Interactive video distribution systems inventions 06/07

20070150916 - Using sensors to provide feedback on the access of digital content: A system according to the present disclosure presents content to a user and provides feedback to a content provider without requiring the viewer to explicitly take action. A content presentation unit, such as a digital picture frame or public display, may be any device that continuously and/or sequentially displays graphical,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom/parc

20070150922 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving basic image frames and additional optional frames in satellite digital multimedia broadcasting: A method of transmitting a basic image frame and an additional optional frame in satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (S-DMB), the method including: (a) generating the basic image frame and the optional frame by encoding an image; (b) packetizing the basic image frame and the optional frame into a transport stream... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070150917 - Network-extensible reconfigurable media appliance: Extensible reconfigurable media appliance for security and entertainment captures images digitally for storage. Digital effects and filters are applied to incoming video stream on-the-fly or to video data stored in memory. Digital effects and filters are dynamically stored, modified, updated or deleted, providing extensible reconfigurable effects studio. Digital media appliance... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20070150918 - Methods, devices, and computer program products for providing parental control over access to media content using a mobile terminal: Methods for providing parental control over access to media content includes controlling presentation of the media content responsive to receiving a parental control request from a mobile terminal over a wide-area network connection. Related devices and computer program products are also discussed.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070150919 - Content receiving, recording and reproducing device and content distribution system: The invention provides a recording and reproducing device having a CM skip function, which prevents reductions of advertising effects and user-friendliness. In the case where the contents recorded on the recording and reproducing device include a commercial portion, a viewing history flag is assigned to the commercial portion. If the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070150920 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving esg in digital video broadcasting system: Disclosed is a method for transmitting an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) in a Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) system, the method includes collecting ESG data to be transmitted; when a multi-stream mode is used in order to transmit the ESG data, setting parameters to be transmitted, and setting the number of... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070150921 - Diversion of mobile television broadcast signals to alternate destinations based on degrading signal quality: A portable mobile communications device for diverting the destination of a mobile broadcast program broadcast by a mobile broadcast service provider includes a mobile broadcast device, a processor running a mobile broadcast diversion application communicable with the mobile broadcast service provider, and a user interface for controlling the mobile broadcast... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070150923 - Antenna system and television receiver: An object is to provide antenna system capable to decide optimal receiving direction of antenna, and television receiver provided with such antenna system. The antenna system includes CPU that executes switching program to switch directional property of antenna sequentially, CPU that executes determination program to determine whether TV broadcast signal... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070150924 - Image display control apparatus, image display system, image display control method, computer program product, sub-display control apparatus for image display system, and image display method: In an image display system, the control device (110) of a host computer (100) performs an image displacement process in accordance with a program stored in a USB memory (120). By the image displacement process, a pointer (300), which is an image, is displaced between the main display (140) of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070150925 - Av system, av unit and image signal output method: During receipt of an analog broadcast, when an instruction to switch broadcast channels is received, an MPEG encoder (31) subjects a broadcast signal for the switched channel to MPEG encoding, and initially immediately sends MPEG data having one GOP made up of only one I picture to an MPEG decoder... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070150926 - System and method for receiving internet protocol television service: A system and method for receiving an internet protocol television (IPTV) service. An IPTV service to digital media server (DMS) service conversion device (IPTV2DMS) requests to acquire IPTV media information for an IPTV subscriber to select and requests to acquire IPTV media flow selected by the subscriber according to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070150927 - Packet fiber node: A packet fiber node is described for use in an access network such as, for example, a cable network. The packet fiber node may differ from convention RF fiber nodes deployed in a cable network in that the packet fiber node is configured to communicate with the Head End of... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070150928 - Method, apparatus and computer program product providing randomized relay network: A relay node is provided for being interposed between at least one source node and at least one destination node. The relay node includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control unit. A transmission signal transmitted by the at least one source node is received by the relay node and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070150929 - Electronic apparatus and method for controlling data transfer rate in electronic apparatus: According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic apparatus including: a processor that executes an application program for processing data; and a wireless communication unit that wirelessly transfers data to an external apparatus at a first data transfer rate, while the application program is inactive. The wireless communication unit... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070150930 - Device for storing and playing back digital content and method of bookmarking digital content: A digital receiver has a hard disk drive for storing and playing back digital broadcast content. During playback, the user can mark insert bookmarks. Sections of content can be extracted and stored in a file. Bookmarks and/or extracted content can be transferred to a mobile telephone handset or other digital... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070150931 - Device and method for receiving vbi data broadcast: A method for extracting VBI data includes the steps of memorizing a preset start time of extracting the VBI data, turning on power of the data broadcast reception device before it becomes the start time of extracting the VBI data, making a primary display indicating that the data broadcast reception... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070143780 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and method for performing manual fine tuning: A broadcast receiving apparatus and a method for performing manual fine tuning (MFT) are provided. The broadcast receiving apparatus includes a signal processor which processes a broadcast signal of a tuned channel; a image generator which generates a manual fine tuning (MFT) image on which an optimal frequency of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070143786 - Embedded advertisements and method of advertising: A technique is provided for advertising. The technique includes a combining of two or more video streams to form a unified video stream and broadcasting the unified video stream. At least one of the two or more video streams is a program content stream comprising program content that is filmed... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070143803 - Method of displaying progress bar and television receiver using the same: A method of displaying a progress bar and to a television receiver using the same, enables a plurality of stored broadcast programs to be identified according to broadcast channel or broadcast program. The method includes steps of pre-storing, in a memory of the television receiver, a plurality of display characterization... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070143775 - Methods and systems to determine pricing of internet protocol television services: Methods and systems to determine pricing for an Internet protocol media service are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes determining a first Internet protocol television service plan based on a first media presentation device type and a second Internet protocol television service plan based on a second media presentation device... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070143776 - Viewer data collection in a multi-room network: Viewer data collection in a multi-room system. A TV viewing log is created for each user or each device in a multi-room system. The log can be used to limit or monitor the amount of television watched in the household. The log allows more accurate viewer data collection to be... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070143777 - Method and apparatus for identificaton of broadcast source: A user (102) hears an audio program being broadcast and can record a sample of the audio. The sample is then conveyed to an analyzing means (106) to determine to which broadcast station the user is listening. The analyzing means monitors many broadcast channels. Thus, characteristics of the audio sample... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070143778 - Determining popularity ratings using social and interactive applications for mass media: Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products provide social and interactive applications for mass media based on real time ambient-audio and/or video identification. In some implementations, a method includes: receiving descriptors identifying ambient audio associated with a media broadcast; comparing the descriptors to one or more reference descriptors; and determining... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070143779 - Location info-based automatic setup of broadcast receiver devices: An apparatus, system, method and computer product and medium are provided to implement transmission of information indicating at least a location of a user device; and reception of a broadcast in a selected region from a plurality of broadcast regions in response to the transmitted information. The broadcast includes personalized... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070143781 - Method of providing digital broadcast and broadcast receiving terminal for receiving a digital broadcast: A method of providing a digital broadcast and apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast are disclosed, by which a CA (conditional access) digital broadcast can be temporarily provide to enable a digital broadcast user to easily decide whether to subscribe to a pay broadcasting service by allowing the broadcast user... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070143782 - System and method for home network content protection and copy management: A private home entertainment system including plural playback devices can receive discrete content that can be played by any appropriate publicly available devices. The home system can convert the discrete content to content that is bound to the private network using, e.g., cryptographic keys. The bound content can be freely... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070143783 - Remote task scheduling for a set top box: Systems and methods for remotely scheduling tasks that are transmitted to a set top box and implemented on the set top box. A task service includes a website that provides program guide data to users. From the program guide data, a user selects a task. The website generates a notification... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070143784 - Data multiplexing device, program distribution system, program transmission system, pay broadcast system, program transmission method, conditional access system, and data reception device: In a data multiplexing device which multiplexes and transmits the transport stream packets of program data consisting of a plurality of data elements constructed in the form of transport stream packets, a program distribution system, a program transmission system, a pay broadcast system, a program transmission method, a conditional access... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070143785 - Mobile device display of multiple streamed data sources: A system and method of navigating among multiple real-time data streams on a mobile device is presented. Multiple thumbnail image representations are displayed wherein each thumbnail image is associated with an available real-time data stream. A user provides navigation input via a user interface for navigating among the multiple displayed... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070143787 - System and method for providing context-aware local advertising in iptv systems: System and method for providing personalized advertising in an Internet protocol television (“IPTV”) system are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises awaiting notification of an impending ad insert period for a plurality of active televisions in a household; and, for each of the active televisions, selecting an ad from... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070143788 - Method, apparatus, and program product for providing local information in a digital video stream: Localized information is embedded as metadata within a digital video stream. A television receiver then compares the localized information with preconfigured location information. If a match is found, the television receiver presents the localized information with the video data.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070143789 - Display processing device: There is provided a display processing device that increases graphics display performance, including: an OSD plane (211) having a first OSD area (671) and a second OSD area (672) for storing graphics images; a Z-order management unit (601) which stores a vertical order assigned to the first OSD area (671)... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070143791 - Mobile device display of multiple streamed data sources: A system and method of navigating among multiple real-time data streams on a mobile device is presented. Multiple thumbnail image representations are displayed wherein each thumbnail image is associated with an available real-time data stream. A user provides navigation input via a user interface for navigating among the multiple displayed... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070143790 - System and method for channel selection on a set-top box: A method and system for channel selection on a set-top box is provided. The method includes receiving a channel request from a user control device, wherein the channel request at least one alphabetic letter. The method further includes processing the channel request and mapping the channel request to at least... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070143792 - Extensible mechanism for storage and interchange of objects: An extensible mechanism for storage and interchange of objects is described herein. According to first aspect of the disclosure, objects having respective class definitions are received. The objects are represented in an interchange format by mapping the class definitions of the objects to corresponding fields defined within the interchange format.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070143793 - Electronic program guide displayed simultaneously with television programming: A system for displaying an electronic program guide (EPG) to a viewer. The system includes displaying one or more data slices representative of broadcast programming to a viewer. In response to input from the viewer, the displayed number of data slices is increased, for example, from one slice to two... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070143794 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program: The invention relates to an auto zapping function corresponding to user' taste. A block receives a particular channel and disassembles the received channel into intervals (chapters) of predetermined length. The block calculates scores of chapters, based on a result of comparison of EPG information of a program from an EPG... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070143795 - Application trace for distributed systems environment: Methods and systems are provided for making application trace data for a local system available to others within an enterprise services network. A user at system remote to the server can specify trace data collection preferences and trace data is collected based on the user preferences. The trace data is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070143796 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for selectively facilitating internet content and/or alerts on a television crawl screen, closed caption and/or picture-in-picture area: Content from a source, such as the Internet, may be displayed on a window on a television, such as a crawl screen, closed caption area, or picture-in-picture (PIP) area. This may allow a user to watch television and view both television content and Internet content simultaneously without the need to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070143797 - Efficient streamed content delivery to portable communications device: Described is a system and method of receiving content on a portable mobile communications device from a mobile TV service provider. A mobile pointer record is created and stored within the portable mobile communications device that contains data that identifies content to be delivered from the mobile TV service provider.... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070143798 - Display replication and control of a portable device via a wireless interface in an automobile: A system for displaying video data in a vehicle. The system intelligently replicates one or more portable device displays on one or more vehicle displays. Each vehicle display may be shared or dedicated to a specific portable device. The image from each portable device is intelligently replicated and provided to... Agent: Visteon

20070143799 - Mobile television gap filler during channel switching: A mechanism for displaying gap filler data on a display of a portable mobile communications device (PMCD) receiving a mobile broadcast via a mobile broadcast receiver during a time delay occurring as a result of switching from a first channel to a second channel is presented. A PMCD processor detects... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070143800 - Audio-visual content transmission: An in-home audio-visual transmission system comprises a gateway 15, having for example three input channels. On each channel is a transcoder 20-22 and a buffer 23-25. At each of three destination stations 18, 19, 32 is included a buffer 28, 29, 33 and a decoder 30, 31, 34. The system... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070143801 - System and method for a programmable multimedia controller: A programmable multimedia controller, including audio and video switches, controls audio video, telephony, data, security, motor-operated, relay-operated, and/or other types of devices. Modules of the controller receive and output audio and video in a number of analog and digital formats, allowing the system to be interconnected to a wide range... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070143802 - System and method for production, delivery, recording, and viewing of video and similar content primarily intended to be viewed in step-frame/frame-advance mode: A method for content production (30) involves the steps of creating (32) a sequence of individual frames (19) from source material of step-frame/frame-advance content (181). The step-frame/frame-advance content (34) is intended to be received (35), recorded (35), and played back (36) as a sequence of individual frames (19) in step-frame/frame-advance... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070143804 - System, method and apparatus for distributing video-on-demand (vod): A system (20), method (60) and apparatus (28) for distributing Video-On-Demand (VOD) content to one or more client devices (28). The system (20) has a more distributed network architecture compared to conventional VOD system architectures, which allows VOD content to be delivered to the client devices (28) more efficiently. The... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070143805 - Digital receiver interface: An interface device to a broadcast medium uses the Internet Protocol communication layer to communicate with other devices on a network. The device may be associated with a single controlling device on the network, through which other devices on the same network may query and schedule the interface device. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070143806 - Wireless system for television and data communications: A wireless system for data and video communications includes a hybrid modem configured to receive a digital data signal and an analog video data signal from one or more communication channels and convert the digital data signal and the video signal to RF digital data, and a wireless router configured... Agent: Shaoher Pan C/o Xin Wen

20070143807 - Data distribution apparatus, data provision apparatus and data distribution system comprised thereof: For example, when ISO Base Media File Format Fragmented Movie media data is transmitted in a data transfer protocol such as HTTP or the like, the same data is provided from a network camera 100. Then, at an intermediate server 101, the header information is changed according to the destined... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070143808 - Access node capable of dynamic channel caching: An access node (e.g., DSLAM) is described herein which can limit bandwidth usage in a transport network by incorporating an enhanced rapid TV channel changing functionality/enhanced BTV server in which TV channels from a multicast TV stream are dynamically selected based on past TV channel clicking statistics and then stored... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070143809 - System and method for recording and time-shifting programming in a television distribution system with limited content retention: Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to record broadcast programming for at least one television channel for a period of time, wherein the recording is performed upstream from subscribers in a television distribution system, and further including after the period of time, keeping recorded programming... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070143810 - Fast switching between time division multiplexed (tdm) channels: A system and method of reducing a channel switching delay in TDM mobile television systems comprises transmitting a sequence of data bursts associated with channels for reception on a RF channel bandwidth received on a mobile television receiver; switching between an active state of transmission and a non-active state of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070143811 - Transceiver with automatic detection of unshielded twisted pair or shielded twisted pair cabling: Typical transceivers have multiple near-end and multiple far-end crosstalk cancellation filters. Crosstalk cancellation is one of the largest contributors to power dissipation in the DSP portion of high speed Ethernet transceivers. By detecting the cable type, a transceiver could automatically turn off its crosstalk cancellation filters when driving shielded twisted... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070143812 - Apparatus for receiving cable broadcast data and method for transmitting/ receiving cable broadcast software: An apparatus for receiving cable broadcast data and a method for transmitting/receiving cable broadcast software are disclosed. It is provided that a method for receiving software by a host, the method includes receiving information of a software code block, receiving the software code block using the received information and outputting... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070143814 - Method of user interface for time shift function and pvr using the same: A method of displaying a user interface for a time shift function and a personal video recorder (PVR) using the same are provided. The method includes: displaying a user interface on a screen; displaying, on the user interface, a broadcasting time of a currently playing program; and displaying a status... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070143815 - Method and apparatus for utilizing dvd content through home network: A method and apparatus for utilizing DVD content through a home network are provided. The method includes transmitting item information indicating DVD content in response to a request for a content list, and receiving a request for the DVD content in units of a sector from a client having acquired... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070143813 - System and method for recording and time-shifting programming in a television distribution system using policies: Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to store a policy specifying at least one rule relating to recording, storage or delivery of broadcast programming to a consumer of such programming, and to record, store or deliver broadcast programming in response to at least one of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070143817 - Interactive job channel: Interactive job channel is described. In an embodiment, a viewer having a television-based client device can register an employment profile with a content provider. Employment-related media content can then be associated with the viewer according to the employment profile registered by the viewer, and when an interactive job channel is... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070143816 - Methods for using broadcast media content information and related broadcast media receivers/playback devices: Methods of displaying broadcast media content information to a user include receiving at a first receiver first content from a first channel of a multi-channel broadcast media system while receiving at a second receiver information regarding the content on a second off-channel of the multi-channel broadcast media system. Then, at... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070143818 - Information communication terminal apparatus, method for controlling information communication terminal apparatus, information communication terminal apparatus controlling program, and computer-readable recording medium: An object of the present invention is to provide an information communication terminal apparatus allowing a broadcasting signal transmitting side and a secondary service provider to provide a television service in consideration of a user's desired way of viewing. This is attained as follows. That is, a television receiving control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070143819 - Method for identifying extender text table of electronic program guide in digital tv: A digital television (DTV) receiver and a decoding method, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the DTV receiver includes: a receiving unit for receiving a digital broadcasting signal including a plurality of extended text tables (ETTs) that appear in transport stream packets having common PID values, each ETT comprising a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070143820 - Audio/video device with replay function and method for handling replay function: The present invention relates to an audio/video device (100) with a replay function containing a stream source (101) providing a replayable audio/video data stream, a user interface (108) for inputting stream play requests, a stream processor (102) coupled to the stream source (101) and to the user interface (108) providing... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20070143821 - Control method for integrating a display device with a digital television module: A control method for integrating a display device with a digital television (DTV) module, which includes the steps: (A) using the display device to execute a system program; (B) determining whether the display device is in a digital television mode; (C) further determining whether the display device receives an instruction... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070143822 - Receiver and tuner: There is provided a single receiver that can receive both of a terrestrial broadcast and a CATV broadcast, and output uplink data to the CATV broadcast. For example, the receiver includes a selector that selects one of the terrestrial broadcast signal input and the CATV signal. The receiver further includes... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070136739 - Content distribution system and method: A content distribution system is described. The content distribution system includes a show account database and a plurality of credit cards stored in the show account database. The content distribution system also has a linking module associating a viewer entering the call-in number with a credit card number in the... Agent: Stephen M. De Klerk Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070136740 - Method and system for processing sensor data in context-aware system: A method and system for processing sensor data in a context-aware system is provided. The system includes: a sensor service collecting the sensor data from a driver of a physical sensor and generating a low level event; an STHQ temporarily storing the generated event and an event generated previously by... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070136742 - Method, apparatus and system for replacing advertisements in recorded video content: A system (10), method (60) and apparatus (14) are provided for updating a first advertisement in a video program stream with a second advertisement, based on temporal metadata replacement rules and instructions embedded in or otherwise associated with the advertisements. The system (10) includes a video stream encoder (12) for... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070136741 - Methods and systems for processing content: Exemplary embodiments of methods and apparatuses to detect and process a repeating content are described. The repetition in the content is determined. Then the repeating content is identified thereby providing the ability to remove or to not present the repeating content. The repeating content may be removed while the information... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070136743 - Emergency alert data delivery apparatus and methods: Apparatus and methods for efficiently and flexibly providing emergency alert data (e.g., EAS messages) to subscribers of a content-based network, such as for example Internet protocol television (IPTV) subscribers. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a server performing real-time receipt and encapsulation of the EAS data (which may comprise... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070136745 - Brokering of personalized rulesets for use in digital media character replacement: An apparatus, program product and method utilize a brokering service for use in controlling the incorporation of likeness data for an individual into a media presentation. The brokering service maintains a plurality of rulesets respectively associated with a plurality of individuals. Each ruleset is used to restrict or otherwise control... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070136744 - System, device and method for collaborative zapping: The invention relates to a system of apparatuses for receiving content items, e.g. television sets, a method of controlling the apparatuses for receiving content items and a remote control unit for communicating with the apparatus for receiving content items. The system comprises selection control means (120, 130, 140) for controlling... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070136746 - User context based dynamic service combination system and method: A dynamic service combination system and service provision method using user's context information are provided. a service may be dynamically provided and a new service may be combined to be provided to a service user using the user's context information. In addition, a new ontology may be configured by finding... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070136747 - Broadcasting receiving apparatus and broadcasting receiving method: Disclosed a digital-broadcasting receiving apparatus including: a scramble judgment member, a decode judgment member, a first registration member to register the sub-channel as a viewable channel when the decode judgment member judges that the broadcast data of the sub-channel can be decoded, a second registration member to register the sub-channel... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070136748 - Supplementary data corresponding to a video presentation: Video presenting systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, among others, a method comprises presenting a video presentation and enabling a viewer to select an option to receive a plurality of sequential data supplements. The sequential data supplements correspond to on-screen comments of the video presentation. In addition,... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20070136749 - Automatic display of new program information during current program viewing: A method and apparatus for automatic display of next or future television program information when tuned to a television channel. Acquired or received program information for a television program to be shown next or later on the currently tuned television channel is automatically displayed on the currently tuned channel. In... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070136750 - Active preview for media items: An active preview is played while navigating media items. The active preview automatically provides a user with more information about the media item such that they may more easily determine its content before having to commit to playing it back fully or navigating deeper into the media item. The active... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070136754 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and an assisting method for recording program thereof: A broadcast receiving apparatus, having a function of recording a recommended program, comprises a tuner for receiving program-related information, including broadcasted programs, as well as, planned programs to be broadcasted, a remote controller for inputting a view-operation instruction inputted by a user, and preference information being indicative of a program... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070136756 - Content presentation system, content presentation method, content presentation assistance server, content presentation assistance method, and information storage medium: To make it possible for a user to smoothly find content which satisfies the user's current taste without the need to carry out a troublesome input operation. Each of the content reproduction devices reproduces a content selected from among one or more reproduction object contents according to designation by the... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070136753 - Cross-platform predictive popularity ratings for use in interactive television applications: Systems and methods for determining cross-platform predictive popularity ratings information are provided. An interactive television application operating on at least one predetermined platform, such as an online interactive application platform, may monitor user interactions with the interactive television application to obtain cross-platform data, which may be used to determine predictive... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070136752 - Personalized electronic programming guide: At least one computer-readable medium encoded with instructions is provided, which, when executed by a processor, performs a method including the steps of: identifying a viewer registered with a set top terminal; retrieving from a database at least one viewer preference associated with the registered viewer, the viewer preference reflecting... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070136751 - Television receiver apparatus and method for automatically performing an action based on viewership information: A television receiver apparatus and method is disclosed that allow a viewer to define a viewer profile, to receive and process viewership information received from the program provider, and to perform at least one action based on the viewer profile and the received viewership information. The viewer profile may include... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070136755 - Video content viewing support system and method: A video content viewing support system includes unit acquiring video content and text data corresponding to the video content, unit extracting viewpoints from the video content, based on the text data, unit extracting, from the video content, topics corresponding to the viewpoints, based on the text data, unit dividing the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070136757 - System and method for a content-centric electronic guide: A system and method for a content-centric electronic guide. The method may include receiving content and related guide data at a device, receiving an indication of favorite content of one or more viewers at the device and generating, by the device, a content-centric electronic guide based on the content, the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070136758 - System, method, mobile terminal and computer program product for defining and detecting an interactive component in a video data stream: A mobile terminal for interactively displaying streaming video data includes a processing element. The processing element is capable of defining a selected graphical element as an interactive component and defining a desired action associated with the interactive component. The processing element is also capable of detecting the interactive component in... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070136760 - Marketing method: A server implements a marketing method. The server may receive a wireless call or message and return choices particular to a facility. On receiving a selected choice, the server may return information particular to a part of said given facility. The information may be a marketing incentive, marketing information, or... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070136761 - Method and system for content distribution and playback in a mobile telecommunication network: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for providing distribution and output of content are provided. Content transmitted to a mobile terminal may comprise textual, graphical, audio, multimedia, or other content that may be configured for automatic output or playback. Output or playback of the content may be made in response... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070136762 - Method for activating multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A method for service activation in Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) includes: a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) receiving a request for creating MBMS UE context from a User Equipment (UE) which needs to receive an MBMS bearer service; the SGSN creating an MBMS UE context, and sending a Create MBMS... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070136759 - Method of implementing multicasting service: The present invention discloses a method for implementing Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), wherein multiple service modes are set for the MBMS and each service mode is corresponding to a path, a user equipment (UE) activates at least one service mode supported by the current network and receives the MBMS... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070136763 - Tnt data master & beyond or all digital studio hand or the ultimate duplication conversion or mobile intelligence or transformania pc (proper connectivity) or my mobilosophy or hand to handheld generation or mobile mogul or the all disposable pc or t: The TNT Datamaster and Beyond is a machine that incorporates all copying, duplication and transference recording conversion needs into one 60+″ or smaller unit. This product feature serves as a transaction computer, initial Internet base televisual blend classification to form a more enhanced digital transference device/personal recording studio. Using convenient... Agent: La Tretha Ellonise Stroughter

20070136764 - Verifying 22 khz tone operation in a set-top box: A set top box arrangement includes transmitting circuitry for transmitting a message and an emulated reply to the message, and receiver circuitry for receiving the control message and comparing the control message to the emulated reply to the message. The transmitted message and emulated reply message are each a digital... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070136765 - Multiple dwelling unit satellite television delivery system: Systems for delivering satellite signals to multiple dwelling units (MDUs). A system in accordance with the present invention comprises an antenna for receiving the satellite signals, a conversion unit, coupled to the antenna, for stacking the satellite signals onto a single cable, a distribution unit, coupled to the conversion unit,... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070136766 - Cross-phase adapter for powerline communications (plc) network: An adapter to reduce the effects of cross phase communication between a PLC transmitter plugged into one of the L1 or L2 power lines of a home and a PLC receiver plugged into the opposite L2 or L1 power line includes a housing with one side configured as a 240... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070136767 - Apparatus and method for controlling internet set-top box using megaco protocol: Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling an Internet set-top box. The apparatus includes: a receiving unit analyzing a control request included in an Internet protocol (IP) packet received from a server providing a multimedia service using the Megaco protocol; and a controller performing at least one of a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070136769 - Apparatus for playing of synchronized video between wireless devices: A method and apparatus is disclosed for the shared playing of video by a first video player and a second video player. More particularly, the invention relates to a method for playing a video signal on a first portable video player synchronously with the same video signal on a second... Agent: The Mcintosh Group

20070136768 - System and method for controlling home network devices using multicast enabled remote controls: A system, method, and article of manufacture for controlling home network devices using a multicast enabled remote control. The system includes a plurality of home network devices capable of receiving and/or transmitting multicast input and/or output signals and a home gateway to receive audio/video signals generated outside of the home... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070136770 - Wireless audio transmission method and device: A wireless audio transmission method and a device. The wireless audio transmission device includes: an audio processor that receives a digital audio signal from an external multimedia apparatus when the wireless audio transmission device is docked at the external multimedia apparatus, performing a predetermined signal processing operation of adding a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070136771 - Method for operating a playback unit in a vehicle, for playing back data stored on a data medium: A system for use in a motor vehicle includes a wireless receiver that receives, over a wireless communication channel, supplemental information representative of the characteristics of the contents of a playback media, and provides received supplemental information indicative thereof. A playback device receives the received supplemental information and stores the... Agent: O'shea, Getz & Kosakowski, P.C.

20070136772 - Methods, systems, and devices for bandwidth conservation: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for conserving bandwidth. Inputs to a user interface are accumulated and compared to a historical pattern of inputs. When inputs are accumulated, the method predicts that a user is present. When inputs are expected, but no inputs are received, then the method predicts that... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070136773 - Systems and methods for providing television services using implicit content to indicate the availability of additional content: A system for providing content includes a first receiver for receiving television content, the television content having associated therewith an implicit indicator that additional content is available, at least one processor for presenting for display the television content, and a second receiver for receiving a response to the implicit indicator,... Agent: John S. Pratt Kilpatrick Stockton LLP 36968

20070136774 - Method and apparatus for powering on an electronic device with a video camera that detects motion: A method and apparatus for controlling power up of an electronic device with a video camera is provided. The present invention provides for using a video camera attached to an electronic device, such as a computer system, to cause the electronic device to be powered up from sleep mode when... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070136775 - Methods and systems for providing a consumer shopping experience: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a consumer shopping experience. The disclosed systems and methods include receiving a user input and providing, in response to the user input, one of a first series of pages, a second series of pages, and a third series of pages. Furthermore, the first... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070136776 - Television viewers interation and voting method: An interaction and voting method for TV audience. A plurality of preset words, special characters and other symbols are provided for a member of the audience of a TV program to select via the Internet or telephone in order to form a message. The message is received and verified before... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20070136777 - Caption data delivery apparatus and methods: Apparatus and methods for efficiently and flexibly providing caption data (e.g., closed captioning) to subscribers of a content-based network, such as for example Internet protocol television (IPTV) subscribers. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a server performing real-time extraction and encapsulation of caption data, transport of caption data to... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070136778 - Controller and control method for media retrieval, routing and playback: A remote control device for controlling a plurality of controllable devices, and a method for controlling devices using a remote control device. The remote control device includes a processor, a display screen coupled to the processor, and memory coupled to the processor, the memory including a program module to solicit... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070136779 - Digital receiver apparatus: It includes: an information separating unit 4 for reproducing a stream of demodulation signal S3, and separating it into stream signals S4 on multiplexed respective channels for output; a decoding unit 5 for decoding and outputting the stream signals S4; and a control unit 6 for switching and controlling a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070136781 - Electronic information content distribution processing system, information distribution apparatus, information processing apparatus, and electronic information content distribution processing method: A system is provided to distribute electronic information contents D0 containing advertisement to a user, and process advertisement information D2 at the user side. This system comprises an information distribution apparatus 19 for distributing advertisement information D2 to the user; and a plurality of information processing apparatuses 8 for receiving... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070136780 - Method of and apparatus for providing and receiving video service in digital audio broadcasting: Methods and apparatuses for providing and receiving a video service in digital audio broadcasting (DAB) are provided. The method includes inserting a profile ID (identifier) indicating an encoding method used for a provided video service stream and program type information indicating the type of the provided video service stream into... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070136782 - Methods and apparatus for identifying media content: Methods and apparatus for preparing media content for identification are disclosed. An example method includes receiving compressed media content, decompressing the payload of the compressed media content, generating a signature of the decompressed payload, discarding the decompressed payload, embedding a code in the compressed media content, and storing the code... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070130580 - Social and interactive applications for mass media: Systems, methods, apparatuses, user interfaces and computer program products provide social and interactive applications for mass media based on real-time ambient-audio and/or video identification.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070130581 - Interactive content delivery methods and apparatus: Interactive content preservation and customization technology is placed at the broadcast facility to ensure reliable transmission of the interactive content to a local subsystem. An interactive content code detector detects interactive content codes in the video stream at the broadcast facility. The interactive content code detector is placed in the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/open Tv

20070130582 - Input means for interactive devices: An input means adapted for an interactive device is disclosed, which comprises: an inertial sensing module, for detecting a gesture movement of a user and thus generating a gesture signal accordingly; a multifunctional keypad, having at least a key to be selected and pressed for generating a selecting signal accordingly;... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070130583 - Multiple vod vendor support on client: A content distribution system receives data describing media content available from one or more vendors. The content distribution system generates data that describes an offer and associates the media content data with the offer. The content distribution system provides data describing an offer to a client device. The client device... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070130584 - Method and device for producing and sending a television program by means of ip-based media, especially the internet: A method and device to generate and transmit a television programme via IP-based media, particularly the Internet are provided. In particular, a method of transmitting transmission segments in time-controlled programme streams, particularly for TV segments, according to a fixed programme, via the Internet, for viewing by users, and a method... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070130585 - Virtual store management method and system for operating an interactive audio/video entertainment system according to viewers tastes and preferences: This invention confers to an interactive audio/video entertainment system providing video-on-demand (VOD) services the abilities to automatically adapt to viewers tastes and preferences and download in advance the most likely viewing choices of each user, thereby freeing the system and its users from the real-time throughput constraints and availability limitations... Agent: Russell W. Burge

20070130586 - Broadcast receiver and oad download method of the same: The invention relates to a broadcast method comprising a receiver for receiving a firmware or software, downloading and updating the firmware on the broadcast receiver, which comprises storing a final channel, selecting a over the air download channel automatically, operating a over the air download via the over the air... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070130587 - Method of displaying channel list and video processing apparatus thereof: A method of displaying a channel list and a video processing apparatus thereof are disclosed, in which convenience of a user is improved. The video processing apparatus provides a channel list that displays each channel name and each channel number. If a specific channel on the channel list is selected,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070130588 - User-customized sound themes for television set-top box interactions: Television sound themes for a set-top box interactive television system may be customized for each member of a household. Machine-readable media may provide customization logic and user interface logic. Sounds for a user-customized television system sound theme may be drawn from a digital audio file source. Logic components and the... Agent: Matthew E. Burr Lake Austin Marina

20070130589 - Managing content to constrained devices: Content is managed and delivered to mobile devices, often through a wireless network. Mobile devices have content management software containing instructions to receive and manage content at the mobile device. Content management servers select and manage content and transmit content to the mobile devices, receiving requests for content, and up-to-date... Agent: Bryan Cave, LLP

20070130590 - Method, system and program product for broadcast operations utilizing internet protocol and digital artifacts: An affiliate site commands the central site to construct a unique broadcast event log through the affiliate site's command browser. The sequenced data stream of broadcast content is combined with a digital artifact inserted into the digitized broadcast video and/or audio content immediately prior to the data transmission process. Transmission... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070130591 - Method for controlling an in-flight entertainment system: A method for controlling an in-flight entertainment (IFE) system using network protocols, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, or FTP. Control of a plurality of functions, including in-seat and broadcast audio and video, overhead reading light control, and flight attendant call, are implemented using a network client, a network server, and a... Agent: Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP

20070130593 - Room agent apparatus for receiving multimedia data and home network system using the same: A room agent apparatus for receiving multimedia data from a home server through wireless matching to reproduced the data by an A/V apparatus and a home network system using the same are disclosed. The home network system includes a home server for serving as a media server, a network server,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070130592 - Set top box with mobile phone interface: A set top box includes a mobile phone receiving bay disposed in a housing of the set top box. The receiving bay includes a device connector coupled to circuitry in the set top box and a receiving bay opening that is arranged to provide access to the device connector. The... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070130594 - Method and system for distributing content using podcasting: A system is provided for streaming content to individual subscribers using podcasting technology. Each subscriber to the system is assigned a unique URL number that he uses to obtain content from a server. The server maintains a set of rules or attributes associated with each subscriber, said rules governing or... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070130595 - Technique for effectively accessing programming listing information in an entertainment delivery system: In a broadband communications system, e.g., a cable system, programming content can be readily reserved and accessed for viewing using an interactive program guide, a network home graphic user interface (GUI), Quick View Guide, etc., in accordance with the invention. Such programming content may include in-progress programs, future programs and... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070130596 - Method and apparatus for delivering compressed video to subscriber terminals: Method and apparatus for distributing a content stream from a headend to a subscriber terminal is described. In one example, the content stream is processed at the headend to generate a sequence of instances having successively staggered reference frames. A request for the content streams is received from the subscriber... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070130597 - Network based instant replay and time shifted playback: A circular buffer in a video delivery server tracks a second copy of a live video stream to provide instant replay capability. When an end-user initiates the instant replay function, the circular buffer is copied to an instant-replay buffer, from which a replay of the video is sent to the... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070130598 - Digital satellite broadcasting set-top box, and home network control system employing the same: Provided is a digital satellite broadcasting set-top box and a home network control system employing the same. The set-top box includes: a satellite signal receiving unit for receiving a satellite signal including a home network control signal for controlling the household appliances through a satellite broadcasting network from a remote... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070130599 - Comprehensive multi-media surveillance and response system for aircraft, operations centers, airports and other commercial transports, centers and terminals: A data collection and distribution system for monitoring aircraft in flight, on the ground and at the gate or terminal for monitoring critical and catastrophic events, managing the emergency during such an event, and for investigating the event. The system generates, transmits and collects critical data generated by monitoring equipment... Agent: Raffi Gostanian

20070130600 - Network camera system and network camera control program: A network camera system that transmits video captured by a camera to a client via a network include a recording device directly connected thereto or built therein, wherein the client switches between a normal mode in which the camera transmits continuous video images and a file transfer mode in which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070130601 - Internet protocol (ip) television: Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for delivering broadcast television (TV) using an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The IPTV system and methods use real-time routing servers to unicast and/or multicast of broadcast television programs. The IPTV system and methods may enable advertisers to insert local commercials into national or... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070130602 - Method and system to present a preview of video content: A method and system to preview video content. The system includes a loader to present one or more objects associated with video content, responsive to a search request; a trigger to detect a pointer positioned over a first object from the one or more objects; and a mode selector to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070130603 - Broadcast receiving apparatus, broadcast receiving method, broadcast receiving program, and broadcast receiving circuit: The MPEG decoder 118 decodes a video data packet for standard broadcasting to generate video data for standard broadcasting, and detects a decoding error thereof. The MPEG decoder 120 decodes a video data packet for broadcasting under rainfall to generate video data for broadcasting under rainfall. The synthesizing section 126... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070130605 - Digital multimedia player and method of providing digital multimedia broadcasting: A digital multimedia player that can receive and provide digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB), and a method of providing DMB in the digital multimedia player, the method including: receiving digital multimedia broadcasting; analyzing a user input signal input through a user interface; and changing a broadcast channel, providing a tool menu,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070130604 - Home server having integrated set-top function and controlling method thereof: A home server having an integrated set-top function and a controlling method thereof are provided. The home server includes a processor unit, a tuner unit, an open cable broadcast receiving unit, and a set-top core unit. The processor unit receives an IPTV broadcast from an access network, includes control S/W... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070130606 - Method for receiving digital multimedia broadcasting in a weak electromagnetic field region and an apparatus therefor: Disclosed is a method for receiving DMB services with a DMB receiving apparatus capable of operating both in first DMB receiving mode and in second DMB receiving mode in a weak electromagnetic field region. The method includes setting the DMB receiving apparatus to the first DMB receiving mode both to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070130608 - Method and apparatus for overlaying broadcast video with application graphic in dtv: A method and apparatus for overlaying broadcast video with application graphics in a digital TV having an application-execution function are provided. The apparatus includes a decoding unit which decodes a received digital broadcast signal and outputs a video signal, a memory unit which stores graphic data used for the application,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070130609 - Method of controlling power supply of digital tv and digital tv therefor: A method of controlling a power supply of a digital TV with a function of executing applications is provided. According to the method, in a digital TV apparatus with the application executing function, a power supply of a general-purpose CPU platform which processes data required for executing an application and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070130607 - Method of enabling the programming of a universal remote control system: A method of enabling the programming of universal remote control system for controlling a CE device of a combination type providing a combination of functionalities equivalent to that provided by a combination of devices with respective basic features, the CE device including an interface for receiving remote control signals to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070130610 - Combined receiver for dvb-h and dvb-t transmission: Provided are apparatuses and methods in a digital broadcast transmission system for receiving, processing and rendering transmitted content. A digital receiver capable of receiving and rendering both DVB-H and DVB-T signals may include a coupling means for connecting to another terminal for receiving program data or parameters. The digital receiver... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070130611 - Triggerless interactive television: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that relate to providing interactive television by synchronizing content to live and/or recorded television shows. Content is synchronized without the use of in-band triggers. A broadcast stream is received, and search/action pairs are received from a transmission path, such as from the Internet or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070130612 - Digital broadcast transmission/reception apparatus for rapid channel change: Disclosed is a digital broadcasting transmission apparatus for rapid channel change to an A/V stream of a predetermined channel, the apparatus including a program specific information (PSI) generation unit for generating PSI of the A/V stream, a PSI length detection unit for detecting a length of the PSI generated by... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070130613 - Method and apparatus for storing digital broadcasting signal: Provided are a method and an apparatus for storing a digital broadcasting signal, whereby only a specific language is stored when a multi-language broadcasting program is stored, or only a digital broadcasting signal part of a selected sub-channel is stored when a plurality of sub-channel digital broadcasting signals are included... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070130614 - Digital tv equipped with universal cpu and method for signal processing therefor: A digital TV equipped with a general-purpose CPU having a higher performance than that of an embedded CPU and a signal processing method thereof are provided. According to the digital TV and method, if the digital TV is turned on, digital broadcast data is received and decoded irrespective of whether... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC