Abstract: The processor is configured to: classify a first video content item including a first video file comprising video frames associated with timestamps and a first subtitle file comprising subtitle text associated with the timestamps, wherein the first video content item is classified with narrative classifiers by: executing a natural language processing (NLP) model with the first subtitle file as input, the NLP model including a dialogue analysis for identifying first narrative elements from dialogue included in the first subtitle file and associating the first narrative elements with first timestamps, executing an image recognition model with the first video file as input, the image recognition model including an object identification analysis for identifying second narrative elements from objects or persons portrayed in the video frames of the first video file and associating the second narrative elements with second timestamps, combining a first output of the NLP model with a second output of the image recogn
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 22, 2024
Date of Patent:
August 25, 2026
Assignee:
Paramount Global
Inventors:
Partha Sarathi Samal, Alexandr Popov, Behrang Zandi, Suresh Kumar Palus, Sai Kiran Padmam, Kamal Viola, Jonathan Ortiz
Abstract: Methods and systems are configured to deploy additional network computer resources in response to a predicted increase in streaming of one or more items of content. Searches related to an entity are monitored. A first baseline with a quantity of searches for the entity over given time periods is determined. A search peak is detected. A second baseline with respect to a quantity of searches for the entity after the detected spike. A determination is made as to whether the second baseline is greater than a threshold difference from the first baseline, and if so a change in interest that has occurred with respect to the entity is determined. In response to determining that the change in interest has occurred, a deployment of computer resources is performed, comprising a change in a number of streaming servers used to stream content related to the entity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2024
Date of Patent:
April 7, 2026
Assignee:
Paramount Global
Inventors:
Guanxi Shen, Xiaofei Wang, Jamal Salmon, Reeyaz Hamirani, Natalie LaBelle, Robert William Puttkammer
Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to implementing a mechanism that is configured to select and insert a video advertisement into a video stream that is to be provided to a user device by a streaming service. This may include receiving a request for a video stream from a user device. In response to the request, transmitting a first portion of the video stream to the user device and determining that second a portion of the video stream is to include multiple video advertisements. One or more video advertisements may be selected from a database that includes a set of video advertisements that were previously removed from a further video stream. The one or more video advertisements may then be inserted into the video stream. The second portion of the video stream is then transmitted to the user device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 25, 2024
Date of Patent:
December 30, 2025
Assignee:
Paramount Global
Inventors:
Spencer Shanson, Jonathan Gwiazda, Adrian Chiu, Nikolay Lebedev, Indira Ghosh