Rovi Guides, Inc.

Adeia Guides Inc.

Netflix Inc.

Rovl Guides, Inc.

Aaron Peter Blohowiak

Olivier Chalouhi

Milan Indu Patel

Ofer Vaisler

Ryan Werth

Michael R Nichols

Walter Richard Klappert

Walter R Klappert

Ali Basiri

Lorin Hochstein

Casey Rosenthal

Systems and methods are provided herein for personalizing images that correspond to a media asset identifier by using user profile information. As an example, the television series 'Community' has several actors, such as Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. Poster art developed by an editor o50533238_1f “Community” may include an image that portrays each of Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. In order to personalize the image, control circuitry may determine which actor(s) the user prefers, and crop out only those actors in the poster art to create a personalized image. As an example, if the user prefers Joel McHale, control circuitry may crop out the portrayal of Joel McHale and use only that portion of the image to display next to other text describing “Community.”

Systems and methods for automatic formatting of images for media assets based on user profile

Methods and systems are described for downloading media assets efficiently and quickly before loss of network connectivity. The method may allow a user to download portions of a media asset in different versions to download a maximum portion of the media asset before loss of network connectivity. Certain versions of media assets may be downloaded more quickly than other versions of media assets. The method may also allow a user to view partially downloaded media assets without network connectivity. The method may also replace portions of media assets downloaded in a first version with portions of the media assets in a second version once network connectivity is restored.

Methods and systems for efficiently downloading media assets

Systems and methods are provided herein for personalizing images that correspond to a media asset identifier by using user profile information. As an example, the television series 'Community' has several actors, such as Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. Poster art developed by an editor o50533238_1f 'Community' may include an image that portrays each of Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. In order to personalize the image, control circuitry may determine which actor(s) the user prefers, and crop out only those actors in the poster art to create a personalized image. As an example, if the user prefers Joel McHale, control circuitry may crop out the portrayal of Joel McHale and use only that portion of the image to display next to other text describing 'Community.'

Systems and methods are provided herein for personalizing images that correspond to a media asset identifier by using user profile information. As an example, the television series 'Community' has several actors, such as Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. Poster art developed by an editor o50533238_1f 'Community' may include an image that portrays each of Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. In order to personalize the image, control circuitry may determine which actor(s) the user prefers, and crop out only those actors in the poster art to create a personalized image. As an example, if the user prefers Joel McHale, control circuitry may crop out the portrayal of Joel McHale and use only that portion of the image to display next to other text describing &#x201c;Community.&#x201d;

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for testing microservices in distributed computing systems. The technique includes routing a first traffic sample associated with request traffic from one or more client devices to a first instance of a first service implemented in a distributed computing system, wherein the first instance generates a first plurality of request responses in response to a first plurality of data requests included in the first traffic sample and transmits the first plurality of request responses to a second service included in the sequence of services, and routing a second traffic sample associated with the request traffic to a second instance of the first service, wherein the second instance generates a second plurality of request responses in response to a second plurality of data requests included in the second traffic sample and transmits the second plurality of request responses to the second service.

Determining the failure resiliency of a service in a distributed computing system

Systems and methods are provided herein for personalizing images that correspond to a media asset identifier by using user profile information. As an example, the television series 'Community' has several actors, such as Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. Poster art developed by an editor of 'Community' may include an image that portrays each of Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. In order to personalize the image, control circuitry may determine which actor(s) the user prefers, and crop out only those actors in the poster art to create a personalized image. As an example, if the user prefers Joel McHale, control circuitry may crop out the portrayal of Joel McHale and use only that portion of the image to display next to other text describing &#x201c;Community.&#x201d;

Control circuitry may identify an image corresponding to a media asset, where the image comprises a plurality of portions, and where each portion of the plurality of portions comprises a respective entity. The image identified by control circuitry may include several portions, where each portion includes a respective entity. Control circuitry may determine an identity of each respective entity in each respective portion of the plurality of portions. Control circuitry may then access a database to determine a level of prevalence of each identity in the media asset. Based on these identifications, control circuitry may determine which respective entity corresponds to a highest level of prevalence (e.g., with respect to the other entities), and may generate for display a respective portion comprising the respective entity that corresponds to the highest level of prevalence.

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Belmont, CA, United States of America

Aaron Peter Blohowiak