Patents by Inventor Stephen Coney
Stephen Coney 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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Publication number: 20240406287Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Publication number: 20240348889Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corresponding media content or begin playback of relevant media content. Character images or entity images need not correspond to a primary program character or object but may correspond to minor characters or tangential entities depicted periodically on particular programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: John Hinman, Ray DeRenzo, Timothy Chan, Allen Billings, Stephen Coney, David Brubeck
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Patent number: 12047655Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corresponding media content or begin playback of relevant media content. Character images or entity images need not correspond to a primary program character or object but may correspond to minor characters or tangential entities depicted periodically on particular programs.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: TiVo CorporationInventors: John Hinman, Ray DeRenzo, Timothy Chan, Allen Billings, Stephen Coney, David Brubeck
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Patent number: 12041146Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: TiVo CorporationInventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Patent number: 11979641Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for relevance-based media content discovery. Relevance scores for segments of a media asset are calculated based on a time amount that at least one viewer has viewed the segments of the media asset. Segments are then chosen for display based on the relevance score. Users may select segments based on representative images of the segments.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TiVo CorporationInventors: John Hinman, Ray DeRenzo, Timothy Chan, Allen Billings, Stephen Coney, David Brubeck
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Publication number: 20230126519Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for relevance-based media content discovery. Relevance scores for segments of a media asset are calculated based on a time amount that at least one viewer has viewed the segments of the media asset. Segments are then chosen for display based on the relevance score. Users may select segments based on representative images of the segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: John Hinman, Ray DeRenzo, Timothy Chan, Allen Billings, Stephen Coney, David Brubeck
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Publication number: 20220377155Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Patent number: 11303716Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TiVo CorporationInventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Publication number: 20210266642Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corresponding media content or begin playback of relevant media content. Character images or entity images need not correspond to a primary program character or object but may correspond to minor characters or tangential entities depicted periodically on particular programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: John Hinman, Ray DeRenzo, Timothy Chan, Allen Billings, Stephen Coney, David Brubeck
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Patent number: 10812863Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corresponding media content or begin playback of relevant media content. Character images or entity images need not correspond to a primary program character or object but may correspond to minor characters or tangential entities depicted periodically on particular programs.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: John Hinman, Ray DeRenzo, Timothy Chan, Allen Billings, Stephen Coney, David Brubeck
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Publication number: 20190387070Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicant: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Patent number: 10447801Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Publication number: 20170094365Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corresponding media content or begin playback of relevant media content. Character images or entity images need not correspond to a primary program character or object but may correspond to minor characters or tangential entities depicted periodically on particular programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: John Hinman, Ray DeRenzo, Timothy Chan, Allen Billings, Stephen Coney, David Brubeck
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Patent number: 9552124Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corresponding media content or begin playback of relevant media content. Character images or entity images need not correspond to a primary program character or object but may correspond to minor characters or tangential entities depicted periodically on particular programs.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: John Hinman, Ray DeRenzo, Timothy Chan, Allen Billings, Stephen Coney, David Brubeck
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Publication number: 20160301767Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Patent number: 9398112Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Publication number: 20150012589Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Patent number: 8874750Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: James Roseborough, Stephen Coney
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Patent number: 8818021Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for watermarking of digital video are described herein. According to various embodiments, a request to transmit to a client machine video content based on a video content distribution item may be received. The video content distribution item may be divided into a plurality of video content segments. Designated ones of the video content segments may have a respective plurality of alternate video content segment encodings. Each of the alternate video content segment encodings may include a respective digital watermark. Different digital watermarks may encode different information within the alternate video content segment encodings. One of the respective alternate video content segment encodings may be selected for each of the designated video content segments to create a digital watermarking message to include in the video content. The video content including the selected video content segment encodings may be transmitted to the client machine.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: David Brubeck, Stephen Coney
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Publication number: 20140086445Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for watermarking of digital video are described herein. According to various embodiments, a request to transmit to a client machine video content based on a video content distribution item may be received. The video content distribution item may be divided into a plurality of video content segments. Designated ones of the video content segments may have a respective plurality of alternate video content segment encodings. Each of the alternate video content segment encodings may include a respective digital watermark. Different digital watermarks may encode different information within the alternate video content segment encodings. One of the respective alternate video content segment encodings may be selected for each of the designated video content segments to create a digital watermarking message to include in the video content. The video content including the selected video content segment encodings may be transmitted to the client machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: MobiTV, Inc.Inventors: David Brubeck, Stephen Coney