Storage efficient content revalidation for multimedia assets
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11563824
Techniques relating to caching a content object are disclosed. A first server receives a revalidation request, relating to a content object, from a requestor. It is determined that metadata, relating to the content object, is stored in a cache associated with the first server. In response, the first server determines not to retrieve the content object from a second server. The content object is not stored in the cache. A response to the revalidation request, indicating that the content…
System and method for leveraging machine learning to deliver time-sensitive content over optimal devices and channels
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11561671
Systems and methods are described for leveraging machine learning to deliver time-sensitive media content offers to a consumer over an optimal device and channel. In an implementation, a server system transmits media content offers over an optimal device and channel to a user. The server system captures metadata of at least one of: the user's use of multiple devices, the user's media content preferences, the user's preferred transmission channels for receiving media content offers over…
Heuristic detection of potential digital media artifacts and defects in digital media assets
Granted: January 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11553211
A method, comprises monitoring a encoding process of a source video file performed by an encoder; obtaining an encoding decision parameter used to encode a picture of the source video file during the encoding process; comparing the encoding decision parameter to a threshold; based on the step of comparing, identifying the picture as a candidate picture for a visual defect or coding error; and storing a timestamp of the candidate picture.
Method and system for generating a visual representation of media content for performing graph-based media content evaluation
Granted: January 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11550840
According to one implementation, a system for performing graph-based media content evaluation includes a computing platform having a hardware processor, and a system memory storing a media content evaluation software code and a graph database. The hardware processor is configured to execute the media content evaluation software code to receive a query from a system user, and to identify one or more media content evaluation metrics corresponding to the query. In addition, the hardware…
Industrial control system data tap and model for managing industrial control system
Granted: January 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11550310
Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to tapping input/output (I/O) data from an industrial control system (ICS) or applying the tapped I/O data to a learned model to perform predictive or prescriptive maintenance. In one implementation, a method comprises: tapping I/O data from a controller of an ICS while the controller executes first control code to control one or more devices of the ICS; transmitting the tapped I/O data over a network to a second system; and executing,…
Automatic occlusion detection
Granted: January 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11544828
A method includes producing a filter mask based on a blur mask and a saliency mask and identifying locations of a plurality of bounding boxes of a plurality of objects of interest in a received image. The method also includes applying the filter mask to the received image and to the locations of the plurality of bounding boxes in the received image to remove at least one object of interest from consideration. The method further includes performing a comparison of a location of a bounding…
Machine learning based video compression
Granted: January 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11544606
Systems and methods for compressing target content are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system may include non-transient electronic storage and one or more physical computer processors. The one or more physical computer processors may be configured by machine-readable instructions to obtain the target content comprising one or more frames, wherein a given frame comprises one or more features. The one or more physical computer processors may be configured by machine-readable instructions…
Analyzing viewer behavior in real time
Granted: January 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11544585
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for are provided for analyzing user behavior in real time by ingesting telemetry data related to a streaming media application; feeding the telemetry data to a machine learning model (MLM) that produces a User Experience (UX) command based on the telemetry data and prior telemetry data received from the content streaming application; selecting content items to provide to the client device based on the telemetry data; determining, based on the…
Context-based digital assistant
Granted: January 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11544274
An electronic device that includes one or more input sensor devices, one or more output devices, one or more computer processors and a memory containing computer program code that, when executed by operation of the one or more computer processors, performs an operation. The operation includes collecting information, using one or more input sensor devices, about the plurality of users within a physical environment. The operation includes analyzing the collected information to determine a…
System resiliency with temporary access
Granted: December 27, 2022
Patent Number:
11539710
A method for use by a system computer for granting access to a network resource includes receiving, in a first session, a first request for accessing the network resource, the first request including authorization information of a user of an access computer, initiating, while in the first session and using the first authorization information, a first authorization process with one or more authorization computers, and determining a failure relating to the first authorization process…
Gameplay in a chat thread
Granted: December 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11528247
There is provided a system and method for user generated gameplay in chat. The system including a memory storing a text and multimedia messaging software application, and a processor configured to execute the text and multimedia messaging software application to initiate a message exchange session with a remote mobile device, in response to a request received from a user of the mobile device, the message exchange session displaying a user interface for exchanging text and multimedia…
Systems and methods for providing customized instances of a game within a virtual space
Granted: December 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11524242
A system and method for providing customized instances of a game within a virtual space. The system may be configured to obtain values associated with one or more users of the virtual space. The game, which is playable within the virtual space, may initially comprise predefined features and initially undefined features. The customizations may define the initially undefined features to provide custom-defined features. As such, when played, the game may include the predefined features and…
Gameplay system with play augmented by merchandise
Granted: December 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11524239
A gameplay system for providing interactivity based on a piece of merchandise or other object held or worn by a player. The system includes an object identification assembly, which may be a modified computer vision system, that operates to sense, for a gameplay participant, the presence and identity of a particular augmenting object such as themed merchandise worn or held by a rider of a theme park ride. The sensing may be performed by detecting an on-and-off pattern of light emitted…
Systems and methods for intelligent media content segmentation and analysis
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11523188
There is provided a system including a non-transitory memory storing an executable code and a hardware processor executing the executable code to receive a media content including a plurality of frames, divide the media content into a plurality of shots, each of the plurality of shots including a plurality of frames of the media content based on a first similarity between the plurality of frames, determine a plurality of sequential shots of the plurality of shots to be part of a first…
Automated audio mapping using an artificial neural network
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11523186
According to one implementation, an automated audio mapping system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing an audio mapping software code including an artificial neural network (ANN) trained to identify multiple different audio content types. The hardware processor is configured to execute the audio mapping software code to receive content including multiple audio tracks, and to identify, without using the ANN, a first music track and a…
System and method for synchronizing on-air commercial programming with interactive applications
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11523168
There is provided a system and method for the synchronizing on-air commercial programming with interactive applications, providing interactive content synchronized with on-air television programming. There is provided a system comprising a client device with a display device and an input device and running a synchronization application. The client device receives digital data transmitted from a server, and transmits user feedback information generated from user interactions with the…
System and method for providing multi-camera 3D body part labeling and performance metrics
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11521411
A system and method for providing multi-camera 3D body part labeling and performance metrics includes receiving 2D image data and 3D depth data from a plurality image capture units (ICUs) each indicative of a scene viewed by the ICUs, the scene having at least one person, each ICU viewing the person from a different viewing position, determining 3D location data and visibility confidence level for the body parts from each ICU, using the 2D image data and the 3D depth data from each ICU,…
Dynamic management system for notification and response to emergent events
Granted: December 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11520832
Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques for dynamic response management. Weather data for a geographic region is received, and a state of the geographic region is determined based on the weather data. A first predefined rule of a plurality of predefined rules is identified based on the determined state of the geographic region. A first role of a first user is determined. A first instruction is then generated for the first user based on the first predefined rule and the first…
System for projecting light elements generated from light of a laser
Granted: November 29, 2022
Patent Number:
11512833
A system, comprising a light source configured to emit light; and a first component including a reflective surface configured to reflect the light as a plurality of light elements that are reflected onto a second component. The reflective surface may include a plurality of mirrors. Each mirror, of the plurality of mirrors, may be configured to reflect a portion of the light as a respective light element of the plurality of light elements. A first light element, of the plurality of light…
Detection of contacts among event participants
Granted: November 29, 2022
Patent Number:
11514677
Systems and methods are presented for detecting physical contacts effectuated by actions performed by an entity participating in an event. An action, performed by the entity, is detected based on a sequence of pose data associated with the entity's performance in the event. A contact with another entity in the event is detected based on data associated with the detected action. The action and the contact detections are employed by neural-network based detectors.
