Patents by Inventor Yuriy Bolyukh

Yuriy Bolyukh 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: 20100205641
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more devices within a subscription television network includes receiving a customer profile for a viewer, the customer profile being based on historical data of the viewer provided over the television network. The method also includes applying, based on the customer profile, a price utility function for each on-demand program of a group of programs, the price utility function identifying dynamic pricing for each on-demand program; and offering, to the viewer over the television network, each of the programs of the group of programs at a price based on the price utility function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Aamer Charania, Syed Zafar Beyabani, Yuriy Bolyukh
  • Publication number: 20100205625
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more devices within a subscription television network that offers pay-per-view programming to viewers includes receiving criteria for triggering dynamic pricing discounts for a pay-per-view event and establishing, based on the received criteria, dynamic prices for the pay-per-view event. The method also includes offering, to the viewers over the subscription television network, the pay-per-view event at one of the established dynamic prices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Syed Zafar BEYABANI, Yuriy BOLYUKH, Aamer CHARANIA
  • Publication number: 20100146568
    Abstract: A system includes a set-top box and a server for a subscription television service. The set-top box includes a processor to receive a video-on-demand (VOD) programming suggestion from a user and send, to the server, the VOD programming suggestion. The server includes a processor to receive the VOD programming suggestion, compile the VOD programming suggestion with other VOD programming suggestions from other set-top boxes, and send a notification to the set-top box that the VOD programming suggestion has been added to the list of available VOD programming for the subscription television service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicants: VERIZON DATA SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED, VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Ramprasath HARIHARAN, Yuriy BOLYUKH, Syed Zafar BEYABANI, Anil SOLLETI
  • Publication number: 20100146530
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more computing devices includes determining a relevancy function of viewer tendencies based on set-top box data from a subscription television service and defining a cluster of set-top boxes based on the relevancy function. The method also includes building a tendency profile for the cluster, the tendency profile including predicted actions for viewers within the cluster. The method further includes assigning the set-top box to the cluster and directing a cluster-oriented presentation to a particular set-top box within the cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicants: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLC, VERIZON DATA SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuriy BOLYUKH, Ramprasath HARIHARAN, Syed Zafar BEYABANI, Anil SOLLETI
  • Publication number: 20090320059
    Abstract: A system and method may include providing a media stream via a network, the media stream comprising one or more advertisement content segments, identifying aggregate information associated with a viewer, assigning the one or more advertisement content segments to one or more categories and a category score associated with the one or more categories, filtering the one or more advertisement content segments based at least in part on the one or more categories, the category score associated with the one or more categories and the aggregate information associated with the viewer, and outputting the filtered one or more advertisement content segments to the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES INC.
    Inventor: Yuriy Bolyukh