Patents by Inventor JAMES SHULER

JAMES SHULER 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: 11849192
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text set wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk McGinty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
  • Patent number: 11477536
    Abstract: Systems, and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text sets wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a search service for performing an elastic search for related data from a plurality of different search sources and returning search results and error codes to a requester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C
    Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk McGinty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
  • Publication number: 20220279252
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text set wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: JAMES WILDE, ASHOK SONI, HAWK MCGINTY, JAMES SHULER, LIXING ZHANG, MICHAEL DISANTE, NARAYANAN SEKHAR, XIAOMEI SUN, XINHUA YANG
  • Publication number: 20220232295
    Abstract: Systems, and methods are described for navigating non-dynamic pages at a client device served up from voice search requests by selecting a feature on the image page by a user request for navigating the feature viewed on the image page wherein the feature selected has an appearance of a dynamic feature when served up on the display wherein the user request selects a location on the image page; identifying the feature by the voice cloud server by location data of a selected location on the page; executing a feature request on a corresponding page which contains dynamic script at the voice cloud server to receive a linked page from a third-party search service; and removing dynamic scripts, at the voice cloud search server, of the linked page for serving up as an image page of the linked page at the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk Mcginty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
  • Patent number: 11317162
    Abstract: Systems, and methods are described for navigating non-dynamic pages at a client device served up from voice search requests by selecting a feature on the image page by a user request for navigating the feature viewed on the image page wherein the feature selected has an appearance of a dynamic feature when served up on the display wherein the user request selects a location on the image page; identifying the feature by the voice cloud server by location data of a selected location on the page; executing a feature request on a corresponding page which contains dynamic script at the voice cloud server to receive a linked page from a third-party search service; and removing dynamic scripts, at the voice cloud search server, of the linked page for serving up as an image page of the linked page at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk McGinty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
  • Patent number: 11303969
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text set wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk McGinty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
  • Publication number: 20210250659
    Abstract: Systems, and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text sets wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a search service for performing an elastic search for related data from a plurality of different search sources and returning search results and error codes to a requester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: JAMES WILDE, ASHOK SONI, HAWK MCGINTY, JAMES SHULER, LIXING ZHANG, MICHAEL DISANTE, NARAYANAN SEKHAR, XIAOMEI SUN, XINHUA YANG
  • Publication number: 20210195294
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text set wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: JAMES WILDE, ASHOK SONI, HAWK MCGINTY, JAMES SHULER, LIXING ZHANG, MICHAEL DISANTE, NARAYANAN SEKHAR, XIAOMEI SUN, XINHUA YANG
  • Patent number: 11019402
    Abstract: Systems, and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text sets wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a search service for performing an elastic search for related data from a plurality of different search sources and returning search results and error codes to a requester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk McGinty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
  • Patent number: 10972802
    Abstract: Systems, and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text sets wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: James Wilde, Ashok Soni, Hawk McGinty, James Shuler, Lixing Zhang, Michael Disante, Narayanan Sekhar, Xiaomei Sun, Xinhua Yang
  • Publication number: 20210099766
    Abstract: Systems, and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text sets wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a search service for performing an elastic search for related data from a plurality of different search sources and returning search results and error codes to a requester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: JAMES WILDE, ASHOK SONI, HAWK MCGINTY, JAMES SHULER, LIXING ZHANG, MICHAEL DISANTE, NARAYANAN SEKHAR, XIAOMEI SUN, XINHUA YANG
  • Publication number: 20210099768
    Abstract: Systems, and methods are described for navigating non-dynamic pages at a client device served up from voice search requests by selecting a feature on the image page by a user request for navigating the feature viewed on the image page wherein the feature selected has an appearance of a dynamic feature when served up on the display wherein the user request selects a location on the image page; identifying the feature by the voice cloud server by location data of a selected location on the page; executing a feature request on a corresponding page which contains dynamic script at the voice cloud server to receive a linked page from a third-party search service; and removing dynamic scripts, at the voice cloud search server, of the linked page for serving up as an image page of the linked page at the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: JAMES WILDE, ASHOK SONI, HAWK MCGINTY, JAMES SHULER, LIXING ZHANG, MICHAEL DISANTE, NARAYANAN SEKHAR, XIAOMEI SUN, XINHUA YANG
  • Publication number: 20210099767
    Abstract: Systems, and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text sets wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: JAMES WILDE, ASHOK SONI, HAWK MCGINTY, JAMES SHULER, LIXING ZHANG, MICHAEL DISANTE, NARAYANAN SEKHAR, XIAOMEI SUN, XINHUA YANG