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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8014525 | Digital broadcasting transmitting system for conditional access and method thereof, and digital broadcasting receiving terminal and method thereof Disclosed are a conditional access transmission system and method, and a receiving terminal and method. The transmission system transmits scrambled broadcasting signals including a network identification code (NIC) in the digital broadcasting service. A repeating sy... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000475 | System and method for encrypting and modulating video streams A system and method for providing an encrypted media stream to clients includes a plurality of remote multiple media stream manager and provider (RMP) units to receive a plurality of source media streams. The RMP units modulate the source media streams to provide a ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7986783 | Data transmitting apparatus A data transmitting apparatus has improved security against eavesdropping for secret communication using Y-00 protocol. The multi-level code generation section generates, based on key information, a multi-level code sequence in which a signal level changes so as to ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7929696 | Receiving DBS content on digital TV receivers A digital television (DTV) signal converter consistent with certain embodiments has a satellite band receiver that receives satellite television broadcast data from a satellite service and demodulates the satellite television broadcast data into a digital data strea... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7903815 | Method of identifying multiple digital streams within a multiplexed signal In a subscriber television system with a host terminal, the present invention allows the identification of the individual packets from two separate MPEG transport streams that have been multiplexed together for decoding by a single external conditional access or poi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7773750 | System and method for partially encrypted multimedia stream A multimedia stream head end includes a legacy conditional access (CA) device that fully encrypts the stream using legacy keys. A copy of the stream is sent to a secondary CA device that encrypts only critical packets in the stream using secondary keys to render a p... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7684566 | Encryption scheme for streamed multimedia content protected by rights management system A stream of content has multiple sub-streams, where each sub-stream comprises a part of the content and is divisible into logical blocks bounded by intrinsic partitions. For each sub-stream, a specification of the logical blocks bounded by the intrinsic partitions i... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7505591 | Personal video recorder and method for controlling thereof The present invention provides a personal video recorder and control method thereof, by which two scrambled transport streams can be descrambled to fit the open cable standard. The present invention includes storing a video stream of a recording channel in a storage... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7499545 | Method and system for dual link communications encryption A method and systems are provided for creating an authentication of secure communications between a software video driver and a video display. A video driver transmitting digital video data deemed high-bandwidth digital content, to a display, performs authentication... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7394834 | Common interface controller and method of descrambling transport stream channels A common interface controller and a method of descrambling channels of first and second transport streams using a conditional access module for descrambling channels of a transport stream as identified by respective PIDs wherein an intermediate data stream is provid... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386129 | System and method for multimedia content simulcast A computer-implemented method is described for processing multimedia channels comprising: encrypting a first group of multimedia channels using a first type of encryption to produce a first group of encrypted multimedia channels; encrypting the first group of multim... | 06/10/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362861 | Methods and apparatus for protecting information content Methods and apparatus for protecting copyrighted information, e.g., video signals, from unauthorized copying. Analog red (R), green (G) and blue (B) video signals are transmitted from a source device, e.g., a display adapter, to a display device, e.g., a monitor, ov... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363511 | Method for processing audiovisual information in an electronic device, a system, and an electronic device A method for processing audiovisual information in an electronic device comprises at least one control block for controlling the operation of the electronic device, and a memory. The audiovisual information is encrypted. The control block is provided with a protecte... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359511 | Encryption transmission system A video signal and an audio signal are time division multiplexed, encrypted, and transmitted. A transmission side time-compresses the audio signal, multiplexes, encrypts, and transmits the time-compressed audio signal in a blanking period of the video signal. Contro... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356143 | System, method, and apparatus for securely providing content viewable on a secure device A system, apparatus, and method are directed to providing and securely viewing secure content. In one embodiment, a secure player provides secure screening/previewing of secure content, such as a motion picture, by a member of an awards organization. A content key i... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348955 | Method of controlling display method, display-use signal producing device, display device, and display system for implementing the method The sending party of a display-use image signal adds to a signal representing a display image a control parameter signal composed of a control tag signal specifying a controlled object and control start/end identification signal Ts or Te between a specific parameter... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350082 | Upgrading of encryption A method of upgrading an encryption process for encryption of video information from an old encryption process to a new encryption process, consistent with certain embodiments involves selecting a portion of video content for selective encryption. The selected porti... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349539 | Encoding and encrypting devices for secure scalable data streaming A device and method thereof for encoding and encrypting data. The device includes a segmenter adapted to receive the data and segment at least a portion of the data into regions, a scalable encoder adapted to scalably encode at least one of the regions into scalably... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346164 | Communication installation for collective data reception A communication installation for communal reception of digital television and/or of multimedia data, which receives a plurality of signals emanating from separate sources. The installation of the invention comprises a network linking a multiplicity of descrambler/de... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346163 | Dynamic composition of pre-encrypted video on demand content According to certain embodiments consistent with the present invention, a method of processing digital video content, wherein the digital video content comprises intra-coded frames and inter-coded frames, involves selecting a plurality of the intra-coded frames for ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337462 | System and method for providing timing data for programming events A video production facility system may produce closed caption data that includes text data and timing data. The system may receive script data for a video program. The system may then determine identifiers for individual programming events that make up the program. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337456 | Advertisement method, advertisement apparatus, advertisement receiver and recording medium An advertisement method considers the circumstances of individual users. This invention comprises a received advertisement database which stores advertisement data; a time obtaining section which obtains the present time; a preference obtaining section which obtains... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334248 | Conditional access filter as for a packet video signal inverse transport system A method and an apparatus for processing a packetized transport stream that determines whether a sequence of transport packets are received in a proper sequence and whether an error is present in a particular transport packet. The method includes the steps of determ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334065 | Multiple data bus synchronization Disclosed is a method and circuit for synchronizing dual data buses. In one embodiment, the method includes a receiving circuit receiving first and second streams of multibit data portions transmitted via first and second parallel data buses, respectively, coupled t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333498 | Method and apparatus for separating data packets in a memory buffer Method and apparatus of separating packets. Specifically, a method of separating data packets in a memory buffer is disclosed. The method locates a memory buffer containing a pre-selected address at a buffer header of the memory buffer. A first data packet containin... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330980 | Method of and system for encrypting digital data, method of and apparatus for reproducing digital data, and computer product There is provided an input unit which reads copyright digital data stored in a recording medium such as a CD-ROM, an operation unit which performs encryption of digital data based on an encryption algorithm from a plurality of encryption algorithms. A file unit outp... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321857 | Systems and methods for TV navigation with compressed voice-activated commands A method, apparatus and system that receives speech commands at a remote control device microphone, digitizes those input speech commands, compresses the digitized speech commands, multiplexes control commands with the compressed digitized speech commands, and trans... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310823 | Digital information recording apparatus and outputting apparatus A digital information recording apparatus includes multiple recording circuits for making multiple copies. The apparatus limits the number of copies, however, in accordance with copy information provided within the digital information itself. When the number of copi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308099 | Device and method for producing an encoded audio and/or video data stream An apparatus for generating an encrypted data stream representing an audio and/or video signal comprises an encoder for encoding an input signal to generate a data stream with a predefined data stream syntax as output signal. The apparatus further comprises an encry... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298846 | Method of identifying multiple digital streams within a multiplexed signal In a subscriber television system with a host terminal, the present invention allows the identification of the individual packets from two separate MPEG transport streams that have been multiplexed together for decoding by a single external conditional access or poi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292692 | Content scrambling with minimal impact on legacy devices An encryption arrangement for television programs or other digital programming consistent with certain embodiments sends content completely in-the-clear and also encrypts only a portion of the content required for full presentation of a television program. The arran... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292691 | Progressive video refresh slice detection A selective encryption encoder and method of dual selective encryption and detection of intra-coded slices in video content. The selective encryption encoder has a packet identifier that identifies packets of at least one specified packet type, the at least one spec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286668 | Method of protecting copyright of digital video work This invention discloses a method of protecting copyright of a digital video work by using a digital password technology and a digital watermark technology to prevent the unauthorized use of a digital video work. Such method adds password protection of two chrominan... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281186 | Error/status information management A method and apparatus for managing error/status information generated in the demultiplexing, processing, and handling of data packets from a video transport stream. Error/status information is organized into control fields of error/status packets. The error/status ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277543 | Cryptographic combiner using two sequential non-associative operations A stream cipher cryptosystem includes a keystream generator receiving a key and providing a keystream. A cryptographic combiner combines a first binary data sequence and the keystream with two non-associative operations to provide a second binary data sequence. In e... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269841 | Digital cable headend for cable television delivery system Several cable headend configurations that utilize digital technology are disclosed. The present invention provides greater capability and flexibility than existing cable headends. Specifically, a modular design for a cable headend and a combiner component for cable ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260829 | Terminal with multiple audio and video A novel advanced set top terminal capable of digital decompression, displaying picture-on-picture, outputting multiple video channels, outputting multiple audio signals, outputting multiple audio channels corresponding to a single video channel, and other advanced f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257132 | Receiver set, information apparatus and receiving system For providing a receiving contract service being convenient or friendly to both the broadcast service providers and the viewers, and in particular, for providing a digital broadcast receiver set, an information apparatus and a digital broadcasting receiving system, ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254716 | Security supervisor governing allowed transactions on a system bus A circuit generally comprising a plurality of master modules and a supervisor module is disclosed. The supervisor module may be configured to (i) detect a target address and a particular master module of the master modules initiating a transaction on a bus, (ii) ide... | 08/07/2007 |
