公开(公告)号：US11295525B1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-05

申请号：US17171406

申请日：2021-02-09

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Daniel Kelly ,  Matthew Brinkley ,  Ting-Hsiang Hwang ,  Amy Bergsieker ,  Cameron Charles ,  Elliot Chong ,  Gonzalo Ramos ,  Babak Amir Parviz

IPC: G06T19/00

Abstract: Described are systems and methods that enable users to virtually experience an environment at a destination location from their own user device, control their experience and even interact with others that are physically located within the environment. Likewise, the user's experience may even be improved with the inclusion of enhancements that are presented to the user as the user experiences the environment. Users may interact with the enhancements to obtain additional enhancements, interact with others physically located within the environment, interact with and direct a guide that is physically located within the environment, and receive near real-time video and audio that is transmitted from a guide device located within the environment.

公开(公告)号：US20190068674A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-28

申请号：US16111080

申请日：2018-08-23

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Brinkley ,  Alex Xiaoye Zhang

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable request-driven encoding of content portions to be played back as part of a content stream. A content stream can represent multiple types of content, each initially encoded according to different formatting parameters. Thus, playback of the multiple types of content as initially encoded would result in an inconsistently formatted content stream. To address this, a streaming content delivery service may respond to requests by including in a manifest file for a stream consistently formatted content portions, even when one or more of such portions is not yet available. The streaming content delivery service can initiate encoding of the not-yet-available portions, such that they are available and delivered to a client when requested.

公开(公告)号：US10063612B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-28

申请号：US15283075

申请日：2016-09-30

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Brinkley ,  Alex Xiaoye Zhang

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/488

CPC classification number: H04L65/602 ,  H04L65/1089 ,  H04L65/4084 ,  H04L65/605 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04L65/608 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/4882 ,  H04N21/812

Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable request-driven encoding of content portions to be played back as part of a content stream. A content stream can represent multiple types of content, each initially encoded according to different formatting parameters. Thus, playback of the multiple types of content as initially encoded would result in an inconsistently formatted content stream. To address this, a streaming content delivery service may respond to requests by determining whether consistently formatted content portions are available, and if such portions are not available, select fallback content portions for inclusion in the stream. The streaming content service can further initiate generation of the consistently formatted content portions in response to the request, such that subsequent requests may be serviced using the consistently formatted content portions.

公开(公告)号：US10943396B1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-09

申请号：US15282389

申请日：2016-09-30

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Daniel Kelly ,  Matthew Brinkley ,  Ting-Hsiang Hwang ,  Amy Bergsieker ,  Cameron Charles ,  Elliot Chong ,  Gonzalo Ramos ,  Babak Amir Parviz

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  G06T19/20 ,  G06F3/00 ,  H04N5/04 ,  G09B5/02 ,  G06T7/70

Abstract: Described are systems and methods that enable users to virtually experience an environment at a destination location from their own user device, control their experience and even interact with others that are physically located within the environment. Likewise, the user's experience may even be improved with the inclusion of enhancements that are presented to the user as the user experiences the environment. User's may interact with the enhancements to obtain additional enhancements, interact with others physically located within the environment, interact with and direct a guide that is physically located within the environment, and receive near real-time video and audio that is transmitted from a guide device located within the environment.

公开(公告)号：US10389786B1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-20

申请号：US15282929

申请日：2016-09-30

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Alex Xiaoye Zhang ,  Matthew Brinkley

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/488

Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable delivery of a content stream while inhibiting or preventing removal, blocking, or skipping of portions within that content stream. Existing systems can request that a client device send various notifications during viewing of a streaming content. This information can be used by the client device to automatically remove or modify secondary content from the content stream. To prevent such removal or modification, embodiments of the present disclosure can remove the requirement that a client device have knowledge of when notifications are to be transmitted regarding portions of a content stream. A server can obtain monitoring information from either or both of a client device or a network-delivery system, to determine when the client device has output a portion of a content stream. The server can then determine an appropriate notification to be transmitted in response to that output, and transmit the notification.

公开(公告)号：US20180367847A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-20

申请号：US15624453

申请日：2017-06-15

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Brinkley ,  Meera Jindal ,  Khawaja Salman Shams ,  Alex Xiaoye Zhang

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/236 ,  H04N21/25

Abstract: A multimedia stream may be abandoned (e.g., terminated) under various contexts. Metadata surrounding the abandonment, such as information regarding multimedia segments shown at or near the time of abandonment, may be stored. A system may detect satisfaction of a condition based at least in part on abandonment metadata associated with an abandoned stream, obtain a set of abandonment metadata sharing a characteristic in common, and determine a cause. Depending on the determined cause, various mitigations may be executed—for example, if abandonment of streams is detected in a specific location at a particular point or period in time, one or more network diagnostics tests may be executed to determine whether there are network connectivity issues for viewers from the specific location.

公开(公告)号：US20180097864A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-05

申请号：US15283075

申请日：2016-09-30

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew Brinkley ,  Alex Xiaoye Zhang

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/488

CPC classification number: H04L65/602 ,  H04L65/1089 ,  H04L65/4084 ,  H04L65/605 ,  H04L65/607 ,  H04L65/608 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/4882 ,  H04N21/812

Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable request-driven encoding of content portions to be played back as part of a content stream. A content stream can represent multiple types of content, each initially encoded according to different formatting parameters. Thus, playback of the multiple types of content as initially encoded would result in an inconsistently formatted content stream. To address this, a streaming content delivery service may respond to requests by determining whether consistently formatted content portions are available, and if such portions are not available, select fallback content portions for inclusion in the stream. The streaming content service can further initiate generation of the consistently formatted content portions in response to the request, such that subsequent requests may be serviced using the consistently formatted content portions.

公开(公告)号：US20220141507A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-05

申请号：US17576489

申请日：2022-01-14

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Varun Ram ,  William Dirks ,  Meera Jindal ,  Sierra Anderson ,  John Cowgill ,  Kenneth Victor Chamberlin ,  Mark DeSpain ,  Matthew Brinkley ,  Khawaja Salman Shams ,  Alex Xiaoye Zhang

IPC: H04N21/234 ,  H04N19/40 ,  H04L65/60 ,  H04N21/81

Abstract: Dynamic transcoding can be used to provide supplemental content, selected to be played during breaks in a stream of primary content, that has the same format as the primary content. It can be desirable to provide supplemental content that is personalized. This may include additional content or advertising that may be of interest or relevance to a viewer. In many instances, the supplemental content will come from a different source and thus can be in a different format. Approaches in accordance with various embodiments can take advantage of dynamic transcoding of the supplemental content to provide properly formatted supplemental content through the same stream as the primary content. A custom manifest can be provided to the media player that points to the transcoded supplemental content. At an appropriate break in the playback, the media player can use the manifest to obtain the formatted supplemental content.

公开(公告)号：US11228792B1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-18

申请号：US15957101

申请日：2018-04-19

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Varun Ram ,  William Dirks ,  Meera Jindal ,  Sierra Anderson ,  John Cowgill ,  Kenneth Victor Chamberlin ,  Mark DeSpain ,  Matthew Brinkley ,  Khawaja Salman Shams ,  Alex Xiaoye Zhang

IPC: H04N21/234 ,  H04N19/40 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/81

Abstract: Dynamic transcoding can be used to provide supplemental content, selected to be played during breaks in a stream of primary content, that has the same format as the primary content. It can be desirable to provide supplemental content that is personalized. This may include additional content or advertising that may be of interest or relevance to a viewer. In many instances, the supplemental content will come from a different source and thus can be in a different format. Approaches in accordance with various embodiments can take advantage of dynamic transcoding of the supplemental content to provide properly formatted supplemental content through the same stream as the primary content. A custom manifest can be provided to the media player that points to the transcoded supplemental content. At an appropriate break in the playback, the media player can use the manifest to obtain the formatted supplemental content.

公开(公告)号：US10950049B1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-16

申请号：US15282357

申请日：2016-09-30

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Daniel Kelly ,  Matthew Brinkley ,  Ting-Hsiang Hwang ,  Amy Bergsieker ,  Cameron Charles ,  Elliot Chong ,  Gonzalo Ramos ,  Babak Amir Parviz

IPC: G06T19/00

Abstract: Described are systems and methods that enable users to virtually experience an environment at a destination location from their own user device, control their experience and even interact with others that are physically located within the environment. Likewise, the user's experience may even be improved with the inclusion of enhancements that are presented to the user as the user experiences the environment. User's may interact with the enhancements to obtain additional enhancements, interact with others physically located within the environment, interact with and direct a guide that is physically located within the environment, and receive near real-time video and audio that is transmitted from a guide device located within the environment.