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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8434118 | Playlist menu navigation In one embodiment, a method of operating a communications system is disclosed comprising receiving a request for establishment of a session from a terminal, establishing the session with the terminal, and providing at least one navigation video segment to the termin... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8402493 | Community generated content channels A method and system are disclosed for providing community defined and/or controlled channels where content for a channel may be continuously streamed to users based on input from users that participate in the channel. Channel definitions and content for different co... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8392954 | Method and system for delivering personal media over cable television A method and system for delivering personal media over cable television have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises storing digital content, the digital content including digital photographs, digital video, and music. Th... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8387099 | System for acceleration of web page delivery A method comprising running a web browser on one or more servers of a service center, and hosting files for a web page on a storage unit associated with the one or more servers. Upon receiving user input from a client device to the web browser at the service center,... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8370883 | Secure distribution of video on-demand An interactive information distribution system for providing secure distribution of video-on-demand content. The interactive information distribution system includes at least one programming source for storing at least one partially encrypted video program, and a di... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8358908 | Recording and playback apparatus A recording and playback apparatus includes a recording unit configured to download a content stored in a server and to record the content in a recording medium, an instruction receiver configured to receive a stop instruction for stopping download of the content do... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8327406 | Method and server for downloading a broadcasted multimedia content over a distribution network The invention applies to the transmission of a multimedia content from a server to a client terminal. The multimedia content is available from the server as one or more sets of files. Upon reception of an initial request from the client, the server sends a document ... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8320739 | Recording and playback apparatus A recording and playback apparatus includes a recording unit configured to download a content stored in a server and to record the content in a recording medium, an instruction receiver configured to receive a stop instruction for stopping download of the content do... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8291459 | Communication signaling engine A verbal request for an action to be performed in connection with a user's set-top box may be received by a Program Content Manager (PCM) from a voice-enabled input/output device such as a VoIP-enabled device or a mobile communication device. Alternatively, the user... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8286212 | On-demand asset distribution On-demand asset distribution is described. In embodiment(s), a client device can maintain an on-demand asset received from a content distributor, such as with a recording media. The client device can allocate upstream bandwidth for distribution of segments of video ... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8250616 | Distributed live multimedia capture, feedback mechanism, and network Methods and systems for processing multimedia content captured from a plurality of locations via one or more capturing devices include obtaining multimedia content from one or more capturing devices. The capturing devices identify a type of content being captured an... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8250614 | Systems and methods for providing an on-demand media portal and grid guide A media-on-demand (MOD) portal application allows users to view and access from a single display interface MOD content provided by multiple media providers, such as vendors and service providers. The MOD portal application may provide grid display screens showing pr... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8250615 | Head-end system for providing two-way VOD service and service method thereof A head-end system for providing a two-way VOD service and a service method thereof are disclosed. The head-end system includes: a terminal which is based on a Java virtual machine and a Java TV/GEM standard middleware and has a VOD navigator application of a tool se... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8239898 | Multimedia channel sharing across access network boundaries An initiating viewer identifies a multimedia channel and submits a request to share the multimedia channel with at least one recipient viewer at another viewer premises. This request is processed by the multimedia receiver of the initiating viewer so as to generate ... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8225358 | Content recommendation apparatus and method A content recommendation apparatus that can recommend contents suitable to user's taste immediately even after introduction of the system even if a TV set is used by unspecified users. Among previously-determined recommendation ranks of contents, the content recomme... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8209729 | Rules-based content management Techniques for rules-based content management are provided. Video on demand (VOD) assets are collected in a repository from a variety of sources. Each asset is uniquely identified, organized, prioritized, managed, and distributed in response to metadata associated w... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8201204 | Minimizing black video segments during ad insertion Black video segments in a video playlist may be minimized. Black detection may be utilized by a network device to identify true starting point and a true ending point of a video asset which includes black video segments in the playlist. Locations associated with the... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8185435 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating content-based selection of long-tail business models and billing Methods, systems and computer program products for delivering content to customers of a service provider are provided. Upon receiving a request for content from a customer of a service provider, a position of the requested content on a content demand curve is determ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176521 | Client server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording An interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server. Programs may also be recorded on a local media server. The program guide... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171518 | System and method for presenting progressively downloaded media programs A system and method for presenting progressively downloaded media programs is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Set-Top Box (STB) having a controller element to determine a length of a media program... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161514 | Program guide system with video-on-demand browsing An interactive television program guide system is provided in which a viewer may direct a television to simultaneously display a selected television program and a program guide display. A viewer may use the program guide display to browse available video-on-demand (... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8056105 | Dynamic video-on-demand navigation and on demand ingest A technique for supporting over-the-top video-on-demand separates metadata ingest and real content ingest such that navigation needs only the metadata ingest to have been completed. The real content ingest can occur later if the navigation results in the real conten... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8037502 | Method and apparatus for archiving media content The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for archiving media content, and more particularly to archiving television and radio broadcasts for later delivery, on-demand, via the Internet. A capture server is used to receive and gather a plurality of... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8020186 | Methods and systems for distributing on-demand programming Methods and systems are provided for distributing programming. A fixed linear programming schedule identifying an order of transmission for multiple programs is generated. The programs are transmitted in the order of transmission. An on-demand flag is embedded in at... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010985 | Method and system for resource management in a video on-demand server An on-demand server configured to dynamically control and optimize memory utilization while minimizing access to disk storage by monitoring content addressable memory (CAM) usage so as to remove the content from resident CAM memory and page the same adaptively and t... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996870 | Information process device, mutually connected through a network and receiving delivery information such as movies or music through a network, and a method and program for the same An information processing apparatus carries out a process using delivery information delivered through a network. Only divisional delivery information used in the process of an n-time speed and acquired through a network by dividing the delivery information when the... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7937734 | Interactive audiovisual distribution system A distribution center according to the present invention is capable of handling requests from a plurality of subscribers for accessing programs in a central audiovisual library. The subscriber requests may specify a variable time allowance interval within which a re... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937417 | Mobile communication terminal and method A method for handling media files having attributes is disclosed. A user-configurable play criteria specification is provided, and the method involves automatically selecting and performing a current media file having at least one attribute in compliance with the pl... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930724 | Secure distribution of video on-demand An interactive information distribution system for providing secure distribution of video-on-demand content. The interactive information distribution system includes at least one programming source for storing at least one partially encrypted video program, and a di... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7913282 | Distributed cooperative memory for interactive and scalable video-on-demand system A Distributed Video System provides a scalable and interactive video-on-demand service with VCR operations over a communication network includes a video server and video clients, each of which includes a memory buffer, called a client buffer. The System provides a m... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7890984 | Method and system of video on demand dating Method and system of video on demand (VOD) dating. The method and system permitting a user to select video personals for on demand view. The video personal include recordings of individual interviews or other activities which may be used to introduce the individual ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7836474 | Method and apparatus for preprocessing and postprocessing content in an interactive information distribution system A method and apparatus for preprocessing and postprocessing content in an interactive information distribution system. Content is retrieved from a storage medium and encapsulated in accordance to an Internet Protocol (IP) format. The encapsulated content is then upl... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7797719 | Apparatus and method for interactive digital media content requests A remote user interface transmits a digital media request through a first communication link to a media management control which is coupled by a second communication link to a digital audio-visual playback device for selecting and playing a stored digital media by t... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793325 | Video on demand methods and systems An entertainment head-end provides broadcast programming, video-on-demand services, and HTML-based interactive programming through a distribution network to client terminals in subscribers' homes. A number of different features are provided, including novel user int... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7779444 | System and method for video on request A video on request (“VOR”) system is disclosed. The VOR system includes a producer having a location device for providing location data and a video recording device. The VOR system also includes an information exchange having a producer database configured to st... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774343 | Multiple media vendor support A content distribution system receives data describing media content available from one or more vendors. The content distribution system generates data that describes an offer and associates the media content data with the offer. The content distribution system prov... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761900 | Distribution of content and advertisement Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method for improved distribution of content on a communication network. The system and method are adapted to receive a video request message from a client, identify a location of the client, identify a locat... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7735106 | Method for providing subscription-on-demand services A method for providing subscription-on-demand services for video-on-demand programs within an interactive information distribution system. The method includes associating a plurality of video-on-demand programming packages as a programming bundle and identifying a n... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7735107 | Client-server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording An interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server. Programs may also be recorded on a local media server. The program guide... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7716707 | In-program content telescoping In-program content telescoping can enable a subscriber to telescope into content that is specially associated with a broadcast program. The selectable content is stored as video-on-demand (VOD) assets that are related to particular portions of broadcast programs. In... | 05/11/2010 |
