Patents by Inventor Joseph T. Hayes
Joseph T. Hayes 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: 10200500Abstract: A system and method for a system for communicating with a user device includes a broadcast management system generating content channel data signals. The system also includes a software download manager in communication with the broadcast management system. The software download manager generates an announcement file and a download resolution file. The download manager communicates the announcement file. The user device has user device identifier data and receives the download resolution file in response to the announcement file and stores the software image in the user device in response to the download resolution file.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Subbaraya Kumar Deverakonda Venkata, Jianming Yu, Charles C. Debergh, Gilbert Zaldivar, Joseph T. Hayes, Romulo Pontual, Lonnie Scott Clabaugh
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Patent number: 9872057Abstract: A method and system for accessing content includes a user device and a subscription manager that generates a first identifier associated with a first content in a first format and a second identifier associated with the first content in a second format. The system also includes a conditional access system that communicates a first identifier, the second identifier and rules to the user device. The user device accesses the first content with the first format in response purchasing the first content in the first format. The user device selects the first content in the second format and accesses the first content in the second format in response to purchasing the first content in the first format and the rules.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Raynold M. Kahn, Dien L. Nguyen, Joseph T. Hayes, Jianming Yu, Kapil Chaudhry, An T. Lam, Don E. Cansino, Yeung K. Chan, Charles C. DeBergh, Lonnie Scott Clabaugh
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Patent number: 9736516Abstract: A system and method for operating an ad extraction and reconciliation system for a broadcast system includes an extraction manager module that receives an advertisement schedule for an advertisement from an ad sales module. The system also includes a controller module that receives broadcast channel schedule data for broadcast channel signal from a broadcast channel system and generating an advertising content data request signal for advertising content data including an advertisement content identifier for the advertisement. The ad extraction manager module forms an advertisement insertion schedule having advertisement content identifier and an advertising insertion spot associated with the advertising content identifier. The controller communicates the advertisement insertion schedule to a broadcast scheduling system.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Dien V. Nguyen, Joseph T. Hayes, Richard F. Purpura, Jason Y. Shimizu, James E. Yokers, Dennis N. Tan
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Patent number: 8799941Abstract: A system and method for operating an ad extraction and reconciliation system for a broadcast system includes an extraction manager module that receives an advertisement schedule for an advertisement from an ad sales module. The system also includes a controller module that receives broadcast channel schedule data for broadcast channel signal from a broadcast channel system and generating an advertising content data request signal for advertising content data including an advertisement content identifier for the advertisement. The ad extraction manager module forms an advertisement insertion schedule having advertisement content identifier and an advertising insertion spot associated with the advertising content identifier. The controller communicates the advertisement insertion schedule to a broadcast scheduling system.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Dien V. Nguyen, Joseph T. Hayes, Richard F. Purpura, Jason Y. Shimizu, James E. Yokers, Dennis N. Tan
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Patent number: 8763037Abstract: A broadcast system and method for allocating its resources includes a broadcast operation channel management system forming a database having broadcast system data from a bit rate allocation for a transponder of a satellite and a guide channel definition. The broadcast operation channel management system generates a user interface that displays a least a portion of the broadcast system data on a display. The broadcast system data is modified through the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Joseph T Hayes, Jorge P del Moral, John D Lee, Trang V Luu, Mark T Takamoto, Jonathan L Tronson, Paul P Woo, Gilbert Zaldivar
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Patent number: 8578427Abstract: A method of swapping channels in a broadcast system includes a broadcast operation channel management system receiving broadcast operation channel swap data for a first station and a second station. The channel swap data comprises an effective date, a first station identifier and a first position and a second station identifier and a second position. A traffic scheduling system database communicates a first channel mapping data for a first channel to the broadcast operation channel management system. The traffic scheduling system database communicates a second channel mapping for a second channel to the broadcast operation channel management system. The broadcast operation channel updates the first channel mapping to form a first updated first channel mapping by setting a first end date of the first channel mapping to the effective date for the first station and communicating the first updated first channel mapping to the traffic scheduling database.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2008Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Joseph T Hayes, Trang V Luu, Mark T Takamoto, Jonathan L Tronson, Gilbert Zaldivar
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Publication number: 20120060184Abstract: A system and method for operating an ad extraction and reconciliation system for a broadcast system includes an extraction manager module that receives an advertisement schedule for an advertisement from an ad sales module. The system also includes a controller module that receives broadcast channel schedule data for broadcast channel signal from a broadcast channel system and generating an advertising content data request signal for advertising content data including an advertisement content identifier for the advertisement. The ad extraction manager module forms an advertisement insertion schedule having advertisement content identifier and an advertising insertion spot associated with the advertising content identifier. The controller communicates the advertisement insertion schedule to a broadcast scheduling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2010Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Dien V. Nguyen, Joseph T. Hayes, Richard F. Purpura, Jason Y. Shimizu, James E. Yokers, Dennis N. Tan
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Publication number: 20100211942Abstract: A system and method for a system for communicating with a user device includes a broadcast management system generating content channel data signals. The system also includes a software download manager in communication with the broadcast management system. The software download manager generates an announcement file and a download resolution file. The download manager communicates the announcement file. The user device has user device identifier data and receives the download resolution file in response to the announcement file and stores the software image in the user device in response to the download resolution file.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2009Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: The DIRCTV Group, Inc.Inventors: SUBBARAYA KUMAR DEVERAKONDA VENKATA, Jianming Yu, Charles C. Debergh, Gilbert Zaldivar, Joseph T. Hayes, Romulo Pontual, Lonnie Scott Clabaugh
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Publication number: 20090228932Abstract: A method of swapping channels in a broadcast system includes a broadcast operation channel management system receiving broadcast operation channel swap data for a first station and a second station. The channel swap data comprises an effective date, a first station identifier and a first position and a second station identifier and a second position. A traffic scheduling system database communicates a first channel mapping data for a first channel to the broadcast operation channel management system. The traffic scheduling system database communicates a second channel mapping for a second channel to the broadcast operation channel management system. The broadcast operation channel updates the first channel mapping to form a first updated first channel mapping by setting a first end date of the first channel mapping to the effective date for the first station and communicating the first updated first channel mapping to the traffic scheduling database.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Joseph T. Hayes, Trang V. Luu, Mark T. Takamoto, Jonathan L. Tronson, Gilbert Zaldivar
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Publication number: 20090228924Abstract: A broadcast system and method for allocating its resources includes a broadcast operation channel management system forming a database having broadcast system data from a bit rate allocation for a transponder of a satellite and a guide channel definition. The broadcast operation channel management system generates a user interface that displays a least a portion of the broadcast system data on a display. The broadcast system data is modified through the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Joseph T. Hayes, Jorge P. Del Moral, John D. Lee, Trang V. Luu, Mark T. Takamoto, Jonathan L. Tronson, Paul P. Woo, Gilbert Zaldivar
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Publication number: 20090138925Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for distributing and managing media assets arranged as a collection of media content. In one preferred embodiment, the collection of media content is distributed to a storage location where it is accessible for viewing over a communications network by consumers for a selected interval of time. In another preferred embodiment, media content is downloaded to a client content database and made accessible for a selected interval of time by client software at the consumer's location.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2009Publication date: May 28, 2009Inventors: Kevin P. Headings, Joseph T. Hayes, Samuel J. Beckman, David Wong, Kenneth Lau, Richard T. O'Halloran
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Publication number: 20020144283Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for distributing and managing media assets arranged as a collection of media content. In one preferred embodiment, the collection of media content is distributed to a storage location where it is accessible for viewing over a communications network by consumers for a selected interval of time. In another preferred embodiment, media content is downloaded to a client content database and made accessible for a selected interval of time by client software at the consumer's location.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: October 3, 2002Applicant: INTERTAINER, INC.Inventors: Kevin P. Headings, Joseph T. Hayes, Samuel J. Beckman, David Wong, Kenneth Lau, Richard T. O'Halloran