Patents by Inventor Michael S. Xie

Michael S. Xie 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).

  • Method and system for assembling content streams with advertisements from multiple advertisement vendors
    Patent number: 11205201
    Abstract: A method and system for displaying an advertisement at a user device comprising receiving a content stream at the user device comprising an advertisement queuing point, monitoring the content stream for the advertisement queuing point at a client stream assembler module of the user device, communicating an advertisement query signal comprising client metadata from the client stream assembler module to a decision proxy, receiving an advertisement decision signal comprising an advertisement location identifier at the client stream assembler module, requesting an advertisement based on the advertisement location identifier and receiving and displaying the advertisement corresponding to the advertisement location identifier on a display associated with the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. Xie, Susan B. Chuck, Parag Agarwal, Atanu Basak, Luan Le-Chau, Connie C. He, Mark T. Takamoto
  • Method and system for communicating content to a client device by pulling content from a publisher from a content delivery network when first requested by the client device
    Patent number: 10257249
    Abstract: A content delivery network and method for operating the same includes a content delivery network (CDN) origin server and a content delivery network edge server receiving a request for a first content from a first client device and communicating the request for the first content to the content delivery network origin server. The CDN origin server communicates a pull signal to a publisher origin server when the request for the first content is a first request, receives the first content from the publisher origin server and stores the first content. The CDN origin server communicates the first content to the first client through the CDN edge server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Thai Lam, Michael A. Makhijani, Michael S. Xie