公开(公告)号：US10945048B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-09

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 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/431 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/658

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.

公开(公告)号：US10687099B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-16

申请号：US15392223

申请日：2016-12-28

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major

IPC: H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/414 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/438 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/2747 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04N21/647 ,  H04B1/16 ,  H04L25/03 ,  H04N21/2387 ,  H04N21/238 ,  H04N21/237 ,  H04N21/278

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for streaming media content over a network are provided. One exemplary method of assisted streaming of media content over a network involves detecting, by a media player at a client device coupled to the network, a first condition with respect to streaming the media content, and in response to the first condition, requesting, by the media player, a first portion of the media content from a first content delivery source on the network. After requesting the first portion of the media content, the method further comprises detecting, by the media player, a second condition with respect to streaming the media content, and in response to detecting the second condition, requesting, by the media player, a subsequent portion of the media content from a second content delivery source on the network. The first content delivery source transmits the media content using a modified transport layer protocol.

公开(公告)号：US10212490B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-19

申请号：US13836688

申请日：2013-03-15

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major

IPC: H04N7/16 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04N21/845

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided to automatically identify advertisements or other portions of a broadcast television stream before the stream is distributed via a cable, DBS, IPTV or other medium. The television broadcast is received at the data processing system, and audio content of the television broadcast is analyzed to generate an audio fingerprint of a portion of the audio content. The identified audio fingerprint are compared to audio fingerprints stored in a database to thereby identify the portion of the television broadcast based on the generated audio fingerprint. By identifying the contents of an actual broadcast prior to redistribution of the broadcast, additional actions may be taken that are unique to the identified content.

公开(公告)号：US09787436B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-10

申请号：US14788463

申请日：2015-06-30

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Darren Major

IPC: H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04W40/16

CPC classification number: H04L1/08 ,  H04L1/0009 ,  H04L43/0829 ,  H04L47/10 ,  H04L65/4084 ,  H04L65/605 ,  H04L67/04 ,  H04L67/28 ,  H04L67/2828 ,  H04L69/168 ,  H04L2001/0097 ,  H04W40/16 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Routing on Wi-Fi or similar home networks is improved though the use of a proxy service located on the home network. If wireless networking issues arise, the proxy can adapt delivery of digital content in an intelligent manner. If client communications are becoming increasingly unreliable, for example, the proxy can respond with additional error correction and/or packet retransmissions, in contrast to conventional TCP techniques for responding to network issues. Other corrections and features may be built into the proxy protocol as desired.

公开(公告)号：US09781486B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-03

申请号：US15247147

申请日：2016-08-25

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Darren Major

IPC: H04N21/6373 ,  H04N21/2183 ,  H04N21/6371 ,  H04N21/2747 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/2312 ,  H04N21/232 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/647 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04N21/6379 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/462 ,  G06F21/62 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/218 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N9/80 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N5/782

CPC classification number: H04N21/6373 ,  G06F21/6218 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N7/165 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N7/17336 ,  H04N9/80 ,  H04N21/2181 ,  H04N21/2183 ,  H04N21/23103 ,  H04N21/2312 ,  H04N21/2323 ,  H04N21/234363 ,  H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/2747 ,  H04N21/4135 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/47217 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/6371 ,  H04N21/6379 ,  H04N21/64322 ,  H04N21/64769 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/8456

Abstract: A remote storage digital video recorder (RS-DVR) system is disclosed. The RS-DVR system includes a network interface to communicate data between the RS-DVR system and a subscriber system via a network, a file system module coupled to the network interface, an ingest agent coupled to the file system module to receive encoded media segments that represent media content files encoded at a plurality of different bitrates; and a storage architecture coupled to the file system to store the encoded media segments, resulting in stored media segments. The RS-DVR carries out a number of functions and operations to service multiple subscribers and associated subscriber systems, such as various storage device management operations, file structure techniques, assignment of recorded media to subscribers, file system indexing, and supporting shared and per-subscriber content rights.

公开(公告)号：US09716916B2

公开(公告)日：2017-07-25

申请号：US14144235

申请日：2013-12-30

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Mark B. Hurst ,  Herrick Muhlestein

IPC: H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/647 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/6405 ,  H04N21/6408 ,  H04N21/845

CPC classification number: H04N21/64738 ,  H04L65/4076 ,  H04L65/602 ,  H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/6405 ,  H04N21/6408 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04N21/64322 ,  H04N21/8456

Abstract: Various systems, methods and devices adaptively manage the multicast delivery of multiple media programs. Each of the media programs is encoded into multiple media streams, each stream having a different bitrate, frame rate, resolution or other encoding parameter. A computer receives feedback about the delivery of the multiple streams and automatically adapts the number of streams available for at least one of the multiple media programs in response to the received feedback. This allows resources to be applied to those multicast streams having the greatest user demand.

公开(公告)号：US20170208369A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-20

申请号：US15393548

申请日：2016-12-29

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Christopher Boyd Tirpak ,  Steven Michael Casagrande

IPC: H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/2387

Abstract: Various systems, devices and methods automatically identify advertisements or other portions of television or other media content prior to broadcast using automated content analysis. Information about identified content may be used for any number of different purposes, including advertisement identification; advertisement replacement; second screen browsing or augmentation of identified content; tracking of times or places that ads or other content are viewed; and many others.

公开(公告)号：US20160323341A1

公开(公告)日：2016-11-03

申请号：US15207172

申请日：2016-07-11

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Mark B. Hurst

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/825

CPC classification number: H04L65/601 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L47/25 ,  H04L65/60 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L69/16 ,  H04N21/25808 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04N21/64769 ,  H04N21/64792 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/845

Abstract: An apparatus for adaptive-rate shifting of streaming content, includes an agent controller module configured to simultaneously request at least portions of a plurality of streamlets. The agent controller module is farther configured to continuously monitor streamlet requests and subsequent responses, and accordingly request higher or lower quality streamlets. A staging module is configured to stage the streamlets and arrange the streamlets for playback on a content player. A system, includes a data communications network, a content server coupled to the data communications network and having a content module configured to process content and generate a plurality of high and low quality streams, and the apparatus. A method includes simultaneously requesting at least portions of a plurality of streamlets, continuously monitoring streamlet requests and subsequent responses, and accordingly requesting higher or lower quality streamlets, and staging the streamlets and arranging the streamlets for playback on a content player.

Abstract translation: 一种用于流内容的自适应速率偏移的装置，包括被配置为同时请求多个流的至少一部分的代理控制器模块。 代理控制器模块进一步配置为连续监控流程请求和后续响应，因此请求更高或更低质量的流。 分段模块被配置成对流分段进行分级并且安排用于在内容播放器上回放的流。 一种系统，包括数据通信网络，耦合到数据通信网络的内容服务器，并具有被配置为处理内容并生成多个高质量和低质量流的内容模块以及该设备。 一种方法包括同时请求多个流的至少一部分，连续地监视流流请求和随后的响应，并且因此请求较高或更低质量的流，并且分级流和排列用于在内容播放器上播放的流。

公开(公告)号：US20160012843A1

公开(公告)日：2016-01-14

申请号：US14788312

申请日：2015-06-30

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Darren Major ,  John Michael Paul

IPC: G11B7/004

CPC classification number: G11B20/1217 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0656 ,  G06F3/0676 ,  G11B5/012 ,  G11B5/02 ,  G11B5/09 ,  G11B20/10527 ,  G11B20/1258 ,  G11B2020/1062 ,  G11B2020/10898 ,  G11B2020/1218 ,  G11B2020/1294 ,  H04N5/781

Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are described to improve the storage and retrieval of video content. The general concepts set forth herein could be used in any video storage system that uses disk drives to store video content, including remote or local storage digital video recorders (DVRs) and the like.

Abstract translation: 描述了方法，系统和设备来改进视频内容的存储和检索。 这里阐述的一般概念可以用于使用磁盘驱动器存储视频内容的任何视频存储系统，包括远程或本地存储数字录像机（DVR）等。

公开(公告)号：US20150039782A1

公开(公告)日：2015-02-05

申请号：US14516303

申请日：2014-10-16

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Mark B. Hurst

IPC: H04L12/825 ,  H04L29/06

CPC classification number: H04L65/601 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L47/25 ,  H04L65/60 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L69/16 ,  H04N21/25808 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04N21/64769 ,  H04N21/64792 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/845

Abstract: An apparatus for adaptive-rate shifting of streaming content includes an agent controller module configured to simultaneously request at least portions of a plurality of streamlets. The agent controller module is further configured to continuously monitor streamlet requests and subsequent responses, and accordingly request higher or lower quality streamlets. A staging module is configured to stage the streamlets and arrange the streamlets for playback on a content player. A system includes a data communications network, a content server coupled to the data communications network and having a content module configured to process content and generate a plurality of high and low quality streams, and the apparatus. A method includes simultaneously requesting at least portions of a plurality of streamlets, continuously monitoring streamlet requests and subsequent responses, and accordingly requesting higher or lower quality streamlets, and staging the streamlets and arranging the streamlets for playback on a content player.

Abstract translation: 用于流内容的自适应速率偏移的装置包括被配置为同时请求多个流的至少一部分的代理控制器模块。 代理控制器模块还被配置为连续监视流程请求和后续响应，并因此请求更高或更低质量的流。 分段模块被配置成对流分段进行分级并且安排用于在内容播放器上回放的流。 一种系统包括数据通信网络，耦合到数据通信网络的内容服务器，并具有被配置为处理内容并生成多个高质量和低质量流的内容模块以及该设备。 一种方法包括同时请求多个流的至少一部分，连续地监视流流请求和随后的响应，并且因此请求较高或更低质量的流，并且分级流和排列用于在内容播放器上播放的流。