Publication number: 20210400323
    Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
  • Patent number: 11140428
    Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
  • Publication number: 20200404351
    Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Hellernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diel
  • Patent number: 10798434
    Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl