Nbcuniversal Media, LLC

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Robert Glenn Deen

Michael Shane Wilkinson

Braxton Paul Perkins

Antony Tauber

Anthony Christopher Anderson

Eric J Avila

Andrew Lucas

Borzou Afshar

Andrea Elaine Avila Weiler

Techniques provided herein employ a device monitoring service to provide task to content consumption devices that are steaming digital media from the streaming infrastructure. The tasks, when implemented by the content consumption devices, may reveal differences in task performance between authorized devices, which have the authorization to access the digital media, and imposter devices, which exploit vulnerabilities in the streaming pipeline to access the digital media. In addition, the techniques provided herein may include a machine learning/artificial intelligence model that is trained to recognize authorized and imposter content consumption devices based on their task performance.

Systems and methods facilitating interactions between imposter devices and protected content systems

A tangible, non-transitory machine-readable medium includes machine readable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive an inquiry regarding digital content. The inquiry is indicative of a request for the digital content or a request for a determination to be made regarding the digital content. The instructions, when executed, also cause the processing circuitry to process the inquiry by analyzing aggregated result data generated using a series of neural network layers based on the digital content and metadata associated with the digital content. Furthermore, the instructions, when executed, cause the processing circuitry to generate response data to the inquiry using a neural network based on analyzing the aggregated result data.

Artificial intelligence-assisted content source identification

According to some aspects described herein, a system may determine whether a network actor appears to be using an intermediary such as a VPN and/or proxy server. This may be accomplished by directing the network actor to request and/or access a network-segment identification resource which may, in some embodiments, be stored in another region of the global network. The system may include links and/or other identifiers pointing the network actor to one or more network-segment identification resources. The network actor may access the network-segment identification resources using the links or identifiers, and the system may use information about the request for the network-segment identification resource to determine whether the network actor is associated with multiple source addresses.

Detecting virtual private network usage

Systems and methods for controlling transmission of digital content stored at a server are disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, at the server, session information from a device, the session information including information for authorizing the server to decrypt the digital content for transmission to a playback device; determining, at the server, to decrypt the digital content for the transmission to the playback device, based on the session information; decrypting, at the server, the digital content for the transmission to the playback device, in response to determining to decrypt the digital content; and transmitting, at the server, the decrypted digital content to the playback device.

Digital rights management for cinema systems

Systems and methods for optimal variable bit rate packing are disclosed. Some embodiments include encoding media at a plurality of bit rates to generate a corresponding plurality of encodings, where each of the plurality of encodings include a plurality of framesets, generating advance encoding data for each of the plurality of encodings, where each advance encoding data includes information related to a data size of the plurality of framesets of the corresponding encoding, transmitting the generated advance encoding data to a client, receiving a request from the client including a request for one or more framesets of a first encoding, and transmitting the requested one or more framesets of the first encoding to the client.

System and method for optimal variable bit rate packing

Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be segmented at a determined frame resolution rate and analyzed to determine a fingerprint for each content segment. An identifier that uniquely identifies each content segment may be determined based on the fingerprint of the respective content segment. The identifier may be associated with data relating to the content segment and with one or more identifiers that uniquely identify other content segments of the content. The content segment identifiers may be used to construct a content segment sequencing representation that represents the playback of the content segments in playback order.

Fingerprint-defined segment-based content delivery

Systems and methods for mapping affiliated graphs using video fingerprints are disclosed. Some embodiments include receiving first media corresponding to a first package encoding of a video content; identifying a first set of frames of the first media and generating video fingerprints for the first media; receiving second media corresponding to a second package encoding of the same video content; identifying a second set of frames of the second media and generating video fingerprints for the second media; generating a mapping comprising alignment information of one or more frames of the first set of frames and one or more frames of the second set of frames; and outputting the generated mapping for determining a switch point for switching from the first package encoding to the second package encoding during display of the video content.

System and method for mapping affiliated graphs using video fingerprints

A computer implemented method for generating a receipt. The method includes, accessing a universal digital fingerprint associated with an item of content, wherein the fingerprint is invariant across one or more formats of the item of content. The method includes accessing an identification value by the processor. The method includes generating a digital token by cryptographically binding the digital fingerprint and the identification value, wherein the digital token is invariant across the one or more formats of the item of content. The method further includes associating the digital token with at least one right to the item of content.

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