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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8056112 | Location-based media presentation Media can be presented based on location associated with presentation of media (e.g., physical location of a device that is to present media). Presentation of media can be effectively controlled in order to automatically present a first media content (e.g., a list o... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7913288 | Home entertainment system A dedicated apparatus for playing unmodified software, housed in a home entertainment system chassis, for playing in a home entertainment environment the existing body of interactive multimedia software that has been formatted and published for compatibility with st... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908303 | Integrated digital media projection and personal digital data processing system Disclosed is a projector and data processing method and system for recommending digital media content to a user. The method and system gather statistics about the preferences of the user and/or compare the user to population data to create recommendations in accord ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904936 | Technique for resegmenting assets containing programming content delivered through a communications network Program content is received at a headend of a broadband communication system, along with data concerning scheduled start and end times of the program derived from electronic program guide (EPG) data. After the program is broadcast, the actual broadcast start and end... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7437053 | Digital video recorder, method of driving the video recorder and program A digital video recorder writes data on a selected one of a first storage medium and a second storage medium. The recorder includes an abnormal state detector for detecting any abnormal event that possibly occurs while the recorder is writing the data on the first s... | 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 |
| 7421729 | Generation and insertion of indicators using an address signal applied to a database Disclosed is a system for inserting indicators, such as tags and markers, in a video stream. The tags and markers can be inserted automatically using a database, or manually using an operator input station that supplies standard tags and markers for easy insertion. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7375657 | Method and system for performing streaming of encoded data A computer readable medium encoded with a computer program for performing streaming of character-based data from a storage system is provided. The computer program comprises code for fetching a block of data from the storage system, wherein the character-based data ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7360236 | Data reception apparatus, data communication apparatus, information presentation apparatus, television control apparatus, data reception method, data communication method, information presentation method, and television control method A memory stores data supplied to each of a plurality of users via a communication network. A verification unit identifies a user. A reading unit reads data supplied to the user identified by the verification unit from the memory, and presents the data to the user. | 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 |
| 7350140 | User-data relating apparatus with respect to continuous data In a meeting held with employment of a plurality of materials, conditions of this meeting are recorded in the form of continuous data, and these materials are distributed to a user P who participates in this meeting by way of a printed matter and/or a screen output.... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346738 | Cache memory for a scalable information distribution system An information distribution system includes an interconnect and multiple data processing nodes coupled to the interconnect. Each data processing node includes mass storage and a cache. Each data processing node also includes interface logic configured to receive sig... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7324735 | Image processing An image data processing system is configured to store image data with redundant protection in the form of a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID). An input card is configured to receive an input stream of real-time digital video data, possibly provided by a v... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320025 | Systems and methods for providing a broadcast entertainment service and an on-demand entertainment service The present invention provides systems and methods for, in some cases, supplementing a broadcast media service with an on-demand and personalized media service. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7308003 | System and method for re-multiplexing multiple video streams A multimedia packet re-multiplexer system having a plurality of multimedia sources, each multimedia source sending incoming multimedia packets, each packet having a header which includes a packet identifier (PID) to determine the packet type. The system includes an ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7259697 | Method and system for performing character-based streaming of mixed-byte encoded data A method and system for performing streaming of character-based data is disclosed. The method and system include fetching a block of data and converting at least a portion of the block of the data into at least a part of a character. The character-based data include... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7231466 | Data migration method for disk apparatus Data migration can be executed between new and old disk apparatuses without changing the disk definition of a host computer. A switch having the function of online data migration is provided between the host computer and the old disk apparatus, data are copied to th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7209942 | Information providing method and apparatus, and information reception apparatus By moving image analysis, acoustic/speech analysis, or text analysis for multimedia information in a database, feature data representing the type of information is acquired, and the feature data is stored into the database added to the multimedia information. A sear... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200718 | Cache memory for a scalable information distribution system An information distribution system includes an interconnect and multiple data processing nodes coupled to the interconnect. Each data processing node includes mass storage and a cache. Each data processing node also includes interface logic configured to receive sig... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7177991 | Installation method of new storage system into a computer system A new storage unit is installed such that installation costs are suppressed and functions of the new storage unit can be utilized sufficiently. An access right is changed such that the new storage unit (second storage unit) can access an existing first storage unit ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177520 | System and method of timecode repair and synchronization in MPEG streams A method, apparatus and article of manufacture is provided for processing a previously encoded MPEG video high-resolution (HR) file and corresponding proxy file, for frame accurate timecode repair and synchronization of individual video frames of the HR and proxy fi... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7152237 | Delivering targeted advertisements to the set-top-box A system and a method for delivering targeted advertisements to the set-top box (STB). The targeted advertisements may be delivered to the STB in a low bandwidth channel or in a high bandwidth channel as an ad channel. The ad channel may be an analog channel wherein... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7133486 | Ever-increasing quality for stored video streaming in a mobile wireless interworking environment There is provided a method for managing the downloading and display of a video program using a mobile device in an networking environment that includes a first radio access network and a second radio access network that has a faster transfer rate than the first netw... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7134053 | 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... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130941 | Changing-over and connecting a first path, wherein hostscontinue accessing an old disk using a second path, and the second path of the old disk to a newly connected disk via a switch Data migration can be executed between new and old disk apparatuses without changing the disk definition of a host computer. A switch having the function of online data migration is provided between the host computer and the old disk apparatus, data are copied to th... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7058721 | Dynamic quality adjustment based on changing streaming constraints A method and apparatus for dynamic quality adjustment based on changing streaming constraints is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, a video stream is sent to a client according to a set of streaming constraints. At least a subset of the vide... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7055166 | Apparatus and methods for broadcast monitoring Disclosed herein are systems and methods for editing the content of a broadcast programming signal to provide a proprietary program signal that has been tailored to the preferences of an individual monitoring the broadcast programming signal. Accordingly, the system... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7039065 | Telecommunications rack including shelves with nonredundant backplanes used redundantly A telecommunications rack has one or more shelves connected to a narrowband network and to a broadband network for serving a plurality of subscribers. Line termination and network termination equipment are interconnected by a bus internal to the shelf for providing ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032239 | Providing content description and connection information in digital broadcast networks A system enables connection information and content description information to be separately transmitted from a broadcaster to a receiver. Thus, the description of the content may be provided to a receiver prior to the time that the information needed to specify the... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028096 | Method and apparatus for caching for streaming data Streaming video data from the video title is delivered to a client from a central server and a proxy server. To reduce the backbone bandwidth required, a portion of the video title is cached at the proxy server where the portion cached is distributed over the video ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024681 | Method and apparatus for near video on demand A master scheduler system and method automatically operate and/or coordinate operation of a plurality of relatively independent systems, including manual systems, to function as an NVOD system to provide automating diverse operations for supporting and maintaining a... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020892 | Time-shifted video signal processing A time-shifted video method has a real-time mode during which real-time video frames are delivered for display. In a time-shifted mode, time-shifted video frames are delivered for display. The time-shifted video frames are delayed relative to the real-time video fra... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017179 | Data receiving apparatus and method Different programs are broadcasted in a plurality of channels. A broadcast program which transmits same data in repetition is reserved in such programs to download the data. The GUI part 250 displays EPG data indicating a broadcast time zone of a data broadcast prog... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7006457 | Modem front-end apparatus and method A method and apparatus for recovering a second transport stream included within a first transport stream and reducing timing anomaly imparted to the second transport stream within the context of a front-end device subject to random access via a data bus, illustrativ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003156 | Object detection method and a video data retrieval method A video data description method. Both feature data of predetermined object and feature data of background area are extracted from a frame of input video. The feature data of predetermined object and the feature data of background area are described as a descriptor o... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993786 | Client/server multimedia presentation system A method of presenting, at a client terminal, a video program stored in a server linked with the client terminal via transmission path of a limited transmission band width. Each frame of the video program comprises a basic data portion and at least one level of qual... | 01/31/2006 |
