Patents by Inventor Charles Weill

Charles Weill 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).

  • Predicting break durations in content streams
    Patent number: 11102533
    Abstract: The present disclosure discusses systems and methods to mitigate traffic spikes in retrieving secondary content items for display in concurrently streamed content streams. The system can pre-fetch secondary content items for the upcoming secondary content slots. To retrieve an appropriate content item, the system can predict the length of the secondary content slot. The system can use the predicted length of the secondary content slot to distribute the traffic spike over a larger span of time to mitigate the spike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Igor Fradlis, Charles Weill, Christopher Dinn
  • PREDICTING BREAK DURATIONS IN CONTENT STREAMS
    Publication number: 20190268644
    Abstract: The present disclosure discusses systems and methods to mitigate traffic spikes in retrieving secondary content items for display in concurrently streamed content streams. The system can pre-fetch secondary content items for the upcoming secondary content slots. To retrieve an appropriate content item, the system can predict the length of the secondary content slot. The system can use the predicted length of the secondary content slot to distribute the traffic spike over a larger span of time to mitigate the spike.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Igor Fradlis, Charles Weill, Christopher Dinn