Tyler Willey

Title: Tyler Willey: Innovator in Media Technology

Introduction

Tyler Willey is a notable inventor based in Saratoga Springs, UT (US). He has made significant contributions to the field of media technology, holding three patents that showcase his innovative spirit and technical expertise.

Latest Patents

One of Willey's latest patents is titled "Speedy Clipping." This invention provides a system for efficiently creating snippets or clips from media assets without the need to re-encode the entire portion of already encoded media content that falls within the snippet boundaries. The system partitions and encodes the original media asset as a set of slices, with each slice encoding a different temporal chunk of the media asset. It identifies a first slice that encodes a duration of the media asset spanning the snippet start time and a second slice that encodes a duration of the media asset spanning the snippet end time. The system produces a snippet start slice from decoding, clipping, and re-encoding the first slice, and a snippet end slice from decoding, clipping, and re-encoding the second slice. Ultimately, the system generates the snippet from the snippet start slice, an unmodified subset of the set of slices between the first slice and the second slice, and the snippet end slice.

Another significant patent is "Server-Side Blackout Enforcement." This invention provides server-side implementation and enforcement of blackout rules for streaming content. A server receives a request from an end user device and extracts a first identifier identifying the end user device and a second identifier identifying the requested stream from the request. The server determines if blackout rules identified for the requested streaming content using the second identifier apply to the end user device based on the first identifier. The blackout rules may restrict IP addresses, IP address subnets, or geographic regions defined using zip codes or DMAs. If the first identifier is restricted by a blackout rule, the server identifies the restrictions of the rule, when they apply, and how they are to be applied before dynamically altering the content that is streamed to the end user device.

Career Highlights

Tyler Willey is currently employed at Verizon Digital Media Services Inc., where he continues to innovate and develop new technologies in the media sector. His work has significantly impacted how media content is managed and delivered to users.

Collaborations

Willey collaborates with talented individuals such as Calvin Ryan Owen and David Frederick Brueck, contributing to a