Michael L Verrilli

US Patent:

20140082647, Mar 20, 2014

Filed:

Mar 14, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/831166

Inventors:

Michael Verrilli - New York NY, US
Nathan Leslie Sandland - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

H04N 21/442

US Classification:

725 14

Abstract:

Features of various implementations are used to enable identifying and presenting, in real time, Internet-accessible and/or Internet-based functionality, content and/or services associated with a particular television program concurrently playing on a television or display, as a part of an interactive television suite of technologies. In some implementations, the process of identifying Internet-accessible and/or Internet-based functionality, content and/or services associated with a particular television program is enabled to reduce communication between a primary set-top box and a supplemental set-top box and/or television integrated device, thereby reducing the need for one or more provider specific APIs. For example, one aspect of the disclosure is a computer-implemented method of identifying a media program by capturing display data from the media program, and extracting text from the display data in response to determining that the display data includes the text overlay, wherein the extracted text is associated with the media program.

US Patent:

20150199307, Jul 16, 2015

Filed:

Aug 8, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/569584

Inventors:

Eric Zhang - Jersey City NJ, US
James Watts - New York NY, US
Michael Verrilli - New York NY, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/24
G06F 17/00

Abstract:

Techniques are shown for enabling a network system to receive collaborative edits from users at a first front end URL, and receive viewing requests from users at a second front end URL. The edits are processed using operational transformation techniques and stored as sets of edits. Multiple pluggable flattening utilities retrieve the sets of edits and convert them into structured data documents specifically tailored for different client devices or online services. The structured data documents are stored and retrieved by rendering servers upon receiving viewing requests. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.