公开(公告)号：US09955216B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-24

申请号：US15058894

申请日：2016-03-02

申请人： Rovi Guides, Inc.

发明人： Charles Cordray ,  Todd A. Walker ,  Samir B. Armaly

IPC分类号： H04N7/16 ,  H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/422 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/858

CPC分类号： H04N21/44204 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  H04N5/782 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/26283 ,  H04N21/42204 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4583 ,  H04N21/47217 ,  H04N21/4751 ,  H04N21/4755 ,  H04N21/4825 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/858

摘要： Systems and methods for monitoring a user's viewing progress of media in a series are provided. The user may setup a media profile containing a list of program series to be monitored. The interactive media monitoring application may track the user's viewing progress of programs in the program series on the user equipment and update the user's media profile. The user may request and watch programs in the series at the user's leisure while peripheral media content may be filtered to be consistent with the user's viewing progress in the series.

公开(公告)号：US09930285B1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-27

申请号：US15405444

申请日：2017-01-13

申请人： INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

发明人： Aaron K. Baughman ,  Mauro Marzorati ,  Ahmed M. Nassar

IPC分类号： H04N7/16 ,  H04H60/32 ,  H04N5/45 ,  H04N7/088 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/25 ,  H04N21/2668

CPC分类号： H04N5/45 ,  H04N5/44504 ,  H04N7/0885 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/252 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/2625 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/4884

摘要： Systems and methods for autonomic positioning of overlays within streaming data are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: providing a hosted data stream containing a first display object to a plurality of participants through respective participant devices; providing a hosted second display object to the plurality of participants through the respective participant devices, wherein the second display object is contained within an overlay that is positioned atop the first display object at a first position; calculating consensus coordinates for the second display object based on suggested position data received from the respective participant devices; calculating customized coordinates for the second display object for each of the respective participant devices based on the consensus coordinates and participant data; and sending the customized coordinates to each of the respective participant devices.

公开(公告)号：US09923655B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-20

申请号：US15383284

申请日：2016-12-19

申请人： Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, division of Panasonic Corporation of North America

发明人： Shree Jaisimha ,  Donald Thomas ,  Kazuo Morita

IPC分类号： H04B1/40 ,  H04H60/32 ,  H03G3/20 ,  H04H60/65 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04B1/16

CPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  H03G3/20 ,  H03G3/3026 ,  H03G3/32 ,  H04B1/16 ,  H04H20/26 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H60/65 ,  H04H2201/60

摘要： A radio includes a first tuner and a second tuner. A processor compares a first perceivable volume level of a station tuned by the first tuner to at least one second perceivable volume level of at least one background station tuned by the second tuner. The processor enables automatic volume knob changes using a pre-calibrated lookup table that associates a volume step of the volume knob with a difference between the first perceivable volume level and the second perceivable volume level.

公开(公告)号：US09918123B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-13

申请号：US11941082

申请日：2007-11-16

申请人： Sig Harold Badt, Jr.

发明人： Sig Harold Badt, Jr.

IPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  H04N7/10 ,  H04N7/025 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04N21/81

CPC分类号： H04N21/44016 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/64322 ,  H04N21/812

摘要： In an IPTV network, a program content stream is processed to create an artifact detectable by a commercial remover in a program content portion of the program content stream. The artifact may be created by splicing first and second portions of program content together such that the artifact appears in the program content. A commercial remover processing the resultant program content stream erroneously removes portions of program content or leaves portions containing commercial content in the program content stream.

公开(公告)号：US09882903B2

公开(公告)日：2018-01-30

申请号：US13030804

申请日：2011-02-18

申请人： Sung-Oh Hwang ,  Sergey Nikolayevich Seleznev

发明人： Sung-Oh Hwang ,  Sergey Nikolayevich Seleznev

IPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L9/32 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/418 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/658

CPC分类号： H04L63/10 ,  H04L9/32 ,  H04L9/3234 ,  H04L63/0421 ,  H04L2209/60 ,  H04L2209/601 ,  H04L2209/80 ,  H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/4182 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/6131 ,  H04N21/6582 ,  H04N21/812

摘要： A method for protecting personal information in Audience Measurement (AM) of a digital broadcasting system is provided, including inserting an indicator, which notifies whether a consumption pattern of a service or content provided by a service provider can be measured, into a service guide, to which the information of the service or content is provided by a service provider; and determining whether the AM can be executed for the service or content in accordance with the indicator when the AM function is implemented in a terminal.

公开(公告)号：US09848250B2

公开(公告)日：2017-12-19

申请号：US15217979

申请日：2016-07-23

申请人： David Harrison

发明人： David Harrison

IPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/61 ,  G08C17/02 ,  H04N21/835 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/41 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F21/53 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/414 ,  H04N21/4415 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04N21/278 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/84

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0269 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06F17/30784 ,  G06F21/10 ,  G06F21/53 ,  G06F2221/033 ,  G06Q30/0255 ,  G08C17/02 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L61/1511 ,  H04L61/1541 ,  H04L61/2007 ,  H04L61/2514 ,  H04L61/2517 ,  H04L61/256 ,  H04L61/2575 ,  H04L61/6068 ,  H04L63/10 ,  H04L63/102 ,  H04L65/1069 ,  H04L65/4069 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L67/141 ,  H04L67/16 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/2541 ,  H04N21/278 ,  H04N21/4126 ,  H04N21/41407 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/4415 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/6175 ,  H04N21/64322 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/835 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： In one embodiment, a method of a relevancy-matching server includes matching primary data generated from a fingerprint data with targeted data based on a relevancy factor and locating in a storage the targeted data, a reference and/or a metadata. A mobile device is associated with a television. An executable environment is constrained in a security sandbox of the mobile device. A sandboxed application is executed capable of bypassing at least one access control of the security sandbox. An embedded object is processed in the sandboxed application. The television and/or the mobile device is to generate the fingerprint data from characteristic features of media data. The fingerprint data from the television and/or the mobile device is processed through a content identification server. The primary data is communicated to any device with access to identification data of the television and/or an automatic content identification service.

公开(公告)号：US09800913B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-24

申请号：US15065786

申请日：2016-03-09

申请人： Rentrak Corporation

发明人： Paul Levande ,  Bradley Baillod ,  David Algranati

IPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/25 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/658

CPC分类号： H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/252 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/4661 ,  H04N21/6582

摘要： A system and method for the assignment of person-level viewership. The system receives viewership information describing the viewing of video content at a household. The system additionally receives demographic information for that household, including the numbers of persons associated with the household. For each combination of viewers, the system calculates the probability that the viewers viewed the content based on the demographic attributes of those viewers and the probabilities that individuals sharing those attributes would view the content. The system then attributes the viewing information to one or more persons from the household based on the calculated probabilities. The system additionally updates the probabilities that individuals having different demographic attributes would view the content based on the selection of persons.

公开(公告)号：US09781465B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-03

申请号：US13302717

申请日：2011-11-22

申请人： Kranti Kilaru ,  David A. Kummer ,  Henry Gregg Martch ,  Jason Anguiano ,  S. Craig Hemenway

发明人： Kranti Kilaru ,  David A. Kummer ,  Henry Gregg Martch ,  Jason Anguiano ,  S. Craig Hemenway

IPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04H60/33 ,  H04H60/59 ,  H04H20/28 ,  H04H60/45

CPC分类号： H04N21/42202 ,  H04H20/28 ,  H04H60/33 ,  H04H60/45 ,  H04H60/59 ,  H04N21/25866 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/4758 ,  H04N21/4882 ,  H04N21/6582 ,  H04N21/84

摘要： Measuring and tracking user interaction with a television receiver, such as a set top box or cable box. The television receiver may create and display a matrix code that includes temporal information, user identification information, geographic information, and/or a user selection. The matrix code may be captured by a matrix reading device and transmitted to a monitoring entity. Optionally, the matrix reading device may decode the matrix code and transmit associated data to the monitoring entity. The monitoring entity may use the code or data to track and distinguish between user interactions at different points in time.

公开(公告)号：US09769525B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-19

申请号：US14714926

申请日：2015-05-18

申请人： AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

发明人： Behzad Shahraray ,  Andrea Basso ,  Lee Begeja ,  David C. Gibbon ,  Zhu Liu ,  Bernard S. Renger

IPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/45

CPC分类号： H04N21/4542 ,  H04N21/44004 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/44213 ,  H04N21/44218 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4755

摘要： A method for monitoring a monitored display monitors data to be output from a monitored display. The monitored data is analyzed to generate one or more content identifiers. The content identifiers are compared to a set of rules to determine if the monitored data should be blocked from being output or if an alert should be transmitted to a supervisor device. One or more supervisor devices may be used to respond to alerts and may also be used to control the output of the monitored display.

公开(公告)号：US09756387B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-05

申请号：US14622525

申请日：2015-02-13

申请人： Google Inc.

发明人： Simon Michael Rowe

IPC分类号： H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/8358

CPC分类号： H04N21/44218 ,  H04N21/4126 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/4667 ,  H04N21/6582 ,  H04N21/8358

摘要： The systems and methods discussed herein are directed to presence detection of portable devices of audience measurement panel members, and include a first audience measurement device in proximity to a media device, and a second audience measurement device in the form of a remote control for controlling the media device. The second audience measurement device may receive broadcast identification codes from the portable device of a panel member, and may transmit indicators of received signal strength to the first audience measurement device. The first audience measurement device may similar measure received broadcast signal strength from the portable device, and compare the local measurement and remote measurement to thresholds to determine whether the panel member's portable device is likely in proximity, and thus that the panel member is likely consuming media from the media device.