Facebook, Inc.

Skycatch, Inc.

Netflix Inc.

Leland Stanford Junior University

Google Inc.

Nokia Corporation

Tvworks, LLC

Liberate Technologies, Inc.

Caffeine, Inc.

Avago Technologies General IP (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

General Instrument Corporation

Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited

Deutschetelekom Ag

David Chen

Kiranjit Singh Sidhu

Florin Ratiu

Emily B Grewal

Denise Moreno

Huan Yang

Weidong Mao

John Funge

Leonardo Felipe Romo Morales

Bernd Girod

Alexander Paul Schultz

Ching-Chih Weng

Yanxin Shi

Lex Arquette

Manlio Francisco Barajas Hernandez

Gregory S Orzell

Mark Watson

Wei Wei

Radek Grzeszczuk

Gabriel Takacs

Jinqlih Sang

Huizhong Chen

Ziqing Mao

Hisham Rabih Harik

Christian Sanz

George Leontiev

Bao Nguyen

Rahul Durve

Vijay Chandrasekhar

Shang-Hsuan Tsai

Kandasamy Aravinthan

Peter Sankauskas

James Birchler

Nick Artman

Paul Kerr

Sida Li

Manoj Lakshmy Gopalakrishnan

Amylee Thibodeau

Yifei Teng

Ryan Amos

Patrick Stuart

Suk Hwan Lim

Kyu-Han Kim

Boris Mazniker

Mike Xiaoli Ma

Seth Taylor Raphael

Jatinder Pal Singh

Peter Vajda

Colleen Twitty

Qichi Yang

Alexander Gregory Chu

Cheng-Hsin Hsu

Hsin-I Cindy Liu

Vinod Vishwanathan

Ambar Pansari

Qinge Wu

Ami Miron

Timothy Chou

Chris Schilling

Venu Gopal Nayar

Rodolfo Ruben Alvarez Gonzalez

Blaine Schanfeldt

Aroon Ramadoss

James J Johnson

Ryan Schroeder

Jacob Federico

Pablo Arturo Martinez Gonzalez

Sam Tsai

Maryam Daneshi

Andre Filgueiras De Araujo

Shanghsuan Tsai

Matthew Chuck-Jun Yu

Colleen Kelly Twitty

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for broadcasting data streams. The CDN allows a streamer to stream live (in realtime) on a network(s), such as the Internet, for a live audience to view and to interact with the live entertainment. Each of the broadcast clients send data streams to the CDN via an input node, wherein the CDN output a selected media stream to one or more selected viewing clients via the output node. The architecture of the CDN contains one or more System Racks. Each of the System Racks contains multiple media channels. In operation, the data stream of a broadcasting client is sent to the CDN and distributed into selected channels. The data streams in each of the selected channels are outputted to viewing clients of a corresponding type.

Multicast broadcast network architecture

Techniques are described for detecting faults in media content based on the behavior of users viewing the media content. Embodiments stream a first instance of media content to one or more users. The behavior of the one or more users is monitored while the users are viewing the streaming first instance of media content. Embodiments then determine whether the first instance of media content is faulty, based on the monitored behavior of the one or more users.

Upstream fault detection

In a general aspect, a head-mounted device (HMD) can be configured to receive a selection of a mode of operation of a content reader of the HMD from a plurality of modes of operation, and initiate, in response to the selection, a content capture process to capture content within a field of view (FOV) of a camera of the HMD. The HMD can be further configured to identify, in the captured content, a plurality of content items, receive a navigation command to select a content item from the plurality of content items, and provide, in response to the navigation command, readback of the selected content item.

Content access and navigation using a head-mounted device

Multicast broadcast network architcture

The present disclosure provides image capture devices and associated methods that feature intelligent use of hardware-generated statistics. An example image capture device can include an imaging hardware pipeline that generates frames of imagery. The imaging hardware pipeline can generate one or more hardware-generated statistics based at least in part on, for example, the raw image data captured by the image sensor or intermediate image data within the pipeline. The image capture device can analyze the hardware-generated statistics to determine one or more metrics for the raw image data or the image. The image capture device can determine a downstream operation of the image capture device relative to the image based at least in part on the metrics determined from the hardware generated statistics.

Image capture devices featuring intelligent use of lightweight hardware-generated statistics

Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a digital flight path within complex mission boundaries. In particular, in one or more embodiments, systems and methods generate flight legs that traverse a target site within mission boundaries. Moreover, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that utilize linking algorithms to connect the generated flight legs into a flight path. Moreover, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that generate a mission plan based on the flight path. In one or more embodiments, the generated mission plan enables a UAV to traverse a flight area within mission boundaries and capture aerial images with regard to the target site. Furthermore, in one or more embodiments, systems and methods capture digital aerial images of vertical surfaces of a structure by generating a reference surface and flight legs corresponding to the reference surface.

Generating a mission plan for capturing aerial images with an unmanned aerial vehicle

Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining relevant content in response to a request for information. One or more computing devices may receive a query requesting information regarding a place of interest and identify a first place which satisfies the query associated with a first database and a set of displayable content associated with the first place within a second database. The one or more computing devices may identify a subset of the displayable content for display in response to the query, the identification of the subset of displayable content comprising determining a ranking for each item of displayable content in the set of displayable content according to the query. The subset of displayable content and the first place may be provided for presentation on a client device.

Contextual ranking of photos and text in search

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 a prior set of task assignments. The crowd worker routing system determines that a first task assignment included in a first set of task assignments is related to a first score included in the one or more scores. The crowd worker routing system determines whether to route the first task assignment to the first worker for completion based on the first score and one or more routing rules.

Distributing tasks to workers in a crowd-sourcing workforce

Systems and methods are disclosed for more efficiently and quickly utilizing digital aerial images to generate models of a site. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods capture a plurality of digital aerial images of a site. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods can cluster the plurality of digital aerial images based on a variety of factors, such as visual contents, capture position, or capture time of the digital aerial images. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods can analyze the clusters independently (i.e., in parallel) to generate cluster models. Further, the disclosed systems and methods can merge the cluster models to generate a model of the site.

Converting digital aerial images into a three-dimensional representation utilizing processing clusters

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a message associated with a user at an information exchange system. At least one correspondent associated with the user may be determined, based on the message. A social connection between the user and the at least one correspondent may be assessed with respect to a social-networking system. The information exchange system may provide an interface for display to the user, the interface comprising information associated with the message. If the social connection is confirmed, the interface may include social-networking information associated with the at least one correspondent. Otherwise, the interface may provide functionality to create a social connection between the user and the at least one correspondent with respect to the social-networking system.

Integrating social-networking information

Systems and methods are disclosed for determining the position of a UAV in flight. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize real time kinematic and precise point positioning techniques to identify the position of a UAV without use of RTK correction data from an RTK network. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods can precisely and accurately determine the absolute position of a base station and a UAV in flight at various times during a flight mission without use of RTK correction data from an RTK network. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods can utilize the absolute position of a UAV in flight to perform various aerial missions or tasks.

Determining the location of a UAV in flight utilizing real time kinematic satellite navigation and precise point positioning

A network device, such as a network switch, can include an ingress to receive data packets from a network. The ingress can communicate with an egress included in the network device though a fabric included in the network device. At least one of ingress and the egress can enqueue a data packet prior to receipt of all cells of the data packet. The ingress can also commence with dequeue of the cells of the received data packet prior to receipt of the entire data packet from the network. At least one of ingress and the egress can process the data packets using cut-through processing and store-and-forward processing. In a case of cut-through processing of a data packet at both the ingress and the egress of a network device, such as CIOQ switch, the fabric can be allocated to provide a prioritized virtual channel through the fabric for the data packet.

Early queueing network device

Systems and methods are disclosed for generating georeference information with respect to aerial images. In particular, in one or more embodiments, systems and methods generate georeference information relating to aerial images captured without ground control points based on existing aerial images. For example, systems and methods can access a new set of aerial images without ground control points and utilize existing aerial images containing ground control points to generate a georeferenced representation corresponding to the features of the new set of aerial images. Similarly, systems and methods can access a new image without ground control points and utilize an existing georeferenced orthomap to produce a georeferenced orthomap corresponding to the features of the new image. One or more embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods permit users to obtain georeference information related to new images without the need to place ground control points or collect additional georeference information.

Generating georeference information for aerial images

Techniques to increase engagement with a social networking system. In one embodiment, activities are prioritized based on relatedness to a user. References associated with at least a portion of the prioritized activities are created. The references are categorized into a plurality of types. The reference types may include notifications, friend identifications, and top stories. The references are embedded in digest communications for the user. Descriptive information about the activities are omitted from the digest communications. Digest communications for the user are provided during a time period when the user is not engaged with the social networking system. Notifications for a user are ceased when a level of engagement of the user with the social networking system is less than a threshold value.

Methods and systems for optimizing engagement with a social network

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