US 11,962,818 B2 · Systems and methods for optimizing a set-top box to retrieve missed content

Abstract

The systems and methods described herein optimize the retrieval of missed content by playing back cached content to enable tuners with limited capacity to retrieve the missed content. A content presentation system may receive, with a tuner, a transmission of content comprising media content and advertisements. The content presentation system may cache the advertisements. The content presentation system may determine whether an interruption during the transmission resulted in a missed portion of content and, in response, determine whether an advertisement upcoming at a time period in the transmission of content is cached. If the upcoming advertisement is cached, the content presentation system may play back the cached advertisement at the time period and release the tuner previously receiving the transmission of content to retrieve the missed portion of the content during the time period.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for simultaneous streaming of media content, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of media content streams at a user account;
receiving, at a first user device associated with the user account, a first media content stream;
receiving, at a second user device associated with the user account, a second media content stream, wherein receiving at the second user device the second media content stream causes bandwidth of the first user device to fall below a threshold;
storing a portion of the first media content stream;
determining that a repetition of the portion of the first media content stream will be received at the first user device at an upcoming time;
retrieving from storage the portion of the first media content stream;
causing to be displayed the portion of the first media content stream at the first user device when the repetition of the portion of the first media content stream is to be displayed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/689,257Filed 8 Mar 2022 · continuation

Priority

30 Nov 2018

Published

US 2022/0377394 A124 Nov 2022

Granted

16 Apr 2024

Term ends

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Classification10 codes

H04N 21/23424
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: involving splicing one…
H04N 21/4147
Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance: pVR [Personal Video Recorder]
H04N 21/21825
Comprising local storage units: involving removable storage units, e.g. tertiary storage such as magnetic tapes or optical disks
H04N 21/23106
Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion:…

Family

Application16/205,990Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Nov 2018

Application16/893,034Parent of this continuation · filed 4 Jun 2020

US 10,708,637 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Jul 2020

Application17/182,626Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Feb 2021

US 10,958,949 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Mar 2021

US 2022/0377394 A1Pre-grant publication · published 24 Nov 2022

US 11,303,938 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2020/0177932 A1Published application

US 2020/0374570 A1Published application

US 2021/0176507 A1Published application

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Systems and methods for optimizing a set-top box to retrieve missed content

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