公开(公告)号：US10439705B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-08

申请号：US15946675

申请日：2018-04-05

Applicant: DISH TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.

Inventor： Chris Hardy ,  Paul Bellotti

IPC: H04B7/185 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W84/00 ,  H04N7/18 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G01S5/04 ,  B64C39/02

Abstract: Drone-based wireless communications systems are provided, as are methods carried-out by such wireless communications systems. In one embodiment, the wireless communications system includes a Satellite Signal Transformation (SST) unit and a plurality of aerial network drones, which can be deployed over a designated geographical area to form a multi-drone network thereover. During operation, the SST unit transmits a network source signal, which contains content extracted from a satellite signal. The multi-drone network receives the network source signal, disseminates drone relay signals containing the content through the multi-drone network, and broadcastings user device signals containing the content over the designated geographical area. In embodiments, the multi-drone network may broadcast multiple different types of user device signals for reception by various different types of user devices located within the designated geographical area, such as an arear containing communication infrastructure disabled by a natural disaster, a hostile attack, or other catastrophic event.

公开(公告)号：US20190297090A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-26

申请号：US16436708

申请日：2019-06-10

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： MAX S. GRATTON ,  TIMOTHY ROBERT JEZEK

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  G06F21/10

Abstract: Methods, systems and devices to authorize access to a simultaneous media streams are described. After a first media stream is initiated with a first client device, an authorization service receives a request to establish the simultaneous second media stream with a second client device. The service determines whether the second client device is at a geographic location where simultaneous streaming is allowed, and grants or denies access to the second simultaneous stream accordingly.

公开(公告)号：US20190296947A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-26

申请号：US16439619

申请日：2019-06-12

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： ROBERT DREW MAJOR

IPC: H04L25/03 ,  H04B1/16

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for streaming media content over a network are provided. One exemplary method of streaming media content over a network involves transmitting one or more portions of the media content to a client device via a delivery route between a content delivery source and the network, determining a performance metric associated with the transmitting of the one or more portions via the delivery route, and dynamically adjusting the delivery route between the content delivery source and the network based at least in part on the performance metric.

公开(公告)号：US10382807B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-13

申请号：US15655266

申请日：2017-07-20

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Kranti Kilaru ,  David A. Kummer ,  Henry Gregg Martch ,  Jason Anguiano ,  S. Craig Hemenway

IPC: H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/475 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/658 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04H60/33 ,  H04H60/59 ,  H04H20/28 ,  H04H60/45

Abstract: Measuring and tracking user interaction with a television receiver, such as a set top box or cable box. The television receiver may create and display a matrix code that includes temporal information, user identification information, geographic information, and/or a user selection. The matrix code may be captured by a matrix reading device and transmitted to a monitoring entity. Optionally, the matrix reading device may decode the matrix code and transmit associated data to the monitoring entity. The monitoring entity may use the code or data to track and distinguish between user interactions at different points in time.

公开(公告)号：US20190238922A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16375710

申请日：2019-04-04

Applicant: Dish Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Christofer Hardy ,  Thomas Allan Yarborough

IPC: H04N21/4227 ,  G11B15/02 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04N21/472

CPC classification number: H04N21/4227 ,  G11B15/023 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N21/4147 ,  H04N21/4222 ,  H04N21/47214 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W76/14

Abstract: A mobile device running a mobile application accesses a remote content receiver to request the remote content receiver to retrieve a particular recording timer, and upon receiving the recording timer from the remote content receiver, establishes a radio communication link with a second mobile device and transfers the recording timer to the second mobile device over the established radio communication link. The radio communication link is preferably the Near Field Communication (NFC) link.

公开(公告)号：US10356948B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-16

申请号：US14986065

申请日：2015-12-31

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Svitlana Trygubova ,  Morgan Kirby

IPC: H05K7/20 ,  H05K1/02

Abstract: Systems, electronic devices, and methods are directed to a self-adjustable heat spreader. A spring system may include one or more spring members and a contact surface adapted to contact a circuit board component. Each spring member may include a thermally conductive material. A thermal spreader plate may be coupled to the one or more spring members. The spring system and the thermal spreader plate may be configured to allow movement, with respect to the thermal spreader plate along multiple axes, of one or more portions of the one or more spring members proximate to the thermal spreader plate when the contact surface is pressed against the circuit board component and the spring system transitions from a first state to a compressed state. The contact surface and the spring system may be configured to transfer heat between the circuit board component and the thermal spreader plate.

公开(公告)号：US10349114B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-09

申请号：US15981591

申请日：2018-05-16

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Mark Templeman

IPC: H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/438 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N21/4545 ,  H04N21/472

Abstract: Various arrangements for providing a multichannel viewing event are presented. A definition of the multichannel viewing event may be broadcast to multiple television receivers. A television receiver may, as part of an electronic programming guide, provide a single-selection option to activate the multichannel viewing event based on the broadcast definition. In response to receiving user input that selects the single-selection option, the definition of the multichannel viewing event is accessed. One or more tuners of the television receiver may be tuned based on the television channels defined in the definition of the multichannel viewing event. A video stream that includes live feeds of multiple television channels may then be output to a display device for simultaneous presentation.

公开(公告)号：US10345879B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-09

申请号：US15364022

申请日：2016-11-29

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Arun Pulasseri Kalam

IPC: G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/3209 ,  H02J9/00 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H03K19/20 ,  H03K3/037 ,  G06F1/3287

Abstract: Devices and methods for detecting the plug-in of an accessory device by a host device are provided. A host device includes a power switch coupled between a battery and a processor. The host device is turned off by a power button coupled to the power switch. A capacitive sensing circuit is coupled to a signal line of a host device port, and is configured to detect a plug-in of the accessory device by monitoring an input capacitance of the signal line. A logic circuit is coupled to an output of the power button and to an output of the capacitive sensing circuit, and the logic circuit turns on the power switch if the power button is in an on position or if the capacitive sensing circuit detects a plug-in of the accessory device.

公开(公告)号：US10339630B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-02

申请号：US15878069

申请日：2018-01-23

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Andrew Thurling

IPC: G06T3/40 ,  G09G3/20 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N21/431 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/45 ,  G09C1/00

Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating enhanced display characteristics based on viewer state are provided. A media device may process an indication of a first state of a first viewer of a display device that is coupled to the media device. The indication of the first state of the first viewer may be captured at a time corresponding to the display device displaying first content with a first set of one or more size characteristics. The media device may determine a display adjustment based at least in part on the indication of the first state of the first viewer. The media device may cause the display device to display second content in accordance with the display adjustment so that the display device displays at least a portion of the second content with a second set of one or more size characteristics that is different from the first set of one or more size characteristics.

公开(公告)号：US10317944B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-11

申请号：US15895901

申请日：2018-02-13

Applicant: DISH Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： David A. Kummer ,  Danny J. Minnick

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  H04M1/02

Abstract: Described are devices and for providing an extendable screen in a portable communications device having a housing, graphics processor, and a display apparatus. The display includes a second screen portion that can be retracted or extended. A first screen portion can present a graphical output when the second portion is retracted, inactive and housed inside the housing. When the second screen portion is extended, it is coplanar with the first screen portion, and an edge of the second screen portion directly abuts an edge of the first screen portion to form a combined display screen. The graphical output can be rendered on the first screen portion in the first display configuration and, in a second format, rendered on the combined display screen.