Patents by Inventor Geraint John DAVIES
Geraint John DAVIES 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: 11516552Abstract: Systems and methods provide live broadcasts with real-time feedback from viewers using mobile computing devices. An example method includes providing a live feed broadcast from a source mobile device to a plurality of viewing devices, receiving, during the live feed broadcast, a plurality of feedback signals, each feedback signal being from at least one of the plurality of viewing devices, and associating each feedback signal with a respective time in the live feed broadcast. The method further includes providing, for each feedback signal in the plurality of feedback signals, an indication of the feedback signal to the source mobile device and to each viewing device of the plurality of viewing devices, the indication being used to display a symbol representing the feedback signal as an animation, the animation moving the symbol on a path during display and lasting for a predetermined time subsequent to the respective time.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Harold Bernstein, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Geraint John Davies, Tyler Jan Hansen, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Nils Victor Rocine, Aaron William Wasserman
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Publication number: 20220038516Abstract: Implementations provide low-latency live-video streams using existing content delivery networks. An example method includes receiving a video broadcast as a series of frames and determining, for each frame, whether the frame is a break frame. Responsive to determining that the frame is a break frame, the method includes removing an in-progress tag from a current segment file in a playlist for the video broadcast. The playlist includes at least a previous segment file, the current segment file, and a next segment file, which also has a respective in-progress tag. The method also includes associating the frame with a next segment file in a playlist and transmitting the playlist to a cache server. Responsive to determining the frame in the series of frames is not a break frame, the method includes associating the frame with the current segment file. The frame is transmitted to the cache server as a chunk.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Geraint John Davies, Mark Kalman
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Patent number: 11190567Abstract: Implementations provide low-latency live-video streams using existing content delivery networks. An example method includes receiving a video broadcast as a series of frames and determining, for each frame, whether the frame is a break frame. Responsive to determining that the frame is a break frame, the method includes removing an in-progress tag from a current segment file in a playlist for the video broadcast. The playlist includes at least a previous segment file, the current segment file, and a next segment file, which also has a respective in-progress tag. The method also includes associating the frame with a next segment file in a playlist and transmitting the playlist to a cache server. Responsive to determining the frame in the series of frames is not a break frame, the method includes associating the frame with the current segment file. The frame is transmitted to the cache server as a chunk.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Geraint John Davies, Mark Kalman
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Publication number: 20210099762Abstract: Systems and methods provide live broadcasts with real-time feedback from viewers using mobile computing devices. An example method includes providing a live feed broadcast from a source mobile device to a plurality of viewing devices, receiving, during the live feed broadcast, a plurality of feedback signals, each feedback signal being from at least one of the plurality of viewing devices, and associating each feedback signal with a respective time in the live feed broadcast. The method further includes providing, for each feedback signal in the plurality of feedback signals, an indication of the feedback signal to the source mobile device and to each viewing device of the plurality of viewing devices, the indication being used to display a symbol representing the feedback signal as an animation, the animation moving the symbol on a path during display and lasting for a predetermined time subsequent to the respective time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Joseph Harold Bernstein, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Geraint John Davies, Tyler Jan Hansen, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Nils Victor Rocine, Aaron William Wasserman
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Patent number: 10904632Abstract: Systems and methods provide live broadcasts with real-time feedback from viewers using mobile computing devices. An example method includes providing a live feed broadcast from a source mobile device to a plurality of viewing devices, receiving, during the live feed broadcast, an engagement from one of the plurality of viewing devices, and associating the engagement with a particular time in the live feed broadcast. The method also includes providing an indication of the engagement to the source mobile device, wherein the source mobile device displays a graphic representation of the engagement during the live feed broadcast and adding the indication of the engagement to the live feed so that a graphic representation is displayed during the live feed at the particular time to users of the plurality of viewing devices. The viewing user may each have a graph relationship with a user of the source mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Harold Bernstein, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Geraint John Davies, Tyler Jan Hansen, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Nils Victor Rocine, Aaron William Wasserman
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Publication number: 20200177657Abstract: Implementations provide low-latency live-video streams using existing content delivery networks. An example method includes receiving a video broadcast as a series of frames and determining, for each frame, whether the frame is a break frame. Responsive to determining that the frame is a break frame, the method includes removing an in-progress tag from a current segment file in a playlist for the video broadcast. The playlist includes at least a previous segment file, the current segment file, and a next segment file, which also has a respective in-progress tag. The method also includes associating the frame with a next segment file in a playlist and transmitting the playlist to a cache server. Responsive to determining the frame in the series of frames is not a break frame, the method includes associating the frame with the current segment file. The frame is transmitted to the cache server as a chunk.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Geraint John Davies, Mark Kalman
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Patent number: 10567461Abstract: Implementations provide a structure for low-latency live-video streams using existing content delivery networks. An example method includes creating, at the start of a broadcast stream, a playlist for the broadcast stream that identifies at least two segment files. The content of each of the segment files is a table header. The method also includes transmitting the playlist and each of the segment files to a cache server, obtaining the video broadcast stream as a series of frames, and transmitting each frame in the series of frames to the cache server using an HTTP chunk transfer protocol, each frame being associated with, and written to, a first segment file identified in the playlist. When a frame in the broadcast stream is a break frame, the method includes transmitting an end of file marker for the first segment file and adding a video header for the break frame before it is transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Geraint John Davies, Mark Kalman
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Publication number: 20200007941Abstract: Systems and methods provide live broadcasts with real-time feedback from viewers using mobile computing devices. An example method includes providing a live feed broadcast from a source mobile device to a plurality of viewing devices, receiving, during the live feed broadcast, an engagement from one of the plurality of viewing devices, and associating the engagement with a particular time in the live feed broadcast. The method also includes providing an indication of the engagement to the source mobile device, wherein the source mobile device displays a graphic representation of the engagement during the live feed broadcast and adding the indication of the engagement to the live feed so that a graphic representation is displayed during the live feed at the particular time to users of the plurality of viewing devices. The viewing user may each have a graph relationship with a user of the source mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Joseph Harold Bernstein, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Geraint John Davies, Tyler Jan Hansen, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Nils Victor Rocine, Aaron William Wasserman
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Patent number: D879823Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D879824Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D879825Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D879826Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D880515Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D881231Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D881925Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D892838Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D892839Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D892840Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D916771Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies
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Patent number: D936673Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Twitter, Inc.Inventors: Tyler Jan Hansen, Kayvon B. Beykpour, Joseph Harold Bernstein, Aaron William Wasserman, Nils Victor Rocine, Alexander Kayvon Khoshnevissan, Geraint John Davies