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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185597 | Providing notifications to an individual in a multi-dimensional personal information network A method for providing notifications to an individual within a multi-dimensional personal information network includes obtaining itinerary information corresponding to a first individual within a multi-dimensional personal information network. A second individual th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180675 | System and method for automatically managing avail inventory data and avail pricing A system, computer code, and method are provided for automatically managing avail inventory data of media programming streams for a communications network, such as a cable TV network. The computer-implemented method includes the steps of correlating available addres... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170122 | Method and apparatus for inserting digital media advertisements into statistical multiplexed streams A method and system for the insertion of local signals, including digital media advertisements, into statistically multiplexed streams is presented. The rate control and timing information is computed and is used to specify the insertion time and rate parameters for... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166511 | Mechanism for distributing content data The current invention provides a system for distributing content data to user locations. The content data preferably includes digital video data that is available on demand from a requesting location. A system server stores user accounts and generated customized pro... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160995 | Tropical cyclone prediction system and method A method of predicting information related to a characteristic of a tropical cyclone includes obtaining a plurality of model tracks corresponding to the tropical cyclone from at least one forecast center. A factor from a set of factors is assigned to each of the plu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151295 | Queue based advertisement scheduling and sales In accordance with the invention, advertisement identifiers are stored in a queue in memory in the set top box or elsewhere corresponding to individual subscribers of a television service delivery network. The advertisements are retrieved and displayed in the order ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150716 | Website and method for search engine optimization by prompting, recording and displaying feedback of a web site user The invention provides a web site with content designed to elicit responses from users that contain keyword dense content for a chosen word or words. Users submit responses to the website and the website displays the responses on a web page. The accumulation of targ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8131834 | Determining the geographic location of a network device Provided are techniques and apparatuses for determining the geographic location of a node on a network. In a representative embodiment, a data packet is received over the network from a second node, the data packet including a network identifier for the second node ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131261 | Method and apparatus for obtaining information about the status of a party requesting information about a mobile subscriber A mobile subscriber can elect to grant permission for the release to a requesting party of information relevant to the mobile subscriber release information. In order to make the decision to provide the information to the requesting party, the mobile subscriber can ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126486 | Adaptive antenna weighting system for wireless local area and personal area networks A method of providing signal coverage in a wireless network includes establishing communications between a first wireless access unit and a second wireless access unit. In response to a communications device, the first wireless access unit weighting factor is modifi... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121915 | Generating financial plans using a personal information aggregator A method for generating financial plans for an individual includes requesting and receiving one or more data feeds from an individual's personal information aggregator. One or more financial plans for the individual are generated based on the data contained in the r... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116616 | Alternative advertising in prerecorded media Presenting viewers with an alternative brief version of a recorded advertisement when they choose to fast-forward through or skip (or any other trick play event) the recorded advertisement. The alternative advertisement may be displayed instead of or in conjunction ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108141 | Intelligent travel routing system and method A method of assigning routes to a plurality of users includes determining a cost for each of a plurality of roadway segments. The cost of a roadway segment is commensurate with the roadway segment's inclusion in one or more existing routes from a start location to a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8087045 | Grouping advertisement subavails Method and system for creating one or more advertising avail sections (subavails) and thereupon aggregating the subavails to form one or more groups of subavails. The advertisement opportunities (avails) may be divided into sections (subavails) with each section bei... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077021 | Dynamic tactile interface A method and system for exciting a dynamic tactile interface having a plurality of electrodes includes identifying an area within an image that is capable of tactile feedback and identifying a first subset of the plurality of electrodes in the dynamic tactile interf... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075980 | Diffraction grating assisted self-cleaning material A self-cleaning material is generally described that may include a substrate having a first surface and a second surface. A self cleaning layer may be disposed on the first surface of the substrate. A diffraction grating may be formed in an exposed surface of the se... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073743 | Self-distribution methods, coded self-distribution methods, and systems for distributing information A self-distribution method for distributing information content among network connected devices of a communications network includes receiving a query having a code against a database from a wireless communications device, the code uniquely representing one of an ad... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073708 | Aggregating personal healthcare informatoin A method of aggregating an individual's healthcare information under the individual's control in a personal information aggregator includes receiving a request from a healthcare-related entity to provide the individual's healthcare information. Authorization is rece... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072349 | Method and system for vehicular communications and information reporting A method for vehicular communications and information reporting. First and second wireless Internet connections between respective first and second vehicles and a web-server are provided. First and second event information is transmitted, to the web-server, from the... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069202 | Creating a projection of a situational network A method of creating a projection of a situational network includes creating, by an event node server, an event node in a multi-dimensional personal information network, where the event node corresponds to a situation. A projection of nodes of the situational networ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8046798 | Profiling and identification of television viewers Profiling a television viewer by monitoring and processing, locally at a television viewing environment, the viewer's interactivity (e.g., via a remote control unit) with the television viewing environment. Generating one or more profiles for each viewer based on on... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045455 | Location based services in a situational network A method of providing location based service information in a situational network includes establishing the situational network linking a plurality of individuals in response to an indication of an occurrence of a situation. Information related to availability of a ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042131 | Scheduling and presenting IPG ads in conjunction with programming ads in a television environment of application A method and system whereby conventional television advertisements (i.e., those delivered to viewers while they watch television programming) can be delivered in conjunction with and correlated with advertisements that are presented to viewers in the Interactive Pro... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036632 | Access of information using a situational network A method of sharing information related to an emergency event using a situational network includes establishing a situational network having multiple access levels in response to an indication of the occurrence of an emergency event. Access to information related to... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032302 | Method and system of modifying weather content A computer-implemented method of identifying weather events in geographic regions of interest includes monitoring queries to a weather information system. The queries contain at least one field indicative of a geographic region of interest. A signal indicative of th... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024111 | Travel route system and method A method of recommending a travel route includes receiving an indication of a start location and a destination location, and a desired arrival time at the destination location. One or more road segments included in possible routes are identified. Traffic data, event... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022837 | Infrared signal distribution and management system and method An apparatus for and method of distributing and reproducing infrared signals within a digital network is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a control unit for digitizing a received infrared signal command from a wireless remote and transmitting the digitized signal ... | 09/20/2011 |
| RE42727 | Method for quickly booting a computer system A method for quickly booting a personal computer system using boot configuration information on memory and the attached devices that was created and saved in a hard disk at the preceding boot process. The method for a quick boot process includes the steps of perform... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8016421 | Information system and method for providing information using a holographic element An information system and a method for providing information in correlation with light that is incident on an eye includes a holographic element disposed in front of the eye and a device capable of recording optical signals which detects light that is incident on th... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8000898 | Weather collection system A method of collecting weather data includes determining probable occurrences of weather events. Contact information corresponding to a plurality of users is maintained. Weather collection devices are sent to the plurality of users prior to the occurrence of the pro... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000893 | Use of a situational network for navigation and travel A method of obtaining navigation information includes creating a first itinerary for a navigation route corresponding to a travel event for a first individual. Navigation information is searched for related to at least one location along the first itinerary via a si... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7984466 | Advertising management system for digital video streams A method and apparatus for the managing advertisements in a digital environment, including methods for selecting suitable advertising based on subscriber profiles, and substituting advertisements in a program stream with targeted advertisements. The Ad Management Sy... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983843 | Weather severity and characterization system A method of presenting weather phenomenon information including receiving weather data. At least one weather phenomenon represented by the weather data is identified. A plurality of current parameters related to the current state of the at least one weather phenomen... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970827 | Providing notifications to an individual in a multi-dimensional personal information network A method for providing notifications to an individual within a multi-dimensional personal information network includes obtaining itinerary information corresponding to a first individual within a multi-dimensional personal information network. A second individual th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966647 | Sending personal information to a personal information aggregator A method for sending personal information based on an identifier includes receiving the identifier from a portable identification device. A personal information aggregator is identified based on the identifier. Authorization is received to send one or more data feed... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966210 | Data distribution method and system A method for distributing data among automotive dealers, including selecting the data from the dealers, processing the data, and providing the processed data to the dealers while maintaining confidentiality of individual data of each dealer. The selecting of the dat... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962934 | Advertisement monitoring system An advertising monitoring system is presented in which subscriber selections including channel changes are monitored, and in which information regarding an advertisement is extracted from text related to the advertisement. The text related to the advertisement is in... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949565 | Privacy-protected advertising system A database of consumer profiles is generated from multiple sources of information including demographic databases identifying demographic attributes of the consumers and transaction records for the consumers. The transaction records are processed to generate transac... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941258 | Automobile monitoring for operation analysis An automobile monitoring arrangement tracks and records automobile operation for post-use automobile operation analysis and in a manner with default-operation modes that facilitate use by automobile owners/supervisors and by those supervised by the automobile owners... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7911360 | Method and system for vehicular communications and information reporting A method for vehicular communications and information reporting. First and second wireless Internet connections between respective first and second vehicles and a web-server are provided. First and second event information is transmitted, to the web-server, from the... | 03/22/2011 |
