Motorola Corporation

Google Inc.

Arris Enterprises LLC

Other

Motorola Mobility LLC

Michael L Needham

Kenneth J Crisler

Leigh M Chinitz

Timothy J Wilson

Kevin Lynn Baum

Faisal Ishtiaq

Renxiang Li

Michael D Pearce

Venugopal Vasudevan

Loren J Rittle

Stephen S Gilbert

Bogdan O Carbunar

Benedito J Fonseca, Jr

Lawrence J Marturano

Stephen P Emeott

Anthony J Braskich

Duane C Rabe

Richard J Vilmur

Mark A Gannon

Bhavan Gandhi

Alfonso Martinez Smith

Guy George Romano

Isselmou Ould Dellahy

Shivajit Mohapatra

Benedito J Fonseca

Disclosed is a method of associating, at a secondary device, secondary media content with primary media content being output at a primary device. The method includes receiving, at the secondary device, first information based upon the primary content being output at the primary device, wherein the first information includes at least one of an audio and a visual signal, determining at the secondary device second information corresponding to the first information, receiving at the secondary device one or more portions of secondary media content that have been made available by a third device, determining at the secondary device whether one or more of the portions of the secondary media content match one or more portions of the second information, and taking at least one further action upon determining that there is a match.

Identifying media on a mobile device

A method receives video content and metadata associated with video content. The method then extracts features of the video content based on the metadata. Portions of the visual, audio, and textual features are fused into composite features that include multiple features from the visual, audio, and textual features. A set of video segments of the video content is identified based on the composite features of the video content. Also, the segments may be identified based on a user query.

Content based video content segmentation

A method implemented in a computer system for controlling the delivery of data and audio/video content. The method delivers primary content to the subscriber device for viewing by a subscriber. The method also delivers secondary content to the companion device for viewing by the subscriber in parallel with the subscriber viewing the primary content, where the secondary content relates to the primary content. The method extracts attention estimation features from the primary content, and monitors the companion device to determine an interaction measurement for the subscriber viewing the secondary content on the companion device. The method calculates an attention measurement for the subscriber viewing the primary content based on the attention estimation features, and the interaction measurement, and controls the delivery of the secondary content to the companion device based on the attention measurement.

Attention estimation to control the delivery of data and audio/video content

A method and apparatus for downloading content within a video-on-demand system is provided herein. During operation a Video Home Office (VHO) will cache a subset of the Video Service Office (VSO) content. When a user requests content that is not stored on the VHO, the VHO will request that content from another VHO or the VSO. In order to reduce the additional network load imposed during item forwarding while attempting to balance the total load on all the links interconnecting the VSO and VHOs, recorded traffic history metrics are used to predict their future or current traffic. A VHO or VSO is chosen for fetching the content that will result in the lowest predicted traffic on the interconnecting links.

Cache eviction

Devices and methods for scoring viewer's interactions with content broadcast on a presentation device by processing at least one audio signal received by a microphone proximate the viewer and the presentation device, to generate at least one audio signature, which is compared to at least two different reference audio signatures.

Systems and methods for interactive broadcast content

Caching content

Method and apparatus for transferring content

To address the need for an apparatus and method for CDMA-dispatch soft handoff, the present invention provides soft handoff to mobile stations (MSs) () in a dispatch call by sharing soft handoff information with all the MSs in the call at a base site (). When a first MS (e.g.,) needs to soft handoff, the identity of a soft handoff channel () at an adjacent base site () is shared with all the MSs. Thus, subsequent MSs (e.g.) that need to soft handoff to that adjacent base site may do so without requesting a soft handoff.

Method and apparatus for CDMA-dispatch soft handoff

A dispatch server () is provided in a packet based dispatch radio network to serve as coordinator and arbitrator for dispatch group calls. Participants in a group call transmit internet protocol (IP) voice packets to the server in unicast fashion. The server receives voice packets from multiple sources () and implements a prioritization scheme to select one source to pass on to the group via IP multicast. Various prioritization techniques are described.

Dispatch call server in a packet based communication network

To address the need for an apparatus and method for CDMA-dispatch soft handoff, the present invention enables base-initiated soft handoff for dispatch calls. A mobile station () in a dispatch call establishes an individual inbound link () with the serving base site (). The serving base site and one or more adjacent base sites (e.g.,and) determine the signal quality of the inbound link transmissions of the mobile station. The adjacent base site with the highest received inbound link signal quality is selected as the target soft handoff site. The serving base site then transmits the handoff information to enable the mobile station to begin a soft handoff with the target site.

Method and apparatus for base-initiated, CDMA-dispatch soft handoff

To address the need for an apparatus and method for quickly establishing a CDMA dispatch call, the present invention provides for paging mobile stations (e.g.,) to inform them of the call and then starting the dispatch call without waiting for page responses from the call participants. The dispatch call is first transmitted by base sites (e.g.,) of all the service coverage areas (e.g.,) that may have call participants, and then discontinued at those base sites where no page responses are received within a period of time. Thus, the dispatch call is established while 'call setup' effectively continues.

Method and apparatus for quickly establishing a CDMA dispatch call

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Michael L Needham