Interactive video distribution systems inventions 02/06

20060041902 - Determining program boundaries through viewing behavior: Program boundaries are determined through viewing behavior. More specifically, edge and/or commercial boundaries of programs may be determined by monitoring viewing behavior of different video segments using forward and backward correlations between video segments. In a described implementation, a video portion is divided into segments. To monitor the viewing of...

20060041904 - Broadcasting system and control method thereof: A broadcasting system and a control method thereof providing convenient channel selection are provided. In the method, channel rating information is transmitted from a broadcasting station to a display device. Channel priority is determined based on the transmitted channel rating information. Channel information is displayed on the display device according...

20060041903 - Service activation of set-top box functionality using broadcast conditional access system: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to activate functionality in a set-top box. A feature authorization message is received in a set-top box. The feature authorization message comprises one or more rules to be evaluated (wherein each of the rules comprises one or more tests for...

20060041905 - Retrieval and transfer of encrypted hard drive content from dvr set-top boxes: A system and method for retrieval and transfer of encrypted content from a failed set-top box. When content is recorded to the storage device of a set-top box, the content is encrypted with a content instance key. This content instance key is encrypted with the public key of the set-top...

20060041906 - Electronic service information application appropriate for display on devices having smaller display screens: A service information computer program application and devices and systems that implement the same that is formatted so as to be adaptable to portable digital devices, typically handheld device that have small displays. The service information application provides service program schedules in a hierarchical format, as such, the user benefits...

20060041907 - Digital broadcast receiving terminal for providing program information for a specific time period and method thereof: A digital broadcast receiving terminal for providing broadcast programming information for a specific time period and a method thereof are disclosed. The digital broadcast receiving terminal includes an input unit, a reception unit for receiving digital broadcasting data and program guide data, an output unit for output of the digital...

20060041908 - Method and apparatus for dynamic search of video contents: A dynamic searching method and apparatus of video contents is disclosed. The dynamic searching apparatus of video contents according to the present invention determines a normal replay section and a fast forward replay section the shot index information with considering current replay location and shot index information and replays the...

20060041911 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a reservation unit reserving predetermined processing for a broadcast program, the predetermined processing being started in accordance with conditions corresponding to program information concerning the broadcast program; a processing unit starting the processing, reserved by the reservation unit, for the broadcast program in accordance with...

20060041910 - Information processing system, recording apparatus, communication apparatus, information processing method, and program: In a DVR recording apparatus, a program and EPG data are received, and the EPG data and a reservation list, which relates to a reservation status of program recording, are stored. In addition, reserved recording, for recording a program in accordance with the reservation list, is carried out. Further, in...

20060041909 - Information recording apparatus and method, and computer program product: An information recording apparatus is provided with: a reserving device for specifying a channel, a recording start time point, and a recording end time point of a regular broadcast program which is regularly broadcasted (i.e. every week, every day, every month, or the like), to thereby reserve the regular broadcast...

20060041912 - Method and apparatus for authorizing an additional set-top device in a satellite television network: The present invention is a method and apparatus for authorizing an additional set-top device in a location with an existing authorized set-top device without the need to connect the two devices via a dedicated wired connection. After the additional set-top device is connected to the satellite television network, for example...

20060041913 - Video head unit system for automobile: A video head unit system for automobiles includes a head unit that receives a plurality of external video signals and controls outputs of the external video signals, and front and rear LCD monitors that display the external video signals based on control signals from the head unit....

20060041914 - Method and system of providing media signals to hotels: A method and system of providing media services to a hotel. The method and system include receiving media signals at a hotel from a media provider located remotely from the hotel that represent media services provided to the hotel for in-room usage. The method and system includes storing data relating...

20060041916 - Personal multi-modal control and communications system: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are disclosed that describe a communications system. This system includes a router and a remote control device. The router wirelessly routes packets of data to the remote control device. The packets of data include Internet Protocol television signals and Internet Protocol telephone signals....

20060041915 - Residential gateway system having a handheld controller with a display for displaying video signals: A residential gateway system includes a residential gateway to which a plurality of video and audio signal recording and reproducing devices, video and audio sources, including satellite, cable, Internet, are connected, and including a handheld controller for communicating with and controlling the residential gateway. The handheld controller has a display...

20060041917 - Techniques for automatically detecting protocols in a computer network: A method in a computer network for automatically detecting a most advantageous protocol for communication by a client computer, said client computer being configured to be coupled to a server computer via a computer network. The method includes initiating a plurality of protocol threads for sending from the client computer...

20060041919 - Cable modem module device, cable modem device, and broadcast receiving device: When a CATV signal supplied from a CATV center station is distributed to be lead out to a television tuner, an RF connector is provided on a circuit board of an analog signal processing section, and is configured to lead out the CATV signal by means of this RF connector....

20060041918 - Signal processing under attenuated transmission conditions: Signal processing under attenuated transmission conditions. Within an orthogonal signal space, the number of orthogonal signals that are used to transmit information from a transmitter to a receiver is reduced and the transmitted power of each of the now remaining orthogonal signals is modified; this may involve increasing the power...

20060041920 - Method and system for transparent addition of features to network devices: A method of incrementally adding functions to a network that has a source device and a sink device, where the source device provides signals to the sink device. Accordingly, the type of the source signal from the source device is determined. It is then determined if the sink device is...

20060041921 - System and method for creating a virtual media channel: A system and method for creating a virtual media channel including video, audio, multimedia, or other data, at or near the point of reception by end users remotely controls an operation of an end user receiving device. The present invention remotely controls an input source selection at the end user...

20060041922 - Cable television reverse amplifier: A signal input port of a reverse amplifier is provided by an FIC connector, for direct connection to an F-port output of a forward amplifier, thereby eliminating the need for jumper cables. Also, via this connection, the reverse amplifier remotely provides power to the forward amplifier....

20060041923 - Hand-held remote personal communicator & controller: A personal communications and control system (PCCS) is disclosed. This PCCS includes a set top box communicating streams of signals to a remote control device. The streams of signals include television signals, telephone signals, and control signals, as well as other video, audio, or graphical content. The television signals are...

20060041924 - Digital television middleware service for home networking domains: The middleware service interacts with data carousel data objects and acts as a bridge between the data carousel and subscribed control points. The middleware service can serve a variety of objects, including streams, applications, stream events and also enables new applications and services to be deployed on home networks. It...

20060041925 - Method of obtaining additional network information in digital satellite broadcasting and a satellite broadcast receiver using the same: A method of obtaining additional network information in digital satellite broadcasting. The method includes extracting a boot object including information of each network from a digital satellite broadcast signal, determining whether the information of each network included in the boot object is extended network information, checking validity of the extended...

20060041926 - Voice control of multimedia content: Techniques are described for managing various types of content in various ways, such as based on voice commands or other voice-based control instructions provided by a user. In some situations, at least some of the content being managed includes content of a variety of types, such as music and other...

20060041927 - Maintaining a graphical user interface state that is based on a selected time: A graphical user interface (“GUI”) for a content management system is provided, such as to present television program information and/or information associated with other forms of multimedia content. In some situations, the GUI displays various types of information about multiple pieces of content that are currently appropriate for display, and...

20060037036 - Remote control method of home network and system thereof: A remote control method of a home network and system thereof are disclosed to remotely control devices connected to a home network system. A control point of a home network is set at a home agent in the home network system and at a remote terminal respectively, and then the...

20060037037 - System and method for providing virtual video on demand: A set top box, comprises storage storing the lead portion of one or more objects prior to receiving a request for consumption of one of the one or more objects; a user interface for receiving a request for consumption of the requested object; a communication interface for communicating with a...

20060037038 - System and method for display management based on user attention inputs: A system and method are provided for managing data being displayed on at least one monitor screen based on monitoring user's attention in relation to the monitor screen. In one embodiment, upon detecting that the user's attention is leaving at least a portion of a screen, the system may alert...

20060037039 - Delivering data to radio or television during commercials: A method of broadcasting and processing advertisement supported content is provided. Content, such as audio, video or audiovisual data is segmented into discrete units. The content is broadcasted to a plurality of mobile terminals with advertisements separating the discrete units of content. Bonus information that includes or indicates how to...

20060037042 - Integrated interactive incentive promotions and an a/v telecommunication device: An A/V telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection may include an integrated incentive promotion manager connected to said telecommunication processor....

20060037041 - Method and apparatus for transporting broadcast video over a packet network including providing conditional access: A method, an apparatus and a carrier medium for securely distributing multimedia while still retaining compatibility with existing CA systems. The method includes forming a packet including a plurality of encrypted multimedia stream segments. The packet further includes, for each segment of the plurality, a field providing conditional access information...

20060037040 - Method of transmitting audio and video signals over radio and television channels: A method of transmitting audio and video signals includes transmitting an audio signal from one or more prerecorded audio/video sources, such as music videos, news/talk radio station programs or interview programs, over a radio channel; and with respect to the transmitting of the audio signal, contemporaneously transmitting the audio signal...

20060037043 - Method and interface for managing movies on a set-top box: A method of managing video content is provided. The method includes displaying a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface comprising a ready list, a queue list, and an action list. When a first video file is downloaded to a memory within a set top box, a first title corresponding...

20060037044 - Pausing television programming in response to selection of hypertext link: A time sequential signal comprising audiovisual content and hyperlinks is received and displayed on a display device by the systems of the invention in a time sequential manner. The display of the time sequential signal is paused whenever a displayed hyperlink is selected. While pausing the display, data corresponding to...

20060037045 - System and method for previewing and switching to favorite channels: A system for previewing and switching to favorite channels is employed to divide a screen (10) such as a TV screen into a main window (11) and a plurality of sub-windows (12, 13, 14) to display contents of programs of different channels. The sub-windows are used to display the contents...

20060037046 - Aligning video data to create a comprehensive program guide: Providing content listings for digital television broadcasts. A computing device matches digital broadcast television channel data (e.g., call signs or broadcast frequencies) with analog broadcast television channel data to create a list of mapped channels. The computing device creates a program guide for the digital broadcast television channels as a...

20060037048 - Cycling of recording states for program selections during video recording conflict resolution: 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 present invention, on thee other hand, provides for determining time spans or time slices, that indicate the...

20060037047 - 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 present invention, on thee other hand, provides for determining time spans or time slices, that indicate the...

20060037049 - Code input initiated media delivery to an a/v telecommunication device: A method of requesting media content on an A/V telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection a video processor connected to the network connection and manual inputs communicably connected to the network connection may be performed by engaging a manual input to send...

20060037050 - Apparatus and method for displaying a television video signal and data in a mobile terminal according to a mode thereof: An apparatus and method for receiving and displaying a television signal and a data signal in a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a display unit with a video data display area and a user data display area. The mobile terminal determines in a standby mode whether it is set...

20060037052 - Dynamically generating video streams for slideshow presentations: The present invention provides for transferring slideshow presentation information from a host computing device to an electronic device that typically has limited resources. A request to display a slideshow presentation on an electronic device is received, the slideshow presentation including image data corresponding to one or more bitmaps. In response...

20060037051 - Dynamically generating video streams for user interfaces: The present invention provides for transferring user interface information from a host computing device to an electronic device that typically has limited resources. A request to open a session of an application is received. In response to the request, a host computer opens a session for generating user interface information....

20060037053 - Dynamically generating video streams for user interfaces based on device capabilities: The present invention provides for transferring user interface information from a host computing device to an electronic device that typically has limited resources. A request to display a user interface on an electronic device is received. Further, information about the electronic device is received for determining the capabilities of the...

20060037054 - Rendering graphics/image data using dynamically generated video streams: The present invention provides for rendering graphics/image data at an electronic device that typically has limited resources. A video data steam is received at an electronic device, the video data stream including either user interface information or slideshow presentation data coded in a video codec format. A video processor of...

20060037055 - Audio data communication system, audio data transmission apparatus, audio data reception apparatus, composite data communication system, composite data transmission apparatus and composite data reception apparatus: When an MFP receives an e-mail to which audio data is attached, an audio data storing unit and a control information storing unit in the MFP respectively store the audio data and control information related to the audio data. When the MFP receives a playback instruction of the audio data...

20060037056 - Integrated radio recorder and a/v telecommunication device: An A/V telecommunication device may include a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection and a video processor connected to the network connection. An integrated audio recorder may be communicably connected to the network connection....

20060037057 - Method and system of enabling trick play modes using http get: A method of providing operational commands to a AV program transmitted using HTTP protocol includes storing an AV program in a server; generating meta data in the server, wherein the meta data includes a mapping table associating time ranges for the AV program to byte ranges for the AV program;...

20060037058 - Caller identification for an a/v telecommunication device: A method of caller identification in an A/V telecommunication system including a host server with a host server memory communicably connected to an A/V telecommunication device may be performed by detecting by the host server of an incoming call from a source to an A/V telecommunication device. The host server...

20060037059 - Method of blind channel searching and estimation using a fast fourier transform mechanism: A FFT-based blind channel searching and estimation method, comprising the steps of waiting for a power-on signal from a DVB-S receiver, judging whether a complex of automatic gain control signals of the receiver have converged, producing a complex of data samples by utilizing the FFT, calculating energy after the FFT...

20060037060 - Delivering a geographic-specific comprehensive program guide: Providing a program guide for digital and analog broadcast television channels specific to a geographic region. A computing device sends a program guide request including a geographic identifier to another computing device. In response, the other computing device filters a master program guide as a function of the geographic identifier...

20060037061 - Image data transmitter and image data communication system: Provided is an image data transmitter in which, in the event of transmission of the same image data to multiple recipients, the image data with added supplementary information different for each of the multiple recipients can be transmitted through easy operation. Further provided is an image data communication system using...

20060031869 - Method and system for secure print-at-home discounts: A method for increasing security in the issuance of discount coupons to consumers, the method comprising the steps of: providing printable medium to Remote Users to allow for the printing of discount offer data thereon to create negotiable discount coupons, each printable medium containing prerecorded data traceable to the Remote...

20060031870 - Apparatus, system, and method for filtering objectionable portions of a multimedia presentation: A method for filtering portions of a multimedia presentation. A stream of multimedia media data read from a memory media is compared with a filter file associated with the multimedia data. The filter file includes a start position, a stop position, and a filtering action to perform on the portion...

20060031871 - Forcing an action in a terminal: A method for forcing a terminal to perform an action, and a corresponding terminal and public table. A system broadcasts a public table comprising code for the action. The terminal receives the table, and extracts and executes the code. In a preferred embodiment, the system is a MPEG system and...

20060031872 - System and method for real-time displaying of blocked and locked out status of programs in electronic program guides: A method for displaying electronic programming guide (EPG) information is disclosed. The method includes determining whether content to be delivered over a media stream is blocked, and, if so, indicating the blocked status on a grid of the electronic programming guide corresponding to the blocked content. The blocked status may...

20060031873 - System and method for reduced hierarchy key management: A controller for managing media stream decryption keys includes a media decryption engine, a table, and a content key list. The media decryption engine receives an encrypted media stream from a headend and presents a decrypted media stream to a receiving device in response to a decryption key, wherein the...

20060031875 - Apparatus and method for supplying electronic program guide for video on demand services: Provided are an apparatus and method for supplying electronic programs for Video On Demand (VOD) services. The apparatus includes a service data receiving unit to receive service data about an image-based service, a service data sorting unit to sort the received service data according to a predetermined sorting condition, and...

20060031874 - Three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and method and apparatus for providing the same: A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI) and a method and apparatus for providing the three-dimensional MGUI are provided. The three-dimensional motion graphic user interface includes a first polyhedron component that is formed of a plurality of faces, wherein at least one face of the plurality of faces that are...

20060031876 - Three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and method and apparatus for providing the same: A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface (MGUI) and a method and apparatus for providing the same. The apparatus includes a control module which creates a polyhedron component that can be opened and that has at least one opening face and an internal space containing at least one information object related...

20060031877 - Method and system for movie clip search according to the word of synopsis: A method and system of searching for a movie clip according to a word in the synopsis. The user clicks on a word in the synopsis and the Web browser will connect to the movie trailer preview Web site that is providing the movie trailer through the internet from the...

20060031878 - Method of delivering synchronized content to an a/v telecommunication device: A method of presenting promotional content on an A/V telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection, may be performed by providing first promotional content to a television at a predetermined time and providing related...

20060031879 - Management and non-linear presentation of news-related broadcasted or streamed multimedia content: Methods and systems for presenting enhanced previously recorded broadcasted or streamed content are provided. Example embodiments provide an Enhanced Content Display System “ECDS,” which supports the management and presentation of previously recorded program content in a non-linear fashion and allows subscribers, using a variety of techniques, to specify which portions...

20060031880 - Time-based graphical user interface for television program information: A graphical user interface (“GUI”) for a content management system is provided, such as to present television program information and/or information associated with other forms of multimedia content. In some situations, the GUI includes information presented simultaneously using at least first and second time scales, such as to provide relatively...

20060031881 - Electronic program guide displayed simultaneously with television programming: A method for displaying an electronic program guide (EPG) to a viewer. The method 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, for example, from one slice to two...

20060031882 - Systems, methods, and devices for customizing content-access lists: Systems, methods, and computer program products describe customizing the presentation of a content-access list based on subscriber-specific information, such as historic viewing preferences and related information. Preferences of a subscriber are received. A subscriber-specified time period is also received, with the time period specifying a time for which the subscriber...

20060031883 - 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 guide equipment by a remote access link to provide a user with remote access...

20060031884 - Method of commerce on an a/v telecommunication device: A method of commerce using an A/V telecommunication device is performed by requesting a transaction using the A/V telecommunication device. The transaction request is received by a host server and communicated to a provider. The provider then delivers according to the transaction to a user of the A/V telecommunication device....

20060031885 - Management and non-linear presentation of music-related broadcasted or streamed multimedia content: Methods and systems for presenting enhanced previously recorded broadcasted or streamed content are provided. Example embodiments provide an Enhanced Content Display System “ECDS,” which supports the management and presentation of previously recorded program content in a non-linear fashion and allows subscribers, using a variety of techniques, to specify which portions...

20060031886 - Apparatus and method for displaying a television video signal and data in a mobile terminal according to a mode thereof: An apparatus and method for receiving and displaying a television signal and a data signal in a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a display unit with a video data display area and a user data display area. The mobile terminal determines in a standby mode whether it is set...

20060031888 - Centralized resource management and un-managed device support: The present invention in embodiments provides a centralized resource manager and resources that are responsive to the centralized resource manager in a Home Area Network that may additionally include resources that are not responsive to the centralized resource manager. In embodiments, the centralized resource manager may control and regulate demands...

20060031887 - Centralized resource manager: A centralized resource manager for distributed networks manages resources available on the network, such as network bandwidth, CPU allocation, TV tuners, MPEG encoders and decoders, disk bandwidth, and input/output devices. The centralized resource manager also allocates the resources of network clients and a network-associated media server, in response to requests...

20060031889 - Video processing system with simultaneous multiple outputs each with unique formats: A video processing system receives a plurality of video inputs and specifically tailors them to meet the audio/video format requirements of a plurality of recipient video devices. The video processing system may be incorporated into a set top box, personal video recorder, video player, television, or video equipment. The video...

20060031890 - Networked media bridge for a/v telecommunications: A network media bridge server manages the delivery of media to an A/V telecommunication device. A network connection connected to a network connected to an A/V telecommunication device. A processor receives commands sent by the A/V telecommunication device. A media connection is connected to a content provider. The network media...

20060031891 - Wireless video camera for an a/v telecommunication device: An information appliance including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection includes a wireless transceiver connected to said video processor and a digital image device communicably connected to said wireless transceiver....

20060031892 - Prevention of advertisement skipping: A method for delivering digital media includes transmitting a stream of the digital media to be played by a client at a predefined play speed, the stream comprising main content and, in predetermined intervals, differentiated content. In response to a request from the client to pass over a portion of...

20060031895 - Digital cable tv receiver, diagnosis method for the same, and data structure of hdmi status report: A digital cable TV receiver includes a POD module and a host device. The host device includes a controller and a HDMI port linked to a first peripheral device. When the controller receives a diagnostic request for HDMI status from the POD module, it generates a HDMI status report and...

20060031897 - Digital video caller identification on an a/v telecommunication device: A method of caller identification on an A/V telecommunication device having a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection and a video processor connected to the network connection may be performed by receiving caller identification information with an incoming call, retrieving an image file associated with the...

20060031893 - File path identification and display: The invention relates to a television having an improved file path identification and display system and method. The improved file path identification and method maintains two sets of data strings that refer to the same operation objects. One set of strings is for the user interface display. The other set...

20060031896 - Integrated digital jukebox and a/v telecommunication device: An A/V telecommunication device including a network connection; a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection; a video processor connected to the network connection may include a digital jukebox communicably connected to the network....

20060031894 - Method and device for band translation: A band translation method and device for selecting two or more desired frequency bands of data and bandstacking the two or more desired frequency bands of data into a single output....

20060031898 - Methods and systems for independently controlling the presentation speed of digital video frames and digital audio samples: A digital receiver contains a local video clock that controls the video presentation speed and a local audio clock that controls the audio presentation speed separately and independently of the video presentation speed. To control the video presentation speed, a comparator compares a program clock reference in a video packet...

20060031899 - Methods for augmenting subscription services with pay-per-use services: The present invention provides a method for augmenting subscription services with pay-per-use services. One embodiment of the invention is a method comprising the following steps: providing content on a subscription basis; and providing content on a pay-per-use basis comprising: accepting a token having a unique indicia and a monetary value;...

20060031901 - Integrated internet camera: An integrated Internet camera includes, as embedded components contained within the camera body and controlled by a microcontroller, at least a network interface device for connecting to the Internet, a transport control device for packetizing according to Internet protocols, a file transfer device for communicating with a destination user directory...

20060031902 - Integrated internet camera: An integrated Internet camera includes, as embedded components contained within the camera body and controlled by a microcontroller, at least a network interface device for connecting to the Internet, a transport control device for packetizing according to Internet protocols, a file transfer device for communicating with a destination user directory...

20060031900 - Integrated video camera and a/v telecommunication device: An information appliance including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection and a video processor connected to the network connection may include an integrated video camera communicably connected to the video processor....

20060031903 - Emergency call source locator on an a/v telecommunication system: A method of locating a source location in an A/V telecommunication system having a server and a telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection may be performed by initiating an emergency call at an...

20060031904 - Methods and computer-readable media for managing and configuring options for the real-time notification and disposition of voice services in a cable services network: Methods are provided for managing and configuring voice services the notification and disposition of voice services, such as telephone calls, in a cable television services system. In response to receiving a notification of an incoming voice service in the cable television services system, a voice services banner is generated for...

20060031905 - Apparatus and method of managing reception state of data in digital broadcasting system: An apparatus and method of managing a reception state of data in a digital broadcasting system has monitoring functions of a cable network, a broadcasting channel and received data realized for a set-top box as a digital broadcasting receiver of the digital broadcasting system, and a notification message depending on...

20060031906 - Information processing apparatus and notification method therefor, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program: An information processing apparatus which is capable of notifying a management server of only necessary information for the management server to perform its proper maintenance function, as information on the maintenance of an image forming apparatus after recovery of the management server, to thereby avoid the management server from performing...

20060031907 - Private broadcasting network for an a/v telecommunication device: A method of providing content at a remote location may be performed by providing an A/V telecommunication device at a remote location and sending content to said A/V telecommunication device. The content provider may receive inputs from said remote location. An A/V communication session may be established with said A/V...

20060031908 - Integrated machine readable code reader and an a/v telecommunications device: A method of delivering content to an A/V telecommunication device in response to a scanned code is performed by reading a machine readable code and sending a signal to a host server in response to the read code. The A/V telecommunication device receives content from a content provider in response...

20060031909 - Integrated ticket server and a/v telecommunication device: An A/V telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection may include an integrated ticket server....

20060031910 - Integrated voice-over-internet-protocol multiple terminal adapter and a/v telecommunication device: An A/V telecommunication terminal including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection and a video processor connected to the network connection may include an integrated VoIP multimedia terminal adapter....

20060031911 - All-pass network for data transmission over a catv system: A cable system, and a method for configuring a path of a cable system, wherein the group delay caused by one or more amplifiers having diplex filter networks is substantially equalized over all frequencies within a predetermined band by the use of one or more all-pass delay equalizers. A method...

20060031912 - Integrated resource management and a/v telecommunication device: An A/V telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection may include an integrated resource management organizer communicably connected to the video processor....

20060031913 - Activating a display on an aw telecommunication device by scanning a machine-readable code: An information appliance including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection includes a display connected to said video processor and an optical scanner communicably connected to said video processor. When the optical scanner scans an optical code,...

20060031917 - Compressing and decompressing multiple, layered, video streams employing multi-directional spatial encoding: A process for compressing and decompressing non-keyframes in sequential sets of contemporaneous video frames making up multiple video streams where the video frames in a set depict substantially the same scene from different viewpoints. Each set of contemporaneous video frames has a plurality frames designated as keyframes with the remaining...

20060031916 - Management and non-linear presentation of broadcasted or streamed multimedia content: Methods and systems for presenting enhanced previously recorded broadcasted or streamed content are provided. Example embodiments provide an Enhanced Content Display System “ECDS,” which supports the management and presentation of previously recorded program content in a non-linear fashion and allows subscribers, using a variety of techniques, to specify which portions...

20060031914 - Synchronization and automation in an itv enviroment: A synchronization mechanism embeds synchronization triggers into a television signal or stream at regular intervals. The triggers include an accurate representation of the time in which the triggers were embedded. A receiving device decodes the triggers and synchronizes its internal timer based on the triggers. In this regard, the receiving...

20060031915 - System and process for compressing and decompressing multiple, layered, video streams of a scene captured from different viewpoints forming a grid using spatial and temporal encoding: A system and process for compressing and decompressing multiple video streams depicting substantially the same dynamic scene from different viewpoints that from a grid of viewpoints. Each frame in each contemporaneous set of video frames of the multiple streams is represented by at least a two layers—a main layer and...

20060031919 - Method of providing content to an a/v telecommunication device: A method of generating media content for an A/V telecommunication device is performed by generating media content and formatting the generated media content in an A/V telecommunication format. The formatted media content is then stored for delivery to an A/V telecommunication device....

20060031918 - System and method for describing presentation and behavior information in an itv application: An ITV application definition language (ADL) used to generate ITV applications for different types of target platforms and devices. The ADL provides a plurality of core data structure types upon which one or more data structures may be built. Data structures storing ITV content presentation and behavior information are referred...

20060031920 - Method of providing advertising to an a/v telecommunication device: A method of providing promotional content to an A/V telecommunication device is performed by generating media content and providing media content to the A/V telecommunication device....

20060026625 - Search engine for a video recorder: The present invention is directed to a search engine for a video recorder. One embodiment of the present invention operates in an environment that includes one or more set-top boxes connected to or integrated within one or more output devices. The set-top boxes are used to transfer shows from a...

20060026626 - Cue-aware privacy filter for participants in persistent communications: A cue, for example a facial expression or hand gesture, is identified, and a device communication is filtered according to the cue....

20060026627 - Method and apparatus for controlling display of content signals: A method and apparatus for controlling display of content signals begins by receiving a content signal that includes video content and at least one associated content control indicator. The content signal may also include audio content associated with the video content. The processing continues by comparing the at least one...

20060026632 - Formatting media for delivery to an a/v telecommunication device: A method of transforming general media content for delivery to an A/V telecommunication device is performed by inputting general media content and transforming the general media content to an A/V telecommunication format. The transformed content is delivered to an A/V telecommunication device....

20060026633 - Integrated interactive advertising promotions and an a/v telecommunication device: An A/V telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection may include an integrated interactive promotion....

20060026631 - Interactive incentive promotions over an a/v telecommunications device: A method for incentive based promotion on an A/V telecommunication device includes delivering promotional content to an A/V telecommunication device. User input is requested over the A/V telecommunication device and a response to the input is delivered to the A/V telecommunication device....

20060026628 - Method and apparatus for insertion of additional content into video: A method and apparatus inserts virtual advertisements or other virtual contents into a sequence of frames of a video presentation by performing real-time content-based video frame processing to identify suitable locations in the video for implantation. Such locations correspond to both the temporal segments within the video presentation and the...

20060026629 - Method for advertising via ip video telephone: A method for providing advertising to a video telephone is disclosed, including the steps of monitoring the usage of the video telephone to detect a number of user activities. The detected user activities are stored within a database. The stored user activities within the database are used to generate directed...

20060026630 - Method of advertising in a video answering message on an a/v telecommunication device: A method for providing advertising content in A/V messaging for an A/V telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection, and a video processor connected to the network connection may be performed by receiving a call initiation from a caller and recognizing a “no-answer”...

20060026634 - Creating standardized playlists and maintaining coherency: Updating automatically generated playlists in response to media content being edited. Aspects of the invention associate a playlist type or other code with each playlist to define the structure of the playlist. When media content is added to or deleted from a collection of media files, one or more playlist...

20060026637 - Interactive television devices and systems: An interactive TV device is configured to receive and process multiple broadband input streams simultaneously. The device includes functionality to perform as a Web browser, HF, cable and satellite TV receiver, a digital PVR, an interactive TV set-top box, an advanced central processing unit and a videoconferencing device, thanks to...

20060026636 - Maintaining a graphical user interface state that is based on a selected piece of content: A graphical user interface (“GUI”) for a content management system is provided, such as to present television program information and/or information associated with other forms of multimedia content. In some situations, the GUI displays various types of information about multiple pieces of content that are currently appropriate for display, and...

20060026635 - Program portals and methods and systems for finding and viewing programs: Methods and systems that enable users to find and view programs are described. In one embodiment, a program-viewing portal application executes on a client device and is configured to enable a user to access programs within a particular program type, and to view, as part of a program selection process,...

20060026638 - Maintaining a graphical user interface state that is based on a selected type of content: A graphical user interface (“GUI”) for a content management system is provided, such as to present television program information and/or information associated with other forms of multimedia content. In some situations, the GUI displays various types of information about multiple pieces of content that are currently appropriate for display, and...

20060026639 - Interactive program information page and related methods: Methods and systems that enable users to find and view programs are described. In at least some embodiments, an interactive program information page enables links to be created between local electronic program guide data that resides on the client device and data that resides remotely from the client device. In...

20060026640 - System to syncronize and access broadcast information: The system enables listeners and viewers of a broadcast to access additional information associated with a broadcast. Listeners and viewers utilize a user device to connect to a database containing program descriptions (e.g. audio, text, video or combination thereof) further describing the programming and ancillary information. The database is indexed...

20060026641 - Methods and systems for integrating provisional services in an electronic program guide environment: Methods and systems that enable users to find and view programs are described. In one embodiment, a user can access programs within a particular program type in an electronic program guide and select programs that are not available via a current electronic program guide. If programs are available from one...

20060026645 - Guide system and method of operation: A system and method for displaying a simplified electronic program schedule guide on a user's television monitor is provided. In one embodiment, the program schedule guide is abbreviated to include only the programs currently available for viewing on a subset of the available channels. In another embodiment, the program guide...

20060026642 - Method and apparatus for predicting a number of individuals interested in an item based on recommendations of such item: A method (800) and apparatus (100) are disclosed for predicting a level of interest in an item, such as the size of an audience for a television program, based on the selection history (120) of multiple users and the extent to which the item is recommended (220) to the multiple...

20060026643 - Methods and systems for constructing and editing electronic program guide lineups: Various embodiments provide accurate EPG lineup construction and PVR scheduling for users, regardless of their geographic location. In accordance with the described embodiments, the guide retrieves and aggregates data from multiple available sources, particularly in-band scanning and EPG metadata download. Services are then identified and sorted into logically equivalent groups....

20060026644 - Receiving device and receiving method: Station selection history information is stored in a flash memory for each predetermined time (for example, 5 minutes) in the past from a predetermined number of days ago to the current time. In response to a station selection instruction, a CPU calculates a corrected time by rounding the current time...

20060026646 - Multi-view video format: Interactive multi-view video presents new types of video capture systems, video formats, video compression algorithms, and services. Many video cameras are allocated to capture an event from various related locations and directions. The captured videos and any associated audio streams are captured in a video beam format which allows for...

20060026647 - Methods and systems for recording programs: Methods and systems that enable users to find and view programs are described. In one embodiment, a user request associated with a program that does not occur in a current electronic program guide is received and a record request is created based on the user's request. A recording associated with...

20060026648 - A display controlling apparatus, method, and computer program: A data-related information acquiring device acquires data related information having a distribution information. The distribution is related to the distribution of data. A data identification device identifies first data of which first distribution time extends or contracts on the basis of the data related information and second data of which...

20060026650 - Apparatus and method for detecting external antenna in a mobile terminal supporting digital multimedia broadcasting service: An external antenna detection apparatus in a mobile terminal for receiving a satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) service. The external antenna detection apparatus includes at least one built-in antenna for receiving a gap filler signal; a detachable external antenna for receiving a satellite signal; a radio frequency (RF) module for...

20060026649 - Remotely triggering multi-media data delivery in mobile communications devices: The use of messaging systems such as multimedia messaging system (MMS) and short message system (SMS) for remotely triggering a camera-equipped mobile communications device to capture multimedia data and sending the captured multimedia data to a remote communications device is disclosed....

20060026651 - Digital cable tv receiver, diagnostic method for the digital cable tv receiver, and data structure of dvi status report: A digital cable TV receiver includes a POD module and a host device. The host device includes a DVI controller and a plurality of DVI ports linked to a plurality of peripheral devices, respectively. When the DVI controller receives a diagnostic request for DVI status from the POD module, it...

20060026652 - Integrated coupon server and a/v telecommunications device: An A/V telecommunication device including a network connection, a telecommunications processor connected to the network connection and a video processor connected to the network connection may include an integrated coupon server communicably connected to the network connection and a printer communicably connected to the coupon server....

20060026653 - Mobile terminal recording system: A mobile terminal recording system includes a mobile terminal and a cradle. The mobile terminal creates video recording reservation information of a desired TV program, and sends the created video recording reservation information to the cradle. The cradle that has received the video recording reservation information performs a video recording...

20060026654 - Live content management method, source device, and sink device: A live content management method, a source device, and a sink device are provided. The live content management method includes storing live content in a storage unit of a source device if the transmission of the live content from the source device to a sink device is temporarily stopped. The...

20060026655 - System and method for managing, converting and displaying video content on a video-on-demand platform, including ads used for drill-down navigation and consumer-generated classified ads: A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system has a VOD Application Server which manages a database of templates ordered in a hierarchy for presentation of video content elements of different selected types categorized in hierarchical order. The templates include those for higher-order displays which have one or more links to lower-order...

20060026657 - Highly integrated single chip set-top box: A highly integrated set-top box is implemented on a single semiconductor substrate. For instance, an analog RF tuner is implemented on the same substrate with a digital receiver, and audio-video back-end circuits. The single chip set-top box can be used for satellite, cable, internet, or terrestrial TV applications, or other...

20060026656 - Video/audio player with remote-control unit: A video/audio player includes a main body, a lid, and a remote-control unit. The main body includes a first recessed portion. The lid is pivotally connected to the main body. The remote-control unit is detachably received in the first recessed portion....

20060026658 - Near-video-on-demand stream filtering: A broadcast system 100 for broadcasting at least one title using a near-video-on-demand broadcasting protocol includes a plurality of broadcast receivers 150. A hierarchical network of data distributors starts from a central distributor 110 through at least one layer of intermediate distributors 120, 130, 140 to the broadcast receivers for...

20060026659 - Integrated cable modem: The present invention is an integrated cable modem tuner. In one embodiment, the upstream path and the downstream path are integrated on a common semiconductor substrate. The down-stream path can include a TV tuner and digital receiver portion that is integrated on a common semiconductor substrate with the power amplifier...

20060026660 - Video signal transceiver: A video signal transceiver has a triax port, a baseband port, a demodulator for converting a HF video signal received at said triax port into a baseband video signal for outputting at said baseband port and at least one modulator for converting a baseband control signal received at said baseband...

20060026661 - Integrated set-top box: The present invention is an integrated set-top box. In one embodiment, the up-stream path and the down-stream path are integrated on a common semiconductor substrate. The down-stream path can include a TV tuner and a digital receiver portion that is integrated on the common semiconductor substrate with a power amplifier...

20060026662 - Broadcast metadata format independent of transmission standard: A multi-standard receiving device processes broadcast transmission signals that use multiple differing transmission standards. Processing entails conversion of the transmission standard's protocol standard into a normalized transport agnostic representation in order to allow consistent manipulation of a broadcast transmission signal's contents regardless of the transmission standard....

20060026664 - Playback of interactive programs: A method for playing back a program which includes one or more interactive applications. A program which is stored, either in the form of a data stream or as a set of files is played back from a storage device. When playback is started, applications which are detected are launched....

20060026663 - System and method for pre-caching a first portion of a video file on a set-top box: A method of pre-caching video content is provided and includes measuring an available bandwidth of a data connection to a set top box. The available bandwidth measurement can be an average available bandwidth of the data connection to the set top box or a minimum available bandwidth of the data...

20060026665 - Media-on-demand catalog viewing preference system: The invention can be viewed as a system for providing media information to a user via an interactive media services client device coupled to a programmable television services server device. A method of the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes receiving user input and excluding one or more media...

20060026666 - Digital cable broadcast system, tv receiver, and method: A digital cable broadcast system includes a broadcast transmitter and a digital cable TV receiver. The TV receiver includes a POD module which receives a generic feature control message from the broadcast transmitter. The generic feature control message includes cable band information identifying a cable band selected by the broadcast...