Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Syed Mohasin Zaki

Narendra B Babu

Vinod Krishnan Surianarayanan

Saleem S Mohammed

Kiran K Patibandla

Vijay Senthil Angayarkanni

Shafiq Kassam

Arjun Baskaran

Raju T Ramakrishnan

Vijay A Senthil

Padmakumar Rajan

SriKamal Boyina

Shrividhyaa N Kannan

Karthic Chinnadurai

Jacques Franklin

An approach is provided for injecting program markers in live media steams is presented. A first marker is injected into a live media stream to designate a start of a live program. A second marker is injected a into the live media stream to designate an end of the live program. The live stream with the injected markers is transcoded the for transmission to a set-top box.

Method and apparatus for injecting program markers in live media streams

An exemplary method includes a DVR schedule collaboration system 1) maintaining data representative of a plurality of DVR schedules associated with a plurality of users, 2) creating a master DVR schedule based on the plurality of DVR schedules, and 3) facilitating creation of a personal DVR schedule by a user in accordance with at least one of the master DVR schedule and one or more of the DVR schedules associated with the plurality of users. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

DVR schedule collaboration methods and systems

One or more first devices may receive, from a second device, program information as part of a request to provide a contextual message, associated with particular content corresponding to the program information, to a third device. The program information may identify a time, a geographic location, and a television channel identifier associated with the particular content. The one or more devices may cause the particular content to be identified based on a fingerprint of the particular content; receive the contextual message that was identified based on the fingerprint; provide the contextual message to the third device; and provide, for storage in a content schedule, information identifying the particular content, a time period during which the particular content is broadcasted, the geographic location, and the television channel identifier. The content schedule may be used to identify the particular content after the particular content has been initially identified based on the fingerprint.

Providing contextual messages relating to currently accessed content

An exemplary method includes an adaptive media content presentation system detecting an interaction of a user with a media content program, generating a playing pattern associated with the media content program based on the detected interaction of the user with the media content program, and applying the playing pattern to at least one of a presentation of the media content program and a presentation of an additional media content program. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Adaptive media content presentation methods and systems

A method including receiving a request to start recording a sequence of navigational inputs to be received by a user device; storing each navigational input of the sequence when each navigational input is received; receiving a request to stop recording the sequence of navigational inputs; stopping the recording of the sequence of navigational inputs; receiving an assignment of a trigger to invoke an execution of the recorded sequence of navigational inputs; storing the assignment of the trigger; identifying when the trigger is received or occurs; and executing the recorded sequence of navigational inputs on the user device based on the identifying.

Free-wheel system

An exemplary system includes a development subsystem configured to facilitate development of a software application and a simulation subsystem selectively and communicatively coupled to the development subsystem. The simulation subsystem is configured to emulate a plurality of processing device platforms, receive data representative of a selection of at least one of the plurality of processing device platforms, and simulate an execution of the software application by one or more processing devices associated with the at least one selected processing device platform.

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Syed Mohasin Zaki