Patents by Inventor Scott Kidder
Scott Kidder 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: 11936932Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Mux, Inc.Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
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Publication number: 20230379522Abstract: A method including: populating an encoding ladder with a subset of bitrate-resolution pairs, from a set of bitrate-resolution pairs, based on a distribution of audience bandwidths; receiving a first request for a first playback segment, at a first bitrate-resolution pair in a encoding ladder, in the video from a first device; in response to determining an absence of video segments, at the first bitrate-resolution pair and corresponding to the segment, in a first rendition cache: identifying a first set of mezzanine segments, in the video, corresponding to the first playback segment; assigning the first set of mezzanine segments to a set of workers for transcoding into a first set of video segments according to the first bitrate-resolution pair; storing the first set of video segments in the first rendition cache; and based on the first request, releasing the first set of video segments to the first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Jon Dahl, Adam Brown, Nick Chadwick, Matt Ward, Scott Kidder, Masroor Hasan, Ben Dodson
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Publication number: 20230247239Abstract: A method for streaming an audio-video file can include: receiving a request for a playback segment of the audio-video file in a rendition from a computational device; in response to identifying absence of the playback segment in the rendition from a rendition cache and identifying absence of an assignment to transcode the playback segment in the rendition: assigning a worker to transcode the playback segment in the rendition. The method can also include, at the worker: identifying a subset of mezzanine segments in the set of mezzanine segments coinciding with a playback interval in the audio-video file; and for each mezzanine segment in the subset of mezzanine segments: concurrently transcoding the mezzanine segment into a rendition segment in the rendition and transmitting the rendition segment coinciding with the playback interval to the computational device via a peer-to-peer stream; and storing the rendition segment in the rendition cache.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Jon Dahl, Adam Brown, Nick Chadwick, Matt Ward, Scott Kidder
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Patent number: 11695978Abstract: A method including: populating an encoding ladder with a subset of bitrate-resolution pairs, from a set of bitrate-resolution pairs, based on a distribution of audience bandwidths; receiving a first request for a first playback segment, at a first bitrate-resolution pair in a encoding ladder, in the video from a first device; in response to determining an absence of video segments, at the first bitrate-resolution pair and corresponding to the segment, in a first rendition cache: identifying a first set of mezzanine segments, in the video, corresponding to the first playback segment; assigning the first set of mezzanine segments to a set of workers for transcoding into a first set of video segments according to the first bitrate-resolution pair; storing the first set of video segments in the first rendition cache; and based on the first request, releasing the first set of video segments to the first device.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Mux, Inc.Inventors: Jon Dahl, Adam Brown, Nick Chadwick, Matt Ward, Scott Kidder, Masroor Hasan, Ben Dodson
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Patent number: 11653040Abstract: A method for streaming an audio-video file can include: receiving a request for a playback segment of the audio-video file in a rendition from a computational device; in response to identifying absence of the playback segment in the rendition from a rendition cache and identifying absence of an assignment to transcode the playback segment in the rendition: assigning a worker to transcode the playback segment in the rendition. The method can also include, at the worker: identifying a subset of mezzanine segments in the set of mezzanine segments coinciding with a playback interval in the audio-video file; and for each mezzanine segment in the subset of mezzanine segments: concurrently transcoding the mezzanine segment into a rendition segment in the rendition and transmitting the rendition segment coinciding with the playback interval to the computational device via a peer-to-peer stream; and storing the rendition segment in the rendition cache.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Mux, Inc.Inventors: Jon Dahl, Adam Brown, Nick Chadwick, Matt Ward, Scott Kidder
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Publication number: 20230117825Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
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Patent number: 11570497Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Mux, Inc.Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
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Publication number: 20220353560Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
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Patent number: 11425435Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Mux, Inc.Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
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Publication number: 20220264168Abstract: A method including: populating an encoding ladder with a subset of bitrate-resolution pairs, from a set of bitrate-resolution pairs, based on a distribution of audience bandwidths; receiving a first request for a first playback segment, at a first bitrate-resolution pair in a encoding ladder, in the video from a first device; in response to determining an absence of video segments, at the first bitrate-resolution pair and corresponding to the segment, in a first rendition cache: identifying a first set of mezzanine segments, in the video, corresponding to the first playback segment; assigning the first set of mezzanine segments to a set of workers for transcoding into a first set of video segments according to the first bitrate-resolution pair; storing the first set of video segments in the first rendition cache; and based on the first request, releasing the first set of video segments to the first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Jon Dahl, Adam Brown, Nick Chadwick, Matt Ward, Scott Kidder, Masroor Hasan, Ben Dodson
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Publication number: 20210400323Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Mux, Inc.Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
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Patent number: 11140428Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Mux, Inc.Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
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Publication number: 20200404351Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Mux, Inc.Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Hellernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diel
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Patent number: 10798434Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Mux, Inc.Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
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Publication number: 20200037014Abstract: A method for streaming an audio-video file can include: receiving a request for a playback segment of the audio-video file in a rendition from a computational device; in response to identifying absence of the playback segment in the rendition from a rendition cache and identifying absence of an assignment to transcode the playback segment in the rendition: assigning a worker to transcode the playback segment in the rendition. The method can also include, at the worker: identifying a subset of mezzanine segments in the set of mezzanine segments coinciding with a playback interval in the audio-video file; and for each mezzanine segment in the subset of mezzanine segments: concurrently transcoding the mezzanine segment into a rendition segment in the rendition and transmitting the rendition segment coinciding with the playback interval to the computational device via a peer-to-peer stream; and storing the rendition segment in the rendition cache.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Jon Dahl, Adam Brown, Nick Chadwick, Matt Ward, Scott Kidder
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Publication number: 20190230391Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2018Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
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Publication number: 20160057173Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for putting a plurality of endpoints in communication with a media host server and a real time communications session manager, wherein a client application running on an endpoint recognizes commands sent to a media host server by a media player running on the endpoint, compares those commands to a pre-programmed set of commands, and sends an indication of the commands to the communications session manager.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Jeffrey Singman, Scott Kidder, John Joseph Bloomer
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Publication number: 20120255036Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow application of proprietary access control algorithms during requests for resources obtained using a content delivery network (CDN). Requests to a CDN are augmented with a content provider specific token. The content provider can maintain strict control over access to restricted content at the time of request with a proprietary authorization algorithm and maintains real-time usage information for restricted content.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: MOBITV, INC.Inventor: Scott Kidder