Open Tv Corporation

John Michael Teixeira

Nicholas Fishwick

Claes Georg Andersson

Nicholas Daniel Doerring

Colin Reed Miller

Steven J Szymanski

Kevin Staunton-Lambert

A computer system and method for synchronizing actions associated with media between a media/network device and peripherals. In an example implementation, a system includes a one or more processors configured to receive, by a communication module from a media/network device based on peripheral addressing information, a peripheral payload including a first set of actions and timing information related to media. The one or more processors perform the first set of actions based on the peripheral payload, generate response data for the first set of actions, and transmit the response data to the media/network device via a wireless network.

Media synchronized control of peripherals

Techniques for providing live content at different quality levels to a user device include advertising content availability at multiple quality levels for selection by the user device, receiving a quality level selection from the user device, wherein the quality level selection matches one of the advertised multiple quality levels, determining whether the received quality level selection differs from a currently used quality level, when it is determined that the received quality level selection is different from the currently used quality level, reconfiguring a transcoder to transcode the live content to only the received quality level, and updating a metafile to include a first quality level at a first bitrate lower than a bitrate for the received quality level selection and a second quality level at a second bitrate higher than the bitrate for the received quality level selection.

Tiered content streaming

Systems and methods for identifying and associating contextual metadata across related media.

Identifying and categorizing contextual data for media

Advertisements included in a stored digital video program are identified and indexed. A user can time shift the advertisements to play out at a different time position in the program or not play the advertisement at all. A user may incur an advertisement debt for skipping or fast forwarding an advertisement. The advertisement debt can be offset by viewing ads, trading the debt with other users or by paying for the debt in another form.

Time shifting of advertisements in digital content delivery services

A computer system for identifying and associating metadata across related media with the same content.

Management, categorization, contextualizing and sharing of metadata-based content for media

A computer system and method for delivering synchronized metadata for a media to a target device that is associated with a plurality of peripherals.

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John Michael Teixeira