405 patents
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Utility
Resuming playback on multiple streaming devices
1 Aug 23
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
Utility
Content-modification system with determination of input-buffer switching delay feature
25 Jul 23
In one aspect, a method includes: (i) determining a baseline input-to-output delay, which represents a time period between when content is input into a first input buffer and output by an output buffer; (ii) establishing a synchronous lock between (a) first fingerprint data representing content in the first input buffer and (b) second fingerprint data representing content in the output buffer; (iii) determining an instruction time-point at which a content-presentation device is instructed to switch from using content in the first input buffer to populate the output buffer, to using content in the second input buffer to populate the output buffer; (iv) determining a loss of synchronous lock time-point; (v) using the determined baseline input-to-output delay, the determined instruction time-point, and the determined loss of synchronous lock time-point to determine an input-buffer switching delay; and (vi) using the determined input-buffer switching delay to facilitate performing a content-modification operation.
Andrew Laurence Ashbacher, John L. Haynes, III
Filed: 14 Jun 22
Utility
Computing system with content-characteristic-based trigger feature
18 Jul 23
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) receiving, by a computing system, media content; (ii) generating, by the computing system, a fingerprint of a portion of the received media content; (iii) determining, by the computing system, that the received media content has a predefined characteristic; (iv) responsive to determining that the received media content has the predefined characteristic, transmitting, by the computing system, the generated fingerprint to a content identification server to identify the portion of the received media content; and (v) performing an action based on the identified portion of media content.
Wilson Harron, Konstantinos Antonios Dimitriou
Filed: 8 Oct 20
Utility
Media content identification on mobile devices
18 Jul 23
A mobile device responds in real time to media content presented on a media device, such as a television.
Mihailo M. Stojancic, Daniel H. Eakins, Shashank Merchant, Prashant Ramanathan, Jose Pio Pereira
Filed: 14 Jun 19
Utility
Crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content
11 Jul 23
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content.
David Sharp
Filed: 1 Jun 21
Utility
Using motion and presence of an end-user to switch operational modes of an internet of things device
11 Jul 23
In one aspect, a method includes using a Wi-Fi module of a computing device to detect that an end-user has entered a monitored environment of the computing device, where the computing device is separate from, and communicatively coupled over an Internet of Things (IoT) network to, a battery-powered IoT device.
Greg Garner, David Stern
Filed: 10 Aug 22
Utility
Content-modification system with transmission delay-based feature
11 Jul 23
In one aspect, a method includes determining a content-transmission delay between a content-distribution system and a content-presentation device.
Andrew Laurence Ashbacher, John L. Haynes, III, Shuheng Li, Stefan Matthijs Maris
Filed: 19 Apr 22
Utility
Use of in-band data to correct schedule drift
4 Jul 23
A method and system to help control when to monitor for presence of replaceable advertisements in a media stream.
Alejandro Gutierrez, John E. Sormark, Shashank C. Merchant, Brian P. Jentz, John L. Haynes, III
Filed: 12 Jul 21
Utility
Content-modification system with user experience analysis feature
4 Jul 23
In one aspect, a method includes determining a content-modification operation channel-change rate for a group of content-presentation devices having a common content-presentation device attribute; comparing the content-modification operation channel-change rate with a baseline channel-change rate; determining that a result of the comparing satisfies a threshold condition; and based on determining that the result of the comparing satisfies the threshold condition, preventing at least one content-presentation device of the group of content-presentation devices from carrying out a future content-modification operation.
Matthew Grover
Filed: 25 Jun 21
Utility
Method and system for controlling lighting in a viewing area of a content-presentation device
4 Jul 23
In one aspect, a method includes receiving video content comprising a first data portion comprising parameters that control a visual appearance of frames of video content presented by a content-presentation device.
Hugo du Plooy, Kenny Wu, Erwin Bellers, Sunil Ramesh, Michael Cutter
Filed: 7 Nov 22
Utility
Video fingerprinting
27 Jun 23
A query fingerprint of a set of frames of video content captured at a client device may be generated.
Wilson Harron, Matthew James Wilkinson
Filed: 22 Apr 16
Utility
Method and system for re-uniting metadata with media-stream content at a media client, to facilitate action by the media client
27 Jun 23
In a communication system where a channel feed carrying a media stream is broadcast for delivery of the media stream to a media client, where the channel feed further includes metadata in-band and correlated with a content frame of the media stream, but where the metadata gets removed from the channel feed before the media stream reaches the media client, a computing system (i) extracts the metadata from the channel feed and (ii) transmits out-of-band to the media client the extracted metadata in correlation with reference fingerprint data representing the frame of the media stream, the correlation being useable by the media client as a basis to re-correlate the metadata with the frame of the media stream, so as to enable the media client to carry out an action, such as dynamic ad insertion, based on the correlation of the metadata with the frame of the media stream.
Steven M. Cormie, Brian Jentz
Filed: 15 Sep 21
Utility
Control a dimming level of an illumination load by a dimmer device
27 Jun 23
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for a dimmer device including a driver, and a controller communicatively coupled to the driver and to a monitor device.
Gregory Mack Garner
Filed: 24 Jun 22
Utility
Mass insertion into single-threaded databases
30 May 23
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer-readable device embodiments for mass insertion into single-threaded databases.
Roberto Mirizzi
Filed: 27 Jul 20
Utility
Trigger word detection with multiple digital assistants
30 May 23
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for selecting a digital assistant from among multiple digital assistants.
Frank Maker, Andrey Eltsov, Robert Curtis, Gregory Medding
Filed: 26 Aug 21
Utility
Establishment and use of time mapping based on interpolation using low-rate fingerprinting, to help facilitate frame-accurate content revision
30 May 23
A computing system identifies multiple matching points between (i) query fingerprints representing a media stream being received by a client and (ii) reference fingerprints, each identified matching point defining a respective match between a query fingerprint timestamped with client time defined according to a clock of the client and a reference fingerprint timestamped with true time defined according to a timeline within a known media stream.
Peter Dunker, Markus K. Cremer, Shashank C. Merchant, Kurt R. Thielen
Filed: 9 Feb 22
Utility
Media device upgrading system with a native user interface
30 May 23
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a media device upgrading system with a native user interface.
David Mendenhall, David Sharp, Mark Ely, Jim Funk, Charles Smith, Andrew Schultz, Anthony Wood
Filed: 8 Jun 22
Utility
Media device upgrading system over a wireless network
30 May 23
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a media device upgrading system over a wireless network.
Prateek Tandon, Cameron Esfahani
Filed: 21 Mar 22
Utility
Content-modification system with fingerprint data mismatch and responsive action feature
23 May 23
In one aspect, a method includes receiving query fingerprint data representing content received by a content-presentation device.
Andrew Laurence Ashbacher, Steven Michael Cormie, Stefanos Christakis Liassides
Filed: 26 May 22
Utility
Content-modification system with feature for managing multiple content-modification requests
23 May 23
In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first request for first supplemental content for use by a content-presentation device in performing a first content-modification operation, receiving a second request for second supplemental content for use by a tuner device in performing a second content-modification operation.
Stefanos Christakis Liassides, Brian Patrick Jentz
Filed: 24 Feb 22