Reducing decode delay at a client device

    公开(公告)号:US12081448B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US17360126

    申请日:2021-06-28

    申请人: Synamedia Limited

    IPC分类号: H04L47/30 H04L43/16 H04L65/61

    CPC分类号: H04L47/30 H04L43/16 H04L65/61

    摘要: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for reducing a decode delay at a client device. In some implementations, a device includes one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes determining that a client device is being switched from a real-time content presentation mode in which the client device presents real-time content to a buffered content presentation mode in which the client device presents buffered content. In some implementations, the method includes transmitting, to the client device, video frames corresponding to the buffered content at a first transmission rate. In some implementations, the method includes changing the first transmission rate to a second transmission rate based on an indication that a number of bits stored in a buffer of the client device satisfies a decode threshold.

    Methods, devices, and systems for publishing key pictures

    公开(公告)号:US12041284B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-16

    申请号:US17552916

    申请日:2021-12-16

    申请人: Synamedia Limited

    发明人: Rahul Banerjee

    IPC分类号: H04N21/262 G06V20/40

    CPC分类号: H04N21/26266 G06V20/46

    摘要: Techniques for publishing key pictures at a server and using the key picture information for operations on a client device are described herein. In accordance with various embodiments, the server creates an intermediate unit including key picture(s) from media content. The server then generates map(s) specifying for each key picture, a type, properties, and an association to the intermediate unit. The server also packages the intermediate unit into key picture unit(s) according to the map(s). The client device obtains a manifest for the media content referencing the key picture(s) and the type of each key picture. Upon receiving a request to perform operation(s) on a respective key picture, the client device obtains a corresponding key picture unit and parses the manifest to determine a respective type. Based on the respective type matches a criterion, the client device performs the operation(s) on the key picture unit.

    Smartphone-based conditional access system

    公开(公告)号:US11943502B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US18093295

    申请日:2023-01-04

    申请人: Synamedia Limited

    摘要: Techniques for a smartphone-based conditional access (CA) system are described. In some embodiments, a headend in the CA system obtains a security profile associated with a pair of receiving devices used by a user, e.g., a first device (e.g., a smartphone) and a second device (e.g., a set-top-box or a TV). The headend dynamically regulates user access to requested media content during each entitlement period by assigning and distributing separate keys to the first and second device based on the security profile. The headend also uses the distributed keys to protect the media content before broadcasting. On the receiving end, one receiving device receives the media content and determines whether it is decryptable by the device. If decryptable, the receiving device (e.g., the set-top-box/TV) decrypts the media content using the keys assigned by the headend. Otherwise, the receiving device forwards the media content to the pairing device for decryption.

    Cloud-Based Input Latency Measurement
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240080533A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US17939914

    申请日:2022-09-07

    申请人: Synamedia Limited

    摘要: Techniques for measuring cloud-based input latency are described herein. In accordance with various embodiments, a server including one or more processors and a non-transitory memory receives from a client an input event corresponding to a request for a TV user interface (UI). The server adds a tag to each of a set of screens corresponding to the TV UI and records event data corresponding to the input event prior to rendering the set of screens into a set of rendered frames. The server additionally decodes the tag in the set of rendered frames to generate metadata that associate the event data with the set of rendered frames prior to encoding the set of rendered frames into a set of encoded frames. The server also transmits to the client the set of encoded frames and the metadata.

    Anti-Piracy Methods, Devices, and Systems
    7.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230353582A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-02

    申请号:US17734371

    申请日:2022-05-02

    申请人: Synamedia Limited

    IPC分类号: H04L9/40 G06F21/16

    摘要: Anti-piracy techniques described herein are performed on a server that includes one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. The server enters a state to accumulate a portion of a bitstream extracted from parts of a clip obtained from a pirate service. The server then identifies a set of suspected piracy devices for the piracy service based on a confidence score of suspected piracy calculated for each client using the accumulated portion of the bitstream exceeding a threshold set relative to the state. The server additionally determines whether or not the set of suspected piracy devices for the pirate service satisfies a stable collusion state criterion corresponding to the state. The server enters a next state to iteratively perform the accumulating and the identifying upon determining the set of suspected piracy devices for the pirate service not satisfying the stable collusion state criterion corresponding to the state.

    User interface (UI) engine for cloud UI rendering

    公开(公告)号:US11678019B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-13

    申请号:US17234292

    申请日:2021-04-19

    申请人: Synamedia Limited

    摘要: Techniques for cloud user interface (UI) rendering in a virtual set top system is performed by a UI engine on a server or a cloud platform. The method includes receiving a request for a UI, where the request includes a state associated with the UI and the request. The method further includes identifying, based at least in part on the first state, UI element(s) and/or interactions associated with the UI. The method also includes determining whether or not UI object(s) corresponding to the UI element(s) and/or the interactions exist in a cache. The method additionally includes generating the UI using the UI object(s) upon finding the UI object(s) in the cache. The method further includes rendering the UI upon not finding the UI object(s) in the cache, including rendering the UI element(s) and/or the interaction(s) as the UI object(s) and storing the UI object(s) in the cache.

    Systems and methods for data processing, storage, and retrieval from a server

    公开(公告)号:US11627371B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-11

    申请号:US17399877

    申请日:2021-08-11

    申请人: Synamedia Limited

    摘要: A method of selectively decrypting encrypted data may include selecting a plurality of encrypted data bits between and including a first encrypted data bit and a last encrypted data bit; for each encrypted data bit from the plurality of encrypted data bits: determining a corresponding encrypted block and a block number that contains the encrypted data bit, determining a corresponding counter for the determined block number, determining a bit position of the encrypted data bit within the determined encrypted block, selecting a counter bit at the bit position within the counter, encrypting the counter, and executing an XOR operation between the encrypted data bit and the corresponding encrypted counter bit.

    Intrasegment Adjustment of Video Transmission Rate

    公开(公告)号:US20220417614A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-29

    申请号:US17360120

    申请日:2021-06-28

    申请人: Synamedia Limited

    摘要: A method includes determining a first transmission rate for transmitting an entirety of a segment of a video stream to a client device. The segment includes a set of frames. In some implementations, the method includes, after transmitting a first subset of the set of frames at the first transmission rate, detecting that a network connectivity of the client device has reduced below a connectivity threshold associated with the first transmission rate. In some implementations, the method includes transmitting an entirety of the segment at a second transmission rate that is less than the first transmission rate. In some implementations, the method includes triggering the client device to present a second subset of the set of frames that corresponds to a temporal position in the video stream after the first subset of the set of frames while foregoing re-presentation of the first subset of the set of frames.