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Resuming Playback on Multiple Streaming Devices

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for transferring streaming media playback between streaming media devices.

Javier Alvarez, Robert Van Gulick, Nicolas Hewitt

Filed: 30 Jul 21

Content-modification system with responsive transmission of reference fingerprint data feature

In one aspect, a method is for use in connection with a content-modification system that includes a content-distribution system and a content-presentation device.

Andrew Laurence Ashbacher, John L. Haynes, III, Stefanos Christakis Liassides

Filed: 11 May 20

Restoring a disabled display device speaker

A display device has a processor and a memory connected to the processor.

Filed: 14 May 21

Employing automatic content recognition to allow resumption of watching interrupted media program from television broadcast

The disclosure provides a method for employing automatic content recognition to allow resumption of watching interrupted media program from television broadcast.

Filed: 11 Jan 22

Media content identification on mobile devices

A mobile device responds in real time to media content presented on a media device, such as a television.

Mihailo M. Stojancic, Sunil Suresh Kulkarni, Shashank Merchant, Jose Pio Pereira, Oleksiy Bolgarov

Filed: 14 Jun 19

Wireless audio synchronization using a spread code

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for synchronizing playback of audiovisual content among multiple speakers.

Robert Caston Curtis, Mark Ely, Brian Thoft Moth Møller

Filed: 25 Jan 21

Detection of volume adjustments during media replacement events using loudness level profiles

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) determining, by a playback device, a loudness level of first media content that the playback device is receiving from a first source; (ii) comparing, by the playback device, the determined loudness level of the first media content with a reference loudness level indicated by a loudness level profile for the first media content; (iii) determining, by the playback device, a target volume level for the playback device based on a difference between the determined loudness level of the first media content and the reference loudness level; and (iv) while the playback device presents second media content from a second source in place of the first media content, adjusting, by the playback device, a volume of the playback device toward the target volume level.

Markus K. Cremer, Shashank Merchant, Robert Coover, Todd J. Hodges, Joshua Ernest Morris

Filed: 17 Jun 21

Content Modification System with Viewer Behavior-based Content Delivery Selection Feature

A method includes determining, by a computing system, a probability of whether at least a threshold portion of a particular advertisement will be presented on a particular content presentation device, and a cost associated with presentation of the particular advertisement on the particular content presentation device.

Matthew George GROVER

Filed: 15 Sep 22

Non-television Experience Triggers

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing content outside the confides of a television so as to enhance user experience of the content.

Samir Tiongson SAXENA

Filed: 19 Sep 22

Power Control for Speaker Devices in a Wireless Media System

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for a wireless media system including a wireless speaker device and a host device forming a peer-to-peer wireless network.

Neil KRAEWINKELS, Richard JØRGENSEN, Michael SMITH

Filed: 12 Jul 21

Using non-audio data embedded in an audio signal

Embodiments included herein generally relate to measuring a latency of a playback device.

Thomas Richard Henry Dewey

Filed: 16 Dec 20

Do not disturb functionality for voice responsive devices

Provided herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for enabling Do Not Disturb functionality in voice responsive devices.

Ali M. Vassigh, Shubhada Hebbar, Christopher James Tegethoff

Filed: 4 Mar 20

Content-modification system with probability-based selection feature

In one aspect, a method includes identifying an upcoming content modification opportunity on a channel.

Matthew George Grover

Filed: 21 Apr 20

Video fingerprinting based on Fourier transform of histogram

A content device and method is disclosed to include a processing device to process streaming video content.

Filed: 3 Jul 19

System and method for an extender device

Many customers have difficulty setting up a new extender device in the customer premises environment to improve their multimedia service.

Amalavoyal Narasimha Chari, Jim Funk, Sujatha Jagannathan, Liang-Jong Huang, Jason Schmidlapp, Tito Thomas, Ilya Asnis

Filed: 2 Oct 20

Automatic content recognition (ACR) fingerprinting and video encoding

A processing device and method are disclosed to generate automatic content recognition (ACR) fingerprints.

Andrew Ashbacher, Marcus Liassides

Filed: 26 May 21

Content-modification system with jitter effect mitigation feature

One high-level aspect of a content-modification system and related methods may involve facilitating content modification by a content-presentation device of received broadcast content in a controlled manner, while under circumstances in which some events that can impact timing may be unpredictable.

Shashank Merchant, Bruce William Randall, Brian Johnson, Chungwon Seo, Seunghyeong Lee, Paul Jeffrey Holmquist

Filed: 19 Feb 21

Voice Control Device with Push-To-Talk (PTT) and Mute Controls

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for a voice control device including a microphone, a mute control, and a push-to-talk (PTT) control.

Dustin VERHOEVE, Ralph BIRT

Filed: 16 Jun 21

Tracking Proximities of Devices and/or Objects

Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for tracking proximities of devices and/or objects.

Joseph HOLLINGER

Filed: 3 Aug 22

Content-modification system with feature for detecting and responding to content modifications by tuner devices

In one aspect, a method includes identifying a group of multiple content-presentation devices that are tuned to the same channel and that are each scheduled to perform, at a modification start-time, a respective content-modification operation that comprises modifying a modifiable content-segment in connection with an upcoming content-modification opportunity on the channel.

Steven Michael Cormie, Brian Patrick Jentz, Stefanos Christakis Liassides

Filed: 29 Jan 21

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