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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7647617 | Method for association between telephony and television network equipment A method for user assisted association between a television and a telephony device is provided. A set-top box requests an identification code from a server. The server identifies the set-top box, generates the code and transmits it to the set-top box. The set-top bo... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7454776 | System and method for supplying supplemental audio information for broadcast television programs An apparatus, method, and program for providing supplemental information related to a broadcast television program. Through a telephone or electronic network interface, a caller can request specific supplemental information related to one or more characters within t... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7437750 | Data transceiving system and method therefor An object is to perform retrial processing according to the allowable volume on communication lines made available at response information receiving equipment. A broadcast unit 140, when broadcasting video and audio, includes retrial information in that broad... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7372915 | Transmitting method and transmitting device, receiving method and receiving device, and transfer method and transfer system Data broadcast data, which is broadcast in data broadcasts, is constructed by disposing, for example, EMD (Electric Music Distribution) links required to acquire song data as actual broadcast data, which is broadcast in actual broadcasts by a transmitting device, th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7340764 | Data transmission system A transmission control unit (12) of a transmitting station (10) specifies usable plural transmission paths (20). A data supply unit (11) transfers movie contents file encoded by MPEG 4 to plural divisional distribution encoders (13... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324948 | Context-specific contact information A method of selecting contact information is disclosed. In the method, a signal corresponding to a source document is received and analyzed to determine a referenced entity. A data base of contact information and related contact entities is provided and searched to ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313154 | TDD frame format A method of operating in a point-to-multipoint communication system with a base station and a plurality of remote stations, wherein the communication system enables transmission of data in a multicast mode with different Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) levels,... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7305357 | Method and system for providing and controlling delivery of content on-demand over a cable television network and a data network A system and method for delivering content on-demand by way of a cable network are disclosed. Provision of such content is controlled over a data network. Advantageously, a user interface at a conventional computing device may be used to order content and to control... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7280479 | State machine for providing dynamic quality of service in a cable network A cable modem termination system includes a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) subsystem that manages a flow associated with a gate and a gate manager (GM) that manages a state of the gate. When the flow is admitted by the DOCSIS subsystem, the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7269642 | Customizing strings displayed upon a mobile device without altering core software of the device A method for presenting text (50) upon a mobile device (10) can include the step of establishing a string associative table (20) within the mobile device (20). The string associative table (20) can be remote from core software (... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7225456 | Gateway screen for interactive television A gateway screen for interactive television includes a television content panel and an internet content panel. The gateway screen is displayed by an interactive television (ITV), e.g., when the ITV is turned on. The gateway screen allows a user to quickly and easily... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7174151 | Ensuring EAS performance in audio signal encoding An encoding system for encoding a first ancillary code in media data and monitoring for reception of a second ancillary code that has a higher priority than the first ancillary code, such that upon detection of the higher priority ancillary code the encoding system ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170546 | Television system distributing a dynamically varying number of concurrent video presentations over a single television channel A system for providing, in a television system, the combination, transmission, and reception of multiple video presentations over a single channel of a television distribution system. Presentations may be concurrently broadcast for viewing by many users, as well as ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7159230 | Emergency alert system A system for inputting conventional emergency alert messages into a digital subscriber television system. The method allows existing emergency alert equipment to interface with the digital system equipment in the headend of a digital subscriber television system. A ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7150028 | Method and system for downloading, storing and displaying coupon data using the horizontal overscan portion of a video signal A method and system for decoding and storing encoded coupon data delivered via the horizontal overscan area of a video signal. An electronic coupon displays representations of coupons defined by coupon data that can be extracted from an encoded video signal that can... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7096489 | System and method for interactive television A system and method for interactive television (ITV) includes presenting both TV channels and “virtual channels” on an ITV. A virtual channel can be a Web page stored in memory of the ITV (or remote therefrom) and accessed by a microprocessor in the ITV when a u... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096353 | Software modem with privileged mode decryption of control codes A communications system includes a physical layer hardware unit and a processing unit. The physical layer hardware unit is adapted to communicate data over a communications channel in accordance with assigned transmission parameters and receive an incoming signal ov... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092614 | Method and apparatus for controlling digital recording and associated user interfaces A method for controlling recording in a digital recording apparatus enables users to create improved video recordings and also conserves memory space of the recording apparatus. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method includes steps of detecting a first use... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7069340 | System and method for operating a transmitter to multicast data blocks over a network A packet network is arranged into a hierarchy, having one organization-level portion (CS, P, R2) and three site-level portions (S1, S2, S3). By using forwarding computers and assigning multicast addresses in respect of each portion, the t... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7058966 | Optical communication system for transmitting RF signals downstream and bidirectional telephony signals which also include RF control signals upstream A method of transmitting TV signals and bidirectional telephone communication signals on a single optical fiber, existing telephone twisted pair infrastructure, and existing coaxial cable infrastructure. In addition to allowing the downstream transmission of televis... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7047307 | Method and apparatus for broadcasting media objects with guaranteed quality of service A method and apparatus for broadcasting media objects for such bandwidth-intensive applications as Media on Demand (MoD) or Video on Demand (VoD) employ a novel StairCase Broadcast (SCB) scheme. A media server in accordance with one example of the invention includes... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7035878 | Base rolling engine for data transfer and synchronization system A base rolling engine for collapsing data packages stored in a data transfer and synchronization system. A first data package is provided. The first data package has a first transaction including an identification number, an action, and a plurality of fields. Each f... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7013283 | System and method for providing programming content in response to an audio signal A system and a concomitant method for providing programming content in response to an audio signal. The programming content and the audio signal are transmitted in a network having a forward channel and a back channel. In one embodiment, the system comprises a local... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013480 | Gateway power synchronization A system for receiving network video includes a remote control with a power control input. A video receiver, controlled by the remote control, powers up or powers down based on a control signal indicating activation of the power control input. The video receiver rec... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6993347 | Dynamic media interleaving Interleaving preferred location specific content into broadcast content including providing a location of the client device to the source of preferred location specific content; receiving broadcast content in the client device; receiving preferred location specific ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993787 | Providing VCR functionality for data-centered video multicast The client application provides VCR functionality in a data-centered video multicast network (36) through active prefetching of the fragments from broadcast channels. The player (10) has a user interface (12) that supports a plurality of VCR fun... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6980769 | Method for determining the validity of a radio station lookup table The continuing validity of a lookup table in a radio receiver for tuning to digital audio stations is monitored. The radio receiver is tuned to a first designated frequency. A determination is made whether a station identification code is identified in a digital bro... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6941154 | Telecommunication method A telecommunication method and a receiving apparatus for enabling the telecommunication method. A telecommunications mobile device comprises an identification card, a radio receiver, and/or a television receiver, wherein the identification card is capable of identif... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6892387 | System and method for compensating viewer for viewing of designated channel with reduction of telephone charges Disclosed is a system for compensating a viewer for viewing of a designated channel with reduction of telephone charges. The system comprises a signal input port to which image signals from a plurality of channels are accessed; a signal output port for supplying the... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6760537 | Apparatus and method for television program scheduling Television programs are tuned by a television tuner using a method involving establishing a communications link between a user of a television tuner and database of television schedule information, the database located a site remote from the user. The user communica... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6725460 | Multi-media data automatic delivery system A system for delivering contents includes a center system which delivers the contents, a plurality of terminal systems which receive the contents from the center system and displays the contents, and communication lines connecting the center system to the plurality ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6711742 | Cable modem system using CATV transmission path A cable modem system prevents an up-link noise from entering a cable so as to efficiently use the bandwidth of a CATV transmission path. The cable modem system performs data communication using the transmission path of a cable television system which includes a cabl... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6687907 | Prevention of broadband cable service theft Detecting tampering of an incoming cable to which a network interface unit (NIU) is connected by testing for the reflected signal that is present when the signal being transmitted to the head end is not connected to a properly terminated coaxial cable. In... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6643495 | Communication system and device for use with both a broadband distribution network and a telephone network In a communication system a communication device (2) is present for receiving a wideband broadcast signal from a head-end. For providing a return channel to enable interactive TV services, a GSM transceiver (34) is included in the communication device. In... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6622303 | Digital broadcast transmitting method and digital broadcast transmitting apparatus A digital broadcast transmitting method and an apparatus for repeating and transmitting a digital broadcast program are disclosed. The method comprises transmitting individual information from a first to a second digital broadcast transmitter, wherein the... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6618353 | Router for use with a link that has a set of concurrent channels An asymmetrical network for coupling customer-premises Internet hosts such as personal computers to the Internet. The head end of a CATV system has a high-bandwidth connection to the Internet. The down link connecting the personal computers to the Interne... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6584613 | Simplified TV viewer response system and method using special codes and subscriber custom calling codes A simplified TV viewer response system coupled to a telephone system enables a viewer/subscriber to respond to television displays by dialing a special code less than six digits. The code is routed to an enhanced services server. The server captures the d... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6574795 | Reliable communication of data by supplementing a unidirectional communications protocol An information delivery system includes receiving platforms to receive data communicated from a transmitting source according to a unidirectional transfer protocol over a link. At least some receiving platforms process the received data to determine if a ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6571296 | Apparatus and method for hybrid network access A system in which a personal computer sends messages into a TCP/IP network using a conventional dial-up link and downloads data from the TCP/IP network using a high-speed one-way satellite link. A preferred embodiment uses a conventional SLIP provider to ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6496982 | Device and method relating to cable TV networks A method and an apparatus transmit and receive information in a cable TV network including at least one base station connected to a branching cable network, branching from the base station to at least two subscribers, provided with transmitters. A unique ... | 12/17/2002 |
