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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166504 | Method and apparatus for processing content in home network using TV channels A content processing method and apparatus which can maximize user convenience by allocating content available in a home network to an empty TV channel are provided. The content processing method includes storing channel information regarding a plurality of broadcast... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8141115 | Systems and methods for multiple media coordination The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that effectuate multiple media coordination. The system can include devices and components that coordinate in real time the synchronization of multiple media streams to a multiplicity of diverse devices, dis... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8099752 | Non-real time services In certain embodiments, a digital television receiver that receives non-real time (NRT) content has an IP demultiplex or a radio frequency tuner that receives a transport stream. The output transport stream contains an IP packet stream containing NRT content, a FLUT... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8091106 | Method and apparatus for using DVD subpicture information in a television receiver A method and apparatus for using DVD subpicture formatted information within a MPEG data stream to provide data channel information to a television receiver. More particularly, the television receiver comprises a MPEG decoder and a DVD subpicture processor. The MPEG... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082568 | Electronic program guide with integrated program listings An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to store information associated with recorded programs in a directory in the digital storage device thereby providing easy access to program in... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074243 | System and method for generating electronic program guides A method and system for generating electronic program guides is provided. The method comprises: sharing Electronic Program Guides (EPG) data among at least one terminal and at least two service providers (SPs) interconnected over network; searching the shared EPG da... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8010980 | EPG data In one implementation, a method is described that may include applying at least one of a capitalization rule and a spacing rule to a word obtained from compressed electronic program guide (EPG) data. The compressed EPG data includes a plurality of word encoding valu... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7890978 | Generic data processing engine A generic data processing engine is operable to receive a format definition and process data formatted according to the definition, without use of formatting information in the data. The format definition includes a description of the syntax of the format, and a des... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7870584 | Interactive program guide with selectable updating A method for providing an interactive program guide (IPG) includes receiving from a user a request for an IPG, and providing the user with an IPG that includes listings that were received by a digital home communication terminal (DHCT) via a subscriber television ne... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861269 | EPG data In one implementation, a method is described that may include applying at least one of a capitalization rule and a spacing rule to a word obtained from compressed electronic program guide (EPG) data. The compressed EPG data includes a plurality of word encoding valu... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853974 | System for collating data from multiple sources to form a composite program guide for display A video decoder system collates program guide information acquired from a variety of local and remote sources. Program guide information is received from a first source and a selectable program guide menu icon is displayed. A category of program guide information it... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7779441 | Electronic program guide including live network multimedia broadcast channels An electronic program guide system and a method for generating an electronic program guide are disclosed. A first information handling system obtains programming information from a program information source and generates a program guide based upon the obtained prog... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7707605 | Data transmission method and system of same, information processing method and system of same, data transmitter, signal processor, content data processing method, and data serving method A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels on a display line. A set of drivers drives a set of pixels, the set of drivers receiving display data and providing video signals to the set of pixels. A clock provides a c... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7669216 | Broadcast receiving apparatus, broadcast receiving method and broadcast receiving system According to one embodiment, a broadcast receiving apparatus is equipped with a server function so as to cause a client terminal to recognize the broadcast receiving apparatus as a server on a network and to select a channel for the broadcast receiving apparatus by ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7661119 | Method and apparatus for providing non-resident program guide information to a media subscriber A system and method for providing program guide information to subscribers is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method is applied to a satellite broadcasting system having a first satellite broadcasting a first signal having a first set of program material and first... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7634792 | Method and system for acquiring and converting electronic programming guide signals from multiple vendors A system and method for use in a cable network to acquire electronic programming guide (EPG) content signals from one or more EPG vendors. The system includes a set-top box (STB) for receiving cable signals and EPG signals from a headend controller so that the STB c... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7603686 | Information processing method and apparatus and recording medium An information processing apparatus in which television channel setting processing and provider setting processing can be completed expeditiously. The information processing apparatus has the function of connecting to the Internet and the function of receiving telev... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7562378 | Methods and systems for constructing and editing electronic program guide lineups Various embodiments provide accurate EPG lineup construction and PVR scheduling for users, regardless of their geographic location. In accordance with the described embodiments, the guide retrieves and aggregates data from multiple available sources, particularly in... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7546623 | Methods and systems for providing multi-source content in electronic program guides Various embodiments pertain to methods and systems for providing multi-source content in electronic program guides (EPGs). In at least some embodiments, various techniques can present the viewer with a user interface, such as a grid, that is efficiently and intellig... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7516470 | Locally-updated interactive program guide A method for providing an interactive program guide (IPG) includes receiving from a user a request for an IPG, and providing the user with an IPG that includes listings that were received by a digital home communication terminal (DHCT) via a subscriber television ne... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7469413 | Receiving apparatus, method therefor, signal processing apparatus, method therefor and memory medium There is disclosed a receiving apparatus provided with reception means for receiving a television signal, plural input means for entering program information data relating to the television broadcasting, display means for displaying an image relating to the televisi... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7398301 | Method and apparatus for facilitating distributed delivery of content across a computer network One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates receiving content at a client from one or more servers that can potentially provide the content. The client starts by sending a request for the content to a directory server. In response to t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395514 | System and method for accessing, manipulating and viewing internet and non-internet related information and for controlling networked devices A system and method are disclosed for accessing, generating, presenting and manipulating Internet and non-Internet related information, data and content, including information netcast over the Internet. The system is also capable of controlling operatively connected... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392531 | Recommendation-based electronic program guides with user-imperceptible preferences A method and apparatus for enabling the operators of television broadcasting systems or other content distribution systems to effectively alter the program viewing patterns of viewers or subscribers to direct viewership traffic to selected television programs or oth... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389524 | Image system using an image server controller for generating display information of a client to access images from plural image servers on network An image server and an image communication system capable of displaying images of plural image servers differing in IP address on a browser window by using a versatile browser, and a methods for controlling them. Plural image servers communicate with a client comput... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7356829 | Receiving apparatus and method, transmitting apparatus and method, and transmission medium A receiving apparatus receives an image signal transmitted from a transmitting end. In the receiving apparatus, the received image signal is output to a display. Electronic program guide information (EPG) added to the received image signal is extracted. The display ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340457 | Apparatus and method to facilitate the customization of television content with supplemental data An apparatus and method for customizing television content uses an application (70) operating on a computing platform (12) associated with a display device (40). The platform (12) accesses a display component database (48) containi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7301583 | Device and method for transporting demodulated digital video data and corresponding digital television receiver A routing device is provided for transporting digital data from demodulated digital television signals. The routing device includes a network that routes the digital data to demultiplexers via at least one decoding module. The network includes means for connecting t... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296284 | Client terminal for displaying ranked program listings based upon a selected rating source Disclosed is a client terminal connectable to a video distribution system (VDS) and a display device. The client terminal includes a VDS interface to receive program guide information and program rating data from the VDS, a display interface to display a program gui... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293276 | Interactive television program guide for recording enhanced video content Interactive television systems and methods are provided for enhancing program guide content using recording and alert features for video related to promotions, advertisements, and other selectable displays presented in an interactive television application such as a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292774 | System and method for creating and displaying a preference based menu for a viewing session A video system has an input port to receive display contents including a plurality of broadcast display contents and has an output port to couple to a video display. Further, the system includes a preference engine, a storage device and a management module. The pref... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7284257 | Announcing the availability of an electronic programming guide to receivers of enhanced television transmissions A unique session identifier may be utilized to announce the availability of an electronic programming guide to users of an enhanced television distribution system. In some embodiments, the unique session identifier may be utilized in a variety of systems to provide ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284261 | Broadcasting and processing multiple data formats A method broadcasts data. The method includes sending to a receiver scheduling information that includes a scheduled time and broadcasting data at the scheduled time. The scheduling information identifies an encoding format and one or more viewer applications capabl... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280823 | Method and apparatus for determining the context of a handheld device A system and method for determining the context of a wireless device is disclosed. An emitter (108) transmits an infrared signal to a wireless client (112). Emitter (108) is placed at a known location and has a known coverage area associated the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272657 | System and method for displaying video streams ranked by user-specified criteria A plurality of video streams are simultaneously displayed on a terminal coupled to a network. The video streams are ranked according to a set of ranking criteria and displayed in accordance with the ranking. Highly ranked video streams may be displayed in prominent ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260828 | Data processing apparatus, and data processing method A data processing apparatus comprises a processing unit, for performing processes related to multiple functions, an allocation unit, for allocating, to the multiple processes, different codes for performing the multiple processes, and a control unit, for controlling... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242316 | Device control apparatus and method An apparatus and method of distributing media content from a hardware input device to a hardware output device, located remotely from each other, in a home network, is disclosed. A control unit receives a user input and converts it to a control signal. An encoder de... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240356 | Method and apparatus for displaying differences in the characteristics of multiple versions of an entertainment program A method and apparatus for displaying differences in the characteristics of multiple versions of an entertainment program includes receiving entertainment programming input, identifying multiple versions of an available entertainment program, identifying, for each o... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7228557 | Broadcast program information processing apparatus A broadcast program information processing apparatus is provided which is capable of smoothly downloading broadcast program information to a plurality of broadcast program information receiving apparatuses from a data server in which the broadcast program informatio... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215887 | Method and apparatus for infrared data communication An apparatus and method for conveying contextually relevant information to a wireless client (112) is disclosed. More particularly, an emitter (108) transmits a diffuse infrared signal to a client (112) having an IrDA infrared communication inte... | 05/08/2007 |
