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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176509 | Post processing video to identify interests based on clustered user interactions Methods and systems for post-processing video to identify interests based on clustered user interactions are provided. A client application program running on a set-top box is provided to enable a user to interactively select a point of interest within video content... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176508 | Method and apparatus to provide verification of data using a fingerprint The present invention verifies the transmission of a data stream, such as an advertisement, to a receiver in a data network, such as a television set in a cable television network. In particular, the present invention develops and stores a data stream fingerprint pr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8127325 | Log processing to determine impression values using reliable durations Set top box logs are received from a television provider and processed to identify channel tunes and channel tune times. The channel tunes and channel tune times of the log data can be compared to expected air times of television advertisements on channels, and an i... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8065702 | Network advertising and game playing The a method and apparatus is disclosed for collecting information about network (Internet) users for determining advertising to be presented to the users. User profiles may be determined, and advertising is selectively provided by comparing user personal informatio... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065701 | Information broadcasting method, information broadcasting system, and receiving apparatus for transmitting data other than program through digital broadcasting When advertising information is included in a received broadcasting wave, viewer attributes which have previously been registered in an IC card is collated with a target ID added to the advertising information, and the advertising information (icon) in which both of... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7966218 | Apparatus, method and system for broadcast content expiration after recorded by a user An apparatus, method, and system for a Media Expiration System (MES) that improves upon current content control systems by better managing media recordings. The MES enables media owners to disable recordings of their broadcast content and/or advertising, locally, af... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7941816 | Detection of media links in broadcast signals A detection apparatus includes a tuner tuned to the program and a meter coupled to the tuner and arranged to detect content ancillary information from the program tuned by the tuner. The content ancillary information may be a media link, closed captioning informatio... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937723 | System and method for verifying content displayed on an electronic visual display by measuring an operational parameter of the electronic visual display while displaying the content One embodiment of a system and method may include communicating visual content via a visual content signal to an electronic visual display for displaying between a start time and an end time. The visual content signal may be displayed between the start and end times... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934228 | Method and system for marking video signals for identification An apparatus for generating an output signal includes a receiving system 160 generating a plurality of signals having a first format, an insertion module 166 inserting a source identifier into the plurality of signals, an encoder 182 encoding th... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7877766 | Method and system of providing a non-skippable sub-advertisement stream A method and system of providing a non-skippable sub-advertisement stream. The general idea of one embodiment in accordance with the present invention is that when a user of an electronic digital recording/play back device causes it to fast forward through or skip o... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853969 | Log processing to determine impression values using reliable durations Set top box logs are received from a television provider and processed to compensate for broadcast latency and generate normalized log data, e.g., log data that are indexed to a relative time. Channel tunes and the channel tune times of the normalized log data can b... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853968 | Commercial detection suppressor with inactive video modification A method for processing a video signal, comprising the steps of (A) receiving the video signal comprising (i) a first segment having a series of frames each having a first region and a second region defining a first signature and (ii) a second segment having a serie... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849475 | System and method for selective recording of information A system and method for selective recording of information uses sequential pattern matching of statistical vectors which characterize incoming time-based information to identify previously marked information within an incoming information stream. The system and meth... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7757248 | Detection of media links in broadcast signals A detection apparatus includes a tuner tuned to the program and a meter coupled to the tuner and arranged to detect content ancillary information from the program tuned by the tuner. The content ancillary information may be a media link, closed captioning informatio... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7716698 | Multi-market broadcast tracking, management and reporting method and system A method of analyzing multi-market broadcasts of commercial advertisements, has unique identifiers are assigned to a plurality of expected commercial advertisements, information regarding the plurality of expected commercial advertisements and respective unique iden... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7676821 | Method and related system for detecting advertising sections of video signal by integrating results based on different detecting rules Method and related system for detecting advertising sections of video signal. The invention is capable of integrating detecting results based on different detecting rules, which includes detecting discontinuity of frame images in the video signals, detecting occurre... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7661116 | Auction for targeted content Displaying personalized content to content observers by content providers (e.g., advertisers) who disseminate content over a network is disclosed. In particular, enabling the display of targeted content to television viewers is disclosed. Identification of the conte... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7627878 | Method and System for automated auditing of advertising The timing and placement of advertising on TV, radio or other broadcast media can be automatically verified or audited by monitoring and recording channels of TV, radio or broadcast media by storing and tagging discrete portions of segments of the broadcast signals ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7614065 | System and method for verifying content displayed on an electronic visual display A system and method for providing multiple levels of verification of content displayed on an electronic display. A verification code signal representative of a verification code may be displayed with the visual content. The verification code may be sensed and determ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7607148 | Method and apparatus for monitoring an information distribution system Techniques to monitor operation of an information distribution system and delivery of programming, guide data, and other information by the system. These techniques may be used for diagnostics, quality control, and other purposes, and for various types of systems. I... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7587729 | Tracking promoted listings Promoted listing are generated and transmitted to client devices where they are displayed prominently in relation to non-promoted listings. The client devices record tracking data that indicates that a particular promoted listing has been displayed to and/or selecte... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7496943 | Network system for presenting advertising A networked system is disclosed for presenting advertising during on-line interactions between a user and a service of a network (e.g., the Internet, interactive cable, and/or a LAN). Advertisements (ads) are presented to a networked user unrequestedly during user i... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7412355 | Analog display of signal swing and logic analyzer thresholds A Logic Analyzer has an intuitive and informative analog presentation of signal activity and threshold settings formed by gathering a collection of factors pertaining to the measurement to be performed, such as information about which channels are members of labeled... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409422 | Declarative page view and click tracking systems and methods Declarative page view and click tracking systems and methods are described. To utilize page view and/or click tracking, a web page developer includes a link identifier in a function call or build anchor tag call of a web page. A tracking server identifies links that... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400364 | Sub-program avoidance redirection for broadcast receivers A system for automatically tuning a primary broadcast receiver using a secondary broadcast receiver to receive a first broadcast signal corresponding to a source of an origin program, one or more program transition detectors to monitor first broadcast signal tuned b... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7372915 | Transmitting method and transmitting device, receiving method and receiving device, and transfer method and transfer system Data broadcast data, which is broadcast in data broadcasts, is constructed by disposing, for example, EMD (Electric Music Distribution) links required to acquire song data as actual broadcast data, which is broadcast in actual broadcasts by a transmitting device, th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366461 | Method and apparatus for improving the quality of a recorded broadcast audio program Recordings of broadcast audio content often contain errors (e.g., noise, signal loss, interference, talkover). A method and apparatus are provided for improving the quality of such a recording. Multiple recordings of a broadcast audio program are identified, and are... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362946 | Automated visual image editing system A method of editing a video sequence comprising a series of clips, in which each clip is formed by video content captured between two points in time. Duration data associated with the duration of each clip is extracted from the sequence. The duration data is process... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363582 | System and method of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content Systems and methods of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content are provided. A typical system includes a document parsing stage, a device request for content stage and a delivery of requested content stage. A target device can include a device p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359006 | Audio module supporting audio signature A system and method embed an audio signature in a video frame. An audio signature is generated from one bit a buffer input data. Two registers store an audio signature and reference count. According to an embodiment, the audio signature is generated left/right (L/R)... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356464 | Method and device for estimating signal power in compressed audio using scale factors Estimating a signal power in a compressed audio signal [A] is provided, the audio signal comprising blocks of quantized samples, a given block being provided with a set of scale factors. The estimating is performed by extracting the set of scale factors from the com... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350223 | Multi-media data automatic delivery system A system for delivering contents includes a center system which delivers the contents, a plurality of terminal systems which receive the contents from the center system and displays the contents, and communication lines connecting the center system to the plurality ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343141 | Concurrent content capturing radio systems and methods An enhanced radio system is disclosed that provides for the capture and playback of one or more radio stations. The user may tune to a station, or scan through stations, rewind to hear what was missed (even while the system is turned off), and fast-forward through u... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343282 | Method for transcoding audio signals, transcoder, network element, wireless communications network and communications system The invention relates to a method for transcoding audio signals in a communications system. In order to improve the inter-operability between units (2,40) capable of handling wideband audio signals and units (3,46) or network components (50) cap... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340660 | Method and system for using statistical signatures for testing high-speed circuits A method and system for testing a high-speed circuit is disclosed. The method and system include obtaining a high-speed statistical signature of the high-speed circuit using a conventional tester. The method and system further include comparing the high-speed statis... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7337455 | Method, apparatus, and program for evolving algorithms for detecting content in information streams A method for optimizing the performance of an algorithm for detecting predetermined content in a media information stream, and a program and apparatus that operate in accordance with the method. The algorithm is a function of a set of parameters. The method comprise... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334251 | Management of television advertising A method for providing television advertising includes receiving user input for selecting an advertising parameter and providing a user with an advertisement corresponding to the advertising parameter. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330562 | Watermarking in the time-frequency domain Methods and systems for time-frequency domain watermarking of media signals, such as audio and video signals. An encoding method divides the media signal into segments, transforms each segment into a time-frequency representation, and computes a time-frequency domai... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327931 | Alternate method of showing commercials using personal video recorders A recording and playback system comprising a personal video recorder (“PVR”) coupled to a television monitor. The PVR records a video broadcast stream which comprises main program information as well as commercial content. The commercial content includes commerc... | 02/05/2008 |
