Patents Examined by Adil Ocak
  • Patent number: 12262095
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information presentation method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method comprising: during a process of a preset application presenting a multimedia stream, detecting that a preset reminding event is triggered; presenting first multimedia content, wherein the first multimedia content includes first preset prompt content; and in a case where a switching operation acting on the first multimedia content by a current user is received, forbidding switching to second multimedia content, displaying first copywriting information, and playing first voice information matched with the first copywriting information, wherein the second multimedia content is the next multimedia content in the multimedia stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiqiang Jiang, Qi Wang, Shuo Wang, Yao Guo, Lei Wang, Liyue Ji, Zifeng Zhao, Xiaofan Gao, Hao Wang, Shuqin Jia
  • Patent number: 12262149
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for transmitting medical imaging data across a transmission channel that may be bandwidth constrained. In one or more examples, the system and methods can include transmitting the medical imaging data across a channel using a first specification, and then changing the specification in response to a detected reduction in the available bandwidth of the channel. In one or more examples, the second specification can be based on the type of video data being transmitted. In one or more examples, the medical video data can be apportioned into a region of interest and a region of non-interest, and each region can be transmitted across the channel based on the available bandwidth of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: James Kenneth Alexanderson, Eric Alexander Hereford, Sean Victor Hastings
  • Patent number: 12255771
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of network communication technologies, and provides a packet processing method and device, an advertisement method and device, a bridge node, a source apparatus, a packet processing system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The packet processing method includes: receiving a time sensitive networking (TSN) service packet; querying, according to a packet header of the TSN service packet, a mapping table of service stream IDs and TSN-profiles, where the mapping table of service stream IDs and TSN-profiles is established according to advertisement information of a source apparatus; and processing the TSN service packet according to a result of the querying on the mapping table of service stream IDs and TSN-profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xiangyang Zhu
  • Patent number: 12250571
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing services are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving data having a first format and transmitting the data to a first device. The method may also comprise detecting a second device, automatically recognizing a supported second format of the detected second device, converting the data to the second format, and transmitting the converted data to the second device via wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Francisco
  • Patent number: 12250433
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device detects that playback of content has reached a respective playback position. In some embodiments, in response to detecting that the playback of the content has reached the respective playback position and in accordance with a determination that the respective playback position in the content is associated with respective augmented reality content corresponding to the content, an electronic device provides a notification corresponding to the respective augmented reality content wherein an input directed to the notification initiates a process for displaying of the respective augmented reality content. In some embodiments, in accordance with a determination that the respective playback position in the content is not associated with the respective augmented reality content, an electronic device forgoes providing the notification corresponding to the respective augmented reality content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Tommy Payne
  • Patent number: 12244894
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect a presence status. An example apparatus includes media identification circuitry to generate first signatures representative of first audio data associated with a monitored media device, a comparator to obtain second signatures from a portable meter, the second signatures representative of second audio data sensed by the portable meter and compare the first signatures and the second signatures to determine a comparison result, presence detection circuitry to determine a presence status of a user based on the comparison result, the user associated with the portable meter, and network communication circuitry to transmit the presence status to a data processor to perform audience measurement based on the presence status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Meryem Berrada, Ronny Lerch, John Stavropoulos, Alexander Topchy, John Zoldos
  • Patent number: 12238350
    Abstract: Methods and systems for calculating, storing, and allowing electronic searches for metadata associated with media titles. The metadata includes scores specific to each actor and each genre of a media title, where the scores indicate the degree to which an actor's performance in that title corresponds to a particular genre. Electronic searches for particular actors' performance in a specific genre thus return more accurate results that more correctly reflect how well the actors' performances reflect that genre.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Anil Aher, Aman Puniyani
  • Patent number: 12238379
    Abstract: Determining a distribution of digital content using information associated with the submission of questions, answers and ratings to optimize user participation and content distribution. Users can create and submit content including questions and answers for distribution to other users. The system uses information including whether or not answers provided by a user are accepted by other users and the alignment of a user's ratings with the ratings provided by other users for the same answers to determine how widely to distribute the content submitted by an individual user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: Andrew Zdenek
  • Patent number: 12212813
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for characterizing joint attention. A method includes dynamically obtaining video streams of participants; dynamically obtaining gaze streams; dynamically providing a cue to the participants to view the object; dynamically detecting a joint gaze based on the gaze streams focusing on the object over a time interval; and dynamically providing feedback based on detecting the joint gaze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Leanne Chukoskie, Pamela Cosman, Pranav Venuprasad, Anurag Paul, Tushar Dobhal, Tu Nguyen, Andrew Gilman
  • Patent number: 12212815
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for providing a storyline based media content. At least two storylines may be identified, each storyline specifying an order of providing a plurality of episodes from a plurality of interrelated series. Identifiers of the plurality of episodes are displayed. Then identifiers of a first set of the plurality of episodes that are relevant to the first storyline are graphically modified to indicate relevance to the first storyline. Identifiers of a second set of the plurality of episodes that are relevant to the second storyline are also graphically modified to indicate relevance to the second storyline. A first and second storyline identifier are generating for display to enable storyline selection. The interrelated series are then provided to a user device in the order specified by the selected storyline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.
    Inventors: Rowena Young, Sang Mo Kim, Edison Lin, Milan Patel
  • Patent number: 12206959
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to signaling multiple media data types in a container file format, for example, ISOBMFF, in an efficient manner. In the context of a signaling method, media type definitions overloaded in an instance a plurality of media type definitions is present in compatible media type list, wherein a media type definition is associated with a media type. The method then indicates, using the compatible media type list, presence of a plurality of media types in a metadata or multimedia box. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Emre Aksu, Miska Hannuksela, Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar
  • Patent number: 12200319
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement flexible commercial monitoring for television audience measurement are disclosed. Example television audience measurement systems disclosed herein include a flexible commercial detector to detect whether a first watermark decoded from a television program broadcast signal is a bridge watermark that indicates a portion of the television broadcast signal including the bridge watermark is associated with a flexible commercial insertion event, the flexible commercial insertion event corresponding to insertion of a flexible commercial in the portion of the television broadcast signal. Disclosed example television audience measurement systems also include a commercial metric calculator to credit audience exposure associated with the portion of the television broadcast signal to a flexible commercial crediting metric in response to a determination that the first watermark is the bridge watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Brian Fuhrer, Marie Kramer
  • Patent number: 12200277
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method sends a set of first requests for a set of first segments of a video in a playback session. A first protocol from a plurality of protocols is specified in at least one of the set of first requests. The set of first segments is received. The method determines whether to switch from using the first protocol to a second protocol in the playback session based on receiving the set of first segments. When switching to the second protocol, the method sends a second request in the playback session, wherein the second request indicates the second protocol is to be used to send a second segment of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Tongyu Dai, Lan Xie, Wenhao Zhang, Deliang Fu, Chao Li, Qiang She, Yuting Gui, Yicheng Liu, Yanping Zhou, Xizhi Xu
  • Patent number: 12192549
    Abstract: A computer system provides a method for delivering a video stream to a viewer and delivering, in synchrony with the video stream, social media content created during the current and previous viewings of the video stream by first-time viewers of the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ESW Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Aslam Khader, Larry Alan Westerman
  • Patent number: 12191987
    Abstract: Technologies for dynamically managing resources in disaggregated accelerators include an accelerator. The accelerator includes acceleration circuitry with multiple logic portions, each capable of executing a different workload. Additionally, the accelerator includes communication circuitry to receive a workload to be executed by a logic portion of the accelerator and a dynamic resource allocation logic unit to identify a resource utilization threshold associated with one or more shared resources of the accelerator to be used by a logic portion in the execution of the workload, limit, as a function of the resource utilization threshold, the utilization of the one or more shared resources by the logic portion as the logic portion executes the workload, and subsequently adjust the resource utilization threshold as the workload is executed. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Susanne M. Balle, Rahul Khanna, Sujoy Sen, Karthik Kumar
  • Patent number: 12184940
    Abstract: This application provides a bullet-screen comment display method. The method includes: obtaining a bullet-screen comment list corresponding to a media resource based on a playback request of the media resource; determining a target bullet-screen comment quantity of the media resource in each unit of time based on a release time of a target bullet-screen comment in the bullet-screen comment list; calculating a wave peak moment of the target bullet-screen comment based on the target bullet-screen comment quantity in each unit of time; processing the target bullet-screen comment in the bullet-screen comment list based on the wave peak moment; and in response to determining that the media resource is played, returning a processed bullet-screen comment list to display a bullet-screen comment in the processed bullet-screen comment list in a playback process of the media resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zixun Yu, Yicong Mei, Guojia Chen
  • Patent number: 12184920
    Abstract: A video distributing device configured to provide a service readily enabling bidirectional communication between distributors that distribute live broadcast video content and viewers thereof and enliven the video content including: a first acquiring part that acquires real time video data supplied from a terminal; a second acquiring part that acquires input information containing communication image information selected terminal operations; and a distributing part that distributes video data for distribution containing communication image data and real time video data to viewer terminals and a distributor terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hosoda, Naoya Matsunaga, Ayaka Ujiie
  • Patent number: 12177532
    Abstract: The current invention relates to a computer-generated method for optimizing placement of advertising content across multiple different devices. The system permits targeting of advertising content to consumers on TV and mobile devices that can be operated from within a multi-channel video programming distributor's environment. The system is able to use hard and soft constraints to come up with a number of possible targets for an advertising campaign and can then provide tools for optimizing those targets. The system can allocate advertising campaigns and plans to various inventory types based on the probability of accurate consumer matching. Consumer matching can be achieved by generation of look-alike models in a consumer's device graph to predict future consumption behavior. The system includes an interface through which a user can adjust various constraints and optimize a distributor's revenue yield from advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: VIDEOAMP, INC.
    Inventors: Debajyoti Ray, Ross McCray, David Gullo, Jay Prasad
  • Patent number: 12167110
    Abstract: A method and apparatus may be provided for signaling auxiliary media content over a (DASH) media stream. The method may include receiving one or more auxiliary descriptors, wherein a respective auxiliary descriptor among the one or more auxiliary descriptors includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) referencing one or more auxiliary media presentation descriptions (MPDs) and a stack mode value indicating a stack operation supported by a main DASH media stream. The method may also include retrieving one or more auxiliary media segments based on the URL referenced in the respective auxiliary descriptors among the one or more auxiliary descriptors, and playing the one or more auxiliary media segments and the one or more main DASH media segments from a media source extension (MSE) source buffer at least once in at least one order based on the one or more auxiliary descriptors and the stack mode value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: Iraj Sodagar
  • Patent number: 12155709
    Abstract: Establishing a data store of content metadata includes receiving, from a content player executing on a client device, an indication of content played by the content player, the indication comprising one or more pieces of metadata associated with the content. It further includes selecting a set of one or more rules applicable to parsing the metadata associated with the content. It further includes processing the metadata at least in part by applying the selected parsing rules to at least a portion of the metadata associated with the content. It further includes storing, to a data store, at least some of the processed metadata associated with the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Conviva Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Sun, Lei Cao, Ningning Hu