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Assignee profile:

The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

City:

El Segundo, California

Country:

United States

Published Applications:

1,069

Last publication date:

2021-09-23

Patent Grants:

1,011

Last grant date:

2022-12-13

Quarterly The DIRECTV Group, Inc. Patent Applications

Top Inventors for applications by The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

These are the the leading inventors for applications assigned to The DIRECTV Group, Inc.:

Recent patent applications by The DIRECTV Group, Inc.

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. based in El Segundo, US has been assigned the rights to these inventions. The list includes both Pending Applications and Patent Grants:

#1 | 2021-09-23
US20210297690A1
Electricity

SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR VIDEO COMPRESSION

 #2 | 2021-09-09 ✅ Patent 11,528,389 granted on 2022-12-13
US20210281717A1
Electricity

Method and system for synchronizing playback of independent audio and video streams through a network

 #3 | 2021-07-15 ✅ Patent 11,435,971 granted on 2022-09-06
US20210216265A1
Physics

Method of controlling a content displayed in an in-vehicle system

 #4 | 2021-06-22 ✅ Patent 11,044,386 granted on 2021-06-22
US14869569
Electricity

Method and system for synchronizing playback of independent audio and video streams through a network

 #5 | 2021-06-03 ✅ Patent 11,399,204 granted on 2022-07-26
US20210168425A1
Electricity

Method and system for providing audio signals to an in-vehicle infotainment system

 #6 | 2021-05-06 ✅ Patent 11,451,605 granted on 2022-09-20
US20210136136A1
Electricity

Method to insert program boundaries in linear video for adaptive bitrate streaming

 #7 | 2021-03-11 ✅ Patent 11,741,314 granted on 2023-08-29
US20210073477A1
Physics

Method and system for generating dynamic text responses for display after a search

 #8 | 2021-01-21
US20210019779A1
Physics

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ADVERTISING, UPSELLING, CROSS-SELLING, AND PURCHASING OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES VIA USER RECEIVING DEVICES AND MOBILE DEVICES

 #9 | 2021-01-07 ✅ Patent 11,259,062 granted on 2022-02-22
US20210006851A1
Electricity

Method and system for detecting unauthorized use of a set top box using satellite signal identification

 #10 | 2021-01-07 ✅ Patent 11,330,224 granted on 2022-05-10
US20210006743A1
Electricity

Method and system for controlling a low power mode for external devices

 #11 | 2020-12-31 ✅ Patent 11,115,714 granted on 2021-09-07
US20200413140A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for recording advertised media content

 #12 | 2020-11-17 ✅ Patent 10,839,416 granted on 2020-11-17
US14592828
Physics

Systems and methods for controlling advertising, upselling, cross-selling, and purchasing of products and services via user receiving devices and mobile devices

 #13 | 2020-10-27 ✅ Patent 10,820,059 granted on 2020-10-27
US16430855
Electricity

Systems and methods for spotted advertising and control of corresponding user interfaces and transactions via user receiving devices and mobile devices

 #14 | 2020-10-27 ✅ Patent 10,820,028 granted on 2020-10-27
US16239619
Electricity

Method and system for detecting unauthorized use of a set top box using satellite signal identification

 #15 | 2020-08-13 ✅ Patent 11,064,214 granted on 2021-07-13
US20200260103A1
Electricity

System and methodology for video compression

 #16 | 2020-07-14 ✅ Patent 10,715,873 granted on 2020-07-14
US16437341
Electricity

Method and system for personalizing the display of recordings stored in a user receiving device

 #17 | 2020-07-09 ✅ Patent 11,025,740 granted on 2021-06-01
US20200220944A1
Electricity

Edge cache segment prefetching

 #18 | 2020-06-18 ✅ Patent 11,070,880 granted on 2021-07-20
US20200196013A1
Electricity

Customized recommendations of multimedia content streams

 #19 | 2020-05-28 ✅ Patent 11,134,017 granted on 2021-09-28
US20200169507A1
Electricity

Method and system for performing diagnostics in a gateway device based on monitoring parameters

 #20 | 2020-05-26 ✅ Patent 10,667,008 granted on 2020-05-26
US14575934
Electricity

Method and system for setting and receiving user notifications for content available far in the future

 #21 | 2020-05-21 ✅ Patent 10,951,942 granted on 2021-03-16
US20200162780A1
Electricity

Method and system for providing audio signals to an in-vehicle infotainment system

 #22 | 2020-05-21
US20200159393A1
Physics

METHOD AND SYSTEM OF BOOKMARKING CONTENT IN A MOBILE DEVICE

 #23 | 2020-05-07 ✅ Patent 10,996,911 granted on 2021-05-04
US20200142661A1
Physics

Method of controlling a content displayed in an in-vehicle system

 #24 | 2020-04-14 ✅ Patent 10,623,820 granted on 2020-04-14
US14587920
Electricity

Method and system for user configuration of channel order in electronic program guide

 #25 | 2020-03-10 ✅ Patent 10,585,568 granted on 2020-03-10
US13832745
Physics

Method and system of bookmarking content in a mobile device

 #26 | 2020-02-27 ✅ Patent 11,134,284 granted on 2021-09-28
US20200068230A1
Electricity

Devices for presenting video program segments in accordance with definition documents

 #27 | 2020-02-25 ✅ Patent 10,575,147 granted on 2020-02-25
US16296914
Electricity

Method and system for determining a location of a mobile device and utilizing the location in content services

 #28 | 2020-02-20 ✅ Patent 11,038,890 granted on 2021-06-15
US20200059472A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for controlling access to custom browser functionality

 #29 | 2020-01-16 ✅ Patent 11,115,701 granted on 2021-09-07
US20200020167A1
Physics

Method and system for viewing sports content within a virtual reality environment

 #30 | 2019-11-28 ✅ Patent 11,134,128 granted on 2021-09-28
US20190364120A1
Electricity

Methods and systems for provisioning a user profile on a media processor

 #31 | 2019-11-21 ✅ Patent 11,113,333 granted on 2021-09-07
US20190354552A1
Physics

Automated content tag processing for mobile media

 #32 | 2019-11-07 ✅ Patent 10,685,562 granted on 2020-06-16
US20190340925A1
Physics

Method and system for displaying a position of a vehicle at a remotely located device

 #33 | 2019-10-15 ✅ Patent 10,448,104 granted on 2019-10-15
US13458661
Electricity

Method and apparatus for programming a remote control using a device identifier received through an interface

 #34 | 2019-09-12 ✅ Patent 10,630,972 granted on 2020-04-21
US20190281284A1
Electricity

Methods for determining localized outages and distributed signal verification of set-top boxes

 #35 | 2019-09-05 ✅ Patent 10,812,836 granted on 2020-10-20
US20190273952A1
Electricity

Broadband live streaming hub for a media processor

 #36 | 2019-08-27 ✅ Patent 10,397,659 granted on 2019-08-27
US14676020
Electricity

Method and system for personalizing the display of recordings stored in a user receiving device

 #37 | 2019-08-01 ✅ Patent 10,708,665 granted on 2020-07-07
US20190238947A1
Electricity

Method and system for recording recommended content within a user device

 #38 | 2019-08-01 ✅ Patent 10,785,516 granted on 2020-09-22
US20190238902A1
Electricity

Data distribution amongst transponder carriers

 #39 | 2019-07-04 ✅ Patent 10,728,601 granted on 2020-07-28
US20190208246A1
Electricity

Enhanced streaming source change

 #40 | 2019-07-02 ✅ Patent 10,341,702 granted on 2019-07-02
US13028150
Electricity

Method and system for providing different categories of programming data to a user device from head end systems

 #41 | 2019-06-27 ✅ Patent 11,100,157 granted on 2021-08-24
US20190197051A1
Physics

Determining recommended media programming from sparse consumption data

 #42 | 2019-06-25 ✅ Patent 10,334,303 granted on 2019-06-25
US14587496
Electricity

Systems and methods for personalized feature setup and parental guidance sensing

 #43 | 2019-06-25 ✅ Patent 10,334,298 granted on 2019-06-25
US13452716
Electricity

Method and system for searching content using a content time based window within a user device

 #44 | 2019-06-20 ✅ Patent 10,764,396 granted on 2020-09-01
US20190191008A1
Electricity

Media transcoding based on priority of media

 #45 | 2019-06-13 ✅ Patent 10,743,048 granted on 2020-08-11
US20190182522A1
Electricity

Systems and methods for controlling purchasing and/or reauthorization to access content using quick response codes and text messages

 #46 | 2019-05-23 ✅ Patent 10,701,422 granted on 2020-06-30
US20190158903A1
Electricity

Systems and methods for provisioning multi-dimensional rule based entitlement offers

 #47 | 2019-05-23 ✅ Patent 10,819,939 granted on 2020-10-27
US20190158775A1
Electricity

Method and system for controlling a low power mode for external devices

 #48 | 2019-05-23 ✅ Patent 10,956,491 granted on 2021-03-23
US20190155839A1
Physics

Method and system for using saved search results in menu structure searching for obtaining fast search results

 #49 | 2019-05-09 ✅ Patent 10,750,247 granted on 2020-08-18
US20190141407A1
Electricity

Facilitating mixed service use of bonded satellite transponders

 #50 | 2019-05-09 ✅ Patent 10,942,034 granted on 2021-03-09
US20190137992A1
Physics

Shared control of vehicle functions

 #51 | 2019-04-09 ✅ Patent 10,257,249 granted on 2019-04-09
US13767499
Electricity

Method and system for communicating content to a client device by pulling content from a publisher from a content delivery network when first requested by the client device

 #52 | 2019-03-07 ✅ Patent 10,743,056 granted on 2020-08-11
US20190075348A1
Electricity

Method and system for obtaining content data in an in-vehicle infotainment system from a set top box

 #53 | 2019-02-14 ✅ Patent 10,419,865 granted on 2019-09-17
US20190052988A1
Electricity

Methods and systems for rendering binaural audio content

 #54 | 2019-02-05 ✅ Patent 10,200,213 granted on 2019-02-05
US14871628
Electricity

Method and system for allocating resources in a gateway device

 #55 | 2019-01-31 ✅ Patent 10,425,178 granted on 2019-09-24
US20190036633A1
Electricity

Determining ambient noise in a device under test electromagnetic compatibility test environment

 #56 | 2019-01-24 ✅ Patent 10,743,045 granted on 2020-08-11
US20190028748A1
Electricity

System method for audio-video playback recommendations

 #57 | 2019-01-24 ✅ Patent 10,554,561 granted on 2020-02-04
US20190028393A1
Electricity

Method and system for performing diagnostics in a gateway device based on monitoring parameters

 #58 | 2019-01-15 ✅ Patent 10,181,991 granted on 2019-01-15
US14871787
Electricity

Method and system for resetting processors of a gateway device

 #59 | 2018-12-20 ✅ Patent 10,491,952 granted on 2019-11-26
US20180367856A1
Electricity

Scalable calculation of the similarity content graph

 #60 | 2018-12-13 ✅ Patent 10,812,860 granted on 2020-10-20
US20180359526A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for recording advertised media content

 #61 | 2018-12-13
US20180359503A1
Electricity

Method And System For Communicating Inserted Material To A Client Device In A Centralized Content Distribution System

 #62 | 2018-12-06 ✅ Patent 10,812,752 granted on 2020-10-20
US20180352187A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus to present multiple audio content

 #63 | 2018-11-29 ✅ Patent 10,298,976 granted on 2019-05-21
US20180343474A1
Electricity

Data distribution amongst transponder carriers

 #64 | 2018-11-27 ✅ Patent 10,142,240 granted on 2018-11-27
US14871864
Electricity

Method and system for performing diagnostics in a gateway device based on monitoring parameters

 #65 | 2018-11-22 ✅ Patent 10,231,020 granted on 2019-03-12
US20180338180A1
Electricity

Sports recommender system utilizing content based filtering

 #66 | 2018-11-22 ✅ Patent 10,878,200 granted on 2020-12-29
US20180336188A1
Physics

Method and system for generating dynamic text responses for display after a search

 #67 | 2018-11-20 ✅ Patent 10,136,166 granted on 2018-11-20
US14563460
Electricity

Method and system for communicating inserted material to a client device in a centralized content distribution system

 #68 | 2018-11-15 ✅ Patent 10,225,606 granted on 2019-03-05
US20180332346A1
Electricity

Method and system for remotely transcoding content

 #69 | 2018-11-15 ✅ Patent 10,306,220 granted on 2019-05-28
US20180332277A1
Electricity

Methods for determining localized outages and distributed signal verification of set-top boxes

 #70 | 2018-11-01 ✅ Patent 11,323,773 granted on 2022-05-03
US20180316970A1
Electricity

Method and system for transferring user settings to another user receiving device using a mobile user device

 #71 | 2018-11-01 ✅ Patent 10,824,221 granted on 2020-11-03
US20180314320A1
Physics

Method and system for storing program guide data in a user device

 #72 | 2018-10-25 ✅ Patent 10,291,963 granted on 2019-05-14
US20180310067A1
Electricity

Systems and methods for integrating a set-top box with internet content

 #73 | 2018-10-25 ✅ Patent 10,237,307 granted on 2019-03-19
US20180309798A1
Electricity

Method and system for communicating between a media processor and network processor in a gateway device

 #74 | 2018-10-18 ✅ Patent 10,491,946 granted on 2019-11-26
US20180302667A1
Electricity

Methods and systems for providing multiple video content streams

 #75 | 2018-10-11 ✅ Patent 10,390,052 granted on 2019-08-20
US20180295388A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for access to media content

 #76 | 2018-10-04 ✅ Patent 10,264,231 granted on 2019-04-16
US20180288382A1
Electricity

Dynamically scaling the color temperature and luminance of a display output

 #77 | 2018-09-25 ✅ Patent 10,082,530 granted on 2018-09-25
US14102431
Physics

Method and apparatus for rapid and scalable testing of antennas

 #78 | 2018-09-20 ✅ Patent 10,110,955 granted on 2018-10-23
US20180270535A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for recording advertised media content

 #79 | 2018-09-20 ✅ Patent 10,271,101 granted on 2019-04-23
US20180270533A1
Electricity

Method and system for performing a function at a user device by combining category display areas

 #80 | 2018-09-20 ✅ Patent 10,390,077 granted on 2019-08-20
US20180270527A1
Electricity

Collective determination of interesting portions of a media presentation, media tagging and jump playback

 #81 | 2018-09-20 ✅ Patent 10,187,689 granted on 2019-01-22
US20180270526A1
Electricity

Dynamic advertisement insertion

 #82 | 2018-09-20 ✅ Patent 10,250,658 granted on 2019-04-02
US20180270284A1
Electricity

Hybrid media stream delivery using multiple network connections

 #83 | 2018-09-06 ✅ Patent 10,356,458 granted on 2019-07-16
US20180255340A1
Electricity

Controlling content presentation and display of program information in an electronic program guide

 #84 | 2018-09-06 ✅ Patent 10,419,796 granted on 2019-09-17
US20180255338A1
Electricity

Broadband backup to satellite-based set-top boxes

 #85 | 2018-09-06 ✅ Patent 10,841,554 granted on 2020-11-17
US20180255281A1
Electricity

Method and system for recording recommended content within a user device and playback content from an earlier position when live content is selected

 #86 | 2018-09-04 ✅ Patent 10,067,934 granted on 2018-09-04
US13832874
Physics

Method and system for generating dynamic text responses for display after a search

 #87 | 2018-08-30 ✅ Patent 10,440,439 granted on 2019-10-08
US20180249222A1
Electricity

Method and apparatus for media content streaming and reminder notifications

 #88 | 2018-08-30 ✅ Patent 10,412,458 granted on 2019-09-10
US20180249221A1
Electricity

Method and system for providing access to content data for previously broadcasted content

 #89 | 2018-08-30 ✅ Patent 10,715,875 granted on 2020-07-14
US20180249219A1
Electricity

Interactive alert for a viewable highlight

 #90 | 2018-08-23 ✅ Patent 10,306,329 granted on 2019-05-28
US20180242048A1
Electricity

Facilitating mixed service use of bonded satellite transponders

 #91 | 2018-08-23 ✅ Patent 10,609,453 granted on 2020-03-31
US20180242045A1
Electricity

Customized recommendations of multimedia content streams

 #92 | 2018-08-23 ✅ Patent 10,694,251 granted on 2020-06-23
US20180242043A1
Electricity

Preventing inadvertent viewing of media content

 #93 | 2018-08-23 ✅ Patent 10,601,946 granted on 2020-03-24
US20180241836A1
Electricity

Edge cache segment prefetching

 #94 | 2018-08-23 ✅ Patent 10,180,682 granted on 2019-01-15
US20180239349A1
Physics

Shared control of vehicle functions

 #95 | 2018-08-21 ✅ Patent 10,057,616 granted on 2018-08-21
US14592825
Electricity

Systems and methods for accessing bookmarked content

 #96 | 2018-08-21 ✅ Patent 10,055,746 granted on 2018-08-21
US13529048
Physics

Method and system for obtaining feedback for a content recommendation by various algorithms

 #97 | 2018-08-16 ✅ Patent 10,798,442 granted on 2020-10-06
US20180234726A1
Electricity

Coordination of connected home devices to provide immersive entertainment experiences

 #98 | 2018-08-16 ✅ Patent 10,805,685 granted on 2020-10-13
US20180234719A1
Electricity

Streamlined viewing of recorded programs based on markers

 #99 | 2018-08-14 ✅ Patent 10,048,745 granted on 2018-08-14
US12895645
Physics

Method and system for storing program guide data in a user device

 #100 | 2018-08-09 ✅ Patent 10,462,527 granted on 2019-10-29
US20180227639A1
Electricity

Smart channel device

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