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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8055634 | User interface for navigating a keyword space The present invention relates to systems, methods, and user interfaces for browsing a collection of content items saved by a user or by one or more buddies associated with a given user. The method of the present invention comprises saving one or more content items a... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8024762 | Methods and apparatus for providing virtual content over a network Methods and apparatus for selecting, purchasing and delivering content to users of a network so that the user has “virtual” ownership of and access to the content, thereby obviating the need for physical media (e.g., DVDs or CDs). In an exemplary embodiment, the... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7971223 | Method and system of queued management of multimedia storage A queue management module receives a message to queue location information for multimedia content. The queue management module stores the location information in a queue corresponding to a subscriber. The queue management module receives a message for location infor... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7831989 | Intelligent asset management in a cable services system Methods and systems are provided for intelligently managing on-demand content in a cable services system. High demand video programs (e.g., movies, documentaries, mini-series, educational films, and the like) are stored at cable system hubs that service a number of ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7757259 | Intelligent asset management in a cable services system Methods and systems are provided for intelligently managing on-demand content in a cable services system. High demand video programs (e.g., movies, documentaries, mini-series, educational films, and the like) are stored at cable system hubs that service a number of ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7627888 | Method and system for keeping a library of titles updated Techniques for updating a library with a significant number of titles are disclosed. A library in each of the boxes in service is updated synchronously or asynchronously. Any release to update the library is performed by propagating data chunks by a gossip protocol ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7610604 | Intelligent MPEG media storage, execution, and presentation system using network storage system A resource manager transforms the MPEG7 descriptors into an active and composite storage, processing, and presentation component in a storage area network (e.g. iSCSI). The active component can enable fast search and retrival operation directly on the logical disk b... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7444662 | Video file server cache management using movie ratings for reservation of memory and bandwidth resources Access to movies ranging from very popular movies to unpopular movies is managed by configuring sets of data movers for associated movie rankings, reserving data mover local cache resources for the most popular movies, reserving a certain number of streams for popul... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443883 | Method and system of providing customer premise equipment code A method and system for providing customer premise equipment (CPE) code to one or more pieces of CPE in a cable system having a national code repository (NCR) in communication with a number of headend units, wherein the headend units deliver code received from the N... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433577 | Method and apparatus for reproducing television broadcast program digest An apparatus for reproducing a television broadcast program digest which stores a broadcast signal indicative of contents of at least one television broadcast program and guide data of the at least one television broadcast program. The apparatus pre-stores a period ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7406631 | Method and apparatus for dynamic performance evaluation of data storage systems Improved approaches for evaluating performance of data storage systems used with computers are disclosed. The performance evaluation of the data storage systems utilizes dynamic performance evaluation by use of data throughput as a diagnostic. The data storage syste... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7404201 | Data distribution server A copy computer includes a storage device which stores a copy of contents from a distribution computer and a module which creates a copy of updated contents based on a copy request and which sends a copy of contents requested by a search computer to a distribution r... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395395 | Methods, systems, and storage mediums for monitoring consumption of storage space and relocating content contained in the storage when a predetermined condition is met Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and storage mediums for managing content storage and selection activities. The method includes monitoring consumption of storage space with respect to storage capacity in at least one content device receiving content... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386871 | Program guide system with real-time data sources A program guide system is provided in which an interactive television program guide that is implemented at least partially on user television equipment receives program listings data and real-time data such as sports scores, news data, and the like. The real-time da... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373672 | Method for securely managing information in database A method for storing and securely managing important information for a user in a database includes storing synchronizing information, which changes when a portion of the important information is updated, in the database together with the important information, and e... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367061 | Systems, methods, and a storage medium for storing and securely transmitting digital media data Systems, methods, and a storage medium for storing and securely transmitting digital media data in a networked system are provided. The method includes determining an amount of memory for storing the digital media data. The method further includes querying a plurali... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363096 | Digital audio signal filtering mechanism and method Essentially all of the processing parameters which control processing of a source audio signal to produce an encoded audio signal are stored in an audio processing profile. Multiple audio processing profiles are stored in a processing profile database such that spec... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360233 | Broadcast carousel system access for remote home communication terminal Systems and methods are disclosed for providing objects to a remote digital home communication terminal (remote DHCT) via a gateway device located at a customer premises. One such method, among others, includes receiving a message from a remote DHCT requesting a car... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356831 | Method for the distribution of audio-visual information and a system for the distribution of audio-visual information The technology herein relates to a jukebox system, including a server that stores a master library of audiovisual selections. The system includes a plurality of jukeboxes, each of which is operable to store audiovisual selections received from the server and to play... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349976 | Audio-on-demand communication system An audio-on-demand communication system provides real-time playback of audio data transferred via telephone lines or other communication links. One or more audio servers include memory banks which store compressed audio data. At the request of a user at a subscriber... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340765 | Archiving and viewing sports events via Internet Self-help or do-it-yourself productions of collegiate athletic contests are generated by the originating institution, and the recorded production is sent by overnight courier to a central digital clearing house. At the clearing house the contents of the recording ar... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337231 | Providing media on demand Providing media on demand includes a trace-adaptive fragmentation scheme generating a plurality of segment fragmentation schemes for broadcasting data on a link across a network from a host to a set of clients. The set of data includes frames of information and can ... | 02/26/2008 |
| RE40107 | Video/audio transmission system and method The invention is a data pipeline system which synchronizes the display of digitized audio and video data regardless of the speed at which the data was recorded on its linear medium. To do this, the video data is played at a constant speed, synchronized by the audio ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7302419 | Dynamic operator identification system and methods A system and method for dynamically determining the demographic identity of an individual operating a set-top box, is disclosed which may include monitoring set top-box events for a plurality of set-top boxes, correlating set-top box events with demographic characte... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299486 | Control program, for a supervisor processor in a video-on-demand system, which builds subgroups of internet protocol headers and transmission control lists A control program for a supervisor processor in a video-on-demand system directs the supervisor processor to perform the steps of: a) transfer a group of video data packets, from an externally stored complete video into a memory for the supervisor processor; b) buil... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299487 | Control program, for a co-processor in a video-on-demand system, which uses transmission control lists to send video data packets with respective subgroups of internet protocol headers A control program for a co-processor in a video-on-demand system directs the co-processor to perform the steps of: a) obtain a transmission control list, from an external source, which identifies a group of several video data packets and a respective subgroup of int... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7280662 | Time-shifting data in digital radio system A satellite-based digital audio radio (SDAR) receiver is configured to temporarily store data that may be transmitted to the SDAR receiver at a time inconvenient to the subscriber. A memory arrangement buffers data output by a channel decoder. The SDAR receiver can ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281177 | Autonomic parity exchange Error tolerance is increased for a storage system having a plurality of arrays by making local redundancy in a selected array globally available throughout the storage system. To achieve the increased error tolerance, a donor array is selected from the plurality of ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278152 | Video pedestal network An architecture for distributing digital information to subscriber units wherein selection from among multiple digital services is accomplished by transmitting a tuning command from a subscriber unit to an intermediate interface. The intermediate interface selects t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278153 | Content propagation in interactive television A process of propagates viewing assets on a system of video storages. The process includes copying a missing portion of a replica of a selected viewing asset onto a target video server. The act of copying is responsive to determining that a priority to propagate the... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272844 | Lodging entertainment system with guest-selected time shifting A lodging entertainment system provides a variety of products and services, including free television, pay-per-view movies, video games, guest services, and guest-selected recording of television programs for time-shifted viewing. Through the use of an interactive p... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269840 | Method of measuring goodness of a module schedule for a carousel A method of determining a goodness metric of a module schedule. The module schedule comprises a plurality of modules, at least one of which exhibits multiple instances, that are arranged within the period of a carousel. The goodness metric is based, at least in part... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263714 | Providing content interruptions Content which users may wish to receive may be distributed with interrupting content such that the use of the content on the user's receiver may be interrupted and replaced with the interrupting content. The content which the user wishes to receive may be software, ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260564 | Network video guide and spidering A system and method that provides a hosted network video guide application. The guide application is provided as a service to web portals and other websites that wish to expose access to the video content available on a public network such as the Internet. The opera... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254826 | Broadcast apparatus and reception apparatus that enable additional data to be used without a waiting time when one program changes to another A broadcast apparatus broadcasts broadcast data. In the broadcast apparatus, an acquiring unit acquires broadcast data and a reproduction time period in which the broadcast data is to be reproduced by a reception apparatus, and a broadcasting unit repeatedly broadca... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249147 | Combination compact disc recorder and player system The combination recorder and player system includes a recorder/player unit and a remote control unit. The recorder/player unit includes a recorder/player computer system and recorder/player software that is operable to cause the recorder/player to record, play, and ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246367 | Synchronized service provision in a communications network The invention relates to the synchronized playback of video and/or audio recordings in terminals of a communications network. A server stores recordings including timing markers, each of which indicates an internal position within the recording. The system comprises... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243364 | Interactive entertainment network system and method for customizing operation thereof according to viewer preferences An interactive entertainment network system has a video-on-demand (VOD) application which allows viewers to create their own customized lists of preferred video content programs, such as movies, games, TV shows, and so forth. Viewers are permitted to select criteria... | 07/10/2007 |
