Rovi Guides, Inc.

Adeia Guides Inc.

Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC

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Rovl Guides, Inc.

Rovi Guldes, Inc.

Reda Harb

Daina Emmanuel

Vikram Makam Gupta

Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah

Padmassri Chandrashekar

Charishma Chundi

Srikanth Channapragada

Ankur Anil Aher

Tao Chen

Dhananjay Lal

Christopher Phillips

Vivek Sehgal

Jayshil Parekh

Jeffry Copps Robert Jose

Serhad Doken

Anjum Makkar

Simranjeet Gill

Sukanya Agarwal

Harshith Kumar Gejjegondanahally Sreekanth

Harshavardhan Reddy Kalathuru

Ishan Bhadula

Greeshma Jagadha Phani Lakshmi Alapati

Charles Hammett Dasher

Gyanveer Singh

Madhusudhan Seetharam

Vaibhav Gupta

Senthil Kumar Karuppasamy

Rajendra Pandey

Edison Lin

Rowena Young

Santhiya Krishnamoorthi

Anil Kumar

Ishan Dhanwal

Ramesh Arsam

Ning Xu

Rajendran Pichaimurthy

Jean-Yves Couleaud

Prakash Viswanathan

Dolphin Masilamany Santha

Ashish Gupta

Harsha Neerakani

Pawan Nagdeve

VasanthRaj Rajanna

Vaishali Trivedi

Cato Yang

Akshay Chetan Shah

Pooja Srivastava

Mustafa Coskun

Rupayan Dutta

Chase Andries

Saloni Sharma

Saakshi Dhawan

Alec Custer

Kanchan Sripathy

Mark Campagna

Ashish Kumar Gupta

Prateek Varshney

Sourabh Kumar

Yusuf AbdElhakam AbdElkader Marey

Stephanie M Adams Ryan

Veeresh Babu

Kyle Beckemeyer

Cagri Gungor

Walter Richard Klappert

Michael R Nichols

Johan Kölhi

Rohit Dhiman

V Michael Bove, Jr

Christopher Lidaka

Antti Heikkinen

Mikko Uitto

Warren Keith Edwards

Poovarasan Chitravel

Gudimetla Baby

Sambeet Burma

Vehbi Cagri Gungor

Aldis Sipolins

Kamal J Koshy

Dan Wu

Anthony Friede

Praveen Maurya

Ghulam Mujtaba

Syed Aamir Hamid

Muhammad Riad Chummun

Eun Seok Ryu

Systems and methods are described for requesting media content playback. Media content item metadata relating to product endorsement in the media content item is accessed. An endorsement profile for the media content item is generated based on the media content item metadata. The endorsement profile comprises data relating to which segments of the media content item have product-related content. A manifest file comprising instructions re-questing playback of the media content item is generated based on the endorsement profile for the media content item.

Methods and systems for requesting media content playback

Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a media content system to create an exclusive profile based on a joint profile that was used to interact with a plurality of content items provided by a media service. The joint profile contains consumption data for all users who interacted with the plurality of content items. Based on the consumption data, the system identifies a plurality of clusters containing content items with similar metadata and generates a user interface with an identifier corresponding to each cluster and identifiers corresponding to the content items of each cluster. In response to receiving a selection of a subset of the clusters, the system generates an exclusive profile with the selected clusters. The exclusive profile contains the consumption data associated with the content items of the selected clusters and the system then recommends content items to the exclusive profile based on that consumption data.

System and methods for creating a profile based on content clustering

Systems and methods are described for selecting a 3D object for display in an extended reality environment. A space in an extended reality environment is determined for placement of a 3D object. A set of space parameters are determined comprising: an amount of memory available for generating the display of the extended reality environment and an amount of computing power available for generating the display of the extended reality environment. The 3D object is selected for display in the space based on the amount of memory and the amount of computing power available.

Methods and systems for selecting a 3D object for display in an extended reality environment

Systems and methods are described herein for generating a playlist for a simultaneous presentation of a plurality of media assets. The system retrieves a user preference associated with a user profile and receives a selection of a first media asset and a second media asset from the plurality of media assets for presentation on a user device. The system parses the respective audio streams of the first media asset and the second media asset to identify one or more preferred audio segments based on the user preference and generates the playlist of the identified one or more preferred audio segments. Based on a generated audio playlist, the system generates, for presentation on the user device, the video stream for each of the first media asset and the second media asset and the playlist of the identified one or more preferred audio segments.

Methods and systems to provide a playlist for simultaneous presentation of a plurality of media assets

Systems and methods are described for using a biometric response profile to predict a biometric response of a user to a future event. An event occurring in video content is determined. Biometric data of a user viewing the video content is received, the biometric data comprising a biometric response of the user to the event. A biometric response profile of the user indicating a predicted biometric response of the user to a future event corresponding to the event is generated based on the biometric data and the event.

Methods and systems for generating a biometric response profile

Systems and methods for interactively engaging consumers of a media asset are disclosed. The methods allow selection and personalization of a media asset character's name, voice, or dialogue while the media asset is being consumed. The personalization may be propagated through the entire media asset or additionally to other episodes, sequels, and related media assets by identifying and replacing associated metatags. The system determines whether the media asset is being consumed as a group watch where its members are consuming the media asset from different IP addresses or being consumed by viewers in the same room to determine the type of changes allowed. The methods also present queries to engage the viewer, such as by the character asking them a question, and provide supplemental videos to aid in responding to the queries. The responses to queries may also determine the path a story takes in the media asset.

System and method for providing advanced content interactivity features

Systems and methods for bandwidth-adaptive light field video transmission on mobile and portable devices is disclosed. An upstream bandwidth is estimated. A request for a service tier for capture and transmission of light field content is received, wherein the light field content comprises an image array of a plurality of sub-aperture images. When the requested service tier is greater than the estimated upstream bandwidth, a reduced service tier is determined based on the estimated upstream bandwidth. A number of sub-aperture images comprising a reduced image array is determined based on the reduced service tier. The image array is reduced to the reduced image array based on feature saliency and adjacency of sub-aperture images. Resources corresponding to the reduced service tier are provided for capture and transmission of the reduced image array.

Bandwidth-adaptive light field video transmission on mobile and portable devices

The present disclosure relates to providing closed caption data to a media player. More particularly, the present invention relates to implementing a referencing mechanism leveraging repetition of content to transmit less closed caption data to a client device. Improved closed captioning and subtitling methods, mechanisms, techniques and systems described herein are introduced to provide a better viewing experience for a viewer of a media asset such as video, audio, or the like. As such, methods and systems are provided herein that reduces the signaling of unnecessary bytes to a media device and provides a more efficient way of providing timed text to the media device.

Optimal method to signal web-based subtitles

Systems and methods are described for generating a virtual reality (VR) environment comprising an interactive object, wherein the interactive object is associated with a service provider and is generated based on a user profile associated with a current VR session in the VR environment. The systems and methods may detect user input in association with one or more options associated with the interactive object, and, based on the detecting, cause an action to be performed in association with the user profile and the service provider associated with the interactive object, wherein the action comprises accessing a service provided by the service provider, the service being external to the VR environment.

Personalized user engagement in a virtual reality environment

Systems and methods are provided for enabling a smart automatic skip mode during playback of a content item. A content item is generated for output at a first time at a computing device, and input associated with navigating the content item is received. Metadata associated with a plurality of segments of the content item is identified and, based on the input and the metadata, a segment to skip is identified. The segment to skip is skipped, and the content item is generated for output at a second time.

Smart automatic skip mode

An extended reality (XR) head-mounted device (HMD) is disclosed. The XR HMD comprises input/output (I/O) circuitry and control circuitry, where the control circuitry is configured to provide an application to a user wearing the XR HMD, connect the XR HMD to at least one mobile device associated with the user based on input capabilities of the mobile device, and wherein the I/O circuitry is configured to establish a connection between the mobile device and the XR HMD and wherein the control circuitry is further configured to cause the mobile device to be unlocked, receive an indication of input from the mobile device, and based on the received indication of input, perform an action in relation to the application being provided via the XR HMD.

Systems and methods for providing enhanced extended reality interactions using personal electronic devices as input mechanisms

Systems and methods are provided that allow a server of a first content service provider, to send a query to a server of another service provider. The query includes a user ID and list of content IDs related to media content available on the first service. In response to the query, the server of the second service retrieves personalized content ratings for each content item associated with the list of content IDs, where the personalized content ratings are generated by a recommendation model of the second service. The personalized content ratings are transmitted back to the first service and displayed on a first service user interface.

Systems and methods for retrieving personalized ratings of content items from a preferred service

Each user in a group watch session is identified, as is a media asset being consumed by the users. The media asset comprises a plurality of segments, and an availability level of each user is determined for each segment of the media asset. If the availability level of the user for a given segment is below a threshold level, at least one function of a chat application is disabled on a device associated with the user for at least the duration of the segment. If the availability level of the user for a given segment meets or exceeds the threshold level, including when the availability level rises to or above the threshold level after having been below the threshold level, the at least one function of the chat application is enabled or reenabled.

Systems and methods for selectively and automatically enabling and disabling features of a chat application

There is provided systems and methods for estimating quality of experience, QoE, for a media stream. The systems and methods comprise receiving a first window of frames of the media stream, receiving a second window of frames of the media stream, measuring a plurality of metrics relating to the first and the second windows of frames, aggregating the plurality of metrics for each window of frames, and determining a window quality of experience value based on the aggregated plurality of metrics.

Methods and systems for quality of experience measurements

Systems and methods are provided for customizing the playback speed of a media player. One example method includes receiving a media content item and identifying a playback speed for at least a portion of the media content item. An adjustable playback speed user interface element is generated for display, wherein the user interface element is preset to the identified playback speed. The playback speed user interface element is adjustable in that at least a portion of the playback speed user interface element is movable from a first position to a second position. An interaction with the adjustable playback speed user interface element is identified and the portion of the media content item is generated for output at the identified playback speed.

Systems and methods for customizing media player playback speed

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