Patents by Inventor David J. Czeck, JR.

David J. Czeck, JR. 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).

  • Patent number: 11778246
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate a coordination between QAM and adaptive bitrate content delivery. Location information associated with a device may be utilized to identify and retrieve advertisements or alternate content for placement into a stream that is carrying requested content. Advertisement or alternate content may be placed into a stream based on retrieved placement information. The placement information may be resolved from one format to another depending upon a specific mode of delivery that is selected for delivering the stream to a media device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: David A. Romrell, David J. Czeck, Jr., Xavier P. Denis
  • Patent number: 11252447
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate a coordination between QAM and adaptive bitrate content delivery. Location information associated with a device may be utilized to identify and retrieve advertisements or alternate content for placement into a stream that is carrying requested content. Advertisement or alternate content may be placed into a stream based on retrieved placement information. The placement information may be resolved from one format to another depending upon a specific mode of delivery that is selected for delivering the stream to a media device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: David A. Romwell, David J. Czeck, Jr., Xavier P. Denis
  • Publication number: 20180359502
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate a coordination between QAM and adaptive bitrate content delivery. Location information associated with a device may be utilized to identify and retrieve advertisements or alternate content for placement into a stream that is carrying requested content. Advertisement or alternate content may be placed into a stream based on retrieved placement information. The placement information may be resolved from one format to another depending upon a specific mode of delivery that is selected for delivering the stream to a media device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: David A. Romwell, David J. Czeck, JR., Xavier P. Denis
  • Patent number: 9654815
    Abstract: A method of handling advertisements in an adaptive bitrate stream is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving an adaptive bitrate stream playlist listing chunk identifiers pointing to a plurality of media chunks, analyzing the playlist to find one or more advertising chunks, modifying the adaptive bitrate stream playlist with a client device when the client device has been set to skip advertisements by deleting chunk identifiers associated with advertising chunks from the playlist, retrieving and playing back media chunks according to the playlist, and setting a no-trick-play flag at the client device during playback of the one or more advertising chunks when the client device has not been set to skip advertisements, such that trick-plays through and over media chunks are allowed when the no-trick-play flag is not set and are not allowed when the no-trick-play flag is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Czeck, Jr., Steven Eric Omner, Senthilprabu Vadhugapalayam Shanmugam, Shailesh Ramamurthy
  • Publication number: 20170085933
    Abstract: A method of handling advertisements in an adaptive bitrate stream is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving an adaptive bitrate stream playlist listing chunk identifiers pointing to a plurality of media chunks, analyzing the playlist to find one or more advertising chunks, modifying the adaptive bitrate stream playlist with a client device when the client device has been set to skip advertisements by deleting chunk identifiers associated with advertising chunks from the playlist, retrieving and playing back media chunks according to the playlist, and setting a no-trick-play flag at the client device during playback of the one or more advertising chunks when the client device has not been set to skip advertisements, such that trick-plays through and over media chunks are allowed when the no-trick-play flag is not set and are not allowed when the no-trick-play flag is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: David J. Czeck, JR., Steven Eric Omner, Senthilprabu Vadhugapalayam Shanmugam, Shailesh Ramamurthy