Patents by Inventor Binny Asarikuniyil
Binny Asarikuniyil 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).
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Patent number: 12184713Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for indicating a program boundary in an adaptive bitrate media stream, where the system includes a memory and a processor that performs operations including generating multiple transcoded media output streams of different bit rates from an input linear media stream, fragmenting the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, detecting a program boundary in the input linear media stream, and supplying a program change indicator in a manifest file for implementing program change features in mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2024Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: DIRECTV, LLCInventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Kiran Vokkarne
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Publication number: 20240244100Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for indicating a program boundary in an adaptive bitrate media stream, where the system includes a memory and a processor that performs operations including generating multiple transcoded media output streams of different bit rates from an input linear media stream, fragmenting the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, detecting a program boundary in the input linear media stream, and supplying a program change indicator in a manifest file for implementing program change features in mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Kiran Vokkarne
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Patent number: 11930066Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for indicating a program boundary in an adaptive bitrate media stream, where the system includes a memory and a processor that performs operations including generating multiple transcoded media output streams of different bit rates from an input linear media stream, fragmenting the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, detecting a program boundary in the input linear media stream, and supplying a program change indicator in a manifest file for implementing program change features in mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: DIRECTV, LLCInventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Kiran Vokkarne
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Publication number: 20230239539Abstract: In one example, a method for providing content-aware progress bar includes receiving a command from a user via an input device to present a visual media on a display device, retrieving a progress bar associated with the visual media, wherein the progress bar includes a plurality of sections, and where each section of the plurality of sections corresponds to one scene of a plurality of scenes of the visual media, and wherein the each section visually indicates a type of content contained in the one scene, a location of the one scene in the visual media, and a duration of the one scene, presenting the visual media on the display device, and displaying the progress bar on the display device in a manner that is time-synchronized to the visual media.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Megha Venugopal, Binny Asarikuniyil
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Publication number: 20230239538Abstract: A method for providing a personalized media stream includes receiving a signal from a user to launch a personalized media stream, determining a current time, identifying a first time slot of a schedule into which the current time falls, identifying a first channel that is associated with the first time slot, wherein viewing history for the user indicates that the user has viewed the first channel during the first time slot in the past, automatically tuning the display device to the first channel in response to the signal, receiving, subsequent to the automatically tuning, a command from the user to pause a program playing on the first channel, identifying a second channel associated with a second time slot, wherein the second time slot occurs later in time that the first time slot, and buffering a portion of a program being shown on the second channel during the second time slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Megha Venugopal, Binny Asarikuniyil
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Publication number: 20230224350Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for indicating a program boundary in an adaptive bitrate media stream, where the system includes a memory and a processor that performs operations including generating multiple transcoded media output streams of different bit rates from an input linear media stream, fragmenting the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, detecting a program boundary in the input linear media stream, and supplying a program change indicator in a manifest file for implementing program change features in mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Kiran Vokkarne
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Publication number: 20230179834Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, over a first mobile network, first media content from a media content server, and detecting a travel route associated with the communication device. Further embodiments can include identifying a group of mobile networks associated with the travel route in which the group of mobile networks comprise the first mobile network. Additional embodiments can include determining a network condition associated with a second mobile network of the group of mobile networks, and identifying a portion of the travel route associated with the network condition. Also, embodiments can include adjusting the obtaining of the first media content from the media content server according to the network condition. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Megha Venugopal, Binny Asarikuniyil
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Publication number: 20230156253Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, from a streaming application, a listing of media content items provided by the streaming application to a first device of a first user, determining a priority set of the media content items of the listing of media content items according to relative demand profiles of a plurality of media content items, for each priority media content item of the priority set of the media content items, providing the priority media content item to an edge server of a set of edge servers accessible to the first device, updating edge server location information associated with the priority media content item, and providing the edge server location information to the streaming application. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Binny Asarikuniyil
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Patent number: 11637883Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for indicating a program boundary in an adaptive bitrate media stream, where the system includes a memory and a processor that performs operations including generating multiple transcoded media output streams of different bit rates from an input linear media stream, fragmenting the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, detecting a program boundary in the input linear media stream, and supplying a program change indicator in a manifest file for implementing program change features in mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: DIRECTV, LLCInventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Kiran Vokkarne
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Patent number: 11617014Abstract: In one example, a method for providing content-aware progress bar includes receiving a command from a user via an input device to present a visual media on a display device, retrieving a progress bar associated with the visual media, wherein the progress bar includes a plurality of sections, and where each section of the plurality of sections corresponds to one scene of a plurality of scenes of the visual media, and wherein the each section visually indicates a type of content contained in the one scene, a location of the one scene in the visual media, and a duration of the one scene, presenting the visual media on the display device, and displaying the progress bar on the display device in a manner that is time-synchronized to the visual media.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Megha Venugopal, Binny Asarikuniyil
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Patent number: 11606625Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, over a first mobile network, first media content from a media content server, and detecting a travel route associated with the communication device. Further embodiments can include identifying a group of mobile networks associated with the travel route in which the group of mobile networks comprise the first mobile network. Additional embodiments can include determining a network condition associated with a second mobile network of the group of mobile networks, and identifying a portion of the travel route associated with the network condition. Also, embodiments can include adjusting the obtaining of the first media content from the media content server according to the network condition. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Megha Venugopal, Binny Asarikuniyil
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Patent number: 11589115Abstract: An example method includes receiving a selection of a media content, applying customized parental control rules associated with a user to the media content, providing a notification to apply a parental control associated with the customized parental control rules to the media content, receiving a confirmation to apply the parental control, and controlling the media content in accordance with the parental control that is applied.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Megha Venugopal, Binny Asarikuniyil
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Publication number: 20230035651Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, applying first data associated with a first content item to a model to generate first classification characteristics, analyzing the first classification characteristics to generate a first marker, wherein the first marker delineates a first location of inventory within the first content item, selecting a first creative to populate a portion of the inventory, and populating, based on the selecting, the portion of the inventory with the first creative. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Megha Venugopal
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Patent number: 11558649Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, from a streaming application, a listing of media content items provided by the streaming application to a first device of a first user, determining a priority set of the media content items of the listing of media content items according to relative demand profiles of a plurality of media content items, for each priority media content item of the priority set of the media content items, providing the priority media content item to an edge server of a set of edge servers accessible to the first device, updating edge server location information associated with the priority media content item, and providing the edge server location information to the streaming application. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Binny Asarikuniyil
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Patent number: 11558670Abstract: A method for providing a personalized media stream includes receiving a signal from a user to launch a personalized media stream, determining a current time, identifying a first time slot of a schedule into which the current time falls, identifying a first channel that is associated with the first time slot, wherein viewing history for the user indicates that the user has viewed the first channel during the first time slot in the past, automatically tuning the display device to the first channel in response to the signal, receiving, subsequent to the automatically tuning, a command from the user to pause a program playing on the first channel, identifying a second channel associated with a second time slot, wherein the second time slot occurs later in time that the first time slot, and buffering a portion of a program being shown on the second channel during the second time slot.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.PInventors: Megha Venugopal, Binny Asarikuniyil
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Publication number: 20220407905Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for indicating a program boundary in an adaptive bitrate media stream, where the system includes a memory and a processor that performs operations including generating multiple transcoded media output streams of different bit rates from an input linear media stream, fragmenting the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, detecting a program boundary in the input linear media stream, and supplying a program change indicator in a manifest file for implementing program change features in mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Kiran Vokkarne
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Publication number: 20220369002Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, applying first data associated with a first content item to a model to generate first classification characteristics, analyzing the first classification characteristics to generate a first marker, wherein the first marker delineates a first location of inventory within the first content item, selecting a first creative to populate a portion of the inventory, and populating, based on the selecting, the portion of the inventory with the first creative. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Megha Venugopal
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Publication number: 20220368985Abstract: An example method includes training a machine learning algorithm to detect a granular level of tags associated with a media content, receiving a request to play a user selected media content, applying the machine learning algorithm that is trained to the user selected media content to identify at least one tag of the granular level of tags associated with the user selected media content, generating a notification that reports the at least one tag and a number of occurrences of the at least one tag in the user selected media content, and transmitting the notification to an endpoint device of a user that sent the request for the user selected media content to display the notification.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Megha Venugopal
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Patent number: 11503383Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, applying first data associated with a first content item to a model to generate first classification characteristics, analyzing the first classification characteristics to generate a first marker, wherein the first marker delineates a first location of inventory within the first content item, selecting a first creative to populate a portion of the inventory, and populating, based on the selecting, the portion of the inventory with the first creative. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Megha Venugopal
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Publication number: 20220303637Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, over a first mobile network, first media content from a media content server, and detecting a travel route associated with the communication device. Further embodiments can include identifying a group of mobile networks associated with the travel route in which the group of mobile networks comprise the first mobile network. Additional embodiments can include determining a network condition associated with a second mobile network of the group of mobile networks, and identifying a portion of the travel route associated with the network condition. Also, embodiments can include adjusting the obtaining of the first media content from the media content server according to the network condition. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Megha Venugopal, Binny Asarikuniyil