Patents by Inventor Ilyssa Widen

Ilyssa Widen 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).

  • Determining an actual start of program content relative to a scheduled start of the program content
    Patent number: 10284889
    Abstract: An example may include identifying broadcast content, where the broadcast content includes program content of a program; identifying a scheduled start time of a time slot associated with the broadcast content; determining whether the broadcast content includes overflow content based on whether the broadcast content includes at least one of end credits or a break; and when the broadcast content does include the overflow content: determining an end time of the overflow content of the broadcast content; determining an actual start time of the program content based on the end time of the overflow content; and performing an action to enable a media client to play back the broadcast content, where the action enables the media client to begin play back at the actual start time of the program content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Jimenez, Ilyssa Widen, Rodrigo Meneses, Mahesh Kumar Vasanthusomashekar