Patents by Inventor Nicholas Lineback

Nicholas Lineback 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: 20260107035
    Abstract: Provided are system, apparatus, device, method and/or computer-program product embodiments, combinations and/or sub-combinations thereof for determining, using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, content item placements based on text information associated with scripted content. An example method can include receiving textual information descriptive of one or more scenes associated with media content and, based on the textual information, determining, by an AI model, one or more contextual attributes of each scene from the one or more scenes. The method can include, based on the contextual attributes, determining one or more content placement locations within the one or more scenes, the one or more content placement locations depicting at least one of an object, an activity, and a dialogue. The method can further include generating one or more suggested content modifications for the at least one of the object, the activity, and the dialogue in the one or more content placement locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Inventors: Rohit Sai Venkataramana Nyayapati, Michael Patrick Cutter, Sunil Ramesh, Nicholas Lineback, Thejaswi Raya
  • Publication number: 20250330665
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for classifying ad break markers. An example method can include receiving a media stream comprising audio data and video data, wherein the media stream includes at least one ad break marker; obtaining closed caption data corresponding to the media stream; and determining a classification for the at least one ad break marker based on the closed caption data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2025
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas Lineback, Ritwick Babbar, Shailin Saraiya, Linfeng Yan, Yuvaraj Kumar Kesavan
  • Publication number: 20250217861
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for providing an item search service for a premises comprising a set of Internet of Things (IoT) cameras. An example embodiment operates by receiving, via a user interface of the item search service, first user input regarding an item of interest, wherein the first user input comprises one or more of speech input or text input, accessing a plurality of images of the premises captured by the set of IoT cameras, executing a machine learning model to identify one or more images in the plurality of images that include the item of interest based at least on the first user input, generating an item search result based on the identified one or more images, and providing the item search result via the user interface of the item search service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: Ruku, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Cheng LIN, Sunil RAMESH, Michael CUTTER, Nicholas LINEBACK, Karina LEVITIAN
  • Publication number: 20250139969
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for processing, understanding, and defining media content. An example can include obtaining media content items of a segment of media content; generating, based on one or more signals in the media content items, one or more media content representations encoding information about the media content items; classifying a content of the segment of the media content based on the one or more media content representations, the content of the segment of the media content being classified into one or more categories of content; and matching the segment of the media content with a targeted media content item based on the one or more categories of content associated with the segment of the media content and at least one category of content associated with the targeted media content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Fogg, Ivan Lai, Nicholas Lineback, Michael Patrick Cutter, Sunil Ramesh, Thejaswi Raya
  • Publication number: 20250142183
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for identifying scene breaks in media content. An example method comprises segmenting media content into a sequence of units by detecting unit boundaries. One or more feature encoders are applied to generate in an embedding space a multimedia representation of features of each unit in the sequence across different media modalities. A sequence classifier is applied to identify whether a unit boundary is a scene boundary based on the multimedia representation of units in the embedding space in at least a subset of the sequence of units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas Lineback, Michael Patrick Cutter, Sunil Ramesh