公开(公告)号：US09762972B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-12

申请号：US14803346

申请日：2015-07-20

Applicant: EchoStar Technologies, L.L.C.

Inventor： Carlos Garcia Navarro

IPC: H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/40 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/482

CPC classification number: H04N21/4882 ,  H04N21/40 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/4135 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/43622 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/44231 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/4583 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/482

Abstract: Various embodiments of systems, apparatus, and/or methods are described for selectively obscuring a rendering of a media stream. In one implementation, the method includes receiving a request to render the media stream. The media stream is accessed through a first media source. A content identifier is identified for an event within the requested media stream. Based upon the content identifier, it may be discovered that the event is accessible through at least one second media source. The rendering of the requested media stream may then be obscured and a notification provided to a user that the event within the requested media stream is accessible through at least one second media source.

公开(公告)号：US20170255263A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-07

申请号：US15057933

申请日：2016-03-01

Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Ellen Letendre

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  H04N21/422

CPC classification number: G06F3/016 ,  H04N5/4403 ,  H04N5/44543 ,  H04N21/42222 ,  H04N2005/4428

Abstract: Haptic feedback remote control systems and methods are provided. A method for providing haptic feedback to a user of a haptic feedback remote control device includes receiving, by a receiving device, an electronic command issued from the haptic feedback remote control device. The receiving device transmits a haptic feedback command to the haptic feedback remote control device. Based on the received haptic feedback command, the haptic feedback remote control activates a haptic feedback device, within the haptic feedback remote control, to provide a haptic feedback effect to a user of the haptic feedback remote control device.

公开(公告)号：US20170251279A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-31

申请号：US15593843

申请日：2017-05-12

Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： John Grant

IPC: H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/433 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/854 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/45

CPC classification number: H04N21/812 ,  G06Q30/0255 ,  G06Q30/0269 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/26258 ,  H04N21/4331 ,  H04N21/44004 ,  H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/4667 ,  H04N21/85406 ,  H04N21/8547

Abstract: Systems and methods are operable to distribute targeted assets to a plurality of media devices. An exemplary embodiment generates an asset file defined by an asset file time period, wherein target assets are selected for saving into the asset file when the intended initial presentation time of a target asset falls within the asset file time period of the asset file that is being generated. Then, the asset file is communicated to a plurality of media devices at a time in advance of the intended initial presentation times of a target asset of the asset file.

公开(公告)号：US09743077B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-22

申请号：US14993252

申请日：2016-01-12

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Andrey L. Abramov

IPC: H04N17/00 ,  G06K9/60 ,  G06K9/03

CPC classification number: H04N17/002 ,  G06K9/036 ,  G06K9/60 ,  G06T7/0002 ,  G06T2207/10016 ,  G06T2207/30168 ,  H04N5/23206 ,  H04N5/23222 ,  H04N17/004 ,  H04N19/154

Abstract: A mobile electronic device and a related method of processing video information are presented herein. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, the method of processing video information captures video data with a source device, and determines that a segment of video content conveyed by the video data does not satisfy predetermined video quality criteria. In response to the determination, the method initiates corrective action to disregard the segment of video content.

公开(公告)号：US09729989B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-08

申请号：US14671299

申请日：2015-03-27

Applicant: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Neil Marten

IPC: H04R29/00 ,  G08B13/16 ,  G08B19/00

CPC classification number: H04R29/008 ,  G08B13/1672 ,  G08B19/00

Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, non-transitory computer-readable mediums, and apparatuses are presented for detecting and positioning sound in a home automation system. Indications of sounds and timestamps may be received from various home automation devices. Using the received indications, a sound magnitude for the sound and whether the sound originated inside or outside of the structure can be determined. The sound magnitude may be compared to an inside sound threshold level if the sound was determined to originate inside the structure or compared to an outside sound threshold level if the sound was determined to originate outside the structure. Sound information corresponding to the sound may be logged if the sound was determined to originate inside and the sound magnitude exceeds the inside sound threshold level or the sound was determined to originate outside and the sound magnitude exceeds the outside sound threshold level.

公开(公告)号：US09723354B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-01

申请号：US14032697

申请日：2013-09-20

Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Seth A. Byerley

IPC: H04N7/18 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/438

CPC classification number: H04N21/4263 ,  H04N21/25816 ,  H04N21/43615 ,  H04N21/4383 ,  H04N21/4532

Abstract: A system includes a server in communication with a first set top box and a second set top box. The server receives a request from the first set top box to access an available tuner of the second set top box, accesses account information associated with the first set top box, and commands the second set top box to stream content from the available tuner to the first set top box according to the account information. A method includes identifying available tuners of set top boxes assigned to different customers, receiving a request from a first set top box to access an available tuner of a second set top box, accessing account information associated with the first set top box, and commanding the second set top box to stream content to the first set top box according to the account information of the first set top box.

公开(公告)号：US20170195701A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US15466295

申请日：2017-03-22

Applicant: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Henry Gregg Martch ,  Edmund Petruzzelli

IPC: H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/6543

CPC classification number: H04N21/2402 ,  H04N17/004 ,  H04N17/04 ,  H04N17/045 ,  H04N21/25841 ,  H04N21/6143 ,  H04N21/6193 ,  H04N21/6543

Abstract: Various arrangements for monitoring and utilizing solar conjunction events are presented. An occurrence of a solar conjunction event caused by the sun being substantially aligned with the satellite antenna through which a television receiver receives signals from one or more satellites may be monitored. A prediction of a future solar conjunction event based on the monitored occurrence of the solar conjunction event may then be calculated. A second occurrence of the solar conjunction event may be monitored. It may be determined that the second occurrence of the solar conjunction event does not match the calculated prediction of the future solar conjunction event within a threshold range. One or more features of the television receiver may be disabled in response to determining that the second occurrence of the solar conjunction event does not match the calculated prediction of the future solar conjunction event within the threshold range.

公开(公告)号：US20170195235A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：US15395079

申请日：2016-12-30

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Steven Giles ,  Kyle Powell ,  Herrick Muhlestein

IPC: H04L12/815 ,  H04L12/841 ,  G06N99/00 ,  H04L12/24

CPC classification number: H04L47/225 ,  G06N20/00 ,  H04L41/0896 ,  H04L41/147 ,  H04L41/16 ,  H04L43/0894 ,  H04L47/28

Abstract: A method for estimating bandwidth associated with an oscillating network includes determining a set of first average bandwidths within a corresponding set of first sliding windows, wherein each of the first sliding windows has a first duration. A second sliding window is defined such that it includes the set of first sliding windows, the second sliding window having a second duration that is larger than the first duration. The system then determines whether a bandwidth oscillation (as illustrated) is occurring based on the first set of first average bandwidths within the second sliding window.

公开(公告)号：US09699514B2

公开(公告)日：2017-07-04

申请号：US14956995

申请日：2015-12-02

Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Carlos Garcia Navarro

IPC: H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/232 ,  H04N21/278 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/432 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/45

CPC classification number: H04N21/4821 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/23109 ,  H04N21/232 ,  H04N21/278 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/4332 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/485

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing media mosaics are described. One embodiment provides a media mosaic management method in a media device. The method generates a mosaic filter based on a program selected from a first media mosaic. The mosaic filter is used to identify related programs for presentation in a second, customized media mosaic.

公开(公告)号：US20170188116A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-29

申请号：US15394355

申请日：2016-12-29

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Mark B. Hurst

IPC: H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/472

CPC classification number: H04N21/812 ,  G06Q30/0251 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/47217 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/6582 ,  H04N21/8153

Abstract: A method for operating a programming receiver is provided. The method displays, by the programming receiver, a sequence of recorded video content comprising a video presentation and a plurality of segments of interstitial content; receives, at the programming receiver, a command to skip one of the plurality of segments of interstitial content; and presents a screen comprising a picture advertisement for the one of the plurality of segments of interstitial content, the screen requesting confirmation to skip the one of the plurality of segments of interstitial content in the sequence.