Hong Yu

8055785, Nov 8, 2011

Sep 16, 2009

12/561008

Wei Liu - San Jose CA, US
Lina Dong - Saint Louis MO, US
Yingnan Zhu - Columbia MO, US
Wenjun Zeng - Columbia MO, US
Hong Heather Yu - West Windsor NJ, US

Futurewei Technologies, Inc. - Plano TX

G06F 15/16

709231, 709232, 709238

An apparatus comprising a first node configured to communicate with a second node, wherein the first node is configured to receive a first stream from the second node, receive a bridging stream from the second node, and receive the second stream from the second node, and wherein the bridging stream has a lower bit-rate than the second stream. Included is an apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising transmitting a first stream at a first time, transmitting a bridging stream that has a bit-rate greater than the first stream and less than the second stream at a second time, and transmitting the second stream at a third time.

20110179185, Jul 21, 2011

Jan 19, 2011

13/009771

Yue Chen - San Jose CA, US
Sanqi Li - Plano TX, US
Hongbing Li - Belle Mead NJ, US
Hong Heather Yu - West Windsor NJ, US

FutureWei Technologies, Inc. - Plano TX

G06F 15/16

709231

A system and method for adaptive differentiated streaming are provided. A method for server operations includes establishing a connection for streaming media to a subscriber, receiving a request for a selected media content alternative, and streaming the selected media content alternative to the subscriber. The media content alternative to be streamed is selected based on a classification of the subscriber.

20110184807, Jul 28, 2011

Dec 1, 2010

12/957972

Qi Wang - Irvine CA, US
Shu Wang - Irvine CA, US
Yu Huang - Bridgewater NJ, US
Hong Heather Yu - West Windsor NJ, US
Dong-Qing Zhang - Plainsboro NJ, US

FutureWei Technologies, Inc. - Plano TX

G06Q 30/00

705 1453, 705 1466

In accordance with an embodiment, a method of inserting advertisements into video content includes electronically filtering a first list of advertisements according to user preference data to determine a second list of advertisements. The video content has a plurality of segments, each segment of which is associated with a category from the plurality of categories. Furthermore, each advertisement in the first list of advertisements is associated with a video category from a plurality of categories, and electronically filtering includes filtering the first list of advertisements for the plurality of video segments on a segment by segment basis. The method further includes transmitting the second list of advertisements to a user device for insertion with the video content.

20110185381, Jul 28, 2011

Dec 1, 2010

12/958102

Qi Wang - Irvine CA, US
Shu Wang - Irvine CA, US
Yu Huang - Bridgewater NJ, US
Hong Heather Yu - West Windsor NJ, US
Dong-Qing Zhang - Plainsboro NJ, US

FutureWei Technologies, Inc. - Plano TX

H04N 7/025

725 32

In accordance with an embodiment, a method of matching video content to advertising content includes electronically receiving a video content metadata from a content provider, and matching the video content metadata to advertising content metadata of a global list of advertisements. The video content metadata corresponds to video content being sent to a user device and includes at least one keyword. Furthermore, the advertising content metadata corresponds to advertising content and includes at least one keyword. Matching the video content metadata to advertising content metadata includes comparing the at least one keyword of the video content metadata to the at least one keyword of the advertising content metadata.

20110185384, Jul 28, 2011

Dec 1, 2010

12/958072

Qi Wang - Irvine CA, US
Shu Wang - Irvine CA, US
Yu Huang - Bridgewater NJ, US
Hong Heather Yu - West Windsor NJ, US
Dong-Qing Zhang - Plainsboro NJ, US

FutureWei Technologies, Inc. - Plano TX

H04N 7/10

725 34

In accordance with an embodiment, a method of inserting advertisements into video content includes electronically receiving video content metadata from a content provider, matching the video content metadata to advertising content metadata to provide a first list of advertisements, filtering the first list of advertisements according to user preference data to determine a second list of advertisements, and transmitting the second list of advertisements to a user device for insertion into the video content. The video content metadata corresponds to video content being sent to a user device, and the advertising content metadata corresponds to advertising content.

20110191679, Aug 4, 2011

Jan 31, 2011

13/018121

Kui Lin - Redwood City CA, US
Jiangping Feng - Bejing, CN
Yu Huang - Bridgewater NJ, US
Hong Heather Yu - West Windsor NJ, US

FutureWei Technologies, Inc. - Plano TX

G06F 3/01

715716

An embodiment of a system and method for online media preview extracts a plurality of preview frames from a media file. The preview frames are saved in a layered data structure. In addition, the preview frames may be scaled to a lower resolution so that the preview file formed by the preview frames is reduced in size. After receiving a preview request, a delivery scheduling scheme delivers the preview frames at selected time points to minimize startup delay and playback jitter.

20120033949, Feb 9, 2012

May 9, 2011

13/103810

Taoran Lu - Studio City CA, US
Zheng Yuan - Gainesville FL, US
Yu Huang - Bridgewater NJ, US
Dapeng Oliver Wu - Gainesville FL, US
Hong Heather Yu - West Windsor NJ, US

FutureWei Technologies, Inc. - Plano TX

G11B 27/00

386285, 386278, 386E05028

In an embodiment, a method of creating a skimming preview of a video includes electronically receiving a plurality of video shots, analyzing each frame in a video shot from the plurality of video shots, where analyzing includes determining a saliency of each frame of the video shot. The method also includes determining a key frame of the video shot based on the saliency of each frame the video shot, extracting visual features from the key frame, performing shot clustering of the plurality of video shots to determine concept patterns based on the visual features, and generating a reconstruction reference tree based on the shot clustering. The reconstruction reference tree includes video shots categorized according to each concept pattern.

20120070125, Mar 22, 2012

Sep 15, 2011

13/233882

Kui Lin - Redwood City CA, US
Hong Heather Yu - West Windsor NJ, US
Hongbing Li - Belle Mead NJ, US

FutureWei Technologies, Inc. - Plano TX

H04N 5/93
H04N 9/80

386241, 386278

In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of streaming media with a media preview includes generating a preview data by extracting preview information from a media file to be streamed. The preview data has a multi-dimensional hierarchical data structure having a plurality of layers with increasing content of the preview information in each layer of the plurality of layers. The preview data is configured to provide a differentiated preview service.