Interactive video distribution systems inventions 05/07

20070124750 - Method and device for digital broadcasting: This invention relates to a broadcasting system/method where a broadcasting signal is encoded on the basis of one or more region codes. During decoding a decryption key and/or a pay-mode key is used where the keys is dependent on a region code representing a physical location of a receiver. In... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070124751 - Method and apparatus for providing simplified peer-to-peer recording: A television apparatus having digital serial bus ports allows a user to select a user-designated digital video content source input such as a digital tuner of the television apparatus and digital serial bus compliant components connected to the television apparatus via the digital serial bus ports of the television apparatus,... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070124753 - Digital broadcast receiving device: A receiving unit 101 repeatedly receives a transport stream, and a specifying unit 102 specifies a purchase state. A restoring unit 103 generates a first audio-digital (AV) signal and interactive data, and an AV reproducing unit 105 generates a second AV signal. A combining unit 106 generates a data-AV combined... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070124754 - Video server based program delivery system and method: A program delivery system includes a video server that records a plurality of server contents and outputs the server contents, a video switcher which selectively switches between server contents and live contents, and delivers the switched contents as an on-air video image, a content selection module which presents live content... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070124752 - Video viewing support system and method: System includes unit acquiring video content from video source, unit acquiring text data corresponding to video content from text data source, unit extracting topics from video content based on text data, unit dividing video content into video content segments for each of topics, unit generating one of first thumbnail image,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070124755 - Information receiving device and its method, and information transmission device and its method: When a commercial program is broadcasted and displayed on a display (7A), a viewer is requested a response. The viewer operates a prescribed key in the ten key (32) of a remote controller (31) for response. If the viewer responds to the response request of the commercial program, points are... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070124756 - Detecting repeating content in broadcast media: Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products provide social and interactive applications for detecting repeating content in broadcast media. In some implementations, a method includes: generating a database of audio statistics from content; generating a query from the database of audio statistics; running the query against the database of audio... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070124757 - Method and apparatus for monitoring audio listening: A method and apparatus receive, detect, collect and analyze program-identifying (“PI”) information contained in a plurality of broadcast or recorded electronic audio signals. Each audio signal represents the sounds (audio portion) in a plurality of sequential program segments, such as program material or commercials. The method comprises the steps of... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20070124758 - Method for skipping advertisement broadcasting: A method for skipping advertisement broadcasting is provided. Whether or not it is advertisement broadcasting is determined using an program ID of received broadcasting contents. When it is advertisement broadcasting, the advertisement is skipped. During the advertisement broadcasting skipping, a multi tasking environment other than broadcasting viewing is provided. By... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070124759 - Communication system, communication apparatus, communication method, and program: Disclosed herein is a communication system for enabling a first communication apparatus and second communication apparatuses to communicate with one another over a network. The first communication apparatus includes: a detection device; a display control device; a transmission device. The second communication apparatuses includes: a reception device; a notification device;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070124760 - System and method for screening video communications within an interactive television system: Outgoing video communication requests are intercepted and screened by one or more unauthorized recipient lists, authorized recipient lists, caller-specific authorized/unauthorized recipient lists, and/or various combinations of these. The video communication requests may be blocked or forwarded to the recipient depending on whether the recipient is included or not included in... Agent: Digeo, Inc C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20070124763 - Interactive television targeted message system: An interactive television system is provided in which targeted messages may be sent to users. The interactive television system may use an interactive television program guide or other interactive applications to provide interactive television services to users. An e-mail or other messaging application may be used to receive the messages.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070124762 - Selective advertisement display for multimedia content: An advertisement display system comprises an analyzer component that analyzes one or more of data associated with at least a portion of a multimedia item, demographic information associated with a user, and contextual data. A presentation component selectively provides at least one advertisement from a plurality of advertisements to a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070124761 - Space-shifting media streaming system: A system for space-shifting media broadcasts is provided. A request to space-shift a media broadcast is received. A device, out of a network of devices is selected to space-shift the media broadcast to. The media broadcast is then space-shifted to the selected device.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070124764 - Media content menu navigation and customization: Media content menu navigation and customization is described. In an embodiment, media content is received at a television-based client device and displayed for viewing on a display device. A user-selectable menu input is received via a television-based remote control device and, in response, a content menu is displayed over the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070124765 - Parallel television remote control: A remote control with a built-in miniature television screen and sound system manages settings and display of media on an associated television screen. The remote control's user interface permits media guide perusal and channel selection for display on both of the main and miniature television screens. Media guides can be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070124766 - Video synthesizer: A video processing system receives a user input, retrieves a video element, constructs a processed video element from the video element using the user input and delivers the processed video element for display. The user input identifies one or more portions of the video element and/or objects from the video... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070124767 - System for determining return on investment from television and on-line marketing communications: A method of determining effectiveness of television and on-line marketing communications is disclosed. A method for determining when transference occurs between different marketing vehicles is also disclosed. The method uses a modular system for determining effectiveness of marketing communications which provides an efficient and timely process for measuring the effectiveness... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070124768 - Media content menu navigation and customization: Media content menu navigation and customization is described. In an embodiment, a content menu is displayed that includes a listing for a category of media content that is available for viewing. A user-selectable input is then received to select the category of the media content from the content menu. In... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070124769 - Personal broadcast channels: Various embodiments of the invention provide the ability for a subscriber to define personal broadcast channels. Such personal broadcast channels can allow a subscriber to define a play order for a plurality of sets of content (including without limitation video content, audio content, various alerts and/or other data, and the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070124770 - Simple program guide: An electronic program guide (100) includes a channel list (105) of available channels and a program list (110) of programs which is displayed concurrently with the channel list (105) in response to selection of a selected channel from the available channels. The programs displayed on the program list (110) are... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070124773 - Media content menu navigation and customization: Media content menu navigation and customization is described. In an embodiment, a content menu is displayed that includes a listing which collectively identifies media content that is available for viewing from multiple data streams. The multiple data streams can each provide different media content that is collectively identified where the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070124771 - Providing an item further to a broadcast: A method and system for providing an item (112) further to a broadcast (101) are provided. A user request (108) with a time of a broadcast (101) of an item or a reference to an item is received by a service provider (110). The request (108) includes an indication of... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070124772 - Universal parallel television remote control: A portable control unit that interacts with a variety of types of media equipment. The control unit searches for media equipment (including media players) located within an area and retrieves user interaction information corresponding to discovered media players. The control unit can be instructed to control any of the discovered... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070124774 - Mobile radio communications device and related method of operation and communications system: The present invention provides for a mobile radio communications device arranged for receiving a broadcast service and including reception means for reading a channel to be employed by the broadcast service, means for receiving otherwise than via the said channel scheduling information related to the broadcast service, means for determining... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070124775 - Portable video programs: A method consistent with certain embodiments provides portable delivery of television programs to a portable wireless device (PWD) involves using the PWD to capture a sample of a program being played by a television; transmitting attributes of the captured sample to a service provider so that the service provider can... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20070124776 - Media distribution system: A media storage system, and method for carrying out same, including a media storage device including a microprocessor coupled to a storage member, wherein the storage member includes a protected portion and an unprotected portion, and at least one channel adapted to receive pushed content wherein the microprocessor is coupled... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070124777 - Control device with language selectivity: A control device that interacts with an entertainment system. The entertainment system drives a speaker device. The control device has a user interface that receives a user input identifying an audio selection and a language. At least one module of the control device transmits a control signal adapted to cause... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070124778 - Parallel television docking adapter: A docking adapter that interacts with an entertainment system and a parallel television device. The docking adapter may comprise a housing shaped for removable insertion of the parallel television device. The docking adapter may deliver power to the parallel television device. The docking adapter may comprise a communication pathway that... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070124779 - Networked pvr system: Various embodiments of the invention provide novel solutions for providing content (including without limitation audio content and video content) to subscribers. In an aspect of some embodiments, content can be provided in an on-demand manner, allowing subscribers to select what content to receive and/or when to receive such content. In... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070124780 - Digital multimedia playback method and apparatus: A digital multimedia playback method and apparatus is provided, in which a user interface is used for allowing a user to conveniently play various multimedia contents. The digital multimedia playback method includes navigating contents stored in an external device connected to a digital multimedia playback apparatus through a communication line... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070124781 - Networked content storage: Embodiments of the invention provide networked storage of content, which can be used to allow the enhanced provision of real-time and/or on-demand content (such as video content, audio content, etc.) to a subscriber. Merely by way of example, in an aspect of some embodiments, a hierarchical storage structure may be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070124784 - Bcast service system and contents transmission method using the same: A broadcast/multicast (BCAST) service, specifically, a BCAST service system for transmitting broadcast contents to terminals when a network load is small and a contents transmission method using the same are disclosed. When contents are broadcast by using a distribution window (DM) and a presentation window (PW), the terminals feed back... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070124786 - Home network-broadcasting linking system and method for mutually using multimedia contents between home network and broadcasting: Provided is a home network-broadcasting linking system and method for using multimedia contents of both a home network and broadcasting network. The system includes: a home network means which collects/manages a home network multimedia contents list and a broadcasting contents list, provides the contents list and repeats the requested contents;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070124782 - Image display method, image display device, and image display program: An image reproduction function for reproducing effectively reproducing image recorded in a storage device in diversified forms is provided. A moving picture obtained from one image pickup device is recorded in a plurality of systems at different frame rates. The recorded moving picture is formed of a plurality of still... Agent: Carl I. Brundidge

20070124783 - Interactive wide-angle video server: An interactive video server which enables multiple clients to independently and interactively extract views from a one or more wide-angle imagery sources is disclosed.... Agent: Groover & Holmes

20070124785 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing third party control of access to media content available via broadcast and multicast service (bcmcs): The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing third party control of access to media content available via broadcast and multicast service (BCMCS). According to one method, control of access to streaming media content to a subscriber terminal via a BCMCS may be implemented... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070124787 - Apparatus, system, and method of electronic mail processing: An electronic mail processing apparatus includes a data receiving section (101) that receives mail data including video data or audio data, a cited data detecting section (103) that detects a cited part of the received video data or audio data as cited data from the mail data received by the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070124788 - Appliance and method for client-sided synchronization of audio/video content and external data: The invention pertains to an apparatus and a method for the synchronization of client-sided played video data with server-sided provided additional data, which are displayed or outputted in an additional Content-display or output unit.... Agent: Erland Wittkotter Apt 174

20070124789 - Wireless interactive communication system: An interactive communication system including a web-based content brokerage engine for the matching of meta data to audio content and audio+video content, for the encoding of such meta data into the audio-band or video-band channel of the specified audio content and audio+video content with such resulting encoded content being capable... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070124790 - Broadcasting receiver and power supply control method thereof: A broadcasting receiver and a power supply control method based on an operation mode are disclosed. Power supply is cut off to a data transmission/reception processing block corresponding to a mode, not determined as the operation mode. Therefore, it is possible to prevent unnecessary power consumption and lengthen the lifetime... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070124791 - Content output device: A content output device that includes a media player unit adapted to access content items from a first media source and to provide an output corresponding to the content items. The media player unit is further adapted to access at least one content item from at least one second media... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070124792 - Phone based television remote control: A phone that interacts with a television system. At least one module may be adapted to receive a user input identifying a video selection. At least one module may also be adapted to display video information corresponding to the video selection. At least one module may further be adapted to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070124793 - Memory controller for handling multiple clients and method thereof: A method and system is provided for organizing and routing multiple memory requests from a plurality of clients to multiple memories. Requests from a plurality of clients, including a plurality of clients of the same type, such as multiple MPEG decoders, are directed to different memory controllers by a router.... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070124794 - Method and apparatus for employing stored content at receivers to improve efficiency of broadcast system bandwidth use: The invention relates generally to a receiver unit in a digital broadcast system for receiving a broadcast signal comprising content segments and control data, and generating an output signal using the content segments and previously stored content segments. The previously stored content segments are retrieved from a local memory device... Agent: Stacey J. Longanecker Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070124795 - Television message system: A television message system is provided that allows users at user television equipment devices that are connected to a television distribution facility to transmit messages to each other relating to a television program or other suitable subject. The television message system permits users to participate in evaluations, contests, promotions, and... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070124796 - Appliance and method for client-sided requesting and receiving of information: The Invention pertains to a device for the client-sided requesting, transmitting, receiving, delivering, outputting and displaying of server-sided stored data by means of context data and time index data and/or content identifier data, which are transferred to the server and to which server-sided additional data are stored and can be... Agent: Erland Wittkotter

20070118847 - Content delivery system and computer program therefor: On the basis of information of a first user, requesting delivery of content, received from a content reproduction apparatus, a content providing server refers to first and second storage section, as necessary, to specify a second user having purchased or reproduced the same content as the first user, then identify... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070118848 - Automatically generated tv favorites list: A favorite channel list for a media system is generated by observing the viewing, surfing, and recording habits of a user. The viewing habits may include the duration and frequency of viewing a channel. A user's surfing habits, including navigation habits of a guide, the method used for navigation to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070118849 - Method to request delivery of a media asset, media server, application server and client device: In requesting delivery of an on-demand media asset from a media server (102)—like a request to stream a movie from a video-on-demand server—the client (101) submits to the media server (102) a token that is in advance associated with the requested media asset. The media server (102) then verifies the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070118850 - Television signal reception method and module: the received main component (C1) and the acquired secondary component (C2) are reproduced (E6) on the multimedia receiver terminal (T) in compliance with the chronology of the secondary time stamps and the main time stamps, to reproduce for the user a coherent audiovisual content made up both of the main... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070118851 - Emergency alert signaling method and digital cable broadcast system: A digital cable broadcast system includes a broadcast receiver, a broadcast transmitter, and an alternative data receiver. The broadcast transmitter transmits a new emergency alert message associated with an emergency alert event if the broadcast receiver is not plugged into a power supply. More particularly, the transmitter transmits a status... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070118852 - Virtual television channels for audio-video system: An A/V system in which the user can set up a “virtual television channel” which includes the video from one channel and the audio from another channel. The virtual channel is included in the on-screen programming guide, and is user-selectable for viewing or recording just like the actual channels. The... Agent: Richard Calderwood Stexar Corp.

20070118853 - Architecture for sharing podcast information: A communication construct used for sharing podcast information associated with a podcast can include a link sent to a remote device (103) while playing the podcast, appended metadata to the link, and a communication packet enabling a user to transfer the link and the appended metadata while the user is... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070118854 - Broadcasting program information displaying method and broadcasting receiver: A broadcasting program information displaying method and broadcasting receiver are provided. The broadcasting program information displaying method includes checking whether broadcasting program information to be displayed on a screen is completely received when a user selects a broadcasting program information displaying function; and forming receiving state information according to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070118855 - Remotely accessing and programming a set top box: Systems and methods for remotely programming a set top box and for remotely scheduling an event on a set top box. A set top box includes a server that allows an access device to access the set top box over an always on connection between the set top box and... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070118856 - Broadcasting receiver and method thereof: Digital broadcasting content is viewed by a user, such as through a portable terminal having a broadcasting receiver configured to receive digital broadcasting content. An original travel path is obtained based on a travel destination. The portable terminal determines if a broadcasting blind zone exists relative to the original travel... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070118857 - System and method of recording video content: A system and method of recording video content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a call at a set-top box device, where the call is routed using an identifier associated with the set-top box device. The method also includes receiving a voice command at the set-top... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070118858 - Method for providing heterogeneous services in terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting system using picture-in-picture function: Disclosed is a method for providing heterogeneous services using a PIP function in a terrestrial DMB receiver. The method includes: a first step of receiving a key input for activating the PIP function and displaying a list of services in an available ensemble during use of a desired DMB service;... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070118859 - Front-end module and television set: A front-end module for receiving analog and digital broadcast signals is provided. The front-end module includes frequency conversion means, digital satellite demodulation means, intermediate frequency conversion means, analog demodulation means, digital terrestrial demodulation means, filtering means, and a grounding arrangement common to a digital and an analog circuit sections.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070118860 - Video advertising delivery system: A mobile video advertisement delivery system comprising: a vehicle locator system, a video advertisement storage system, a processor communicating with the vehicle locator system for determining a suitable time or place to display an advertisement, and a display communicating with the processor for displaying the advertisement at the suitable time... Agent: Patton Boggs

20070118863 - Apparatus and method for controlling household electronic appliances using broadcasting middleware in home network environment: Provided are an apparatus and a method for controlling household electronic appliances using a broadcasting middleware in a home network environment. The apparatus, includes: a data separator for receiving broadcasting signals in a broadcasting receiving unit and separating broadcasting data and control data out of the broadcasting signals; a broadcasting... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118862 - Home appliance with mp3 player: Disclosed herein is a home appliance with an MP3 player which is capable of playing back digital contents of the MP3 player. The home appliance includes the MP3 player adapted for storing contents, and a washing device for washing or drying clothes. The washing device is connectable with the MP3... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070118861 - System and method for delivering graphics received through a cable television system to a digital television: A set-top box (10) encodes formatted graphics, such as scrolling text of an Emergency Alert System (EAS) message, so that they can be delivered via a compressed digital video interface (14), such as an IEEE-1394 interface, and properly displayed on a digital television set (12) that cannot itself interpret such... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070118864 - Method and system for processing wireless digital multimedia: A transmit digital processing system for wireless transmission of HDMI and/or DVI data using an FPGA. The FPGA converts the data into two data streams and includes a front end component multiplexing video data with control data. A complementary receive FPGA is also disclosed.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070118865 - Recording device, recording method, and recording program: The recording apparatus acquires now-on-air information at a certain interval of time. The now-on-air information shows the contents of broadcast signals being received. The recording apparatus records broadcast signals when detecting a keyword in the now-on-air information. Therefore, if the recording apparatus receives the broadcast signals which represent user's desired... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070118866 - System and method of communicating video content: A system and method of communicating video content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes communicating a selection of a channel from a set-top box device to at least one server of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system. The method also includes receiving a still image associated with... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070118867 - Digital television signal, digital television receiver, and method of processing digital television signal: A digital television (DTV) signal for use in a digital television (DTV) receiver includes an extended text table (ETT) for data services. The ETT includes a header and a message body. The header includes a table identification (ID) extension field which serves to establish uniqueness of the ETT, and the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070118868 - Distributed presentations employing inputs from multiple video cameras located at multiple sites and customizable display screen configurations: A computer network-based distributed presentation system and process is presented that controls the display of one or more video streams output by multiple video cameras located across multiple presentation sites on display screens located at each presentation site. The distributed presentation system and process provides the ability for a user... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070118869 - \"method and a system for controlling, navigating and managing data files, url's and other file system objects using code-based commands, in a computer system or an appliance enhanced by a computer system\": The present invention relates to a method and a system for controlling, navigating and managing data files, URL's and other file system objects using codebased commands in a computer system or a appliance enhanced by a computer system. The method and system operates under the control of an application system... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070118870 - Apparatus and method for managing resources of mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal including a resource unit configured to allocate resources so as to execute a first module, and a resource management unit configured to compare a ranking of a second module selected to be executed with respect to a ranking of the first module so as to determine... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070118871 - Method and system for recording a medium from a \"set top box\" to a portable multimedia player-recorder: The invention relates to a method for recording a medium from a terminal receiving multimedia signals of the “Set Top Box” type to a portable player-recorder. The method according to the invention comprises the following stages: identification of a time slot in which said medium is accessible within the terminal,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070118872 - Method and apparatus for providing preview service using electronic service guide in a digital broadcasting system: A method and apparatus for providing a preview service using an ESG in a digital broadcasting system are provided. Metadata of ongoing broadcasting services are collected. In the presence of preview data for the preview service among the collected metadata, information associated with the preview service is set in a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070118873 - Methods and apparatus for merging media content: A computerized method and apparatus is disclosed for merging content segments from a number of discrete media content (e.g., audio/video podcasts) in preparation for playback. The method and apparatus obtain metadata corresponding to a plurality of discrete media content. The metadata identifies the content segments and their corresponding timing information,... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070113240 - Apparatus, system, and method for correlating a cost of media service to advertising exposure: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for correlating a cost of receiving media to a user's exposure to advertising. A media display system including a media recorder detects and reports that a media display system user has skipped over an advertising program without watching or listening to the advertising... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070113241 - System and method to implement business model for advertising revenue by detecting and tracking audience members who visit advertiser designated locations: The invention discloses a system and method to implement a business model for advertising revenue that allows advertising hosts to reliably detect registered audience members who respond to advertisements by coming into close physical proximity of designated locations, so that corresponding advertisers may be billed accordingly. A host system operated... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070113242 - Selective post-processing of compressed digital video: The primary issue regarding the transmission of digital video to automobiles is limited bandwidth. To help combat bandwidth issues, compression techniques have been developed to reduce the high bit rate required for transmission and storage. However, methods for improving the perceived quality of digital imagery, particularly at low bit rates,... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070113243 - Targeted advertising system and method: A targeted advertising system comprising an interface unit (110) configured to receive broadcast transmissions, a primary broadcast stream (101) for broadcast programming, a secondary broadcast stream (105) for targeted advertising content, and a storage device (115) for storing the targeted advertising content. The method comprises presenting a targeted advertising content... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070113244 - System and method for generating an advertising schedule: A system for generating an advertising schedule is provided. The system comprises a data source and one or more computers connected to the data source. The computers are configured to execute one or more applications related to the generation of an advertising schedule. The system further comprises a network connecting... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070113245 - Font library for interactive television recording and playback on a storage medium: A method (49, 55) of handling fonts in a recorder or a playback-recorder for interactive television. Fonts are stored on a recordable storage medium (220), wherein the fonts are part of a downloaded interactive television application. When recording, the downloaded fonts are stored separate from the application, preferably in a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070113246 - System, method and apparatus for electronic program guide, streaming media redirecting and streaming media on-demand: A method of streaming media, includes: a digital terminal visits an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) server, the EPG server obtains the capability parameters of the digital terminal and a streaming media program list that matches the capability parameters of the digital terminal, and the EPG server sends the streaming media... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070113247 - Method and apparatus for providing user interface: A method and apparatus which provides a user interface includes a method of providing a plurality of display areas corresponding to a control subject, positioning a point object on one display area of the several display areas, and moving the pointing object between the plurality of display areas as a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070113248 - Apparatus and method for determining genre of multimedia data: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining a genre of multimedia data by analyzing the multimedia data, the apparatus including: a feature extractor extracting predetermined feature information from multimedia data; and a genre determination unit analyzing the extracted feature information of the multimedia data according to multimedia... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070113249 - Context information management system and method: A context information management system provides service mobility that allows user to maintain service even while moving the service environment. That is, when user service environment movement is sensed, user service provided in previous service environment is consecutively provided to the user in the new service environment using the service... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070113250 - On demand fantasy sports systems and methods: A method for enhancing a fantasy sports game with recorded sports broadcasts includes the steps of receiving video programs depicting sports-related events, storing the video programs, associating to a plurality of segments of the video programs attribute data that identifies for a segment of the plurality of segments at least... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070113251 - Display control apparatus and method, recording medium, and program therefor: A display control apparatus controlling display of a program guide includes a first calculator calculating a first display position at which a first index indicating the current time is displayed; a second calculator calculating, when the current time is included in a time slot where a designated program is broadcast,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070113252 - Display control apparatus and method, recording medium, and program therefor: A TV microcomputer makes a request to a wireless center microcomputer through a SS transmitting/receiving unit in a TV main unit and a SS transmitting/receiving unit in a wireless center, and the wireless center microcomputer sends a response for notifying reception of the request command to the TV microcomputer through... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070113253 - On-demand service system and method thereof by applying broadcasting: An on-demand service system is provided. The on-demand service system includes a positioning module providing a position information, a receiving unit receiving a digital broadcasting message, an input unit inputting an on-demand service command, a processing unit selecting a specific service information from the digital broadcasting message according to the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070113254 - Catv system, management device, cable modem, set-top box and program: A cable modem of a CATV system includes a proxy requesting unit. The proxy requesting unit requests a set top box to send relevant information about the set top box when the cable modem is requested to send the relevant information from at least one management device connected to the... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070113255 - Video distribution apparatus, viewer apparatus, video distribution system including these apparatuses, control method for the video distribution apparatus, control method for the viewer apparatus, and computer program for the apparatuses: A video distribution system which is enhanced in flexibility in distribution mode switching. In a camera server connected to a viewer via a network, a video capture board captures a video image. A CPU processes the captured video image according to an electronic PTZ mode for cutting out a part... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070113256 - Data transmission system, communication apparatus, and program: A first communication apparatus includes a data transmission unit that sequentially transmits each data forming a data stream to any of a plurality of transmission paths along with additional information indicating transmission sequence of the each data. A second communication apparatus includes a sequence specification unit that specifies the transmission... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070113258 - Method and system for distributing local programming to areas abroad: There is provided an IPTV distribution system and method for distributing programming made available to viewers in a first jurisdiction to subscribers in a second jurisdiction to enable a viewing experience otherwise available only in the first jurisdiction. The programming may include signals broadcast over the air (OTA) in the... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP

20070113257 - Reception device: To provide a reception device for receiving a broadcast wave, selecting any of a commercial stream and a program stream that are modulated in the broadcast wave, and outputting the selected stream. The reception device includes an acceptance unit which accepts a channel operation by a user, and a switch... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070113259 - Presenting programs: The invention relates to provision of improved services in connection with presenting a program for a user. Information of the user is stored in a remote management unit, preferably in a database thereof. A broadcasting system provides a terminal with a program signal and the program is presented to the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070113261 - System for transmitting video streams using a plurality of levels of quality over a data network to a remote receiver: A method of and apparatus for transmitting video images allows a viewer to receive at a receiving display device, all or a selected portion of a video stream of frames, in a storage-efficient format from a transmitting device and view the received video stream of frames before the transmission is... Agent: Kendyl A Roman

20070113260 - [storage media with receiving digital television signal function]: A storage media with receiving digital TV and radio signal function is provided. The storage media comprises a digital TV signal module, a control device and a flash memory. The digital TV signal module comprises a receiver for receiving digital TV signal and a digital TV signal transmission interface. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070113263 - Dynamic interactive content system: An invention is provided for a dynamic interactive content system. The dynamic interactive content system includes a data receiver capable of receiving main content, such audio/visual video data, and supplemental content associated with the main content. In addition, a storage is included that is in communication with the receiver. The... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070113262 - Processing data packets using navigational hardware assist: Herein described is a system and method for improving the performance in which data packets are processed in a set-top-box. The system determines and stores one or more values into a memory. The one or more values in memory are subsequently utilized when a firmware is executed. These values are... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070113264 - System and method for updating digital media content: A system and method for updating digital content are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure enable updating of content on digital media by dynamically presenting specialized selected content from a global computer network, e.g., the Internet, or other stored digital medium. The system and method provide for... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070107007 - System and method for requesting digital imaging services using a cable tv communications unit: A system and method for obtaining photographic products and/or services comprises bundling image capture and printing technologies into products and/or services that are paid for by a consumer with monthly or yearly subscription fees. The system and method involves selecting a camera and selecting a photographic products/service plan which designates... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070107008 - System for gathering and recording real-time market survey and other data from radio listeners and television viewers utilizing telephones including wireless cell phones: The invention records real-time radio and television listener data utilizing automated, interactive questions and radio and television broadcast audio segments recorded by telephone, including wireless cell phones. Telephone users are asked to hold their phone in the direction of any broadcast audio they are hearing or listening to. Streaming program... Agent: Radiostat, LLC

20070107009 - Emergency alert signaling method and digital television receiver: A digital television receiver includes a tuner receiving a digital television signal including a DCCT, a demodulator demodulating the digital television signal, and a demultiplexer demultiplexing the DCCT from the demodulated signal. The receiver further includes a decoder parsing channel ID information and a priority code from the DCCT, where... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070107010 - Interactive advertising and program promotion in an interactive television system: Systems and methods are provided for interactive advertising and program promotion that may attract and maintain user interest. The interactive advertisements may be displayed within interactive television application display screens, such as, an interactive television program guide display screen. A user may be able to select an interactive advertisement and... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070107012 - Method and apparatus for providing on-demand resource allocation: An approach is provided for allocating resources relating to completion of a workflow within, for example, a service level agreement (SLA) defined for that instance. An activity related to video processing is detected. An attribute associated with the activity is determined. A portion of shared resources are allocated for the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070107011 - System and method for differentiated service levels in an internet protocol television network: Various embodiments of the inventive subject matter provide a framework that may be used to provide service level differentiation in an IPTV delivery system based on program content for any given television channel or programming. For example, for the same TV channel, different service levels may be offered and provided,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070107013 - Method for indicating service types in the service guide: Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for transmitting information on a type of service or program and/or interactivity or interaction information for the service or program. In one example, a parameter or attribute is provided in an ESG fragment for indicating the type of program... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070107014 - Glanceable information system and method: An apparatus, system, and method are related to navigating through content on a device that includes stored information that is organized according to channels. Content that is associated with the channels is selected and viewed on a display of the device by means of passive interaction when the device is... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070107015 - Video contents display system, video contents display method, and program for the same: A video contents display system has a contents information display section that allows pieces of contents information on a plurality of recorded video contents to be displayed along a time axis on a screen, and a video contents display section that displays the plurality of video contents at a specified... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070107016 - Interactive multiple channel user enrollment, purchase confirmation transactional system with fulfillment response feature for video on demand cable systems: A multi-channel process enrolls user-viewers via VOD inputs and supplemental communications channels (cell phone, VoIP, land-line telephone, Internet or fax). Goods are advertised for the shop on-demand (OD) process via user's interactive TV (STB enabled TV set). A buy-now command is sent with the STB-ID code to the cable head... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20070107017 - Transaction process controller with user history, selectable profile controls, confirmation and user control options for shopping with video on demand cable systems: The VOD purchasing method enables a user-viewer to purchase goods via a shop OD (on-demand) process on an interactive TV (STB enabled TV). The user selects shop OD goods and the STB-TV creates a transaction ID code with the STB-ID code or the cable head end (HE) or shop OD... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20070107018 - Method, apparatus and system for controlling a scene structure of multiple channels to be displayed on a mobile terminal in a mobile broadcast system: A method, apparatus and system are provided for controlling a scene structure of a mobile terminal for receiving and displaying data streams in a mobile broadcast system. When logical channels are multiplexed into one physical channel, the multiplexed channels are sequentially decoded and are displayed on an image. A channel... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070107019 - Methods and apparatuses for an integrated media device: Apparatuses and methods are described for a set top box. The set top box may include a satellite television reciever module, a broadband internet module, a digital video recorder, a storage medium, a first output port, and an integrated user interface. The satellite television receiver module receives satellite television broadcasts... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070107020 - System and method for providing reliable wireless home media distribution: A system provides reliable wireless home media distribution. The system comprises a wireless source device; a wireless sink device; and a wireless controller including a sensing module for sensing potentially interfering signals in the path of the wireless source device and the wireless sink device; an admission module for obtaining... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070107021 - Shopping on demand transactional system with data warehousing feature, data tracking, shopping cart reservation feature, purchase commentary and external marketing incentives deployed in video on demand cable systems: The shop on-demand (OD) purchasing method includes an on-line shopping list compiled via a supplemental communications channel (cell phone, land line, Internet, etc.) or compiled via the shop OD VOD process. The list is displayed on the interactive TV (STB-enabled TV) via VOD menu or asset metadata or VOD-VA assets... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20070107022 - Methods and apparatus to verify consumption of programming content: Methods and apparatus to verify consumption of content are described herein. In an example method, a content library is generated within a data structure. The content library includes at least one content identifier associated with programming content. The programming content is insertable into content stream. A content stream including content... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070107024 - Atomic channel changes in a switched digital video system: Atomic channel change in a switched digital video (SDV) system. A set-top box (STB) sends join and leave message commands to a SDV device when requesting a channel change. If one of the IGMP message commands does not reach the SDV device, oversubscription can occur. A combined join and leave... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070107023 - Channel changes between services with differing bandwidth in a switched digital video system: Channel changes between services with differing bandwidth in a switched digital video system. A services map published by the headend and distributed to all of the edge devices, allows a bandwidth requirement to be correlated with each request from a device in the home. The bandwidth requirement is passed upstream... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070107026 - Fast channel change with conditional return to multicasting: In a digital video network that is capable of distributing digital video content to a client via multicasting and unicasting, servicing a channel change request from a client involves switching from providing the digital video content to the client via multicasting to providing the digital video content to the client... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20070107027 - Method and system for scheduling online content delivery: A method and system to schedule delivery of items of content selectively to online users are described. Expected values relating to each user being online is determined during a given time period. An ordered list of the items of content to be selectively delivered to the users is generated based... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/open Tv

20070107025 - System and method for placement of servers in an internet protocol television network: According to one example embodiment the placement of video distribution servers and acquisition servers in a live television IPTV network is considered to be a separate process. This process may be based, for example, on historical data, number of subscribers, subscribers' service quality, some video distribution servers may be selectively... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070107029 - Multiple video display configurations & bandwidth conservation scheme for transmitting video over a network: A system for capturing, encoding and transmitting continuous video from a camera to a display monitor via a network includes a user friendly interface wherein a map is provided at a display screen for illustrating the location of the cameras and indicating the direction of the camera angle. The monitor... Agent: Moore Landrey

20070107028 - Portable wireless monitoring and control station for use in connection with a multi-media surveillance system having enhanced notification functions: An enhanced, digitized security system provides wireless, portable monitoring and control capability for a system having a plurality of cameras in a network and connected to a suitable hub. The portable module is also in wireless communication with a server. The permits remote installation and aiming of the cameras, remote... Agent: Moore Landrey

20070107030 - Combining real-time and batch mode logical address links: Systems and methods for displaying Internet content associated with television programming. Content associated with a program included in the television programming is automatically displayed by a set top box. Before the broadcast of a program, listing information or EPG data is stored at the set top box. The listing information... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070107031 - Information distribution and processing system: An information distribution and processing system contains a sender and a plurality of processing units. The sender delivers a set of digital data, without receiving a request signal, to the plurality of processor units. The set of digital data contains a first set of displayable data, a second set of... Agent: Martin & Ferraro, LLP

20070107032 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing video frames: An approach is provided for synchronizing video frames. Video proxies corresponding to a video master are generated. Each of the video proxies is frame-accurate with respect to the video master. The video proxies are distributed to multiple applications and/or devices that are configured to collaboratively use the video proxies. The... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070107033 - Redundant image storage system and method: A redundant image storage system for archiving an image data file within at least two picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), said system including coupled source and destination PACS networks. The source PACS network stores and transmits the image data file. The destination PACS is associated with a Remote Archive... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070107034 - Combination meter for evaluating video delivered via internet protocol: An apparatus for testing a video stream received at a subscriber site includes a coupling for receiving broadband RF signals communicated over a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network, a signal level measurement circuit operably coupled to the coupling, the signal level measurement operable to generate signal level measurements regarding a... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070107035 - System and method for providing television services: A system and method are described for providing interactive television services and for switching between television programs, such as to an interactive program session from another program. An interactive server, capable of providing requested interactive video services to a set of subscribers in a given geographic area, is coupled to... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070107036 - Method and system for broadcasting digital programs: This invention provides a method that when the disturbance of the bandwidth or the signal quality occurs during the digital program broadcasting, so that the broadcasting quality of the currently broadcast normal program is below a predetermined value, a prearranged program having a specific broadcasting quality, such as advertisements, will... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070107038 - Methods and devices for presenting data: A method and apparatus enables presentation of complementary data associated with output data presented in an electronic apparatus. The method includes presenting the output data via an output device of the electronic apparatus, obtaining event data associated with the presented output data and based on which the complementary data is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070107037 - System and method for providing user-definable audio indicators for multimedia channel selections: A method includes receiving user input indicating a selection of a first multimedia channel from a set of multimedia channels for display. The method further includes determining a first user-selected audio indicator associated with the first multimedia channel. The method additionally includes providing the first audio indicator for audible output... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070107039 - Content presentation device communicating with another device through presented content: First and second devices establish communication including conversation therebetween through a network. The first device transmits to the second device a content data list of a TV broadcast program (content data) and the like stored in its storing unit. At that time, the first device receives from the second device... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070101352 - Mobile tv channel and service access filtering: Provided are apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving ESG fragments containing identification information. In one example, the identification identifies a mobile operator. For example, the identification information may include a Mobile Network Code (MNC), Mobile Country Code (MCC), or name corresponding to the mobile operator. In another example, the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070101351 - System and method of service product offer management: The disclosure is generally directed to a system and method of managing and deploying Internet protocol television (IPTV) services. The method includes a service product offer management and deployment system. The method further includes a service product ordering subsystem to receive and process a service product order in response to... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070101353 - Apparatus and method for blocking harmful multimedia contents in personal computer through intelligent screen monitoring: An apparatus and method for blocking harmful multimedia contents in a personal computer using intelligent screen monitoring are provided. The apparatus includes a screen capture determination unit determining a screen capture time based on the status of a personal computer; an active screen capture unit capturing a screen displaying an... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070101354 - Method and device for discriminating obscene video using time-based feature value: A method and a device for discriminating an obscene video using a time-based feature value are provided. The method includes: forming a first time-based flow of predetermined feature values varying with the lapse of time from one or more types of videos which are normalized with a first time interval;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070101355 - Device, method, and medium for expressing content dynamically: A device, method, and medium for expressing content dynamically are provided. The device for expressing content dynamically includes: a background-music-analyzing module for analyzing background music; an image-unit-group-adjusting module for adjusting attributes of a plurality of image unit groups including at least one content element and image effect element included in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070101356 - Systems and methods for controlling access for use with intelligent data management arrangements: An access control system for use with an intelligent data management arrangement (IDMA) is presented including: a source component for providing a content signal originating from a content source; a destination component for receiving the content and for optionally displaying the content signal on a destination device; and an IDMA... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070101357 - Broadcast conditional access system with impulse purchase capability in a two-way network: The invention relates generally to an apparatus and a method for securing impulse program purchases from conditional access network broadcast systems. The invention include providing entitlement codes to a set top box having security modules, located at a customer's corresponding program listening and viewing system. A customer desiring to makes... Agent: Joseph S Tripoli Thomson Licensing Inc

20070101358 - Method and system of authenticating host: A method of authenticating a host used to unscramble scrambled television signals. The method including authenticating the host in response to receiving a correct reply to a question and answer (Q&A) inquiry, wherein the Q&A inquiry includes a question and answer.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070101359 - Generating ad insertion metadata at program file load time: A method may include and/or involve submitting one or more digital program files for storage on behalf of one or more video servers, the act of submitting the program files triggering logic to scan the program files to identify information about location and duration of ad breaks, and storing the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070101360 - Commercial insertion into video streams based on surrounding program content: A method for inserting replacement commercials into a data stream is provided. The method including: receiving the data stream; detecting at least one commercial in the data stream; determining a characteristic of program content at least prior to the at least one commercial; and replacing the at least one commercial... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070101361 - Distribution of advertising content for an entertainment device: Systems and methods for distributing advertising content to a plurality of entertainment devices are provided. The method may include: transmitting advertising content to each of a plurality of entertainment devices, said advertising content comprising data for causing at least one advertisement to be displayed by the entertainment device; and causing... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070101362 - Interactive entertainment device: An entertainment system is provided, including: a network interface for coupling the entertainment system with a host system over a network; a video display for displaying graphical content to a user; a user input device; and a control module configured to: generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for display on... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070101363 - Method and apparatus for searching moving picture in portable terminal: A method and apparatus are provided for searching a moving picture in a portable terminal. When fast forward/rewind functions are performed in a moving picture play mode, search time for displaying the progress of fast forward/rewind and actual search time for performing fast forward/rewind in the moving picture play mode... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070101365 - Advertising content tracking for an entertainment device: Systems and methods of processing data from a plurality of entertainment devices are provided. The method may include: receiving user interaction information, said user interaction information comprising information regarding user interaction with an advertisement displayed on an entertainment device, said entertainment device being configured to perform entertainment content; and associating... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070101364 - Multimedia reproducing apparatus and reproducing method: Disclosed is a multimedia reproducing apparatus for selecting and reproducing favorite contents from many contents recorded on media of plural different types. A media icon array (70), made up by plural media icons, indicating the types of the reproducible media, and a contents icon array (72), made up by plural... Agent: Wililam S Frommer C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070101367 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving epg in digital broadcasting system using frequency channels: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving an EPG when a digital broadcasting system uses different frequency channels according to broadcasters. In the apparatus and method, the digital broadcasting system determines a first frequency channel for transmitting first EPG data for all broadcasting programs, transmits the first EPG data... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070101366 - Method for analyzing information and executing function corresponding to analyzed information in portable terminal: A method for analyzing diverse information included in a text and performing a function corresponding to the analyzed information in a portable terminal is disclosed. A user can easily perform a function such as originating a call and a message preparing by selecting the information included in the text without... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070101368 - Framework for providing digital home services: The systems and methods of the present invention provide for a number of improvements to the TV consumption process, including personalization, community viewing, shared presence and context, messaging, access to ratings and recommendations (including community reviews), alerts, etc. One method that the present invention provides allows for the indication of... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070101369 - Method and apparatus for providing summaries of missed portions of television programs: A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing a television viewer with a summary of a portion of a program that he or she has missed, after switching to the program at some time after the program has begun. Generally, the times at which the viewer first tuned to a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070101370 - Television program selection: A television set, set-top box, or the like, which finds a corresponding HD program when a user selects an SD program for viewing or recording, and which gives the user a visual prompt enabling him to select the HD program instead. The HD channel is inserted into the same on-screen... Agent: Richard Calderwood Stexar Corp.

20070101371 - Vehicle entertainment system for remote sharing and storage of video content: A vehicle entertainment system includes a video system mounted within a vehicle, a video monitor for presenting video content and a video source integrated therewith. The video source is a hard drive or flash memory. The vehicle entertainment system further includes a circuit board including an input/output assembly associated with... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20070101372 - Headrest mounted entertainment system: In certain embodiments, a mobile media system is provided that includes an entertainment system having a first cable coupled with a first plug. The first plug includes a first interference surface. The system also includes a second cable coupled with a second plug. The second plug includes a second interference... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070101377 - Access/edge node supporting multiple video streaming services using a single request protocol: An access/edge network node (300) according to the invention includes a single proxy function (301) to terminate on the subscriber side a single requesting protocol for a plurality of streaming video services.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070101376 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, recording medium, and content processing apparatus and method: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus that communicates with a content processing apparatus for executing a process related to recording or playback of content and has a display unit for displaying information. The information processing apparatus includes a schedule-information acquisition section acquiring schedule information regarding a recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070101373 - Playlist synchronization: A user device (1), such as an MP3 player, is capable of down-loading and storing content items, such as songs or video clips. To ensure that the memory of the user device is always filled to capacity, even when the downloading is interrupted, the user device marks any old content... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070101375 - System and method for enhanced video selection using an on-screen remote: A system and method for presenting video asset information to a viewer to assist the view in selecting a video asset for viewing is described. The video assets can be available from a plurality of different video asset sources, such as VOD (video on demand), PVR (personal video recorders) and... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070101374 - System and method for providing enhanced video programming to a user: A system for providing extended video programming to at least one user, includes a remote management unit including an encoder for encoding into a short form advertisement a code related to the extended video programming. The short form advertisement is subsequently distributed by an MSO to a network of receivers.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070101379 - Method of fault tolerance and synchronous failover for broadcast video across the network: A system and a method are disclosed for detecting a multicast stream fault condition at a variety of points within a digital broadcast video distribution system. In addition, a method of seamless switchover from a primary to a redundant multicast stream is provided.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070101378 - Redundant transmission of programmes: A compression system 110 compresses a programme into a first and second sequence of corresponding blocks. A transmission system 120 transmits blocks of the second sequence according to a predetermined real-time delivery schedule. The transmission system transmits the blocks of the first sequence earlier than corresponding blocks of the second... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070101380 - Consolidated content apparatus: A consolidated content apparatus comprises a local area network including a plurality of communication ports adapted to connect to a plurality of communication mediums, wherein at least one of the ports is a television tuner port. A television receiver is coupled to the television port and configured to receive a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070101383 - Apparatus, methods and systems for viewing and manipulating a virtual environment: Components for generating, reviewing, processing, storing, retrieving, analyzing, and optimizing information input to or output from a virtual environment. The components may be a video camera component, a stand-alone or device mountable on a tripod to permit a camera person to select from one or more views within a virtual... Agent: T. D. Foster

20070101381 - Ip remote: A remote control device provides commands and options based on the configuration of components in a user's environment, and based on a defined user activity. A storage device contains a user profile that includes the configuration of components at the user's environment, and defined set of user activities, such as... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070101382 - Node management system and node managing program using sensing system: On the basis of state change information acquired by one of sensor nodes forming a sensor network, an instruction indicative of emitting a signal is issued to another node to acquire a photographed image from a camera. An image processing device identifies the ID and actual position of the node... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20070101384 - Apparatus for adjusting applied voltage in display system using diffractive optical modulator: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for adjusting applied voltage in a display system using a diffractive optical modulator. The apparatus for adjusting applied voltage can measure the intensity of diffracted light emitted from the diffractive optical modulator, and adjust voltage to be applied to the diffractive optical modulator based on... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070101385 - Method of connecting to internet via broadcast receiving device and apparatus for the same: A method of connecting to the Internet via a broadcast receiving device and an apparatus for the same are provided. The method includes extracting transport stream (TS) from a received broadcast signal, obtaining mapping information between channel numbers and web addresses from the TS, and if a channel number selected... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070101386 - Interactive developmental educational and entertainment system: A developmental, educational and entertainment system has a main module comprising a display, a computer or an interactive communication device or combination thereof, in which interactive applications are installed. A first remote control device controls the applications in the main module, and a second remote control device interacts with the... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20070101387 - Media sharing and authoring on the web: Exemplary media browsing, searching and authoring tools allow for media interaction over a web. An exemplary method includes acquiring digital video data, coding the digital video data using scalable video coding to generate scalable coded digital video data, analyzing the scalable coded digital video data using one or more video... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070101389 - Dvb-h service system and method for providing broadcasting service information in dvb-h service system: A DVB-H (digital video broadcasting-hand held) service system and a method for providing broadcasting service information in the DVB-H service system are disclosed. The DVB-H service system includes a DVB-H server information center for storing address information of service providers or regional DVB-H service servers and providing DVB-H service server... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070101388 - Receiver apparatus and receiving method: The present invention relates to a battery-type DVB-H mobile receiver. DVB-H service data are transmitted on transmission channels as bursts with off times of several seconds being provided in between. The off times are used for background reception. During background reception, information from another service is acquired and stored in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070101390 - Method and apparatus for maintaining ont video behavior during initial ont deployments, ont reboots, and loss of olt conditions: A method of ensuring continuous receipt of video services based on certain conditions in a passive optical network (PON) is provided. The method includes (i) detecting at a PON element a condition indicating a change of states in receipt of video services, (ii) starting a timing mechanism having a default... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070101391 - Digital broadcast terminal equipped with broadcast program information roaming function and roaming method using the same: A mobile communication terminal equipped with a broadcast program information roaming function and a roaming method for use in the same are disclosed. The mobile communication terminal equipped with a broadcast program information roaming function includes: a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver for receiving information of a metadata interface for broadcast... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070101392 - Direct computing experience: Described is a technology by which a computer system operates in a mode that is different from a general purpose operating mode, upon detection of a special actuation mechanism coupled to the computing device. For example, actuation of a special hardware button may boot or resume a sleeping computer system... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070101393 - Separate-type signal processing apparatus and software version updating method therefor: A separate-type signal processing apparatus includes: a first device having a data acquisition part; and a second device connected with the first device by wire or wireless, wherein the first and second devices work in cooperation to execute a predetermined process, the first device acquires version renewal data for addition... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070101395 - Broadcast receiver, data structure, and method for providing diagnostic information: A host is configured to communicate with a video data recording device. The host includes a host controller configured to receive a video data recording device diagnostic information request originated external to the host. The host controller further configured to collect the video data recording device diagnostic information from the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070101394 - Indexing a recording of audiovisual content to enable rich navigation: The invention indexes an audiovisual recording to enable navigation within the audiovisual recording. In particular, the invention provides indexing within a “show” of a recording of an audiovisual broadcast (e.g., a television broadcast or a radio/satellite audio broadcast) that enables navigation within the show, in contrast to indexing among shows... Agent: David R. Graham

20070101396 - Method of storing broadcasting program and mobile communication terminal using the same: A broadcasting program storing method of a mobile communication terminal and a mobile communication terminal using the same are disclosed. The method includes according to an embodiment allocating and storing a presently receiving broadcasting stream to and in at least one time section of a plurality of time sections while... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070101397 - Interoperability of network components having different identification schemes: An apparatus and method for configuring an identifier in accordance with a predetermined identification scheme for a particular component within a network, the particular component being incapable of providing one or more value(s) for parameters of the predetermined identification scheme is provided. The apparatus comprises a module for determining that... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070101399 - Open cable set-top diagnosing system and method thereof: An open cable set-top box diagnosing system in which a point of deployment (POD), separated from a main circuit unit, having a newly defined interface is used to check an operation state of an open cable set-top box, transmits the checked state to a predetermined server, according to which the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070101398 - Packet-based digital display system: An all-digital display system includes an electronic processor that is operable to receive an internet protocol video packet and to generate a control signal based at least in part on the internet protocol video packet. In one particular embodiment, the electronic processor includes at least a header processor, a CPU... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.