David Glenn Cottrell

US Patent:

20090208181, Aug 20, 2009

Filed:

Feb 12, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/370327

Inventors:

David Cottrell - Foster City CA, US

International Classification:

G11B 27/00

US Classification:

386 52

Abstract:

Automated creation of videos for interactive entertainment, such as video game highlights, may be based on events that occur within that entertainment, for example based on video game events. A series of events that can occur within a play session may be designated. The game keeps track of sufficient replay data such that these discrete events can be identified. Upon replay generation, the game searches over the historical data for that session and identifies the events that have occurred. The game may present several combinations of views of those events. For example, the game can create a highlights reel of the entire play session by linearly displaying several of the discovered events, or the highlights from several games can be selected by one or more individuals to generate a “highlights of highlights” video. Another embodiment allows the player, or group of players or other individuals, to choose which events to view. The events could also be categorized, allowing the player to view a collection of a selected event type, such as all flag capture videos or all long-distance shots.

US Patent:

20120134651, May 31, 2012

Filed:

Feb 2, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/365140

Inventors:

David Cottrell - Foster City CA, US

International Classification:

H04N 5/93

US Classification:

386278, 386E05003

Abstract:

Methods, systems and computer readable media for automated creation of videos for interactive entertainment involving at least one individual, based on events that occur within that interactive entertainment are provided. One method includes storing a video history of a session of the interactive entertainment for an individual and examining the interactive entertainment for the session to identify events designated as significant. The designation as significant for each event being predefined to meet a threshold. Then, selecting segments of video from the video history of the session of the interactive entertainment. The selected segments being for a set of the identified events. The method then generates a video defined from the selected segments of video. The video is playable to show the selected segments of video in a selected order for the individual and saving the video.

US Patent:

20160050453, Feb 18, 2016

Filed:

Oct 28, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/925283

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Gregory Miller - San Francisco CA, US
David Cottrell - San Francisco CA, US
James Nash - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

H04N 21/44
H04N 21/2187
H04N 21/234
G11B 27/10
H04N 21/24
H04N 21/262
H04N 21/845
H04N 21/61
H04N 21/2343

Abstract:

A video streaming system includes a handheld computing device that asynchronously streams video to a storage subsystem. The handheld computing device receives and buffers video data of contiguous video samples and, after a predefined amount of contiguous video samples has been buffered, assigns an index for that predefined amount of contiguous video samples and asynchronously transmits the index and those contiguous video samples to a storage subsystem of a broadcast server system. The handheld computing device, upon determining that the predefined amount of contiguous video samples has been received by the storage subsystem, transmits a notification message to an application server of the broadcast server system that includes the assigned index and indicates that the corresponding contiguous video samples are stored on the storage subsystem. The notification message causes the application server to fetch those video samples according to the index and process them for broadcasting to client computing devices.

US Patent:

20140314237, Oct 23, 2014

Filed:

Apr 19, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/866944

Inventors:

Jonathan Cottrell - San Francisco CA, US
Gregory Miller - San Francisco CA, US
David Cottrell - San Francisco CA, US
James Nash - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

H04H 60/02

US Classification:

381 2

Abstract:

An audio streaming system includes a handheld computing device that asynchronously streams audio to a storage subsystem. The handheld computing device receives and buffers audio data of contiguous audio samples and, after a predefined amount of contiguous audio samples has been buffered, assigns an index for that predefined amount of contiguous audio samples and asynchronously transmits the index and those contiguous audio samples to a storage subsystem of a broadcast server system. The handheld computing device, upon determining that the predefined amount of contiguous audio samples has been received by the storage subsystem, transmits a notification message to an application server of the broadcast server system that includes the assigned index and indicates that the corresponding contiguous audio samples are stored on the storage subsystem. The notification message causes the application server to fetch those audio samples according to the index and process them for broadcasting to client computing devices.