Patents by Inventor Matt Tretin

Matt Tretin 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).

  • Publication number: 20230247237
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to devices, systems and methods for a streaming service to provide fast video stream startup at a user device. The streaming service may determine that a video stream for on-demand content is to be provided to the user device and is to include multiple subclips corresponding to the on-demand content and a dynamic content insertion opportunity (DCIO). A first set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that corresponds to a first subclip of the on-demand content. When a predetermined condition corresponding to the DCIO is satisfied, a second set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that includes multimedia data corresponding to at least the multiple subclips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Spencer SHANSON, Matt TRETIN, Ivan ZUBOK, Pavlo KALMYKOV, Edwin RODRIGUEZ
  • Patent number: 11659213
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to devices, systems and methods for a streaming service to provide fast video stream startup at a user device. The streaming service may determine that a video stream for on-demand content is to be provided to the user device and is to include multiple subclips corresponding to the on-demand content and a dynamic content insertion opportunity (DCIO). A first set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that corresponds to a first subclip of the on-demand content. When a predetermined condition corresponding to the DCIO is satisfied, a second set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that includes multimedia data corresponding to at least the multiple subclips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Spencer Shanson, Matt Tretin, Ivan Zubok, Pavlo Kalmykov, Edwin Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20220021915
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to devices, systems and methods for a streaming service to provide fast video stream startup at a user device. The streaming service may determine that a video stream for on-demand content is to be provided to the user device and is to include multiple subclips corresponding to the on-demand content and a dynamic content insertion opportunity (DCIO). A first set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that corresponds to a first subclip of the on-demand content. When a predetermined condition corresponding to the DCIO is satisfied, a second set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that includes multimedia data corresponding to at least the multiple subclips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Spencer SHANSON, Matt TRETIN, Ivan ZUBOK, Pavlo KALMYKOV, Edwin RODRIGUEZ
  • Patent number: 11166055
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to devices, systems and methods for a streaming service to provide fast video stream startup at a user device. The streaming service may determine that a video stream for on-demand content is to be provided to the user device and is to include multiple subclips corresponding to the on-demand content and a dynamic content insertion opportunity (DCIO). A first set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that corresponds to a first subclip of the on-demand content. When a predetermined condition corresponding to the DCIO is satisfied, a second set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that includes multimedia data corresponding to at least the multiple subclips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Spencer Shanson, Matt Tretin, Ivan Zubok, Pavlo Kalmykov, Edwin Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20210306685
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to devices, systems and methods for a streaming service to provide fast video stream startup at a user device. The streaming service may determine that a video stream for on-demand content is to be provided to the user device and is to include multiple subclips corresponding to the on-demand content and a dynamic content insertion opportunity (DCIO). A first set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that corresponds to a first subclip of the on-demand content. When a predetermined condition corresponding to the DCIO is satisfied, a second set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that includes multimedia data corresponding to at least the multiple subclips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Spencer SHANSON, Matt Tretin, Ivan Zubok, Pavlo Kalmykov, Edwin Rodriguez