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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7543326 | Dynamic rate control Dynamic rate control can be implemented in a television-based entertainment environment when forwarding coded data. Real-time information flows are encoded, transcoded, compressed, etc. into data streams that may be forwarded to other components within an apparatus ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7487526 | Method for object retransmission without a continuous network connection in a digital media distributor system The present invention provides a method for object retransmission in an asynchronous environment without a continuous network connection in a digital media distributor (DMD) system. The method includes receiving objects in a receiver from a central site, generating ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484236 | Service gateway for interactive television A service gateway provides a proxy between a client protocol and a plurality of standard communication protocols. The service gateway provides asymmetrical routing, data compression and encryption to optimize client processing power and communication link bandwidth.... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7475414 | Broadcasting service system and delay broadcasting method in broadcasting service using the broadcasting service system A broadcasting service system and a delay broadcasting method in broadcasting service using the broadcasting service system, any of audiovisual systems is connected to a broadcasting set when any audiovisual system request a repeater station to view program contents... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7461392 | System and method for identifying and segmenting repeating media objects embedded in a stream An “object extractor” automatically identifies and segments repeating media objects in a media stream. “Objects” are any section of non-negligible duration, i.e., a song, video, advertisement, jingle, etc., which would be considered to be a logical unit by a... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7458091 | System, method and article of manufacture for a business layer component in a multimedia synchronization framework A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for identifying a plurality of events which are played back simultaneously on a plurality of networked client apparatuses. First, a plurality of events are stored in memory on a plurality of client apparatuses... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454772 | Apparatus and method for blocking television commercials and providing an archive interrogation program An apparatus and method is disclosed for blocking specific television commercials from the viewer's television based upon the characteristics of the television commercial and a program to place the blocked television commercials into an archive. An archive interroga... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454775 | Method and apparatus for generating television program recommendations based on similarity metric The invention recommends television programs that are similar to shows identified by a user by computing a similarity metric between programs both in a user-specified selected set and in an identified time interval. The selected set comprises programs currently of i... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451469 | Electronic program guide displayed simultaneously with television programming A system for displaying an electronic program guide (EPG) to a viewer. The system includes displaying one or more data slices representative of broadcast programming to a viewer. In response to input from the viewer, the displayed number of data slices is increased,... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451474 | Set top network protocol A method of and apparatus for efficiently communicating between a provider of video on demand services and a cable television subscriber. The communication is implemented using a message protocol specifically optimized to communicate between a multimedia application... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448063 | Digital interactive system for providing full interactivity with live programming events The present invention relates to an interactive digital system enabling viewers full and active participation in experiencing a live broadcast event. Particularly, the presentation of the live event is personalized for the viewer through the provision of various opt... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444663 | Menuing system for controlling content delivery within a video distribution system A menuing system for a video distribution system provides an interactive display to allow a user to select and control the delivery of program material. A central host computer processes initial request for service from users and maintains a database of currently av... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444660 | System and method for generating metadata for video programming events A device for generating metadata for a programming event receives data corresponding to a programming event that includes descriptive information and timing information. The device analyzes the data to determine goodness of fit scores for the programming event corre... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444655 | Anonymous aggregated data collection An anonymous aggregated data collection system aggregates media access information in an anonymous data collection component without associating the media access information with any one particular client device. The anonymous data collection component further preve... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434248 | Broadcast system and apparatus, sync information replacing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium recording the program A broadcast system composed of a first broadcast apparatus and a second broadcast apparatus. The first broadcast apparatus broadcasts a broadcast program composed of contents stream data and attachment data, and provides the second broadcast apparatus with the broad... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7434243 | Response apparatus method and system A remote response system utilizes portable response devices that receive user input and transmit user input over existing communication systems. Certain response devices communicate over wireless systems such as paging systems, while other response devices communica... | 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 |
| 7415718 | Receiving and processing vertical blanking interval data A system and method for receiving, processing, and storing electronic data transmitted in the vertical blanking interval of a video signal. The system provides a flexible mechanism for reading electronic data from video signals including those in National Television... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412714 | Network delivery data transmitting method, network delivery data receiving method, network delivery data transmitting system, and network delivery data receiving system The present invention is intended to provide network delivery data transmitting methods and receiving methods which allow the selection of content data as desired by user. In a data transmitting system, a specification information packet for specifying a content sou... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7401348 | Television tuning device screen saver advertising Television tuning device screen saver advertising is disclosed. The television tuning device that is connectable to the Internet. While the user has his or her device connected to the Internet, advertising information may be cached. When the device enters a screen s... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7383562 | Restricted reception device for digital cable broadcasting system, and reception system and method using the same A restricted reception device enabling a subscriber receiver to selectively receive broadcasting data transferred via a digital cable broadcasting network, includes: a demultiplexer for receiving broadcasting data and an ECM including a CW from the subscriber receiv... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383565 | Directing process for use in sending trick-mode video streams with a high performance A high-performance directing process has use in sending a trick-mode video stream, of a particular video, from a video server to a viewer network. This directing process—1) receives a series of spaced apart requests from an external circuit with each request being... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380258 | Systems and methods for controlling and managing programming content and portions thereof This document discloses systems and methods for enabling viewers to control and manage the presentation of programs based on specified types of rating categories and content attributes that the viewer desires not to be presented. The invention provides program data ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380262 | Method and apparatus for generating a list of suggested scheduled television programs A system and method for generating a list of suggested scheduled television programs wherein television schedule guide data which comprises characteristics of scheduled programs and optionally relevancy of those characteristics is obtained from broadcast information... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376964 | Master guide table for a digital broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the table A master guide table for a digital broadcast protocol, and a method of broadcasting and updating an electronic program guide using the table, uses identification information included in a bit stream syntax of the master guide table to classify whether contents of an... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7367039 | System and method for evaluating callback functionality in a satellite television network A combination of new hardware at the subscriber site, hardware and services at the satellite broadcasting center and new installation procedures provide a cost-effective approach for verifying “callback” functionality. The required test and monitoring hardware m... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363645 | Interactive electronic program guide for use with television delivery system An interactive electronic program guide is disclosed for use with a television delivery system. The guide is generated by a set top terminal that receives a television signal from an operations center and extracts from the signal individual programs for display on a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363647 | Mapping process for use in sending trick-mode video streams with a high performance A high-performance mapping process has use in sending a trick-mode video stream, of a particular video, from a video server to a viewer network. This mapping process generates a trick-mode control map which—1) identifies segments of the normal video stream that in... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363648 | Cable modem tuner An IF input signal corresponding to a selected reception channel is applied through an SAW filter to an IF-AGC circuit, the amplitude of the signal is adjusted to a prescribed level, and the signal is thereafter supplied to a down converter unit. The down converter ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360231 | System for obtaining data regarding customer use of interactive television A system and method for obtaining data regarding customer use of interactive television, where application servers residing at a broadcast center include application programs that provide customers with a graphical user interface. Customers may retrieve the applicat... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353530 | Method and apparatus for assigning communication nodes to CMTS cards A method and apparatus for assigning nodes to CMTS cards in a communication system. In order to avoid bottlenecks and to efficiently use resources of the cards in a hybrid fiber-coax architecture, the nodes are assigned to the cards using linear programming techniqu... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346918 | Intelligent device system and method for distribution of digital signals on a wideband signal distribution system A plurality of intelligent device systems for use with a wideband signal distribution network, and methods for transmitting digital information and receiving digital and non-digital information onto and off of an RF carrier through a wideband signal distribution net... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346917 | Trusted transactional set-top box A set top box (STB) includes a trusted transactional cache and associated transactional protocol and enables e-commerce transactions to be securely committed to a remote server extremely quickly and with little network overhead. The invention does away with the user... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339896 | Available bandwidth detector for SAN switch ports A system and method for measuring data transmission activity through a port of a switch device interconnecting nodes of a storage area network, the port transmitting data as words of predetermined length, one data word indicating idle port activity. The method inclu... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337460 | Combining process for use in sending trick-mode video streams with a high performance A high-performance combining process has use in sending a trick-mode video stream, of a particular video, from a video server to a viewer network. This combining process—1) sends a series of spaced-apart requests to a computer, with each request being for combinin... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7334252 | Rapid cable modem re-provisioning in a cable network Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for allowing rapid re-provisioning of a cable modem at the MAC/physical layer in a cable modem network. After a cable modem goes through power-up/self-test, i.e., a hard boot, and goes through initial pro... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7317727 | Method and systems for controlling ATM traffic using bandwidth allocation technology A method and system for managing asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic in a computer system is disclosed. The computer system is used in sending, receiving, or sending and receiving a plurality of ATM flows. Each ATM flow has a plurality of ATM cells, a minimum A... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313811 | Optical conversion device A residential gateway (RG) for distributing video, data and telephony services to multiple devices within a residence is disclosed. The RG receives signals from a telecommunications network, converts the signals to formats compatible with the multiple devices, and t... | 12/25/2007 |
