Secure video capture platform
Granted: August 20, 2024
Patent Number:
12067135
Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for securing media content capture capabilities on a device. The techniques include receiving a frame of a media content item; determining whether the frame of the media content item is signed based on an analysis of one or more pixels of the frame; and when the media content is signed, removing one or more restrictions on one or more functions on the device based on whether the one or more pixels on the frame meet one or more…
Fast-expiring licenses used to speculatively authorize access to streaming media content
Granted: August 13, 2024
Patent Number:
12061676
Techniques are disclosed for improving user experience of multimedia streaming over computer networks. More specifically, techniques presented herein reduce (or eliminate) latency in playback start time for streaming digital media content resulting from digital rights management (DRM) authorizations. A streaming media client (e.g., a browser, set-top box, mobile telephone or tablet “app”) may request a “fast-expiring” license for titles the streaming media client predicts a user…
Techniques for generating video tracks based on user preferences
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12058398
In various embodiments, a manifest customization application generates presentations of media titles for playback. The manifest customization application selects a first set of video streams from multiple sets of video steams that are associated with a media title and included in a media package video streams based on a first preference associated with a user. The manifest customization application selects a first set audio streams from multiple sets of audio streams included in the…
Systems and methods for preprocessing application functions for faster startup
Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number:
12014188
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include predicting, by a machine learning model, a user action and a timing of the user action for an application on a computing device. The method may also include determining that an expected lag in executing the user action is greater than a predetermined threshold based on one or more resource constraints of the computing device and initializing a setup of the application to reduce the expected lag in executing the user action based on…
Techniques for sharing secure communication sessions within a computer network
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12003639
In various embodiments, servers in a server pool share a centrally-generated encryption key that is used to encrypt session keys in tickets that can be used by client applications to share secure communication sessions across different servers belonging to the same server pools. When the client application first establishes a secure communication session with a server in a server pool, the server returns a ticket that includes an encrypted version of a session key generated using an…
Techniques for delivering current media content via content delivery networks
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12003559
In various embodiments, a caching application streams segments of a downloadable to a client device. At a first point-in-time, the caching application receives a first request for a first segment of the downloadable from the client device. The caching application computes a cache key based on a request Uniform Resource Locator included in the first request and a version identifier associated with the downloadable. The caching application determines that no segment corresponding to the…
Attack mitigation in a packet-switched network
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11985164
The disclosed computer-implemented method includes applying transport protocol heuristics to selective acknowledgement (SACK) messages received at a network adapter from a network node. The transport protocol heuristics identify threshold values for operational functions that are performed when processing the SACK messages. The method further includes determining, by applying the transport protocol heuristics to the SACK messages received from the network node, that the threshold values…
Systems and methods for active speaker detection
Granted: May 14, 2024
Patent Number:
11983923
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, as input, an audio/video data object; isolating a video stream of a visible potential speaker over a plurality of frames of the audio/video data object; isolating an audio stream over the plurality of frames; providing the isolated video stream and the isolated audio stream to a machine learning model trained with contrastive learning, the contrastive learning using (i) a corpus of video segments of visible speakers with…
Systems and methods for optimal color calibration for LED volume stages
Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number:
11979692
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…
Staggered key frame video encoding
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11973996
One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for encoding video streams associated with the same digital content such that switch points staggered across two video streams occur at every offset temporal distance. The offset temporal distance is less than the distance between two consecutive key frames in a given video stream. This enables a content player to switch to a video stream having a playback quality up or down one level from a current video stream at the offset…
Methods and systems for providing dynamically composed personalized media assets
Granted: April 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11956520
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing a media item that includes multiple media item segments that are to be played back in a specific manner. The method may also include generating playgraphs for the media item, where the playgraphs define different playback paths between media item segments. The method may next include selecting a specific playgraph from the generated playgraphs, and then providing the selected playgraph to a playback device. Playback of the…
Techniques for limiting the influence of image enhancement operations on perceptual video quality estimations
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11949919
In various embodiments, a tunable VMAF application reduces an amount of influence that image enhancement operations have on perceptual video quality estimates. In operation, the tunable VMAF application computes a first value for a first visual quality metric based on reconstructed video content and a first enhancement gain limit. The tunable VMAF application computes a second value for a second visual quality metric based on the reconstructed video content and a second enhancement gain…
Context-aware interface layer for remote applications
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11949730
Various embodiments of the present application set forth a computer-implemented method comprising receiving, at an endpoint device, a user input associated with a first remote application running on a workstation instance associated with the user, determining, based on a context associated with the user input, a first asset associated with the user input, and causing the workstation instance to modify an asset file in a local file system of the workstation instance, wherein the asset…
Identifying representative frames in video content
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948360
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for selecting a frame of video content that is representative of a media title. The technique includes applying an embedding model to a plurality of faces included in a set of frames of the video content to generate a plurality of face embeddings. The technique also includes aggregating the plurality of face embeddings into a plurality of clusters representing a plurality of characters included in the media title. The…
Machine learning techniques for video downsampling
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948271
In various embodiments, a training application trains a convolutional neural network to downsample images in a video encoding pipeline. The convolution neural network includes at least two residual blocks and is associated with a downsampling factor. The training application executes the convolutional neural network on a source image to generate a downsampled image. The training application then executes an upsampling algorithm on the downsampled image to generate a reconstructed image…
Scalable media file transfer
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11936717
Various embodiments of the present application set forth a computer-implemented method comprising determining a set of digital assets to transfer to a destination device, generating, from the set of digital assets, a corresponding set of chunks, where each chunk is a pre-defined size, for each chunk in the set of chunks, transmitting the chunk to a service node included in a set of service nodes, and verifying that the service node received the chunk, where the set of service nodes…
Techniques for generating candidate match cuts
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11935300
In various embodiments, a match cutting application automatically generates candidate match cuts. In some embodiments, the match cutting application detects shot sequences within one or more video sequences, deduplicates the shot sequences, computes an encoding of each shot sequence after the deduplication, and compares the encodings associated with pairs of shot sequences using a distance metric to identify pairs of shot sequences that can be cut together to generate candidate match…
Scalable and real-time anomaly detection
Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number:
11929869
Various embodiments of the disclosure disclosed herein provide techniques for detecting anomalies across one or more components within a distributed computing system, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure. An anomaly detection system retrieves event data associated with a real-time stream of events generated by one or more components within a distributed computing system. The anomaly detection system computes a failure metric based on the event data. The anomaly…
Automated workflows from media asset differentials
Granted: March 5, 2024
Patent Number:
11924481
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) accessing a first media data object and a different, second media data object that, when played back, each render temporally sequenced content, (2) comparing first temporally sequenced content represented by the first media data object with second temporally sequenced content represented by the second media data object to identify a set of common temporal subsequences between the first media data object and the second media data…
Techniques for advancing playback of interactive media titles in response to user selections
Granted: February 27, 2024
Patent Number:
11917271
A playback application seamlessly advances playback of and interactive media title in response to user selections in a manner that minimizes latency and preserves user immersion in a narrative. The playback application buffers an interstitial segment included in the interactive media title and feeds portions of the interstitial segment to a media player only when those portions are needed for display. When the user selects an option displayed during the interstitial segment, the playback…
