SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMAL COLOR CALIBRATION FOR LED VOLUME STAGES
Granted: October 12, 2023
Application Number:
20230328212
The disclosed computer-implemented method includes systems for optimizing color rendition in an LED volume virtual production stage. For example, the described systems optimize or correct color rendition by applying a series of color correction matrices to color pixel values within the virtual production stage and to final captured imagery filmed within the virtual production stage. The described systems generate the color correction matrices from four calibration images taken within the…
RECOMMENDING MEDIA ITEMS BASED ON TAKE RATE SIGNALS
Granted: October 29, 2015
Application Number:
20150312603
In an approach, a method comprises using a server computer in a media content delivery system that is configured to selectively deliver a particular media title from among a library of titles, for a source title, generating title data that specifies an order of a plurality of titles that are related to the source title based on a plurality of stored probability values; wherein each probability value in the plurality of probability values represents, for each particular title of the…
DISTRIBUTING TASKS TO WORKERS IN A CROWD-SOURCING WORKFORCE
Granted: September 10, 2015
Application Number:
20150254596
One embodiment of the invention disclosed herein provides techniques for distributing tasks to skilled workers participating in a managed crowd-sourcing workforce. A crowd worker routing system receives a request for a task assignment from a first worker participating in the crowd-sourcing workforce. The crowd worker routing system retrieves one or more scores associated with the first worker, wherein each score is related to the performance of the first worker with respect to completing…
AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING VOLUME IMAGES AND LAUNCHING VIRTUAL COMPUTING INSTANCES
Granted: August 13, 2015
Application Number:
20150227355
In an embodiment, a method comprises using a first server computer, executing a process that is configured to generate virtual computer instances; receiving a request to generate a first custom virtual computer instance, wherein the request identifies one or more software packages to install on the first custom virtual computer instance; copying a first pre-configured volume image onto a volume of a data storage device, wherein the volume includes one or more base software packages in a…
UNIVERSAL DATA STORAGE SYSTEM THAT MAINTAINS DATA ACROSS ONE OR MORE SPECIALIZED DATA STORES
Granted: June 18, 2015
Application Number:
20150169757
In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving an input defining organization of one or more universal data elements; generating a universal schema that defines organization of the one or more universal data elements based on the input; associating the universal schema with a specialized plug-in, wherein the specialized plug-in maps the one or more universal data elements with data elements in one or more specialized databases maintained by a specialized data store; receiving, from a…
PREDICTIVE AUTO SCALING ENGINE
Granted: April 23, 2015
Application Number:
20150113120
Techniques for predictively scaling a distributed application are described. Embodiments could monitor performance of an application within a cloud computing environment over a first window of time to collect historical performance data. Here, the application comprises a plurality of application instances. A workload of the application could be monitored over a second window of time to collect historical workload data. Embodiments could analyze both the historical performance data and…
SERVER SELECTION FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION
Granted: March 26, 2015
Application Number:
20150088972
In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving a first routing table of a first server computer; receiving a second routing table of a second server computer; receiving a request, from a client computer, for information about content servers that hold a media item title, wherein the request includes a client internet protocol address of the client computer; estimating that the first server computer is closer to the client computer than the second server computer is to the client computer…
CONFIGURING DNS CLIENTS
Granted: March 19, 2015
Application Number:
20150081926
Techniques are provided for increasing the efficiency and efficacy of DNS clients. In one technique, DNS clients log information about performance of one or more DNS servers that the DNS clients use to resolve DNS resolution requests. The DNS clients send, to a control server, performance data regarding the DNS resolution requests and/or subsequent connections to servers associated with resolved domain names. Based on the performance data, the control server sends, to one or more DNS…
RECOMMENDING MEDIA ITEMS USING SOCIAL NETWORKS
Granted: March 5, 2015
Application Number:
20150067724
Techniques are provided with which a subscriber to a media viewing service, which is configured for viewing media items such as TV shows or movies using streaming video delivery or other viewing techniques, may recommend one or more played or viewed media items to one or more friends in media viewing services or social networking systems that the subscriber uses. The subscriber may receive notifications when the friends view or play the recommended media items, and may contribute…
KEY GENERATION AND BROADCASTING
Granted: February 19, 2015
Application Number:
20150052358
Embodiments provide techniques generating and managing encryption keys within a computing infrastructure. Embodiments provide a key publisher that generates and maintains key pairs in a list at a configurable interval. In addition, the key publisher publishes the list to other components within the computing infrastructure. Embodiments also provide a key consumer that downloads the list of encrypted key pairs and maintains an active window of keys to can be accepted from client devices…
DYNAMIC SECURITY TESTING
Granted: February 5, 2015
Application Number:
20150040229
A method and system for discovering and testing security assets is provided. Based on source definition data describing sources to monitor on the one or more computer networks, an example system scans the sources to identify security assets. The system analyses the security assets to identify characteristics of the server-based applications. The system stores database records describing the security assets and the identified characteristics. The system queries the database records to…
MEDIA CONTENT RANKINGS FOR DISCOVERY OF NOVEL CONTENT
Granted: February 5, 2015
Application Number:
20150039608
A content provider system ranks media content items with respect to a particular user based on selection scores determined for each of the media content items. The selection scores may be determined using a particular model that calculates a predicted selection score based on feature values associated with the content item with respect to the particular user. The feature values may indicate properties of the media content item, the particular user, or the particular user's relationship…
STRATIFIED SAMPLING APPLIED TO A/B TESTS
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140278747
Embodiments provide techniques for testing a plurality of variations of a user experience, where each of the plurality of variations is distinct from other variations in the plurality of variations. For each permutation of a plurality of stratification factors that characterize users of the online site, embodiments generate a respective set of pseudorandom numbers. Additionally, user requests are assigned to variations in the plurality of variations, based on the generated sets of…
USING CANARY INSTANCES FOR SOFTWARE ANALYSIS
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140282422
Techniques for evaluating a second version of software. Embodiments selectively route incoming requests to software instances within a plurality of baseline instances and a plurality of canary instances, where the baseline instances run a first software version and the canary instances run the second software version. The software instances are monitored to collect performance data for a plurality of performance metrics. Embodiments calculate aggregate baseline performance metrics, where…
CRITICAL SYSTEMS INSPECTOR
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140281739
Techniques are described for identifying a root cause of a pattern of performance data in a system including a plurality of services. Embodiments provide dependency information for each of the plurality of services, where at least one of the plurality of services is dependent upon a first one of the plurality of services. Each of the plurality of services is monitored to collect performance data for the respective service. Embodiments further analyze the performance data to identify a…
CACHED EVALUATION OF PATHS THROUGH GRAPH-BASED DATA REPRESENTATION
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140281241
Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method, a computing system, and a computer-readable medium configured to request, cache, and generate translations of paths through graph-based data representations. The computer-implemented method includes receiving a first request for translation, wherein the first request specifies a first path configured to identify first payload data. The computer-implemented method further includes determining whether a graph object stored in the…
EVALUATION OF PATHS THROUGH GRAPH-BASED DATA REPRESENTATION
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140280903
Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method, a computing system, and a computer-readable medium configured to respond to requests for payload data and provide unique cache keys for caching the payload data. The computer-implemented method includes accepting a first request for translation that specifies a first path configured to identify first payload data associated with a graph object. The computer-implemented method further includes determining that the graph object…
LONG TERM METRICS APPLIED TO MULTIVARIATE TESTING
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140280862
Embodiments provide techniques for testing a plurality of variations of a user experience on a subscription-based online site, where each of the plurality of variations is distinct from other variations in the plurality of variations. Each of a plurality of users is assigned to one of the plurality of variations. For each of a plurality of user requests received during a predetermined window of time, embodiments determine one of the plurality of variations for use in processing the user…
GENERATION OF PATHS THROUGH GRAPH-BASED DATA REPRESENTATION
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140280675
Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method, a computing system, and a computer-readable medium configured to generate requests for payload data through a graph-based data representation. The computer-implemented method includes generating a first request for translation that specifies a first path configured to identify first payload data associated with a graph object. The computer-implemented method further includes transmitting the first request to a path evaluator for…
SEARCHES AND RECOMMENDATIONS USING DISTANCE METRIC ON SPACE OF MEDIA TITLES
Granted: September 18, 2014
Application Number:
20140280101
Techniques are described for generating search results and content recommendations using a distance metric on a space of media titles. In one embodiment, each media title may be associated with metadata tags and represented by a vector which indicates those associated tags. The distance metric may measure distance as an angle between vectors representing media titles in a bent vector space that accounts for correlations between tags. Further, a non-linear scaling may be applied to the…
