At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Wipro Limited

Gowrishankar Natarajan

Virgil L Archer, Iii

Kunwar Handa

Barry A Smith

Matthew Smith

Yongmoon Lee

James Ayers

Kapildev Rathan

John Chang, Jr

Emir Halepovic

Manish Verma

Pankaj Sharma

Mathew Goldade

Maxwell Shteir-Dunn

Grant Hafer

Jagan Mohan Gorti

Constance Goshgarian

Atanu Basak

Rachit Sharma

Albert Chan

John Manganilla

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a processing system including a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, where the operations include receiving an advertisement identifier; hashing the advertisement identifier, thereby creating a Bluetooth service identifier; transmitting device data including the Bluetooth service identifier in a Bluetooth transmission; and receiving content in a push notification, wherein a system associates the device data with the advertisement identifier to determine whether to create the push notification. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System and method to deliver companion experiences to handheld devices

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information from a social network and identifying one or more topics of interest from the received information. The method also includes converting text from the received information to one or more social intents and determining, based on the topics of interest and the social intents, a media recommendation. The method further includes receiving account information from a user account, the account information including one or more entitlements. The method further includes determining that the media recommendation complies with the entitlements and automatically adding the media recommendation to a social watchlist associated with the user account.

Social watchlist

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying unselected video content items and preconfiguring playback views for unselected video content items. During a warm-up phase, access to the unselected video content items is precoordinated individually with a separate video player, manifests and license/key are retrieved in anticipation for possible selection for playback. Subsequent selection of one of the unselected video content items initiates playback responsive to selection without repeating any of the preconfiguring, preauthorizing or fetching. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System and method for accelerated video startup

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a pricing policy for streaming a media asset to a user; and recording, by the processing system, the pricing policy into a blockchain, wherein the pricing policy is used by a billing system to charge the user for streaming the media asset. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System and method for managing dynamic pricing of media content through blockchain

Disclosed herein is method and system for prioritizing content for content processing by Multichannel Video Programming Distributors (MVPD). The system upon receiving multimedia content, determines premium quality vector for multimedia content. Further, system segments multimedia content into one or more segments and determines a complexity vector and social media vector for each segment. The complexity vector is identified based on scene transitions and complexity of scene in the segment. The social media vector is identified based on trend, popularity and viral nature of segment. The system assigns weightage to each segment using a machine learning model based on complexity vector, social media vector and premium quality vector. Based on weightage, system prioritizes segments for content processing. In this manner, present disclosure prioritizes content which needs to be first processed to reduce overall content processing time.

Method and system for prioritizing contents for content processing by multichannel video programming distributors

The present disclosure relates to a method for delivering cloud Digital Video Recording (cloud DVR) content by a media server (). The method comprises receiving one or more inputs () related to cloud DVR content from one or more sources for delivering the cloud DVR content to a mobile device () connected to a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) node (). Further, the method comprises generating a plurality of dynamic vectors (), using the received one or more inputs (). Furthermore, the method comprises switching of a recording of the cloud DVR content between the MEC node () or a cloud server (), based on the plurality of vectors and a prediction of a load on the cloud server (). Thereafter, the method comprises caching the cloud DVR content in one of the MEC node () or the cloud server () based on the switching to deliver the cloud DVR content to the plurality of mobile devices.

System and method for delivering cloud DVR content

In one example, a method includes extracting an excerpt from a first item of digital content. The first item of digital content is one of a plurality of items of digital content stored in a digital content library of a telecommunications service provider network. Topics that are trending among a plurality of users of the network are identified. A first topic of the topics in which a first user of the plurality of users has expressed an interest is identified. The excerpt is mapped to the first topic to generate a local mapping for the first user. The local mapping indicates a relationship between the first topic and the excerpt. A customized collection of excerpts is generated for the first user based on the local mapping. The first excerpt is included in the customized collection of excerpts. The customized collection of excerpts is sent to the first user.

Creating customized short-form content from long-form content

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments modifying attributes for media content (provided to subscribers to a media service) to include a giftable attribute, configured as giftable or not giftable. Further embodiments include determining that the giftable attribute configured as giftable responsive to receiving donor user input, which comprises an indication to gift the media content to a recipient. A donor user is a subscriber of the media service while a recipient is a non-subscriber. Additional embodiments include providing a deep uniform resource locator (URL) link (which accesses the media content) to a media device of the recipient. Further embodiments include receiving a request to access the media content responsive to the selecting of the deep URL, requesting registration information for the media service, and providing the media content to the media device responsive to receiving registration information. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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Gowrishankar Natarajan