Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC

Facebook, Inc.

Discovery Co., Ltd.

Verizon Data Services Inc.

Telesector Resources Group, Inc.

Other

Verizon and Patent Licensing, Inc.

Brian Frederick Roberts

Donald H Relyea

Heath Stallings

Don Relyea

Kristopher T Frazier

Anthony Marco Lemus

George Masao Higa

Shadman Zafar

Imran Arif Maskatia

Chad Peltola

Japan A Mehta

Paul Bradley Bowers

Charles Robertson

Michelle Felt

Raul I Aldrey

Enrique Ruiz-Velasco

Shafiq Kassam

Sok Young Hwang

Michael R Oliver

Kishore Tallapaneni

Sudhanshu Sharma

Greg A Johns

Christina S Siegfried

Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam

Ann Gordon Prather

Venkata S Adimatyam

Ruchir Rodrigues

James Mark Kondziela

Alex Zavatone

Jeffrey Wayne Kurtti

Jill Mulligan

Enrique Florendo

Kyle Jackson

Craig L Reding

John R Reformato

Mahesh Rajagopalan

Harpal Singh Bassali

Siddharth Pandey

Michael J D'Argenio

Jayson Sellers

Andrew Allman

Shahzaib Zafar

Ramakrishnan Ramaswamy Sankaranarayan

Orland I Angelo

Kara McCain

Joseph F Ambeault

Sathya Bhaskaran

Brandon N Wright

Jack Jianxiu Hao

Frank Albert McKiel, Jr

Nader Gharachorloo

Armando Paul Stettner

Christopher L Helbling

Lonnie Katai

Joseph M Geiger

Laxmi Patel

Manvinder Chopra

Prabhakar Mani

Nagendra Kunuturi

Ramkumar Katchapeswaran Mambakkam

Bradford A Jackvony

Gareth Williams

Shawn M Strickland

Ziauddin Majid

Gwendolyn Mahon Thaxter

Loren Swingle

Enrique Ruiz Velasco Fonseca

Kirk Mario Lewis, Ii

D Ray Stinson

Robert Beckwith

Linda D Stinson

Steven J Dahms

Brian P Estes

Tommy H Robertson

Jeffrey L Harris

Shannon M Lyons

Carl Randall Mosty

Chris L Helbling

Ken J Hum

Apurva Pathak

Systems and methods for constructing an itinerary for a user based on articles of multimedia content are disclosed. One computer-implemented method may include: receiving, at the server and from a user device hosting a media streaming platform, an indication of selection by a user of a travel option associated with an aspect featured in an article of multimedia content presented on the media streaming platform; identifying, based on the receiving, a real-world location of the aspect; ascertaining, by the server, contextual information associated with the user; establishing, based on the real-world location of the aspect and the contextual information associated with the user, the itinerary for travel to the aspect; and presenting, subsequent to the establishing, a visual display of the itinerary on the media-streaming platform. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Systems and methods for establishing an itinerary based on multimedia content of interest

Systems and methods for implementing one or more game features across devices associated with a synchronous multimedia stream are disclosed. One method may include: establishing, on the server, a virtual media streaming session; connecting two or more user profiles of a media streaming platform to the virtual media streaming session; providing, in the virtual media streaming session, an article of multimedia content, wherein the article of multimedia content is simultaneously viewable on user devices associated with each of the two or more user profiles; determining, using a processor associated with the server, whether one or more interactive game features associated with the article of multimedia content are activated; and implementing, responsive to determining that the one or more interactive game features are activated, aspects associated with the one or more interactive game features in the virtual media streaming session.

Systems and methods for transmitting interactive game features to multiple devices of a shared streaming media session

Systems and methods for providing synchronous transmission of streaming media are disclosed. One method may include: receiving, from a first user device associated with a first user, a request to invite a second user to a virtual media streaming session; retrieving, from the at least one database, a second user profile, the second user profile identifying a second user device associated with the second user; transmitting, subsequent to the retrieving, instructions to the second user device to present a notification alerting the second user of the request; determining, using a processor, whether a response accepting the request is detected from the second user device; and connecting, responsive to determining that the response accepting the request was detected, the second user profile to the virtual media streaming session; wherein multimedia content presented in the virtual media streaming session is simultaneously viewable on the first user device and the second user device.

Systems and methods for synchronous group device transmission of streaming media and related user interfaces

Systems and methods for apprising a user of a proximately located aspect-of-interest are disclosed. One method may include: receiving an indication of a geographic location associated with the user; identifying an aspect associated with a multimedia content interest of the user; determining whether the geographic location associated is within a predetermined distance to a known location the aspect associated with the multimedia content interest; transmitting, responsive to determining that the geographic location is within the predetermined distance to the known location, instructions to a user device associated with the user to provide a notification to the user; receiving, at the server, another indication that the user has provided interaction input to the notification; and transmitting additional instructions to another device to perform an action that is based on the interaction input.

Systems and methods for providing notifications based on geographic location

Systems and methods for interacting with an enhanced live multimedia stream are disclosed. One method may include: presenting a plurality of live media streaming options, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of live media streaming options comprise one or more features enabling enhanced interaction between users; receiving an indication to join a general virtual media streaming session associated with one of the subset; retrieving a first user profile associated with a first user; connecting the first user profile to the general virtual media streaming session; transmitting, to the first user device via a multimedia streaming platform, the live multimedia stream playing in the virtual media streaming session; identifying one or more points in the live multimedia stream at which to implement the one or more features enabling enhanced interaction between users; and implementing at least one of the one or more features in the virtual media streaming session.

Systems and methods for synchronous group device transmission of live streaming media and related user interfaces

Systems and methods for implementing one or more game features across devices associated with a synchronous multimedia stream are disclosed. One method may include: transmitting interactive game features to multiple devices associated with a synchronous multimedia stream using a server in network communication with at least one database, the method comprising operations including: establishing, on the server, a virtual media streaming session; connecting two or more user profiles of a media streaming platform to the virtual media streaming session; providing, in the virtual media streaming session, an article of multimedia content, wherein the article of multimedia content is simultaneously viewable on user devices associated with each of the two or more user profiles; determining, using a processor associated with the server, whether one or more interactive game features associated with the article of multimedia content are activated; and implementing, responsive to determining that the one or more interactive game features are activated, aspects associated with the one or more interactive game features in the virtual media streaming session.

Systems and methods for providing asynchronous consumption of streaming media are disclosed. One computer-implemented method may include: receiving, from a first user device associated with a first user, a request to share a multimedia content with a second user, the request identifying the multimedia content, a first user profile associated with the first user, and data associated with the second user; retrieving a second user profile associated with the second user based on the received request; causing to be displayed, on a second user device associated with the second user, a notification alerting the second user of the request; receiving, from the second user device, a response accepting the request; and linking the first user profile with the second user profile for the shared multimedia content to enable viewing activity of both the first user and the second user to be shared and synced with one another.

Systems and methods for asynchronous group consumption of streaming media

An exemplary method includes a media channel navigation user interface system detecting, while media content distributed on a media channel is being presented for display on a display screen, a user request to launch a media channel navigation user interface, and providing, in response to the detected user request and for concurrent display with the presentation of the media content on the display screen, a media channel navigation user interface pane comprising a set of media channel navigation tools that include at least media content channel navigation tools selectable by a user to launch different types of menus of media channels in the media channel navigation user interface pane.

Media channel navigation user interface systems and methods

An exemplary method includes a media content presentation system detecting a presentation of a media content instance by way of a primary media content access device, determining that a secondary media content access device is located within a detection zone associated with the primary media content access device during a time period associated with the presentation of the media content instance, selecting, in accordance with a course correction heuristic, advertisement content related to the media content instance and configured to target a user of the secondary media content access device, and presenting the advertisement content to the user by way of the secondary media content access device during the presentation of the media content instance by the primary media content access device. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Targeted advertisement content presentation methods and systems

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content instance from a first device, wherein the content instance is associated with a geographic location and a period of time; determining that a second device is associated with the geographic location and the period of time associated with the content instance, wherein the determination is based on the second device being within a predefined proximity of the geographic location associated with the content instance during the period of time associated with the content instance; and enabling, in response to determining that the second device is associated with the geographic location and the period of time associated with the content instance, the content instance to be accessible by the second device.

Location based content aggregation and distribution systems and methods

In one embodiment, a method includes storing, by one or more computing devices of a content-aggregation-and-distribution system, one or more content postings. Each content posting is associated on creation with one or more geographic locations related to accessing the content posting. The method includes selectively providing, by one or more computing devices of the content-aggregation-and-distribution system, one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a geographic location associated with the access device. For each content posting selectively provided for display, the geographic location associated with the access device being within a predefined proximity of a geographic location of the one or more geographic locations related to accessing the content posting is requisite to the content posting being selectively provided for display.

Location-based content aggregation and distribution

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content posting from a device associated with a first user, the content posting including data representative of a content instance and a geographic location associated with the content instance; determining that a second user is associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, wherein the determination is based on a first client device associated with the second user being or having been within a predefined proximity of the geographic location associated with the content instance; and authorizing, based on the second user being associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, a second client device associated with the second user to submit an annotation to the content instance.

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Brian Frederick Roberts