Patents by Inventor Michael Shane Wilkinson

Michael Shane Wilkinson 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: 12080047
    Abstract: A tangible, non-transitory machine-readable medium includes machine readable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive an inquiry regarding digital content. The inquiry is indicative of a request for the digital content or a request for a determination to be made regarding the digital content. The instructions, when executed, also cause the processing circuitry to process the inquiry by analyzing aggregated result data generated using a series of neural network layers based on the digital content and metadata associated with the digital content. Furthermore, the instructions, when executed, cause the processing circuitry to generate response data to the inquiry using a neural network based on analyzing the aggregated result data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Eric J. Avila, Borzou Afshar
  • Publication number: 20210117480
    Abstract: A tangible, non-transitory machine-readable medium includes machine readable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive an inquiry regarding digital content. The inquiry is indicative of a request for the digital content or a request for a determination to be made regarding the digital content. The instructions, when executed, also cause the processing circuitry to process the inquiry by analyzing aggregated result data generated using a series of neural network layers based on the digital content and metadata associated with the digital content. Furthermore, the instructions, when executed, cause the processing circuitry to generate response data to the inquiry using a neural network based on analyzing the aggregated result data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Eric J. Avila, Borzou Afshar
  • Patent number: 10827183
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimal variable bit rate packing are disclosed. Some embodiments include encoding media at a plurality of bit rates to generate a corresponding plurality of encodings, where each of the plurality of encodings include a plurality of framesets, generating advance encoding data for each of the plurality of encodings, where each advance encoding data includes information related to a data size of the plurality of framesets of the corresponding encoding, transmitting the generated advance encoding data to a client, receiving a request from the client including a request for one or more framesets of a first encoding, and transmitting the requested one or more framesets of the first encoding to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson
  • Publication number: 20200169735
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimal variable bit rate packing are disclosed. Some embodiments include encoding media at a plurality of bit rates to generate a corresponding plurality of encodings, where each of the plurality of encodings include a plurality of framesets, generating advance encoding data for each of the plurality of encodings, where each advance encoding data includes information related to a data size of the plurality of framesets of the corresponding encoding, transmitting the generated advance encoding data to a client, receiving a request from the client including a request for one or more framesets of a first encoding, and transmitting the requested one or more framesets of the first encoding to the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn DEEN, Michael Shane WILKINSON
  • Patent number: 10531095
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimal variable bit rate packing are disclosed. Some embodiments include encoding media at a plurality of bit rates to generate a corresponding plurality of encodings, where each of the plurality of encodings include a plurality of framesets, generating advance encoding data for each of the plurality of encodings, where each advance encoding data includes information related to a data size of the plurality of framesets of the corresponding encoding, transmitting the generated advance encoding data to a client, receiving a request from the client including a request for one or more framesets of a first encoding, and transmitting the requested one or more framesets of the first encoding to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 10303716
    Abstract: Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be segmented at a determined frame resolution rate and analyzed to determine a fingerprint for each content segment. An identifier that uniquely identifies each content segment may be determined based on the fingerprint of the respective content segment. The identifier may be associated with data relating to the content segment and with one or more identifiers that uniquely identify other content segments of the content. The content segment identifiers may be used to construct a content segment sequencing representation that represents the playback of the content segments in playback order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Braxton Paul Perkins
  • Patent number: 10032479
    Abstract: Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be segmented at a determined frame resolution rate and analyzed to determine a fingerprint for each content segment. An identifier that uniquely identifies each content segment may be determined based on the fingerprint of the respective content segment. The identifier may be associated with data relating to the content segment and with one or more identifiers that uniquely identify other content segments of the content. The content segment identifiers may be used to construct a content segment sequencing representation that represents the playback of the content segments in playback order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Braxton Paul Perkins
  • Patent number: 10015251
    Abstract: Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be segmented at a determined frame resolution rate and analyzed to determine a fingerprint for each content segment. An identifier that uniquely identifies each content segment may be determined based on the fingerprint of the respective content segment. The identifier may be associated with data relating to the content segment and with one or more identifiers that uniquely identify other content segments of the content. The content segment identifiers may be used to construct a content segment sequencing representation that represents the playback of the content segments in playback order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Braxton Paul Perkins
  • Patent number: 9898593
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a source of a copied work that in one embodiment includes obtaining at least some portions of a reference work, collecting at least some portions of the suspect work, matching the suspect work with the reference work, wherein the matching includes temporally aligning one or more frames of the reference work and the suspect work, spatially aligning frames of the reference work and the suspect work, and detecting forensic marks in the suspect work by spatiotemporal matching with the reference work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Zhaohui Harry Sun, Catherine Mary Graichen, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Anthony James Hoogs, Aaron Shaw Markham, Budhaditya Deb, Roderic Greene Collins, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Anthony Christopher Anderson, Jenny Marie Weisenberg Williams
  • Patent number: 9794269
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for generating a receipt. The method includes, accessing a universal digital fingerprint associated with an item of content, wherein the fingerprint is invariant across one or more formats of the item of content. The method includes accessing an identification value by the processor. The method includes generating a digital token by cryptographically binding the digital fingerprint and the identification value, wherein the digital token is invariant across the one or more formats of the item of content. The method further includes associating the digital token with at least one right to the item of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 9792390
    Abstract: Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be associated with metadata that is in some manner descriptive of the content by means of a unique identifier generated based on the content or a portion of the content. The two may be packaged in a wrapper. If the content is separated from the metadata, such as by circulation in a non-compliant environment, the content may be recognized by a regeneration of the identifier. Based upon the re-created identifier, the metadata may be re-associated with the content. Other scenarios may include generation of compilations for files that are not included in a wrapper with content and metadata, content that becomes dissociated with metadata by transcoding, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: NBCUniveral Media, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Bause, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Sheau Bao Ng
  • Publication number: 20170142417
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimal variable bit rate packing are disclosed. Some embodiments include encoding media at a plurality of bit rates to generate a corresponding plurality of encodings, where each of the plurality of encodings include a plurality of framesets, generating advance encoding data for each of the plurality of encodings, where each advance encoding data includes information related to a data size of the plurality of framesets of the corresponding encoding, transmitting the generated advance encoding data to a client, receiving a request from the client including a request for one or more framesets of a first encoding, and transmitting the requested one or more framesets of the first encoding to the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn DEEN, Michael Shane WILKINSON
  • Publication number: 20150220635
    Abstract: Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be segmented at a determined frame resolution rate and analyzed to determine a fingerprint for each content segment. An identifier that uniquely identifies each content segment may be determined based on the fingerprint of the respective content segment. The identifier may be associated with data relating to the content segment and with one or more identifiers that uniquely identify other content segments of the content. The content segment identifiers may be used to construct a content segment sequencing representation that represents the playback of the content segments in playback order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Braxton Paul Perkins
  • Publication number: 20150221336
    Abstract: Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be segmented at a determined frame resolution rate and analyzed to determine a fingerprint for each content segment. An identifier that uniquely identifies each content segment may be determined based on the fingerprint of the respective content segment. The identifier may be associated with data relating to the content segment and with one or more identifiers that uniquely identify other content segments of the content. The content segment identifiers may be used to construct a content segment sequencing representation that represents the playback of the content segments in playback order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Braxton Paul Perkins
  • Publication number: 20150220636
    Abstract: Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be segmented at a determined frame resolution rate and analyzed to determine a fingerprint for each content segment. An identifier that uniquely identifies each content segment may be determined based on the fingerprint of the respective content segment. The identifier may be associated with data relating to the content segment and with one or more identifiers that uniquely identify other content segments of the content. The content segment identifiers may be used to construct a content segment sequencing representation that represents the playback of the content segments in playback order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Braxton Paul Perkins
  • Publication number: 20150067341
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for generating a receipt. The method includes, accessing a universal digital fingerprint associated with an item of content, wherein the fingerprint is invariant across one or more formats of the item of content. The method includes accessing an identification value by the processor. The method includes generating a digital token by cryptographically binding the digital fingerprint and the identification value, wherein the digital token is invariant across the one or more formats of the item of content. The method further includes associating the digital token with at least one right to the item of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Deen, Michael Shane Wilkinson
  • Publication number: 20140380493
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a source of a copied work that in one embodiment includes obtaining at least some portions of a reference work, collecting at least some portions of the suspect work, matching the suspect work with the reference work, wherein the matching includes temporally aligning one or more frames of the reference work and the suspect work, spatially aligning frames of the reference work and the suspect work, and detecting forensic marks in the suspect work by spatiotemporal matching with the reference work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Zhaohui Harry Sun, Catherine Mary Graichen, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Anthony James Hoogs, Aaron Shaw Markham, SR., Budhaditya Deb, Roderic Greene Collins, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Anthony Christopher Anderson, Jenny Marie Weisenberg Williams
  • Patent number: 8793498
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying a source of a copied work that in one embodiment includes obtaining at least some portions of a reference work, collecting at least some portions of the suspect work, matching the suspect work with the reference work, wherein the matching includes temporally aligning one or more frames of the reference work and the suspect work, spatially aligning frames of the reference work and the suspect work, and detecting forensic marks in the suspect work by spatiotemporal matching with the reference work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Zhaohui Sun, Catherine Mary Graichen, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Anthony James Hoogs, Aaron Shaw Markham, Budhaditya Deb, Roderic Greene Collins, Michael Shane Wilkinson, Anthony Christopher Anderson, Jenny Marie Weisenberg
  • Patent number: 8538136
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for analyzing 3D digital content to determine whether a watermark is detectable. The watermark may exist in 2D content that is converted to 3D, and in such cases, the survivability of the watermark to the conversion process is evaluated. An anticipated location of the watermark in left and right 3D images may be determined, and the detectability based upon the anticipated location. A report may indicate whether the watermark survived the conversion in one or both images, or neither. The process may be performed for single frames, sequences of single frames, or entire files containing many image frames. Watermark placement may also be proposed for locations in 2D content, 3D content, or both. Watermarks may similarly be placed in the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: NBCUniversal MEdia, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Shane Wilkinson, Thomas Bause
  • Publication number: 20120254404
    Abstract: A multi-tiered approach to identifying digital content and acting upon the identification includes transmitting data from a device on which the content is stored or played to a first tier entity where the content and the device are identified. The first tier entity may use any one of many techniques for identifying the data and device. Once the identification data is determined, the information is transmitted to any one of multiple second tier entities that work in cooperation with the first tier entity. The second tier entities may then perform any desired functions based on the identification, such as providing offers, content, products and/or services to the device, or to other devices associated with the device or the device user. Other tiers may be employed for carrying out particular functions or activities, such as under the direction of the second tier entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: NBCUniversal Media LLC
    Inventors: Michael Shane Wilkinson, Thomas Bause, Arturo Vermolen, Sheau Ng, John Sullivan