Patents by Inventor Ankur Mukerji

Ankur Mukerji has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210377245
    Abstract: A method includes selecting, at a content management computer, a particular content source of a plurality of content sources for media content associated with a media content item requested by a first media device. The particular content source is selected based on a network topology of an access network. The method includes sending a first instruction to the particular content source from the content management computer. The first instruction causes the particular content source to send the media content to the first media device. The method includes, after sending the first instruction, receiving, at the content management computer, a request for the media content item from a second media device. The method also includes sending a second instruction from the content management computer to the first media device. The second instruction causes the first media device to send the media content to the second media device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Charles V. Scott
  • Patent number: 11122025
    Abstract: A method includes selecting, at a content management computer, a particular content source of a plurality of content sources for media content associated with a media content item requested by a first media device. The particular content source is selected based on a network topology of an access network. The method includes sending a first instruction to the particular content source from the content management computer. The first instruction causes the particular content source to send the media content to the first media device. The method includes, after sending the first instruction, receiving, at the content management computer, a request for the media content item from a second media device. The method also includes sending a second instruction from the content management computer to the first media device. The second instruction causes the first media device to send the media content to the second media device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Charles Scott
  • Patent number: 10455285
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a device having a controller to create metadata corresponding to an identity of an entity, incorporate in a media file the metadata that identifies the entity with metadata that describes media content in the media file, and present a graphical user interface depicting a media file directory structure generated according to the metadata that identifies the entity and the metadata that describes media content in the media file. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott White, James Cansler, Ankur Mukerji
  • Publication number: 20190260727
    Abstract: A method includes selecting, at a content management computer, a particular content source of a plurality of content sources for media content associated with a media content item requested by a first media device. The particular content source is selected based on a network topology of an access network. The method includes sending a first instruction to the particular content source from the content management computer. The first instruction causes the particular content source to send the media content to the first media device. The method includes, after sending the first instruction, receiving, at the content management computer, a request for the media content item from a second media device. The method also includes sending a second instruction from the content management computer to the first media device. The second instruction causes the first media device to send the media content to the second media device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Charles Scott
  • Patent number: 10326747
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a set-top box device, data that indicates selected media content from a list of available media content. The method includes locating one or more content sources for the selected media content. The method includes selecting a particular content source from the one or more content sources. The method includes locating an access rules source for the selected media content. The method includes instructing the particular content source to send the selected media content to the set-top box device. The method also includes instructing the access rules source to send an access rule associated with the selected media content to the set-top box device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Charles Scott
  • Patent number: 10112109
    Abstract: Systems provide shared multimedia content to a plurality of members of a collaboration group, request input related to the multimedia content from a portion of the plurality of members, modify the shared multimedia content to include an indication of a portion of the input, and provide the modified shared multimedia content to the plurality of members. The shared multimedia content may include a television program, a movie, or a real-time event. The requested input may include a prediction or a trivia answer related to the shared multimedia content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles Varnon Scott, Ankur Mukerji, Scott Anthony White
  • Patent number: 10108804
    Abstract: An administrator controls viewer access to restricted multimedia programs using electronic permission slips. In response to a viewer's request to view a restricted multimedia program, the viewer may initiate the generation of an electronic permission slip that is sent to an electronic device associated with the administrator. The electronic permission slip may include text-based information, graphical information, audio information, and the like. The electronic permission slip may enable input of permission data regarding whether the viewer is allowed to receive the blocked program. In response to the administrator granting permission, a service provider network allows the viewer to access the restricted multimedia program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles Varnon Scott, James Leonard Cansler, Ankur Mukerji, Scott Anthony White
  • Patent number: 9788037
    Abstract: A system for presenting media programming guides is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor can have a controller to transmit to a media source a request to access media content of a personal television (TV) channel composed by a subscriber of a media communication system according to one or more graphical user interface (GUI) templates that define a plurality of segments of a presentation area of the personal TV channel and one or more modules that arrange media content of the subscriber in the plurality of segments of a select one of the plurality of GUI templates. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Charles V. Scott, Scott White
  • Patent number: 9552594
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller that receives media content from a subscriber of a media communication system, receive marketing content from a marketing information source, and present the media content and the marketing content in a personal TV channel. The media content is presented in a first region of a two-dimensional, segmented display configuration, with the media content presented in a first region and the marketing content presented in a second region of the segmented display configuration. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Charles V. Scott, Scott White
  • Publication number: 20160269782
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a device having a controller to create metadata corresponding to an identity of an entity, incorporate in a media file the metadata that identifies the entity with metadata that describes media content in the media file, and present a graphical user interface depicting a media file directory structure generated according to the metadata that identifies the entity and the metadata that describes media content in the media file. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: SCOTT WHITE, JAMES CANSLER, ANKUR MUKERJI
  • Patent number: 9378771
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a device having a controller to create metadata corresponding to an identity of an entity, incorporate in a media file the metadata that identifies the entity with metadata that describes media content in the media file, and present a graphical user interface depicting a media file directory structure generated according to the metadata that identifies the entity and the metadata that describes media content in the media file. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Scott White, James Cansler, Ankur Mukerji
  • Publication number: 20160098761
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller that receives media content from a subscriber of a media communication system, receive marketing content from a marketing information source, and present the media content and the marketing content in a personal TV channel. The media content is presented in a first region of a two-dimensional, segmented display configuration, with the media content presented in a first region and the marketing content presented in a second region of the segmented display configuration. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: ANKUR MUKERJI, CHARLES V. SCOTT, SCOTT WHITE
  • Publication number: 20160080795
    Abstract: A system for presenting media programming guides is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor can have a controller to transmit to a media source a request to access media content of a personal television (TV) channel composed by a subscriber of a media communication system according to one or more graphical user interface (GUI) templates that define a plurality of segments of a presentation area of the personal TV channel and one or more modules that arrange media content of the subscriber in the plurality of segments of a select one of the plurality of GUI templates. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: ANKUR MUKERJI, CHARLES V. SCOTT, SCOTT WHITE
  • Patent number: 9276761
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top box comprising a controller to send an invite for participation in a media conference to at least one media device, the media conference comprising a presentation of a media program supplied by an interactive television (iTV) network, receive an acceptance of the invite from at least one accepting media device of the at least one media device, connect the at least one accepting media device to a communications bridge operably coupled to the STB, wherein the communications bridge enables the STB and the at least one accepting media device to engage in one of voice, video, and synthesized speech to text communications, and present the media program with at least a portion of the communications between the STB and the at least one accepting media device during the media conference. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles Scott, Scott White, Ankur Mukerji, III
  • Patent number: 9241188
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to receive media content from a subscriber of a media communication system, receive marketing content from a marketing information source, and present the media content and the marketing content in a personal TV channel. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Charles Scott, Scott White
  • Patent number: 9226032
    Abstract: A system for presenting media programming guides is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor can have a controller to transmit to a media source a request to access media content of a personal television (TV) channel composed by a subscriber of a media communication system according to one or more graphical user interface (GUI) templates that define a plurality of segments of a presentation area of the personal TV channel and one or more modules that arrange media content of the subscriber in the plurality of segments of a select one of the plurality of GUI templates. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Charles V. Scott, Scott White
  • Publication number: 20150304715
    Abstract: A system for presenting media programming guides is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor can have a controller to transmit to a media source a request to access media content of a personal television (TV) channel composed by a subscriber of a media communication system according to one or more graphical user interface (GUI) templates that define a plurality of segments of a presentation area of the personal TV channel and one or more modules that arrange media content of the subscriber in the plurality of segments of a select one of the plurality of GUI templates. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: ANKUR MUKERJI, CHARLES V. SCOTT, SCOTT WHITE
  • Patent number: 9137580
    Abstract: A method includes receiving information identifying at least one recommended media content item at a computing device. The information is received from a sender device. The at least one recommended media content item is selected from an electronic program guide and an address associated with the computing device is selected via a graphical user interface at the sender device. The method includes receiving a user selection of at least one item of media content from the at least one recommended media content item. The method includes automatically scheduling recording of the at least one item of media content at a media recorder device when the at least one item of media content is a scheduled program. The method also includes automatically placing the at least one item of media content in an on demand queue when the at least one item of media content includes on demand media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles Scott, Scott White, Ankur Mukerji
  • Patent number: 9094704
    Abstract: A system for presenting media programming guides is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor can have a controller to transmit to a media source a request to access media content of a personal television (TV) channel composed by a subscriber of a media communication system according to one or more graphical user interface (GUI) templates that define a plurality of segments of a presentation area of the personal TV channel and one or more modules that arrange media content of the subscriber in the plurality of segments of a select one of the plurality of GUI templates. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Charles V. Scott, Scott White
  • Patent number: 9071797
    Abstract: A method for remotely accessing selected content can include receiving a list of content separate from a video stream. The list of content can include content previously recorded according to a user-defined recording schedule. The method can further include sending a request for content selected from the list of content, receiving the content through a network, and displaying the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
    Inventors: Ankur Mukerji, Scott White, Charles Scott