公开(公告)号：US20240297956A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-05

申请号：US18640642

申请日：2024-04-19

申请人： Sling TV L.L.C.

发明人： Gregory Nelson Gillis

IPC分类号： H04N7/01 ,  H04N21/2343

CPC分类号： H04N7/01 ,  H04N21/2343

摘要： The various embodiments described herein provide systems, devices and/or processes to improve the deinterlacing of interlaced video content. Specifically, the various embodiments described herein facilitate the deinterlacing of video content by using both intraframe and interframe pixel prediction values to generate replacement pixel values to be used in the resulting progressive scan video. Specifically, the embodiments described herein generate both intraframe pixel prediction values and intraframe pixel prediction values for each pixel in the interlaced video that is to be replaced. The intraframe pixel prediction values and intraframe pixel prediction values are then blended together to generate the replacement pixel values that are used in the progressive scan video. In one embodiment, the blending of intraframe pixel prediction values and intraframe pixel prediction values is based at least in part by estimations of motion in the video about the pixel being replaced.

公开(公告)号：US20240155167A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-09

申请号：US18416435

申请日：2024-01-18

申请人： Sling TV L.L.C.

发明人： Robert Drew Major ,  Leo Davis ,  Howard Davis

IPC分类号： H04N21/239 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/274

CPC分类号： H04N21/2396 ,  H04N21/23113 ,  H04N21/274

摘要： A remote storage digital video recorder (RSDVR) retains multiple copies of media programs so long as the copies are expected to be useful to at least one user. Rather than assigning copies to specific users at the time the program is recorded, copies can be assigned as the users request access to the particular media programs. Copies of unassigned programs can be deleted according to a schedule to reduce disk storage and processing demands on the system. A pool of program copies that are not initially assigned to particular users can be maintained until the user makes a specific request to view the program. This “late assignment” of program copies can substantially reduce the amount of data stored by the RSDVR system without substantially impacting the viewer experience.

公开(公告)号：US20220311528A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17210147

申请日：2021-03-23

申请人： Sling TV L.L.C.

发明人： Vikal Kumar Jain

IPC分类号： H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/72 ,  H04H60/70 ,  H04N21/2668

摘要： Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for unifying local channels with Over-the-Top (OTT) services (e.g., Internet-streaming media services). In one example aspect, a location is determined. Based on the determined location, a list of local channels available for broadcast in the geographic area is retrieved. The list of local channels is then compared to a list of channels offered via at least one OTT service. Based on the comparison with the OTT service channel offering, a subset of available local channels may be determined. The electronic programming guide (EPG) data and other programming metadata associated with the local channels may be downloaded and provided to the OTT service. The local channels, along with the EPG data and programming metadata, may be merged with the OTT service so that the local channels may be streamed via the OTT service.

公开(公告)号：US20220198361A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17129273

申请日：2020-12-21

申请人： Sling TV L.L.C.

发明人： Vikal Kumar Jain

IPC分类号： G06Q10/06

摘要： A digital service evaluation system evaluates services and user sessions provided by a service, to provide an overall score of the service. The digital service evaluation system detects client sessions associated with one or more devices. The digital service evaluation system obtains a first plurality of scores associated with performance metrics of the client session, and calculates an overall score for the client session. The digital service evaluation system obtains a second plurality of scores and calculates a second overall score. The digital service evaluation system determines a weight for each performance metric based on the first and second plurality of scores and the overall scores. The digital service evaluation system uses the weights to determine which performance metric caused a change in the overall scores. The digital service evaluation system takes an action based on the determination that a performance metric caused a change in the overall scores.

公开(公告)号：USD953281S1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-31

申请号：US29752172

申请日：2020-09-25

申请人： Sling TV L.L.C.

设计人： Luke VanDuyn ,  Neil T. Marten

公开(公告)号：US20220166815A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-26

申请号：US17101611

申请日：2020-11-23

申请人： Sling TV L.L.C.

发明人： MAX S. GRATTON ,  MATTHEW H. POLSON

IPC分类号： H04L29/06

摘要： Systems, devices and processes are provided to facilitate the authentication of media player devices for media streaming. Specifically, the various embodiments provide a media player device authentication technique that monitors the locations of media player devices to determine a pattern of device co-location with a primary device. The media player devices can then be selectively designated as confirmed devices based on their determined pattern of device co-location with a primary media player device. Those media player devices that are designated as confirmed devices can then be selectively enabled for media streaming. Conversely, media player devices that are not designated as confirmed devices based on a pattern of co-location can be prevented from receiving media streams even when they have the correct login information and password.

公开(公告)号：US20210204016A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-01

申请号：US16732032

申请日：2019-12-31

申请人： Sling TV L.L.C.

发明人： Shailesh DESHMUKH

IPC分类号： H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/414 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/2187

摘要： Systems, devices and processes are provided to facilitate the streaming of video content. In general, the systems, devices and processes facilitate the synchronized streaming of video content to a plurality of video player devices. Specifically, the systems, devices and processes provide for the synchronized streaming of video content to a plurality of video player devices while also providing the ability selectively restrict timing adjustments. For example, the timing adjustments in one or more of the video player devices can be selectively prevented from occurring at certain times to comply with content-based or other such restrictions. As one example, the systems, devices and processes can be used to prevent timing adjustments from being made in one or more video player devices during the displaying of commercials and/or certain live content on the video player devices.

公开(公告)号：US20210109649A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US16601237

申请日：2019-10-14

申请人： SLING TV L.L.C.

发明人： Dale Lynn Shepherd ,  Bryan Douglas DeVries ,  Taylor Albert McGinnis ,  Andrew Dean Lynn ,  Jenna Bradford ,  Mary Stevens

IPC分类号： G06F3/0485 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0354

摘要： The various embodiments of the present disclosure provide for devices, systems and processes for facilitating adaptive user progressions through content. For at least one embodiment, a process for facilitating user adaptive progressions through content includes receiving a detected first user input motion and determining, based on the first user input motion, a first progression type. The process may also include executing: a slow scrub progression when the first user input motion occurs within a first area defined by a first velocity threshold VT1 upper limit and a first array sector range AS1; executing a fast scrub progression when the first user input motion occurs within a second area defined by a second velocity threshold VT2 upper limit and a second array sector range AS2; executing a slow swipe scrub progression when the first user input motion occurs within a third area defined by a third velocity threshold VT3 upper limit and a third array sector range AS3; and executing a fast swipe progression when the first user input motion occurs within a fourth area defined by a fourth velocity threshold VT4 upper limit and a fourth array sector range AS4.

公开(公告)号：US12126846B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US17827237

申请日：2022-05-27

申请人： Sling TV L.L.C.

发明人： Eric Dyoniziak ,  Robert Drew Major

IPC分类号： H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/81

CPC分类号： H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/812

摘要： The present invention recognizes media content using signatures generated by network devices with limited processing power. An audio signal is prepared for application of a discrete Fourier transform (DFT). Outputs from the DFT include real components and imaginary components that are used to calculate output magnitudes associated with frequency bins. The frequency-amplitude pairs include the output magnitudes and the associated frequency bins. A signature of the audio signal is generated by selecting a predetermined number of frequency-amplitude pairs having dominant output magnitudes. The network devices that generate the signatures may transmit the signatures to a server for analysis. The server may trigger actions in response to detecting known content based on the received signatures matching known signatures.

公开(公告)号：US20240236441A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-11

申请号：US18611473

申请日：2024-03-20

申请人： Sling TV L.L.C.

发明人： Robert Drew Major

IPC分类号： H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/845

CPC分类号： H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/4882 ,  H04N21/8456

摘要： Systems, devices and processes are provided to facilitate video streaming. The various embodiments facilitate the detection of program promotions in a video stream, where program promotions include commercial content that advertises future programs. In general, the embodiments facilitate the detection of program promotions in a video stream through the use of automated process monitors the video stream and determines that a content block is a program promotion when that content block meets a defined set of criteria. This set of criteria can include criteria such as time adjacency, timespan, audio, video and textual factors, and when the content was previously first detected. In such embodiments the ability to detect program promotions using the set of criteria facilitates the replacement of these program promotions with other, potentially more valuable, content.