Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Google Inc.

Webtv Networks, Inc.

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Microsoft Corporation

Daniel John Zigmond

Dean J Blackketter

Richard Carl Gossweiler, Iii

Thomas Henry Taylor

Mehran Sahami

David Avraham Brown

Manish Gordhan Patel

John Wayne Blackburn

Timothy F Park

Neha Gupta

Mark Wagner

Lucy Congyun Zhang

Alice S Tull

Timothy Dharma Heilman

John R Matheny

Maricia Scott

David Scott Reiss

Marisa Bauer

David R Anderson

Diane Lambert

Simon Michael Rowe

Phillip York Goldman

Jason S Bayer

Geoffrey R Smith

Sharon F Glusker

Yaroslav Volovich

Bruce A Leak

Iain Merrick

John Alastair Hawkins

Greg Hecht

Michael A Killianey

Bryan McQuade

Jay Shrauner

Dov Green

Kaustuv

Peter T Barrett

James Armand Baldwin

Christopher M White

Jeffrey D Yaksick

Stuart Ozer

William M Gillon

Per R Anderson

Neha Crosby

Jay Dare Logue

Yossi Matias

Dustin Lyle Green

Edward Anthony Ludvig

Patrik Schnell

Hal Ronald Varian

Raimundo Mirisola

Samuel Thomas Scott, Iii

Deepak Chandra

Steven Wasserman

Steven Robert Sandke

Vivek Thukral

Scott D Sanders

Tal Franji

Robert Gardner

Neil Campbell Rhodes

Kevin T Carle

Andy Chu-I Yu

Vasyl Pihur

Sandra R Bernardi

Steve Stukenborg

Tim Volodine

Thomas H Taylor

Phillip Y Goldman

David N Reiss

Danny Tom

Noam Nisan

Jagpreet S Duggal

Kaustuv Kaustuv

Marcia Scott

Marisa B L Bauer

Maksim Pashkevich

Mike Danilov

Misha Seltzer

Iii Gossweiler Richard Carl

John Blackburn

Alice Tull

Richard Carl Iii Gossweiler

David A Brown

Systems and methods for displaying program guide information are disclosed. In some implementations a method includes, at a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, formatting, for display, program guide data on a grid. The grid includes (i) a first axis representing units of time and (ii) a second axis representing multimedia channels. The program guide data comprises information representing a set of multimedia events. Responsive to a user-supplied selection of a multimedia event in the set of multimedia events a panel is overlaid on a portion of the grid. The panel provides additional data regarding the multimedia event.

System and method for displaying multimedia events scheduling information

A client computer receives a set of search results ordered based on scheduled time of broadcast associated with respective listings of content. The listings of content include data representing time-bounded events. The client computer displays or otherwise presents a set of objects along an axis of a display bar, the objects corresponding to subsets of the search results. For example, the axis is associated with a unit of time or a unit of relevance.

Relevance bar for content listings

A server computer system receives event logs from one or more client devices for multiple consumption sessions of an online media item. The event logs are received based on random schedules. The system determines, for various times, a first number of consumption sessions during which an event log is scheduled to be sent at the corresponding times. The system determines, for the various times, a second number of consumption sessions during which an event log was sent to the server computer system at the corresponding times. The determinations being based on the event logs. The system determine, for each of the times, a probability that consumption time for the online media item is the corresponding time or less. The determination is based on the first number and the second number. The system determines consumption time metrics for the online media item based the probabilities for the plurality of times.

Consumption time estimation for online media items with jittered event log schedules

System and methods for formatting a virtual channel are provides in which, responsive to a user selection of a plurality of time-bounded multimedia events, there is formatted for display the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events in a first virtual channel. The user is enabled to fill a first time slot in the first virtual channel with overlapping time-bounded multimedia events from the plurality of time-bounded multimedia events. A representation of a numeric count of the overlapping time-bounded multimedia events is formatted for display in the first time slot.

Virtual channels

An advertisement effectiveness module determines a search lift value for each of a plurality of impressions of an advertisement. The search lift value is based on a relevancy of user searches before and after each advertisement impression. The advertisement effectiveness module calculates a first average search lift value for a subset of the plurality of impressions delivered in a first format and a second average search lift value for the subset of the plurality of impressions delivered in a second format. The advertisement effectiveness module compares the first average search lift value to the second average search lift value to determine an effectiveness of the first format and the second format.

Using follow-on search behavior to measure the effectiveness of online video ads

Disclosed are computer implemented methods, systems, and non-transitory media for representing a plurality of time-bounded events in first and second grids. The first grid has a larger size than the second grid. The second grid represents a second set of time-bounded events in the plurality of time-bounded events. A user-movable window is presented at a first position within the second grid where it encompasses a first portion of the second grid. The time-bounded events in the first portion of the second grid are displayed as a first set of time-bounded events in the first grid. Responsive to user instructions to move a position of the window from the first position to a second position within the second grid, the window is moved to the second position where it encompasses a third set of time-bounded events. Further, the first grid is updated to display the third set of time-bounded events.

System and method for displaying and searching multimedia events scheduling information

Systems and methods for displaying program guide information are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, responsive to a user-supplied search query, formatting for display program guide data on a first grid. The first grid includes (i) a first axis representing units of time and (ii) a second axis. The program guide data comprises information representing a first set of time-bounded events. The method also includes formatting a second grid for concurrent display with the first grid. The second grid includes information identifying a second set of time-bounded events. The first set of time-bounded events is a subset of the second set of time-bounded events.

A method, performed at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors, includes receiving respective first set-top box (STB) information from a first plurality of STBs. The first STB information received from a respective STB in the first plurality of STBs includes tuning information for the respective STB in the first plurality of STBs, and power status information for a respective display device coupled to the respective STB in the first plurality of STBs. The method also includes filtering the power status information, and determining a viewership metric for the first plurality of STBs based on the tuning information and the filtered power status information in the first STB information.

Determining set-top box tuning events

Disclosed are computer implemented method, systems, and non-transitory media for presenting information representing a plurality of time-bounded events in (i) a first grid and (ii) a second grid. The first grid has a first size and represents a first set of time-bounded events in the plurality of time-bounded events. The second grid has a second size smaller than the first size. The second grid represents a second set of time-bounded events in the plurality of time-bounded events. This second set of time-bounded events includes a greater number of time-bounded events than the first set of time-bounded events.

Content recordation techniques are described. In an implementation, a method includes querying electronic program guide (EPG) data to determine if a content item described in a recording document is available for recording. If the content item is available, a reference is added to a recording list for causing recordation of the content item.

Content recordation techniques

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating demographic compositions of television audiences. In an aspect, audience demographics are estimated from viewing device log records and household demographic data describing demographic segments to which members of the households belong.

Estimating demographic compositions of television audiences

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for inferring a demographic composition of a television audience of a television program. In one aspect, a method extrapolates television audience demographics from rated programs to unrated programs by attributing demographics of rated programs to unrated programs when the rated and unrated program are related by demographically rated channel tunes.

Inferring demographic compositions of television audiences

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating demographic compositions of television audiences from audience similarities. In an aspect, pairwise cosine similarities of segment of viewers of rated and unrated television programs are determined, demographic information of rated programs is attributed to the unrated programs from the cosine similarity measures and demographic information for the rated programs.

Estimating demographic compositions of television audiences from audience similarities

A method and system for providing listings of multimedia events and for allowing a user to create virtual channels from the listings is described. The user can specify a headend or zip code and enter a search query to find multimedia events that are of interest to the user. In response, the system provides a list of multimedia events as the results of the user's search query. If the user so desires, the user can create a virtual channel based on the search results, according to certain embodiments of the invention.

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Daniel John Zigmond