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"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131624 | Apparatus and Method for Multi-User Construction of Tagged Video Data A video content source includes a processor and a download module executed by the processor to download or stream selected videos from a video library. A tag collection module executed by the processor receives tag data from users viewing the selected videos from differ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120072964 | STB Messaging System A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a video terminal device having a processor adapted to submit a query to a mobile device to determine whether to redirect one or more mobile messages destined for the mobile device t... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054784 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND BROADCASTING SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus for transmitting AV (Audio/Video) content, including: an acquirer configured to acquire an estimated number of audience terminals indicative of an estimated number of reception apparatuses receiving the AV content; a computer... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047531 | Server Load Balancing for Interactive Television A method consistent with certain implementations involves receiving a triggered declarative object (TDO) to a digital television receiver device that carries out a programmed routine when activated; receiving a trigger object associated with the TDO to the digital telev... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042352 | SET TOP BOX AND AUTO STANDBY METHOD THEREOF A set top box transmits a connection request to a TV to request a number of response signals therefrom. The response signals are read when the TV is in a working state, and an idle signal is output if the response signals are not read in a predetermined time. State of t... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120023523 | DATA DISTRIBUTION A device may include a communication interface configured to receive programming information and index data associated with the programming information from a service provider multicast over a plurality of channels. The device may also include logic configured to reques... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023543 | Advanced digital TV system A system for displaying electronic program guide information about a plurality of video items on a screen, the system including a display module to display a plurality of pages layering into the screen, each of the pages including a plurality of graphical panels associa... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120011557 | BANDWIDTH AND SERVER RESOURCE SAVINGS THROUGH USE OF LEGACY CLIENT CAPABILITY IN A REMOTE USER INTERFACE SYSTEM A server receives a request for delivery of media from a client, and determines if the client has a capability to tune to a quadrature amplitude modulated (QAM) channel carried by a first network. The server sends a message to the client to instruct the client to tune t... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011558 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING MEDIA VIA A SET-TOP BOX An approach is provided for presenting media via a set-top box. A set-top box detects a wireless device according to a predetermined communication protocol. A communication channel is established with the wireless device according to the communication protocol. A comman... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110321113 | LOCATION-BASED SERVICE GROUP DISCOVERY FOR SWITCHED DIGITAL VIDEO A broadcast system and method that includes a video content network that connects a video server, a discovery server, a switched digital video service, a switched video manager, and a set-top box. The set-top box receives and stores an assigned location identifier, and ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MASS DISTRIBUTION OF HIGH QUALITY VIDEO Systems and methods of compressing source video to 3 MBits/sec and under (deep compression), making it is possible to distribute a wide range of movies, sports and other action laden videos simultaneously to a wide number of viewers. In one embodiment, deeply compressed... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110306368 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating a Commerce Transaction Over a Distribution Network Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for facilitating a commerce transaction over a distribution network. According to one embodiment, a method for facilitating a purchase transaction over a distribution network is provided. The method may include tr... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110283333 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENDING MEDIA CONTENT TO A USER DEVICE FROM A NETWORK OF SET-TOP CELLS Systems and methods for streaming media content on a user device from a wireless network of set-top cells. Set-top cells with overlapping wireless transmission ranges create a network within which a user may roam and receive continuous streaming media content. Each user... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110271316 | SET TOP BOX AND METHOD OF ESTABLISHING TV PROGRAM TABLE A set top box (STB) for establishing a television (TV) program table, and comprises a searching module and a program establishing module. The STB searches a predetermined channel among multiple channels provided by a TV station office server to receive an extensible mar... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110244955 | Media Appliance A media appliance comprising: video apparatus for outputting signals to a screen; a control device allowing a user to control the output of signals from the video apparatus to the screen, thereby selecting a viewing activity; a network interface for accessing a packet-b... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110225618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING WIRELESS LOCAL AREA MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING The present invention discloses a method and system for supporting wireless local area multimedia broadcast, and the method comprises: sweeping frequencies in an area where wireless local multimedia broadcast will be performed to determine the transmitting power and the... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219415 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING BROADCASTING PROGRAM Provided is a broadcasting receiving method and device. The method detects the time of a televised broadcasting program, and provides the broadcasting program to the user from the start thereof. More specifically, the method requests transmission of the broadcasting pro... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110197243 | Cable Set-Top Box With Integrated Cable Tuner and MOCA Support A cable set-top box system with integrated cable tuners and MoCA may implemented on a single integrated circuit, supporting communication over a shared coaxial cable line. The system may include a memory interface shared by DOCSIS and video/audio subsystems. The system ... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110197249 | MULTIMEDIA DEVICE CONTROLLER, SOURCE DEVICE, SYNC DEVICE AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Disclosed are a multimedia device controller, a source device, a sink device and a transmission system that can manage multimedia devices capable of simultaneous output of video and audio from multiple Blu-ray discs or the like. A master device (110) references a... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110191813 | USE OF PICTURE-IN-PICTURE STREAM FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION FAST CHANNEL CHANGE A method and apparatus of controlling an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) channel change to a first multimedia stream of an IPTV channel, where the channel change is initiated by a set top box coupled to the network device is described. A network device receives a re... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110173102 | Content sensitive point-of-sale system for interactive media A system and method are described for offering items and services for sale that are related to content being displayed in an interactive medium such as the world wide web, public kiosks, hand-held PDAs, tablets, television and other digital devices. The system uses a co... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110169913 | SET-TOP BOX CIRCUITRY SUPPORTING 2D AND 3D CONTENT REDUCTIONS TO ACCOMMODATE VIEWING ENVIRONMENT CONSTRAINTS Set-top box circuitry and methods of operating the same are described that support the delivery of media content between one or more media content sources and a screen assembly of a display system. The set-top box circuitry is configured to process media content having ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110167464 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BROADCASTING SERVICES IN DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING SYSTEM An apparatus and method for providing signaling information using inband transmission in a digital video broadcasting system where a frame for transmitting broadcasting data according to a ground-wave broadcasting service and broadcasting data according to a mobile broa... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110162028 | Method for Transmission of a Change to a Static Object by Means of a Change Object in a Data Distribution Service, Transmitter and Receiver Certain exemplary embodiments can provide and/or utilize a system, device, and/or method for managing changes to data, such as a method that includes transmitting a change to a static object (SO1) by means of a change object (SO*) in a data distribution service t... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110154383 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING NETWORK CONNECTIVITY AND CONSUMPTION OF BROADBAND SERVICES An approach is provided to facilitate network connectivity and consumption of broadband services. A data network connection is established by a set-top box. Sharing of the data network connection by a plurality of user devices is permitted by the set-top box. A credit c... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110145880 | USER EDITABLE METADATA FOR INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAMS Television programming may be annotated with metadata and the metadata may be shared among subscribers. A set-top box may receive, from a server, metadata relating to a television program, the metadata having been created by users of other set-top boxes and at least som... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110145883 | TELEVISION RECEIVER AND METHOD A television receiver, comprises an optical character recognizer to identify text in a received video image and a hypertext link generator to generate a hypertext link responsive to respective identified text, wherein the television receiver is operable to form a connec... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110138408 | TELEVISION INTERACTION INFORMATION AND RELATED ICONOGRAPHY A method may include receiving identification information associated with each of one or more users. Interactions may be received from the one or more users relating to content displayed on a television device. Interaction information associated with the interactions ma... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110138424 | DYNAMIC SWITCHING BETWEEN DIGITAL TV SERVICES A method for creating variants of a DTV service, a method which is simpler than the method defined in GBS0600, and the method can handle all use-case scenarios for simulcast linking in a way almost equal to that defined in GBS0600. The method introduces switching betwee... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110119720 | Set Top Box With Capability to Support User Identification A method for performing a service action on a particular set top box based on a particular private identifier associated with the particular set top box is disclosed. At a database associated with a service provider, a user record is created. The user record includes a ... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110107372 | Near-Real Time Internet Protocol Television A set top box includes a processor configured to provide an electronic programming guide to available television programming. The available television programming includes previously-aired content, currently-airing content, and to-be-aired content. The processor is furt... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110107386 | System and Method of Problem Detection in Received Internet Data, Video Data, and Voice Data Methods and systems for problem detection related to received Internet data, video data, and voice data are disclosed. A method may include monitoring, at a set top box device, Internet data to detect a first problem related to the Internet data. The method may further ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110107371 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Disclosed are a display apparatus, system and control method, the display apparatus including a communicating unit which performs a communication with an external tuner, and receives an intermediate frequency (IF) signal from the external tuner; an IF signal processing ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102675 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING CONTENT SELECTION MENUS A content output device identifies a set of content including both high definition content and standard definition content. The content output device determines whether an associated presentation device is capable of presenting high definition content. The content outpu... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110093911 | SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND TRANSMITTING A DIGITAL TELEVISION SIGNAL STREAM AND METHOD AND RECEIVING MEANS FOR RECEIVING AND PROCESSING A DIGITAL TELEVISION SIGNAL STREAM A service providing method and apparatus that generates and transmits a digital television signal stream, by providing at least one downscaled sub picture service stream having a resolution equal to or less than the resolution of the standard definition television SDTV ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110093893 | DATA DISTRIBUTION A device may include a communication interface configured to receive programming information from a service provider multicast over multiple channels. The device may also include logic configured to decode the programming information received over the multiple channels,... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110088073 | USER-CONFIGURED BACKGROUND CHANNELS IN INTERNET-PROTOCOL TELEVISION A method and system for implementing background channels includes storing configuration information for a user of a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN). The MCDN user may receive and view a selected channel at an MCDN client. When an exception condition occur... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110085600 | Decoding Apparatus for a Set-Top Box A decoding apparatus includes at least one data input terminal receiving a program transport stream from an external set-top box. A decoder decodes the program transport stream and a data output terminal outputs the decoded content to an external device. The program tra... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110078737 | RECEIVER APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS For executing a graphic display without generating the sense of incompatibility in a view, within a receiver apparatus enabling 3D display, and also for an improvement of usability thereof, a receiver apparatus or a reproducing apparatus for obtaining digital informatio... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110072147 | Transmitting a Prioritized Audio Stream Along with Multimedia Content Systems and methods for transmitting a prioritized audio stream along with multimedia content are disclosed. A particular method includes receiving a designation at a server of a prioritized audio stream to be transmitted with multimedia content. The designation is rece... | 03/24/2011 |
