Connection To External Network At Receiver (e.g., Set-top Box) Patents (Class 725/110)
  • Patent number: 9620118
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring video assets provided by a multimedia content distribution network includes testing closed captions provided in output video signals. A video and audio portion of a video signal are acquired during a time period that a closed caption occurs. A first text string is extracted from a text portion of a video image, while a second text string is extracted from speech content in the audio portion. A degree of matching between the strings is evaluated based on a threshold to determine when a caption error occurs. Various operations may be performed when the caption error occurs, including logging caption error data and sending notifications of the caption error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Hung John Pham
  • Patent number: 9602887
    Abstract: A method of processing an interactive service and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes generating a trigger, wherein the trigger contains a first identifier and a parameter, wherein the first identifier identifies an application to be launched, wherein the parameter contains a media time stamp and a content identifier, wherein the media time stamp indicates a current point in the playout of a content, wherein the content identifier identifies the content currently being viewed, wherein the trigger is passed into the application after the application is launched, and wherein the application delivers the content identifier to a server in order to identify the content currently being viewed; generating a broadcast signal including the trigger; and transmitting the broadcast signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sejin Oh, Byungsun Park, Kyoungsoo Moon, Gomer Thomas, Seungjoo An, Jinwon Lee, Jinpil Kim, Kyungho Kim, Aettie Ji
  • Patent number: 9596494
    Abstract: A method of processing an interactive service and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving uncompressed audio contents or uncompressed video contents from an external decoding unit, extracting an identifier of a frame from the received content, sending a request containing the identifier to a server and receiving a trigger for the content from the server based on the request, wherein the trigger indicates the current time of the contents and references a particular interactive event in an application parameter table or signals that the event is to be executed now or at a specified future time and the application parameter table includes information about at least one of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sejin Oh, Jinpil Kim, Seungjoo An, Jinwon Lee, Kyungho Kim, Kyoungsoo Moon
  • Patent number: 9584835
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method for streaming content to a plurality of devices over a network. A first stream comprising a first live feed is received from a first source, a second stream comprising a second live feed received from a second source, the first live feed synchronized with the second live feed, and a third stream comprising the synchronized first and second live feed generated and sent to each device. An interface is also presented on each device and the live feed displayed therewithin, a request signal indicative of a request for interactive content received, a control signal comprising instructions for retrieving the interactive content from the memory sent to each device, and the interface dynamically modified for causing the retrieved interactive content to be displayed concurrently with the live feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: DECISION-PLUS M.C. INC.
    Inventor: Carl Tremblay
  • Patent number: 9584603
    Abstract: A system and method for managing customer premise equipment (CPE) devices. A wake signal is issued to the CPE device. Action parameters are communicated to the CPE device in response to receiving acknowledgement of the wake signal from the CPE device. A management session is established with the CPE device utilizing an address for secure communications in response to the CPE device acknowledging the action parameters. Communications are performed through the management session to perform operation, administration, and maintenance of the CPE device. The management session with the CPE device is terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Michael Morrissey, Clinton Smoyer, Jade Kerr, Andrew Cook, Kevin McBride
  • Patent number: 9578391
    Abstract: A method of processing an interactive service and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes sending a discovery message to a second screen application running in a second device, wherein the discovery message advertises second screen support services that the first device can provide, receiving a request for descriptions of the second screen support services from the second screen application, sending a response with the descriptions to the second screen application, providing a HTTP proxy server using a HTTP proxy server service allowing the second device to access files that are received by the first device in a broadcast stream, wherein the HTTP proxy server service is one of the second screen support services, receiving the files from the broadcast stream and delivering the files to the second device via the HTTP proxy server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyungho Kim, Minsoo Lee, Jangwoong Park, Seungryul Yang, Jinpil Kim, Kyoungsoo Moon, Janghun Bae, Jaekoo Lee, Younghwan Kwon, Seungjoo An, Hyeonjae Lee, Sejin Oh
  • Patent number: 9571328
    Abstract: A self-organizing internet protocol television (IPTV) grid system that: establishes an internet protocol television grid including an IPTV server, a plurality of grid nodes, a first end user device and a second end user device; communicates an IPTV channel signal over a first communication path that begins at the IPTV server and ends at the first end user device; communicates the IPTV channel signal over a second communication path that begins at the IPTV server and ends at the second end user device; determines that a quality issue condition exists for the channel signal as communicated to the second end user device; and responsive to the determination of the quality issue condition, communicates the IPTV channel signal over a third communication path that begins at the first end user device and ends at the second end user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hitham A. A. A. Salama, Jonathan Dunne, Paul B. French, James P. Galvin, Jr., Patrick J. O'Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9565478
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
  • Patent number: 9559983
    Abstract: A network device may comprise a first connector for connecting to an external network in which upstream data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) signals are communicated using a first frequency band and downstream cable and/or DOCSIS signals are communicated using a second frequency band. The device may also comprise a second connector for connecting to an on-premises network, as well as circuitry residing in a signal path between the first connector and the second connector. The circuitry may be operable to permit the downstream cable and/or DOCSIS signals to pass from the first connector to the second connector, and to block the upstream DOCSIS signals from passing from the first connector to the second connector. The circuitry may be operable to transmit, via the second connector, non-DOCSIS signals into the on-premises network using the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Ramesh, Timothy Leo Gallagher, Curtis Ling
  • Patent number: 9544629
    Abstract: A video processing system located at a remote location such as a TV broadcasting station or an Internet media server stores a plurality of video elements at that are delivered to a viewing system located at a viewer's premises. The video processing system is capable of receiving a selection request comprising two or more video elements or subsets thereof, wherein the subsets are regions of interest or portions of the corresponding video elements. The video processing system constructs a custom video by combining them based on the viewer' selection and using the region of interest that are provided, and forwards the custom video to the viewing system. Billing based on record of usage is also supported for the custom video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rajendra Kumar Khare, Brajabandhu Mishra, Sandeep Kumar Relan
  • Patent number: 9539497
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating a primary display comprising information that facilitates visual presentation of a view of a game space and general audio to a primary client device and facilitating communication of individualized audio through a secondary client device such as a user's smartphone. The system may include a computing device that allows a user to play a video game through a primary client device, and send or receive individualized audio through a secondary client device while playing the video game. The system may include a set top box or other media device configured to provide general audio to a display device and individualized audio through a user's secondary client device. The individualized audio may include audio tracks, voice communications (e.g., verbal utterances from a user to another user), and/or other sounds intended for a particular user and/or group of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Kabam, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent Wakeford, Clifford J. Harrington
  • Patent number: 9537955
    Abstract: Sending web content via asynchronous background processes is described. A system receives, from a webserver, a request, from an end-user device, for web content. The system sends the web content from a content server to a customer storage server associated with the end-user device. The system sends the web content from the customer storage server to the end-user device via an asynchronous background process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventor: Prakash S. Hiremath
  • Patent number: 9538237
    Abstract: A multi-screen interaction method is provided that includes sending, by a source device, device parameters of the source device to a target device that accesses a local area network where the source device is located, and receiving device parameters of the target device that are sent by the target device; sending, by the source device, media information of media content to the target device; requesting, by the target device, the media content from a network server according to the media information and the device parameters of the target device; sending, by the network server according to the device parameters of the target device, media content corresponding to the device parameters of the target device to the target device; and finding, by the target device, a play state of the media content that is being played by the source device, and playing the media content according to the play state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bo Huang
  • Patent number: 9537707
    Abstract: A self-organizing internet protocol television (IPTV) grid system that: establishes an internet protocol television grid including an IPTV server, a plurality of grid nodes, a first end user device and a second end user device; communicates an IPTV channel signal over a first communication path that begins at the IPTV server and ends at the first end user device; communicates the IPTV channel signal over a second communication path that begins at the IPTV server and ends at the second end user device; determines that a quality issue condition exists for the channel signal as communicated to the second end user device; and responsive to the determination of the quality issue condition, communicates the IPTV channel signal over a third communication path that begins at the first end user device and ends at the second end user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hitham A. A. A. Salama, Jonathan Dunne, Paul B. French, James P. Galvin, Jr., Patrick J. O'Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9532115
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for enhancing the viewing experience of video content by analyzing the content to determine where enhanced sensory experience events may be appropriate, by identifying devices at the viewing location and devices personal to the viewer that can be controlled to provide an enhanced sensory experience, and by activating those devices in a way that is synchronized with the presentation of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventors: Jeremy Mickelsen, Adam Schafer, Bradley Wolf
  • Patent number: 9532107
    Abstract: A content receiver useable in a broadcast content distribution system includes a content source that broadcasts audio/video content for reception by content receivers with associated metadata defining links to other content for possible reproduction by the content receiver and information indicative of a category of each link. The content receiver is configured to generate link information for display in dependence upon received metadata relating to links having a subset of categories while reproducing the broadcast audio/video content, and includes a user control operable to select a link for which link information is currently displayed by the content receiver causing the content receiver to reproduce content defined by that link and a category memory storing category information defining the subset of categories, the content receiver configured to modify stored category information in dependence upon which links are selected using the user control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY EUROPE LIMITED
    Inventor: Brian Edwards
  • Patent number: 9532100
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that presents an appropriate audio cue based on a search request received from a user. For example, the media guidance application may determine that a media asset corresponding to the search request is of particular relevance to the user (e.g., it belongs to the user's favorite genre). The media guidance application may then determine an audio cue (e.g., a well-known sound effect) associated with the media asset and generate the audio cue for presentation. The media guidance application may also determine an animated image cue associated with the media asset and generate that for display as well. This may allow users, especially those with vision-related disabilities, to more easily identify media assets that may be particularly relevant to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoff Ehlers, James Roth, Matthew Dymek
  • Patent number: 9519451
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display control unit configured to display data in an area formed in a display unit connected to the information processing device, a display data acquiring unit configured to acquire the display data displayed in an operation reception area or an entire area, which is a target of receiving an operation by a user, an area forming unit configured to form a render reception area so as to be superposed on the operation reception area, a render receiving unit configured to receive rendering with respect to the render reception area, a render data acquiring unit configured to acquire render data rendered in the render reception area, a render data combining unit configured to combine the display data with the render data, and a data sending unit configured to send, to a terminal, the display data with which the render data has been combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Imai, Masanori Ishigami, Yoshinaga Kato, Kenichiro Morita, Shoh Nagamine
  • Patent number: 9516080
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for streaming content including a base layer and an enhancement layer. According to one implementation, a first stream is fetched including the base layer from an internet server storing the base layer. A second stream is fetched including the enhancement layer from a local storage with the local storage being in communication with a media player through a local area network or a bus. The base layer and the enhancement layer are combined to render the content at a higher resolution than just the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Aurobindo Tripathy
  • Patent number: 9507577
    Abstract: The provisioning of a host computing system by a controller located over a wide area network. The host computing system has power-on code that automatically executes upon powering up, and causes the host to notify the controller of the host address. In a first level of bootstrapping, the controller instructs the host to download a maintenance operating system. The host responds by downloading and installing a maintenance operating system, enabling further bootstrapping. The persistent memory may further have security data, such as a public key, that allows the host computing system to securely identify the source of the download instructions (and subsequent instructions) as originating from the controller. A second level of bootstrapping may accomplish the configuring of the host with a hypervisor and a host agent. A third level of bootstrapping may accomplish the provisioning of virtual machines on the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yousef A. Khalidi, Deepak Bansal, Changhoon Kim, Srikanth Kandula, David A. Maltz
  • Patent number: 9503691
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for enhanced advertising selection and delivery in a communications network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable television network, and the methods and apparatus enable a viewer to individually select and view advertisements during real-time broadcast program settings, as well as during “trick mode” operation in recorded program settings. Guess-work associated with skipping commercials via manual fast-forwarding through recorded content is eliminated, and a viewer is presented with several options regarding which advertisements to view and when to view them. In one variant, decoupling of advertising or promotions from a previously recorded program is provided, thus affording the network operator flexibility to insert various advertising content options, or selectively replace dated or expired advertisements, or those having less correlation to a current program content stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum, William Webb, Howard Pfeffer
  • Patent number: 9497227
    Abstract: A method of conveying a location information (2) representing a physical location of a first communication device (D) from the first communication device (D) to a server (S) comprises sending a first invite message (12) of the server (S), the server (S) being triggered by a third communication device (C), to the first communication device (D) to invite the first communication device (D) to initiate a communication connection (26) to a second communication device (T), and sending an answer message (13) of the first communication device (D) in response to the first invite message (12) to the server (S), wherein the location information (2) is inserted in the answer message (13) for insertion in a second invite message (14) of the server (S) to the second communication device (T) to invite the second communication device (T) to accept the communication connection (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: James Smith
  • Patent number: 9497269
    Abstract: Disclosed are a service system and a method of providing a service in a digital receiver. The service providing method includes selecting content including an identifier with respect to an SNS or a data exchange space that is opened in linkage with content from a service guide, and outputting the selected content and the SNS or the data exchange space linked to the content in respective areas of a screen. The SNS linked to the content includes a data exchange space configured to allow one or more SNS users to simultaneously access the data exchange space using an open API from the server, and also includes a SNS identifier having a format as access information for the corresponding data exchange space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Chuhyun Seo
  • Patent number: 9491210
    Abstract: A sink device, a source device, a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, and a method for controlling the sink device are described. A sink device includes: an event setting unit that sets a control event configured to control media data supplied from a remote source device with which the sink device communicates through a WLAN; a packet control unit that forms a control packet configured to transmit the control event to the source device; a communication unit that transmits the control packet to the source device and receives, from the source device, media that reflects the control event; and a media output unit that outputs the media data that reflects the control event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Pantech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Jin Im, Chun Hyung Park, Oh Seob Lim
  • Patent number: 9491513
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for dynamically creating composite videos are disclosed. In one aspect a computerized method comprises editing and playing a lead-in video, playing a user recorded video, playing multiple invitee recorded videos, and editing and playing a lead-out video to create a seamless composite video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Inventors: Lewis Hayes Drumwright, Jeffry C. Kunzelman, Christine Bansek
  • Patent number: 9479513
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanism to selectively provide resource access to a functional domain of a platform. In an embodiment, the platform includes both a report domain to monitor the functional domain and a policy domain to identify, based on such monitoring, a transition of the functional domain from a first integrity level to a second integrity level. In response to a change in integrity level, the policy domain may configure the enforcement domain to enforce against the functional domain one or more resource accessibility rules corresponding to the second integrity level. In another embodiment, the policy domain automatically initiates operations in aid of transitioning the platform from the second integrity level to a higher integrity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Chris Jenkins, Lyndon G. Pierson
  • Patent number: 9462339
    Abstract: A method of receiving content includes joining an in-progress multicast stream to receive a first portion of a content. The method further includes sending a request to a peer for a catch-up portion of the content, the request including a deadline for delivery of the content, and receiving the catch-up portion of the content from the peer prior to the deadline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Kadangode Ramakrishnan, Rittwik Jana, Divesh Srivastava, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Samrat Bhattacharjee
  • Patent number: 9456237
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting supplemental information corresponding to on-demand media content are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ant Oztaskent, Yaroslav Volovich, Ingrid McAulay Trollope
  • Patent number: 9451337
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for transmitting TV program related content to IP connected devices on a home network, or other local area network. Users can watch television while simultaneously receiving content related to TV programs currently being displayed on a television. TV centric and TV program related content can be transmitted to IP connected devices. Moreover, this TV program related content can be displayed at the same time as a television program is being displayed on a television. As such, the system can provide media synchronization within home network using the set-top box as a gateway for delivering the content. Users can watch TV at home, and at the same time receive TV program related content on a laptop, tablet computer, mobile phone, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: David W. Chen, Vipul B. Patel, Kenneth L. Gould, Jian Yu
  • Patent number: 9432435
    Abstract: Systems and methods allow playback of a media stream received via a network. The media stream is received and stored in a buffer prior to playback. Responsive to receiving the user command to change the content of the media stream, the buffer is flushed prior to receiving the changed content in the media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Sling Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Gary Krikorian, Blake Gary Krikorian, Bhupendra Natwerlal Shah, Alexander Gurzhi, Satish Iyer
  • Patent number: 9432744
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiving device including: a receiver that receives AV content; a trigger information acquirer that acquires trigger information adapted to identify control information to control operation of an application program run in conjunction with the AV content; a table acquirer that acquires a table in which the control information identified by the trigger information is stored in response to first version information that is included in the trigger information and indicates a version of the table; and a control section that controls the operation of the application program in response to the control information that is identified by the trigger information and is stored in the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Yoshiharu Dewa, Jun Kitahara, Mark Eyer
  • Patent number: 9430502
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for collecting statistics data over a communications network using scalable stateless processes are disclosed. A process capable of obtaining statistics data, in one embodiment, detects a delay associated with the availability of statistics data in accordance with predefined lag duration, and subsequently, adds one or more stateless processes to a pool of stateless processes to increase capacity of collecting statistics data. Upon enabling a stateless process to collect statistics data from network element (“NE”) in response to a statistics collecting tasks, the statistics data is stored in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Tellabs Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesh Purushothaman, Debashis Dey, Ajaykumar L. Upadhyay, Anand K. Palanisamy
  • Patent number: 9426520
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a multimedia content self-adaptive method and a multimedia playing system, wherein the multimedia content self-adaptive method includes: obtaining context information; solving the media content adaptation problem according to the obtained context information. Applying the multimedia content self-adaptive method and multimedia playing system provided by the present technology, the content adaptation for the AV playing environment can be realized under the UPnP AV standard, thereby providing intelligent multimedia services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HAIER GROUP CO.
    Inventors: Ruichun Tang, Chao Liu, Yili Zhai
  • Patent number: 9398341
    Abstract: A method of processing an interactive service and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving uncompressed audio content or uncompressed video content from an external decoding unit, extracting identifiers of frames from the received content periodically, submitting requests containing the identifiers and receiving a trigger for the content when a new segment is detected or when an event activation needs to be communicated to the receiver, wherein the trigger indicates the current time of the contents and references a particular interactive event in an application parameter table or signals that the event is to be executed now or at a specified future time, wherein the application parameter table includes information about at least one of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sejin Oh, Jinpil Kim, Seungjoo An, Jinwon Lee, Kyungho Kim, Kyoungsoo Moon
  • Patent number: 9392340
    Abstract: After the calling of the playback action of the first resource, the control device calls a multiple resource prefetch action including a plurality of prefetch resource identifiers for a plurality of prefetch resources. The media renderer prefetches the plurality of prefetch resources from the media server on the basis of the plurality of prefetch resource identifiers. The control device calls a playback action of a second resource corresponding to one of the plurality of prefetch resources. The media renderer provides seamless transition between the first resource and the second resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Younghwan Kwon, Janghun Bae, Hyeonjae Lee, Seungryul Yang
  • Patent number: 9367996
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for betting contests relating to sports matches and, in particular, relating to fantasy sports associated with sports matches. For some embodiments, the systems and methods described herein establish and conduct one or more betting contests based on the performance of individual real-world sports players. Additionally, for some embodiments, the performance of an individual real-world sports player is determined using fantasy sports points (hereafter, fantasy points) attributed to the individual real-life sports player by one or more fantasy sports systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventor: Russell Scalise
  • Patent number: 9338506
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting ad content with electronic content. In one implementation a method is provided that includes receiving, from a user device, a request that identifies a segment of electronic content, and selecting a set of ad metadata for the identified segment of electronic content, the selected set of ad metadata including information defining how ad content is to be presented. The method also includes selecting a set of content metadata for the identified segment of electronic content, the selected set of content metadata including information related to presenting the segment of electronic content, and instructing the user device to generate a presentation based on the selected set of ad metadata and the selected set of content metadata, the presentation including the segment of electronic content and at least one ad content element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: ADVERTISING.COM LLC
    Inventor: G. Thomas Des Jardins
  • Patent number: 9330531
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating a primary display comprising information that facilitates visual presentation of a view of a game space to a primary client device and facilitating communication of alliance information among members of an alliance through a secondary client device such as a user's smartphone. The system may include a game device that allows a user to play a video game or otherwise interact with a virtual environment, and send or receive alliance information using the primary client device and send or receive alliance information using a secondary client device while playing the video game using the primary client device. The primary client device or the secondary client device may also be used to control actions taken by the alliance. Thus, alliance control may be facilitated using either or both of the primary client device and the secondary client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KABAM, INC.
    Inventors: Kent Wakeford, Clifford J. Harrington
  • Patent number: 9323720
    Abstract: A user initiated unification command can be received from a user interface. The unification command can be associated with a selected portion of a fragmented document. The fragmented document can include more than one discrete documents interconnected by at least one reference. Each reference can be a linkage to content of a document other than the one containing the reference. The selected portion can be associated with one of the discrete documents referred to as a root document. Responsive to the unification command, content represented by the reference can be acquired from the associated discrete documents without presenting the discrete document within a user interface window. The acquired content can be added to the root document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott J. Clee, Robert A. Harris, Daniel E. Would, Shanna Xu
  • Patent number: 9313227
    Abstract: A system and method for prevention of data leakage, the system comprising: a server configured to receive and transmit user activity commands; a protection module configured to validate and reconstruct commands received from the server and to transmit the validated reconstructed commands, the protection module further configured to create a security image associated with a specific user; and a secured transmission module configured to transmit the security image to the server while ensuring that the security image is sent securely to the associated user, wherein the server is further configured to receive the security image via the secured transmission module and to present the security image to the associated user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Amigon Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Dan Amiga
  • Patent number: 9313538
    Abstract: Methods and systems are also provided herein for establishing a mode of communication between a first user and a second user when a media asset is in a lull. Control circuitry may determine that a first user perceives a segment of the media asset as a lull based on a first user profile. The control circuitry may retrieve a second user profile associated with a second user, and may determine that the second user also perceives the segment of the media asset to be a lull based on the second user profile. The control circuitry may responsively establish a mode of communication (e.g., a chat window) between the first user and the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Tang, Robin Ford, Helen Zhang
  • Patent number: 9313537
    Abstract: Methods and systems are also provided herein for presenting an advertisement to a user who perceives a media asset to be in a lull, and refraining from presenting the advertisement to a different user who does not perceive the media asset to be in a lull. Control circuitry may determine that a first user perceives a segment of the media asset as a lull based on a first user profile. The control circuitry may determine whether or not the second user also perceives the segment of the media asset to be a lull based on a second user profile. In response to determining that the second user does not also perceive the segment of the media asset to be a lull, the control circuitry may cause the advertisement to be presented to the first user but not to the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Tang, Robin Ford, Helen Zhang
  • Patent number: 9306972
    Abstract: A system and method for prevention of malware infections, the system comprising: a secured server configured to authenticate a user and issue an identifier (ID) uniquely associated with the user, to receive a user input and to send commands based on the received input; a protection module configured to validate transmissions from the secured server, to reconstruct commands based on the commands sent from the secured server, and send the reconstructed commands comprising the unique user ID and a rendering processor configured to receive the reconstructed command from the protection module, to execute the reconstructed command, to acquire data from another machine based on the reconstructed command and to generate an image to represent the acquired data, the image comprising a stamp relating the image to the unique ID, wherein the protection module is placed in a transmission channel connecting between the secured server and the rendering processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: FIREGLASS LTD.
    Inventor: Dan Amiga
  • Patent number: 9253521
    Abstract: An image streaming system for minimizing resource usage of an NVR as it does not need to manage IP cameras nor require additional resources to stream images to a client device at a remote location since it is able to directly access an IP camera registered in the NVR without passing through the NVR to retrieve images from the IP camera and transmit the retrieved images to the client device, thereby preventing an increase of costs for the NVR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: IDIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hee-Lock Jung
  • Patent number: 9253510
    Abstract: A method for re-transmitting missing packets in an improved manner in association with transmitting an MPEG transport stream between a client and a server of a communication network is provided. New type of customized control packets are introduced which are periodically embedded into the transport stream at the server from which the MPEG transport stream is distributed, wherein each of the embedded control packets is provided with package identification data. A client receiving the MPEG transport stream, including the embedded customized control packets, will, on the basis of the package identification data obtained from a customized control packet be able to identify each of n packets which were inserted by the server into the transport stream subsequent to the respective customized control packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Michael Huber, Hans Byström, Mats Cedervall, Johan Kwarnmark
  • Patent number: 9210484
    Abstract: A television set is capable of receiving both broadcast program from television station and corresponding digital file of the same contents from a server station through internet. The television set keeps information of time limit for the server station to surely provide the file. The television set automatically downloads the file when the time limit comes close or the time limit information is failed to be kept. The television set keeps URL for the moving image program enjoyed upon turning-off of the television set until the next turning-on for instantly enjoying the moving image content provided at the URL. User who turning-on the television set or changing the channel with any program not in mind to feel interest in the program on display by chance can enjoy the program from the beginning by means of downloading corresponding digital file of the same contents through internet by an automatic link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: NL GIKEN INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Masahide Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9201904
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a social networking system identifies a user viewing video content on a first display device, identifies the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determines a second display device associated with the identified user. The social networking system sends one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display one or more chat messages associated with the identified video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ime Archibong, Gregory Joseph Badros, Colin Cameron Brennan Campbell, David Harry Garcia, Mark Heynen, Brian Krausz, Cameron Alexander Marlow, Erick Tseng, Yong Kean Wong
  • Patent number: 9202022
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a Digital Rights Management (DRM) service is provided. The apparatus includes a Media Presentation Description (MPD) information configurer for determining a DRM system required in each of representations of content provided by an adaptive streaming service, classifying the representations into one or more groups according to predetermined criteria, and configuring MPD information by inserting content protection information including representation group information representing classified groups and information about DRM systems corresponding to the representation group information; and a communication unit for transmitting the MPD information to a user terminal receiving the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Gyeong Kang, Byung-Rae Lee
  • Patent number: 9191717
    Abstract: A method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver, which receives and processes a service being transmitted in non-real time, and a broadcast receiver are disclosed. Herein, the method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver includes receiving a signaling information table including additional information on contents configuring a non-real time service and a content identifier for each content, acquiring the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content from the signaling information table, storing contents being downloaded through a FLUTE or an internet in a storage medium, based upon the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content, and displaying a list of recordings including the contents stored in the storage medium, wherein a list of recordings screen displaying the list of recordings includes at least one of a content name, a channel name, a date of recording, and a content size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, Jong Yeul Suh, Gomer Thomas, Jun Hui Lee, Jin Pil Kim, Ho Taek Hong, Kwan Suk Kim, Chang Sik Yun
  • Patent number: 9191718
    Abstract: A method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver includes receiving a signaling information table including additional information on contents configuring a non-real time service and a content identifier for each content, acquiring the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content from the signaling information table, storing contents being downloaded through a FLUTE or an internet in a storage medium, based upon the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content, and displaying a list of recordings including the contents stored in the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, Jong Yeul Suh, Gomer Thomas, Jun Hui Lee, Jin Pil Kim, Ho Taek Hong, Kwan Suk Kim, Chang Sik Yun