公开(公告)号：US12259810B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-25

申请号：US18648118

申请日：2024-04-26

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： John Vincent Rishea ,  Andrew Fakhry

IPC: G06F11/36 ,  G06F11/3668 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: An example method for visual testing and issue communication of programmed display of content includes obtaining a workflow of test scenarios for visual testing a display. The content displayed on the display is controlled by a set-top box (STB) device executing target instructions. The example method further includes identifying a visual testing issue associated with executing the test scenarios, and communicating the workflow and issue to a remote device for reproduction of the issue.

公开(公告)号：US20250097504A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18962182

申请日：2024-11-27

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Max Stephen Gratton ,  Matthew H. Polson

IPC: H04N21/4147 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/485

Abstract: System and methods are disclosed that improve the speed, efficiency and usefulness of digital video recording systems. In some embodiments, during recording of a video capturing live action, a video recorder receives an indication of selection of a dynamic in-point selection user interface element. The video recorder determines an in-point for the video based on when the indication of the selection of the dynamic in-point selection user interface element was received. The video recorder then stops recording of the video in response to user input indicating to stop recording of the video. After stopping recording of the video, in response to user input indicating to start playing the video that was recorded, the video recorder starts playing the video from the in-point instead of a beginning of the video. In other embodiments, the user may be provided options to keep the entire originally recorded video, adjust the in-point, or to have the video be automatically edited based on the in-point in response to some other action, such as uploading the video to a social media site.

公开(公告)号：US20250097494A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18967803

申请日：2024-12-04

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Matthew Polson ,  Robert Sadler ,  James Wilde ,  Timothy Meyer ,  Christopher Kuhrt ,  Shaun Ryan ,  Jesse Montgomery

IPC: H04N21/254 ,  G07F17/32 ,  H04N21/239 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/478

Abstract: Various arrangements for authorizing content viewing are detailed herein. Sports wager data corresponding to a sports wager placed by a user may be provided to a provider system. The provider system can perform a lookup action to determine a content event based on the sports wager data. In response to the received sports wager data, a user account may be authorized using a rights scheme for access to content. The provider system may deauthorized the user account for access to the content by removing the rights scheme such that access to the content is later blocked.

公开(公告)号：US20250080806A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：US18460145

申请日：2023-09-01

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Eric Pleiman ,  Andrew Pleiman

IPC: H04N21/485 ,  H04N21/475

Abstract: A media device control system is provided herein. The media device control system receives a first indication of a geographic location of a set-top box associated with a user and receives a second indication of data representing one or more vacation time periods based on the geographic location. The media device control system determines that the user is predicted to be on vacation within a period of time based on the data representing the one or more vacation time periods and the geographic location. The media device control system receives user input confirming that the user will go on vacation within the period of time. The media device control system causes the set-top box to transmit signals to activate a television during the period of time based on the user input indicating that the user will go on vacation within the period of time.

公开(公告)号：US12244896B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-04

申请号：US18477318

申请日：2023-09-28

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Steven Casagrande

IPC: H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/442

Abstract: “Binge watching” of multiple episodes of a program is improved by the player device automatically skipping repeated portions of the program. Opening and closing credit scenes, for example, can be automatically skipped to thereby allow the viewer to progress through the entire season of programming at an even faster rate than was previously thought possible. Programming to be skipped may be identified by detecting audio or other digital fingerprints in the content itself, for example. Content to be skipped may be identified to the playback device according to anchor points or other references in the programming itself.

公开(公告)号：US12225262B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-11

申请号：US17546964

申请日：2021-12-09

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Mark Sokald ,  Justin Miller

IPC: G06F3/048 ,  G06F8/41 ,  G06F8/70 ,  G06F9/44 ,  G06F9/451 ,  G10L15/22 ,  H04B7/185 ,  H04L41/0893 ,  H04L61/5014 ,  H04L65/611 ,  H04N21/238 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/4363 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/478 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/81 ,  G06F9/445 ,  H04L101/668

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiver that generates a video signal. A first video is assigned to a first display layer of a plurality of display layers. A first trigger signal causes a first application to assign a first user interface to a second display layer, which is positioned over the first display layer. A second trigger signal causes a second application to assign a second user interface to a third display layer, which is positioned over the second display layer. The second trigger signal causes a reduction in a size of the first video, and a first portion of the third display layer and a second portion of the second display layer to be made transparent. The reduced size of the first video is positioned beneath the first portion. A combination of the first display layer, the second display layer, and the third display layer generates the video signal.

公开(公告)号：US20250039484A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-30

申请号：US18357842

申请日：2023-07-24

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C. ,  DISH Network Technologies India Private Limited

Inventor： Joshua D. Wade ,  Jason Anthony Madruga ,  Clark Hurst Pendery ,  Dalton William Hertel ,  Aaron William Schwartz ,  Ryan Scribner ,  Himanshu Jain ,  Sandeep Kumar Bhatta ,  Laxminarayana Dalimba

IPC: H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/454

Abstract: Methods and systems for provisioning content streaming services are provided. In one example, a method includes: receiving user registration data of multiple users associated with an MDU, the user registration data including a user identifier and a user experience level for each user, generating a user profile for each user, the user profile including the user registration data, viewership data, and at least one user feature, grouping the users to generate multiple user segments, each user segment including a list of users associated with the user segment and at least one common feature or attribute of the users, designating specific streaming service and content resource to each user segment, based on the common user experience level and the common feature according to a pre-defined policy, and provisioning the designated streaming service and content resource to a user of the MDU, based on the user segment to which the user belongs.

公开(公告)号：US20250039272A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-30

申请号：US18912073

申请日：2024-10-10

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Eric Pleiman ,  Joseph Tomko

IPC: H04L67/55 ,  H04L67/52

Abstract: Devices, systems and processes for providing local alerts to users via non-local channels are described. A process may include receiving, by a content distributor system, an alert message. The alert message includes a first alert condition and a second alert condition. The first alert condition and the second alert condition are identified in the alert message, and an alert notice is generated, based on the identified alert conditions, and transmitted to a user device coupled to the content distributor system. The first alert condition specifies an alert type. The second alert condition specifies a time period. The alert message may include a third alert condition specifying an action for a user of the user device to take or refrain from taking during the time period and the alert notice may identify the action. The alert message may include a target condition and the alert notice identifies actions to be performed.

公开(公告)号：US12212814B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-28

申请号：US16897053

申请日：2020-06-09

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Yunfeng Yang

IPC: H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/81 ,  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：US12212789B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-28

申请号：US18135292

申请日：2023-04-17

Applicant: DISH Network L.L.C.

Inventor： Ryan Majors

IPC: H04N21/80 ,  H04N21/218 ,  H04N21/23 ,  H04N21/239 ,  H04N21/2668

Abstract: A method for providing a unique remote experience of a live event includes receiving in near real time at a headend processing system from a control center at an event location raw media data captured at a live event occurring at the event location. Copies of the raw media data from the headend processing system are disseminated in near real time to a plurality of server nodes of a geographically distributed content delivery network connected together via communication network. The raw media data is processed to produce one or more customized presentations of the live event in the form of streaming audio/video (A/V) files of one or more subsets of the raw media data pursuant to one or more data structures corresponding, respectively, to one or more subscriber accounts. The streaming A/V files are transmitted over a communication network to one or more respective subscriber presentation devices.