公开(公告)号：US10575059B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US15215445

申请日：2016-07-20

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Steven Michael Casagrande ,  John Card, II

IPC: H04N21/482 ,  G06F16/783 ,  G06F16/74 ,  H04N21/438 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/84

Abstract: A television navigation device, such as a digital video recorder (DVR), searches for a television channel program lineup in an electronic program guide (EPG) of a service provider that matches the television channel program lineup for what the television navigation device understands to be that of a particular television channel. The television navigation device then assigns the particular television channel to the service provider's channel identifier of the matching television channel the EPG. This channel identifier will then be used by the television navigation device to command the receiving device associated with the service provider to tune to the particular television channel at the appropriate time.

公开(公告)号：US10021444B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-10

申请号：US15460000

申请日：2017-03-15

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Steven Michael Casagrande

IPC: H04N5/76 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N9/87 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/30 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N21/845

CPC classification number: H04N21/4147 ,  G11B27/005 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/28 ,  G11B27/3027 ,  G11B27/322 ,  H04N9/8205 ,  H04N9/87 ,  H04N21/4263 ,  H04N21/4348 ,  H04N21/8113 ,  H04N21/8133 ,  H04N21/8455

Abstract: Various arrangements for using closed captioning data in controlling content recording are presented. An indication of one or more closed captioning elements and corresponding positional data may be received. The content instance comprising closed captioning elements may also be received. A recording time period may be defined for the content instance based at least in part on the indication of the one or more closed captioning elements and the corresponding positional data for the content instance. The content instance may be recorded at least partially based on the defined recording time period for the content instance.

公开(公告)号：US12273598B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-08

申请号：US17959033

申请日：2022-10-03

Applicant: DISH TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Christopher Boyd Tirpak ,  Steven Michael Casagrande

IPC: H04N21/81 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04N21/845

Abstract: Various systems, devices and methods automatically identify advertisements or other portions of television or other media content prior to broadcast using automated content analysis. Information about identified content may be used for any number of different purposes, including advertisement identification; advertisement replacement; second screen browsing or augmentation of identified content; tracking of times or places that ads or other content are viewed; and many others.

公开(公告)号：US20230024837A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-26

申请号：US17959033

申请日：2022-10-03

Applicant: DISH TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Christopher Boyd Tirpak ,  Steven Michael Casagrande

IPC: H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/44

Abstract: Various systems, devices and methods automatically identify advertisements or other portions of television or other media content prior to broadcast using automated content analysis. Information about identified content may be used for any number of different purposes, including advertisement identification; advertisement replacement; second screen browsing or augmentation of identified content; tracking of times or places that ads or other content are viewed; and many others.

公开(公告)号：US11463785B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-04

申请号：US15393548

申请日：2016-12-29

Applicant: DISH TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Robert Drew Major ,  Christopher Boyd Tirpak ,  Steven Michael Casagrande

IPC: H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/44

Abstract: Various systems, devices and methods automatically identify advertisements or other portions of television or other media content prior to broadcast using automated content analysis. Information about identified content may be used for any number of different purposes, including advertisement identification; advertisement replacement; second screen browsing or augmentation of identified content; tracking of times or places that ads or other content are viewed; and many others.

公开(公告)号：US10062417B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-28

申请号：US15363672

申请日：2016-11-29

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： William Beals ,  Steven Michael Casagrande

IPC: H04N9/80 ,  H04N5/92 ,  H04N5/76 ,  G11B27/34 ,  G11B27/10 ,  G11B31/00 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/44

CPC classification number: G11B27/34 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/28 ,  G11B31/006 ,  H04N5/7605 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/91 ,  H04N9/8205 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/44008

Abstract: Systems and methods for selectively recording and bookmarking a portion of broadcast media content include receiving a video stream containing the broadcast media content, determining a video segment of the video stream to be output to a display device, and performing OCR on characters present within the video segment. The systems and methods may further include detecting a trigger event in the OCR of the video segment and creating a digital bookmark corresponding to the detected trigger event. The systems and methods may include generating a recording of a portion of the broadcast media content, whereby the recording begins prior to the trigger event and concludes after the trigger event, and storing the digital bookmark associated with the generated recording.

公开(公告)号：US10104420B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-16

申请号：US14880934

申请日：2015-10-12

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Steven Michael Casagrande

IPC: H04N5/76 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/8549 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/426 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/858

Abstract: A content provider transmits instructions to a content receiver to record multiple instances of content. The instances of content are included in the same frequency band of a broadcast transmitted by the content provider via a first communication link and scrambled utilizing the same control word. The content provider determines to supplement the multiple instances of content and transmits an instruction to record a supplemental instance of content from a second content provider via a second communication link. The content receiver receives the instructions and accordingly receives, descrambles, and stores the multiple instances of content and the supplemental instance of content. In some implementations, the first communication link may be a satellite communication link and the second communication link may be a different type of communication link such as a terrestrial broadcast communication link and/or an Internet protocol communication link.