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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181205 | PVR channel and PVR IPG information A system that maps media content information to an interactive program guide displayed on a screen includes, among other things, a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to display at least one personal video recording display channel in the in... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181206 | Personal content server apparatus and methods Personal content server apparatus and associated methods that allow a user (e.g., cable or satellite network subscriber) to access content, such as a video program, from a location outside the subscriber's network. In one embodiment, a personal content server stream... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8156528 | Personal video recorder systems and methods Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an interactive television system for recording television programming. The interactive television system may include components for providing personal video recorder (PVR) functionality, such as an interactive televisi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146122 | Receiving apparatus A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive television broadcasting to generate an output signal, a signal processing unit configured to generate image data of a broadcast program using the output signal, a display unit configured to displa... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141118 | Data broadcasting receiver power management Systems and methods for data broadcasting and power management techniques for data broadcast receiving devices are disclosed. A data broadcast receiving device receives a broadcast schedule from a data broadcast server and correlates the broadcast schedule with prof... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8074245 | Program reservation system and program reserving method In a receiving device, a receiver receives extended program information. A user selects a program to be reserved by a selection operation using an operation input unit. An extended reservation manager causes an instruction receiver to transmit an extended reservatio... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8046800 | Remotely controlling a video recorder A client system for remotely controlling a video recorder receives program data from a remote server in response to user input selecting a time sequential signal from a program schedule guide provided by the remote server, via the Internet, email, a computer-readabl... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046802 | Method and system for ordering and prioritizing the downloading of content from an interactive interface A method and system for ordering content includes a first device having an ordering interactive interface. The first device identifies a user account. The first device forms a content selection corresponding to the on-demand content from the interactive interface an... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046801 | Interactive television program guide with remote access An interactive television program guide with remote access is provided. The interactive television program guide is implemented on interactive television program guide equipment. A remote program guide access device is connected to the interactive television program... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8037499 | Systems, methods, and computer products for recording of repeated programs Systems, methods and computer products for recording of repeated programs. Exemplary embodiments include a recording of a repeated program method, including receiving a recording request for a first program from a communications device, the recording request having ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037498 | Reception method, reception device, transmission method, transmission device, transmission/reception method, transmission/reception device An electronic mail on which a control command is interpolated is transmitted through a public line, received by a modem section of a gate way, converted to a digital data, and supplied to the control section. A CPU of the control section stores the received electron... | 10/11/2011 |
| RE42764 | Apparatus and method for providing, retrieving, and using data guide information supplied in a digital vestigial sideband signal A device for provisioning, retrieving, and using data guide information transmitted in a digital broadcast signal is disclosed. A receiver receives the digital broadcast signal which includes digital television programming packets multiplexed with data packets and t... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024757 | Digital broadcast receiver and backup method A digital broadcast receiver capable of reducing time and labor to back-up contents recorded on one recording medium to another recording medium. A digital broadcast receiver extracts the contents recorded, out of order, on a first recording medium by an extracting ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7996867 | Reservation information setting apparatus and method thereof A reservation information setting apparatus and a method thereof are capable of a setting recording reservation and a program viewing reservation of a target broadcast program correctly and easily. By performing given operations, a control section forms a calendar a... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7971219 | Display control apparatus and method The invention relates to a display control apparatus and method that make it possible to easily recognize detailed information relating to an overlap time slot in an apparatus capable of setting recording reservations for programs whose broadcast time slots overlap ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962011 | Controlling substantially constant buffer capacity for personal video recording with consistent user interface of available disk space A system manages the allocation and storage of media content instance files in a hard disk of a storage device of a media client device in a subscriber television system. In one embodiment among others, the system includes a memory for storing logic, a buffer space ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7945930 | Method and apparatus for controlling a video signal processing apparatus A method for controlling a recording function of a video apparatus improves recording quality by preventing certain display functions of the apparatus from adversely affecting the resultant recording. A problem may arise in certain video signal processing apparatuse... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937728 | Retrieving lost content for a scheduled program In an embodiment, content is received on a channel between a scheduled start time and a scheduled stop time. A schedule specifies a planned transmission of a scheduled program between the scheduled start time and the scheduled stop time. The received content is reco... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937729 | Receiving apparatus A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a broadcast program, an output unit configured to output video data of the broadcast program received by the receiving unit to a monitor apparatus, a reservation setting unit configured to set res... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937730 | Recording control apparatus and control method thereof A recording control apparatus for controlling execution of recording in a recording apparatus, comprising, a channel selection acceptance unit configured to accept a channel selection from a user, a display controller to control a display unit to display program dat... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7917929 | Remote reservation recording control system and method thereof A reservation recording control system and a method thereof, in which a user records a reservation for a desired broadcast program in a personal video recorder from a remote location over a distributed computer network such as the Internet. To this end, the system i... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917008 | Interface for resolving recording conflicts with network devices Communication and resolution of potential recording conflicts are disclosed. In one aspect, a request for recording a new program is received, and recording schedules are examined to determine whether another program had been previously scheduled for recording at th... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913281 | Digital broadcast recording device This digital broadcast recording device includes a tuner unit, a channel table recording unit, an image output unit, an OSD generation unit, an actuation unit, and a channel presetting unit. The channel table recording unit records a channel table. An auto presettin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7895628 | Terminating enhanced television broadcasts An enhanced television broadcast system may enable the transmission and reception of a real-time event when a new program is about to begin. The real-time event may control access to enhancements from the program that is ending. In some embodiments, these real-time ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7882528 | Methods and systems for enhancing a user's viewing experience Methods and systems for enhancing a user's viewing experience are described. Various embodiments can record episodes of a special event program, record previously-broadcast episodes of a special event program, assist the user in recording episodes that are associate... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7844990 | Broadcast program recorder An information including all program names from a recording start time to a recording end time of a broadcast signal, the recording start time and the recording end time is extracted from an electronic program guide information in a broadcast signal, based on a reco... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7823177 | Electronic program guide with blackout features An interactive television program guide for supporting programming blackouts is provided. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may unschedule the reminding and recording of blacked-out programs that have been scheduled by a user for remindin... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814514 | Digital broadcast receiving apparatus configured for use with copy control information A digital broadcasting receiver includes a digital tuning section having a plurality of tuners which receive digital broadcasting and output video signals of programs as well as a copy control signal, and a controller which selects one of video signals supplied from... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7810121 | Technique for delivering network personal video recorder service and broadcast programming service over a communications network A resident application and a second application are provided in a set-top terminal to receive a TV broadcast service and network personal video recorder (NPVR) service, respectively. The resident application is suspended in favor of the second application when a use... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7810120 | Method and apparatus for managing a list of recorded broadcasting programs A method and apparatus to manage recorded broadcasting programs, in which a list of each of the recorded programs is automatically generated using electronic program guide (EPG) information for more efficient management of the recorded programs. The method includes:... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7797716 | Recording apparatus and recording reservation processing method A recording apparatus is disclosed which includes first through n-th recording means for recording input broadcast contents to a recording medium. When a user designates a reservation of a broadcast content recording, the apparatus automatically selects one of the r... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788693 | Method of broadcasting data for programming a receiver An automatic reminding system for reminding a user or tuning a receiver, such as a television, radio, recording device, computer, etc. to a particular carrier based on a detected ID code broadcast on that particular carrier. A user first activates the system when a ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7743398 | Video recording conflict management and user interface The present invention generally relates to conflict management resolution. Typically systems for resolving conflicts between television programs with coinciding broadcast schedules use preferences, a confusing and limited display, or a combination thereof. The prese... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7730511 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program for the same Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus includes: a display control section which controls to generate a table with days of the week allocated in one of first and second directions and time zones of a day in the other direction and displays the table... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7730510 | Methods and systems for conditionally managing entertainment systems Methods and systems for controlling entertainment systems are described. In accordance with one embodiment, one or more conditional directives are developed and injected from externally of an entertainment system into the system. The conditional directives direct th... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7716705 | Remote DVR manager A system and method for programming a digital video recorder (DVR) over a scheduling network. Program schedule information is provided to a user of a DVR via the scheduling network. A program selection is received from the scheduling client associated with a subscri... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7665111 | Data storage management and scheduling system A data storage management and scheduling system schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of television and Web page program material on a client system storage medium. The invention accepts as input a prioritized list of program viewing preferences which is co... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7653926 | Remote control device with event notifier A system including a remote control device. The remote control device includes a processor, a remote control receiver in communication with the processor, an input device in communication with the processor, and an output device in communication with the processor. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7640564 | Recording resources indicators In an implementation of recording resources indicators, recording resources can each be allocated to a different program that is scheduled to be recorded. A program guide application generates a program guide in which programs are associated with a program broadcast... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7631334 | Information processing device, information processing method and medium Any of the AV devices or the users of a network system to which the present invention is applied can input detailed information on a recording reservation and provide the remaining AV devices and the users with the detailed information on the recording reservations ... | 12/08/2009 |
