Local Video Distribution System Patents (Class 725/74)
  • Patent number: 11916988
    Abstract: A system and method for managing simultaneous data streams from multiple sources is provided. At least one paired audio device within the system, is a managing device and coordinates the audio playback presented in each paired audio device. In this way, each device can produce an audio playback associated with different streams simultaneously. In some examples, the managing device is one of the two devices or a peripheral device, e.g., a smartphone. In some examples, each data stream contains data used to generate a priority level for each data stream. The managing device can allow a data stream having a higher priority level or the data stream with a detected change to “barge-in” causing the playbacks of each device to be associated with a different data stream. Additionally, each device is capable of assuming the role of “stream scanner” to prevent uneven power consumption between the devices within the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Warren Young, Rasmus Abildgren, Casper Stork Bonde
  • Patent number: 11822552
    Abstract: A method for referencing and updating objects in a shared resource environment. A reference counter counts is incremented for every use of an object subtype in a session and decremented for every release of an object subtype in a session. A session counter is incremented upon the first instance of fetching an object type into a session cache and decremented upon having no instances of the object type in use in the session. When both the reference counter and the session counter are zero, the object type may be removed from the cache. When the object type needs to be updated, it is cloned into a local cache, and changes are made on the local copy. The global cache is then locked to all other users, the original object type is detached, and the cloned object type is swapped into the global cache, after which the global cache in unlocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu-Shang Sam Wei, Shuaib Hasan Khwaja, Pankaj Pradhan
  • Patent number: 11805117
    Abstract: In some examples, a cloud-based management system receives information identifying electronic devices to be onboarded for cloud-based management by the cloud-based management system, receives, from a first electronic device, a request to establish a secure connection between the cloud-based management system and the first electronic device, and receives, from the first electronic device, a certificate. The cloud-based management system confirms, based on information in the certificate and the information identifying the electronic devices to be onboarded for cloud-based management, that the cloud-based management system is to perform the cloud-based management of the first electronic device over the secure connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Syama Sundararao Nadiminti, Blaine R. Southam, Dominic Fernandes, Sunil Malhotra, Daniel Edward Frank, Niharika Mateti, Matthew Lewis Fischer, John Thomas Weidenfeller
  • Patent number: 11758244
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented herein for streaming of media content. The methods and systems include receiving a request to stream a media content item; accessing a profile of a user authorized to access the streaming service; determining whether a bonus stream in addition to a default number of streams should be granted based on an analysis of at least one of: a status of the streaming service, a status of the requesting media device, metadata of the media content item, a status of the communication system, the profile, and a status of the currently streaming media device. Related apparatuses, devices, techniques, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Ishan Dhanwal, Anjum Makkar, Vivek Sehgal, Simranjeet Gill, Reda Harb
  • Patent number: 11729474
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically determining if certain operational states of a plurality of networked media appliances are causally connected with those appliances becoming unstable and/or having a software crash. Once these certain operation states are identified, a command prohibiting each of the networked media appliances from entering the identified state is generated and transmitted to the media appliances. The generated commands effectively insulate the media appliances entering the prohibited state, thereby eliminating a possible cause of a software crash without requiring the appliances to undergo a software update or the installation of a software patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Vinod Jatti, Murali S. Sahasranaman, Virendra Singh
  • Patent number: 11727441
    Abstract: Methods, systems and media for presenting media content that was advertised on a second screen device using a primary screen device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Adam Champy
  • Patent number: 11669308
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for generating a factory layout to dynamically optimize a media content production in a real-time environment. The system includes a media production optimizer with a widget controller that provides widgets that represent work packages as micro-services that perform functions of the media content production, respectively. A user interface controller receive inputs from a user interface to dynamically update the factory layout for the media content production. The media production optimizer then recompiles underlying code to update a model of the factory layout in response to the inputs from the operator of the system, and also migrates the updated factory layout to a cloud platform that includes a plurality of media production components including the plurality of micro-services for deployment thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: GRASS VALLEY CANADA
    Inventors: Ian David Fletcher, Charles S. Meyer, Michael Cronk, James Westland Cain
  • Patent number: 11637822
    Abstract: In some examples, a cloud-based management system receives information identifying electronic devices to be onboarded for cloud-based management by the cloud-based management system, receives, from a first electronic device, a request to establish a secure connection between the cloud-based management system and the first electronic device, and receives, from the first electronic device, a certificate. The cloud-based management system confirms, based on information in the certificate and the information identifying the electronic devices to be onboarded for cloud-based management, that the cloud-based management system is to perform the cloud-based management of the first electronic device over the secure connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Syama Sundararao Nadiminti, Blaine R. Southam, Dominic Fernandes, Sunil Malhotra, Daniel Edward Frank, Niharika Mateti, Matthew Lewis Fischer, John Thomas Weidenfeller
  • Patent number: 11617176
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication and more particularly, to techniques for bandwidth part adaptation for extended reality (XR) power saving. A method that may be performed by a UE generally includes receiving a first configuration of a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second configuration of a second BWP, wherein the first BWP is configured for a lower traffic rate and the second BWP is configured for a higher traffic rate; obtaining an indication to switch from the first BWP to the second BWP; and switching from the first BWP to the second BWP in response to obtaining the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Prashanth Haridas Hande, Ravi Agarwal, Rahul Kashyap, Jafar Mohseni, Mahbod Ghelichi, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Jay Kumar Sundararajan
  • Patent number: 11606582
    Abstract: A method for co-hosting in live streaming includes sending, in response to receiving a co-hosting request from a live streaming account, the co-hosting request to a target user account for co-hosting; and sending, in response to receiving co-hosting grant information from the target user account, a first live data stream and a second live data stream to a viewer account. The first live data stream corresponds to the target user account, the second live data stream corresponds to the live streaming account. The second live data stream is pushed by the live streaming account using a target live streaming tool, and the target live streaming tool is configured to push the second live data stream for the live streaming account and pull the first live data stream for the live streaming account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haitao Du
  • Patent number: 11582526
    Abstract: A media sharing and communication system, including a recording mechanism that records a desired portion of media upon activation by a first individual user, a first user transmitter/receiver that transmits the portion of media and a message generated by the first individual user regarding the portion of media to a second individual user and is capable of transmitting a message to a second individual user, a confirmation mechanism that confirms that the second individual user is authorized to view the portion of media and a notification mechanism that notifies the first individual user if the second individual user is not authorized to receive the portion of media, and a second user transmitter/receiver that receives the portion of media and voice message upon authorization of the second individual user, wherein the systems are capable of receiving and executing voice commands. A method of sharing portions of media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: David A. Taylor
  • Patent number: 11553021
    Abstract: A media downlink transmission control method and a related device, the method including receiving a remote media reception message sent by an authorized terminal, where the remote media reception message includes a target user identifier, determining a first target media stream based on the remote media reception message, and sending the first target media stream to a destination terminal corresponding to the target user identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cuili Ge, Yanmei Yang
  • Patent number: 11533195
    Abstract: A building management system includes a communications bus, subordinate devices connected to the communications bus, and a controller connected to the communications bus. The controller includes an active node table including a plurality of nodes, each node representing one of the subordinate devices connected to the communications bus. The controller is configured to monitor the active node table for a newly connected subordinate device, use a set of rules to determine whether the newly connected subordinate device is supported by the controller for performing an identified function in combination with the controller, and, in response to a determination that the newly connected subordinate device is supported, extend the identified function of the controller to the newly connected subordinate device. Extending the identified function includes enabling the newly connected subordinate device to perform the identified function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Jameel Ahmed, Vivek V. Gupta, Brandon A. Sloat, Daniel F. Leising
  • Patent number: 11528526
    Abstract: An entry device for communicating external network signals between an in-home network and an external network, for communicating in-home network signals within the in-home network, and for preventing the in-home network signals from being communicated from the in-home network to the external network, the entry device includes a signal attenuation and communication device comprising one or more directional couplers, the signal attenuation and communication device being configured to permit upstream and downstream external network signals to communicate between an entry port and a first network work, and between the entry port and a second network port, and to block and permit communication of in-home network signals between the first network port, the second network port, and the entry port at least partially depending on a direction in which the in-home network signals are travelling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Chad T. Wells, John M. Egan, Jr., Gregory F. Halik, Charles F. Newby
  • Patent number: 11443737
    Abstract: An audio source such as a display device configured to present AV content can present the video and send the audio in different languages to the respective devices of different listeners. For example, a device/TV/source can send audio in different languages to connected headphones/smartglasses with speakers/devices/sink. Furthermore, machine learning may be employed both to recognize listeners and correlate them to likely languages and to mimic voices in the played-back audio. Or, the source AV display device may send language in only the selected language of the display device to each listener device, with each receiving listener device converting the audio to the preferred language of the respective listener on the fly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Bibhudendu Mohapatra
  • Patent number: 11400367
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, an electronic device for executing network applications. For instance, the electronic device may establish a connection with a network device. The electronic device may then receive input data from a control device. Using the connection, the electronic device may send the input data to a remote system, which uses the input data to update a state of an application. The electronic device then receives, using the connection and from the remote system, audio data and video data representing the state of the application. In some instances, the electronic device may further receive, using the connection and from the remote system, first timestamp data for outputting the audio data and second timestamp data for displaying the video data. The electronic device may then send the audio data to a control device and the video data to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravi Ichapurapu, Sameet Ramakrishnan, Evan Fletcher Dougal
  • Patent number: 11394484
    Abstract: Method and transmitting node (300) for handling transmissions to a receiving node (302) in a first service and in a second service over a radio channel where feedback signaling is employed to indicate either an acknowledgement, ACK, or a non-acknowledgement, NACK, of correct reception at the receiving node. A first Outer Loop Compensation, OLC, is employed in a first link adaptation for the first service and a second OLC is employed in a second link adaptation for the second service. The first OLC is adjusted (3:2) based on feedback (3:1) for transmissions in the first service, while the second OLC is adjusted (3:3) based on feedback for a repeated (3:4A) subset of the transmissions in the first service before the second service has been activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Christer Gustafsson, Anders Ohlsson
  • Patent number: 11373213
    Abstract: Embodiments describe an approach for improving user consumption and promotion of multi-media content. Embodiments retrieve social media and location-specific context information from one or more social media platforms associated with one or more audience members. Embodiments determine a baseline mood for the one or more audience members based on the one or more audience member's social media activity and social media posts. Embodiments of capture one or more images of one or more audience member reactions while the one or more audience members view the multi-media content. Embodiments identify relevant scenes in the multi-media content based on the captured one or more audience member reactions. Additionally, embodiments generate promotional content based on the identified relevant scenes; and distribute the promotional content on the one or more social media platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vipin M V, Lakshmi Swetha Gopireddy, Gireesh Punathil
  • Patent number: 11365007
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a transportation vehicle. One method includes enabling by a processor, a night mode for a seat device of an in-flight entertainment system (IFE) on an aircraft based on a night mode trigger; displaying by the processor, during the night mode, a wake-up user interface on the seat device for a passenger, when a seat device monitor backlight has turned on after the backlight was turned off, or a seat device backlight timer has triggered, where a brightness of the wake-up user interface is lower than a brightness of a default user interface of the seat device; and enabling by the processor a first set of functions of the seat device accessible from the wake-up user interface, the first set of functions being less than a second set of functions accessible from the default user-interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Avionics Corporation
    Inventor: Eric H. Wu
  • Patent number: 11323615
    Abstract: An image is captured using an image recorder. A set of contextual data associated with the image is also captured. The image is annotated with information describing the set of contextual data. A user is notified of the image and the set of contextual data, based on the annotated information that describes the set of contextual data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Tkac, Mark Timothy Allen, Scott Guminy
  • Patent number: 11297368
    Abstract: A live audio bite system may capture audio bites of a live event based on input from a spectator's device. The system may include an audience device, a server, and a recording device. The audience device may provide input of when an audio capture is desired. The recording device may record audio directly from an audio source on a circular buffer. The server may facilitate communication between audience devices and recording devices and store requested audio clips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Louis-Pierre Guidetti
  • Patent number: 11284167
    Abstract: A content management system and method for use of same is disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a set-top box is configured to receive a source signal which includes a stream of network programming having time slots interposed therein. The set-top box detects signaling data indicative of a designated time slot within the network programming and responsive thereto, interposes content stored at the set-top box at the designated time slot within the network programming. The set-top box then forwards the interposed content to the display. Following the forwarding of the interposed content, the set-top box returns to receiving network programming and forwarding the network programming to the display. The set-top box also provides confirmation of the displayed interposed content to a server, which may map the confirmation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Enseo, LLC
    Inventors: Vanessa Ogle, William C. Fang
  • Patent number: 11228801
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for providing a multi-view streaming service having at least two screens. According to an embodiment, the multi-view streaming service providing apparatus includes a first screen control module, a second screen control module, and a playback control module. The first screen control module supports playback processing of a first MPEG media transport (MMT) streaming data for a first screen. The second screen control module supports playback processing of a second MMT streaming data for a second screen. The playback control module identifies playback time information inserted in each media processing unit (MPU) of the first and second streaming data in response to a request for multi-view streaming playback, and controls the first and second screen control modules to synchronize and play the respective MPUs of the first and second streaming data in accordance with the identified playback time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongmin Lee, Kyungjun Lee
  • Patent number: 11159845
    Abstract: Example techniques relate to a soundbar that provides information associated with a media item. In an example implementation, the soundbar plays back audio associated with the particular media item. The soundbar also sends instructions to cause a mobile device to display graphical representations of first information associated with the particular media item while the soundbar playing back the particular media item. The soundbar further sends a request for second information associated with the particular media item, receives, from a server of a cloud computing service, data representing the requested second information associated with the particular media item, causes a television to display graphical representations of the requested second information associated with the particular media item on a display of the television while the sound-bar playback device is playing back the audio associated with the particular media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Ron Kuper
  • Patent number: 11056109
    Abstract: Disclosed is an audio extraction device for use in an audio signal processing system, comprising: an audio transceiver adapted to receive an audio signal; a delay circuit adapted to delay the received audio signal by a first delay period; a first audio transmitter adapted to transmit the delayed version of the received audio signal to a first destination; and a second audio transmitter adapted to transmit the un-delayed version of the received audio signal to a second destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark LaBosco
  • Patent number: 10990831
    Abstract: Creating a list of available data sources for an event selected by a user, displaying one or more icons as an overlay on a first video stream indicating a position of a camera capturing a second video stream, and displaying a map as an overlay on the first video stream in which the map indicates levels of crowd excitement or other mappable data in different regions of a real world environment captured by the first video stream. Some embodiments may include receiving information indicating a user selection of the second video stream. For some embodiments, the levels of crowd excitement may be generated from sensor data, such as audio, video, or heart rate data collected by sensors at the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: PCMS Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Max C. Haberstroh, Julia Sauer, André Pomp, Andreas Kirmse, Tobias Meisen, Frank Hees, Sabina Jeschke
  • Patent number: 10925014
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for causing synchronization of at least one connected device by a source device, where the apparatus is adapted to perform the method comprising: receiving, by a receiver, delay information corresponding to at least one device which is connected to the source device and configured to process at least one type of data; calculating, by a processor, at least one delay value of the at least one device based on the delay information; and synchronizing the at least one device with the source device based on the at least one calculated delay value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hemanshu Srivastava, Avinash Singh
  • Patent number: 10904640
    Abstract: A content management system and method for use of same is disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, the set-top box is configured to receive a source signal which includes a stream of network programming having time slots interposed therein. The set-top box detects signaling data indicative of a designated time slot within the network programming and responsive thereto, interposes content stored at the set-top box at the designated time slot within the network programming. The set-top box then forwards the interposed content to the display. Following the forwarding of the interposed content, the set-top box returns to receiving network programming and forwarding the network programming to the display. The set-top box also provides confirmation of the displayed interposed content to a server, which may map the confirmation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Enseo, Inc.
    Inventors: Vanessa Ogle, William C. Fang
  • Patent number: 10880114
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to allow for merchant or third party controlled adjustment of a physical environment around a user. Such adjustments may be in response to user actions and may create a more immersive experience for the user. Such adjustments may be determined from interaction data received from a user device, with may identify a service provider, a product, or an activity that the user is currently engaging in or is interested in. One or more secondary devices may be identified to be within an area around the user device and one or more environmental rules associated with the service provider, product, or activity may be determined and communicated to the one or more secondary devices to cause the one or more secondary devices to adjust a physical environment of the area proximate the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Megan Marie O'Neill
  • Patent number: 10757466
    Abstract: Media is selected for video playback through a first device and audio playback through one or more separate devices connected through a wireless network. Different techniques for synchronizing the audio and video can be selected based on one or more factors to improve media playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: DTS, Inc.
    Inventors: Dannie Lau, Chunho Lee
  • Patent number: 10520797
    Abstract: A projector system includes a plurality of projectors, in which a projector A and a projector B, and the projector B and a projector C are connected by a daisy chain method via each of cables, and the projector A outputs control information which controls the projector B or the projector C to the projector B via a data line of the cable along with image data and the projector B extracts and processes the control information input from the data line of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takekuni Yamamoto, Takashi Nagumo
  • Patent number: 10498801
    Abstract: A projecting terminal and a displaying terminal use a point-to-point connection interface provided by a web-based operating system (OS) to establish a point-to-point communication link. The projecting terminal uses a screen visiting interface provided by the web-based OS to access a screen content, converts the screen content into screen content data in real-time, and transmits the screen content data through the communication link. The displaying terminal receives the screen content data and uses a content displaying control provided by the web-based OS to display the screen content data onto a screen. The present techniques enable two devices that are equipped with the web-based OS to implement screen projecting, expand the usage of the screen projecting technology, and are easy for implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Zhijun Yuan
  • Patent number: 10312874
    Abstract: Volume control methods and control devices, and multimedia playback control methods and control devices are provided. The volume control method comprises: acquiring volume information of a first device; in response to that the acquired volume information of the first device satisfies a predetermined condition, determining at least one second device; and controlling volume of the at least one second device. When a user goes away from a multimedia playback device, multimedia playback of another device can be controlled, to cause that multimedia playback that the user watches/listens to is not affected obviously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jia Liu
  • Patent number: 10305707
    Abstract: A digital down-converter with baseband equalization comprises a composite analog-to-digital converter (ADC) adapted to convert an applied RF analog signal to be processed to a digital signal, and then down-convert the digital signal to a baseband frequency region, and then perform equalization on the down-converted digital signal, thereby reducing distortions caused by introduction of spurious signals by the ADC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Guzik Technical Enterprises
    Inventors: Anatoli B. Stein, Semen P. Volfbeyn, Alexander Taratorin
  • Patent number: 9894260
    Abstract: A method for controlling intelligent equipment includes receiving an image acquisition request sent from an intelligent mattress. The image acquisition request contains an identifier (ID) of the intelligent mattress and is triggered when a user uses the intelligent mattress. The method further includes sending the image acquisition request to an intelligent photographing device associated with the intelligent mattress based on the ID of the intelligent mattress, receiving eyeball information of the user and device identification information, determining a target intelligent device based on the device identification information, and controlling the target intelligent device based on the eyeball information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Huayijun Liu, Ke Wu, Pengfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 9871667
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method generates interaction skeletons for a plurality of participating computers to inter-operate based on a multi-party interaction protocol. The method includes creating an Interaction Protocol based on an interaction process of how the plurality of participating computers interact with each other. The Interaction Protocol uses multiple Interaction Activities and multiple Transition Relations to describe the interaction process among the plurality of participating computers. The method then determines an interaction skeleton by generating multiple Participating Activities and their Transition Relations for each participating computer in the plurality of participating computers based on corresponding Interaction Activities and their Transition Relations in the Interaction Protocol. The interaction skeleton is converted into executable interaction modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Inventor: So-Ming Daniel Shia
  • Patent number: 9832536
    Abstract: A multimedia server receives a plurality of programs of a multimedia source. The multimedia server includes a tuning module to receive the plurality of programs and to select a set of programs from the plurality of programs based on a set of program select commands that is derived from select requests. A program mixer mixes the set of programs into a stream of program data. One or more transceiving modules transmit the stream of program data on to corresponding communication paths and receive the select requests. A client module produces the select requests for one or more clients. The client module includes a selection module to produce at least one of the select requests. A network interface controller transmits at least one of select requests to the multimedia server and receives the stream of program data via the communication path or paths in response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: ViXS Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Indra Laksono
  • Patent number: 9667695
    Abstract: A method and device for publishing promotion contents and computer storage medium are described. The compatibility of the promotion content publishing method can be enhanced and an accurate delivery of the promotion content can be achieved. In the method, a description file is issued to the client. The client then downloads promotion content suitable for its own operation system platform and device according to the description file. Thus the method can be used in different platforms and devices including iOS, Android, WinCE, S60v3, S60v5 and etc. The server can identify the platform of the client, the type of the device and the function opened on the client, thus an accurate delivery of promotion content to specific type of client can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Guo Ling, Yang Guo, Ganrong Yang, Yuan Zhao, Liangliang Fan, Linping Tang, Leteng Weng, Juanjuan Liang
  • Patent number: 9641899
    Abstract: A computing device may establish a connection with a user device and retrieve address book information corresponding to the user device. The address book information may include contact information corresponding to one or more individuals. The computing device may identify social network users corresponding to the address book information. Each social network user may include a subscriber to a particular network service. The computing device may create a social network based on the social network users identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Japan A. Mehta, Shafiq Kassam
  • Patent number: 9254917
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for generating a display of information regarding passengers of an airplane flight. The method includes displaying a graphical depiction of passenger seats for a particular airplane flight. The method includes identifying that multiple passengers booked to the particular airplane flight have a particular status. The method includes identifying that the multiple passengers that have been identified as having the particular status have been assigned to respective multiple passenger seats. The method includes displaying a graphical indication in association with each of the multiple passenger seats, concurrently with the display of the graphical depiction of the passenger seats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Philip Te Hau, Roland Mueller, Eva-Marie Roe, Anke Junker, Martin Rueckert
  • Patent number: 9191690
    Abstract: A device for displaying moving images in a motor vehicle displays moving images in a first or second mode. In the first mode the moving images are displayed with normal playback parameters and the refresh rate in the second mode is lower than in the first mode. One of the first and second modes is selected based on a speed of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Eireiner, Ralf Hinz
  • Patent number: 9162776
    Abstract: An aircraft safety and configuration monitoring system includes a plurality of RFID equipped items, a plurality of RFID interrogators communicating with the plurality of RFID equipped items, a processor communicating with the plurality of RFID interrogators and adapted to determine an issue with respect to any of the plurality of RFID equipped items and an indicating mechanism communicating with the processor and adapted to indicate the issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Rebecca Shore, Steve Kopecki, Winfeng Li, William P. Coop, Thanh D. Hoang, Swanee Yourkowski, Kevin Yong Ung, Yucheng Zheng, Robert Lee Avery, Christopher B. Kettering
  • Patent number: 9160984
    Abstract: Methods for automatically buffering and displaying video feeds associated with a live event are described. The video feeds displayed on the mobile device may comprise live video feeds or replays associated with the live event. A replay may comprise a playback of one or more buffered video feeds in a particular sequence and at a particular playback rate. The particular sequence may be determined based on the viewing behavior of the end user of the mobile device and/or the viewing behaviors of one or more other end users using other mobile devices at the live event. In some cases, the replay may comprise a shared replay in which a group of end users attending the live event may interact with each other while sharing a common replay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: FANVISION ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventors: Victor J. Pacor, Charles John O'Byrne, Jean Arseneau, Alain Charette, Uday Ahuja
  • Patent number: 9065877
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention is a method of providing video to attendees of a live concert. Video of different views of the live concert is captured. A plurality of video streams are provided to attendees of the live concert while the live concert is occurring. The plurality of digital video streams enable an attendee of the live concert to select which of the plurality of digital video streams to view using a portable digital device associated with that attendee such that the attendee may choose from among the different views of the live concert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Live Nation Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Abrams
  • Patent number: 9058520
    Abstract: Systems and methods for inspecting a device are disclosed. The method includes arranging the device in a known position relative to a plurality of movable cameras. The plurality of movable cameras is mounted on a controllable actuator. The plurality of cameras is pointed at the device by controlling the controllable actuator to position the camera with a user interface. An image of the device generated by the camera is displayed on a mobile and wireless display. The computing device also causes a rendered virtual image of the device to be displayed on the mobile and wireless display. A stream of interest and a region of interest is selected at the mobile and wireless display from the images generated by the cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignees: Siemens Corporation, Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Binglong Xie, Yakup Genc, Clifford Hatcher, Jr., Himanshu Bhatnagar, Forrest R. Ruhge
  • Patent number: 9042809
    Abstract: A satellite communication system using hierarchical modulation to transmit a plurality of modulated signals to sub-regions within a region. Each modulated signal includes high priority content and low priority content. The system includes a satellite equipped with a plurality of satellite transmitters coupled to a plurality of antenna elements, e.g. a phased array of antenna elements. The antenna elements are utilized selectively to direct a modulated signal from a satellite transmitter to a distinct sub-region. The satellite transmitters and antenna also cooperate to broadcast the high-priority content to the region such that a ground receiver traveling from a first sub-region to an adjacent second sub-region adjacent will not experience a loss of high-priority content. First low-priority content of a first modulated signal directed to the first sub-region is independent of second low-priority content of a second modulated signal directed to the second sub-region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn A. Walker, Eric A. Dibiaso
  • Patent number: 9032451
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying data related to a content displayed through a set top box includes a second screen device generating a content information request signal requesting data corresponding to the content, communicates the content information request signal to the set top box. The set top box communicates a content information signal to the second screen device comprising a content identifier. The second screen device generates a request for related data signal corresponding to the content using the content identifier, communicates the request for related data signal through a network, receives aggregated related content data corresponding to the content from a data services center and displays the aggregated related content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Don E. Cansino, Brady C. Tsurutani, Earl J. Bonovich, Charles W. Beeson
  • Patent number: 9032450
    Abstract: A method is provided comprising: receiving a constant bit rate video stream representing a single video from a video source via a managed broadband connection; converting the constant bit rate video stream into a single non-adaptive bit rate video stream by modifying a video transport stack of the video to be compatible with a home device media player video transport stack; modifying a video control stack of the video to be compatible with a device in a home network; adding a home networking transport stack to the video stream, wherein the home networking transport stack is such that it would appear to the device in the home network as if the video stream came from a server local to the home network; and delivering the video stream to a device in the home network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Glenn Algie, Alan Messer
  • Patent number: 9015774
    Abstract: A plurality of intelligent device systems for use with a wideband signal distribution network, and methods for transmitting digital information and receiving digital and non-digital information onto and off of an RF carrier through a wideband signal distribution network, are disclosed. The intelligent device systems provide networks of intelligent devices that modulate and demodulate digital video, IP video/data/voice and digital wireless onto, and off of, a wideband signal distribution system, such as an analog carrier system, using existing EIA/TIA 568 standard wiring infrastructure. The methods modulate and demodulate digital video, IP video/data/voice and digital wireless onto, and off of, a wideband distribution system, such as an analog carrier system, and separate IP portions from non-IP portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Inventors: Earl Hennenhoefer, Richard V. Snyder, Robert Stine
  • Patent number: 9015775
    Abstract: An information system suitable for use in cooperation with portable media devices, such as an Apple iPod® digital electronic media device, and methods for manufacturing and using same. The information system provides a user-friendly communication interface for coupling with a portable media device and can perform a plurality of integration tasks simultaneously, enabling the personal media device to become fully integrated with the information system. Viewing content thereby can be selected from video and/or audio viewing content stored internally within the personal media device, and the selected viewing content can be communicated from the personal media device to the information system for presentation via a video presentation system and/or an audio presentation system of the information system. The personal media device likewise can receive control commands and/or operating power from the information system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Avionics Corporation
    Inventors: Marshal H. Perlman, Mehdi Izadyar, Paul Anthony Margis, Christopher Brian Lundquist, Steven Lee Sizelove