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Eric Buehl, Studio City, CA US
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20130223510 | Encoding Optimization Using Quality Level of Encoded Segments - In one embodiment, a method includes encoding a media file using a variable bitrate encoding algorithm based on a plurality of bitrate ranges to generate a set of encoded segments. For each bitrate range, an encoded segment for each segment of the media file is determined from the set of encoded segments based on a quality level of the encoded segment and each bitrate range. The method then identifies a playlist for each bitrate range including the encoded segment for each segment of the media file that was determined for each bitrate range. At least one playlist includes an encoded segment that was generated based on another bitrate range using the variable bitrate encoding algorithm. | 08-29-2013 |
20140047097 | Probabilistic Inventory System - A method stores entries including user activity information for users using computing devices and unique identifiers for computing devices as inventory information for the users. For an entry, a unique identifier for a computing device is determined based on network activity for the computing device being connected to a network and user activity information for the network activity includes user identification information determined from the computing device while the computing device is connected to the network. The method then determines multiple entries for the user including user identification information and a set of unique identifiers for a set of computing devices. The multiple entries for the user are compared against criteria to determine if the user should be assigned to a computing device based on the user activity of the user. The user is assigned to the computing device using the unique identifier if the comparison meets a threshold. | 02-13-2014 |
20140089998 | Dynamic Optimization of Video Content Distribution - In one embodiment, a method distributes files for assets to a plurality of content delivery networks (CDNs). The method determines a set of asset characteristics related to an asset of video content and analyzes the set of asset characteristics to determine a delivery classification for the asset. Different asset characteristics result in different delivery classifications. The method then automatically determines a set of content delivery networks to distribute files for the asset based on the delivery classification where assets with different delivery classifications have files delivered differently to sets of content delivery networks. | 03-27-2014 |
20150264413 | Dynamic Maintenance and Distribution of Video Content on Content Delivery Networks - In one embodiment, a method maintains files of an asset of video content at a plurality of content delivery networks (CDNs) for delivery to users. The method determines that the asset of video content has been distributed based on a first delivery classification that is used to determine a first combination of file sizes and CDNs. A set of asset characteristics is monitored and analyzed to determine whether the first delivery classification is changed to a second delivery classification. Different values for the set of asset characteristics result in different delivery classifications. When the first delivery classification of the asset of video content is changed to the second delivery classification, a distribution of the asset of video content is automatically changed where the second delivery classification is used to determine a second combination of file sizes and CDNs and the second combination is different from the first combination. | 09-17-2015 |
George T. Buehl, West Long Branch, NJ US
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20080273692 | Telephone Having Multiple Headset Connection Capability - A telephone including a base having a plurality of telephone headset connections, each of the headset connections for connecting a telephone headset to the telephone. | 11-06-2008 |
Heinz Buehl, Erlenbach DE
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20140000850 | Heat exchanger for cooling a fluid of an internal combustion engine, assembly with at least one heat exchanger and method for manufacturing a heat exchanger | 01-02-2014 |
20140311142 | Intake Manifold with an Intercooler - An intake manifold for a charged internal combustion engine has an intercooler provided with coolant connectors that is disposed in an intake manifold housing. The intake manifold housing has at least two housing parts including a basic housing part. The intake manifold housing is provided with at least one inlet and at least one outlet for charge air and is further provided with at least one passage for the coolant connectors of the intercooler. The intercooler is arranged between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet so as to be flowed through by the charge air. The intercooler is fastened in the basic housing part by a fastening device such that the intercooler separates at least on one side of the basic housing part the at least one inlet seal-tightly from the at least one outlet. | 10-23-2014 |
Joe Buehl, Studio City, CA US
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20110289537 | TEMPORARY AUTHORIZATION FOR A USER DEVICE TO REMOTELY ACCESS A VIDEO ON-DEMAND SERVICE - A remote access to video on-demand (“VOD”) system provides a user with the ability to retrieve VOD content from a remote service location. The user first registers for this service and receives a mobile application downloaded to a mobile device. The user subsequently requests VOD content in one embodiment by accessing a web site, identifying themselves and the requested VOD content. The system provides a visual token to the user, where the mobile device uses the camera function to transmit a corresponding token value to a remote access VOD server. Upon determining the values correlated, the system provides the requested VOD content in accordance with the user's subscription profile for receiving VOD services. A remote access server in one embodiment provides the mobile application download, receives the request; generated the visual token, receives the response, and causes the selected VOD program to be streamed. | 11-24-2011 |
20140289785 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A CURRENT CHANNEL BUFFER FOR NETWORK BASED PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDING - A “pause live television” service is implemented, where in one embodiment, a continuously streaming video from a broadcast programming source is copied into a circular buffer. A set top box (“STB”) requests a trick function, such as “pause,” by sending a message to the system, which in one embodiment suspends the display of the present broadcast video in the STB. The system determines an pointer and when the user requests resumption of the broadcast video (e.g., “play”), the system uses the pointer for that particular STB to determine the appropriate resumption point in the particular buffer to resume streaming of the video for that STB. In various embodiments, the network may begin streaming of the video at the resumption point on another channel and direct the STB to then tune to that channel. Thus, the program appears to have been seamless suspended and resumed using a network based capability. | 09-25-2014 |
Joseph Buehl, Sudio City, CA US
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20130074113 | Program Storage, Retrieval and Management Based on Segmentation Messages - Segmentation messages indicative of locations of upcoming events, such as the start and end of programs and program portions, and/or rights related to the programs and program portions, are used by cable systems and the like to store programs and program portions for later retrieval and transmission to customers on request. Storage, retrieval and management of programming is thereby facilitated. Methods and systems are disclosed. | 03-21-2013 |
Joseph Buehl, Studio City, CA US
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20120131603 | Network based digital information and entertainment storage and delivery system - Live television broadcast and other information and entertainment programs, e.g., videos-on-demand (VOD), are provided to a user through a communications network, e.g., a cable network. A processing unit is employed at an headend of the communications network to respond to user requests for PVR-like functions, e.g., pausing, rewinding and fast-forwarding, to be performed on the program content being viewed. The processing unit in accordance with the invention causes a delivery of an appropriate version of the program content to meet such user requests. | 05-24-2012 |
20150040151 | PROGRAM STORAGE, RETRIEVAL AND MANAGEMENT BASED ON SEGMENTATION MESSAGES - Segmentation messages indicative of locations of upcoming events, such as the start and end of programs and program portions, and/or rights related to the programs and program portions, are used by cable systems and the like to store programs and program portions for later retrieval and transmission to customers on request. Storage, retrieval and management of programming is thereby facilitated. Methods and systems are disclosed. | 02-05-2015 |
20150074712 | PROGRAM STORAGE, RETRIEVAL AND MANAGEMENT BASED ON SEGMENTATION MESSAGES - Segmentation messages indicative of locations of upcoming events, such as the start and end of programs and program portions, and/or rights related to the programs and program portions, are used by cable systems and the like to store programs and program portions for later retrieval and transmission to customers on request. Storage, retrieval and management of programming is thereby facilitated. Methods and systems are disclosed. | 03-12-2015 |
Joseph G. Buehl, Studio City, CA US
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20100129050 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A CURRENT CHANNEL BUFFER FOR NETWORK BASED PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDING - A “pause live television” service is implemented, where in one embodiment, a continuously streaming video from a broadcast programming source is copied into a circular buffer. A set top box (“STB”) requests a trick function, such as “pause,” by sending a message to the system, which in this case suspends the present broadcast video in the STB. The system determines an offset and when the user requests resumption of the broadcast video (e.g., “play”), the system uses the offset for that particular STB to determine the appropriate resumption point in the particular buffer to resume streaming of the video for that STB. In various embodiments, the network may begin streaming of the video at the resumption point on another channel and direct the STB to then tune to that channel. Thus, the program appears to have been seamless suspended and resumed using a network based capability. | 05-27-2010 |
20100246667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PACKAGING, DISTRIBUTING AND MANAGING ASSETS IN DIGITAL CABLE SYSTEMS - Assets, such as content and related data are packaged, transmitted, received and managed in a digital cable television system to standardize the distribution of content and services from a content/service provider to subscribers in the system. The standardized format for packaging content enables the digital cable system to package, transmit, receive and manage diverse types of content, such as MPEGs, executable files, HTML pages, and the like, using standard system components without requiring reprogramming of the system to deploy new services. Service and content providers are freed from having to develop custom formats for delivering content and data to the cable system. Moreover, the standardized bundling of content and related data that is enabled by the invention allows the cable system operator to automate the deployment of services based on specific content and data to select subscribers. | 09-30-2010 |
Joseph G. Buehl, Van Nuys, CA US
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20090241144 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SYSTEM WITH ONE-TOUCH RECORDING AND CONFLICT DETECTION FEATURES - A full service television system and method are provided. The system comprises a cable headend, at least one fiber transport, at least one distribution hub, at least one hybrid fiber coax plant, and a plurality of set-top terminals. The system delivers television programs, advanced cable services, and online services. Programs and services are transmitted to the set-top terminals in both digital and analog formats to maintain downward compatibility with existing systems. The set-top terminal includes a central processing unit, a unified memory architecture, a memory management unit, communications circuitry, I/O control circuitry, and audio and video output circuitry. Through these components, the set-top terminal provides advanced cable services such as a comprehensive channel navigator, an interactive program guide, one-touch recording, recording conflict detection and resolution, and advanced configuration controls. The set-top terminal also provides online services such as World Wide Web browsing, Internet e-mail, and home shopping. | 09-24-2009 |
Markus Buehl, Cudrefin CH
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20150341973 | PAIRING METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A WIRELESS AUDIO NETWORK - A method and system of establishing a wireless network for audio data transmission with a first and second audio devices having first and second transceivers, the first audio device being an audio signal transmission unit with a user operable switch, and the first and second audio devices being assistive listening devices. Periodically the second transceiver listens for pairing information, at at least one public frequency channel; operating the switch by the user to initiate pairing at any time during operation of the first audio device; the first transceiver transmitting pairing information at said at least one public frequency channel upon operation of the switch. The second audio device automatically pairs to the first audio device upon reception of pairing information from the first transceiver. The first and second transceivers are controlled so that reception of the pairing information from the first audio device is accepted by the second audio device. | 11-26-2015 |
Matthias Buehl, Heidelberg DE
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20130159370 | PATTERN RECOGNITION OF A DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION - Various embodiments of systems and methods for pattern recognition of a distribution function are described herein. An influenced distribution function corresponding to an influenced attribute is compared with other distribution functions corresponding to other attributes. Based on the comparison, a correlation is determined between the influenced distribution function and an influencing distribution function from the other distribution functions. Based on the determination, a raw distribution function corresponding to an influenced attribute is extracted using the influenced distribution function and the influencing distribution function. The extracted raw distribution function and the influencing distribution function may be classified. | 06-20-2013 |
20130276066 | AUTHORIZATION SHARING - A method relates to access control of shared resources on computer systems that have diverse system policies for access rights to resources. The method includes, on a source computer system with which a target computer system shares a resource, preparing user-authorization data for the shared resource in a flat file format as data tuples, line records or tables. This format makes the user-authorization data usable in computer systems with diverse system policies for access rights to resources. The method further includes authorizing user access to the shared resource on the target computer system based on the user-authorization data prepared in flat file format by the source computer system. | 10-17-2013 |
20140089674 | ENCRYPTION IN THE CLOUD WITH CUSTOMER CONTROLLED KEYS - A system and method for encryption in a cloud computing platform with customer controlled keys is disclosed. A cloud-based encryption key is uploaded from a customer computing platform to a key store of the cloud computing platform, based on a customer-based encryption key. The cloud-based encryption key and customer-based encryption key is able to encrypt or decrypt customer data used by an application server running on the cloud computing platform. Next, the cloud-based encryption key is unlocked from the key store, and then stored in a secure store of a main memory associated with the customer computing platform. Then, according to encryption or decryption mechanism, the unlocked cloud-based encryption key is accessed to encrypt or decrypt customer data stored on a database of the main memory and used by the application server. | 03-27-2014 |
20150142852 | DECLARATIVE AUTHORIZATIONS FOR SQL DATA MANIPULATION - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing declarative authorizations for SQL data manipulation. One computer-implemented method includes defining a data access model by: defining at least one aspect to be used as an authorization-relevant attribute for a resource entity, defining a path definition from the resource entity to the at least one aspect to relate the at least one aspect to the resource entity the authorization is restricted on, defining at least one restriction for the at least one aspect as part of the path definition, wherein defining the at least one restriction includes determining which constraint condition are to be used and how the constraint conditions are to be combined, and defining/assigning a role to a user, the role defining authorization to the resource entity using, at least in part, the at least one aspect, and deploying a data control language document. | 05-21-2015 |
Olaf Buehl, Albershausen DE
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20090134653 | Storage compartment with a supporting frame, and receiving device for a supporting frame - The invention relates to a storage compartment for a motor vehicle, with a wall ( | 05-28-2009 |
20140345813 | REAR WINDOW ROLLER BLIND SYSTEM - A roller blind system for a rear window of a motor vehicle, having a roller blind, a roller blind shaft rotatable about a main axis and a sheet-like structure which, in a stowed state, is wound on the roller blind shaft and which, in a functional state, is partially unwound from the roller blind shaft, and having an shelf for arranging in the rear region of the motor vehicle. The shelf has front and rear shelf portions separated from one another by a passage slot through which the sheet-like structure is moved during a movement from the stowed state into the functional state. The two shelf portions are connected to one another via a trough body and the roller blind shaft is arranged within the trough body and is rotatably mounted by bearing blocks which are fastened to, or are an integral part of, the trough body. | 11-27-2014 |