Dynamic advertisement insertion
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10812856B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-20

    申请号:US16249091

    申请日:2019-01-16

    摘要: In one embodiment, a set-top box records playback content. The playback content comprises at least one frame that displays first media content and a first advertisement simultaneously. Moreover, the first advertisement is associated with an expiry date. The set-top box receives a selection to view the playback content on a viewing date and determines that the viewing date is past the expiry date associated with the first advertisement. When the viewing date is past the expiry date associated with the first advertisement, the set-top box updates the playback content by replacing the first advertisement in the at least one frame of the playback content with a second advertisement. The set-top box communicates the updated playback content to a display device. The updated playback content comprises at least one frame that displays media content and the second advertisement simultaneously.

    Method and apparatus to present multiple audio content

    公开(公告)号:US10205906B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-12

    申请号:US15219813

    申请日:2016-07-26

    摘要: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying first and second users and identifying first and second locations of the first and second users in a presentation area, determining first and second media content associated with the first and second users where the first media content includes first audio content and first video content and where the second media content includes second audio content, presenting the first video content at a display device during a particular time period, adjusting the first audio content resulting in adjusted first audio content, presenting the adjusted first audio content directed to the first location during the particular time period, and presenting the second audio content directed to the second location during the particular time period. Other embodiments are disclosed.

    Enhanced streaming source change
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10187681B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-22

    申请号:US15366122

    申请日:2016-12-01

    摘要: A technique for managing transitions between streaming media sources can include receiving a request from a client to change a streaming media source from an initial streaming media source to a next streaming media source. The initial streaming media source includes last segments being streamed to the client and the next streaming media source is selected by the client from a virtual master playlist. The technique further includes identifying the next streaming media source in a master playlist of a content delivery network, inserting a discontinuity between last segments of the initial streaming media source and first segments of the next streaming media source, and streaming the first segments of the next streaming media source to the client as a continuous stream from the last segments of the initial streaming media source with the discontinuity between the last segments and the first segments.

    Method and Apparatus To Present Multiple Audio Content

    公开(公告)号:US20180352187A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-06

    申请号:US16102026

    申请日:2018-08-13

    摘要: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying first and second users and identifying first and second locations of the first and second users in a presentation area, determining first and second media content associated with the first and second users where the first media content includes first audio content and first video content and where the second media content includes second audio content, presenting the first video content at a display device during a particular time period, adjusting the first audio content resulting in adjusted first audio content, presenting the adjusted first audio content directed to the first location during the particular time period, and presenting the second audio content directed to the second location during the particular time period. Other embodiments are disclosed.

    METHOD TO INSERT PROGRAM BOUNDARIES IN LINEAR VIDEO FOR ADAPTIVE BITRATE STREAMING

    公开(公告)号:US20210136136A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-06

    申请号:US17143537

    申请日:2021-01-07

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06 H04L29/08

    摘要: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for indicating a program boundary in an adaptive bitrate media stream, where the system includes a memory and a processor that performs operations including generating multiple transcoded media output streams of different bit rates from an input linear media stream, fragmenting the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, detecting a program boundary in the input linear media stream, and supplying a program change indicator in a manifest file for implementing program change features in mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.