Patents by Inventor Steven Ernest Riedl

Steven Ernest Riedl 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: 20180192079
    Abstract: A live content distribution device that dynamically generates video-on-demand (VOD) assets for multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), receives a live video feed, a plurality of triggers, and metadata from a broadcast provider system over a communication network. The live content distribution device is provided in a MVPD system. A plurality of segments are determined in the received live video feed based on the received plurality of triggers and metadata. One or more VOD content assets are dynamically generated based on a package for playout to one or more servers communicatively coupled with the MVPD system. The package includes one or more of the determined plurality of segments and metadata associated with the determined plurality of segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Steven Ernest Riedl, Donald Jude Loheide, Nishith Kumar Sinha, Mark Cooper Pope, V
  • Patent number: 9137557
    Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing a dynamic broadcast campaign and/or an interactive broadcast campaign are provided, in which an interactive program is broadcast to an audience and in which members of the audience may interact with media content of the interactive program and/or in which a dynamic program is broadcast to a segment of the audience. The systems and methods utilize a platform that facilitates the creation, execution, and monitoring of a dynamic broadcast campaign and/or an interactive broadcast campaign, as well as one or more interactive and/or dynamic programs within the campaign. Each interactive program enables audience members to interact or send messages to the program, such that the messages are received and processed by the program itself or received by the program and processed by the broadcaster that aired the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: TIME WARNER CABLE INC., CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC., COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Francis R. Sandoval, Steven Ernest Riedl, Walter F. Michel