Interactive video distribution systems inventions 10/07

20070250847 - Movie trailer incentive system: A system and method are provided for delivering a promotional message to an audience via a movie/film trailer. The system and method include combining a promotional message with a movie/film trailer, providing the combined movie/film trailer to an audience, and soliciting a response to the promotional message from members of... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070250856 - Distinguishing national and local broadcast advertising and other content: Media broadcasts associated with different local markets can contain both nationally and locally broadcast content. To determine whether particular media items in the broadcasts are broadcast nationally or locally, the media items are identified and their time of occurrence is determined. The media items can then be classified as nationally... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070250857 - Portable high capacity digital data storage device: A portable data storage device compatible with both standard and high definition digital video cameras is provided. The device includes at least one SDI I/O, and preferably at least one audio I/O and preferably at least one medium speed I/O interface. A device controller takes the high speed serial data,... Agent: Patent Law Office Of David G. Beck

20070250859 - Network content display device: An information acquiring unit acquires information relating to image contents possessed by a plurality of communication devices connected to a network, via a communication unit. A display management unit displays a calendar screen including a plurality of display areas configured in days onto a display unit, and displays information about... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070250863 - Media content programming control method and apparatus: A method and system for the control, aggregation, and management of television programming and Internet content (both traditional and video sources) and more specifically to the customization of media choices and content based in part on the dynamic editing of content according to user preferences. Affiliate Groups can be used... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20070250867 - Display system, video processing apparatus, and video processing method: A wide display (200) displays video obtained from a content source on a screen (230) in single-screen display mode or in dual-screen display mode. A video processing apparatus (600) switches the mode of video display from dual-screen display mode to single-screen display mode when a plurality of same videos are... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070250872 - Pod module and method thereof: A POD module system includes a housing, a coaxial cable connector formed on the housing and connectable to a first device to receive a cable signal, a port formed on the housing to receive a wire or wireless signal from a second device, a module unit to process at least... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070250871 - Wireless network digital electronic device: A wireless network digital electronic device for receiving television broadcasting signals, transforming them into wireless network signals, and transmitting them to a display device is described. The wireless network digital electronic device includes a television signal receiver, a decoder, a processor, and a wireless network signal transceiver. The television signal... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070250876 - Digital broadcast receiving apparatus, digital broadcast receiving method, and storage medium: Intra-frame prediction coding data of a channel that the viewer is not viewing is stored. When the viewer has switched channels to be viewed, the stored intra-frame prediction coding data is output during a period before intra-frame prediction coding data of the newly selected channel is received.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070250877 - Display apparatus for displaying content data, display method, and program: A display apparatus has a display unit which displays a list of information on a first program content stored in a storage unit and information on a second program content to be broadcast. In a case in which the first and second program contents are program contents of the same... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070250875 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for delivering one or more television programs for viewing during a specified viewing interval: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for delivering one or more television programs for viewing during a specified viewing interval. The methods include receiving a viewer's selection of a broadcast channel from an electronic program guide, presenting the viewer with a list or menu of two or more programs on... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070250878 - Interactive system for conducting contest: An apparatus and method to enable video communication through a studio that is placed in a public location whereby a studio user records a performance, presentation, or an interview. In one embodiment, information seekers with special interest may view interviews or presentations recorded by studio users pertaining to subject matter... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20070250879 - Method and apparatus to conduct a contest utilizing a booth that provides a control card both to activate a contest recording and to define contest rules: A method for conducting a contest in which recorded performances of different individuals are reviewed to select a winner. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of recording booths each including recording equipment comprising at least one camera for photographing the video portion of an individual's performance and... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20070250844 - Video program offer generator: A procedure determines that program guide data in a program guide database has been updated. The procedure continues by retrieving data from the program guide database associated with at least some stations supported by a particular television service. Offer generation rules are applied to the data retrieved from the program... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070250846 - Methods, systems, and products for evaluating performance of viewers: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for evaluating the performance of a viewer watching media programming. The media programming is received and includes at least one of a live media program and a recorded media program. Display is caused of the media programming and a cue. The cue prompts the... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070250845 - System and method of delivering calls: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of delivering calls. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a call at a server within an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system, where the call is directed to a user premise. The method also includes determining a presence of... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070250848 - Linking and browsing media on television: Techniques for linking and browsing media on a television (TV) are provided. A selected program, which is associated with a channel of the TV, is detected and additional content, which is associated with that channel and/or the selected program, is dynamically acquired from one or more external sources. The additional... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070250849 - Method and device for media quiz: A computing device is disclosed, comprising a user interface and a central processing unit for launching a session on the computing device enabling the computing device to receive media data and associated data comprising information on the media data, render the media data by the user interface, provide a question... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070250850 - Systems and methods for soliciting feedback using print-augmented broadcast signal: A process for providing a print-augmented broadcast signal for transmission to one or more convention broadcast receiver includes receiving a broadcast signal comprising a program portion for a particular broadcast program and a non-program portion. Supplemental content which is associated with the program content of the particular broadcast program is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070250851 - System and method for identity verification and access control using a cellular/wireless device with audiovisual playback capabilities: A system and method for qualifying a user of a service or product, a reference source of data, a source of user data, and a qualifying module that compares the data from such reference source to the data from said user data to see if there is a match, in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070250853 - Method and apparatus to configure broadcast programs using viewer's profile: A system includes an image-capturing device to capture an image of a user in a viewing zone. When the user is a registered user, the system is to allow the user to view and hear one or more of the broadcast television programs and the broadcast radio programs based on... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070250852 - System and method of editing video content: A system and method of editing video content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a command at a set-top box device, wherein the command includes a request to edit at least one objectionable audio portion associated with video content. The method also includes receiving the video... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070250854 - View control system and view control method: A view controller for controlling view is described on meta data and a view history (log) of a viewer recorded at the reception side is used to judge whether the condition of the view controller is satisfied. When the condition is satisfied, the view of the received content is permitted.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070250855 - Search engine for presenting to a user a display having both graphed search results and selected advertisements: A search engine is provided which responds to a user's queries by generating and presenting a graphed result. In addition to the graphed data, the user is provided with advertisement data which is related to the query information and/or to the nature of the data itself. One aspect of the... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20070250858 - Method and device of displaying a time concept on a dtv electronic program guide: A method is disclosed for displaying an electronic program guide. The electronic program guide includes a plurality of time attributes associated with a plurality of program attributes, respectively. The method disclosed for displaying an electronic program guide includes providing a plurality of time indicators; displaying at least a specific time... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070250860 - Television station dedicated to senior citizens and method of operation: A television, cable or satellite channel dedicated to issues relevant to senior citizens is disclosed. The content of the channel involves programming on healthcare, politics, insurance and many related seniors' issues. Advertisements are also limited to goods and services directed to seniors. Indeed, one version limits advertisements to the subject... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20070250862 - Monitoring apparatus and method: A monitoring apparatus includes a video data obtaining section obtaining video data from a monitoring terminal, a metadata obtaining section obtaining metadata describing information on a monitored subject from the monitoring terminal, a filter setting storage section storing a filter setting, a metadata filter section performing filtering processing on the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070250861 - On-screen program guide with interactive programming recommendations: A subscriber to a video service generally has available to them an on-screen program guide. The program guide lists programming (e.g., TV shows) that are available to the subscriber for a certain upcoming time period. The programming guide may sort the listings by channel and time, areas of interest, age... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070250864 - Dynamic adjustment of electronic program guide displays based on viewer preferences for minimizing navigation in vod program selection: Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in... Agent: Leighton K. Chong Patent Attorney

20070250866 - Electronic apparatus, method and system for collecting broadcast program information, and storage medium: Selection of broadcast programs is facilitated by collecting viewer information relating to program information and improving sharing of the viewer information among viewers. The present invention is an electronic apparatus (SBM server) collecting information relating to broadcast programs for a television receiver, etc., a collecting method thereof, a collecting system... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070250865 - System and method for selectively recording program content from a mosaic display: A broadcast recording system for selectively recording broadcast program content from a mosaic display while continuing to display the mosaic display. The system may include the ability to present a categorized mosaic, program guide information for selected program content, and/or audio associated with selected program content.... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070250868 - Display apparatus and display method: A display apparatus including; a display setting section (101) that sets, based on a relative position of a viewer with respect to a screen for displaying an image, at least one display position of the image in the screen; an expansion section (107, 108) that expands an inputted image at... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070250869 - Method and apparatus for distributing signals: A system and method are disclosed for method and apparatus for distributing signals. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communications interface (CI) (101 having a controller that manages a transceiver (102) coupled to a residential gateway (RG) (118) and one or more... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070250870 - System and method for transmitting broadcast contents over dlna network: The present invention relates to a system and method for retransmitting high definition contents broadcasted on a plurality of channels to IP-supported devices such as a digital media player (DMP), a mobile phone, personal computer (PC), etc. which are connected through a DLNA network. The method for retransmitting the broadcasted... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070250873 - Digital data delivery system and method of the same: The invention provides a digital data delivery system that delivers video data of a content and audio data of the same content respectively to a first receiver and a second receiver, which are independent of each other, to reproduce the video data and the audio data at the first and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070250874 - System and method of indexing video content: A system and method of indexing video content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a set index command at a set-top box device during transmission of video content from the set-top box device to a display device coupled to the set-top box device. The method also... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070250880 - Peer-to-peer video on demand techniques: Techniques for delivering video on demand (VOD) content via peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques are provided. A VOD distribution service maintains associations of viewers that have specific VOD content. As new viewers, which lack the specific VOD content, make requests for the specific VOD content from the VOD distribution service, the VOD... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070250881 - Future capture of block matching clip: A method and apparatus for capturing future instances of a song or a television show or the like. Responsive to a user activating a trigger, typically during the middle of the song or show, the system stores a clip and thereafter begins to monitor one or more channels or stations,... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070250883 - Video recording system, method, and computer program for memory space distribution in a video recording system: In the present digital age, the storage of data and the administration of the stored data is a problem area which, despite rapidly dropping prices for storage media, is increasingly important as technology becomes more sophisticated. In the field of security technology, for instance, storing streams of video data or... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070250882 - Creation and use of test cases for automated testing of media-based applications: A method for testing an automated interactive media system. The method can include establishing a communication session with the automated interactive media system. In response to receiving control and/or media information from the automated interactive media system, pre-recorded control and/or media information can be propagated to the automated interactive media... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070250885 - Communication terminal and communication system: A communication terminal of the present invention includes a first communication unit used for communication including at least a voice call, an operation input unit for acquiring instruction input from a user, a second communication unit for performing communication with a predetermined object apparatus equipped with a function capable of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070250884 - System and method of providing call source information: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of providing call source information. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving call source information and call destination information at a mediation messaging server of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system, where the call source information and the call... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070250886 - Method and system for accessing an interactive television session by a mini-message: A method of accessing an interactive television service with a code and a mini-message comprising randomly generating a code C1 by an interactive television application implemented on an interactive television set; sending a mini-message containing the code C1 to a processing server with a mobile telecommunications device; calculating a code... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20070250887 - Integrated broadcasting system for digital broadcasting programs: The present invention provides an integrated broadcasting system for digital broadcasting programs, comprising: a broadcasting server, a VOD (Video On Demand) server and user players. The broadcasting server broadcasts the digital broadcasting programs in accordance with preset broadcasting schedule. The VOD server stores the backups of digital broadcasting programs broadcasted... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd

20070250888 - Content reproduction device and control method thereof: A mobile phone of the present invention, which is capable of reproducing a broadcast program supplied through a broadcast wave and stored programs stored in a program data storage, is provided with (i) a program ID extraction section that obtains a broadcast program ID for identifying a supplied broadcast program... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070250889 - Systems and methods for swapping channel configuration data: A method for swapping channel configuration data comprises the following steps. A channel profile table comprising a first channel number and a first primary key for mapping to first channel configuration data, and a second channel number and a second primary key for mapping to second channel configuration data is... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070250890 - Method and system for reducing switching delays between digital video feeds using multicast slotted transmission technique: Method and system for reducing switching delays between digital video feeds using multicast slotted transmission technique. Method, system, computer program stored on a computer readable medium for reducing switching delays between digital video feeds or different video or data channels using a slotted distribution and transmission technique. Method and system... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070250891 - System and method for spectral node splitting in a hybrid fiber optic-coaxial cable network: A system and method for spectral node splitting in cable TV network based on hybrid fiber-coax architecture is disclosed. Two-way optical signals carrying video and/or multimedia content are received at a signal distribution node. Portions of the received signals are processed according to the functionality the direction thereof. Certain frequency... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070250893 - Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus: Disclosed herein is a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus that can offer high-definition images with appropriate image quality correction by setting the quantity of image quality correction with reference to encoding information and image information in pixel blocks. The apparatus includes an image processing unit for performing image processing on decoded... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070250892 - Digital broadcasting receiver: A digital broadcasting receiver includes an operating section configured to select a channel, and a video/audio data obtaining section configured to obtain video/audio data on a selected channel from television broadcasting signals. The digital broadcasting receiver also includes a channel table and a designated channel table. The digital broadcasting receiver... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070250894 - Digital television system using high-speed serial bus and method for controlling the same: A digital TV system using a high-speed serial bus and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The digital TV system includes a TV receiver and a computer device. The TV receiver includes a tuner unit, a demodulator, and a high-speed serial bus unit for transmitting digital data to... Agent: J.c. Patents

20070250895 - Electronic apparatus, information browsing method thereof, and storage medium: Selection of broadcast programs is facilitated by giving and receiving viewer information relating to program information and improving the sharing of the viewer information among viewers. The present invention is an electronic apparatus (TV apparatus) that includes a function for receiving broadcast programs of a television receiver, etc., and the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070250898 - Automatic extraction of secondary video streams: The automatic generation of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more secondary video streams to concentrate on one or more targets,... Agent: Venable LLP

20070250896 - Picture-in-picture mosaic: The PIP system enables display of a mosaic of favorite channels in a Picture-in-Picture (PIP) format to a subscriber terminal. Picture-in-Picture support is efficiently provided by sending only I-Frames of the secondary video channel to the end-user. That is, any unnecessary packets (null, B-P frames, audio, etc.) in the secondary... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070250897 - System and method of providing selectable video content: A system and method of providing selectable video content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a selection of a first mnemonic input at a set-top box device. The method also includes receiving a plurality of numeric input selections at the set-top box device, where each of... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070250899 - Nondestructive self-publishing video editing system: A video publishing and viewing system that allows the user to select a video on the user's network or on the Internet and produce a hierarchical menu describing the video content. The editing user can perform the entire process of selecting the video, creating the hierarchical menu along with descriptive... Agent: Keith D. Nowak

20070250900 - Media gateway and server: A media gateway/media server (MGMS) distributes video, without impairment, from a variety of sources, over an in-home distribution medium (such as coaxial cable) directly to one or more conventional televisions sets within a house, i.e., without requiring specially adapted hardware, such as a set-top-box, at each television set. One or... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070250901 - Method and apparatus for annotating media streams: In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for annotating media streams. One embodiment of a method for facilitating creation of an annotated media stream by a user includes receiving the media stream from the user, mapping at least one item of supplemental content to at least a... Agent: Kin-wah Tong, Esq. Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070245367 - Content reproducing apparatus, and television receiving apparatus: A plurality of types of rating information are easily and reliably set. A television receiver A includes a receiver main body 1 and a remote controller 15 for controlling it. The receiver main body 1 includes a tuner unit 3, a signal processing unit 5, a display control unit 7... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070245368 - Electronic equipment control system: An electronic equipment control system including a plurality of pieces of electric equipments connected with one another through a network. A piece of electric equipment among the plurality of pieces of electric equipments comprises: a setting and inputting unit to set and input broadcast content setting information regarding view of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070245370 - Copy protection: An apparatus for copy protection in a cable broadcast receiver and method thereof are disclosed, by which digital broadcast contents can be protected from being copied.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070245381 - Broadcasting receiving device: A broadcasting receiving device include: an EPG obtaining unit that obtains EPG information; a control unit that extracts keywords from various types of information of the EPG information and counts a number of each of the extracted keywords in the entire or a part of the various types of information;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070245385 - Automatic feedback adjustment device for digital antenna: An automatic feedback adjustment device for a digital antenna includes a digital antenna unit, a trafficator, a tuner, a demodulator, an antenna direction driver unit, a secondary controller, and a primary controller. The digital antenna unit is a digital video/broadcasting antenna system. The trafficator is connected to the digital antenna... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070245387 - Method and system for video stream transmission over wireless channels: A method and system for transmitting video information from a sender to a receiver over a wireless channel, is provided. Video information bits are placed into multiple data packets, and transmitted in a burst sequence from a sender to a receiver over a wireless channel in a first time frame.... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070245388 - Mass media box process: The disclosure is directed to a media manager for use with a broadcast facility receiving television content from digital content delivery services. The broadcast facility includes a playlist and storage. The media manager includes a content delivery interface, a transcoder, and a controller. The content delivery interface includes content delivery... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20070245389 - Playback apparatus and method of managing buffer of the playback apparatus: According to one embodiment, a playback apparatus includes a buffer to draw an object including operation guidance to be superposed on a main image, a graphics driver which controls allocation of an area in the buffer to a host program requesting drawing of the object, and a buffer managing unit... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070245365 - Display/response system, display/response apparatus and display/response program storage medium: A display/response system includes a display/response apparatus and a display apparatus. A show and a questionnaire are received by the display/response apparatus, and the show is immediately displayed on the display/response apparatus. The questionnaire is sent to the display apparatus and displayed on the display apparatus. In the display/response apparatus,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070245366 - Display/response system, show display apparatus and show display program storage medium: A display/response system includes a show display apparatus and a response apparatus. In the show display apparatus, a show and a questionnaire are received, and the show is displayed. The questionnaire is sent to the response apparatus. The response apparatus displays a screen for the received questionnaire, determines a response... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070245369 - Lockbox management system and method: A lockbox that includes an access device reader configured to obtain a key code from an access device, an access control system, operatively connected to an access administration system, configured to grant access to the lockbox when the key code is verified, and a bidirectional programmable multitap (BPMT) comprising a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070245371 - Auto-adaptive program distribution system: An auto-adaptive program distribution system in which content is transmitted from one or more content providers to one or more subscribers each associated with a service group includes an auto-adaptive switch whose inputs is a set of programs from the content providers and whose outputs are grouped into at least... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070245372 - Management device, method and program for monitoring video data transmitted via network: There is provided a management device comprising a network device recognition unit configured to identify at least one predetermined device in a network by judging whether the at least one predetermined device satisfies a predetermined condition, a monitoring target setting unit which sets the at least one predetermined device as... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070245373 - Method for configuring media-playing sets: An exemplary method to help end users configure their respective media playing sets includes prompting the user for their geographical location, transmitting the location to a remote processing site which identifies broadcast settings particularly suited for the location, and adjusting the set remotely from the site to fully implement automatically... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20070245374 - Video program subtitle tex recording method and system: A video program subtitle text recording method and system is proposed, which is s designed for use in conjunction with a video playback platform for providing a video program subtitle text recording function that allows the user to record the subtitle text embedded in a video program displayed on the... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070245375 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing content dependent media content mixing: A method of providing content dependent media content mixing includes automatically determining an emotional property of a first media content input, determining a specification for a second media content in response to the determined emotional property, and producing the second media content in accordance with the specification.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070245377 - Central system providing previews to a portable media player: A system and method for providing previews, such as song and video previews, to a portable media player are provided. In general, a play history for the portable media player is generated as media files are played by the portable media player and provided to a central system hosting an... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20070245379 - Personalized summaries using personality attributes: A method and system for generating a personalized summary of content for a user is provided that include determining personality attributes of the user; extracting features of the content; and generating the personalized summary based on a map of the features to the personality attributes. The features may be ranked... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070245376 - Portable media player enabled to obtain previews of media content: A system and method for providing previews, such as song and video previews, to a portable media player are provided. In general, a play history for the portable media player is generated as media files are played by the portable media player and provided to a central system hosting an... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20070245378 - User system providing previews to an associated portable media player: A system and method for providing previews, such as song and video previews, to a portable media player are provided. In general, a play history for the portable media player is generated as media files are played by the portable media player and provided to a central system hosting an... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20070245380 - Representation of epg programming information: The invention relates to the generation of an improved graphics interface which is interactive and allows user navigation. The interface represents portions of data from a number of fields of data, said fields representing program information for current and future television programs which can be viewed. The interface includes a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070245382 - Digital broadcast receiving apparatus and method and program therefor: Disclosed is a digital broadcast receiving apparatus for informing a user that multi-channel broadcasting of a plurality of programs is scheduled to start, prior to the start of the multi-channel broadcasting. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus receives and executes an application that a broadcast station transmits a predetermined time period... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070245383 - System and method for inferface navigation: Described is a system and method for interface navigation. The method comprises receiving query data via a website, identifying response data based on the query data, the response data including audible response data and visual response data, outputting the audible response data via an audible output device and outputting the... Agent: Daniel F. Coughlin, Esq. Dreier LLP

20070245384 - External notification methods and apparatus for cellular communications: External notification methods and apparatus for cellular communications are disclosed. An example external notification apparatus disclosed herein comprises a first interface to receive an incoming call notification in a first format from a cellular device, a second interface to route the incoming call notification in a second format to a... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070245386 - Apparatus and method for decoding digital image and audio signals: An apparatus and method for decoding of encoded signals representing at least image information from a storage medium is claimed. A storage device is configured to receive the storage medium. A decoder is configured receive the compressed encrypted encoded signals from the storage medium, and send the signals to a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070245390 - Multisync image output system: Disclosed is a multisync image output system in which a system manager server synchronizes each decoder on the basis of the information transmitted by each decoder that is connected to the system manager server through the network, and thus the number of the decoders can be optionally varied. According to... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070245391 - System and method for an end-to-end ip television interactive broadcasting platform: An IP-based television interactive broadcast system that includes: a first subsystem, the first subsystem receiving and storing raw content arriving from a content generation source; a second subsystem, the second subsystem processing the received content by performing at least one of encoding, editing, inserting interactive modules into the content, or... Agent: Frederick Bailey

20070245392 - Disaster recovery: A system for recovery of the broadcast facility is disclosed. The broadcast facility includes a module containing scheduling information, a video server containing program content, and a transmitter. A replicator is coupled to the module and the video server. The replicator monitors the scheduling information. A playout device is at... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20070245393 - System and method for dynamic allocation of spectrum: A communication system is provided for transmitting video, audio, and data content between two or more nodes of a communications network comprised party of twisted pair links. Also provided, is a telecommunication system for transmitting spectrum, comprising transmission bandwidths that carry signals such as, video, audio, data and other services,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070245394 - Training premable in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: A training premable in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) 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 OFDM. The host unit sends... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070245395 - Video reproducing apparatus: A conventional digital video reproducing apparatus outputs a descrambling request to a descrambling processing unit also on a packet which is not needed to be descrambled. When types of inputted packets exceeds the maximum number of types of packet that the descrambling processing unit can simultaneously descramble, it is impossible... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070245396 - Method of controlling data broadcast application and broadcast receiver receiving the same: A method of controlling storage of a data broadcast application and broadcast receiver processing the same are disclosed. A method of controlling a data broadcast application includes receiving an application of data broadcasting, deciding whether a memory of a broadcast receiver is in a status capable of storing the received... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070245397 - System and method for uploading tv firmware: A system and method for uploading firmware into television display is disclosed, in that it allows a user to upload firmware data to the user's television using conventional consumer technology, such as video media players with firmware encoded into a video format suitable for uploading firmware to the television through... Agent: Manatt Phelps And Phillips Robert D. Becker

20070245399 - System and method for assessing electronic program guide information: A system and a method for accessing electronic program guide information are provided. Media content and/or the electronic program guide information is provided by multiple sources via one or more networks. The media content and/or the electronic program guide information is received by a terminal and/or a database. The database... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20070245398 - Universal parental control: Systems and methods according to the present invention address this need and others by providing methods of controlling media content access through a universal control device that is linked to a plurality of consumer electronic devices in a common environment.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20070245400 - Video description system and method: Systems and methods for describing video content establish video description records which include an object set (24), an object hierarchy (26) and entity relation graphs (28). Video objects can include global objects, segment objects and local objects. The video objects are further defined by a number of features organized in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070240184 - Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus and control method therefor: Disclosed is a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus configured such that software served to control the behavior of the apparatus is divided into two pieces of software: a small piece of dedicated software (a) served to control a tuner and a large piece of software (b), i.e. main software, and that... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070240185 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for delivering audio content on demand: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for delivering audio content on demand. The methods include receiving a plurality of packets from a network, each of the packets bearing a multicast or unicast identifier corresponding to an item of audio content. The plurality of packets are stored secured from a listener... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070240190 - Method and system for enhancing the experience of a spectator attending a live sporting event: Method for enhancing the experience of a spectator attending a venue hosting a live sporting event. The method includes receiving locally of the venue a signal containing a plurality of video streams. At least one of the video streams is derived from a camera filming the live sporting event attended... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070240191 - Method and system for transmission of uncompressed video over wireless communication channels: A method and system is provided for transmission of video information pixels over wireless channels, where each video pixel includes a plurality of components and each component comprises video information bits. The information bites are logically grouped into multiple logical groups in a packet, and error detection information is determined... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070240180 - Amalgamation of user data for geographical trending: The present invention comprises a 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 broadcast... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070240179 - Smart channel-surfer system: The invention provides means and method for monitoring a viewer's television use and ranking the channels in order of preference, and then initiating a channel surfing sequence by channel based on order of preference. An apparatus according to the invention comprises a television set, a tuner, a remote control, a... Agent: John R. Casperson

20070240181 - Subscriber characterization system with filters: A subscriber characterization system with filters in which the subscriber's selections are monitored, including monitoring of the time duration programming is watched, the volume at which the programming is listened to, and any available information regarding the type of programming, including category and sub-category of the programming. The raw subscriber... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc./prime

20070240182 - Methods and apparatus for providing a guide and/or remote control suitable for children: Methods and apparatus for generating program guides and restricting access to programs as a function of program ratings and/or program content are described. Methods of billing for services are also described. Multiple remote controls, e.g., of different types or assigned different identifiers are used. Access to program guide content and... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070240183 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating interactive programming services: A method, system, and computer program product for facilitating interactive programming services is provided. The method includes providing a selection of viewpoints for perceiving a program event. Each of the viewpoints provides a unique perspective of the program event. The viewpoints are simultaneously transmitted to a digital media system as... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20070240186 - Program selection system: A method and system for enabling a user to select programs in a personal video recorder environment, the method comprising enabling the user to select a program subject category, providing in response to user selection of a program subject category, for subsequent user selection, programs within said selected program subject... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070240187 - Distributed, interactive television program guide; system and method: In an interactive network-based personal video recording system, a user interface is provided that allows viewers to search a database of program guide information according to program title, indexed program attributes such as actor and director, and key word. Viewer interaction is by way of a remote control unit.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070240188 - Datacasting: A datacast operator's main page (36) is transmitted to receivers. The datacast operator's main page (36) may include links to services and include information specific to the datacast operator and the network area it serves.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070240189 - Utilizing presence service for service discovery in mobile broadcast: Provided are apparatuses and methods for delivering service guide information to a mobile terminal via a presence server. In one example, a presence server receives information including service guide information corresponding to a program or service from a program source and store the received information under a presence identifier. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070240192 - Delivery of subscription services to roaming users through head end equipment: A subscriber or other user is provided with access to a subscription service of a signal distribution system at a location remote from a home location of the user. The subscription service comprises a plurality of selectable channels available to the user at the home location. The user is assigned... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070240193 - Programming distribution system: A method is provided for distributing programming. A first set of programs is transmitted in real time according to a schedule of programming. A second set of programs is stored on a server, with at least one of the first set of programs having a counterpart in the second set... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070234384 - Integrated command center for flat screen televisions, and internet protocol monitors: A wall mountable media control system locatable adjacent a wall mounted video screen comprising a wall mountable media control center capable of controlling a plurality of different types of information data and having at least one output connection for each of said different types of information data for connection of... Agent: Keith D. Nowak

20070234383 - Method for communicating infrared remote control data and learning infrared remote control device: In an infrared remote control device, communication between a host CPU and an infrared controller is compressed by encoding the signal into pulse data (“PD”) number or sequence data that corresponds to each pulse data type. Encoding and decoding is performed by table look ups that associate the pulse data... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070234389 - Receiving apparatus: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a broadcast program, an output unit configured to output video data of the broadcast program received by the receiving unit to a monitor apparatus, a reservation setting unit configured to set reservation of receiving a broadcast program selected from a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070234380 - Method and apparatus for controlling an apparatus having a parental control function: A method for controlling an apparatus such as a television signal receiver having a parental control function allows users to change a setting associated with the parental control function without first entering a password, while also preventing children from circumventing and defeating the parental control function. The method is also... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070234381 - Information setting system, terminal apparatus, server apparatus, electronic apparatus, information setting method, program for terminal apparatus, program for server apparatus, and program for electronic apparatus: An order number fixed at the time of purchasing a television set and supplementary information indicating a position to be set with the television set TV installed are sent to a server apparatus SV. The server apparatus SV generates regional information including channel information based on the information and send... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070234382 - System and method for inserting advertising content in broadcast programming: A system for inserting viewer-specific advertising content comprises a viewer device. The viewer device identifies viewer characteristics regarding the viewer. Upon receipt of advertising content, the viewer device identifies advertisements matching the viewer characteristics. The viewer device inserts the advertisements matching the viewer characteristics into broadcast content.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070234386 - Apparatus and method for increasing channel changing speed in dmb receiving terminal: An apparatus and method is provided for increasing a channel change speed in a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) receiving terminal. The apparatus includes a DMB buffering unit for buffering DMB data, a DMB extractor for extracting only DMB data of a currently set channel, and a controller for setting a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070234385 - Cross-layer video quality manager: An embodiment is a cross-layer video quality manager that coordinates a plurality of video processing and network processing techniques to improve the quality of experience of, for example, a streaming video.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070234387 - Apparatus for providing electronic program guide information in a digital multimedia broadcast receiving terminal and a method therefor: Disclosed is a method for providing Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information in a digital multimedia broadcast receiving terminal, which includes causing the digital multimedia broadcast receiving terminal to convert the EPG information of a broadcast channel previously stored into corresponding audio data delivered to a headset communicating with the digital... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070234388 - Generating a genre-based video mosaic in a cable services network: Methods and systems are provided for generating a genre-based video mosaic from multiple of video sources in a cable services network system. A cable services head end periodically searches a database for a genre descriptor identifying a type of programming broadcast in the cable services network, selects a group of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070234390 - Lodging entertainment system with guest-selected time shifting: A lodging entertainment system provides a variety of products and services, including free television, pay-per-view movies, video games, guest services, and guest-selected recording of television programs for time-shifted viewing. Through the use of an interactive program guide, the guest may select programs being aired during the guest's stay at the... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070234391 - Video distribution system: The disclosed subject matter 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 recording, storage and playback system. Customers may preselect from a list of available movies or other content in... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070234392 - Method and system for allowing viewers to purchase program products: To allow viewers to easily purchase products shown in entertainment programs, the viewers call an operator terminal. The operator terminal is networked to a central controller, which is also networked to remote terminals. Remote terminal operators enter data about props used in programs, copies of which are to be offered... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070234393 - Method and system for allowing viewers to purchase program products: To allow viewers to easily purchase products shown in entertainment programs, the viewers call an operator terminal. The operator terminal is networked to a central controller, which is also networked to remote terminals. Remote terminal operators enter data about props used in programs, copies of which are to be offered... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070234394 - Method and apparatus for switching between subchannels on a single radio frequency broadcast: The present invention utilizes station preset buttons on a radio frequency receiver to allow the user to browse through the various subchannels included in a single station or channel. The preset buttons still have the standard function of having a frequency and subchannel selection parameter associated with the button that... Agent: Bruce Young

20070234395 - Speeding up channel change: A method and apparatus is described to reduce delay when changing channels in a television environment. The method may comprise receiving a plurality of television channels from a remote content provider wherein each channel includes channel information used to display the channel. At least one channel of the plurality of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/open Tv

20070234396 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving electronic service guide of interaction channel in a digital video broadcasting system: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) of an interaction channel in a Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) system are provided. In order to transmit the ESG, ESG data about acquisition information is collected and it is determined whether a service associated with the ESG... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070234397 - Close-captioning universal resource locator (url) capture system and method: A method includes receiving at a set-top box a broadcast signal including closed-captioning content. The closed-captioning content includes subtitles related to the broadcast signal and uniform resource locator (URL) data. The URL data is extracted from the closed-captioning content. The URL data is stored in a memory of the set-top... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070234398 - Controlling access to digital media content: An online system implemented as an interactive method that controls the distribution Internet media by providing a process that searches to locate media files (audio, video and graphical image, or other content) cataloged in a Universal Media Code (UMC) database pursuant to context-sensitive search criteria submitted by potential customers and... Agent: Thomas Muehlbauer Umc Technologies, Inc.

20070234399 - Image forming apparatus and reprinting control method: The image forming apparatus includes: a reading device which reads in at least additional information from a print medium on which the additional information including identification information for a print content and reprinting permission condition information indicating permission conditions for reprinting of the print content has been printed along with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch