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Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170065 | Methods and apparatus for selecting digital access technology for programming and data delivery Methods and apparatus for selecting digital access technology for programming and data delivery over, e.g., a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises an HFC cable or satellite network that includes a server process interfacing with a pluralit... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8135040 | Accelerated channel change Channel changing can be accelerated by multicasting a bouquet of multicast burst streams from a server. In an example implementation, each multicast burst stream is delayed sufficiently so that a past independent frame is available for delivery to and display by a c... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130793 | System and method for enabling reciprocal billing for different types of communications over a packet network A system and method for determining inter-carrier network usage may be used. The method may include determining network usage of a first packet network managed by a first communications carrier by subscribers of a second communications carrier that manages a second ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8073013 | Method and apparatus for collecting survey data via the internet A method and apparatus for conducting a survey independent of location and participant schedules is disclosed herein. An exemplary method of the present invention comprises sending a multi-media data file to a plurality of survey participants, receiving reactionary ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8031744 | Full-duplex wireless communications Full-duplex wireless communication is described. In an embodiment, a transceiver device having a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit receives a data packet sent over a shared communication medium. In the embodiment, the transceiver reads the header of the dat... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7974313 | System for intermediating A/V stream between data network and IEEE 1394 network and method thereof A system and method for intermediating an audio/video (A/V) stream between a data network and an IEEE 1394 network are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, an A/V stream of an IP network is provided to a device connected to the IEEE 1394 network in real time, or th... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7916755 | Methods and apparatus for selecting digital coding/decoding technology for programming and data delivery Methods and apparatus for selecting digital coding and/or decoding technology for programming and data delivery over, e.g., a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises an HFC cable or satellite network that includes a server process interfacing... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7864808 | Advanced, self-balancing video multiplexer system An advanced video multiplexer system designed and optimized for next generation on-demand video distribution is described. The system optimizes identifies a multi-program transport stream best able to accommodate new sessions based upon Quality of Service (QoS) and ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860131 | Signal processing apparatus and methods A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7843969 | Communications system to feed multiple single frequency networks with multiple content A system and processes create a transport stream carrying several encapsulated contents, watermarks, and other ancillary data. The transport stream is re-multiplexed while keeping synchronous and deterministic operation. Synchronous deterministic operation allow eac... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7822068 | System and method for seamless switching through buffering A method of preparing data streams to facilitate seamless switching between such streams by a switching device to produce an output data stream without any switching artifacts. Bi-directional switching between any plurality of data streams is supported. The data str... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817672 | Method and device for providing programs to multiple end user devices A device and a method for providing programs to multiple end user devices. The method includes: providing to multiple end user devices, via an edge device, at least one type of media stream out of unicast media stream and a multicast media stream; wherein the at lea... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7804856 | Advanced, self-balancing video multiplexer system An advanced video multiplexer system designed and optimized for next generation on-demand video distribution is described. The system optimizes identifies a multi-program transport stream best able to accommodate new seesions based upon Quality of Service (QoS) and ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7778279 | Method and apparatus for instant channel change The network unit includes a signaling unit and a video transmitting unit. The signaling unit is configured to receive a request from a decoding device requesting transmission of the video channel. The video transmitting unit is configured to transmit the video chann... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7769053 | Data multiplexing device, program distribution system, program transmission system, pay broadcast system, program transmission method, conditional access system, and data reception device In a data multiplexing device which multiplexes and transmits the transport stream packets of program data consisting of a plurality of data elements constructed in the form of transport stream packets, a program distribution system, a program transmission system, a... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7760764 | Digital broadcast receiving apparatus and method of reducing output time of broadcast content A digital broadcast receiving apparatus and method of reducing an output time of broadcast content, includes for the apparatus, a transport stream generator generating a transport stream from a digital broadcast signal, a transport stream buffer buffering the transp... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7742945 | Methods, systems and computer products to incentivize high speed internet access Temporary increased broadband bandwidth services for high speed access and download of Internet websites are provided to end user DSL subscribers by a system and method to increase speed of accessing certain Internet websites to incentivize the end user DSL subscrib... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7729385 | Techniques for utilization of spare bandwidth A packet encapsulator includes a filter module that identifies one or more carousel packets from a plurality of received packets. These one or more carousel packets are then stored in a packet buffer. The packet encapsulator also includes a channel queue for enqueui... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720103 | Digital television receiver and method for processing a digital television signal A method of processing a digital television (DTV) signal in a DTV receiver, the method includes receiving a digital television signal including video streams and an event information table carrying information for events on predefined virtual channels; parsing the e... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7693188 | Video remultiplexer for dynamic remultiplexing, multi-mode operation and jitter reduced asynchronous communication A method and system are provided for remultiplexing program bearing data. The remultiplexing method and system are applicable to MPEG-2 compliant transport streams carrying video programs. Remultiplexing functions may be distributed across a network. The remultiplex... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7688861 | Media channel switching The present invention discloses methods and systems for switching between media channels. Pursuant to these methods and systems, a broadcast source may provide multicast streams to client devices for presentation of media channels to a user. When a client device req... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7672337 | System and method for providing a digital watermark A method for capturing a broadcast is disclosed. The method for capturing a broadcast includes detecting an approximate start time of the broadcast, wherein said detecting includes monitoring for a broadcast trigger, identifying the broadcast and a timed length ther... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7653090 | Method, transmitter and system for providing video on demand services A method and system for providing video on demand, the method includes: (i) sending, by a resource manager, authorized media stream identification information to a modulation and radio frequency transmitter; (ii) receiving, by a radio frequency transmitter, at least... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7620073 | Bandwidth optimization of video program bearing transport streams An apparatus comprising an input capable of receiving a bandwidth optimized transport stream is provided. The bandwidth optimized transport stream can be produced by receiving a transport stream of variably compressed program data bearing transport packets and one o... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7606268 | Method and apparatus for handing off control of service access over a cable IP network In a communication network that provides a path through a cable IP network between sending and receiving terminals residing on respective networks (e.g., an HFC, and/or PSTN network) controlled by different network managers or service providers, a controller hands o... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7564873 | Method and apparatus for providing in-band messaging within a video on demand environment A method and apparatus for providing in-band messaging through a video switch or other functional element forming a multiplexed content stream prior to transport processing and/or transmission of the multiplexed content stream via an in-band communications channel. | 07/21/2009 |
| 7555012 | Method and apparatus for programming blackout and retune A method for blackout and retune distribution including receiving a first wide area multiplexed feed, the first wide area multiplexed feed comprising a blacked out feed; and generating a requantized local service feed from a local replacement plus retune service fee... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7450613 | Digital transmission system with enhanced data multiplexing in VSB transmission system A digital Vestigial Sideband (VSB) transmission system and enhanced data multiplexing method are disclosed. When 1/2 enhanced data coded at a rate of 1/2 and 1/4 enhanced data at a rate of 1/4 are transmitted, timing jitter in Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) of ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7430187 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing different quality of service/bandwidth allocation to different susbscribers for interactive gaming Quality of Service (QoS) and/or bandwidth allocation can be provided for interactive gaming via a Regional/Access Network (RAN). The RAN can provide end-to-end transport between a Gaming Application Service Provider (GASP) and a Customer Premises Network (CPN) that ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430222 | Media stream splicer An implementation is described herein, which facilitates a fast channel change by receiving and decoding a unicast acquisition media stream that corresponds to a soon-to-be-requested target multicast media stream. It does this before requesting the target multicast ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7415047 | Methods for determining multiplex patterns Methods for determining multiplex patterns are provided. More particularly, a multidimensional data structure is used to store multiplex patterns and indexes used to access individual ones of those patterns based on audio channel selection, audio frame size, and wha... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409702 | Auxiliary program association table A method of identifying programs in a digital video communication system, consistent with certain embodiment of the present invention involve generating an auxiliary program association table (PAT) and an auxiliary program map table (PMT), wherein the auxiliary PAT ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406531 | Method and communication system for data exchange among multiple users interconnected over a bus system A method and a communication system for exchanging data between at least two users interconnected over a bus system are described. The data is contained in messages which are transmitted by the users over the bus system. To improve data exchange among users so that ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400652 | MPEG-2 decoding system and method In an MPEG-2 decoding system, a transport decoder decodes a transport packet corresponding to a Program Identification (PID) from an input transport stream, and retrieves a Program Association Table/Program Map Table PAT/PMT) from the stream when it is requested to ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394829 | Data multiplexing apparatus, data multiplexing method, and transmission apparatus A data multiplexing apparatus including a packet number obtainment unit for obtaining the total number of packets included in one block of a private data packet stream inputted into a channel buffer and an address obtainment unit for obtaining the address of the sta... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7388871 | Method and system for changing message filter coefficients dynamically Certain aspects of changing message filter coefficients dynamically in a packetized network system may comprise selecting a filter for filtering data in a first portion of an incoming data stream. At initiation of a new modification process, a determination may be m... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7389104 | Methods, systems and apparatus for providing urgent public information Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for distributing urgent public information. For example, one exemplary of the invention provides a method for providing an alert to a subscriber. The exemplary method comprises receiving an alert message from ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386004 | Digital broadcast system A broadcasting system which can monitor all input devices for their operating conditions, the broadcasting system includes input devices 11-1M for receiving sound, output devices 31-3N for broad... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386879 | Broadcast network with interactive services In an interactive broadcast system signals transmitted by a service provider (30) are passed via a gateway (12) to a subscriber terminal (2). In order to gain access to services, the subscriber terminal (2) transmits an authorization requ... | 06/10/2008 |
