公开(公告)号：US12114050B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-08

申请号：US18317712

申请日：2023-05-15

申请人： Freewheel Media, Inc.

发明人： Gerrit Niemeijer

IPC分类号： H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/222 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/2365 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/438 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/60 ,  H04N21/633 ,  H04N21/845

CPC分类号： H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/2221 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/2365 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/4383 ,  H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/60 ,  H04N21/633 ,  H04N21/8455 ,  H04N21/26241 ,  H04N21/2668

摘要： Alternative approaches to the insertion of local commercials and messages into networks feeds are provided. Embodiments include digital commercial insertion for cable operators and others that not only offer more flexibility and features, but may also be significantly cheaper to implement. The actual “insert” of the local commercial or message into the digital program is performed by a standard set top box, with several methods of providing the local commercial to the set top box at the proper insertion time. Another embodiment allows a cable operator to significantly save on equipment in the form of splicers and ad inserters, by allowing easy and dynamic mapping of local commercials to insertion zones.

公开(公告)号：US12114030B1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-08

申请号：US18130889

申请日：2023-04-04

申请人： ThinkAnalytics Ltd.

发明人： Peter Docherty ,  Christopher McGuire ,  Ewen Cattanach ,  Darren Callaghan ,  Georgios Mamakis

IPC分类号： H04N21/254 ,  G06F16/435

CPC分类号： H04N21/254 ,  G06F16/437

摘要： A method of managing feature distribution in content of a content catalog for a content distribution system having a plurality of users is provided. The method comprises taking corrective action responsive to determining that a number of content items in a content catalog tagged with a feature exceeds a threshold.

公开(公告)号：US12056735B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-06

申请号：US17449756

申请日：2021-10-01

申请人： Rivit TV, Inc.

发明人： Wade Bradley ,  Shrikesh Karunakaran Pillai

IPC分类号： G06Q30/0251 ,  G06F16/9538 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/81

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0256 ,  G06F16/9538 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/812

摘要： Methods and systems of providing alternative advert (AA) query items for an AA system are disclosed. A request is received to generate an AA query. In response to the request, it is determined whether a percentage of scoreable AA query items for which a viewer has a known or derived preference exceeds a threshold value. Each scoreable AA query item has an assigned equity score and an assigned viewer-item affinity score. In response to determining that the percentage of scoreable AA query items exceeds the threshold value, one or more first AA query types are determined to create for the viewer. The requested AA query is sent. A response to the sent AA query is received. Equity scores and viewer-item affinity scores of total scoreable AA query items are updated based on the response.

公开(公告)号：US12041311B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-16

申请号：US18127188

申请日：2023-03-28

申请人： Rovi Guides, Inc.

发明人： Timothy Jacob Fennelly

IPC分类号： H04N21/478 ,  G06Q20/12 ,  G06Q30/0251 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/658

CPC分类号： H04N21/47815 ,  G06Q20/12 ,  G06Q30/0251 ,  G06Q30/0255 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/2542 ,  H04N21/2543 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/44226 ,  H04N21/6581

摘要： Systems and methods for identifying and correlating an advertised object with a plurality of interconnected computing devices embedded in a living environment of the user. For example, a media guidance application implemented at a set-top box with a television may receive a signal from a printer indicating that cartridge ink is low. When the user is watching a television show and an advertisement relating to printer cartridges is being played, the media guidance application may identify that the advertised printer cartridges may be something that the user needs, and may then send a notification to a user of the advertisement. In this way, the media guidance application correlates advertisements from a media asset with a user's actual needs, which may improve the advertisement conversion rate for advertisers.

公开(公告)号：US12041305B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-16

申请号：US18070784

申请日：2022-11-29

申请人： Rovi Guides, Inc.

发明人： Vikram Makam Gupta ,  Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah ,  Reda Harb

IPC分类号： H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/845

CPC分类号： H04N21/44226 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/8133 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/8456

摘要： Systems and methods are provided for generating a customized media asset to incentivize a first user to subscribe to a subscription service. A first user provides their subscription access information to a media provider. In response to receiving the subscription access information, the media provider determines whether the subscription access information is from an account subscribed for a trial period. If the account is subscribed for the trial period, the media provider presents a plurality of media assets for selection to the first user, receives a selection of a media asset available from the subscription service, generates a customized media asset based on a media asset consumption profile of the first user, wherein the customized media asset includes a segment from an additional media asset different from the selected media asset, and presents to the first user the customized media asset instead of the selected media asset.

公开(公告)号：US11936953B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-19

申请号：US17004551

申请日：2020-08-27

申请人： Google LLC

发明人： Joon-Hee Jeon ,  Vincent Dureau ,  Steve D. Benting ,  Zhenhai Lin ,  Michael W. Miller ,  Manish G. Patel

IPC分类号： H04N21/466 ,  G06F16/40 ,  G06F16/74 ,  H04N21/25 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/47 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/482

CPC分类号： H04N21/4668 ,  G06F16/40 ,  G06F16/74 ,  H04N21/251 ,  H04N21/252 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/44226 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4667 ,  H04N21/47 ,  H04N21/4756 ,  H04N21/4826 ,  H04N21/4828

摘要： A computer-implemented method includes receiving information expressing a user's interest in one or more media programs, obtaining information indicative of popularity for a plurality of media programs responsive to the received information by individuals other than the user, and transmitting one or more recommendations of media programs for display to the user, from the plurality of media programs that relate to the received information.

公开(公告)号：US11743512B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US17337964

申请日：2021-06-03

申请人： TENCENT AMERICA LLC

发明人： Iraj Sodagar

IPC分类号： H04N21/2187 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/239 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04L65/61

CPC分类号： H04N21/2187 ,  H04L65/61 ,  H04N21/2393 ,  H04N21/254

摘要： Systems and methods for media processing and streaming are provided. A method includes receiving, by a first application operating on an application server, a live session request from a second application operating on a user device separate from the application server to start a Framework for Live Uplink Streaming (FLUS) session; obtaining a list of a plurality of FLUS sinks; selecting a FLUS media sink operating on a sink device from among the plurality of FLUS sinks, wherein the sink device is separate from the application server and the user device; sending a workflow request to a Network-Based Media Processing (NBMP) source to start an NBMP workflow associated with the FLUS media sink; and sending a response to the second application including session information for establishing the FLUS session using the NBMP workflow and the FLUS media sink.

公开(公告)号：US20190246154A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-08

申请号：US15937202

申请日：2018-03-27

申请人： M/S. Amagi Media Labs Pvt. Ltd

发明人： Baskar Subramanian

IPC分类号： H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/274 ,  H04N21/236 ,  H04N21/254

CPC分类号： H04N21/2625 ,  H04N21/23406 ,  H04N21/236 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/26258 ,  H04N21/274

摘要： For broadcast-grade service level guarantees for linear video Playout, it is important for Playout systems and the associated server hardware to be extremely reliable. To accomplish this both the Playout software and server hardware are tightly integrated in on-premise implementations. Playout systems on the cloud allow for leveraging cloud servers dynamically for running Playout systems. The present invention proposes a system and method redundant, cost-effective for time-advanced, server-independent cloud Playout, which is useful in a variety of scenarios including but not limited to accomplishing seamless redundancy, optimizing operating costs by choosing different service provider/regions/servers. This is achieved by pre-playing the channel ahead of schedule, and then passing it to the output through an intelligent delay buffer. By switching Playout across multiple servers by instantiating new Playout software on another cloud server without impacting the linear output feed streamed out of the delay buffer we accomplish a server independent Playout system.

公开(公告)号：US20180359538A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-13

申请号：US16007431

申请日：2018-06-13

申请人： WOWZA MEDIA SYSTEMS, LLC

发明人： Charles F. GOOD ,  Barry OWEN ,  Ed Nelson CAGGIANI

IPC分类号： H04N21/6379 ,  H04N21/4363 ,  H04N21/2743 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04L29/08

CPC分类号： H04N21/6379 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04L51/32 ,  H04L65/4069 ,  H04L65/60 ,  H04L65/605 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04L67/2809 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/266 ,  H04N21/2743 ,  H04N21/43637 ,  H04W4/50

摘要： A hardware encoder includes a network interface configured to receive configuration information via a private network and a processor configured to encode at least one media stream based on the configuration information. The configuration information is received from a mobile device connected to the private local network

公开(公告)号：US20180332346A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-15

申请号：US16045068

申请日：2018-07-25

申请人： The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

发明人： Khader B. Syed ,  Michael J. Koehnlein ,  Scott D. Casavant ,  Sean S. Lee ,  Kuriacose Joseph ,  Jorge H. Guzman

IPC分类号： H04N21/4402 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/436

CPC分类号： H04N21/440218 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/234309 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/4126 ,  H04N21/41407 ,  H04N21/42204 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/6143

摘要： A system and method for remotely transcoding content includes a cloud location storing content titles, communicating at least one of the content titles to a user device to form communicated content titles. The user device is in communication with the cloud location through a network. The user device generates a selection signal for selecting a first content title from communicated content titles to form a selection. The user device negotiates settings by intercommunicating between the user device and the cloud location in response to form the selection. The user device communicates the selection to the cloud location. The cloud location has a transcoder device transcoding content corresponding to the selection to form transcoded content in response to the optimal settings. The cloud location communicates the transcoded content to the user device.