Patents Examined by Jason Salce
  • Patent number: 11343581
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for allowing a mobile device to dynamically obtain program guide data. A mobile device having the capability of playing media streams is configurable to dynamically request program guide structure information followed by program guide content information. In one example, the program guide structure information allows a user to begin navigating the program guide data in an active and dynamic manner. Program guide content information including data such as program titles, times, icons, and links are then downloaded and displayed as needed. Potentially limitless amounts of program guide data can be provided on a mobile device. Program guide content information can be provided in a generic manner while allowing user layout customization. Program guide information can also be preemptively provided to a mobile device based on a variety of criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TiVo Corporation
    Inventors: Gavin Peacock, James Roseborough, David Lowell, Aravind Nallan, Ian Farmer
  • Patent number: 11323781
    Abstract: Approaches are described for providing quality of experience (QoE) driven in-transport communications services. For example, in-transit communications services are provided over a network to content consumption devices on one or more transport craft. During a measurement window, delivery of the in-transit communications services can be measured to obtain network-level delivery (NLD) measurements, and consumption of the in-transit communications services by one or more of the content consumption devices can be measured to obtain customer-level consumption (CLC) measurements. The NLD and CLC measurements can be used to compute a QoE score that indicates a delivered quality of service as perceived by one or more passengers of the one or more transport craft. The QoE score can be used to update stored service level data. The update can cause generation of one or more service level triggers, which can trigger automatic remedial action to address QoE-related conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: VIASAT, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew D. Tirella, Gina C. Tuazon-Ayache, Shreyas S. Vidyarthi, Nobuo Fukaya, Kevin B. Rennie
  • Patent number: 11305188
    Abstract: Methods for and operating a service and systems are provided. One method includes executing one or more video games on one or more servers of a service. The one or more video games are played or used by one or more users on one or more client devices remote to the service via compressed streaming interactive video. The compressed streaming interactive video is sent to the one or more client devices where decompression of the compressed streaming interactive video is preformed to display video of each of said one or more video games and said one or more servers are configured to receive user control input to driver interactivity with said one or more video games. The method includes broadcasting the one or more video games as one or more streams of compressed streaming interactive video to enable one or more viewing client devices to view said one or more video games over the Internet. Each of the one or more viewing client devices receives one or more of the streams of compressed streaming interactive video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Roger van der Laan
  • Patent number: 11310545
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed toward providing a customized over-the-air channel mapping to each content receiver in a geographical area based on crowdsourced mappings of available channels from at least a subset of the content receivers in that geographical area. When a new content receiver is installed in the geographical area, the customized over-the-air channel mapping is provided to the new content receiver and used by the new content receiver as its internal list of available over-the-air channels without performing a scan of its own. At least a portion of the content receivers in the geographical area perform a round-robin-type scan to identify new or missing channels in the geographical area. The customized over-the-air channel mapping is then updated when a new channel or missing channel threshold is reached. And the updated customized over-the-air channel mapping is provided to each content receiver in the geographical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SLING MEDIA PVT. LTD.
    Inventors: Preetham Kotian, Jayaprakash Ramaraj
  • Patent number: 11310559
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for recommending a video. A specific implementation of the method includes: finding a recommended video corresponding to a target video from all candidate videos based on similarities of content characteristics of the videos, the target video being a video to be played on a terminal of a user; and sending play information of the recommended video corresponding to the target video to the terminal of the user. The method finds a video similar on video content to the target video that the user desires to view based on the content characteristic of the video, and recommends the video similar on video content to the target video that the user desires to view to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hang Jiang, Minghao Liu, Yang Liang, Shuangshuang Qiao, Siyu An, Kaihua Song, Xiangyue Lin, Hua Chai, Faen Zhang, Jiangliang Guo, Jingbo Huang, Xu Li, Jin Tang, Shiming Yin
  • Patent number: 11303941
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention simplifies management of the “video lifecycle”. An embodiment includes one of more modules that streamline the video publishing process by abstracting technical steps such as video publishing, updating video, unpublishing video, retrieval or statistics concerning video, authorization to process video, validation of video, video metadata processing, video transcoding, and/or video transmission. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: USTUDIO, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua P. Marshall, Jennifer L. Grogono
  • Patent number: 11303943
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for containerizing and adapting content items for delivery in a packet stream from a content provider system via one or more networks to an endpoint media device are disclosed. A content composite may be created for delivery in a packet stream from a content provider system to an endpoint media device. A containerization object may be configured with a container flag that indicates a content item and containerization specifications to facilitate performance of operations by the endpoint media device with respect to the content item. The content composite may be transmitted in accordance with composite transmission specifications. The endpoint media device may perform the operations facilitated by the containerization object of the content composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
    Inventor: Kate Megan Carney Landow
  • Patent number: 11297391
    Abstract: Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for broadcasting social media sessions via an entertainment platform, such as a broadcast television network. More specifically, the technologies described herein relate to broadcasting interaction sessions involving a host (also referred to as a “communicator”) and one or more participants. An entertainment platform may contact the host or another person associated with the host, such as an agent, manager, family member, or friend, to seek permission to broadcast the session to its audience. An example of an entertainment platform is a broadcast television network. The host then closes a deal with the entertainment platform, whereby the entertainment platform has the rights to simulcast the session to its television viewers in real time, replay the session to its television viewers at later times, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: VYU LABS, INC.
    Inventor: Srinivasa M. Dharmaji
  • Patent number: 11284161
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and device for loading an electronic program guide (EPG), and a storage medium. The device determines a first area where a focus is located on a display interface of an EPG, where the first area is one of multiple functional display areas of the EPG. The device determines whether a focus cross-area jump condition is satisfied in response to detecting a moving instruction for moving the focus on the display interface of the EPG. The device limits the focus to move within the first area in response to determining that the focus cross-area jump condition is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenju Song
  • Patent number: 11277663
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a network server, a data package from a user mobile device, the data package comprising real-time survey user input associated with watching a video program and survey audio from the video program, the survey audio being recorded via a microphone of the user mobile device during the real-time survey, receiving an audio file associated with the video program, comparing the audio file with the survey audio to yield a comparison, aligning, based on the comparison, the survey audio with the audio file to yield an modified data package and providing the modified data package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MERCURY ANALYTICS, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Brickner, Matthew Thomas Williams, Peter Viss, Ivan Vican
  • Patent number: 11272263
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus including: at least one communicator configured to communicate with a first external apparatus and a second external apparatus; and a processor configured to receive a request for writing a file on the second external apparatus from the first external apparatus, receive the file from the first external apparatus based on a filename format of the file, writing of which is permitted, and make the received file be selectively stored in the second external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-yang Mok, Nam-Jae Jeon, Hak-bong Lee
  • Patent number: 11218777
    Abstract: A method for processing bullet screen, comprising: acquiring bullet screen information and tag information of an account of a user watching a target multimedia content, the bullet screen information including a bullet screen content, and the tag information being configured to identify a type of the account; and determining, based on a matching result between the tag information and the bullet screen information, whether to display the bullet screen content in the bullet screen information while displaying the target multimedia content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zijun Liu
  • Patent number: 11190821
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for alerting users to media events of interest using social media analysis are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes collecting user media preferences indicating events of interest to a given user; buffering at least a portion of media content associated with the collected user media preferences of the given user; monitoring social media for one or more events of interest to the given user based on the collected user media preferences of the given user; identifying at least one event that satisfies one or more predefined interest criteria for the given user based on the monitored social media contributions of other parties and the collected user media preferences of the given user; and notifying the given user of the at least one event of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel W. Branch, Shang Q. Guo, Jonathan Lenchner, Maharaj Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11172164
    Abstract: During output of a primary media stream from a cable, satellite, television, radio or internet source, a condition, signal or indication of a commercial break is detected causing a context switch to occur and enabling other services, programming or devices to intervene during the commercial break and causing an alternative output to be produced by a process or device. When the commercial break is over, the system may optionally rejoin with the primary media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski, Riley R. Russell
  • Patent number: 11172268
    Abstract: A method for providing a broadcast service is provided. The method includes transmitting a user datagram protocol (UDP)/internet protocol (IP) packet including a first message, the first message containing information about a message to be signed and transmitted, and transmitting a moving picture experts group (MPEG) media transport protocol (MMTP) packet including a second message, the second message containing information about the broadcast service and information indicating whether the information about the broadcast service is signed. The first message includes an identifier of a key used to verify a signature of the message to be transmitted and signed and an identifier of a hash algorithm used to calculate a hash value of the message to be transmitted and signed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Koo Yang, Dong-Yeon Kim, Kyung-Mo Park, Jae-Hyeon Bae, Young-Wan So
  • Patent number: 11166069
    Abstract: Described are techniques for video conversion for accessibility including a technique comprising determining, using data from at least one camera, that a user is distracted based on a direction of gaze of the user with respect to a display device presenting video content. The technique further comprises converting, by a machine learning model, the video content to audio content in response to determining the user is distracted, wherein the audio content comprises a description of the video content. The technique further comprises outputting, using at least one speaker, the audio content to the user while the user is distracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli
  • Patent number: 11166068
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a communication network, a plurality of requests for frames of video content to provide to a mobile device. Further embodiments can include determining a first portion of the plurality of requests are for pre-fetch frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the pre-fetch frames to the mobile device over a default bearer path. Additional embodiments can include determining a second portion of the plurality of requests are for emergent frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the emergent frames to the mobile device over a dedicated bearer path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhehui Zhang, Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Varun Gupta
  • Patent number: 11166050
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first group of video content streams of an event, determining a first point of view of a plurality of audience members of the event, and selecting a first portion of the first group of video content streams of the event according to the first point of view of the plurality of audience members. Further aspects can include aggregating the first portion of the first group of video content streams resulting in first aggregated video content, generating first augmented reality content from the first aggregated video content according to the first point of view, and providing the first augmented reality content to a communication device. The communication device can present the first augmented reality content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Paiement, Lee Begeja, David Crawford Gibbon, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11153626
    Abstract: Techniques for transforming a fragment media player into an access unit media player are described. As one example, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a play request for access units of media from a front end media player by a rendering engine, receiving the access units of media from the front end media player by a sample stream component of a fragment media player; storing the access units of media in a sample queue of the sample stream component, storing respective metadata for the access units in a metadata queue of the sample stream component, sending pulling the access units and the respective metadata by a renderer of the fragment media player based on the play request, and rendering the access units and the respective metadata with the renderer of the fragment media player to generate rendered media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmoud Bahaa, Daniel Roy Cattlin, Maximiliano Garrone Ten Brink, Ihsan Mert Ozcelik
  • Patent number: 11153647
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating for display depictions of tournament-style competitions restricting user's access to any content that may spoil the results of the tournament. A user may request to view a display that contains a tournament and participating competitors. Requests may be received from users to view recordings of tournament competitions or a results display with the tournament bracket displayed. The media guidance application may access recorded versions of competitions from internal and external directories. Furthermore, the media guidance application may compare user viewing progress data and competitor progress data to ensure the user does not prematurely view results of any competitions of interest to the user. If the media guidance application determines a user's progress is less than the progress of the user's favorite team, visual representations of the competitions that may spoil the outcome of the user's favorite team's competition may be blacked out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Milan Indu Patel