公开(公告)号：US20210109649A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US16601237

申请日：2019-10-14

Applicant: SLING TV L.L.C.

Inventor： Dale Lynn Shepherd ,  Bryan Douglas DeVries ,  Taylor Albert McGinnis ,  Andrew Dean Lynn ,  Jenna Bradford ,  Mary Stevens

IPC: G06F3/0485 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0354

Abstract: The various embodiments of the present disclosure provide for devices, systems and processes for facilitating adaptive user progressions through content. For at least one embodiment, a process for facilitating user adaptive progressions through content includes receiving a detected first user input motion and determining, based on the first user input motion, a first progression type. The process may also include executing: a slow scrub progression when the first user input motion occurs within a first area defined by a first velocity threshold VT1 upper limit and a first array sector range AS1; executing a fast scrub progression when the first user input motion occurs within a second area defined by a second velocity threshold VT2 upper limit and a second array sector range AS2; executing a slow swipe scrub progression when the first user input motion occurs within a third area defined by a third velocity threshold VT3 upper limit and a third array sector range AS3; and executing a fast swipe progression when the first user input motion occurs within a fourth area defined by a fourth velocity threshold VT4 upper limit and a fourth array sector range AS4.

公开(公告)号：US12301908B2

公开(公告)日：2025-05-13

申请号：US17885494

申请日：2022-08-10

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： Trent Badger

IPC: H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482

Abstract: Processes, computing systems, and devices perform operations to generate an interface for selecting streaming content on a client device. The operations include selecting a tile of video content for inclusion in a ribbon, compiling a set of eligibility keys that identify subscription levels with an upgrade path to access the video content of the tile, and compiling a set of lineup keys that identify subscription levels with access to the video content of the tile. A key associated with a user account is matched to the set of eligibility keys or the set of lineup keys to select the ribbon for presentation to the user account. The ribbon is transmitted to the client device in the interface for selecting the streaming content device in response to the user account associated with the key being authenticated on the client device.

公开(公告)号：US12294448B2

公开(公告)日：2025-05-06

申请号：US17210147

申请日：2021-03-23

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： Vikal Kumar Jain

IPC: H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/70 ,  H04H60/72 ,  H04N21/2668

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for unifying local channels with Over-the-Top (OTT) services (e.g., Internet-streaming media services). In one example aspect, a location is determined. Based on the determined location, a list of local channels available for broadcast in the geographic area is retrieved. The list of local channels is then compared to a list of channels offered via at least one OTT service. Based on the comparison with the OTT service channel offering, a subset of available local channels may be determined. The electronic programming guide (EPG) data and other programming metadata associated with the local channels may be downloaded and provided to the OTT service. The local channels, along with the EPG data and programming metadata, may be merged with the OTT service so that the local channels may be streamed via the OTT service.

公开(公告)号：US20250008304A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18757306

申请日：2024-06-27

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Mark Hurst ,  Kyle Powell

IPC: H04W4/06

Abstract: Systems, devices, and automated processes optimize bandwidth utilization in wireless network systems such as satellite systems, 5G and other cellular networks, and wireless local area networks with multiple distribution nodes. Redundant unicasts of media streams are replaced by multicasts that can be transmitted by a subset of the available distribution nodes. This allows customer devices to receive redundant content over shared bandwidth that is available to the particular customer devices requiring access to the redundant content. Subsets of distribution nodes can be selected for transmitting multi-casts, thereby further reducing the amount of system bandwidth needed to provide high-quality media streams to multiple customer devices operating within the wireless network system.

公开(公告)号：US12126846B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US17827237

申请日：2022-05-27

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： Eric Dyoniziak ,  Robert Drew Major

IPC: H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/81

CPC classification number: H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/812

Abstract: The present invention recognizes media content using signatures generated by network devices with limited processing power. An audio signal is prepared for application of a discrete Fourier transform (DFT). Outputs from the DFT include real components and imaginary components that are used to calculate output magnitudes associated with frequency bins. The frequency-amplitude pairs include the output magnitudes and the associated frequency bins. A signature of the audio signal is generated by selecting a predetermined number of frequency-amplitude pairs having dominant output magnitudes. The network devices that generate the signatures may transmit the signatures to a server for analysis. The server may trigger actions in response to detecting known content based on the received signatures matching known signatures.

公开(公告)号：US20240236441A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-11

申请号：US18611473

申请日：2024-03-20

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major

IPC: H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/845

CPC classification number: H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/4882 ,  H04N21/8456

Abstract: Systems, devices and processes are provided to facilitate video streaming. The various embodiments facilitate the detection of program promotions in a video stream, where program promotions include commercial content that advertises future programs. In general, the embodiments facilitate the detection of program promotions in a video stream through the use of automated process monitors the video stream and determines that a content block is a program promotion when that content block meets a defined set of criteria. This set of criteria can include criteria such as time adjacency, timespan, audio, video and textual factors, and when the content was previously first detected. In such embodiments the ability to detect program promotions using the set of criteria facilitates the replacement of these program promotions with other, potentially more valuable, content.

公开(公告)号：US20240205496A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18595802

申请日：2024-03-05

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： R. Drew Major

IPC: H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/81

CPC classification number: H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/47217 ,  H04N21/4821 ,  H04N21/812

Abstract: Systems, devices and automated process allow automatic replacement of advertisements or other content in previously-broadcast television programs. A content management system or the like operating on a digital network receives indicia from playback devices that have encountered identified advertisements that are stored in digital video recorders or that are otherwise contained within previously-broadcast television programs. The encounters are recorded in a database for subsequent analysis. If desired, the previously-broadcast advertisements may be replaced with more relevant or engaging advertisements prior to playback to the viewer, thereby allowing a fresher, more relevant and more engaging experience for the viewer.

公开(公告)号：US11997416B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US18149573

申请日：2023-01-03

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： Gregory Nelson Gillis

IPC: H04N7/01 ,  H04N21/2343

CPC classification number: H04N7/01 ,  H04N21/2343

Abstract: The various embodiments described herein provide systems, devices and/or processes to improve the deinterlacing of interlaced video content. Specifically, the various embodiments described herein facilitate the deinterlacing of video content by using both intraframe and interframe pixel prediction values to generate replacement pixel values to be used in the resulting progressive scan video. Specifically, the embodiments described herein generate both intraframe pixel prediction values and intraframe pixel prediction values for each pixel in the interlaced video that is to be replaced. The intraframe pixel prediction values and intraframe pixel prediction values are then blended together to generate the replacement pixel values that are used in the progressive scan video. In one embodiment, the blending of intraframe pixel prediction values and intraframe pixel prediction values is based at least in part by estimations of motion in the video about the pixel being replaced.

公开(公告)号：US11778257B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-03

申请号：US16732277

申请日：2019-12-31

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： R. Drew Major

IPC: H04N21/262 ,  H04H60/37 ,  G06Q30/0272 ,  H04N21/234

CPC classification number: H04N21/26241 ,  G06Q30/0272 ,  H04H60/372 ,  H04H60/375 ,  H04N21/23424

Abstract: Systems, devices and automated process allow automatic replacement of advertisements or other content in previously-broadcast television programs. A content management system or the like operating on a digital network receives indicia from playback devices that have encountered identified advertisements that are stored in digital video recorders or that are otherwise contained within previously-broadcast television programs. The encounters are recorded in a database for subsequent analysis. If desired, the previously-broadcast advertisements may be replaced with more relevant or engaging advertisements prior to playback to the viewer, thereby allowing a fresher, more relevant and more engaging experience for the viewer.

公开(公告)号：US20230247205A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US17649420

申请日：2022-01-31

Applicant: Sling TV L.L.C.

Inventor： Greg GILLIS

IPC: H04N19/146 ,  H04N19/154 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/42

CPC classification number: H04N19/146 ,  H04N19/154 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/42

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for managing bandwidth of an encoded media content stream by dynamically varying the quality of the encoded media content. One method involves encoding the media content using a first value for a quality factor, determining one or more metrics indicative of a bandwidth associated with the encoded portion of the media content, determining an adjustment for the quality factor to obtain an adjusted value for the quality factor based at least in part on a relationship between the one or more metrics indicative of the bandwidth and one or more bandwidth targets, and thereafter encoding a subsequent portion of the media content using the adjusted value for the quality factor.