公开(公告)号：US20130081093A1

公开(公告)日：2013-03-28

申请号：US13679691

申请日：2012-11-16

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： Brendan G. Cassidy ,  Gary R. Court

IPC: H04N21/436

CPC classification number: H04N21/2385 ,  G06F9/505 ,  H04L67/32 ,  H04N21/2143 ,  H04N21/43615 ,  H04N21/4782 ,  H04N21/6125 ,  H04N21/64738

Abstract: A method of servicing requests for information at a server includes receiving a request for information from a client device, and determining a number of attempts of the request made by the client device. Both the client device and the server may count the number of attempts for each request. When the number of attempts is greater than a threshold, the method includes servicing the request and sending the information to the client device. When the number of attempts is not greater than the threshold, the method includes sending a service unavailable message to the client device. A retry-after delay may be calculated by the server according to a predicted time for the server to exit an overloaded state and included in the service unavailable message. The predicted time may take into account both requests currently being serviced and requests that have been scheduled to be serviced in the future.

Abstract translation: 在服务器处理对信息的请求的方法包括从客户端设备接收对信息的请求，以及确定由客户端设备发出的请求的尝试次数。 客户端设备和服务器都可以对每个请求的尝试次数进行计数。 当尝试次数大于阈值时，该方法包括对请求进行服务并向客户端设备发送信息。 当尝试次数不大于阈值时，该方法包括向客户端设备发送服务不可用消息。 可以由服务器根据服务器退出过载状态并包含在服务不可用消息中的预测时间来计算重试延迟。 预计的时间可能会考虑到目前正在服务的两个请求和将来被安排的服务的请求。

公开(公告)号：US11706464B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-18

申请号：US17678142

申请日：2022-02-23

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： Brendan G. Cassidy ,  Gary R. Court ,  Lindsey M. Carriere ,  Brian W. King ,  Darren T. Ziebart ,  Michael D. McCarthy

IPC: H04N21/214 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N7/10 ,  H04N7/18 ,  H04N7/20 ,  H04N21/236 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/6547 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04H20/63

CPC classification number: H04N21/2143 ,  H04H20/63 ,  H04N7/106 ,  H04N7/18 ,  H04N7/20 ,  H04N21/23617 ,  H04N21/25816 ,  H04N21/25875 ,  H04N21/43615 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/4753 ,  H04N21/47211 ,  H04N21/6547 ,  H04N21/8166

Abstract: A media system includes a plurality of set-top boxes coupled to a coax network and a controller. The controller displays a first passkey to a user in response to receiving a request from the user to activate playback of a media content on a particular set-top box. The set-top box receives the first passkey from the user and determines whether the user is authorized to activate playback of the media content by comparing the first passkey received from the user with a second passkey obtained from a passkey module on the set-top box. When the user is determined by the set-top box to be authorized to activate playback of the media content, the set-top box determines a radio frequency channel of the coax network according to the first passkey received from the user and begins playback of the media content received on the radio frequency channel on a display device.

公开(公告)号：US20220239659A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-28

申请号：US17720065

申请日：2022-04-13

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： Peter S. Warrick ,  Joshua M. Wookey ,  David T. Ong ,  Ian S. McBeth ,  Darren T. Ziebart ,  Andrew T. MacMillan

IPC: H04L9/40 ,  G06F16/951 ,  G06F16/955 ,  H04L61/103 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G06Q10/02 ,  G06Q50/12

Abstract: A service controller includes a network interface for coupling to a local area network of a hospitality establishment, and one or more processors coupled to the network interface. The one or more processors are configured to detect a device identifier of a user device on a local area network of a hospitality establishment, determine whether a guest of the hospitality establishment is associated with the device identifier, and automatically activate a service for the user device at the hospitality establishment in response to detecting the device identifier on the local area network when a guest of the hospitality establishment is determined to be associated with the device identifier.

公开(公告)号：US11297363B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-05

申请号：US16867741

申请日：2020-05-06

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： Peter S. Warrick ,  Brendan G. Cassidy ,  Brian W. King ,  Lea Lorenzo ,  Blake Read ,  Ian S. McBeth ,  Andrew T. MacMillan

IPC: H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04L67/51 ,  H04L67/04 ,  H04N21/214 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/61

Abstract: A hospitality media system includes a media system controller and a plurality of media devices located in a plurality of rooms and coupled to the media system controller. Each room has one or more in-room media devices located therein for performing a media function. A connection port allows a user of a room to establish data communications between the media system controller and a guest device. The media system controller is coupled to the connection port and configured to catalogue guest content available on the guest device to thereby form a guest content list, associate the guest content with one or more associated rooms at least including the user's room, and perform the media function utilizing content selected from the guest content list only on the in-room media devices located within the one or more associated rooms.

公开(公告)号：US11284121B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-22

申请号：US17088996

申请日：2020-11-04

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： Brendan G. Cassidy ,  Gary R. Court ,  Lindsey M. Carriere ,  Brian W. King ,  Darren T. Ziebart ,  Michael D. McCarthy

IPC: H04N21/214 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N7/10 ,  H04N7/18 ,  H04N7/20 ,  H04N21/236 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/6547 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04H20/63

Abstract: A media system includes a plurality of set-top boxes coupled to a coax network and a controller. The controller displays a first passkey to a user in response to receiving a request from the user to activate playback of a media content on a particular set-top box. The set-top box receives the first passkey from the user and determines whether the user is authorized to activate playback of the media content by comparing the first passkey received from the user with a second passkey obtained from a passkey module on the set-top box. When the user is determined by the set-top box to be authorized to activate playback of the media content, the set-top box determines a radio frequency channel of the coax network according to the first passkey received from the user and begins playback of the media content received on the radio frequency channel on a display device.

公开(公告)号：US11277754B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-15

申请号：US16563382

申请日：2019-09-06

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： John Thomas Welch ,  Gary L. Smith ,  Michael David Drews ,  Wael R. Midani

IPC: H04W16/18 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04B15/00 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W48/02 ,  H04B7/10 ,  H04W48/20

Abstract: A method of managing wireless access to a network performed by an access point includes storing a programmable response time for defining a zone of operation around the access point, receiving from a client device a request to associate with the access point, transmitting a probe to the client device, when a response to the probe is received, measuring a round trip time between transmission of the probe and receipt of the response, determining whether the client device's request to associate with the access point should be granted or denied by comparing the round trip time to the programmable response time, granting the request to associate in response to determining that the round trip time is less than the programmable response time, and denying the request to associate with the access point in response to determining that the round trip time is longer than the programmable response time.

公开(公告)号：US11115384B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-07

申请号：US15796382

申请日：2017-10-27

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： David T. Ong

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/12

Abstract: A walled garden system includes a firewall controlling access between a first network and a second network at least by allowing connection requests originating from a user device on the first network to a destination IP address on the second network in response to determining that the destination IP address matches a cleared IP address on a cleared IP addresses list. A controller receives a domain name service (DNS) reply from a DNS server on the second network, and determines whether a domain name specified within the DNS reply matches a cleared domain name on a cleared domain names list. In response to determining that the domain name specified within the DNS reply matches the cleared domain name on the cleared domain names list, the controller adds a resolved IP address specified in the DNS reply to the cleared IP addresses list as a new cleared IP address.

公开(公告)号：US20210192577A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US17193242

申请日：2021-03-05

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： Brendan G. Cassidy ,  Peter S. Warrick ,  Lindsey M. Carriere

IPC: G06Q30/02 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06Q50/12 ,  H04W4/50

Abstract: An app server receives a device token from a software application on a mobile device. The device token identifies the mobile device for pushing notification messages of the software application to the mobile device via a push notification system. The mobile device is monitored while accessing the Internet in order to detect when the user may benefit from upgraded access to the Internet. The app server then sends one or more notification message(s) to the user such as by sending a message to the device token of the mobile device via the push notification system or to a display device associated with the user at the hospitality establishment. The notification message invites the user to upgrade their Internet access. The push notification system alerts the user to the notification message via the user interface of the mobile device even when the software application is not running on the mobile device.

公开(公告)号：US20210185099A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US17140021

申请日：2021-01-01

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： Peter S. Warrick ,  Brendan G. Cassidy ,  Lindsey M. Carriere ,  Michael D. McCarthy

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A media system includes a computer network, a media device supporting a network-based media sharing protocol, a plurality of output devices located at a plurality of physical locations within a hospitality establishment, and a system controller. In response to a first event, the system controller assigns the media device to a particular guest device by reconfiguring one or more components of the computer network to enable the particular guest device to utilize the network-based media sharing protocol to share media over the computer network with the media device, and commands an output device located at a physical location associated with the particular guest device to play media corresponding to the media signal outputted by the media device on the output port. In response to a second event, the system controller un-assigns the media device from the particular guest device and commands the output device to stop playing the media.

公开(公告)号：US20210152669A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

申请号：US17089111

申请日：2020-11-04

Applicant: Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd.

Inventor： Tsu-Kang Peng ,  Ellison W. Bryksa ,  Lea Lorenzo

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/28 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: An interface gateway facilitates communication between a first device and a second device serving a hospitality establishment. The first device is one of a property management system (PMS) and a guest service device, and the second device is the other of the property management system (PMS) and the guest service device. One or more communication ports perform data communications with the first device and the second device. One or more processors receive a message from the first device, determine that the message is in a first format, determine that the message is applicable to the second device, determine that the second device supports a second format, convert the message to the second format, store the message in a transmit queue with an indication of whether a confirmation reply is expected from the second device, and send the message in the second format to the second device.