Patents Assigned to Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20260181197
    Abstract: A system comprises a processor and memory including instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate, based on a request from a first destination device, first video content based on programming guide data specific to a property comprising a plurality of destination devices connected to a first network, receive second video content from a content provider over a second network different than the first network, combine the first video content and the second video content to yield IPG content that enables simultaneous display of the first video content within a first window on a display and the second video content within a second window on the display, and send the IPG content to the first destination device via the first network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2025
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Aasen, Joshua H. Pulford, Shaun Eugene Marko
  • Patent number: 12627854
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting and delivering content are provided. More particularly, content can be delivered to an output device from a user device through a device adaptor, such as an over-the-top (OTT) device. The OTT device or devices available to the user device are determined by a communication server. In particular, the OTT device or devices available to the user device are limited to those OTT devices associated with an output device in the user's room, or that the user is otherwise authorized to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Shaun Eugene Marko, Chad J. Schroeder, Andy Loren Anderson, Christopher Paul Wollmann
  • Publication number: 20250373906
    Abstract: A system for a hospitality environment includes a plurality of destination devices and a first routing device in communication with the plurality of destination devices. The first routing device may receive a request for a content stream from a first destination device of the plurality of destination devices, and determine whether the content stream is currently being provided by the first routing device to a second destination device of the plurality of destination devices. When the content stream is currently being provided by the first routing device to the second destination device, the first routing device sends the content stream to the first destination device and the second destination device, and when the content stream is not currently being provided by the first routing device to the second destination device, the first routing device forwards the request for the content stream to a first network element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Applicant: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Leon P. Stoel, Joshua H. Pulford, Eric Aasen, Kara Heermans
  • Publication number: 20250311031
    Abstract: A server may generate a unique identifier based on a request from an output device to pair a user device with the output device, send a first message comprising the unique identifier to the output device, receive, from the user device, a second message comprising the unique identifier, and generate and send a third message to the output device that enables the output device to pair with the user device such that the user device is enabled to control the output device over a local area network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicant: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua H. Pulford, Kara Heermans, Darin Johnson, Eric Aasen
  • Patent number: 12323658
    Abstract: A system for real time audience measurement includes a display, an endpoint device coupled to the display, and a central controller configured to generate a first message that flags a channel of interest from among a plurality of channels that provide content for displaying on the display. The central controller is configured to send the first message to the endpoint device to flag the channel of interest at the endpoint device, determine that the display is tuned to the channel of interest, and generate and send viewership data for the channel of interest to a first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Aasen, Joshua H. Pulford, Leon P. Stoel
  • Publication number: 20240422383
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting and delivering content are provided. More particularly, content can be delivered to an output device from a user device through a device adaptor, such as an over-the-top (OTT) device. The OTT device or devices available to the user device are determined by a communication server. In particular, the OTT device or devices available to the user device are limited to those OTT devices associated with an output device in the user's room, or that the user is otherwise authorized to access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Shaun Eugene Marko, Chad J. Schroeder, Andy Loren Anderson, Christopher Paul Wollmann
  • Patent number: 12101527
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting and delivering content are provided. More particularly, content can be delivered to an output device from a user device through a device adaptor, such as an over-the-top (OTT) device. The OTT device or devices available to the user device are determined by a communication server. In particular, the OTT device or devices available to the user device are limited to those OTT devices associated with an output device in the user's room, or that the user is otherwise authorized to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONIFI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Shaun Eugene Marko, Chad J. Schroeder, Andy Loren Anderson, Christopher Paul Wollmann
  • Patent number: 12088405
    Abstract: A system includes a host device to provide a content signal, an end device to receive the content signal, and a branch of amplifiers connected between the host device and the end device to carry the content signal from the host device to the end device. The host device may receive a first signal from the branch of amplifiers connected to the end device, and extract, from the first signal, first characteristics of the content signal measured at one or more points in the branch of amplifiers. The host device may compare the first characteristics of the content signal to second characteristics. The host device may determine, based on the comparison, adjustments for one or more settings of a first amplifier of the amplifiers, and send a second signal to the branch of amplifiers to communicate the adjustments for the one or more settings to the first amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SONIFI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Aasen, Joshua H. Pulford, Leon P. Stoel
  • Patent number: 12063406
    Abstract: Methods and systems for routing key commands received from a remote-control device are provided. The method and/or system may include receiving, at a device, a key command from the remote-control device, generating a first message that includes the key command, sending, from the device, the first message to a keystroke router, and determining, at the keystroke router, a system network controller associated with the device. Moreover, the keystroke router may send the key command to the system network controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONIFI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Christopher Paul Wollmann, Shaun Eugene Marko, Daniel A. Dirks, Joshua H. Pulford
  • Publication number: 20240064372
    Abstract: A system for real time audience measurement includes a display, an endpoint device coupled to the display, and a central controller configured to generate a first message that flags a channel of interest from among a plurality of channels that provide content for displaying on the display. The central controller is configured to send the first message to the endpoint device to flag the channel of interest at the endpoint device, determine that the display is tuned to the channel of interest, and generate and send viewership data for the channel of interest to a first entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Aasen, Joshua H. Pulford, Leon P. Stoel
  • Publication number: 20230269420
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting and delivering content are provided. More particularly, content can be delivered to an output device from a user device through a device adaptor, such as an over-the-top (OTT) device. The OTT device or devices available to the user device are determined by a communication server. In particular, the OTT device or devices available to the user device are limited to those OTT devices associated with an output device in the user's room, or that the user is otherwise authorized to access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Shaun Eugene Marko, Chad J. Schroeder, Andy Loren Anderson, Christopher Paul Wollmann
  • Publication number: 20230217056
    Abstract: Methods and systems for routing key commands received from a remote-control device are provided. The method and/or system may include receiving, at a device, a key command from the remote-control device, generating a first message that includes the key command, sending, from the device, the first message to a keystroke router, and determining, at the keystroke router, a system network controller associated with the device. Moreover, the keystroke router may send the key command to the system network controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: SONIFI Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Christopher Paul Wollmann, Shaun Eugene Marko, Daniel A. Dirks, Joshua H. Pulford
  • Patent number: 11671651
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting and delivering content are provided. More particularly, content can be delivered to an output device from a user device through a device adaptor, such as an over-the-top (OTT) device. The OTT device or devices available to the user device are determined by a communication server. In particular, the OTT device or devices available to the user device are limited to those OTT devices associated with an output device in the user's room, or that the user is otherwise authorized to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SONIFI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Shaun Eugene Marko, Chad J. Schroeder, Andy Loren Anderson, Christopher Paul Wollmann
  • Patent number: 11641502
    Abstract: Methods and systems for routing key commands received from a remote-control device are provided. The method and/or system may include receiving, at a device, a key command from the remote-control device, generating a first message that includes the key command, sending, from the device, the first message to a keystroke router, and determining, at the keystroke router, a system network controller associated with the device. Moreover, the keystroke router may send the key command to the system network controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SONIFI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Christopher Paul Wollmann, Shaun Eugene Marko, Daniel A. Dirks, Joshua H. Pulford
  • Publication number: 20220224973
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting and delivering content are provided. More particularly, content can be delivered to an output device from a user device through a device adaptor, such as an over-the-top (OTT) device. The OTT device or devices available to the user device are determined by a communication server. In particular, the OTT device or devices available to the user device are limited to those OTT devices associated with an output device in the user's room, or that the user is otherwise authorized to access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Shaun Eugene Marko, Chad J. Schroeder, Andy Loren Anderson, Christopher Paul Wollman
  • Patent number: 11330326
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting and delivering content are provided. More particularly, content can be delivered to an output device from a user device through a device adaptor, such as an over-the-top (OTT) device. The OTT device or devices available to the user device are determined by a communication server. In particular, the OTT device or devices available to the user device are limited to those OTT devices associated with an output device in the user's room, or that the user is otherwise authorized to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Shaun Eugene Marko, Chad J. Schroeder, Andy Loren Anderson, Christopher Paul Wollman
  • Publication number: 20220038763
    Abstract: Methods and systems for routing key commands received from a remote-control device are provided. The method and/or system may include receiving, at a device, a key command from the remote-control device, generating a first message that includes the key command, sending, from the device, the first message to a keystroke router, and determining, at the keystroke router, a system network controller associated with the device. Moreover, the keystroke router may send the key command to the system network controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: SONIFI Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Christopher Paul Wollmann, Shaun Eugene Marko, Daniel A. Dirks, Joshua H. Pulford
  • Patent number: 11159259
    Abstract: A system includes a host device to provide a content signal, an end device to receive the content signal, and a branch of amplifiers connected between the host device and the end device to carry the content signal from the host device to the end device. The host device may receive a first signal from the branch of amplifiers connected to the end device, and extract, from the first signal, first characteristics of the content signal measured at one or more points in the branch of amplifiers. The host device may compare the first characteristics of the content signal to second characteristics. The host device may determine, based on the comparison, adjustments for one or more settings of a first amplifier of the amplifiers, and send a second signal to the branch of amplifiers to communicate the adjustments for the one or more settings to the first amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Sonifi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Aasen, Joshua H. Pulford, Leon P. Stoel
  • Patent number: 11122318
    Abstract: Methods and systems for routing key commands received from a remote-control device are provided. The method and/or system may include receiving, at a device, a key command from the remote-control device, generating a first message that includes the key command, sending, from the device, the first message to a keystroke router, and determining, at the keystroke router, a system network controller associated with the device. Moreover, the keystroke router may send the key command to the system network controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SONIFI Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Derin Michael Zerr, Joel Walter Zdepski, Christopher Paul Wollmann, Shaun Eugene Marko, Daniel A. Dirks, Joshua H. Pulford
  • Patent number: 11039220
    Abstract: Systems and methods for obtaining network diagnostic information within a hospitality environment are provided. More specifically, application identification information may be received at a diagnostic device, based on the application identification information, a diagnostic application may be received, site configuration may be obtained, the diagnostic application may be configured with the site configuration information, and network diagnostic information may be obtained. The network diagnostic information may then be provided to a remote monitoring server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SONIFI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Christopher Zerfas, Joel Walter Zdepski, Christopher Paul Wollmann, Shaun Eugene Marko, Derin Michael Zerr