Amazon Pushes ‘Collaborative’ OTT Viewing
Amazon is looking at “enhancing a media streaming experience by facilitating an interaction between multiple users all viewing the same media item,” according to a patent application published on...
View ArticleAmazon Turns Off TVs, Tablets When Viewers Sleep
Amazon won a U.S. patent on Tuesday for an invention that would illuminate viewers with infrared light to determine if they have fallen asleep while using a TV set-top, tablet or gaming console. In...
View ArticleAmazon Developing ‘Smart Zoom’ For 4K, 8K Video
Amazon is developing a “smart zoom” feature that could allow viewers of 4K or 8K programming to magnify a particular object featured on a television screen, and track it throughout a TV show or movie....
View ArticleAmazon Scores Patent for Augmented Reality Recommendations
Amazon subsidiary A9 Inc. won a U.S. patent for an augmented reality application that could help the retail giant steer consumers shopping in brick and mortar stores to purchase items online. After a...
View ArticleT-Mobile Taps SVOD Star
It’s been more than two years since hit drama Breaking Bad wrapped its final season on AMC. But with producer Sony Pictures Television supplying the series to half a dozen SVOD services that T-Mobile...
View ArticleAmazon Parental Control System Relies On Voice, Facial, Body Scans
An Amazon subsidiary won a U.S. patent for an invention that would prompt a TV to display kid-friendly programming if it detects a child entering a room where viewers are watching adult programming. In...
View ArticleAmazon Scores Virtual Transcoding Patent
Amazon won a U.S. patent on Tuesday for an invention that uses virtual machines to speed the delivery of video programming for service providers. “The system can automate the deployment, execution and...
View ArticleAmazon Eyes English Brand for Telecom, Advertising, Education
Amazon wants the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to give it the right to use the brand Amazon English for several goods and services, including telecommunications, advertising, education and...
View ArticleAmazon: Gaze to Authenticate
Amazon may be able to authenticate access to subscription services by using cameras on smartphones, tablets and IP-connected TVs to perform retina scans on viewers, according to a patent published on...
View ArticleMVNO Invention: Facebook, Amazon Could Sponsor Free Internet
An invention developed by a tech firm recently acquired by Blackberry may offer a glimpse at how a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) could offer subscribers free Internet access through...
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