公开(公告)号：US20180111787A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-26

申请号：US15332617

申请日：2016-10-24

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Bhavesh Patel

IPC: B66B1/24 ,  B66B1/46

CPC classification number: B66B1/3476 ,  B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/215 ,  B66B2201/222

Abstract: One or more elevators can be more efficiently controlled by considering the then-current spatial capacity of the elevator. Camera images or other sensor data indicative of the occupied space in the elevator are received and processed by a control device to determine whether or not the elevator should stop at a requested floor. If the elevator is determined to lack space for additional passengers, then the elevator can bypass the requested stop and proceed without delay. If space remains, however, the elevator can stop to accommodate additional passengers. Measured spatial capacity can also be used to coordinate the actions of multiple elevators operating within a building.

公开(公告)号：US09946857B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-17

申请号：US14710331

申请日：2015-05-12

Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： William Michael Beals

IPC: G06F21/31 ,  H04L12/28 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F21/32

CPC classification number: G06F21/31 ,  G06F21/32 ,  H04L12/2803 ,  H04L12/2816 ,  H04L12/2818 ,  H04L12/2825 ,  H04L12/2827 ,  H04L63/101

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining access to a home automation system may include receiving a command from a user to perform a home automation function, and determining a privilege for the user, which may be based on the location of the user. The methods may include comparing the command and the user privilege to an authorization list, where the authorization list defines system access to perform home automation functions based at least on individual commands and associated privileges. The methods may also include determining whether to allow the user access to the home automation system to perform the commanded home automation function.

公开(公告)号：US09941623B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-10

申请号：US14988037

申请日：2016-01-05

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： David B Lett

IPC: H01R13/52 ,  H01R13/516 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H01R24/64

CPC classification number: H01R13/5213 ,  H01R13/516 ,  H01R24/64 ,  H04N5/2251 ,  H04N5/2257

Abstract: Flat Ethernet cables and associated systems, devices, and methods are disclosed, particularly as applied to home security system implementations. For example, disclosed herein is a flat Ethernet cable that includes an interior, female connection end, an exterior, female connection end, opposite the interior end, and including a weather-proofing clamshell enclosing the female connection end, and a flat cable portion that runs between the interior end and the exterior end. The flat Ethernet cable is configured as a PoE cable.

公开(公告)号：US09939897B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-10

申请号：US15377467

申请日：2016-12-13

Applicant: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Mark Gohl

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G09G5/36 ,  H04W12/02 ,  G09G5/377 ,  H04N13/04

CPC classification number: G06F3/013 ,  G06F21/84 ,  G09G5/36 ,  G09G5/377 ,  G09G2354/00 ,  G09G2358/00 ,  H04N2013/403 ,  H04W12/02

Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting actual data on a display device based on eye-tracking data. An eye-tracking engine receives sensed data from an eye-tracking device, determines a movement status of an eye based on the sensed data, and determines a display configuration based on the determined movement status. The display configuration is output on the display device and includes masking data when the determined movement status indicates the eye is in motion.

公开(公告)号：US20180098044A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-05

申请号：US15821276

申请日：2017-11-22

Applicant: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： MARK B. HURST

IPC: H04N9/87 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/432

CPC classification number: H04N9/87 ,  H04L65/4084 ,  H04L65/4092 ,  H04L65/80 ,  H04N21/4325 ,  H04N21/44209 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/64753 ,  H04N21/64769 ,  H04N21/814 ,  H04N21/8166

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided to arbitrate network bandwidth that is shared between multiple video players executing concurrently on one or more client platforms that each have at least one video data stream supplied over a data network. An amount of bandwidth available from the data network is determined. An arbitration module calculates whether the selected video players can sustain a video playback quality above a pre-defined threshold using the determined amount of bandwidth available, and a modify playback message is sent to at least one video player when the video playback quality is not sustainable. Various implementations could prioritize bandwidth based upon the content presented so that high-bandwidth scenes (e.g., action sequences) receive more bandwidth than more static scenes.

公开(公告)号：US20180091598A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15280804

申请日：2016-09-29

Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Bernard A. McCarthy, III ,  David B. Lett ,  George Horkan Smith ,  Allan Richard Bly, JR.

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04L12/28 ,  H04L29/12

CPC classification number: H04L67/125 ,  H04L12/2803 ,  H04L12/2832 ,  H04L61/6081 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L2012/2841 ,  H04W4/80

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a systems and methods for finding wireless signals sufficient for installation of wireless home automation devices. Before such home automation devices are installed, or during the process of installing such home automation devices, the remote-control device of a wireless home automation hub may detect whether a suitable wireless signal is able to be received from the home automation hub or from a wireless repeater device at various locations on the customer premises and indicate that on the remote-control device. The remote control device may continue to display such an indication regarding the signal, or lack thereof, as the user moves about the customer premises with the remote control. In this manner, the user may find what locations on the customer premises are suitable for installation of home automation devices to communicate wirelessly with the home automation hub.

公开(公告)号：US09930084B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-27

申请号：US14754541

申请日：2015-06-29

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Mark B. Hurst

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/911 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/6587

CPC classification number: H04L65/601 ,  H04L47/823 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04N21/23439 ,  H04N21/44209 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/8456

Abstract: Systems, devices and processes are described to adapt segment requests placed by an autonomous media player during media streaming to compensate for fluctuations in the bandwidth consumed by the requested segments due to variances in the underlying video content. By providing predictive data about the bandwidth consumption of upcoming video segments, client devices can adapt requests for future segments accordingly. Further, predictive consumption data can be shared between players operating within shared bandwidth to assist players needing additional bandwidth for upcoming video sequences.

公开(公告)号：US20180084300A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-22

申请号：US15273278

申请日：2016-09-22

Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Gregory Greene

IPC: H04N21/438 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/6332

CPC classification number: H04N21/4384 ,  H04N21/2362 ,  H04N21/4345 ,  H04N21/44209 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/6332 ,  H04N21/6336

Abstract: Systems and methods of a media device are operable to perform a channel change operation. An exemplary embodiment receives a first data table from a data table server, wherein the first data table comprises first control information used to perform a channel change operation such that the media device reconfigures itself to change to a new channel from a currently presenting channel or to a new media content event from a currently presenting media content event. The exemplary embodiment later receives a second data table after initiation of the channel change operation, wherein the second data table is broadcast to the media device in one of a plurality of received broadcasting media content streams that has the new media content event, and wherein the second data table comprises second control information that corresponds to at least some of the first control information used to perform the channel change operation.

公开(公告)号：US09924236B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-20

申请号：US14933818

申请日：2015-11-05

Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Phuc H. Nguyen ,  Christopher William Bruhn

IPC: H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/485 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/426

CPC classification number: H04N21/4886 ,  G11B27/034 ,  H04N21/4263 ,  H04N21/4314 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/4858 ,  H04N21/8133

Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards extracting an informational banner from a first source and combining it with video content from a second source. The informational banner may be a news ticker, a scoreboard, an informational window of a program, etc. The informational banner is selected or identified from the first source using one or more different automated or user-selectable methods. The extracted informational banner is combined with video content from the second source at a display location that is automatically determined or selected by a user. The combined content is then provided to a display device for presentation to the user.

公开(公告)号：US09924148B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-20

申请号：US14179953

申请日：2014-02-13

Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Joseph Bartlow ,  Neil Marten

IPC: H04N9/87 ,  G11B27/031 ,  H04N21/44 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/338 ,  H04N5/91 ,  A63F13/79

CPC classification number: H04N9/87 ,  A63F13/00 ,  A63F13/338 ,  A63F13/497 ,  A63F13/79 ,  G11B27/031 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N21/44008

Abstract: An electronic device and a method for generating a highlight program are provided. The electronic device, for example, includes, but is not limited to a communication device, and a processor communicatively coupled to the communication device, wherein the processor is configured to receive extraction settings, receive game data from the communication device, set an extraction point in the game data based upon the extraction settings, and create a highlight program including media from the game data based upon the extraction point.