Interactive video distribution systems inventions 02/08

20080052740 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and starting method thereof: For providing a broadcast receiving apparatus and a method for staring thereof, suppressing electric power consumption therein, under waiting condition, irrespective of mounting a constituent part requiring a long time for starting up, according to the present invention, within a broadcast receiving apparatus, detection is made, always, upon an approach... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080052743 - Television device and method of identifying consecutive programmes: A television device for receiving and storing an electronic programme guide, the electronic programme guide including a plurality of programme entries for respective television programmes, each programme entry having a title field including title data for the title of the respective programme and having a timing field including timing data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080052739 - Audio and video program recording, editing and playback systems using metadata: A system for utilizing metadata created either at a central location for shared use by connected users, or at each individual user's location, to enhance user's enjoyment of available broadcast programming content. A variety of mechanisms are employed for automatically and manually identifying and designating programming segments, associating descriptive metadata... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20080052741 - Method and apparatus for alternate content scheduling on mobile devices: Alternate digital content is inserted into mobile devices with a method and apparatus that comprises an alternate content scheduler, an alternate content reporter, and a micro-splicer. The alternate content scheduler further comprises a mobile network interface for interaction with a mobile data and broadcast network, a micro-splicer interface for interfacing... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080052742 - Method and apparatus for presenting media content: A method and apparatus for presenting media content. Media content items are presented in a media ticker or a client application having a graphical user interface. Each presented item is displayed at one end of the ticker and then scrolls or moves toward the other end where it is removed.... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080052745 - Content playing method, system and receiving terminal for digital broadcast service: A content playing method, system and receiving terminal, the method including: set priorities for broadcast contents; determine the contents to be played according to priorities of broadcast contents. The invention helps to solve broadcast contents conflicts by managing broadcast contents according to priorities. In addition, if priorities are set for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080052744 - Scheduling device, instruction method for recording of scheduled content, and recording device: When a recording of a content such as a program is scheduled, recording failure are significantly reduced, and viewing of the content is guaranteed, while ensuring privacy protection for the user who has made the schedule. A scheduling device instructs recording device(s) interconnected via a network to record content(s) based... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080052746 - Interactive theater system and method: An interactive theater system and method having one or more computerized kiosks capable of running digital video clips. The kiosk allows a user to select one or more of the video clips for playing in a theater. A computer server is coupled to the kiosk and capable of communicating with... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080052747 - System and apparatus for local video distribution: A video distribution system is provided. The video distribution system includes a receiver to receive a plurality of video data streams. The video distribution system also includes a splitter to separate a first video data stream and a second video data stream from the plurality of video data streams. The... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080052748 - Channel merging method for vod system: A channel merging method for a VOD system, said method comprises the steps of: in response to requests from a plurality of clients for a video program, establishing a root channel (S1) and at least one sub-channel (S11), said root channel (S1) being established according to a request from a... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080052749 - Managing stored service information: A method for managing SI (Service Information) data stored within a receiver operable to receive digital AV (audio visual) content. The method comprises receiving (104) an SI data item; obtaining (106) the time of receipt and then storing (110) the data item and time of receipt. Concurrently, for each stored... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080052750 - Direct-point on-demand information exchanges: Methods and apparatuses for rapidly tagging and recalling (via direct pointing) metadata from moving or still images are described herein. In one embodiment, data having full descriptions and hyperlinks are tagged to specific objects in moving images and the invisible hyperlinks move dynamically to continually track the associated object. In... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080052751 - Personal monitoring and information apparatus: The present invention relates to portable video decoder devices that are used by sporting enthusiasts to monitor and access real time information concerning a sporting event. The present invention comprises a receiver which includes a touch screen display, keypad, audio and other media input and output ports which allows the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080052752 - Audio/video and data signal redistribution system: A system for redistributing a multiple input audio/video and data signals having a redistributing device equipped to receive signals in a multiple formats and redistribute a selected signal to a user's premises over conductors, preferably existing twisted-pair telephone wire. The redistributing device is in interactive communication with a communications interface... Agent: Mark B. Eisen C/o Dimock Stratton Clarizio

20080052753 - Systems and methods for managing television (tv) signals: Methods for managing digital television (TV) signals are disclosed. An embodiment of a method for managing digital TV signals, performed by an electronic device, comprises the following steps. Multiple first digital TV signals and multiple second digital TV signals are selectively received, thereby enabling a display device thereof or an... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080046909 - Broadcast content preview notification in wireless communication networks: A method in a system (100) including wireless network entity and a wireless terminal having a broadcast receiver for receiving broadcast content. The wireless network entity is, for example, a broadcast content provider and/or a wireless communication network. The process includes sending preview information to the wireless terminal, wherein the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080046910 - Method and system for affecting performances: A system (200) and method (400) for affecting a performance (210) is provided. During the performance, a plurality of audience evaluations can be received (310), the plurality of audience evaluations can be associated with the performance (320), and a sensory aspect of the performance can be adjusted (330) in accordance... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080046911 - Moveable monitoring equipment and remote monitoring and directing system: A remote monitoring and directing system including at least one video camera at the first-aid side to observe the situation of casualty and the operation on the casualty is provided. At least one microphone is disposed at the first-aid side for communicating with the first-aid personnel and directing a clinical... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080046912 - Adaptive video-server reconfiguration for self-optimizing multi-tier iptv networks: Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide apparatus, methods, and systems including an input to receive data associated with a channel viewership of a network; a distribution unit coupled to the input, the distribution unit to determine one or more relative viewership distributions based on the data; and a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080046913 - Event demand system and method: A system and method for event demand creation and event organization is provided in which an interested party can create a demand for an event at a particular location and then encourage other people to join the demand. Once the demand reaches critical mass, the event provider is notified of... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080046914 - Non-viewable service identification for an interactive program guide: The present invention is directed towards enabling systems and methods for providing an identifier that displays which channels are not viewable according to a services package authorization. More specifically, a digital host communications terminal (DHCT) receives a package authorization and stores the authorization in memory. Upon display of an interactive... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080046916 - Personalized assistance with setup of a media-playing set: A system and corresponding method for providing personalized assistance to users with setup of their respective media-playing sets provides a computing device remote from each set hosting a web page interface for prompting each user to create an individual account and to submit personal setup information for entry into this... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080046915 - System and method of providing community content: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for providing community content. The method can include making content received from a first user via a data network available to a second user via a video distribution service. The system can include a selective transmission and filtering module to... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080046917 - Associating advertisements with on-demand media content: associating advertisements with on-demand media content is described. Advertisements are associated with media content that is available on-demand based on any number and combination of data analyses. Advertisements may be matched to media assets based on, for example, media quality, duration, time sensitivity of advertisements, positive keywords associations, and/or negative... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080046918 - Method and system for calculating and reporting advertising exposures: A method of and a device for identifying an exposure to an advertisement are provided. An advertisement stream is received from a first device at a third device. A media stream is received from a second device at the third device. The received advertisement stream is presented with the received... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080046919 - Method and system for combining and synchronizing data streams: A method of presenting an advertisement includes receiving a content stream from a content provider. The received content data stream is provided to a first input of a display adaptor such that the received content data stream is presented on a display. Advertisement metadata corresponding to an advertisement is received.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080046920 - Mechanism for rendering advertising objects into featured content: Advertisements may be inserted into a streaming video at an intermediary system by receiving a data stream including a video content selection having scenes configured to accommodate insertion of advertising objects, identifying an advertising descriptor based on characteristics of a scene within the data stream, selecting an advertising object based... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080046922 - Method and apparatus for distributing geographically restricted video data in an internet protocol television (iptv) system: A method for distributing geographical restriction data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is disclosed. The method includes accepting at an IPTV server, a request from an IPTV client for the geographical restriction data related to geographically restricted video data, determining at the server, a plurality of geographic restriction... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080046923 - System for automatic advertisement targeting by means of traffic analysis: The invention-consists of a system that examines consumer data in the form of subscriber traffic, populates databases, and targets advertising to consumers based on those databases. For example, an Internet service provider, cable television provider, wireless service provider, or other party who has access to consumers' Internet data traffic, voice... Agent: Thomas Jeffrey Enderwick

20080046924 - System and methods for competitive dynamic selection of digital advertising assets in a video distribution system: Systems and methods for an advertising auctioning capability are disclosed in conjunction with viewing of a movie or other type of program asset in a video distribution system. At certain points of the movie, called avails, advertisements are presented to the viewer. Each advertisement is selected from a plurality of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080046925 - Temporal and spatial in-video marking, indexing, and searching: Synchronized marking of videos with objects is provided. Users may select frames within a video and place text and non-text objects at desired spatial locations within each of the frames. Information associated with the objects, including information specifying the temporal and spatial placements of the objects within the video is... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080046926 - System and method for optimizing transmission of esg data in dvb-h system: Disclosed is a system and a method for efficiently dividing a session into several sessions to forward the classified sessions during the transmission of ESG data in a DVB-H broadcasting service. For this, when there is a large amount of the ESG data, sessions during which an actual ESG data... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080046927 - Information displaying apparatus, information displaying method, and recording medium where information displaying program is recorded: Receivable channels in a program guide G used for selecting a program are arranged using the longitudinal axis of the program guide G itself as a time base and using the horizontal axis as a channel axis. A channel being currently viewed is disposed at the left end. From the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080046928 - Graphical tile-based expansion cell guide: A discovery interface facilitates the selection of available media content. Content-relevant graphical tiles are displayed in strips within the discovery interface. In this manner, a user can survey graphics associated with available content. When the discovery interface section (e.g., a row) is in focus, the graphical tiles are expanded as... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080046930 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products for audience-adaptive control of content presentation: Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatus, methods and/or computer program products for controlling presentation of content. In some method embodiments, a profile is stored for each of a plurality of potential audience members. Presence of a group of audience members of the plurality of potential audience members is detected.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080046929 - Media content catalog service: Aggregating media content catalog data from a plurality of content providers. The catalog data is merged according to rules and provided to a user on a scheduled basis or on demand. In an embodiment, the merged catalog data represents an incremental update to previously deliverred catalog data.... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20080046931 - Apparatus, system and method for secondary navigation options: An apparatus, system and method that allows for secondary navigation options via a user interface. The method includes displaying a user interface on a display device, where the user interface includes a menu having one or more menu selections. Then, activating one of the one or more menu selections by... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080046932 - Program guide graphical user interface systems and methods: In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a media content processing subsystem configured to display a scrollable program guide graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is configured to show a multiplicity of blocks of information corresponding to a multiplicity of content carriers. The processing subsystem is further... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080046933 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method for executing an external application: An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives an image signal, an image processor which processes the image signal, a storage unit which stores setting information related to processing of the image signal, a controller which controls the image processor to process the image signal with reference to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080046934 - Apparatus for providing over-the-air (ota) information using text message and method thereof: An apparatus for providing information about over-the-air (OTA) transmission is provided, which includes a communication interface connected with an external device for communication via an external communication network; and a controlling part which controls the communication interface such that the information about OTA transmission is transmitted to the external device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080046935 - System and method for displaying program guide information: A system and method for displaying program guide information from multiple sources, including second level information, in response to a first request for program guide information.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080046937 - Playing content on multiple channels of a media device: In a method for playing content on a multi-channel media device, the device receives content, which comprises one of cached and streamed content, and plays the content on a first channel of the multi-channel media device. The multi-channel media device detects a first user-interaction and plays content on a second... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080046939 - Bitstream switching in multiple bit-rate video streaming environments: Bitstream switching for multiple bit rate video streaming uses a first algorithm to generate multiple encoded bitstreams of a piece of video at different bit rates. A different algorithm is used to generate multiple side bitstreams of the video. Each side stream is generated at respective ones of the different... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080046921 - Mechanism for rendering advertising objects into featured content: A novel advertisement delivery technique is provided. An advertisement delivery system includes an advertisement providing server, a user terminal, and a sponsor terminal. The sponsor terminal sends an advertisement thereof to the advertisement providing server and asks to deliver the advertisement. The advertisement providing server provides an opportunity in which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080046936 - Arrangement for presentation of audio-visual content: A metadata coding arrangement and a media presentation device responsive to the metadata coding arrangement provides a way for independent presentation control of a video part and an audio part of an audiovisual programme content wherein at least one of the audio part or the video part being an independently... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080046938 - Video pedestal network: An architecture for distributing digital information to subscriber units wherein selection from among multiple digital services is accomplished by transmitting a tuning command from a subscriber unit to an intermediate interface. The intermediate interface selects the desired service from a broadband network and transmits it to the subscriber unit over... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080046940 - Image displaying method with fluctuation correction and remote control system for moving unit using the method: An operation machine displays a received image on a monitor to enable an operator to remotely control a moving unit such as a model car and robotic arms through the image provided through a network by a camera on the unit and displayed on the monitor. Plotting of the received... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080046941 - System and method for efficiently providing esg data in dvb-h system: Disclosed is a system and method for efficiently providing Electric Service Guide (ESG) data in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) system. There is presented a method for dividing ESG data into basic data and additional data and for separately providing the data, wherein the basic data is necessary to provide... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080046943 - Internet adapter system and method for television: A TV communicates with an Internet video system providing video content to the TV for display of the content on the TV. The Internet video system also provides information to the TV for rendering into a user interface (UI) screen on the TV and presenting icons representing respective Internet video... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080046944 - Ubiquitous home media service apparatus and method based on smmd, and home media service system and method using the same: Provided is a ubiquitous home media service apparatus and method based on single media multi devices (SMMD). The apparatus includes: a database for storing sensor information, a device profile, a user profile, and ne-media; a user interface for requesting the ne-media to an external ne-media providing server and receiving the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080046942 - Method and apparatus for facilitating toggling between internet and tv broadcasts: A TV-Internet Integration Box allows display of first data broadcast over a TV subscriber channel simultaneously together with second data broadcast over a digital data communications network has respective first and second inputs for receiving at a user premises the first data and the second data according to a user-profile... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080046946 - Locally originated iptv programming: In an embodiment, a third party video content database is coupled to an IPTV network. The IPTV network includes a plurality of set top boxes (STBs). The third party video content database is mapped to the IPTV network via an IP address of the third party content database, and it... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080046945 - Television system having internet web browsing capability: A television system for providing standard television programming and Internet browsing includes a television set for viewing digital and/or analog programming and includes a memory storage device and an integral embedded web browser for displaying data received from an Internet portal. The data is in the form of URLs and... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080046947 - Digital media server for multiple digital tv appliances utilizing native signals carried on coaxial home wiring networks: A method for providing television services from a head-end to subscriber premises and includes receiving by a first subscriber terminal via a first transmission link coupled to the first subscriber terminal, a first television service transmitted from the head-end. System information data specifying attributes of at least one local television... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080046948 - Creation, management and delivery of personalized media items: Improved techniques to facilitate generation, management and delivery of personalized media items for users are disclosed. Users are able to influence or control content within a media item being personalized. In one embodiment, personalized media items are podcasts. Users are able to influence or control the content in or with... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080046950 - Communication system and transmitting-receiving device: Disclosed is a communication system that includes a source device outputting video contents, a sink device inputting the video contents, and a control transmission line and a video transmission line both connecting with the source device and the sink device to transmit data therebetween via the control transmission line and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046949 - Spectrum sharing between broadcasting and multiple-access networks: Advantage is taken of the fact that broadcast coverage is unevenly distributed across a geographical region and multiple-access transmissions can be interposed in regions where interference is minimum. In one embodiment, advantage is taken of the known broadcasting signal and techniques, such as, for example, dirty paper coding techniques, can... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080046951 - Modem apparatus for a cable data delivery system: A modem apparatus including means for communicating authentication information of a host along a first path to prompt a first validation for receiving data over the first path, and means for communicating identifying information of the modem apparatus and a request for network resource allocation over the first path to... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080046952 - Highly integrated media access control: A supervisory communications device, such as a headend device within a communications network, monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote communications devices throughout a widely distributed network. The supervisory device allocates bandwidth on the upstream channels by sending MAP messages over its downstream channel. A highly integrated media... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080046953 - Iwitty tv concept, tv-program- and radio-tv program production method / system: Following chart should be read from bottom to top. Bottom boxes describe how iWiTTY Concept is born; format footages are gathered, “packaged”, licensed, sold and then edited by the consumers before entering the market. With software infrastructure in place people can enter TV formats, play online games that might lead... Agent: Pekka J. Kossila

20080046954 - Coordinated recording system: A method and system are provided in which one DVR device is able to coordinate scheduling of selected TV shows with other DVRs in an interconnected or network environment which includes additional remote recording resources. If one DVR is unable to perform the recording of a selected TV show, other... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080046955 - Digital broadcast receiver and data broadcast content processing method: A digital broadcast receiver and data broadcast content processing method for the same are disclosed. The method includes receiving and displaying contents of a broadcast web site (BWS); selecting a displayed content for storage; storing the content selected for storage in a state existing at the time of selection; selecting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080046956 - User control for displaying tags associated with items in a video playback: A user control, such as a television remote control device, allows a user to selectively display tags during a video program. The tags provide information about items that are visible in scenes in the video. The tags can identify the brand name, item name, location where the item can be... Agent: Charles J. Kulas

20080046957 - Unique production forum: A method of producing an audio/video format recording in a venue includes correlating multiple unique viewing position in the venue to viewers. An event is then recorded the venue that viewers are attending. Multiple custom versions of recordings or productions are created corresponding to the viewers. Such custom versions are... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080046958 - System and method for providing an interactive, visual complement to an audio program: A system and method for providing an interactive, visual complement to one or more audio programs. In one aspect, the system comprises an audio subsystem for generating an audio signal corresponding to a sound recording. The system also comprises a video subsystem for generating a video image specification based, at... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080046959 - Channel changing method and image display apparatus using the same: A channel changing method and an image display apparatus using the same. The channel changing method is used in an image display apparatus for displaying an image included in a received transport stream, and includes blocking the received transport stream when a channel changing command is inputted, and removing the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080040741 - Content delivery system: The present invention provides a content delivery system, a delivery control method, a delivery program, and a recording medium with which a user can view a video advertisement in arbitrary timing during a delivery of content. When content is replayed in a user terminal, the information as to deliverable video... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080040742 - Method and system for inserting advertisement data into an internet protocol television network: A system and method are disclosed for distributing advertisement in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system. The method includes accepting at an IPTV server, targeted advertisement data from an advertisement client targeting a segment selected from an IPTV subscriber population based on IPTV subscriber profile data; inserting the targeted advertisement... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080040748 - Dynamic rating of content: A dynamic rating for content, such as video games, movies and music, is determined in accordance with profiles of users that access the content and provide evaluations of the content. The user's profile information and their evaluations are aggregated to determine a community based rating for the content. The rating... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080040751 - Apparatus for processing data of program: Most recorded data are necessary program data in the prior art. As the recording area of a recording medium such as a hard disk or an optical medium is increased, however, most recorded data become unnecessary data. Therefore, a demand of easily deleting such unnecessary data becomes stronger. To this... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080040752 - Content reception apparatus and method, program, and storage medium: Disclosed herein is a content reception apparatus for receiving content broadcast on a given channel in a given time period, the apparatus including: a display control section configured to control display of a screen for accepting scheduling of content to be received based on a program guide; and a storage... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080040753 - Video display device and method for video display from multiple angles each relevant to the real time position of a user: A portable video display for use at venues such as sports stadiums having a spectator seating surrounding a field of play. Using video feeds from a plurality of cameras surrounding the field of play at a plurality of different viewing angles the device will ascertain the user's relative position to... Agent: Donn K. Harms Patent & Trademark Law Center

20080040754 - Pseudo-rich hybrid phone/browser: A markup language specification is set forth for providing pseudo-rich media during phone calls, and to implement two endpoints that support this specification. Each implemented endpoint functions as a half-phone and half-browser, where the phone call consists partly of the traditional full-duplex audio stream between callers, supplemented by pseudo-rich media... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20080040755 - Method and system for providing a regional channel in a digital broadcast environment: A method of delivering a regional television channel to a user over an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service comprising the steps of forming a multicast of channels intended for delivery to a user each channel having a specific channel slot, the multicast of channels including one or more regional channels... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080040756 - User interface device and method for presenting viewing content: A user interface device for presenting selected viewing content and methods for manufacturing and using same. The user interface device is adapted for installation at a suitable location via any of a wide variety of conventional mounting systems. The user interface device thereby can select and present viewing content and,... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080040758 - Media system and method for purchasing, downloading and playing media content: Exemplary embodiments providing one or more improvements include a media system which connects to multiple media demodulation devices through a cable infrastructure and to a digital media content provider to allow a user to purchase, download and play media content by interacting with a remote control located at any given... Agent: Pritzkau Patent Group, LLC

20080040759 - System and method for establishing and maintaining synchronization of isochronous audio and video information streams in wireless multimedia applications: A system and method for establishing and maintaining synchronization of isochronous audio and video information streams in wireless multimedia applications. The system includes a media source device capable of sending multimedia content a media consumer device capable of receiving said multimedia content, control signals that are exchanged between said media... Agent: Robert D. Gunderman, Jr. Patent Technologies, LLC

20080040757 - Video content streaming through a wireless access point: A method that includes streaming video content at a given bit-rate from a computing platform through a wireless access point and to a digital media adaptor that decodes the video content for display. A communication channel used to stream the video content to the digital media adaptor is monitored and... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080040738 - Content reproduction terminal: A content reproduction terminal 30a is composed of: an IC card slot into which a card 20a distributed to a membership user is to be inserted; an application/display-data acquisition unit 304a which sets the operation mode on the basis of a membership certificate 2020 showing a group, to which the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080040740 - Alternative advertising in prerecorded media: Presenting viewers with an alternative brief version of a recorded advertisement when they choose to fast-forward through or skip (or any other trick play event) the recorded advertisement. The alternative advertisement may be displayed instead of or in conjunction with the recorded advertisement (i.e., fast-forwarding advertisement is displayed in one... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc./prime

20080040739 - Preemptible station inventory: Methods, apparatus, systems, processes, engines and computer program products are provided for preempting advertisements in a broadcast. In one exemplary system, a method is provided that includes determining one or more advertisements in a schedule that are available for preemption, identifying rules for preempting advertisements and automatically preempting the one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080040743 - Micro-splicer for inserting alternate content to a content stream on a handheld device: In a targeted advertising system focused advertisements or alternate content is pre-stored on a handheld device, inserted into a multimedia stream at predefined times and points in the content stream for a predefined interval, otherwise referred to as a spot. A micro-splicer, instantiated on a handheld device, enables alternate content... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080040744 - Broadcast processing system: Among a plurality of broadcast processing devices, a tuner of a first broadcast processing device receives, EPG (Electric Program Guide) data transmitted from a server via an antenna while a tuner of a second broadcast processing device as a device other than the first broadcast processing device among the plurality... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080040745 - Context sensitive television menu: A television menu system generates a television menu that is context sensitive based upon a service currently being provided to a user. In one implementation, a type of television service currently being viewed by a user determines whether particular menu items are presented to the user. In another implementations, determining... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080040746 - Periodic broadcast and location of evolving media content with application to seminar and stroke media: Techniques are provided for broadcasting history or coarse representations or both of stroke media and other media. Levels are created for media, and the levels are periodically broadcast. The levels segment the media and allow the media to be examined with details that range from coarse to fine or examined... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080040747 - Periodic broadcast and location of evolving media content with application to seminar and stroke media: Techniques are provided for broadcasting history or coarse representations or both of stroke media and other media. Levels are created for media, and the levels are periodically broadcast. The levels segment the media and allow the media to be examined with details that range from coarse to fine or examined... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080040749 - Adaptive pattern recognition based controller apparatus and method and human-factored interface therefore: The need for a more readily usable interface for programmable devices is widely recognized. The present invention relates to programmable sequencing devices, or, more particularly, the remote controls for consumer electronic devices. The present invention provides an enhanced interface for facilitating human input of a desired control sequence in a... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20080040750 - Playback diagnostics: A request is received to create a program event to record a program from a broadcast start time through a broadcast end time on a broadcast channel. The program event is created to record the program in a recording for a playback of the program from the recording. Upon an... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080040760 - Apparatus and method for displaying file download information in digital video broadcasting terminal: Provided are an apparatus and a method for displaying file download information in a Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) terminal. The method includes receiving an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) data stream containing information regarding downloadable files, analyzing the downloadable file information in the ESG data stream, storing the downloadable file information... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080040761 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving broadcast service in a dvb-h cbms system: A method for providing a broadcast service to a terminal by a network in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) Convergence of Broadcasting and Mobile Service (CBMS) system. The method includes generating Program Specific Information/Service Information (PSI/SI) indicative of information related to a broadcast service requested by the terminal; generating mapping... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080040762 - System and method for transmitting/receiving esg data update information in dvb-h system: Disclosed is a system and a method for transmitting/receiving update information of Electronic Service Guide (ESG) data in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) system. For this, the system for transmitting/receiving the update information includes a DVB-H system for detecting the version of the ESG data which is to be transmitted,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080040763 - System and method for contention based tones in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Systems and methods for round-trip-delay adjustment in a multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for a remote unit to request bandwidth in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) multi-point to point system comprises: transmitting a signal from a remote unit having a... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080040764 - System, apparatus and method for expanding the operational bandwidth of a communication system: A transmission network system includes a head end for generating a downstream signal having a substantially expanded range of frequencies, a communication medium, such as a fiber optic cable and coaxial cable coupled to the head end section for routing the signal through the transmission network to a plurality of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080040765 - Bidirectional communication protocol between a serializer and a deserializer: A method provides a bidirectional communication protocol for data communication between a first device and a second device. The method includes: during a first time interval, transmitting data from the first device to the second device; and during a second time interval, (a) after the occurrence of a first event,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080040766 - Video display device and method for limited employment to subscribers proximate only to authorized venues: A method of providing video portable video display device having a video screen for viewing of video streams broadcast at various venues such as sports events. Users are informed of upcoming events and venues and may buy a subscription to operate the video display at each event. For each event... Agent: Donn K. Harms Patent & Trademark Law Center

20080040768 - Approach for associating advertising supplemental information with video programming: Viewers of video programming are provided with a low effort mechanism to access product or service information related to a program being viewed. This benefits the viewers by providing them with only desired information, and advertisers of the products and services, by focusing their messages on their target market. The... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080040767 - System and method of providing a set-top box application: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of providing a set-top box application. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a request from a set-top box device to launch a set-top box application. The method also includes determining whether a processing system of the set-top box... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080040769 - Broadcast receiving apparatus, application transmitting/receiving method and reception status information transmitting method: A broadcast receiving apparatus, application transmitting/receiving method and reception status information transmitting method are disclosed, by which information associated with a broadcast reception status can be transmitted to a broadcast transmitting terminal and by which a problem of a storage device can be transmitted to a broadcast transmitting terminal in... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080040770 - Media map for capture of content from random access devices: A method and apparatus for storing and displaying information about the capture and/or transfer of digital media is provided, wherein data is stored such that a visual representation indicating characteristics of video data, such as whether portions of the video data have been transferred to another device or captured to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20080040771 - Device, system and method for the presentation of a signal having an audio-visual content: A device for presentation of a signal having an audio-visual content, comprising means for presenting said content, means for connecting to a transmission channel which is external with respect to said device for receiving a signal, and a module for transmission of a signal which is disposed in the same... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080040772 - Removable apparatus with a plug-and-show function: A removable apparatus with a plug-and-show function is applied to a wireless presentation system. The wireless presentation system includes a computer and a wireless gateway. The computer is capable of displaying plural presentation frames. The wireless gateway provides ability in wireless network connection. When the removable apparatus connects with the... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080034389 - Video processing apparatus and information display method thereof: A video processing apparatus includes a display part, a UI generating part that generates UI images corresponding to a plurality of pieces of auxiliary information including category information, a video processing part that processes a video signal and displays a video on the display part, and a controller that extracts... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080034390 - Method for notifying esg update in digital broadcasting reception terminal: Disclosed is a method and apparatus notifying of the reception of an ESG in digital broadcasting based on a DVB-H scheme. If an ESG corresponding to a category of a digital broadcasting service selected by a user is updated, the terminal provides a function of notifying a user of the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080034392 - Interactive content system and method: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of providing interactive content. The method can include receiving a video signal from a first source of a television system, where the video signal includes video content but does not include data relating to an interactive application. The method can... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080034393 - Distribution of content and advertisement: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method for improved distribution of content on a communication network. The system and method are adapted to receive a video request message from a client, identify a location of the client, identify a location of one or more overlay nodes nearest... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080034385 - Fraud detection in a cable television: One or more of a topology location test and a distance test are applied to determine if a CPE device has moved in a cable plant. An indication of service fraud is provided if the CPE topology location or distance test indicate an unauthorized CPE device move.... Agent: Fsp LLC

20080034386 - Dynamic zoning for targeted ad insertion: A custom ad selection and delivery system may include an ad selector to select candidate ads for one or more ad avail opportunities, a bandwidth resource manager to provide information about available bandwidth in a content delivery system, and a policy manager to weight ad avail opportunity versus bandwidth costs... Agent: Fsp LLC

20080034387 - Interactive optical cards and other hand-held devices with increased connectivity: A system for deriving benefits from the reception and processing of composite video signals by a hand-held device, such as a smart card. Video signals are modulated with auxiliary data creating composite video signals. The composite video signals are then transmitted to and received by a hand-held device. The auxiliary... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080034388 - System of mobile and stationary digital units using a logical network architecture involving groups and hierarchies: This invention relates to a system consisting of a logical network of units capable of digital communication managed by servers and databases. Such units include LCDs, LEDs, digital billboard, and digital cameras, as well as the technology infrastructure of business entities. The system utilizes user requirements, system configurations, and real-time... Agent: Sina Majidi

20080034391 - Resource conflict resolution for multiple television: A system for managing resource-usage conflict among a plurality of viewers associated with a plurality of TVs, including a plurality of resources for shared usage among the viewers, the resources including at least one input device adapted to receive a program broadcast and to transmit the program broadcast onward for... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080034394 - System and method for content distribution: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for distributing data includes transmitting a request for a data file from a first client electronic device. At least a first portion of the data file is transmitted from a second client electronic device to the first client electronic device. At least a... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080034395 - Method for suppression index reuse and packet classification for payload header suppression within a wireless network: A method is provided for payload header suppression within a wireless network in which a limited number of suppression indices are used to map suppression rules to data streams. Network resources are conserved by implementing precise classification algorithms to correctly identify incoming packets at the wireless device as belonging to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080034396 - System and method for video distribution and billing: A system for distribution of video and audio data, the system including a wireless device operating in a wireless network, a protocol stack, a dispatcher of video and audio data, a storage server, and a video encoder. Multiple methods for using video and audio data, including, among others, methods for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080034398 - Broadcast receiving apparatus: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes a tuner unit, a display unit on which a program picture is displayed, an input unit including multiple channel operational buttons, and a control unit that controls these units in a centralized manner. When any of the channel operational buttons is touched, the input unit... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080034397 - Automatic channel search system and method: A television system (10) and method for channel searching are provided. A television (10) includes an off mode and a normal viewing mode. The television has a setup module (24) responsive to a trigger event. The setup module (24) automatically searches a channel listing from an input signal to provide... Agent: Joseph J Laks Thomson Licensing Inc

20080034399 - Method and apparatus for storing and reproducing interactive service of digital broadcast: A method, an apparatus, and an information recording medium for storing and reproducing an interactive service capable of efficiently storing and processing interactive signaling information are provided. The information recording medium has recorded thereon interactive signaling information of a digital broadcast and includes a first region storing information on a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080034400 - Embedded appliance for multimedia capture: A multimedia device includes input ports dedicated to receiving a real-time media signal and a processor system dedicated to capturing the real-time media signal. The processor system defines an embedded environment. The input ports and the processor system are integrated into the multimedia capture device. The input ports include an... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group