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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185435 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating content-based selection of long-tail business models and billing Methods, systems and computer program products for delivering content to customers of a service provider are provided. Upon receiving a request for content from a customer of a service provider, a position of the requested content on a content demand curve is determ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176521 | Client server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording An interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server. Programs may also be recorded on a local media server. The program guide... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171518 | System and method for presenting progressively downloaded media programs A system and method for presenting progressively downloaded media programs is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Set-Top Box (STB) having a controller element to determine a length of a media program... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161514 | Program guide system with video-on-demand browsing An interactive television program guide system is provided in which a viewer may direct a television to simultaneously display a selected television program and a program guide display. A viewer may use the program guide display to browse available video-on-demand (... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8056105 | Dynamic video-on-demand navigation and on demand ingest A technique for supporting over-the-top video-on-demand separates metadata ingest and real content ingest such that navigation needs only the metadata ingest to have been completed. The real content ingest can occur later if the navigation results in the real conten... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8037502 | Method and apparatus for archiving media content The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for archiving media content, and more particularly to archiving television and radio broadcasts for later delivery, on-demand, via the Internet. A capture server is used to receive and gather a plurality of... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8020186 | Methods and systems for distributing on-demand programming Methods and systems are provided for distributing programming. A fixed linear programming schedule identifying an order of transmission for multiple programs is generated. The programs are transmitted in the order of transmission. An on-demand flag is embedded in at... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010985 | Method and system for resource management in a video on-demand server An on-demand server configured to dynamically control and optimize memory utilization while minimizing access to disk storage by monitoring content addressable memory (CAM) usage so as to remove the content from resident CAM memory and page the same adaptively and t... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996870 | Information process device, mutually connected through a network and receiving delivery information such as movies or music through a network, and a method and program for the same An information processing apparatus carries out a process using delivery information delivered through a network. Only divisional delivery information used in the process of an n-time speed and acquired through a network by dividing the delivery information when the... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7937734 | Interactive audiovisual distribution system A distribution center according to the present invention is capable of handling requests from a plurality of subscribers for accessing programs in a central audiovisual library. The subscriber requests may specify a variable time allowance interval within which a re... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937417 | Mobile communication terminal and method A method for handling media files having attributes is disclosed. A user-configurable play criteria specification is provided, and the method involves automatically selecting and performing a current media file having at least one attribute in compliance with the pl... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930724 | Secure distribution of video on-demand An interactive information distribution system for providing secure distribution of video-on-demand content. The interactive information distribution system includes at least one programming source for storing at least one partially encrypted video program, and a di... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7913282 | Distributed cooperative memory for interactive and scalable video-on-demand system A Distributed Video System provides a scalable and interactive video-on-demand service with VCR operations over a communication network includes a video server and video clients, each of which includes a memory buffer, called a client buffer. The System provides a m... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7890984 | Method and system of video on demand dating Method and system of video on demand (VOD) dating. The method and system permitting a user to select video personals for on demand view. The video personal include recordings of individual interviews or other activities which may be used to introduce the individual ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7836474 | Method and apparatus for preprocessing and postprocessing content in an interactive information distribution system A method and apparatus for preprocessing and postprocessing content in an interactive information distribution system. Content is retrieved from a storage medium and encapsulated in accordance to an Internet Protocol (IP) format. The encapsulated content is then upl... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7797719 | Apparatus and method for interactive digital media content requests A remote user interface transmits a digital media request through a first communication link to a media management control which is coupled by a second communication link to a digital audio-visual playback device for selecting and playing a stored digital media by t... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793325 | Video on demand methods and systems An entertainment head-end provides broadcast programming, video-on-demand services, and HTML-based interactive programming through a distribution network to client terminals in subscribers' homes. A number of different features are provided, including novel user int... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7779444 | System and method for video on request A video on request (“VOR”) system is disclosed. The VOR system includes a producer having a location device for providing location data and a video recording device. The VOR system also includes an information exchange having a producer database configured to st... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774343 | Multiple media vendor support A content distribution system receives data describing media content available from one or more vendors. The content distribution system generates data that describes an offer and associates the media content data with the offer. The content distribution system prov... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761900 | Distribution of content and advertisement Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method for improved distribution of content on a communication network. The system and method are adapted to receive a video request message from a client, identify a location of the client, identify a locat... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7735106 | Method for providing subscription-on-demand services A method for providing subscription-on-demand services for video-on-demand programs within an interactive information distribution system. The method includes associating a plurality of video-on-demand programming packages as a programming bundle and identifying a n... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7735107 | Client-server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording An interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server. Programs may also be recorded on a local media server. The program guide... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7716707 | In-program content telescoping In-program content telescoping can enable a subscriber to telescope into content that is specially associated with a broadcast program. The selectable content is stored as video-on-demand (VOD) assets that are related to particular portions of broadcast programs. In... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7690019 | Receiving apparatus and receiving method In order to make it possible to easily judge a time until a program can be actually audio visually enjoyed after the program is selected, a receiving apparatus includes a controller which receives plural contents such as plural streaming broadcasts via a network, ou... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7681220 | Viewer selection of programs to be subsequently delivered Television users may record abstracts of programs that they desire and program providers may access the recorded program abstracts from time to time so as to provide the program content that matches the requested program. In one embodiment, the user may select a TV ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7653928 | Remote user interface for media player A portable media player communicates with a host computer for enabling a user of the player to manage media distribution using the control software of the host computer. The host computer can send a GUI that is displayed on the otherwise “dumb” player, and the u... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650621 | Systems and methods for providing storage of data on servers in an on-demand media delivery system A system and method may be provided that allows users to store, retrieve, and manipulate on-demand media content and data stored on a remote server network in an on-demand media delivery system. More particularly, the system may allow a user to access his or her on-... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647613 | Apparatus and method for interactive content requests in a networked computer jukebox A remote user interface transmits a digital media request through a communication link to a control which is coupled to a digital audio-visual playback device for selecting and playing a stored digital media by the playback device. The control receives the digital m... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7636933 | Human factors-based video compression Methods, systems and content have been developed for increasing the bandwidth available to a bandwidth-constrained medium for transmitting digital video content. The content that is to be transmitted is compressed in proportion to the desirability of the content. Th... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7596799 | System and method of communicating video content A system and method of communicating video content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes communicating a selection of a channel from a set-top box device to at least one server of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system. The method also... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7559077 | Video system for use where the network transfer rate is slower than the video display rate A video system comprises a network interface, memory, video interface, and processing system. The network interface receives a network signal from a communication network wherein the network signal includes video. The memory stores the video from the network signal.... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7540012 | Video on demand configuring, controlling and maintaining A method and system for providing multilevel information about video-on-demand services. The method comprises the steps of generating a display, on a computer display screen, of a tree having a plurality of nodes; and embedding in the nodes information about video-o... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7516472 | Using broadcast television as a portal for video on demand solicitation Systems and methods are described for using broadcast television systems as an implicit portal for solicitation of video on demand programs. A viewing device is monitored for the occurrence of a specific event, such as a channel change or the detection of a trigger ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7509667 | Broadband content jukebox with profile-based caching The present invention employs a cache for storing a large repository of digital media files (i.e., content) in a local hard drive of individual users, whereby a slower delivery mechanism can be used to add potentially wanted files to each cache in advance of any req... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7493647 | Video on demand An entertainment head-end provides broadcast programming, video-on-demand services, and HTML-based interactive programming through a distribution network to client terminals in subscribers' homes. A number of different features are provided, including novel user int... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493646 | Interactive television systems with digital video recording and adjustable reminders An interactive television system is provided in which an interactive television application is used to support network-based or local personal video recorder capabilities. A user may use this application to view lists of program listings. The user may select a progr... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7441261 | Video system varying overall capacity of network of video servers for serving specific video A method of serving out video over a network of video servers includes evaluating a capacity of the network as a whole to serve out specific video items by establishing, for each video server in the network, an established ability of each server to serve out the spe... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437122 | Apparatus and method for turning wireless TV on/off An apparatus and method for turning on/off a wireless display device, are provided. The apparatus includes a transmitter to receive image signals to be displayed on the wireless display device and to transmit the received image signals via wireless communication, an... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434242 | Multiple content supplier video asset scheduling An apparatus and method for allocating management functions within an interactive information distribution system between service providers and content providers whereby content providers lease respective portions of available resources within the service provider a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424730 | Multimedia presentation latency minimization Systems and methods for presenting time-varying multimedia content are described. In one aspect, a lower quality data stream for an initial portion of the multimedia content is received. The lower quality data stream is received at a rate faster than a real-time pla... | 09/09/2008 |
