公开(公告)号：US20200304850A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-24

申请号：US16843500

申请日：2020-04-08

Applicant: TIVO SOLUTIONS INC.

Inventor： Pratik Hasmukh Patel ,  David Stuart Luks ,  Thomas William Becker ,  Bryan Stephen Scappini ,  Doug Mittendorf ,  Richard Lee ,  Kevin P. Smith

IPC: H04N21/25 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/258

Abstract: Techniques, systems, and methods are disclosed to generate messaging to view content on media devices based on predictive factors. Information may be received to trigger one or more predictive factors and then generate a candidate set of offers to view content at a media device based on the information. Based on the one or more predictive factors, confidence values may be determined for each offer in the candidate set of offers. The candidate set of offers may be ranked based on the associated confidence values. Subsequently, presentation of at least one offer of the candidate set of offers may be caused to display in a user interface screen on the media device based on the ranking.

公开(公告)号：US20200089379A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-19

申请号：US16548650

申请日：2019-08-22

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： James M. Barton

IPC: G06F3/0484 ,  G06F9/451 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/048

Abstract: One or more window characteristics of at least one window displayed on a primary display device are displayed at a remote display device. User input is received at the remote display device to modify the one or more window characteristics of the at least one window displayed on the primary display device. The one or more modified window characteristics for the at least one window displayed on the primary display device are transmitted from the remote display device to the primary display device.

公开(公告)号：US10587925B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US15594902

申请日：2017-05-15

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Howard Look ,  Robert Vallone ,  David Avraham Brown ,  Karen Bedard ,  Wijnand Van Stam ,  Ain McKendrick

IPC: H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/472 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/10 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N5/44 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/783 ,  H04N9/79 ,  H04N9/804 ,  H04N9/806 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/488

Abstract: A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. The background colors of each set of menus remains consistent throughout the user's experience such that the user intuitively knows what menu area he is in through the color cues. The invention provides indicators that tell the user that more information is available in a particular direction for a menu item.

公开(公告)号：US10560747B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-11

申请号：US15936052

申请日：2018-03-26

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： James M. Barton

IPC: H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/237 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/41

Abstract: Techniques for real-time DVR programming employ secure instant message protocol in a DVR environment. An embodiment sends an instant message to the DVR which causes the DVR to open a new secure connection with the service provider for synchronizing data on the DVR with updated programming data from the service provider. Another embodiment uses an already established connection with an instant message server for synchronizing data on the DVR with updated programming data from the service provider.

公开(公告)号：US20190253767A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-15

申请号：US16379427

申请日：2019-04-09

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Paul Westbrook ,  Howard Look ,  James Young ,  Stephen Lacy ,  Timothy Davison ,  James M. Barton

IPC: H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/4335 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N7/025 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/218

CPC classification number: H04N21/6543 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N7/025 ,  H04N7/162 ,  H04N21/2181 ,  H04N21/2407 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4331 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/4335 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4516 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/4667 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/4755 ,  H04N21/8586

Abstract: A system for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The viewer may request that certain content be captured. Capture requests also allow the service to determine content to be recorded by the client system in the same manner that a viewer requests that certain content are recorded but are more powerful than what a viewer can request. Recording requests for a capture request can preempt viewer requests or be entered at the same or lower priority as a viewer request. Capture requests can adjust all aspects of a recording request and affect the capture request itself. Client system operational functionality are also manipulated by the service using capture requests.

公开(公告)号：US20190236089A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16265932

申请日：2019-02-01

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Mukesh Patel ,  Lu Silverstein ,  Srinivas Jandhyala

IPC: G06F16/40

CPC classification number: G06F16/40

Abstract: Voice-based input is used to operate a media device and/or to search for media content. Voice input is received by a media device via one or more audio input devices and is translated into a textual representation of the voice input. The textual representation of the voice input is used to search one or more cache mappings between input commands and one or more associated device actions and/or media content queries. One or more natural language processing techniques may be applied to the translated text and the resulting text may be transmitted as a query to a media search service. A media search service returns results comprising one or more content item listings and the results may be presented on a display to a user.

公开(公告)号：US10362351B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-23

申请号：US14463487

申请日：2014-08-19

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Shelly Glennon ,  Kimberly Paluch

IPC: H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/482

Abstract: In an embodiment, a first tuner task type is identified from among a plurality of tuner task types, in response to receiving a first tuner request. The first tuner request was made to perform a tuner task of the first tuner task type. A first set of tuner selection rules specifically for the first tuner task type is determined and applied to a set of tuners to determine whether the set of tuners comprises a tuner available to perform the tuner task of the first tuner task type.

公开(公告)号：US20190222902A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-18

申请号：US16238485

申请日：2019-01-02

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Robert F. Poniatowski ,  Shelly Glennon ,  Brian Beach ,  Marcel Dubois

IPC: H04N21/482 ,  G06F16/9537 ,  G06F16/332 ,  G06F16/955 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/232 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/239 ,  G06F16/78 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/2747 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/242 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04N21/63

CPC classification number: H04N21/4828 ,  G06F16/3325 ,  G06F16/7867 ,  G06F16/9537 ,  G06F16/955 ,  H04N21/232 ,  H04N21/2393 ,  H04N21/242 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/2747 ,  H04N21/4135 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/4825 ,  H04N21/632 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/8586 ,  Y10S707/914 ,  Y10S707/915 ,  Y10S707/916

Abstract: Techniques described herein enable searching for multimedia content and for downloading or scheduling the recording of the multimedia content. The multimedia content may have been previously stored on one or more databases. The client device may download or schedule the recording of multimedia content in one step, for example, in one touch. When desired multimedia content is not available, the multimedia content is added to the client device's wish list. When the client device's does not have a wish list, the client device's wish list may be created on the spot. During the scheduling of the recording, a tag associated with the multimedia content is checked to determine whether the multimedia content is live or delayed. When the tag indicates the multimedia content is live or delayed, the client device prompts with a suggestion to add extra time to the end of the recording of the multimedia content.

公开(公告)号：US10275395B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-30

申请号：US14705938

申请日：2015-05-06

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Joshua Danovitz ,  Todd Kulick ,  Paul Stevens ,  Joe Sinnott ,  Scott Redman ,  Roland Besserer

IPC: G06F16/11 ,  G06F16/43 ,  G06F16/14 ,  G06F16/783 ,  G06F16/951 ,  H04N21/2743 ,  H04N21/2747 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N21/2387

Abstract: A cloud-based media content management system for managing access to media content items is disclosed. Managing access to media content items by a cloud-based media content management system may include, for example, managing uploads of media content items from a population of media devices, reducing duplication of media content data stored in cloud-based storage, and providing user-controlled access to media content items stored in cloud-based storage across any number of user devices. In this context, a cloud-based media content management system and cloud-based storage system generally refer to hosted computing and data storage services that may be accessed by media devices and other devices over a digital network such as the Internet.

公开(公告)号：US10181338B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-15

申请号：US15805084

申请日：2017-11-06

Applicant: TiVo Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Robert Vallone ,  Howard Look ,  Ain McKendrick

IPC: H04N5/783 ,  G11B27/34 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G11B19/02 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/10 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/76 ,  H04N9/804 ,  H04N21/432 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N9/79 ,  H04N9/806 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N9/87 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/485

Abstract: A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to the right when material is being recorded. Index and/or bookmark indicators are displayed next to the cache bar. A position indicator moves within the cache bar and tells the user visually where his current position is within the program material. Numeric time or counter mark of the current position is displayed in the vicinity of the cache bar. The trick play bar and its associated components are displayed for a predetermined time period.