公开(公告)号：US10932007B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-23

申请号：US16458982

申请日：2019-07-01

Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

Inventor： Michael D. Sprenger ,  Zubin Ingah

IPC: H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/4402 ,  H04N21/24

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing media content streaming/downloading and playback, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing video quality optimization based on display capabilities. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive user input from a user indicating a user request for media content. The computing system might autonomously determine characteristics or attributes of a playback device (i.e., a display device and/or audio playback device, etc.). The computing system might send, to a media content source over a network, a request for the media content, the request comprising information regarding presentation characteristics that are based at least in part on the determined characteristics of the playback device. The computing system might receive a version of the media content having the one or more presentation characteristics, and might relay the received version of the media content to the playback device for presentation to the user.

公开(公告)号：US20200334100A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-22

申请号：US16919892

申请日：2020-07-02

Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

Inventor： Michael D. Sprenger ,  Steven M. Casey ,  Katie S. Feiman ,  Zubin Ingah

IPC: G06F11/07 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/18

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing error detection in a network, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing error and/or fault detection in a network and/or media stream and providing options to address the error and/or fault in the network and/or media stream. In various embodiments, a computer might detect an error in a first network and send a notification indicating that the error has occurred. The notification might contain one or more options to address the error in the first network. The computer, a user device, a service provider device, or a content provider device might receive and display the notification containing the one or more options. The computer, the user device, the service provider device, or the content provider device might then select at least one of the one or more options to address the error in the first network.

公开(公告)号：US10575048B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US15785211

申请日：2017-10-16

Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

Inventor： Michael D. Sprenger ,  Zubin Ingah

IPC: H04N21/4363 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/4367 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04W76/02 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04N21/41

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing media content streaming or playback, and, more particularly, for implementing video tuning and wireless video communication. In various embodiments, a media player, which might include an integrated wireless video link system, might receive an encoded video signal from a media content source(s) (and/or a corresponding database(s). The media player might decode the received video signal, might establish a wireless communications link between the media player and one or more display devices via the integrated wireless video link system, and might send the decoded video signal to the one or more display devices (and/or one or more user devices) via the wireless communications link established by the integrated wireless video link system. In some cases, the media player might perform one or more of these processed in response to user input received via the user devices or via the media player's user interface(s).

公开(公告)号：US20190335245A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-31

申请号：US15966387

申请日：2018-04-30

Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

Inventor： Michael D. Sprenger ,  Steven M. Casey ,  Katie S. Feiman ,  Zubin Ingah

IPC: H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/2187

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing notifications on a display device, and more particularly, for implementing, interacting with, and displaying notifications associated with media content on a display device. In various embodiments, a media player might receive one or more notifications associated with media content. The media player might further receive user interaction with the one or more notifications. The user interaction might cause the media content to be displayed on a second display device, the media content to be displayed after a program being currently viewed by a user has ended, a preview of the media content to be displayed, a live stream of the media content to be displayed in the notification, the media content to be placed in a queue, the media content to be recorded, or a recording of the media content to be deleted.

公开(公告)号：US10353577B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-16

申请号：US15477376

申请日：2017-04-03

Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

Inventor： Zubin Ingah ,  Michael D. Sprenger

IPC: G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F3/14 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/472 ,  G09G5/14 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/482

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing media content streaming or playback, and, more particularly, for implementing content navigation or selection using touch-based input. In various embodiments, a computing system might display a first video content on a display screen of a main display device and on a touchscreen display of a user device, the first video content displayed on one mirroring that displayed on the other. In response to receiving user input via the touchscreen display, the computing system might shift display of the first video content along a first direction consistent with the user input while displaying and shifting display of a second video content along the first direction such that the two video content are adjacent to each other during shifting. The computing system might mirror the display and the shifting of the display of the first and the second video content on the display screen.

公开(公告)号：US20180332356A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-15

申请号：US15840770

申请日：2017-12-13

Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

Inventor： Zubin Ingah ,  Fernando Prieto-Ochoa ,  Asghar Hussain ,  Pavan Sudheer ,  Michael D. Sprenger

IPC: H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N5/44

CPC classification number: H04N21/4821 ,  H04N5/4403 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/26283 ,  H04N21/42204 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/47205

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing a unified multi-source video programming & navigation guide. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive first metadata, receive second metadata, and compile the first metadata and the second metadata. The first metadata might correspond to first video content available from a first video content source among a plurality of video content sources, while the second metadata might correspond to second video content available from a second video content source among the plurality of video content sources. The computing system might also generate a unified multi-source video programming and navigation guide (“UPG”) that lists in a blended fashion the first video content and the second video content, based at least in part on the first metadata and the second metadata. The computing system might display the UPG on a display screen of a display device.

公开(公告)号：US20180309762A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-25

申请号：US15822448

申请日：2017-11-27

Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

Inventor： Asghar Hussain ,  Zubin Ingah ,  Michael D. Sprenger

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04W12/08

CPC classification number: H04L63/102 ,  G06F21/10 ,  G06F2221/2145 ,  H04L63/0281 ,  H04L2463/101 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/835 ,  H04W12/08

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing digital rights management (“DRM”)-agnostic entitlement gateway and verification system. In various embodiments, an entitlement gateway might receive a query from a client device, and might determine whether a user is authorized to access requested DRM-protected media content. If not, the entitlement gateway might send a deny signal to the client device that prevents the user from accessing the media content. If so, the entitlement gateway might identify, from among a plurality of DRM types, a DRM type that is used to protect the media content. The entitlement gateway might identify, from among a plurality of DRM servers each associated with a particular DRM type, a DRM server associated with the identified DRM type, and might send a request for a license for accessing the media content from the identified DRM server, the license enabling the user to access the media content.

公开(公告)号：US20180167670A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-14

申请号：US15785211

申请日：2017-10-16

Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

Inventor： Michael D. Sprenger ,  Zubin Ingah

IPC: H04N21/4363 ,  H04W76/02 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/4367 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/422

CPC classification number: H04N21/43637 ,  H04N21/4122 ,  H04N21/42203 ,  H04N21/4222 ,  H04N21/4263 ,  H04N21/43615 ,  H04N21/4367 ,  H04W76/10

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing media content streaming or playback, and, more particularly, for implementing video tuning and wireless video communication. In various embodiments, a media player, which might include an integrated wireless video link system, might receive an encoded video signal from a media content source(s) (and/or a corresponding database(s). The media player might decode the received video signal, might establish a wireless communications link between the media player and one or more display devices via the integrated wireless video link system, and might send the decoded video signal to the one or more display devices (and/or one or more user devices) via the wireless communications link established by the integrated wireless video link system. In some cases, the media player might perform one or more of these processed in response to user input received via the user devices or via the media player's user interface(s).

公开(公告)号：US20180160151A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-07

申请号：US15785145

申请日：2017-10-16

Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC

Inventor： Michael D. Sprenger ,  Zubin Ingah

IPC: H04N19/86 ,  H04N19/68 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/154

CPC classification number: H04N19/86 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/154 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/40 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/68 ,  H04N19/85

Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for video encoding and decoding, and, more particularly, for implementing detection and visual enhancement of video encoding artifacts. In various embodiments, an encoder might encode, using one or more encoding algorithms under test, an original video signal that is received from a video content source. The encoder might send an encoded video signal to a first decoder, which might decode the encoded video signal. A synchronization engine might receive the original video signal from the video content source, receive the decoded video signal from the first decoder, and implement frame synchronization of the received original video signal and the decoded video signal. A difference engine might generate a difference signal between the synchronized original video signal and the synchronized decoded video signal. A post processor might implement post processing of the generated difference signal, which may be displayed, to enhance video encoding artifacts.