Patents by Inventor Steven Eric Omner

Steven Eric Omner 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).

  • Advertising detection in adaptive bitrate streaming
    Patent number: 9654815
    Abstract: A method of handling advertisements in an adaptive bitrate stream is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving an adaptive bitrate stream playlist listing chunk identifiers pointing to a plurality of media chunks, analyzing the playlist to find one or more advertising chunks, modifying the adaptive bitrate stream playlist with a client device when the client device has been set to skip advertisements by deleting chunk identifiers associated with advertising chunks from the playlist, retrieving and playing back media chunks according to the playlist, and setting a no-trick-play flag at the client device during playback of the one or more advertising chunks when the client device has not been set to skip advertisements, such that trick-plays through and over media chunks are allowed when the no-trick-play flag is not set and are not allowed when the no-trick-play flag is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Czeck, Jr., Steven Eric Omner, Senthilprabu Vadhugapalayam Shanmugam, Shailesh Ramamurthy
  • ADVERTISING DETECTION IN ADAPTIVE BITRATE STREAMING
    Publication number: 20170085933
    Abstract: A method of handling advertisements in an adaptive bitrate stream is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving an adaptive bitrate stream playlist listing chunk identifiers pointing to a plurality of media chunks, analyzing the playlist to find one or more advertising chunks, modifying the adaptive bitrate stream playlist with a client device when the client device has been set to skip advertisements by deleting chunk identifiers associated with advertising chunks from the playlist, retrieving and playing back media chunks according to the playlist, and setting a no-trick-play flag at the client device during playback of the one or more advertising chunks when the client device has not been set to skip advertisements, such that trick-plays through and over media chunks are allowed when the no-trick-play flag is not set and are not allowed when the no-trick-play flag is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: David J. Czeck, JR., Steven Eric Omner, Senthilprabu Vadhugapalayam Shanmugam, Shailesh Ramamurthy