Interactive video distribution systems inventions 08/07

20070204285 - Method for integrated media monitoring, purchase, and display: A method for integrated media monitoring is disclosed, wherein multiple forms of media are monitored and searched according to user defined criteria. The method may be used by a business to understand how a product or service is being received by the general public. Monitoring includes analysis of closed captioning... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20070204291 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and method for controlling broadcast receiving apparatus: A broadcast receiving apparatus is equipped with a plurality of tuners that can respectively receive a control signal including region information identifying a region and channel designation information designating a program broadcast channel. A channel selection action of each tuner, display processing for a display unit, and recording processing for... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070204292 - System and method for targeted advertisement delivery: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for the delivery of programming content with targeted advertisements. One embodiment of a method according to the present invention comprises receiving a request for programming content from a given user, determining a given demographic group to which the given user belongs... Agent: Dreier LLP

20070204295 - Digital broadcast receiver: Disclosed herein is a digital broadcast receiver capable of performing synthesis on a commercial that a user desires. If the commercial satisfies the Jth condition, a synthesis unit reads image data assigned to the Jth condition from a storage unit. Further, if a sync signal has been detected, the synthesis... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070204294 - Methods, apparatus, and system for venue-cast: A communications method for broadcasting an event is provided. This includes generating a plurality of media streams at an event and providing a service to receive the media streams. From the service, an interface can be generated to select a subset of the media streams. Media streams can include audio,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070204300 - Methods and apparatus for selecting digital interface technology for programming and data delivery: Methods and apparatus for selecting digital (network) interface technology for programming and data delivery over, e.g., a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises an HFC cable or satellite network that includes a server process interfacing with a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE), and/or associated client devices, each... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070204310 - Automatically inserting advertisements into source video content playback streams: Systems and methods for automatically inserting advertisements into source video content playback streams are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods communicate a source video content playback stream to a video player to present source video to a user. During playback of the source video, and in response to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070204311 - Methods and apparatus for selecting digital coding/decoding technology for programming and data delivery: Methods and apparatus for selecting digital coding and/or decoding technology for programming and data delivery over, e.g., a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises an HFC cable or satellite network that includes a server process interfacing with a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE), and/or associated client devices,... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070204312 - Method and system for fast channel change in a comunication device: The broadband device locks to the stream that corresponds to the request, including tuning to a different DS channel if necessary. The broadband device may request another MAC domain if the stream is not available from the current one. After locking to a desired stream, the broadband device informs the... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20070204286 - System and method for transcoding signal content: In one embodiment, a method and system for receiving in a set-top-box a signal including a conditionally accessible content and encoded based on a first audio/video encoding standard (AVES); conditionally accessing the content of the signal in set-top-box based on predetermined access criteria; transmitting the content to a device external... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070204287 - Content ratings and recommendations: Content ratings and recommendations is described. In an embodiment, a ratings service compiles ratings of programs for a rating system that is associated with a group of viewers, where a viewer of the group establishes the rating system, and where at least some of the viewers of the group rate... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070204289 - Digital television signal, method of processing digital television signal, and digital television receiver: A digital television signal for use in a digital television receiver includes a rating region table carrying rating information for multiple geographical regions. The rating region table includes a multiple string structure containing a multiple string structure which represents a name of a dimension, rating value information defining one or... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070204288 - Parental control of displayed content using closed captioning: According to one embodiment, a method for blocking scenes with objectionable content comprises receiving incoming content, namely a scene of a program. Thereafter, using closed captioning information, a determination is made if the scene of the program includes objectionable content, and if so, blocking the scene from being displayed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070204290 - Method for protecting contents of broadband video/audio broadcast: Embodiments of the invention disclose a method and a system for protecting contents of a broadband video/audio broadcast, which solves the problem of poor security concerning the video/audio broadcast on a broadband network of (he prior art. In the method a multicast entitlement control list is kept in a broadcast... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070204293 - Information processing system, information processing method, receiving apparatus, receiving method, data generating unit, data generating method, and program: An information processing system includes a receiving apparatus receiving a broadcast signal; and a data generating unit creating notice information relating to download for update data multiplexed with the broadcast signal for transmission and updating software in the receiving apparatus. The data generating unit includes a device operable to describe... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070204296 - Digital television signal, method of processing the digital television signal, and digital television receiver: A digital television signal for use in a digital television receiver for receiving PSIP data from a broadcast transmitter includes a rating region table which includes rating information for multiple geographical regions and a release time field specifying a release time of the rating information. The release time field may... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070204297 - Presenting a television services program guide information as a video mosaic: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for presenting program guide information using a mosaic of video sources broadcast in a television services system. An application program executed on a television services set-top box generates a matrix of still images representing multiple video sources presently being broadcast in the television services... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070204298 - Dynamic viewership rating system: The present invention discloses a dynamic viewership rating system presented on a monitor. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a plurality of broadcast programs, each broadcast program in the plurality of broadcast programs given a rating, the rating based on a current viewership of the plurality of... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070204302 - Generating a personalized video mosaic in a cable services network: Methods and systems are provided for generating a personalized video mosaic from multiple of video sources in a cable television services system. A head end receives a subscriber selection of video sources from multiple video sources broadcast in the television services system and generates a personalized video mosaic from those... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070204299 - Integrated media content: Integrated media content is described. In an embodiment, scheduled programs metadata is received that describes scheduled programs which are available for viewing when the scheduled programs are delivered from a content provider according to a programming schedule. The scheduled programs metadata can be compared to on-demand programs metadata that describes... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070204301 - System and method for generating and delivering personalized content: A media system configured to select personalized programming for individual users is disclosed. The programming may include content, advertisements, and/or interactive queries, each of which may be selected based on profiles of the users.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070204303 - Apparatus and method for transmitting dmb program information in dmb receiving terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) program information in a DMB receiving terminal. If a user desires to recommend a broadcasting program to another user, the DMB receiving terminal extracts broadcasting information of the selected broadcasting program, searches for broadcasting program information corresponding to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070204304 - Digital television signal, digital television receiver, and method of processing digital television: A digital television signal includes for use in a digital television receiver includes a rating region table carrying rating information for multiple geographical regions. The rating region table includes a version number field defining a version number of the rating region table which increments by 1 modulo 32 when any... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070204305 - Method and system for sharing service guide or service guide fragments in mobile broadcast system: A method and system is provided for sharing a service guide or a service guide fragment in a mobile broadcast system supporting a mobile broadcast service. A Broadcast Service Provisioning Client Function (BSP-C) sends a request for the service guide or service guide fragment to a Broadcast Service Provisioning Management... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070204306 - Program searching in digital multimedia terminal: A digital multimedia terminal comprises a receiving unit to receive a broadcasting signal. The digital multimedia terminal also comprises an input unit adapted to receive input associated with a user preferred program characteristic. The digital multimedia terminal also comprises a controller, operatively coupled to the receiving unit and the input... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070204307 - Dmb terminal and method for providing broadcast preview service: Disclosed is a DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) terminal and a method for providing a broadcast preview service in a terrestrial DMB system. The method provides a broadcasting service preview by a DMB terminal in a DMB system having a DMB broadcasting station for providing the DMB terminal with ensembles containing... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070204308 - Method of operating a channel recommendation system: The invention provides a method of operating a channel recommendation system, including, providing a channel recommendation bid interface, receiving a bid request on the interface, and displaying a recommendation link to the channel on at least one user recommendation display device based on the bid request. Real time viewership information... Agent: Cardinal Law Group, LLC

20070204309 - Method and apparatus for preserving internet protocol video services across an optical network element reboot: When an optical network terminal (ONT) is rebooted, for example, after being upgraded, the ONT may be not be ranged and provisioned for some time. This may disrupt services, such as video services provided to a customer. As such, a method and corresponding apparatus of ensuring continuous receipt of video... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070204313 - Token locking to schedule content consumption: Embodiments of token locking to schedule content consumption are described herein. Tokens are designated to portion bandwidth allocated to a group of client devices by a content provider to stream content. One of the tokens is locked to respective client device when the client device accesses a service to schedule... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070204314 - Methods and apparatus for selecting digital access technology for programming and data delivery: Methods and apparatus for selecting digital access technology for programming and data delivery over, e.g., a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises an HFC cable or satellite network that includes a server process interfacing with a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE), and/or associated client devices, each having... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070204315 - Method for compensating for gain ripple and group delay characteristics of filter and receiving circuit embodying the same: Embodiments of methods and apparatuses can compensate gain ripple and/or group delay characteristics of at least one filter, a receiving circuit embodying a filter, or a communication system having a wireless terminal embodying the receiving circuit.... Agent: The Fleshner Group, PLLC

20070204316 - Video surveillance system: A video surveillance system wherein a monitoring station collects video data obtained by a monitoring camera is disclosed. The system includes a multihop wireless network formed of a plurality of wireless nodes including a first wireless node having the monitoring camera, and a second wireless node having a gateway connected... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070204317 - Symbol alignment in multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication: A method is provided. The method includes sharing upstream bandwidth capacity among a plurality of remote units in a manner that permits at least two of the remote units to transmit to a host at any one time using the upstream bandwidth capacity, the upstream bandwidth capacity comprising a plurality... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070204318 - Accelerated video encoding: A video encoding acceleration service to increase one or more of the speed and quality of video encoding is described. The service acts as an intermediary between an arbitrary video encoder computer program application and arbitrary video acceleration hardware. The service receives one or more queries from the video encoder... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070204319 - Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing information represented by audiovisual data: The invention facilitates and enhances review of a body of information (that can be represented by a set of audio data, video data, text data or some combination of the three), enabling the body of information to be quickly reviewed to obtain an overview of the content of the body... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070204320 - Method and apparatus for immediate display of multicast iptv over a bandwidth constrained network: In a packet based multicast video streaming network, a method for minimizing delay in displaying video on a TV set in response to a viewer changing the channel is disclosed. For each live multicast video stream, one or more reference frames and corresponding compressed frames are temporarily stored in a... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20070204321 - Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing media content over a communications network: The present invention relates to broadcasting/multicasting of media content over a communication network using shared bandwidth available from peer-to-peer networking. The system of the present invention includes a plurality of broadcast devices, a plurality of receiving devices, a plurality of databases, and a control center. The control center is the... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20070204322 - System for management of both pre-show and feature presentation content within a theatre: A method for enabling seamless transitions for a cinema presentation package, wherein the cinema presentation package includes pre-shows, trailers, live events, and main features, the steps include determining the requirements of specific protocols corresponding to the cinema presentation that will affect transitioning between the pre-shows, trailers, live events, and main... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070199017 - Intelligent automated method and system for optimizing the value of the sale and/or purchase of certain advertising inventory: The present invention creates an intelligent automated system that enables media outlets to optimize the value of their advertising inventory. It also enables media outlets, on a platform-agnostic basis, to market advertising inventory driven by content-based criteria rather than audience data alone. This is achieved preferably by text mining programming... Agent: Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP

20070199020 - Portable device capable of receiving broadcasts, operating method of the portable device, and computer-readable recording medium storing computer program to execute the operating method: A portable device capable of receiving broadcasts which can facilitate channel search and selection operations, a scheduled recording operation, and a scheduled recording confirmation operation, a method of operating the portable device, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the method, the portable device including a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070199021 - Three-dimensional electronic programming guide providing apparatus and method: An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing apparatus and method, in which an EPG is configured as a 3D form to facilitate a search for broadcasting program information included in the EPG. The EPG providing apparatus includes an EPG screen configuring unit and a control unit. The EPG screen configuring unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070199024 - Method for outputting digital broadcast in a digital broadcast reception device: Disclosed is a method for outputting digital broadcast data in a digital broadcast reception device, which includes setting at least two preferred channels in each of at least one broadcast reception mode; detecting when a request for outputting broadcast programs of the preferred channels is input by a user during... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070199029 - Display system and method of controlling a display system: A display system and a method of controlling a display system are provided. The display system may include a receiving device to transmit a power control signal across a wireless communication link according to a power on/off command inputted from a user, to receive an audio/video (A/V) signal, to display... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070199011 - System and method for high quality avc encoding: A video coding system receives as input a video sequence including a series of picture frames. One or more long term references are selected from the input video sequence, at least one of the long term references is a long term look-behind reference frame. Short term reference frames are also... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070199012 - Component identification method and targeting method using the same: The present invention relates to component identification method using an instance metadata identifier with a contents reference identifier (CRID) and a targeting method using the same. The present invention is a method for identifying components having identical contents and different bit expressions by assigning an identical CRID to each of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070199013 - Digital signatures: Method and apparatus for generating a digital signature are provided. The method comprises:—polarizing a sampled data segment, for example a sampled audio segment, to produce a two-state signal having a bit sequence providing a binary representation of the sampled data segment, detecting an event in the signal, the event corresponding... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070199014 - Consumer portal: Systems and methods are described which provide consumers with information regarding the entertainment content available on the entertainment devices and to improve the ease with which the consumers can select songs and other entertainment content for performance on the entertainment device. A consumer at home may access a consumer portal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070199015 - System for deferred rights to restricted media: A software application program and method are disclosed for allowing blacked-out television content to be viewed when restrictions on the television content have been lifted. The present system may be part of a software platform for providing television content to subscribers via a broadband IP network service provider such as... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070199016 - Method of controlling emergency alert system in digital cable broadcasting, signal thereof and cable broadcast receiver: A method of controlling an emergency alert system in digital cable broadcasting, signal thereof and cable broadcast receiver are disclosed, by which information for an emergency can be provided in various ways by considering levels of user's concern, preference and the like. The present invention includes a tuner unit receiving... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070199022 - Multimedia systems, methods and applications: Systems and methods according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a user interface including an electronic program guide and scrollable visual directories.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070199018 - System and methods for voicing text in an interactive programming guide: Systems and methods are provided for enhanced television services such as an interactive audio programming guide for a television. Users may use an input device, such as a remote control, to select display objects displayed on an output device, such as a television, as part of an interactive programming guide.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070199019 - Systems and methods for providing a personal channel via television: Preferred systems and methods provide a personal channel for broadcasting personal content to televisions over a network, such as a fiber optic access network. A service provider assigns a personal channel identifier to a broadcaster. This identifier allows viewers to tune to the personal channel. The broadcaster sends personal content... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070199023 - Audiovisual systems and methods of presenting audiovisual content: A system for presenting an audiovisual program at a workstation within a healthcare office. The system includes a local area network associated with the office, having a server, a user interface associated with the server, a client device located at the workstation and connected to the server, and an audiovisual... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070199025 - Systems and methods for providing a shared folder via television: An enhanced television service provides a shared folder over a television network, such as a fiber optic network. Users, the service provider, or trusted sources, share use of a program folder via television. A user recommends content, such as a program listing, to other geographically dispersed subscribers, by sending the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070199026 - Apparatus and method for receiving digital multimedia broadcast service in a mobile terminal: A method is provided for receiving a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) signal by a mobile terminal in a DMB system including a satellite for transmitting a satellite DMB signal directly to the mobile terminal, a gap filler for repeating the satellite DMB signal received from the satellite and transmitting a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070199027 - Digital multimedia brodcasting receiver having a location information notification function and method of the same: A digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) receiver and a method for notifying location information of the receiver is provided. The DMB receiver stores location information of each gap filler matched to a gap filter identification (GFID), and the gap filler relays digital multimedia broadcasting data transmitted from a satellite. The receiver... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070199028 - Integrated in-seat personal video display systems: Methods of in-seat personal video display system integration for simpler and flexible installations consist of integrated personal video display hardware or interchangeable modular compartmented options with enhanced interactive features and functions to provide efficient and cost effective integrated in-seat personal video display systems.... Agent: Frank Yau

20070199030 - Client-server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording: An interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to select programs for recording on a remote media server. Programs may also be recorded on a local media server. The program guide provides users with VCR-like control over programs that are... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070199031 - Interactive information retrieval system allowing for graphical generation of informational queries: Methods, apparatuses, and systems enabling an interactive information retrieval system that includes a user interface allowing users to graphically generate information queries for objects of interest found in various media, such as television, video, and print. The invention can allow users to designate objects of interest within a television or... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070199033 - Image-taking apparatus and method, and program: Disclosed herein is an image-taking apparatus for taking an image of a subject, which may include: image taking means for taking an image of the subject; communication means for communicating, via a network, with a mate of communication that is another image-taking apparatus; image acquire means for acquiring, via the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070199032 - Wireless surveillance system releasably mountable to track lighting: A wireless surveillance system and methods of operating same, providing at least one data input capture device (ICDs), including cameras which have the ability to capture video, audio, and/or data from sensors such as temperature and humidity data, while being newly or retrofittably releasably mountable to a track lighting system.... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20070199034 - System for multi-frame alignment: A bidirectional communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a host; and a plurality of remote units, wherein a plurality of tones is shared among the plurality of remote units in order to communicate with the host using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, wherein the plurality of tones... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070199035 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing content synchronization or control among one or more devices: Exemplary embodiments include a system for providing content including: a controller in operable communication with a first display device and a second display device that provides first interactive content to the first display device and second interactive content to the second display device and an interface for receiving a command... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070199036 - Interactive multimedia broadcasting system with dedicated advertisement channel: An interactive multimedia broadcasting system with an end-user terminal (TV), e.g. an enhanced television system or preferably an Internet Protocol TeleVision IPTV infrastructure, adapted to receive channels of multimedia data, a content server (CS) adapted to transmit these channels to the terminal, an interactivity database (ID) adapted to receive, from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070199037 - Broadcast program content retrieving and distributing system: A program content managing/providing system, a program content analyzing/retrieving system, and a user terminal are connected to each other via a network. When broadcasting a program content that is not stored, the program content managing/providing system stores the program content. In response to a distribution request of a desired program... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070199040 - Multi-channel parallel digital video recorder: A multiple channel parallel digital video recorder system records simultaneously and continuously the favorite channels of a user. The recorder system stores programming content for a user to view at a later time. A multimedia control system can be connected to the recorder system and display in a matrix format... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070199038 - System and method for providing personal broacast recording channel service using extensible markup language: Disclosed herein is a system and method for providing personal broadcast recording channel service using extensible Markup Language (XML). The system includes a user interface, an interface server and a wizard/transmission server. The system and the method allow members to conveniently instruct the members' remote Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) to... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20070199039 - System and method of receiving video content: A system and method of receiving video content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving video content at a set-top box device via an access network. The method also includes writing the video content onto a removable secondary storage medium received at a secondary storage media interface... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070199041 - Video systems and methods of using the same: A television content provider can reserve and use a television channel can be used to provide interactive content to a user device. Unlike conventional broadcast channels, a user at the user device may view content to an extent (length, depth, or both) that the user desires. The user can pick... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070199042 - Delivering a supplemented cctv signal to one or more subscribers: A method and a system are provided for delivering a supplemented CCTV message to subscribers, such as residents of a MDU. A processor combines the signal from a local CCTV camera system with a supplementary message to be provided to subscribers. The supplemented CCTV signal resulting from this combining is... Agent: Robic

20070199043 - Multi-channel high-bandwidth media network: A multi-channel, high-definition media network. According to one embodiment, the media network is capable of distributing high definition and standard definition video signals as well as various audio format signals in an uncompressed manner while allowing for interconnection of A/V source and rendering devices in a robust, ring network topology.... Agent: Axios Law Group

20070192787 - Apparatus and method for controlling copying of av data and computer readable medium therefor: Computer readable media, apparatuses, and methods to control copying of AV data are provided. The data structure includes the AV data having a format according to a protocol for a digital channel between a transmission device and a reception device, and copy control information to control copying of the AV... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070192793 - Electronic programming guide providing apparatus and method: An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing apparatus and method to collectively manage broadcast content using stored EPG information are provided. The EPG providing apparatus includes a storing unit which stores broadcast content and EPG information, an EPG screen configuring unit which configures an EPG screen including information on past, current,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070192797 - Method of and apparatus for managing distributed contents: A method and apparatus for managing contents distributed on a home network are provided. The distributed content management apparatus includes: a content information database processor which aggregates information regarding contents stored in at least one content reproducing apparatus and creates or updates an integrated content information database; and a synchronization... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070192801 - Method and apparatus for controlling scheduled recording service using external tuner: Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling a network device, and more particularly, a method and apparatus for scheduling recording by controlling another device connected to a network. The method of controlling a scheduled recording service using an external tuner includes detecting a device which supports a tuner on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070192802 - Method for utilizing a media adapter to manage multimedia data stored in a plurality of multimedia sources: A method for utilizing a media adapter to manage multimedia data stored in a plurality of multimedia sources includes: the media adapter receiving an user access data; obtaining access corresponding to the user access data; setting the access corresponding to the user access data of the plurality of multimedia sources;... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070192804 - Method and apparatus for providing broadcast content in upnp network: Provided is a method of a media server providing broadcast content received from an outside source in a universal plug and play (UPnP) network. The method includes receiving a message from a control point requesting to change to a second channel, while transmitting broadcast content of a first channel by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070192805 - Adaptive spotbeam broadcasting, systems, methods and devices for high bandwidth content distribution over satellite: Satellite broadcasting methods include providing a cellular satellite communications system configured to transmit information separately to a plurality of different geographic locations defined by a respective plurality of cellular satellite spotbeams, and concurrently transmitting a program signal on a plurality of different spotbeams. The plurality of different spotbeams may include... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070192806 - Multimedia content redirection method: A multimedia content redirection method is provided. The multimedia content redirection method reproduces media content at a sink node employing enhanced media reproduction performance by redirecting a current media content being reproduced to the sink node when the sink node, such as audio device or media player, capable of reproducing... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070192808 - Information distribution system and information distribution method: An information distribution system include a reporting unit that reports guide information to a user, the guide information showing information to be additionally stored in a storing unit, a receiving unit that receives identification information from the user, the identification information being associated with stored information selected by the user... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070192812 - Method and system for streaming digital video content to a client in a digital video network: A technique for streaming digital video content to a client involves providing a new stream of digital video content to the client using forward error correction (FEC) for a limited initial period and then ending the use of FEC after the limited initial period has ended. In an embodiment, during... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20070192782 - Methods and apparatus to monitor audio/visual content from various sources: Methods and apparatus to monitor audio/visual content from various sources are disclosed. An example method to monitor media content provided by a selected one of a plurality of media content sources for presentation by an information presenting device disclosed herein comprises determining first information based on a video signal corresponding... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070192783 - Method and apparatus for setting a voltage controlled crystal oscillator in a video processing device: The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for setting a frequency reference in an integrated receiver decoder (IRD). More specifically, the present invention discloses an electrical circuit arrangement in which the voltage controlled crystal oscillator (VCXO) is set to oscillate at the desired frequency prior to the initial use... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070192784 - Broadcast television reward program and method of use for issuing, aggregating and redeeming sponsor's reward points: A loyalty program operated in association with a television broadcast network, wherein reward content is provided along with television content (programming and/or advertising) to generate a television broadcast signal that is transmitted to a plurality of viewers. Each viewer may view or hear the reward content via their television receiver... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20070192785 - Two-way pda, laptop and cell phone audience response system: A two-way PDA, cell phone and laptop audience participation system providing the ability for real-time audience participation in questions and surveys and for real-time generation and display of results. A plurality of two-way wireless communication devices such as PDAs, cellphones or laptops are provided for use by participants at an... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070192786 - Content transmission and reception method, and content reproducing terminal: A method of transmitting, receiving and reproducing a content, includes steps of transmitting content data of the content from a transmitting terminal to a receiving and reproducing terminal constructing a network together with the transmitting terminal, determining whether a predetermined reproducing permission condition is satisfied, and controlling reproduction to limit... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070192788 - Method to provide logging information of an application in a digital broadcast system: To provide logging information of an application that can be executed in a set-top box or another receiver for a digital broadcast system, at least a part of the logging information is displayed on top of a screen that corresponds to an output of the executed application.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070192789 - Inserting data objects into encrypted video streams: In a particular embodiment a method is disclosed for inserting data objects into a video stream. The method encrypts a first portion of the video stream at a server, suspends encryption of a second portion of the video stream, and sends the first and second portions of the video stream... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20070192790 - Method and system for preventing simultaneous use of contents in different formats derived from the same content at a plurality of places: The original content and the converted content obtained by converting the original content are encrypted by the same content key. A license containing data of use conditions such as the content key and a use period is recorded in an area of a storage medium limited for access. When the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070192791 - Selection list of thumbnails: A method and system to view a selection of thumbnails are described herein. A plurality of content channels, which are most recently tuned into by a user, are stored. Further, a display presents a selection array for a plurality of thumbnails that represent the plurality of content channels.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070192792 - Content processing device, content processing method, control program, and storage medium: To add new additional content to the reproduction schedule on the basis of reference content scheduled in a time slot in the reproduction schedule, a digital television in accordance with the present invention includes: an additional content extracting section for identifying, as the additional content, content associated with content information... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070192794 - Systems and methods for placing advertisements: Systems and methods provide techniques for associating advertisements with relevant content on a user interface. A method for placing advertisements on a user interface includes providing a user interface having a plurality of user interface screens, at least some of the plurality of user interface screens containing user-selectable control objects,... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070192795 - Method of providing a personalized broadcast service: There is described a method of providing a personalized broadcast service. The method involves arranging for a content provider (40) to communicate with a user device (30) and a broadcast service (50). The device (30) presents its user (20). The method involves: receiving user profile information from the user (20);... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070192796 - Video system and video selection method thereof: A video information system which displays or records broadcast video information records an operation history of the video information system, and, when video information is newly reproduced and displayed or newly recorded, generates user presence information from the operation history and program information of broadcast video information and selects video... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070192798 - Digital content delivery via virtual private network (vpn) incorporating secured set-top devices: A method and system for delivering digital content to a multitude of set-top devices that are purchased by consumers and connected to the Internet as part of a virtual private network (VPN) provides more efficient and secure distribution of digital content such as movies, television, music, games and other digital... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070192799 - Method and apparatus for optimizing optical disc navigators: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for optimizing optical disc navigators. According to the present invention, the optical disc player sets the optimum optical disc navigator that can be realized as the optical disc navigator for playing the optical disc by testing and adjusting basing on the optical... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070192800 - Dynamic multimedia channel grouping: A method includes determining a content type of a multimedia program at a first time for each of a plurality of multimedia channels and associating, during a first channel navigation period, each multimedia channel of a first subset of the plurality of multimedia channels with a corresponding channel number of... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070192803 - Broadcast receiving device, viewing management server, viewing determination method, broadcasting system, viewing determination program, and storage medium: A broadcast data receiving section receives broadcasted broadcast data. A reception confirmation key extracting section extracts reception confirmation keys from the broadcast data. A reception confirmation processing section counts the extracted reception confirmation keys. A viewing determination section determines that a viewer has watched a program when the thus counted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070192807 - Apparatus and method for providing televison services using an aggregator: The present disclosure provides an apparatus, method, and computer programs for obtaining content from a communications network. One aspect of the disclosure includes: storing an aggregator on a Set Top Box (STB) associated with a television set, wherein the aggregator is adapted to obtain content corresponding to a plurality of... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070192809 - Method and system for distribution of media including a gigablock: A gigablock is disclosed. The gigablock comprises a plurality of memory devices. The plurality of memory devices are coupled in a parallel fashion to receive high and/or secure bandwidth data.... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070192811 - Broadcast-receiving device and method for displaying menu: Broadcast-receiving device has a broadcast-receiving section that receives a broadcast signal and generates an image signal on broadcast contents, an image-processing section that generates a menu signal for displaying a menu and generates an image display signal based on any one of the menu signal and the image signal, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070192810 - Encrypting content in a tuner device and analyzing content protection policy: A tuning device uses a counter mode encryption cipher to encrypt counters associated with media content in order to protect the media content when it is sent to requesting device or controller. The encrypted counters are decrypted in order to consume the media content. The controller may send particular direction... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070192813 - Method and apparatus for providing location information of device through home network: A method and an apparatus for providing information of a device to other devices through the home network are provided. The method includes: generating relative location information indicating that a first device is present in a vicinity of a second device if a remote control signal for the second device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070192814 - Portable media encoder: A portable media encoder is disclosed. The portable media encoder comprises a video input port configured to receive a video input from a video source, an audio input port configured to receive an audio input from an audio source, and a digital output port for providing a digitized output stream... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070192815 - Method for tone hopping in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system: Methods for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing multipoint-to-point communications system are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises: establishing communication between a first remote unit of a plurality of remote units and a host unit, the plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit in a multipoint-to-point configuration;... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070192816 - Method and apparatus for providing a picture in picture service: A method of forming a picture in picture (PIP) service over an internet protocol (IP) transmission to one or more users, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a request for a PIP channel comprising a first predetermined channel superimposed with a second predetermined channel; determining if the PIP channel... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070192817 - Fiber distribution hub with outside accessible grounding terminals: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications distribution hub having a cabinet that defines a primary compartment. The cabinet also includes one or more main doors for accessing the primary compartment. Telecommunications equipment is mounted within the primary compartment. The distribution hub further includes a secondary compartment that can be... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070192818 - System and method for creating, distributing, and executing rich multimedia applications: The aim of this invention is to provide a complete system to create, to deploy and to execute rich multimedia applications on various terminals and in particular embedded devices. A rich multimedia application is made of one or more media objects, being audio or visual, synthetic or natural, metadata, and... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070192820 - Bandwidth sharing: A method for bandwidth sharing between first and second satellite television networks in a satellite television system carried out at a first satellite television network receiver, in a manner consistent with certain embodiments involves receiving a shared video data stream shared between the first and second satellite television networks; receiving... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20070192819 - System for distribution of media utilized with a receiver/set top box: A receiver system is disclosed. The receiver system comprises a receiver; and a gigablock coupled to the receiver. The gigablock comprises a plurality of memory systems. The memory system comprises a plurality of memory devices. The plurality of memory devices are coupled in a parallel fashion to receive high bandwidth... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070192821 - Display signal control apparatus, and display signal control method: The present invention displays a broadcast program without causing discomfort to the viewer caused by a shift in the display position. The burn-in of the display apparatus when displaying EPG and GUI images is prevented. When viewing a channel, the timing of events such as the broadcast start time of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070192822 - System and method of failure recovery for a television tuning device: A system and method of failure recovery for a television tuning device such as a set-top box is disclosed. The method includes storing, in a memory, channel data identifying a channel to which the set-top box is tuned and after the occurrence of an event, accessing the memory to retrieve... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070186227 - System for measuring audience of media on at least one internet communication network: P

20070186232 - Method for utilizing a media adapter for controlling a display device to display information of multimedia data corresponding to a user access information: A method includes inputting a user access information to a media adapter; a plurality of multimedia sources transmits category information of the multimedia data stored in the plurality of multimedia sources to the media adapter; the media adapter classifies the multimedia data transmitted from the plurality of multimedia sources according... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070186233 - Method for utilizing a media adapter for controlling a display device to display information of multimedia data stored in a plurality of multimedia sources: A method includes: the plurality of multimedia sources respectively transmitting file information of the multimedia data stored in the plurality of multimedia sources to the media adapter; the media adapter classifying the multimedia data received from the plurality of multimedia sources according to the file information of the multimedia data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070186244 - Method and apparatus for providing filtering interface for recording and/or searching for broadcast content: A method and an apparatus for providing a filtering interface that records and searches for broadcasting content is provided. A method for providing a filtering interface that records and searches for broadcasting content according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention includes analyzing user preferences for each property of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070186245 - Mobile communication device, method and system for managing broadcast program information: A mobile communication device, method and system for managing broadcast program information are disclosed. The mobile communication device has a broadcast program information managing function including a transmission/reception module receiving broadcast program information, and a controller extracting broadcast program information corresponding to user information from the received broadcast program information.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070186248 - Analog broadcasting receiving device and dvd recorder equipped with the same: An analog broadcasting receiving device includes a receiving portion for receiving a television broadcasting wave, an EPG extracting portion for extracting EPG data from VBI of the television broadcasting wave, a ROM for storing drive start time of the EPG extraction portion, and a control portion for controlling each portion.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070186250 - Video processing methods and systems for portable electronic devices lacking native video support: Methods and systems for providing high-quality, synchronized audio/video playback on Blackberry™-type portable electronic devices lacking native video support. Synchronization intervals are determined whereby to instantiate frame rate control signals for processing and synchronizing data in the form of stored images and audio to generate the synchronized audio/video playback.... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20070186254 - Video distribution system and method of managing receiving terminal of video distribution service: A video distribution system includes plural receiving terminals, a video distribution apparatus, and a common ID issuing and managing apparatus. Each of the plural receiving terminals has a terminal ID, makes a distribution request for video data, and receives the video data distributed in response to the distribution request. The... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070186229 - Methods and apparatus for identifying viewing information associated with a digital media device: Methods and apparatus for identifying viewing information associated with a digital media device are disclosed. In an example method, data conveyed via a data bus communicatively coupled to a processor and a data storage device associated with the digital media device is monitored. Event information associated with the digital media... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070186228 - Methods and apparatus to determine audience viewing of video-on-demand programs: Methods and apparatus to determine audience viewing of video-on-demand programs are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises creating a reference database corresponding to a set of VOD programs, determining whether a VOD program is selected at a subscriber site, extracting at least one identifier from a signal carrying the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070186230 - System and method for interactive contests: A system and method provide content review, distribution, ranking and access and automate creation and performance of contests among sets of content-based contestants. The system and method provide customizable interactive, ongoing, multi-level, multi-round contests with expert review of and filtered submission of content-based contestants. Among other advantages, providers may use... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070186231 - System and method for controlling settings for television services: The present disclosure provides a system and method that enables a customer to create a favorite list of channels for a main programming list of channels and switch between the favorite list and the main programming list and block any channel on either of the lists.... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070186236 - Multimedia content navigation and playback: In accordance with the present invention, a filtering process is based on the output side of a multimedia decoder. A navigator monitors the current play position of the multimedia content and compares that position with navigation objects. Each navigation object defines a start position, a stop position, and an filtering... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070186235 - Synchronizing filter metadata with a multimedia presentation: A method, system and apparatus for applying and synchronizing filter information with a multimedia presentation, such as a movie provided in a video-on-demand context, to suppress objectionable content. In one example, filter information, which includes an indicia of a portion of the multimedia presentation including objectionable content and a type... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070186234 - System and method for a ratings-based electronic guide: A system and method for a ratings-based electronic guide. One method includes generating a ratings-based electronic guide based on content, related guide data and a content ratings list, where the content ratings list may include the ratings of the content for one or more of a specified location and a... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070186237 - Television receiver and digital broadcast system: Broadcast points in a broadcaster's sole region are turned into package information by processing the contents transmitted from a broadcaster, and the package information is stored in the receiver common information region of a television broadcast receiver, and thereby, it becomes possible even for a communication browser that is an... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070186238 - Method and apparatus for presenting ecommerce offerings using seamless panoramic streaming of video data: A system for providing first person, streamed video data to a prospective purchaser to create a realistic shopping experience on-line, consists of or includes receiving data from a user designating a shopping area, presenting to the user video data streams of the selected area, receiving navigation commands from the user... Agent: Paul D. Bianco: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini, & Bianco P.l.

20070186239 - Backup communication modes: Systems and methods for implementing a communication mode for a communication terminal are provided. An embodiment of a method for implementing a communication mode includes receiving a first type of data over a first type of communication channel, determining that the first type of data is subsequently not available over... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20070186240 - System and method for targeted advertisement display responsive to user characteristics: A system and method for utilizing data stored in an EPG database for modifying advertisement information. In this way, a service provider and/or an advertiser can transmit a single advertisement to all the television stations regardless of their geographic location and other user specific information, and need not re-transmit the... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070186246 - Digital media player behavioral parameter modification: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for playing a portion of a media work which includes steps of: (a) playing the media work; (b) receiving input from a user; and (c) analyzing parameters to determine the portion of the media work to play; (d) altering at least... Agent: Michael B. Einschlag

20070186242 - Personal content recorder suggestion and subscription: An advantageous system, apparatus, and method for publishing and subscribing to viewer supplied suggestions for programming are provided allowing for personalized suggestions from individual sources. Advantageously, the present invention allows for the automated recording of favorite programming of friends, family, coworkers, peers, and select others.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070186241 - Program recommendation apparatus: A program recording/playback apparatus for easily recording/playing back a program that matches a common preference between multiple viewers is provided. A recording/playback apparatus 100 obtains program recommendation information from a server apparatus 300, and retrieves program recommendation information from within. Based on these two pieces of program recommendation information, the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070186243 - System and method of providing television program recommendations: A system and method of providing television program recommendations is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a user review of a television program from a set-top box device via an access network of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system. The method also includes associating the user review... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070186249 - Management of television presentation recordings: A method for managing television presentation recordings includes determining if a television presentation corresponding to a television presentation listing is scheduled to be recorded, assigning a color to the television presentation listing responsive to determining that the television presentation is scheduled to be recorded, and presenting the television presentation listing... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept. Ms 4.3.518

20070186247 - Processing program content material: A method and system to process program content material are described herein. A received data stream includes program content data associated with a particular program and includes index data corresponding to the program content data of the particular program. The index data includes one of a plurality of program format... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070186251 - Emergency satellite network: An emergency satellite communications system that provides remote sites with assured access. The network is provisioned, configured, and managed such that the remote units are always online, but not used to an extent that would prevent remote units from communicating via the network upon demand. The network may include geographic... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070186252 - Method and system for home shopping using video-on-demand services: A network can provide consumers with remotely accessible video content selections, each presenting one or more sales offers. Consumers can send or transmit a prompt, request, message, or demand that triggers the transmission or downloading of video content for viewing, such as on television systems in consumer homes. As consumers... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070186253 - System permitting the display of video or still image content on selected displays of an electronic display network according to customer dictates: Commercial advertisers, such as consumer product companies and the advertising agents that represent them, directly access a network of thousands of large, high resolution electronic displays located in high traffic areas and directly send their own advertisements electronically to the network to be displayed at locations and times selected by... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070186255 - Method of processing multimedia content description data sets, and corresponding apparatus: This method of processing multimedia content description data sets to deliver a plurality of output data sets (141, 142, . . . , 14n) from a single input data set (10), the method being characterized in that it comprises the following steps: allocating priority coefficients (16) to at least some... Agent: Epstein Drangel Bazerman & James, LLP

20070186256 - Method and system for a low cost wireless telephone link for a set top box: A telephone link for set top box communication between the set top box and a central office is provided. This invention makes use of an AC power line to provide a communication channel between the set top box and the central office. The set top box is configured to include... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070186257 - Set top box, multimedia player and system capable of playing web tv and method of integrating set top box and multimedia player: The present invention discloses a set top box for playing Web TV. The set top box includes a control unit, a network transmission interface, a data transmission interface, and a first interface. The set top box can be connected to a multimedia player through the first interface, such that a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070186258 - Tone allocation in multipoint-to-point communication using orthgonal frequency division multiplexing: Systems for tone allocation are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises: a plurality of remote units and a host including a demodulator. Each remote transmits an upstream OFDM signal using a multiple access scheme to the host using an OFDM waveform. The host receives the upstream OFDM signals, the... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070186259 - Navitation within switched digital streamed content: In certain embodiments, a method carried out in a digital television receiver device incapable of full two way communications, of receiving switched digital television programs involves storing a virtual channel table in the digital television receiver device, the virtual channel table having entries for each available channel and having a... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20070186261 - Data-specific bandwidth allocation in multipoint-to-point communication using orthgonal frequency division multiplexing: A bidirectional communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises: a host unit and a plurality of remote units using a multiple access scheme to communicate at the same time with the host unit using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The host unit allocates only a subset of... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070186260 - Methods for multiframe alignment: Methods for multiframe alignment are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises sharing upstream bandwidth capacity among a plurality of remote units in a manner that permits at least two of the remote units to transmit to a host at any one time using the upstream bandwidth capacity, the upstream... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070186262 - Television receiver, channel tuning method and channel scan method: A television receiver including: a reception control unit which judges whether reception of the cable television broadcast signal has succeeded, by setting the channel data composed of the combination of the frequency table stored in the first storage unit and the modulation method stored in the second storage unit, the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070186263 - Analog broadcasting receiving device and dvd recorder having the same: An analog broadcasting receiving device includes a receiving portion for receiving a television broadcasting wave, an EPG extracting portion for extracting EPG data from VBI of the television broadcasting wave, a ROM for storing a GCN table that is a list of GCN codes, and a control portion for controlling... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070186264 - Backup communication modes: Systems and methods for implementing a communication mode for a communication terminal are provided. An embodiment of a method for implementing a communication mode includes receiving a first type of data over a first type of communication channel, determining that the first type of data is subsequently not available over... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept. Ms 4.3.518

20070186265 - Television having a java engine and a removable device port: Method and apparatus for use with televisions having an internal Java engine are included among the embodiments. In exemplary systems, a PCMCIA port allows the Java engine to load and execute Java applets selected by the viewer. Provision is made for system-aware applets to run concurrently with platform-independent applets on... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070186266 - Digital home movie library: The system and method of the present invention provides viewers access to a library of movies, or any other audio/video content available for viewing at anytime. Specifically, the method involves transmitting movies wirelessly to a set-top box in one's home and allowing movies to accumulate. A hard disk drive in... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc C/o Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070186270 - Method and apparatus for processing content in home network using tv channels: A content processing method and apparatus which can maximize user convenience by allocating content available in a home network to an empty TV channel are provided. The content processing method includes storing channel information regarding a plurality of broadcast channels to which a broadcast signal has been set, storing channel... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070186268 - Cross-encoding of information in independent channels: Independent first and second information signals (content1 and conten2) are transmitted over separate independent physical channels to a receiving location. Security is provided by encoding (12a) at least the first information by means of the second information to produce encoded signals (1′, . . . N′). The encoded signals and... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070186267 - Information providing device, information providing method, and computer program: A server searches a content information database for a piece of content viewed for example based on a viewing log obtained from a user by executing aggregation of data, extracts content tables associated with the content viewed for example, and counts appearance frequencies of the content tables by genre, performer,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070186269 - Interactive program manager and methods for presenting program content: An interactive program manager comprises a receiver, a controller and an analyzer. The receiver presents audio and visual content for display. The controller directs the receiver to select a first channel and to forward a second channel different from the first channel. The analyzer monitors a program guide and at... Agent: John S. Pratt Kilpatrick Stockton LLP 36968

20070186271 - Synchronization identifier generating method and apparatus for synchronizing digital contents: Provided are a synchronization identifier generating method for synchronizing digital contents and an apparatus for the same. The synchronization identifier generating method includes setting a sampling level that indicates a frequency of sampling digital contents; sampling the digital contents on the basis of the set sampling level; generating a first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070186272 - Video distribution system: The invention relates to video distribution systems and, more particularly, to a system that blanket transmits video/audio content such as movies (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's computer-based recording, storage and playback system. Customers preselect from a list of available movies or other content in advance using... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070180460 - Method for managing the option of user's preference in broadcast receiver capable of receiving data broadcasting, class/interface structure for controlling the same, and broadcast receiver for controlling the class/interface structure: A method for managing a user's preference option in a broadcast receiver receiving data broadcasting, a class/interface structure for controlling the same, and a broadcasting receiver for controlling the class/interface receiver can solve a problem encountered when a data broadcast-associated application partially overlaps with a Native application. A method comprising... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070180461 - Multiplexed telecommunication and commerce exchange multimedia tool: A method and system for providing interactive media content are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an integrated video content. The integrated video content comprises an identification tag. The identification tag is extracted from the integrated video content. Content information associated with the integrated video content is accessed... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070180466 - Information reproducing system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information reproducing method. The method includes, from an information storage medium storing stream data having a plurality of advanced packs each including a resource file and an advanced ID to identify the resource file, acquiring respective advanced IDs, identifying respective resource files... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070180469 - Method of demographically profiling a user of a computer system: A method of demographically profiling a user of a computer system includes providing an aggregated demographic bias associated with a plurality of different items, in dependence upon collected information relating to a plurality of demographically identified users. First information is then received from a demographically anonymous user, the first information... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070180471 - Presenting digitized content on a network using a cross-linked layer of electronic documents derived from a relational database: In an embodiment, a computer system comprises one or more content file servers having recorded thereon a plurality of digital content material items, and a plurality of digital graphical image files comprising graphical images associated with the content material items; wherein each of content material items comprises one or more... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070180474 - Broadcasting signal receiver and control method thereof: A control method of a broadcasting signal receiver including a data storing unit and a pre-programming information storing unit in which pre-programming information on a pre-programmed broadcasting program is stored includes receiving an instruction to record a pre-programmed broadcasting program, assigning a storage space for recording the pre-programmed broadcasting program... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070180478 - Apparatus, computer program product, and method for data distribution: A data distribution apparatus includes a data file configured to store video data and advertisement data to be provided to a receiving terminal of a Video on Demand service; a video distributing unit configured to distribute video data in accordance with a distribution request from the receiving terminal; a video... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070180480 - Method for managing applications related to data broadcasting, class/interface structure for controlling the same, and broadcast receiver for controlling the class/interface structure: A method for managing the applications related to data broadcasting, a class/interface structure for controlling the same, and a broadcasting receiver for controlling the class/interface receiver can prevent data broadcast-associated application from conflicting with a Native application. The method comprising the steps of: pausing an application associated with a cable... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070180459 - Methods and apparatus to identify viewing information: Methods and apparatus to identify viewing information are disclosed. In an example method, at least one media signal delivered by a content terminal such as a set top box to a media presentation device such as a television is detected. The media signal includes pixel information that is used to... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070180462 - Digital television signal for receiving psip data, method of processing digital television signal, and digital television receiver: A digital television signal for receiving program and system information protocol (PSIP) data, a method for processing the digital television signal, and a digital television receiver are disclosed. The digital television signal used in the digital television receiver in order to receive a program system information protocol (PSIP) data from... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070180463 - Method and apparatus for logging and reporting television viewing: A multimedia logging and reporting system and method involves first obtaining some viewing information about a multimedia presentation such as a television program. The viewing information may be a name of the program and the time it was being watched on the television or may include other information depending on... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070180464 - Method and system for restricting use of data in a circuit: An integrated circuit restricts use of a data item and includes a data memory storing the data item; a value memory storing a value; a signature input that receives a signature derived from data in a data item field and a value in a val