Patents by Inventor Yuval Fisher

Yuval Fisher 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).

  • Patent number: 12056019
    Abstract: Performing disaster recovery in a cloud-based storage system, including: creating, by a storage system a snapshot of a dataset; uploading, from the storage system to a cloud computing environment, the snapshot; storing, by the cloud computing environment, the snapshot; detecting, by the cloud computing environment, that the dataset is not available on the storage system; and creating, by the cloud computing environment using the snapshot that is stored within the cloud computing environment, a cloud-based storage system that includes the dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: James Fisher, Naveen Neelakantam, Yuval Frandzel
  • Patent number: 12010401
    Abstract: A system for producing fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a processing device, a non-transitory data store, and a memory storage device having at least a Manifest Processing Service (MPS) unit stored therein. The MPS unit is configured to generate at least one master manifest and store the master manifest in the non-transitory data store, the master manifest comprising a timing reference for a video fragment of the fragmented video content, wherein the timing reference indicates a temporal boundary of processing for the video fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Brick Eksten, Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Steven Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11871054
    Abstract: A playout system for providing playout of fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a non-transitory data store and a processor. The processor is configured to playout content for video origination using a fragmented format. The processor can receive a playlist and generate a plurality of video fragments from source content. A transcoder can process video fragments based on one or more program scheduling requirements from the playlist to generate new video fragments. A manifest is updated to reference the new video fragments. The process can output a video stream based on the new video fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Brick Eksten, Steven Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20220417576
    Abstract: A method of assigning advertisements to slots in video channels of a bundle of channels provided to an end user. The method includes managing credits, for each specific channel of the channels, indicative of a difference between a number of advertisements provided by an owner of the specific channel that were displayed on other channels and a number of advertisements provided by owners of other channels displayed on the specific channel In addition, scores indicative of a predicted success of the advertisement with the end user are calculated for a plurality of advertisements. An advertisement to be displayed to the end user is selected responsive to a function of both the calculated scores and the managed credits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Ron Gutman, Noam Koren, Yuval Fisher, David Martinez, Sean Doherty, Nam Hung Ly
  • Publication number: 20220256214
    Abstract: A playout system for providing playout of fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a non-transitory data store and a processor. The processor is configured to playout content for video origination using a fragmented format. The processor can receive a playlist and generate a plurality of video fragments from source content. A transcoder can process video fragments based on one or more program scheduling requirements from the playlist to generate new video fragments. A manifest is updated to reference the new video fragments. The process can output a video stream based on the new video fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Brick Eksten, Steven Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20220224993
    Abstract: A system for producing fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a processing device, a non-transitory data store, and a memory storage device having at least a Manifest Processing Service (MPS) unit stored therein. The MPS unit is configured to generate at least one master manifest and store the master manifest in the non-transitory data store, the master manifest comprising a timing reference for a video fragment of the fragmented video content, wherein the timing reference indicates a temporal boundary of processing for the video fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Brick Eksten, Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Steven Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11310544
    Abstract: A playout system for providing playout of fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a non-transitory data store and a processor. The processor is configured to playout content for video origination using a fragmented format. The processor can receive a playlist and generate a plurality of video fragments from source content. A transcoder can process video fragments based on one or more program scheduling requirements from the playlist to generate new video fragments. A manifest is updated to reference the new video fragments. The process can output a video stream based on the new video fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: IMAGINE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.
    Inventors: Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Brick Eksten, Steven Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20220046334
    Abstract: A system for producing fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a processing device, a non-transitory data store, and a memory storage device having at least a Manifest Processing Service (MPS) unit stored therein. The MPS unit is configured to generate at least one master manifest and store the master manifest in the non-transitory data store, the master manifest comprising a timing reference for a video fragment of the fragmented video content, wherein the timing reference indicates a temporal boundary of processing for the video fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Brick Eksten, Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Steven Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20210219005
    Abstract: A playout system for providing playout of fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a non-transitory data store and a processor. The processor is configured to playout content for video origination using a fragmented format. The processor can receive a playlist and generate a plurality of video fragments from source content. A transcoder can process video fragments based on one or more program scheduling requirements from the playlist to generate new video fragments. A manifest is updated to reference the new video fragments. The process can output a video stream based on the new video fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Brick Eksten, Steven Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11057687
    Abstract: A method of video distribution including receiving a manifest including links to blocks, which blocks form at least a portion of a video program, selecting at least some of the links in the manifest, to which auxiliary information is to be added and adding, to each of the selected links, auxiliary information, which does not affect a block referred to by the link. A log of links requested by clients is retrieved from a storage unit, links relating to a specific video program are filtered from the retrieved log, and information on an extent to which the specific video program was viewed, is determined responsive to the filtered links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: WURL INC.
    Inventors: Yuval Fisher, Ron Gutman, Bijal Sutaria, Ramarao Babbellapati, Sean Doherty
  • Publication number: 20210160589
    Abstract: A system for producing fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a processing device, a non-transitory data store, and a memory storage device having at least a Manifest Processing Service (MPS) unit stored therein. The MPS unit is configured to generate at least one master manifest and store the master manifest in the non-transitory data store, the master manifest comprising a timing reference for a video fragment of the fragmented video content, wherein the timing reference indicates a temporal boundary of processing for the video fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Brick Eksten, Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Steven Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20210152896
    Abstract: A method of video distribution including receiving a manifest including links to blocks, which blocks form at least a portion of a video program, selecting at least some of the links in the manifest, to which auxiliary information is to be added and adding, to each of the selected links, auxiliary information, which does not affect a block referred to by the link. A log of links requested by clients is retrieved from a storage unit, links relating to a specific video program are filtered from the retrieved log, and information on an extent to which the specific video program was viewed, is determined responsive to the filtered links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yuval Fisher, Ron Gutman, Bijal Sutaria, Ramarao Babbellapati, Sean Doherty
  • Patent number: 10999611
    Abstract: A playout system for providing playout of fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a non-transitory data store and a processor. The processor is configured to playout content for video origination using a fragmented format. The processor can receive a playlist and generate a plurality of video fragments from source content. A transcoder can process video fragments based on one or more program scheduling requirements from the playlist to generate new video fragments. A manifest is updated to reference the new video fragments. The process can output a video stream based on the new video fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: IMAGINE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.
    Inventors: Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Brick Eksten, Steven Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10863250
    Abstract: A system for producing fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a processing device, a non-transitory data store, and a memory storage device having at least a Manifest Processing Service (MPS) unit stored therein. The MPS unit is configured to generate at least one master manifest and store the master manifest in the non-transitory data store, the master manifest comprising a timing reference for a video fragment of the fragmented video content, wherein the timing reference indicates a temporal boundary of processing for the video fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Brick Eksten, Stephen Smith, Yuval Fisher, Steven Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10785514
    Abstract: A method of providing a video manifest to a client. A router manages, for each of a plurality of ad placement units, a measure of advertisement avails provided by the router to the ad placement unit for filling with advertisements, receives a client request for a video content, and chooses an ad placement unit from the plurality of ad placement units, to select advertisements to be placed in avails of the requested video content, at least partially responsive to the managed measures of advertisement avails. The received client request is directed to the chosen ad placement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: WURL INC.
    Inventors: Ron Gutman, Yuval Fisher, Sarah Christine Foss
  • Publication number: 20200296433
    Abstract: A method of providing a video manifest to a client. A router manages, for each of a plurality of ad placement units, a measure of advertisement avails provided by the router to the ad placement unit for filling with advertisements, receives a client request for a video content, and chooses an ad placement unit from the plurality of ad placement units, to select advertisements to be placed in avails of the requested video content, at least partially responsive to the managed measures of advertisement avails. The received client request is directed to the chosen ad placement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Ron Gutman, Yuval Fisher, Sarah Christine Foss
  • Patent number: 10764642
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for delivering video programs are provided. A plurality of video programs are provided in a fragmented, adaptive bit rate format. A request for a respective video program from the plurality of video programs is received from each of a plurality of clients. The requested video programs are multiplexed for delivery to the clients in a multiplex over a shared, fixed-bit-rate transmission channel. In the fragmented, adaptive bit rate format, the fragment delivered to the client may not be the same as the requested fragment and is dependent on multiple criteria, including the bitrate and quality of the requested and delivered fragments, the total available delivery bandwidth, and other fragment requests made on the channel. The resulting multiplex may be either a constant bit rate multiplex or a variable bit rate multiplex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: IMAGINE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.
    Inventors: Yuval Fisher, Adam S. Tom
  • Publication number: 20190090001
    Abstract: A playout system for providing playout of fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a non-transitory data store and a processor. The processor is configured to playout content for video origination using a fragmented format. The processor can receive a playlist and generate a plurality of video fragments from source content. A transcoder can process video fragments based on one or more program scheduling requirements from the playlist to generate new video fragments. A manifest is updated to reference the new video fragments. The process can output a video stream based on the new video fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen SMITH, Yuval FISHER, Brick EKSTEN, Steven REYNOLDS
  • Publication number: 20190090035
    Abstract: A system for producing fragmented video content is provided. The system includes a processing device, a non-transitory data store, and a memory storage device having at least a Manifest Processing Service (MPS) unit stored therein. The MPS unit is configured to generate at least one master manifest and store the master manifest in the non-transitory data store, the master manifest comprising a timing reference for a video fragment of the fragmented video content, wherein the timing reference indicates a temporal boundary of processing for the video fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Brick EKSTEN, Stephen SMITH, Yuval FISHER, Steven REYNOLDS
  • Publication number: 20180302681
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for delivering video programs are provided. A plurality of video programs are provided in a fragmented, adaptive bit rate format. A request for a respective video program from the plurality of video programs is received from each of a plurality of clients. The requested video programs are multiplexed for delivery to the clients in a multiplex over a shared, fixed-bit-rate transmission channel. In the fragmented, adaptive bit rate format, the fragment delivered to the client may not be the same as the requested fragment and is dependent on multiple criteria, including the bitrate and quality of the requested and delivered fragments, the total available delivery bandwidth, and other fragment requests made on the channel. The resulting multiplex may be either a constant bit rate multiplex or a variable bit rate multiplex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: YUVAL FISHER, ADAM S. TOM