公开(公告)号：US11822858B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-21

申请号：US17654578

申请日：2022-03-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gregory N. Christie ,  Alessandro Sabatelli ,  William M. Bachman ,  Imran Chaudhri ,  Jeffrey Robbin ,  Jim Young ,  Joe Howard ,  Marcel Van Os ,  Patrick L. Coffman ,  Stephen O. Lemay ,  Jeffrey Ma ,  Lynne Kress

IPC: G06F3/16 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/472

CPC classification number: G06F3/167 ,  H04N21/4222 ,  H04N21/42203 ,  H04N21/4316 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/4751

Abstract: Systems and methods for a media content system. A media content provider includes storage for storing and serving video content to subscribers. The media content provider records and or otherwise stores video content from around the world. The system includes display devices configured to identify and tailor content to multiple individual users. Each user may have individual settings which provide for a customized viewing environment and experience. The system is configured to identify users of the system in order to tailor the content as appropriate. In addition, identification of users allows for the identification of the subscription content that corresponds to the user. Based upon identification of a user and corresponding subscription, the user's subscription content may be streamed to any location. In this manner, the users subscribed content may follow the user from home to a friend's house, or elsewhere.

公开(公告)号：US11297392B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-05

申请号：US16142635

申请日：2018-09-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gregory N. Christie ,  Alessandro Sabatelli ,  William M. Bachman ,  Imran Chaudhri ,  Jeffrey Robbin ,  Jim Young ,  Joe Howard ,  Marcel Van Os ,  Patrick L. Coffman ,  Stephen O. Lemay ,  Jeffrey Ma ,  Lynne Kress

IPC: H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/482 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/218 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/258 ,  G06F3/04847 ,  G06F3/04855 ,  H04N21/47 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/6547

Abstract: Systems and methods for a media content user interface. A media content provider includes storage for storing and serving video content to subscribers. The media content provider records and or otherwise stores video content from around the world. Subscribers are provided a user interface to the system that includes a side bar. The user interface provides context sensitive hints to assist the viewer. The system also tracks a viewer's viewing history in a manner that allows the viewer to review and directly access any part of that history. Finally, magnetic points are created for use during video scrubbing to intelligently select relocation points for the current playback position.

公开(公告)号：US11290762B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-29

申请号：US16682443

申请日：2019-11-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gregory N. Christie ,  Alessandro Sabatelli ,  William M. Bachman ,  Imran Chaudhri ,  Jeffrey Robbin ,  Jim Young ,  Joe Howard ,  Marcel Van Os ,  Patrick L. Coffman ,  Stephen O. Lemay ,  Jeffrey Ma ,  Lynne Kress

IPC: H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/266 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/232 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/4415

Abstract: Systems and methods for a media content delivery service. A media content provider includes a data store for storing and serving media content to subscribers. The media content provider continually records and or otherwise stores video and audio content from around the world. Stored content will generally correspond to a large number of other media content providers, such as cable television operators, Internet based media content providers, television networks, and so on. Subscribers to the media provider interact with the media content provider via hardware and/or software mechanisms either provided by the media content provider or conforming to specifications of the media content provider. Based on these subscriber's subscriptions to the other content providers, the subscribers will have viewing, listening, or application execution privileges for content maintained in the data store. Content of a subscriber corresponding to multiple video content providers is maintained and served by a single provider.

公开(公告)号：US11245967B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-08

申请号：US16108519

申请日：2018-08-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gregory N. Christie ,  Alessandro Sabatelli ,  William M. Bachman ,  Imran Chaudhri ,  Jeffrey Robbin ,  Jim Young ,  Joe Howard ,  Marcel Van Os ,  Patrick L. Coffman ,  Stephen O. Lemay ,  Jeffrey Ma ,  Lynne Kress

IPC: H04N21/482

Abstract: Systems and methods for a media content user interface. A media content provider includes storage for storing and serving video content to subscribers. The media content provider records and or otherwise stores video content from around the world. Subscribers are provided a user interface to the system that includes a side bar. The side bar includes multiple elements representing different categories of video content. By selecting a given category, available content is filtered according to the selected category and presented. Content which is presented may include live broadcast video for multiple channels on multiple television networks or other content providers. The side bar may further include a collection category specific to a given viewer. Selection of such a category may display video content within the collection. Subcategories in the side bar may be selected for further filtering of available content.

公开(公告)号：US20210181911A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-17

申请号：US17086547

申请日：2020-11-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill ,  David Heller ,  Jeffrey Robbin ,  Alan C. Cannistraro ,  William Martin Bachman ,  Timothy B. Martin ,  Matt Evans ,  Joe R. Howard

IPC: G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0483

Abstract: Information is presented to a user by accessing a library of electronic publications that includes a first publication, generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf, determining a state for the first publication and modifying the representation of the first publication to reflect the state of the first publication.

公开(公告)号：US10313725B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-04

申请号：US15159772

申请日：2016-05-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Augustin J. Farrugia ,  Jeffrey Robbin ,  Hiro Mitsuji ,  Mihailo Despotovic ,  Colin Meldrum

IPC: H04N21/266 ,  H04N7/16 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/437 ,  H04N21/4405 ,  H04N21/4408 ,  G06F21/10 ,  G06F21/62

Abstract: A video on demand system in the context of the Internet, for video rentals. A user accesses an on-line store to rent a video program or movie. The rental is for a limited time (such as 30 days) and within that thirty days, the video program or movie can only be viewed for a 24 hour time window. The time limits are enforced by the on-line store which maintains a database of each rental transaction and allows supply of the needed keys for decrypting the (encrypted) video or movie only if within the time limits.

公开(公告)号：US10200761B1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US14267671

申请日：2014-05-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gregory N. Christie ,  Alessandro Sabatelli ,  William M. Bachman ,  Imran Chaudhri ,  Jeffrey Robbin ,  Jim Young ,  Joe Howard ,  Marcel Van Os ,  Patrick L. Coffman ,  Stephen O. Lemay ,  Jeffrey Ma ,  Lynne Kress

IPC: H04N21/27 ,  H04N21/47 ,  H04N21/482

Abstract: Systems and methods for a media content user interface. A media content provider includes storage for storing and serving video content to subscribers. The media content provider records and or otherwise stores video content from around the world. Subscribers are provided a user interface to the system that includes a side bar. The side bar includes multiple elements representing different categories of video content. By selecting a given category, available content is filtered according to the selected category and presented. Content which is presented may include live broadcast video for multiple channels on multiple television networks or other content providers. The side bar may further include a collection category specific to a given viewer. Selection of such a category may display video content within the collection. Subcategories in the side bar may be selected for further filtering of available content.

公开(公告)号：US09923962B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-20

申请号：US15238342

申请日：2016-08-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Anne Jones ,  Thomas Dowdy ,  Jeffrey Robbin ,  Mike Wiese ,  Stephen Davis

IPC: G06K5/00 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F3/048 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/58

CPC classification number: H04L67/104 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F17/30899 ,  H04L51/046 ,  H04L65/4084 ,  H04L65/60 ,  H04L67/06 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L67/26

Abstract: Improved podcasts and techniques that facilitate their use are disclosed. The improved techniques can pertain to creating, publishing, hosting, accessing, subscribing, managing, transferring, and/or playing podcasts. According to one aspect, a client application can subscribe to podcasts and then automatically monitor the podcasts for updates to be downloaded. In the event that user interest in a podcast becomes inadequate, downloading of further updates can be restricted. According to another aspect, a podcast can be subscribed to through use of a portable subscription file. According to still another aspect, podcast feeds can be enhanced to include segment elements and other metadata.

公开(公告)号：US09820010B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-14

申请号：US14752578

申请日：2015-06-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Thomas Matthieu Alsina ,  Bob Bradley ,  Alan C. Cannistraro ,  Scott Forstall ,  Amandeep Jawa ,  Nicholas V. King ,  Lucas Newman ,  Daniel Trent Preston ,  Jai Chulani ,  Jeffrey Robbin

IPC: H04N5/44 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/432 ,  H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/472

CPC classification number: H04N21/6587 ,  H04N5/4403 ,  H04N21/4126 ,  H04N21/4325 ,  H04N21/43615 ,  H04N21/47202 ,  H04N21/8455

Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed for controlling, from a mobile device, media content stored on the mobile device to a media client for presentation on a display device. Data can be provided from the mobile device to the media client for identifying the location of the media content and a playback time. Based on the data, the media client can obtain a portion of the media content associated with the playback time. Also, playback of the media content on the display device can be controlled by a user of the mobile device.

公开(公告)号：US09774817B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-26

申请号：US14793666

申请日：2015-07-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Rainer Brodersen ,  Jeffrey Robbin ,  Thomas Michael Madden ,  Rachel Clare Goldeen ,  Jeffrey Ma ,  Kevin Arnold

IPC: H04N5/783 ,  H04N5/765 ,  G11B27/00 ,  H04N5/14 ,  H04N21/6587 ,  G11B19/02 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/907 ,  H04N5/915

CPC classification number: H04N5/783 ,  G11B19/025 ,  G11B27/005 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N5/147 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/781 ,  H04N5/907 ,  H04N5/915 ,  H04N21/6587

Abstract: A method of scanning content comprises receiving an input signal indicating that content being displayed is to be scanned, sensing a duration of the received input signal, and scanning the content at a rate based at least in part on the sensed duration of the received input.