公开(公告)号：US20210409808A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-30

申请号：US16910671

申请日：2020-06-24

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert F. Percival ,  John D. Barbieri ,  Emily Baker

IPC: H04N21/435 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/845

Abstract: Improved technical functionality is provided to dynamically select and seamlessly play advertisements immediately before playing of a recorded program upon selection of the recorded program for playing, or upon other detected events and conditions associated with the set-top-box (STB) or user. In some embodiments, this is performed by using metadata which may be delivered to and stored on a digital video recorder (DVR) prior to recording the program, providing a technical solution to enable opportunities for additional advertisement impressions. Playing of the advertisement may also or instead occur upon the recorded program finishing playing. Thus, the technical solution provides the additional opportunity for the content creator and/or the satellite television or cable service provider to sell advertising spots in addition to those already sold for breaks within the recorded program.

公开(公告)号：US11200028B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-14

申请号：US17149607

申请日：2021-01-14

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Nicholas Newell ,  Rob Johannes Clerx

IPC: G06F3/16 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06T13/40

Abstract: Media content event review systems and methods are operable to present member content reviews of a media content event by presenting a plurality of member avatars in a virtual world, wherein the member avatars present audio commentary about a media content event identified in a user request, and wherein the community members who generated the audio commentary about the media content event have an interpersonal relationship with the requesting user.

公开(公告)号：US11197097B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-07

申请号：US16257330

申请日：2019-01-25

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Rima Shah ,  Nicholas Brandon Newell

IPC: H04R5/04 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06N20/00 ,  H04W4/38 ,  H04R5/033 ,  H04S7/00

Abstract: Devices, systems and processes for providing an adaptive audio environment are disclosed. For an embodiment, a system may include a wearable device and a hub. The hub may include an interface module configured to communicatively couple the wearable device and the hub and a processor, configured to execute non-transient computer executable instructions for a machine learning engine configured to apply a first machine learning process to at least one data packet received from the wearable device and output an action-reaction data set and for a sounds engine configured to apply a sound adapting process to the action-reaction data set and provide audio output data to the wearable device via the interface module. The audio output data may be utilized by the wearable device to provide an adaptive audio environment.

公开(公告)号：US20210377597A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US16886455

申请日：2020-05-28

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Danny J. Minnick

IPC: H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/81

Abstract: A computerized system for guaranteed advertisement impressions recognizes an identifier of a media content segment (e.g., an advertisement) to be played before playing of a recorded program as a result of selection of or initiation of playing a recorded program. In some embodiments, the system recognizes an identifier of a media content segment at or during initiation of playing the of the media content segment, or during playback of a media content stream including a recorded program. In in response to the recognition of the identifier, the system ignores (or disables the remote control sending), for a predetermined time period, all commands to skip or fast forward through all or part of the media content segment.

公开(公告)号：US20210377586A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US16885972

申请日：2020-05-28

Applicant: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.

Inventor： Yunfeng Yang ,  Mark John Sokald ,  Jason Paul Carlson ,  Seth Byerley ,  Gowtham Ram Ramkumar ,  John Huynh

IPC: H04N21/266 ,  H04N21/278 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/482

Abstract: Systems, devices, and process described facilitate use of a first user device communicatively coupled to a local area network (LAN) The first user device may include a first hardware processor configured to execute first, non-transient, computer instructions for facilitating a first seamless DVR engine configured to identify a first content. A second user device is also coupled to the LAN. The second user device may include a second hardware processor configured to execute second, non-transient, computer instructions for facilitating a second seamless DVR configured to identify a second content. Each of the seamless DVR engines may be configured to generate a common universal directory identifying the first content and the second content as being available for use by each of the first user device and the second user device. User devices may independently populate the common universal directory. The universal directory may identify a distinct status for the content.

公开(公告)号：US20210375140A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US17350249

申请日：2021-06-17

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Chris Bruhn

IPC: G08G1/00 ,  H04W4/029 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: Novel techniques are described for usage tracking for shared dockless personal transport vehicles (PTVs) over one or more communications networks. Features encourage desired interactions between consumers and PTVs, such as by encouraging consumers to park the PTVs in a desirable condition and in desirable locations. For example, embodiments obtain location data from at least one sensor (e.g., a camera of a smart phone) indicating a parked location of a PTV of a fleet of shared PTVs. A set of parked location attributes is computed in accordance with the obtained location data, and an arbitration determination is computed indicating whether the set of parked location attributes meets a stored set of acceptance criteria. In accordance with a favorable computed arbitration determination, embodiments can output lock control data for a vehicle lock of the PTV (e.g., to lock the PTV in its parked location).

公开(公告)号：US11190841B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US16840004

申请日：2020-04-03

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Joshua Hartmann

IPC: H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/81

Abstract: A facility for generating analytical information based on individual reports of multiple scheduled presentations of interstitial media assets is provided. Data files are received that each include multiple status reports regarding multiple scheduled presentations of multiple media assets by a plurality of distinct media receiver devices in multiple distinct geographical areas. Analytical information is generated regarding the multiple scheduled media presentations by the distinct media receiver devices, the analytical information including aggregated success rates for one or more subsets of the scheduled media presentations. At least some of the analytical information is presented as a dashboard display comprising a plurality of distinct panels of related information on a communicatively coupled display device.

公开(公告)号：US20210367318A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-25

申请号：US17393627

申请日：2021-08-04

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Matthew Bailey ,  William Roberts

IPC: H01Q1/00 ,  H01Q1/12 ,  H01Q1/08

Abstract: Disclosed are devices, system, and method for mitigating wind damage to satellite antennas and for reducing the amount of ballast required to secure the satellite antennas. The device, system, and method include a mast on which an antenna may be affixed, a pivot gear capable of rotating between two or more positions, and a tension force or retention force on the pivot gear. A load force applied to the antenna creates a risk of damage proportional to the load force. The antenna system is capable of transitioning from a first orientation into a second orientation when the load force exceeds tension force or retention force, or the sum thereof, such that the antenna system experiences a reduced load force and therefore a reduced risk of damage. The device, system, and method also reduce the amount of ballast required to secure a non-penetrating antenna installation against tipping or sliding.

公开(公告)号：US11172245B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-09

申请号：US16593334

申请日：2019-10-04

Applicant: DISH NETWORK L.L.C. ,  Sling Media PVT. Ltd.

Inventor： Jayaprakash Ramaraj ,  Girish Reddivari ,  Shailesh Deshmukh ,  Edward Galbraith ,  James Davis ,  Satheesh Haryhara Iyer

IPC: H04N5/445 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/84

Abstract: A technique is described for generating a unified list (e.g., a list ribbon) of programs from a variety and disparate channels, the list for display on an over-the-top (OTT) client device. As an example, the unified list can be generated from OTT live channels and from over-the-air OTA and/or Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) live channels. Further, the unified list can include OTT recordings on the cloud and OTA/ATSC recordings on the local hard drive connected to an OTA local DVR. Thus, the OTT device Client obtains the list from the DVR backend, instead of going to the local OTA client box for the local recordings.

公开(公告)号：US20210334136A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-28

申请号：US17367969

申请日：2021-07-06

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Jeff McSchooler

IPC: G06F9/48 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W4/46 ,  G06F15/173 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G07C5/08

Abstract: Novel techniques are described for platooning of computational resources in automated vehicle networks. An on-board computational processor of an automated vehicle typically performs a large number of computational tasks, and some of those computational tasks can be computationally intensive. Some such tasks, referred to as platoonable tasks herein, are well-suited for parallel processing by multiple processors. Embodiments can detect one or more on-board computational processors in one or more automated vehicles that are likely, during the time window in which the platoonable task will be executed, to have available computational resources and to be traveling along respective paths that are close enough to each other to allow for ad hoc network communications to be established between the processors. In response to detecting such cases, embodiments can schedule and instruct shared execution of the platoonable tasks by the multiple processors via the ad hoc network.