Patents by Inventor Catarina Alexandra MARQUES VITAL

Catarina Alexandra MARQUES VITAL 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).

  • Predictive tuning system
    Patent number: 11601712
    Abstract: A predictive tuning system is disclosed in order to reduce the tuning channel delay time in a cable TV architecture. The system comprises a set-top box (STB) configured to instantiate a given number of video decoding pipelines allowing for start broadcasting a particular set of channels which include a sub-set of pre-define channels, such as the antecessor and predecessor channels which are normally pre-tuned, and other sub-set of channels chosen using a predictive algorithm. This algorithm runs locally at the user interface level of the STB suggesting the more likely channels to be watched by the user according to his past behavior according to a specific time slot of a day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NOS INOVACAO, S.A.
    Inventors: Nelson Fernandes Feiticeiro Soares Delicado, Catarina Alexandra Marques Vital, Barbara Maria Garbacz, Sonia Sofia Santos Rodrigues, Mario Magalhaes Saraiva, Andre Ramalho Dos Santos Rosado, Ana Raquel Dos Reis Fernandes Gama, Bruno De Sousa Rosa Da Cruz Fernandes
  • PREDICTIVE TUNING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190356947
    Abstract: A predictive tuning system is disclosed in order to reduce the tuning channel delay time in a cable TV architecture. The system comprises a set-top box (STB) configured to instantiate a given number of video decoding pipelines allowing for start broadcasting a particular set of channels which include a sub-set of pre-define channels, such as the antecessor and predecessor channels which are normally pre-tuned, and other sub-set of channels chosen using a predictive algorithm. This algorithm runs locally at the user interface level of the STB suggesting the more likely channels to be watched by the user according to his past behavior according to a specific time slot of a day.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Nelson FERNANDES FEITICEIRO SOARES DELICADO, Catarina Alexandra MARQUES VITAL, Barbara Maria GARBACZ, Sonia Sofia SANTOS RODRIGUES, Mario MAGALHAES SARAIVA, Andre RAMALHO DOS SANTOS ROSADO, Ana Raquel DOS REIS FERNANDES GAMA, Bruno DE SOUSA ROSA DA CRUZ FERNANDES