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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100275228 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING MEDIA CONTENT A method and apparatus for delivering media content. A method and apparatus for delivering media content that marks user specified events for playback such that the user would not miss significant events or events that are of interest to the user. The method and apparat... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100272419 | DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER RECORDING AND RENDERING PROGRAMS FORMED FROM SPLICED SEGMENTS A method and apparatus is provided for recording a program. The method includes storing, in response to a use request, at least one content file that includes first and second program segments that are spliced to form a single program. At least one index file is created... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100265404 | SYSTEM FOR REDUCING NOISE IN VIDEO PROCESSING A system includes a data storage configured to store a model human visual system, an input module configured to receive an original picture in a video sequence and to receive a reference picture, and a processor. The processor is configured to create a pixel map of the ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100264936 | Connector Fitting Test Tool A compact and easy to use female connector testing tool includes an outer housing containing a movable plunger. A male connection end is attached to one end of the movable plunger. A predetermined resistive force is provided between the outer housing and the plunger to ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100257070 | Method and System for Presenting User-Desired Media Content The present invention provides a method and system for presenting user-desired media content. The method and system includes receiving (504) media content at an electronic device. The media content includes a business-task list. Further, the method includes ident... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100246579 | DISCOVERING MULTICAST ROUTING CAPABILITY OF AN ACCESS NETWORK Whether an access network supports multicast-based IPTV services from an IPTV service provider is determined. A tone signal encoded with information for the IPTV service provider is used by a terminal to determine whether an access network supports multicast-based IPTV ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100217964 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ENABLEMENT OF JTAG INTERFACE A method, device and system for controlling JTAG interface enablement within a communication device. The JTAG interface can be selectively enabled based on the receipt of an encrypted access token generated by an access token server. The access token server generates th... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100215171 | TRANSPORT PACKET DECRYPTION TESTING IN A CLIENT DEVICE In a method for testing a transport packet decrypting module of a client device, a first decryption operation of the transport packet decrypting module is implemented on a test encrypted control word using a content decryption key ladder to derive a test control word, a... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100208795 | REDUCING ALIASING IN SPATIAL SCALABLE VIDEO CODING A system includes a first set of subband filter banks, a second set of subband filter banks, a low-resolution base encoder, and a high-resolution enhancement encoder. The first set of subband filter banks performs subband analysis on a full resolution source video frame... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100188581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING VIDEO PROGRAM MATERIAL A method of distributing video program material includes encoding the program material in accordance with a first distribution constraint (CBR) to produce a first stream (A), encoding the program material in accordance with a second distribution constraint, which is mor... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100169932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING VIA NETWORK GENERATED OVERLAYS In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a mechanism is used to enable interactive functions via network generated overlays. This invention enables network operators to launch interactive functionality without requiring changes to existing equipment that e... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169919 | ACQUIRING CABLE CHANNEL MAP INFORMATION IN A CABLE RECEIVER The present invention is a method, system, and computer-readable medium for acquiring a channel map in a cable receiver. The channel map associates physical analog and digital channels in an RF spectrum to channel identification data, where the channel identification da... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169677 | Remotely Powering On-Off Network Devices via a Network Interface Device In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a network interface device (NID) that can be remotely instructed to power-up powered-down network devices by generating magic packets that instruct the powered-down network device to power-up and to broadcast the magic... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169646 | SECURE AND EFFICIENT DOMAIN KEY DISTRIBUTION FOR DEVICE REGISTRATION A domain key is securely distributed from a device in an existing network to a device outside the network. Each device generates the session key on its own using the first random number, the second random number, the Personal Identification Number, and the same key gene... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169399 | PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (PIN) GENERATION BETWEEN TWO DEVICES IN A NETWORK A method of generating a Personal Identification Number (PIN) between a first device and a second device in a network is provided. The method includes securely receiving information of input choices of the second device and random numbers assigned to the input choices a... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169091 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS AND CONTENT An aspect of the present invention is drawn to an audio data processing device for use by a user to control a system and for use with a microphone, a user demographic profiles database and a content/ad database. The microphone may be operable to detect speech and to gen... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100167740 | WIDE AREA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS OVER FEMTO-CELLS A method and apparatus is provided for hand-off of a mobile User Equipment (UE) across a femto cellular network. The method includes dynamically clustering a plurality of neighboring femto cells in a vicinity of a first femto cell to which a mobile UE is currently attac... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100167732 | PROVIDING OVER-THE-TOP SERVICES ON FEMTO CELLS OF AN IP EDGE CONVERGENCE SERVER SYSTEM A method is provided for enabling an over the top (OTT) service over a broadband network. The method includes receiving a registration request from a mobile User Equipment (UE) over a femto cell to register with a cellular operator of a cellular network. The registratio... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100167656 | MULTI-MODE DEVICE REGISTRATION A device configured to communicate with a second device may register a second device using one of multiple registration modes including a domain-registration mode, a device-registration mode, and a no-registration mode. The domain-registration mode allows the second dev... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100166054 | HYBRID VIDEO ENCODER INCLUDING REAL-TIME AND OFF-LINE VIDEO ENCODERS A method and apparatus is provided for encoding a video signal stream. The method includes receiving a video signal stream, identifying a plurality of individual segments within the video signal stream and encoding, off-line, recurring ones of the individual segments th... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100166002 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONNECTING TWO NETWORKS In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for establishing connection between a first local area network and a second local area network. The first local area network includes a first device and a second device. The second local area ne... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100165214 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF CABLE AND OFF-AIR SIGNALS IN A DUAL OR HIGHER TUNER SET-TOP TERMINAL Systems and methods are provided for minimizing cable and off-air signal detection on separate cable and off-air input jacks in a set-top terminal with two or more tuners. The systems and methods employ logic to progress through different scan configurations with differ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100165196 | AV PRESENTATION SYSTEM INCLUDING AN RCU FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE AV PRESENTATION DEVICE An AV presentation device that may be installed as part of an AV presentation system including a television display device includes an RCU for emitting a user signal in response to user actuation and a base unit for connection to the television display device. The base ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100165194 | CAPTURE BUFFER CONTROL METHODOLOGY FOR CAPTION CARRIAGE SWITCH A system, method, and computer readable medium for avoiding underflow of a caption buffer in a digital video encoding device. The method receives a sequence of digital video frames, and captions that correspond to the digital video frames in the sequence. The method rec... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100165070 | VIDEO TELEPHONY DEVICE HAVING FUNCTIONALITY TO MUTE INCOMING MESSAGES THAT ARE BEING RECORDED A method of responding to an incoming call includes receiving the incoming call from a caller. The incoming call includes caller ID information having image data associated with the caller included therein. The image data is displayed on a video telephony device display... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100164693 | METHOD OF TARGETED DISCOVERY OF DEVICES IN A NETWORK A targeted discovery between a first device and a second device in a network, in particular, a WHDI network, provides discovery for an identified device or a group of identified devices. The targeted discovery determines an identifier for a second device or a group of d... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100158209 | Access to Network Based on Automatic Speech-Recognition A device for accessing a network based on automatic speech-recognition includes an audio port configured to communicate audio signals with a customer premise equipment (CPE) device and a data packet port configured to communicate data packets with the network. The devic... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158120 | Reference Picture Selection for Sub-Pixel Motion Estimation A video coding system includes a prediction module configured to perform multi-reference picture sub-pixel motion estimation. Reference pictures are selected for the sub-pixel motion estimation based on full-pixel motion estimation. A cost function is used to select the... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158093 | Methods and System for Determining a Dominant Impairment of an Impaired Communication Channel Methods are described for identifying a dominant impairment on a communication channel impaired by an interference issue. The methods include systematic examination of total power loading, systematic examination of signal power reduction, statistical examination of comm... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158049 | SYSTEM FOR STACKING SIGNALS IN AN EXPANDED FREQUENCY RANGE A device for stacking signals in an expanded frequency range includes an upconverter and a multiplexer. The upconverter is configured to receive upstream signals that are in a first frequency range, upconvert some of the upstream signals that are in a first frequency su... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100157824 | Methods and System for Determining a Dominant Impairment of an Impaired Communication Channel Methods are described for identifying a dominant impairment on a communication channel impaired by an interference issue. The methods include systematic examination of total power loading, systematic examination of signal power reduction, statistical examination of comm... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100154009 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOWNLOADING SOFTWARE IMAGES TO A MOBILE DEVICE AND TO A HOME NETWORKED DEVICE TO IMPLEMENT COMPATIBLE SERVICES A method is provided for downloading software to first and second devices. A request is received for a service that is to be implemented on the first and second devices and which is to be interoperable between the first and second devices. An identification of the first... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100153572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AND SCHEDULING INTERNET RADIO PROGRAMMING A client device includes a network interface for receiving media content streamed over a network and a media player for rendering the media content. The client device also includes a content scheduling module configured to identify, schedule and access over the network ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100151883 | Method and System for Notifying the Presence of Contacts in a Vicinity of a User A method and system for notifying a user of an electronic device of the entrance of one or more contacts of the user within an area of interest is provided. The electronic device is present in a network of a plurality of electronic devices. The method includes, tracking... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100146601 | Method for Exercising Digital Rights via a Proxy A system and method for accessing digital content purchased by a rights owner for a first computing device. The method receives a proxy from the rights owner that includes rights to the digital content granted to the rights owner, stores the proxy on a second computing ... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100138903 | Ticket-Based Implementation of Content Leasing The present invention is a method and system for accessing digital content stored on a computing device. An agreement between a subscriber and a content provider allows the subscriber to lease the digital content from the content provider, and download the digital conte... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100138900 | REMOTE ACCESS OF PROTECTED INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP)-BASED CONTENT OVER AN IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM (IMS)-BASED NETWORK A service control method, device and system for allowing secure, remote access of protected IP-based content delivered over an IMS-based network to one or more devices within a home network. The method involves a remote access device transmitting a remote access request... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100131985 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION A method for providing customized information to a plurality of portable communication devices. A customer premises equipment (CPE) synchronizes with at least one of the plurality of portable communication devices. The CPE extracts descriptive data of media content stor... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128800 | Method and Apparatus for Closed Caption Transcoding Caption data incorporated in an input coded bit stream conveying a video service is processed by recovering the caption data from the input coded bit stream, decoding the input coded bit stream to form a digital video signal composed of a sequence of frames, embedding t... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100125879 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PURCHASING A SOUNDTRACK WHEN VIEWING A MOVIE OR OTHER PROGRAM DELIVERED BY A CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM A method is provided for offering for purchase supplemental content associated with a multimedia program. The method includes receiving over a content delivery system a multimedia program and supplemental content associated with the program. While the program is being r... | 05/20/2010 |
