David F Brueck, 49886 S 1650 E, Springville, UT 84663

8321401, Nov 27, 2012

Oct 17, 2008

12/253697

John Edwards - Orem UT, US
Nathan Edwards - Orem UT, US
David Brueck - Saratoga Springs UT, US

EchoStar Advanced Technologies L.L.C. - Englewood CO

G06F 7/00

707709, 707711

Automatically and repeatedly crawling multiple multimedia websites to identify and collect information about the multimedia content that is available for delivery over the Internet to a client device for playback on a media player operating on the client device. In one embodiment, the method normalizes the collected information by converting the different formats of the collected information into a common format and converting the different nomenclatures of the collected information into a common nomenclature. The method updates an index with the normalized information, and sends a data feed to the client device to populate the user interface on the client device with the normalized information of the index. The user interface allows the user to navigate and select the multimedia content that is available for delivery over the Internet for playback on the media player.

8402156, Mar 19, 2013

Oct 18, 2010

12/906940

David F. Brueck - Saratoga Springs UT, US
Mark B. Hurst - Cedar Hills UT, US

DISH Digital L.L.C. - Englewood CO

G06F 15/16

709231

An apparatus for multi-bitrate content streaming includes a receiving module configured to capture media content, a streamlet module configured to segment the media content and generate a plurality of streamlets, and an encoding module configured to generate a set of streamlets. The system includes the apparatus, wherein the set of streamlets comprises a plurality of streamlets having identical time indices and durations, and each streamlet of the set of streamlets having a unique bitrate, and wherein the encoding module comprises a master module configured to assign an encoding job to one of a plurality of host computing modules in response to an encoding job completion bid. A method includes receiving media content, segmenting the media content and generating a plurality of streamlets, and generating a set of streamlets.

2008019, Aug 14, 2008

Feb 9, 2007

11/673483

David F. Brueck - Saratoga Springs UT, US
Mark B. Hurst - Cedar Hills UT, US

G06F 15/16

709231

An apparatus for multi-bitrate content streaming includes a receiving module configured to capture media content, a streamlet module configured to segment the media content and generate a plurality of streamlets, and an encoding module configured to generate a set of streamlets. The system includes the apparatus, wherein the set of streamlets comprises a plurality of streamlets having identical time indices and durations, and each streamlet of the set of streamlets having a unique bitrate, and wherein the encoding module comprises a master module configured to assign an encoding job to one of a plurality of host computing modules in response to an encoding job completion bid. A method includes receiving media content, segmenting the media content and generating a plurality of streamlets, and generating a set of streamlets.

2009004, Feb 12, 2009

Aug 6, 2007

11/834548

Mark B. Hurst - Cedar Hills UT, US
David F. Brueck - Saratoga Springs UT, US

G06F 15/16
H04N 5/445

709231, 725 40

An apparatus, system, and method for maintaining a programming lineup of adaptive-bitrate content streaming is provided. The apparatus includes a timeline module configured to maintain a programming lineup of media content available over a network. The media content may comprise a plurality of streamlets. The apparatus also includes at least one data module configured to maintain multi-bitrate streamlet information. The system includes the apparatus and a client module configured to acquire content based upon the programming lineup provided by the timeline module. The method includes maintaining a programming lineup of media content available over a network, and maintaining multi-bitrate streamlet information.

2010020, Aug 12, 2010

Feb 12, 2009

12/370568

Dustin W. Long - Herriman UT, US
David F. Brueck - Saratoga Springs UT, US
Kenneth A. Brueck - Lehi UT, US

G06Q 30/00

705 145, 705 1473

Managing advertisements for multimedia content delivered over the Internet for a live event. In one embodiment, the method receives the multimedia content over a network connection for playback on a media player, and receives a first advertisement marker that indicates a first start time and a first scheduled duration of a first advertisement break. The method adjust the first scheduled duration to a first adjusted portion, and selects one or more advertisements for playback on the media player to fill the first adjusted duration of the first advertisement break, instead of the first scheduled duration.

2011002, Jan 27, 2011

Jul 23, 2009

12/508449

David F. Brueck - Saratoga Springs UT, US
Loren D. Larsen - Lindon UT, US
Thomas G. McNeill - Orem UT, US
Douglas T. Parrish - Alpine UT, US

G06F 15/16
G06Q 30/00

705 1461, 709217

Messaging services for providing updates for multimedia content delivered over the Internet for a live event. In one embodiment, a messaging server provides real-time updates for multimedia content of a live event delivered over the Internet to multiple media players that request the multimedia content over the Internet. In one embodiment, the real-time updates indicate when the multimedia content is available for delivery over the Internet. In another embodiment, the real-time updates can be used to dynamically insert advertisement markers for advertisement breaks in the multimedia content.

2011005, Mar 10, 2011

Sep 4, 2009

12/554730

David F. Brueck - Saratoga Springs UT, US
Justyn T. Bye - Lehi UT, US

G06F 15/16
H04L 9/00

380277, 709229

A key server for controlling access of a client device to a subset of different quality copies of media content to be delivered over a network to the client device. In one embodiment, a key server receives a request for playback permission of media content by a client device, and applies a set of one or more business rules to determine which copies of the media content, if any, can be played by the client device, and allows access to a subset of the copies that can be played back by the client device and restricts access to the copies that are not part of the subset.

2011024, Oct 6, 2011

Nov 30, 2010

12/928016

Giuseppe Manzari - Burbank CA, US
Robert Longwell - Simi Valley CA, US
Chang Liu - San Gabriel CA, US
Andrew Bauch - West Hollywood CA, US
David Brueck - Saratoga Springs UT, US

DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. - BURBANK CA

G06F 15/16

709231

There is provided a system and method for dynamically generated client side streaming playlists. There is provided a method comprising receiving a request to stream a video asset for playback, retrieving, from a network, a video asset playlist corresponding to the video asset and an ad campaign playlist, generating a consolidated video playlist including the video asset playlist and the ad campaign playlist, and processing the consolidated video playlist using a media playback framework to stream a plurality of video files from the network for decoding and output to a display. Discontinuity tags within the video asset playlist may be utilized as insertion points for portions of the ad campaign playlist. The consolidated video playlist may be accessed through a local HTTP web server, advantageously allowing the use of commonly installed media playback framework models such as QuickTime X to trigger adaptive bitrate support through HTTP Live Streaming.