Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC

Cellco Partnership

Verizon Patent Licensing Inc.

Jack Jianxiu Hao

Diego Sebastian Rozensztejn

Zhiying Jin

Fenglin Yin

Xuefeng Yao

Dahai Ren

Wei Xia

Jian Huang

Guillermo Ortiz

Yuhui Qian

Okeno R Palmer

Gaurav D Mehta

John F Gallagher

Shuai Wu

Michael R Oliver

Fang Zhu

Martin Busse

Robert C Baruch

Guanrao Chen

Ishan Awasthi

Ashraf Shehata

Heath Stallings

Shadman Zafar

Raul I Aldrey

Ruchir Rodrigues

Joseph M Geiger

Atul Thaper

Fred Scheer

Gerald Honma

Bradford A Jackvony

Gaurav A Tanna

Chris L Helbling

Brian Frederick Roberts

Donald H Relyea

Michelle Felt

Christopher L Helbling

Lonnie Katai

John Valdez

Lin Song

Haiyan Zhou

Jimena Velarde

Andrien John Wang

Sandeep G Rathi

Wenjie Liu

Juhong Liu

Robert Beckwith

Alex Sakharov

Abhishek Gupta

Shaygan Kheradpir

Genevieve Cerf

Andrew Roberto Turner

Xu Clark Yang

Yuhiu Qian

Bobby Bo Xiao

Sean Shuai Wu

A server identifies areas of traffic congestion and generates traffic objects associated with the identified areas of traffic congestion. The server receives, from a mobile device, a request for traffic objects, where the request includes a current geographic location of the mobile device and a destination geographic location to which the mobile device plans to travel. The server determines a length of travel based on the current geographic location and the destination geographic location, identifies a particular traffic object based on the length of travel, the current geographic location, and the destination geographic location, and provides information regarding the particular traffic object to the mobile device to permit the mobile device to generate navigational directions based on the particular traffic object.

Traffic data distribution in a navigational system

A device receives, from multiple user devices, event information associated with the multiple user devices, where the event information includes one or more actions, user information, content information, and one or more attributes. The device stores the event information in a database, and analyzes one or more portions of the event information stored in the database. The device also recommends, based on the analyzed event information, one or more adjustments to a network that delivers content to the multiple user devices.

Mobile user data collection

A method may include receiving a primary resource in a user device, wherein the resource includes a plurality of addresses and each of the plurality of addresses identifying one of a plurality of additional resources. The method may further include aggregating the plurality of addresses and sending the aggregated addresses to a network device. The method may further include receiving the additional resources in the user device.

Network architecture and method for reducing the number of resource requests

Methods and devices provide channel assignments of programs delivered in a mobile setting. The channel assignments include unicast channels, multicast channels, and broadcast channels. The channel assignments are based on one or more of the type of program, user viewership information, or user voting information. Additionally, methods and devices provide for handover between mobile service areas at the application layer. Programs are buffered based on a handover time. During the handover, the buffered portion of the program is played.

Delivery channel selection and application layer handover of programs for a mobile service

A user device receives, from an application server, a catalog of available content. The catalog of available content includes content available for delivery via multicast over a broadband wireless spectrum. The user device provides, to the application server, an indication of a user's selection of particular content available for delivery via multicast over the broadband wireless spectrum. The user device receives, from a content server, the particular content via a multicast transmission over the broadband wireless spectrum. The particular content includes multiple individual segment files. The user device detects a corrupted or missing segment file from the multiple individual segment files and requests, from the content server, a replacement segment file corresponding to the corrupt or missing segment file. The user device receives, from the content server, the replacement segment file via a unicast transmission to provide a complete set of segment files for the particular content.

File downloads using broadband wireless multicast

A network device stores a mapping configuration to associate client type profiles with particular delivery profiles for media content and receives, from a client device, a request for a link to a content selection. The request includes a content identifier and parameters for the client device. The network device constructs, based on the parameters for the client device, a particular client type profile and maps the particular client type profile to one of the particular delivery profiles in the mapping configuration. The network device constructs a uniform resource locator (URL), based on the one of the particular delivery profiles and the content identifier, that provides the link to the content selection with formatting that is suitable for the particular client type profile and sends the URL to the client device.

Media playback profile mapping

System devices include network interfaces to communicate with user devices associated with a user, memories for storing instructions to be executed by processors, and the processors. The processors are configured to execute the instructions to receive, from a first user device, among the user devices, a request for content; initiate an upload of the requested content to the first user device in response to the request; receive a request for a license key from the first user device in response to the initiation of the upload; determine whether a number of concurrent sessions with the user devices exceeds a maximum number; and send the license key to the first user device when the processors determine that the number of concurrent sessions does not exceed the maximum number.

Limiting concurrent viewing sessions on multiple user devices

A method includes providing identifying application information associated with a user device in a network. The application information is information associated with at least one application running on the at least one user device. The method may further include identifying data usage information associated with the user device. The data usage information includes information associated with data used by the user device. In addition, the method may include associating the application information and the data usage information to determine application data usage for the user device. The method may also include identifying a data usage plan associated with the user device, and applying the data usage plan in the network based on the application data usage.

Data usage plan associated with user device

One or more network devices receive, from a third-party system, catalog metadata for physical media assets available to order and combine the catalog metadata with catalog entries for digital content to form a unified catalog file. The one or more devices receive, from a user device, a request to view a directory of available video content and send, to the user device, the unified catalog file for presentation to a user. The one or more devices receive, from the user device, a selection of an item in the unified catalog file. The one or more devices provide, to the user device, video content corresponding to the selection when the selection corresponds to one of the catalog entries for digital content and provide, to the third-party system and via a billing gateway, user payment information when the selection corresponds to the catalog metadata for one of the physical media assets.

Multi-screen video

A method includes receiving a request to perform a search; identifying a data structure, of a group of data structures, from which to perform the search, based on a location associated with a user device and a search area within which the user device is located, where the data structure stores information associated with at least one geographic area that is intersected by the search area; retrieving, from the data structure, search results associated with subject matter identified in the request, where the search results are associated with locations within the geographic area; identifying, from the data structure, other user devices that performed searches based on the subject matter; retrieving, from the data structure, other search results based on prior searches, associated with other subject matter, that were performed by the other user devices; and sending, to the user device, the search results or the other search results.

Location-based recommendations

A computing device receives, from a user device, a data call, and forwards the data call to a backend network device. The computing device receives, from the backend network device, a response to the data call in a first format. The computing device identifies a type of the user device and converts the response from the first format into a second format to create a reformatted response. The reformatted response addresses compatibility issues or simplifies processing by the user device. The computing device sends the reformatted response to the user device.

Orchestration server for video distribution network

A method includes identifying at least one document associated with content from at least one digital content source. The at least one document includes information identifying at least one aspect of the content. The method also includes determining a document index for the at least one document based on keywords included in the at least one document. An activity field is inserted into the document index. The method includes accessing activity information. The activity information identifies at least one activity keyword associated with at least one activity. The method further includes identifying at least one present activity keyword in the document based on the activity information. An indicator of at least one present activity is determined based on the at least one present activity keyword. The method includes indexing the indicator of the at least one present activity in the activity field of the document index.

Activity based search

A user device provides, to a content delivery system, a content request for selected media and receives, in response to the content request, a unicast link for receiving the selected media via a unicast stream and a multicast link for receiving the selected media via a multicast stream. The user device presents a first portion of the selected media via the unicast stream and buffers, in a local memory, a second portion of the selected media from the multicast stream. The second portion is later in linear sequence of the selected media than the first portion. The user device discontinues presenting the first portion of the selected media when the first portion would overlap the second portion and present the second portion of the selected media from the memory.

Efficient on-demand streaming using multicast

A method includes requesting, by a user device, video program related content. The video program related content includes content related to one or more video programs provided by a service provider. The method also includes receiving the video program related content. A selection of a video program from the one or more video programs is received. The video program is selected at a set top box. The method also includes controlling a viewing session for the video program using the user device.

Controlling a viewing session for a video program

In an exemplary method, contacts data for a network address book is maintained, data representative of at least a portion of a local address book maintained on an access device is received over a network, and the received local address book data is used to perform at least one connected address book operation. In one example in which the contacts data includes data representative of a network address book listing associated with a user, data representative of a persona associated with the user is maintained, a request to access the network address book listing is received, and at least a subset of the data representative of the network address book listing is identified and provided in response to the request and based at least in part on the persona.

Connected address book systems and methods

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