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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185910 | Method and system for testing interactions between web clients and networked servers A system and method providing a testing, monitoring and debugging framework that supports testing web clients with complex and advanced feature sets. The system and method allows multiple web clients to be simultaneously tested on the same physical machine without c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181203 | Distributed, interactive television program guide; system and method In an interactive network-based personal video recording system, a user interface is provided that allows viewers to search a database of program guide information according to program title, indexed program attributes such as actor and director, and key word. Viewe... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176512 | Method for enhancing digital video recorder television advertising viewership A method for enhancing digital video recorder television advertising viewership provides a method wherein the first or last number of seconds of a commercial break are carefully authored to provide a “teaser” to entice the viewer to watch multiple commercials du... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171285 | Cryptographically signed filesystem A cryptographically signed filesystem provides a central database resident on a server that contains database objects. The server creates startup software to be installed in a client system's read only memory. The startup software contains a hash value for a second ... | 05/01/2012 |
| RE43132 | Volume control for audio signals A motion picture soundtrack reproduction system has a center front soundtrack channel and a plurality of other soundtrack channels. A volume control adjusts the gain of all the channels. The volume control has a range of settings from a minimum to a maximum, the gai... | 01/24/2012 |
| D651994 | Set top enclosure | 01/10/2012 |
| 8079046 | Intelligent system and methods of recommending media content items based on user preferences A system and method for making program recommendations to users of a network-based video recording system utilizes expressed preferences as inputs to collaborative filtering and Bayesian predictive algorithms to rate television programs using a graphical rating syst... | 12/13/2011 |
| RE42935 | Coding techniques using estimated spectral magnitude and phase derived from MDCT coefficients Estimates of spectral magnitude and phase are obtained by an estimation process using spectral information from analysis filter banks such as the Modified Discrete Cosine Transform. The estimation process may be implemented by convolution-like operations with impuls... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7999538 | Device and system for detecting position To provide a position sensor small enough to be contained in a groove formed in an air cylinder in which minimum stroke for fixing and differential travel are improved [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The position sensor comprises a Hall IC (50) for turning an el... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7933950 | Secure control of features of a digital device A method providing secure control of features of a digital device. In one embodiment, the method comprises sending, from a digital device that participates in a service, to a service provider that provides the service, a request to participate in the service; receiv... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7882520 | Broadcast program recording overrun and underrun scheduling system A broadcast program recording overrun and underrun scheduling system provides a system for adjusting the start and end times of a broadcast program's recording schedule that has a predetermined start and end broadcast time. An on screen program guide is displayed to... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877768 | Smart broadcast program recording padding and scheduling system A smart broadcast program recording padding and scheduling system provides a system for adjusting the start and end times of a broadcast program's recording schedule that has a predetermined start and end broadcast time and resolving any conflicts arising from confl... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873982 | Method and apparatus for creating and viewing customized multimedia segments A system for creating and viewing customized multimedia segments allows a user to create event identification data from in-band data in a program stream. The in-band data is processed and compiled into event identification data associated with the content stream. Th... | 01/18/2011 |
| D628192 | Remote control housing | 11/30/2010 |
| 7779446 | System for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior A system for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The invention accepts as input a prioritized list of program viewing preferences which is ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7779437 | Method for enhancing digital video recorder television advertising viewership A method for enhancing digital video recorder television advertising viewership provides a method wherein the first or last number of seconds of a commercial break are carefully authored to provide a “teaser” to entice the viewer to watch multiple commercials du... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7743132 | Secure content delivery system A secure streaming content delivery system provides a plurality of content servers connected to a network that host customer content that can be cached and/or stored, e.g., images, video, text, and/or software. The content servers respond to requests for customer co... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7734814 | Decrypting load balancing array system A decrypting load balancing array system uses a Pentaflow approach to network traffic management that extends across an array of Decrypting Load Balancing Array (DLBA) servers sitting in front of back end Web servers. One of the DLBA servers acts as a scheduler for ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725602 | Domain name resolution using a distributed DNS network A distributed DNS network includes a central origin server that actually controls the zone, and edge DNS cache servers configured to cache the DNS content of the origin server. The edge DNS cache servers are published as the authoritative servers for customer domain... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7671758 | Remote control programming system A method and apparatus for programming a remote control is provided. Control data that identifies one or more mode codes is stored in a computing device that is operationally connected to a detector. A user presses a button on a source remote control to cause an inp... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668435 | Multimedia signal processing system A multimedia signal processing system utilizes an easily manipulated, low-cost storage and display system that allows the user to view a television program and instantly review previous scenes within the program. The invention also allows the user to store selected ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665111 | Data storage management and scheduling system A data storage management and scheduling system schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of television and Web page program material on a client system storage medium. The invention accepts as input a prioritized list of program viewing preferences which is co... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7653706 | Dynamic image delivery system A dynamic image delivery system receives a client request for an image at an image caching server. The image caching server measures the client's network access speed and looks for an appropriate pre-rendered copy of the requested image that is rendered for the clie... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7590739 | Distributed on-demand computing system A method and mechanism for a distributed on-demand computing system. The system automatically provisions distributed computing servers with customer application programs. The parameters of each customer application program are taken into account when a server is sel... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7590240 | Conditional access system and method prevention of replay attacks In a conditional access system, a headend transmits content to one or more receivers in encrypted transport streams. The system provides a multi-layer security architecture, rendering the system resistant to key replay attacks; if one layer is circumvented, subseque... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7543325 | System for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior A system for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The invention accepts as input a prioritized list of program viewing preferences which is ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7523181 | Method for determining metrics of a content delivery and global traffic management network A method for determining metrics of a content delivery and global traffic management network provides service metric probes that determine the service availability and metric measurements of types of services provided by a content delivery machine. Latency probes ar... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7493015 | Automatic playback overshoot correction system An automatic playback overshoot correction system predicts the position in the program material where the user expects to be when the user stops the fast forward or reverse progression of the program material. The system determines the position where the program mat... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7484234 | Method and apparatus for controlling at least one set-top box A method and apparatus for providing control of a set-top box through IR blasting control by a system containing at least one computer is discussed. The system is coupled to a mass storage system. The system includes an IR control database that resides on the mass s... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7409546 | Cryptographically signed filesystem A cryptographically signed filesystem provides a central database resident on a server that contains database objects. The server creates startup software to be installed in a client system's read only memory. The startup software contains a hash value for a second ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7376711 | Smart card enabled mobile personal computing environment system A smart card enabled mobile personal computing environment system stores a user's personalized, fully functional, computing environment in a smart card. A user information database is provided that is resident on a server and contains the user records of a plurality... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7363361 | Secure content delivery system A secure streaming content delivery system provides a plurality of content servers connected to a network that host customer content that can be cached and/or stored, e.g., images, video, text, and/or software. The content servers respond to requests for customer co... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346676 | Load balancing service A load balancing service for a plurality of customers performs load balancing among a plurality of customer Web servers. Requests for Web content are load balanced across the customer Web servers. The load balancing service provider charges a fee to the customers fo... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340532 | Load balancing array packet routing system A decrypting load balancing array system uses a Pentaflow approach to network traffic management that extends across an array of Decrypting Load Balancing Array (DLBA) servers sitting in front of back end Web servers. One of the DLBA servers acts as a scheduler for ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7322513 | Multimedia intelligent business card system A multimedia intelligent business card system allows multimedia and Web content to be stored on a smart card. The invention automatically and selectively translates each file, URL, or file references as they should be when the contents of the smart card are read. Th... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321716 | Multimedia visual progress indication system A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to t... | 01/22/2008 |
| D552610 | Wireless network adapter with antenna | 10/09/2007 |
| D551668 | Wireless network adapter | 09/25/2007 |
| 7228556 | Distributed, interactive television program guide; system and method In an interactive network-based personal video recording system, a user interface is provided that allows viewers to search a database of program guide information according to program title, indexed program attributes such as actor and director, and key workd. View... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225254 | Performance computer network method A method for a computer network includes sending a first request from a web client for resolving a first web address of a web page to a client DNS server, sending the first request from the client DNS server to a POP DNS server within a POP server network, using a p... | 05/29/2007 |
