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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180675 | System and method for automatically managing avail inventory data and avail pricing A system, computer code, and method are provided for automatically managing avail inventory data of media programming streams for a communications network, such as a cable TV network. The computer-implemented method includes the steps of correlating available addres... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171044 | Methods, systems, and products for recommending social communities Methods, devices, and products are disclosed for recommending a social community. A “social community” may be any individual(s), clubs, and/or organizations that have expressed some affinity to terms or subject matter, such as a media identifier. The media ident... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8127327 | Method for providing multiple streams in digital media and to select viewable content based on geography A method for selectively displaying viewing content based on geographic considerations, the method includes: decoding audio/video (A/V) information; detecting geographic identifiers in the A/V information; displaying specific portions of the A/V information associat... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8108894 | Internet-based submission of cable network content A cable network content delivery system providing advertising information via a cable network and an advertising content interface are described. An advertiser submits advertising content over an internet which is then adapted for a cable network. A data gateway sto... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104059 | System and method for serving advertising data from the internet A system and method are disclosed including a computer program, the computer program comprising instructions to receive at an IPTV system node, advertising tokens data having advertising characteristics data and address data; instructions to filter at the IPTV syste... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8087044 | Methods, apparatus, and systems for managing the insertion of overlay content into a video signal Methods, apparatus, and systems for managing the insertion of overlay content into a video signal are provided. A video signal is received from a video source. In addition, overlay content is provided in one or more overlay content signals. A tag is appended to the ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8060904 | Dynamic load based ad insertion A system and method are provided for dynamically adjusting advertisement (“ad”) time for a multicast channel. In one embodiment, a variable ad insertion function operates to receive one or more multicasts of media content from a core distribution network, insert... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7937724 | Advertising content tracking for an entertainment device Systems and methods of processing data from a plurality of entertainment devices are provided. The method may include: receiving user interaction information, said user interaction information comprising information regarding user interaction with an advertisement d... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930715 | Operations center for a television program packaging and delivery system An apparatus and a method provide optimum packaging of programs for delivery over a television program delivery system. The apparatus includes a central processor unit (CPU) that is used to select program categories and identify external and internal programs. For p... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917924 | Systems and methods for semantic editorial control and video/audio editing In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to create and customize a version of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. Based on semantic criteria, the media content management application may us... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904922 | Template creation and editing for a message campaign A system and method for dynamically creating individualized, multi-media messages and to deliver the messages to specific target groups or individual viewers. A message, story, or advertisement is assembled on demand, based upon rules applied to each viewer's profil... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900227 | Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895620 | Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890971 | Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7870578 | Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870579 | Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870580 | Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870577 | Systems and methods for semantic editorial control and video/audio editing In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to create and customize a version of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. Based on semantic criteria, the media content management application may us... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861261 | Systems and methods for managing and distributing media content In accordance with the present invention, a media content management application that allows a user to customize, assemble, distribute, and track one or more versions of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7844985 | Targeted advertisement using television viewer information A novel multiple channel architecture is designed to allow targeted advertising directed to television terminals connected to an operations center or a cable headend. Advertisements are displayed during commercial breaks in the television programs. Such advertisemen... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7757250 | Time-centric training, inference and user interface for personalized media program guides The present invention is related to a system and method of considering time segments or intervals in a collaborative filtering model. The present invention extends collaborative filtering approaches by integrating considerations of temporality into the training and/... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7743395 | Method and system for user-aware video display The present invention relates to a method and system for displaying a video signal in dependence on a user interaction. The system comprises a display for receiving the video signal, at least one transmitter for transmitting location signals, and at least three tran... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7634786 | Interactive television program guide system for determining user values for demographic categories An interactive television program guide system for determining user input values for demographic categories is provided. The system includes user television equipment having a receiver for receiving program guide information for the interactive television program gu... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7590993 | Method and apparatus for gathering programs watched data A processor in a television program delivery system receives programs watched information from terminals in a television delivery system. The processor arranges the programs watched information in a database or programs watched matrix so that the frequency of progra... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7584490 | System and method for delivering statistically scheduled advertisements A system and method for scheduling advertisements in a television service network environment. An ad scheduler prepares an ad insertion schedule based on channel change statistical information and avail time information. The scheduler evaluates the statistical infor... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7568211 | System and method to implement business model for advertising revenue by detecting and tracking audience members who visit advertiser designated locations The invention discloses a system and method to implement a business model for advertising revenue that allows advertising hosts to reliably detect registered audience members who respond to advertisements by coming into close physical proximity of designated locatio... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7546619 | Voting and headend insertion model for targeting content in a broadcast network A system and method is provided for use in connection with delivering content that is targeted to users of a broadcast network. In order to select content that is targeted to users of the broadcast network, signals are received from a plurality of customer premise e... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7487525 | Method and apparatus for gathering programs watched data A processor in a television program delivery system receives programs watched information from terminals in a television delivery system. The processor arranges the programs watched information in a database or programs watched matrix so that the frequency of progra... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7444656 | Post production visual enhancement rendering Disclosed is a method and system that renders enhancement images onto receptor sites of a scene of a pre-existing program. A receptor site defines an area of a scene onto which an enhancement image may be rendered and provides information that may include size, scal... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444657 | Event masking for television signal receiver having an emergency alert function A television signal receiver having an emergency alert function provides a masked list of emergency events during a user setup process for the emergency alert function which makes the setup process easier for users, and also ensures that the emergency alert function... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444658 | Method and system to perform content targeting A method and system for targeting advertisements. Advertisements are selectively sent to user terminals based on a user classification. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system defines matches between user classifications and advertisement class... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434247 | System and method for determining the desirability of video programming events using keyword matching The desirability of programming events may be determined using metadata for programming events that includes goodness of fit scores associated with categories of a classification hierarchy one or more of descriptive data and keyword data. The programming events are ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7383243 | Systems and methods for creating and evaluating content and predicting responses to content A method of creating new content based on previously experienced content and content ratings, in which content attributes are obtained and analyzed against set-top box events collected as the content is experienced. Analysis includes determining effects of various c... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380259 | System and method for integrating weather data into television broadcasts A system and method are provided for integrating data representing at least one weather parameter prevailing at at least a first geographic location into a television broadcast related to the first geographic location. An icon signal representing a weather parameter... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380029 | Disk driver cluster management of time shift buffer A file allocation system for a hard disk drive includes a memory with driver logic and a processor configured with the driver logic to receive a request to allocate hard disk space of a defined size for a buffer file. In some embodiments, the processor is configured... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370073 | Using viewership profiles for targeted promotion deployment A system for generating viewership profiles to facilitate distributing promotions based on the profiles to one or more network devices, such as set top boxes. The system includes a promotion agent associated with each network device which collects viewing activity d... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360690 | Product advisor A system is provided for advising in the selection of products to offer customers. The system includes one or more data stores that contain sets of product selection related data including customer information, and product and service related to telecommunications p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359944 | Method of providing digital electronic book Disclosed is a contents-providing service through a communication network and a system thereof and, more particularly, a method of providing a digital electronic book suitable for securing a copyright profit, by transferring a digital electronic book or digital mult... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360160 | System and method for providing substitute content in place of blocked content A method for blocking content from being presented at a client device including substitution of alternative content. The client device recognizes and evaluates the received tags and blocks content based on a user profile. Substitute content is then identified and pr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356547 | Methods and systems for selectively displaying advertisements A system, including a planning module, a control module and a receiver module, configured to schedule display of one or more advertising impressions of available advertising inventory. The planning module enables scheduling a requested quantity of advertising impres... | 04/08/2008 |
