Chris H Phillips

US Patent:

8484687, Jul 9, 2013

Filed:

Apr 18, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/088887

Inventors:

Charles Dasher - Lawrenceville GA, US
Bob Forsman - Sugar Hill GA, US
Chris Phillips - Hartwell GA, US

Assignee:

Ericsson Television Inc. - Duluth GA

International Classification:

H04N 7/16
H04N 7/167
H04N 5/445
H04N 7/173
G06F 3/00
G06F 13/00

US Classification:

725 98, 725 1, 725 25, 725 27, 725 31, 725 37, 725 86, 725 87, 725 91, 725 93, 725 95, 725104

Abstract:

A system and method enabling a user to view on a computing device, a catalog of Video On Demand (VOD) content available on a remote (guest) VOD system, to purchase an available piece of VOD content on the user's account in his Home VOD System, and to play the purchased piece of VOD content through a Guest Set Top Box (STB). A pairing process associates the computing device with the Guest STB, and a VOD Back Office stores this pairing. The VOD Back Office then builds a custom catalog of VOD content available to the user through the Guest STB and sends the catalog to the computing device. When the VOD Back Office receives a request from the computing device to view selected VOD content, the VOD Back Office sends an instruction to a Guest Headend Hub to set up a session with the Guest STB. The Hub force tunes the Guest STB and streams the selected VOD content to the Guest STB for display on a Guest television.

US Patent:

8584177, Nov 12, 2013

Filed:

Apr 11, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/083725

Inventors:

Charles Dasher - Lawrenceville GA, US
Chris Phillips - Hartwell GA, US

Assignee:

Ericsson Television Inc. - Duluth GA

International Classification:

H04N 7/10
H04N 7/025
H04N 7/16

US Classification:

725 62, 725 32, 725 34

Abstract:

A method of controlling delivery of video programs from video distribution equipment to video receiver devices includes receiving messages at the video distribution equipment from a mobile terminal operated by a user. The messages contain user defined identifiers that are associated with equipment identifiers of different ones of the video receiver devices. The user defined identifiers are stored associated with the equipment identifiers in a subscriber account. Delivery of video programs from the video distribution equipment to the video receiver devices is controlled in response to commands received from the mobile terminal which request delivery of identified video programs to identified ones of the user defined identifiers. Related video distribution equipment and mobile terminals are disclosed.

US Patent:

20120096499, Apr 19, 2012

Filed:

Jan 18, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/008604

Inventors:

Charles Dasher - Lawrenceville GA, US
Chris Phillips - Hartwell GA, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/173
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

725 87, 235375

Abstract:

A system and method of video-on-demand (VOD) content search and distribution via an Internet Protocol (IP) network. A user sends a scan of a bar-coded identifier placed on a packaging or advertising material for a movie or other audio-visual program. Using the received barcode scan, the cable operator's VOD system checks the availability of the requested title under the VOD service. If the title is available, the system allows the user to instantaneously purchase and/or bookmark the title via a mobile device. If the title is currently unavailable “on demand”, the VOD system may send a notification to the user when the title becomes available. The bar code scan-based methodology enables the user to request desired titles even when the user is unaware of the titles available in a cable operator's VOD catalog. The IP network-based communication affords users substantially universal and instantaneous access to the desired VOD content with increased mobility and flexibility.

US Patent:

20120194736, Aug 2, 2012

Filed:

Jan 31, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/017220

Inventors:

Charles Dasher - Lawrenceville GA, US
Bob Forsman - Sugar Hill GA, US
Chris Phillips - Hartwell GA, US

International Classification:

H04N 5/04

US Classification:

348500, 348E05009

Abstract:

A user can become involved in an Event presented to the user by a media stream. Suitable motion and location cameras and other sensors capture characteristics information on objects, environments, and people in the Event, and that information enables a virtual representation of the user to become a player in the media stream of the Event. Views are generated that include images or representations of one or more real objects in a real space and representations of viewers and that enable the viewers to interact with other images or representations of the objects. To put it another way, a viewer can interact with a TV broadcast of a sporting event, such as a baseball game, an automobile race, etc.

US Patent:

20120210374, Aug 16, 2012

Filed:

Feb 14, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/026799

Inventors:

Charles Dasher - Lawrenceville GA, US
Bob Forsman - Sugar Hill GA, US
Chris Phillips - Hartwell GA, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/173

US Classification:

725 93

Abstract:

A system and method for providing an environmentally enhanced experience to a user reading an electronic book (eBook) on an eBook reader in proximity to a television. An application program in the eBook reader causes the eBook reader to send an indication to a Video On Demand (VOD) television delivery system identifying a page of the eBook displayed on the eBook reader. The VOD television delivery system accesses an eVODBook package that defines start, stopand loop locations in video content associated with the eBook. Video content associated with text or an illustration on the eBook page currently displayed on the eBook reader is streamed to a Set Top Box (STB) and the television in accordance with the eVODBook package.

US Patent:

20120297412, Nov 22, 2012

Filed:

May 16, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/108150

Inventors:

Charles Dasher - Lawrenceville GA, US
Anthony Richard Jones - Farnham, GB
Chris Phillips - Hartwell GA, US

International Classification:

H04N 7/16
H04N 7/173
H04N 7/025
G06K 9/00

US Classification:

725 25, 382100, 725 93, 725 34

Abstract:

A Video On Demand (VOD) system having a VOD catalog that lists VOD movies available for a user to purchase, a database for storing a plurality of reference images associated with the VOD movies in the VOD catalog, and an image processing and lookup system (IPLS) for searching the plurality of reference images in the database utilizing automated image recognition. A user takes a photograph of a movie poster or DVD box cover and sends the image to the IPLS. The IPLS determines whether the user image matches a stored reference image. If so, the IPLS sends an indication to the user that the movie associated with the matching image is available in the VOD catalog. When the received image does not match any image in the database, the IPLS sends an indication to the user that there are no movies in the VOD catalog matching the user image.

US Patent:

20130091249, Apr 11, 2013

Filed:

Oct 7, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/268237

Inventors:

Kevin McHugh - Milton GA, US
Charles Dasher - Lawrenceville GA, US
Chris Phillips - Hartwell GA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709219

Abstract:

An adaptive streaming server and a method are described herein for determining if a congestion level within a network exceeds a predetermined threshold and when this occurs then one or more lower bit rate segments of a content stream will be transmitted to a client.

US Patent:

20130312046, Nov 21, 2013

Filed:

May 15, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/472051

Inventors:

Mark Robertson - Lawrenceville GA, US
Chris Phillips - Hartwell GA, US

International Classification:

H04N 21/266

US Classification:

725 93

Abstract:

A smart stream delivery server, a system, and methods are described herein for assembling a mix of services (e.g., linear channels, video on demand, broadcast television, and recordings) which are to be delivered over one or more networks to a premises (e.g., home, business) of a subscriber. In one embodiment, the system includes a smart stream delivery server that assembles the mix of services which are to be delivered over the at least one network to the home of the subscriber based at least on a subscriber policy which is provided by the subscriber. The subscriber policy includes equipment priorities for a list of devices which consume the services, and service priorities for a plurality of services which are available for consumption by the devices.