Interactive video distribution systems inventions 03/08

20080077950 - System and method for billing for video content: Methods and systems of billing for video content are disclosed. The methods include determining a viewing duration. The viewing duration includes an amount of time that a device displays or has access to display video content. The method also includes determining a billing rate for the viewing duration. The billing... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080077953 - Video background replacement system: A video is obtained. The obtained video is transmitted. An advertising content is provided. The transmitted video is received. A background from the video is segmented. The segmented background is replaced with the advertising content. The video with the replaced background is rendered on a monitor.... Agent: Venable LLP

20080077956 - Interactive digital media services: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer software, for interactive digital media service is presented. A content provider streams secondary content, such as images, chatroom discussions, offers for sale, promotions, advertisements, contests, or surveys, along with primary media content, such as radio or television programs, to multiple consumer devices. The consumer... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080077961 - Electronic program display apparatus: An electronic program display apparatus includes a tuner to demodulate a television broadcast, an EPG acquisition unit to obtain data of an electronic program list, a display to display image signals on a screen, a CPU which has a program reservation means to register a program reserved for recording and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080077963 - Method for distributing video clips produced using chroma key processing: A method for distributing a pre-edited, keyed video clip and matte produced using chroma key processing, the method comprising the steps of storing the keyed video clip and matte in an electronic repository and distributing the raw clip, keyed video clip, and matte in a lossless image compression format over... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy LLP

20080077951 - Television ratings based on consumer-owned data: Systems and methods for providing television ratings based upon data from consumer-owned set-top boxes. Consumers can decide to share television viewing data with a ratings provider. Consumers also can decide to share viewing data periodically or continuously, and whether they will share their demographic data with the ratings provider. The... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080077952 - Dynamic association of advertisements and digital video content, and overlay of advertisements on content: In response to a user selection of a media item, such as a video clip, from a website for online sharing of media, the website selects an advertisement to pair with the requested media item. The selection of the advertisement may be based on information known about the requested media... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080077954 - Promotional placement in media works: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080077955 - Systems and methods for generating media content using microtrends: In accordance with the present invention, a media generation application that allows a user to create and customize a commercial based on microtrend information and/or feedback information is provided.... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080077957 - Television schedule system and method of operation for multiple program occurrences: An improved television guide system. According to one embodiment of the invention, television guide information is provided that includes multiple occurrences of a single show. The guide system of the present invention allows the user to identify a show and, thereafter, identify when the identified show will be played again.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080077958 - System and method for utilizing epg database for modifying advertisements: A system and method for utilizing data stored in an EPG database for modifying advertisement information. In this way, a service provider and/or an advertiser can transmit a single advertisement to all the television stations regardless of their geographic location and other user specific information, and need not re-transmit the... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080077960 - Adaptable programming guide for networked devices: A system and method for scheduling and distributing program is disclosed. The schedule utilized in the system and method preferably comprises a source field and one or more corresponding content data fields. The source field lists program providers and the content fields lists programs that are available from the program... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080077959 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and broadcast receiving method: A broadcast receiving apparatus A0 selects a scene which a user prefers from a plurality of broadcast programs being broadcasted. A broadcast data acquiring part A2 acquires broadcast data of each broadcast program in the same time period, based on a schedule stored in a monitoring schedule storing part A4.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080077962 - Remote control unit for intelligent digital audiovisual reproduction systems: The invention relates to a remote control unit for intelligent digital audiovisual reproduction systems, comprising storage means, payment means, a sound control circuit, display means and a metal chassis wherein said remote control unit comprises a distant radio frequency transmitter that is associated with a radio frequency receiver connected to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080077964 - Method and system for providing and controlling delivery of content on-demand over a cable television network and a data network: A system and method for delivering content on-demand by way of a cable network are disclosed. Provision of such content is controlled over a data network. Advantageously, a user interface at a conventional computing device may be used to order content and to control its delivery and playing. Commands from... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20080077965 - Contents receiving system and client: A contents receiving system uses a digital broadcast wave or a broadband network to enable a user to suitably view main content, and provide a user with subsidiary content information desired by the user. Each of subsidiary content control receivers A (101), B (102) transmits ID information specific to each... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080077966 - Method and device for recovering information in interactive digital tv systems: The method according to the invention is mainly implemented in terminal devices of an interactive digital TV system. The method comprises a step for storing in a cache memory of the terminal device information transported in a data stream of the system. The method also comprises a step consisting in... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080077968 - Receiver and multiple receiver apparatus: A receiver includes a tuner chassis and a substrate provided inside the tuner chassis so as to allow a high frequency signal to flow therein, wherein an input cable whose frame connection section is provided around a signal line. A connector for allowing connection with the input cable is provided... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080077967 - Video receiving device, video data receiving system and authentication control method thereof: when the power of the video receiving device having the authentication privilege is turned off, the power of the video receiving device is turned off after the authentication privilege management unit of the video receiving device has delegated the authentication privilege to other video receiving devices which have been connected... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080077969 - Receiver and decoding method of broadcast receiver: According to one embodiment, a broadcast receiver includes an operating section which outputs an operation signal of a channel, a tuner section which receives a digital broadcast signal of a specified channel and outputs a video/audio signal, a switch which receives the video/audio signal from the tuner section and outputs... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080072247 - Method and system of online broadcasting: Method and system of online broadcasting. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising enabling a plurality of people from disparate physical locations to interact with each other via an Internet-based community, broadcasting a live stream of video through the Internet-based community to those of the plurality of... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080072248 - Method of marketing diposable consumer products in conjunction with a motion picture: A method of marketing a motion picture in conjunction with a disposable consumer product. A marketing vehicle is created by directly associated a motion picture identifier with an item to create a primary, secondary, or tertiary marketing vehicle. Any combination of primary, secondary, or tertiary marketing vehicles are sold to... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc. Catherine E. Wolf

20080072249 - User designated advertising server: A system and method for allowing a user to designate the types of advertising to which they may be exposed based on preferences that may include their choice of faith, lifestyle, location, technology or cause. A user designated application acts as a reverse proxy and filters incoming HTML pages, replacing... Agent: Mrm, LLC

20080072251 - Signal transmission management system: The present invention relates to transmission of signals to a plurality of subscriber receivers, where each signal represents a type of information which belongs to a particular contents category. A central management server receives administrative instructions pertaining to the transmission of the signals. In response to the administrative instructions, the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080072252 - Modular grid display: Modular grid display is described. In an embodiment, a modular grid includes grid elements that each have a display ratio which is adaptable to correspond to different aspect ratios of respective display devices via which media content can be displayed. One or more of the grid elements can be selected... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080072254 - Digital video broadcasting system, digital video broadcasting terminal, and method for providing file information in file download service: A digital video broadcasting system, digital video broadcasting terminal, and method for providing file information in a file download service are provided. To this end, the digital broadcasting system includes a broadcasting server for transmitting an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) comprising a schedule event fragment wherein, if files that provide... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080072255 - Method and apparatus for selecting favorite broadcast program in digital broadcast receiver: A method and apparatus for selecting a favorite broadcast program in a digital broadcast receiver are disclosed. A favorite broadcasting time and a favorite broadcast program are stored in a database, based on a usage record of the digital broadcast receiver. The method includes receiving an electronic program guide in... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080072258 - Method and system for transmitting notification data in a dvb-h system: A method and system can transmit notification data regarding service/system change occurrence or urgent notification to a terminal for receiving a broadcast service in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) broadcast service. The notification data can be transmitted to the terminal through Electronic Service Guide (ESG) data.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080072259 - Fast channel switching method and apparatus for digital broadcast receiver: A fast channel switching method and apparatus for a digital broadcast receiver that can reduce a channel switching delay caused by limitations in real time broadcasting systems is provided. A fast channel switching method of the present invention includes simultaneously receiving broadcast signals of a first service channel and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080072262 - Apparatus for providing digital data: An apparatus for providing digital data to a data destination, the apparatus comprising a receiver for receiving digital data and a detector for detecting an interruption event or a provision event. The apparatus further comprising a buffer for buffering digital data and a controller for directing the digital data to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080072263 - Method and apparatus for transmitting digital broadcasting in mobile communication terminal: A method for transmitting digital broadcasting in a mobile communication terminal having a digital broadcasting receiver includes: performing a video call by converting an image signal output from a camera module into image data for transmission and transmitting the image data for transmission; and replacing, upon receipt of a request... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080072246 - Method and access device for generating ip broadband video service bill: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an access device for generating an Internet Protocol (IP) broadband video service bill, the method includes: returning, by an access device, authorization information indicating whether the user is allowed to watch or preview based on watching or previewing right of the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080072250 - Apparatus, system, and method for distributing digital media information: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed to distribute digital media information to an end user through individual modules. The invention includes a central networked data point controlling access to and manipulation of the digital media information for display at an end user display and one or more content modules,... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080072253 - Device and method for detecting mime type in digital video broadcasting terminal: Disclosed are a device and method for detecting a Multimedia Internet Message Extension (MIME) type in a digital video broadcasting terminal, which can detect the MIME type of at least one file from Electronic Service Guide (ESG) data in order to provide a file download service. The device includes a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080072256 - System and method for real-time media searching and alerting: A method and system for continually storing and cataloguing streams of broadcast content, allowing real-time searching and real-time results display of all catalogued video. A bank of video recording devices store and index all video content on any number of broadcast sources. This video is stored along with the associated... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080072257 - Method and apparatus for generating plurality of applications, and method and apparatus for processing application suitable for broadcasting receiving apparatus: A method and apparatus for processing and selecting an application easily processed by a broadcasting receiving apparatus among the plurality of applications and executing the selected application are provided. The application processing method includes: analyzing information on each of a plurality of applications providing a common broadcasting service; selecting an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080072260 - Content navigator graphical user interface system and method: In a system and method for enabling a user to simultaneously display a set of selectable categories, a set of channels related to a selected category, and individual content associated with a selected channel, of potential interest to the user. The system includes a graphical user interface which includes a... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP Attn: Jonathan O. Owens

20080072261 - System, method and apparatus of video processing and applications: Systems, methods, and apparatuses of providing and processing video data for delivery to mobile devices.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080072264 - Distribution of content on a network: 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

20080072268 - Digital broadcasting system, and broadcasting transmitter and monitoring device for use in the system: Plurality of broadcasting transmitters each receives distribution of digital broadcast signals via a network (NET) to transmit them toward an area under control by using wireless waves of which the frequencies are the same. Here, when signals transmitted from the plurality of broadcasting transmitters into the area, an occurrence of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080072267 - Method and apparatus for modifying a data rate of a video signal: Methods, apparatus, and systems for modifying the data rate of a video signal are provided. A compressed video signal is received. A closed-loop transrating path for modifying a data rate of the video signal and an open-loop transrating path for modifying the data rate of the video signal are provided.... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080072266 - Method and apparatus for generating plurality of applications, and method and apparatus for processing application suitable for broadcasting receiving apparatus: A method and apparatus for processing and selecting an application easily processed by a broadcasting receiving apparatus among the plurality of applications and executing the selected application are provided. The application processing method includes: analyzing information on each of a plurality of applications providing a common broadcasting service; selecting an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080072265 - Method and apparatus for processing plurality of applications for broadcasting service and information storage medium storing the method: A method and apparatus for generating a plurality of application included in a broadcasting service and a method and apparatus for selecting an application easily processed by a broadcasting receiving apparatus among the plurality of applications and executing or storing the selected application are provided. The application generating and signaling... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080072270 - System and method for transmitting interactive services associated with broadcast contents, in real time or off line: A system is dedicated to the transmission of additional contents (CA) accessible in interactive mode and associated with contents (CP) broadcast to primary communication terminals (TP1, TP2), connected to a broadcasting network (R1) and associated with programming information (PI). This system comprises i) an equipment (ST) required to associate a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080072269 - Broadcast channel for e-utra: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate optimal transmission of system parameter data in a wireless communication system. According to various aspects, a broadcast channel is split into at least two portions, wherein one portion allows for transmission of static system parameter data at a first data rate, and a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080072271 - Broadcast pause and resume for enhanced television: Embodiments of the present invention provide for broadcast pause and resume for enhanced television. In some embodiments, software key frames identifying a state of a browser at a plurality of points in time may be used for synchronizing a series of graphics to a video stream. Other embodiments may be... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080072272 - Video transmission systems and methods for a home network: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing television services and/or presentations to a plurality of televisions located at a customer premises. One such method, among others, includes: receiving by a set-top terminal (STT) located at a customer premises, via a transmission link that is coupled to the STT, a television... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20080072273 - Method and apparatus for generating plurality of applications, and method and apparatus for processing application suitable for broadcasting receiving apparatus: A method and apparatus for processing and selecting an application easily processed by a broadcasting receiving apparatus among the plurality of applications and executing the selected application are provided. The application processing method includes: analyzing information on each of a plurality of applications providing a common broadcasting service; selecting an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080072274 - Method and apparatus for generating plurality of applications, and method and apparatus for processing application suitable for broadcasting receiving apparatus: A method and apparatus for processing and selecting an application easily processed by a broadcasting receiving apparatus among the plurality of applications and executing the selected application are provided. The application processing method includes: analyzing information on each of a plurality of applications providing a common broadcasting service; selecting an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080072275 - Video apparatus having exterior recording function and interior time shift function and broadcast processing method thereof: A video apparatus having an exterior recording function and an interior time shift function and a broadcast processing method thereof The video apparatus includes a memory which temporarily stores a broadcast of a certain time duration; an interface which is connected to enable communication with a first external device; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080066091 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing content preview services: A method, system, and computer program product for providing content previewing services is provided. The method includes associating a content preview with a program descriptor that identifies a program in an onscreen programming guide database of programming content listings. The method also includes presenting the content preview to a program... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080066092 - System for interactive images and video: This invention consists of apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture (FIGS. 1 and 2) that allow the viewer of images or video to interact with those images or video (102 and 202) in a simple and efficient manner. The system encodes information about the images or video either directly into... Agent: Michael Laude

20080066093 - Control of access to data using a wireless home entertainment hub: A method for presenting data through a wireless home entertainment hub in a home entertainment system includes obtaining a registration for one or more source devices and for one or more sink devices. An indication is received at the wireless home entertainment hub that one of the source devices has... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080066094 - Control of data presentation in multiple zones using a wireless home entertainment hub: A method of presenting program data in a multiple zones of a home entertainment system using a wireless home entertainment hub includes obtaining a registration of a plurality of source device and sink devices at the wireless home entertainment hub. An assignment of a zone corresponding to each sink device... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080066095 - Iptv blackout management: IPTV-based systems offer acquisition and distribution of content from numerous channels with protected end-to-end conditional access. In adopting IPTV-based systems for seamless transport and blackout management of the content, service providers would need an IPTV-based transport architecture that accommodates their existing infrastructure and provides transparent live events content blackout management.... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080066096 - Method and apparatus for sending stored advertising data from an internet protocol television end user network interface device: A method and system are disclosed for sending stored IPTV advertisement data from an IPTV network end user network interface device. The method includes receiving the IPTV advertisement data from an IPTV network server at the IPTV end user network interface device; storing the IPTV advertisement data in a memory... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080066098 - Phone-based targeted advertisement delivery: This specification describes technologies relating to a phone-based system for targeted advertisement delivery by identifying broadcast audio advertisements, and methods of providing such a system. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a user-initiated telephone connection that includes an audio sample of an advertisement from a broadcast source, and identifying... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080066100 - Enhancing media system metadata: Systems and methods for providing enhanced metadata to a user. Systems and methods can include extraction of data from metadata and searching for related metadata based upon the extracted data.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080066099 - Media systems with integrated content searching: Systems and methods for providing related commercial content to a user. Systems and methods can include extraction or development of data from metadata and searching for related commercial content based upon the extracted or developed data.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080066101 - Host device having notice function for setting environment and setting environment method thereof: A host device having a notice function for setting environment and a setting environment method thereof are disclosed. The host device includes a download unit which downloads and stores an application provided from a broadcasting station, a control unit which executes the application stored in the download unit and thus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080066102 - Techniques and graphical user interfaces for review of media items: Improved techniques and graphical user interfaces for presenting a media item on a computing device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the media item is a video. A video information window can provide a user with information concerning the video and can enable the user to play at least a portion... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080066103 - Systems and methods for providing blackout support in video mosaic environments: Systems and methods for providing blackout support in video mosaic environments are disclosed. In response to receiving a request for a video mosaic page, screen data, which may include blackout information, is received. The screen data identifies the video assets in the video mosaic page. A determination is made, based... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080066105 - Method for automatically searching for data applications for all channels and video apparatus adopting the method: A method for automatically searching for data applications for all channels and an video apparatus adopting the method are provided. The method for automatically searching for data applications for all channels includes receiving data application information through at least one of a current channel, which is currently selected, and other... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080066107 - Using viewing signals in targeted video advertising: At a client, a video is received. The video includes one or more advertisement slots. The video is played back to a user. During the playback of the video, an impending advertisement slot is detected. One or more advertisements are requested for placement in the advertisement slot. The one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080066108 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: A image processing apparatus includes a storage area which stores user data related to a service information item; a receiver which receives a broadcasting signal comprising a service application; a transmitter which transmits the user data in response to the service application; and a controller which edits the user data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080066109 - Vehicle video display system: A video display system for use in a vehicle, includes a display disposed in a vehicle for viewing by an operator of the vehicle and a controller in communication with the display. The controller determines when the vehicle is in motion. The controller prohibits display of video information by the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080066110 - Media preview user interface: A menu having menu items is arranged in an interface environment. A first abstraction is arranged proximate to the menu, the first abstraction being based on a highlighted menu item. A second abstraction is transitioned into the interface environment upon the occurrence of an event, the second abstraction being proximate... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080066113 - Measurement of video quality at customer premises: A video signal is provided to a set top box. An instruction to record a specified portion of the video signal, thereby creating a video sample, is provided to the set top box. The video sample is received from the set top box. Reference video corresponding to the video sample... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080066112 - Method for implementing on-demand pvr peer-to-peer media sharing with content restraint: On-demand personal video recorder (PVR) peer-to-peer media sharing with content restraint is enabled with location and subscription protection. PVRs are enabled to share shows with other PVRs in a common local area domain and having common subscription lineup services. A menu-based system on the PVR gives users the capability to... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080066114 - Television gift object: Provided is a method that enables a media subscriber to pay for and send pay-per-view media content to a third party. The subscriber is billed for the content in a normal fashion. The viewer selects a specific program that is scheduled for transmission and provides information about the identity of... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080066116 - Active digital tv antenna: An active digital TV antenna, the antenna mainly has a planar antenna and a variable capacitor connected to the planar antenna; the variable capacitor is used to adjust a capacitance value and an inductance value of the planar antenna to change the range of frequency band of a signal received... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080066118 - Connecting a legacy device into a home entertainment system useing a wireless home enterainment hub: A method of connecting a legacy device in a home entertainment system containing a wireless home entertainment hub utilizing a home theatre network interface box includes obtaining a registration with the wireless home entertainment hub for the home theatre network interface box. The home theatre network interface box is connected... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080066117 - Device registration using a wireless home entertainment hub: A method of registering a device with a wireless home entertainment hub in a home entertainment system includes broadcasting by a wireless home entertainment hub a request for a reply from at least one unregistered device. The reply is received from at least one of the unregistered devices and a... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080066119 - Controller for a video matrix switching system: A controller for a video matrix switching system may include at least a first multiple purpose unit (MPU) module configured to provide video and control for a multi-camera video CCTV system, and at least a first port module connectable to the MPU module and having driver electronics for a set... Agent: Frank Cona Tyco Fire And Security

20080066120 - Data presentation using a wireless home entertainment hub: A method for presenting data through a wireless home entertainment hub in a home entertainment system includes obtaining a registration for one or more source devices and for one or more sink devices. An indication is received at the wireless home entertainment hub that one of the source devices has... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080066121 - Foldable remote controller: A foldable remote controller is provided to remotely control a multimedia network device, transmit signals to the multimedia network device, and transmit or receive audio signals between the foldable remote controller and the multimedia network device, so as to communicate on the internet.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080066123 - Inventory of home entertainment system devices using a wireless home entertainment hub: A method of detecting missing devices in a home entertainment system using a wireless home entertainment hub includes obtaining a registration of at least one device that includes a source device. An instruction is received from a user to present program content from the source device. A set of one... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080066124 - Presentation of data on multiple display devices using a wireless home entertainment hub: A method of presenting program content on multiple display devices using a wireless home entertainment hub includes obtaining a registration of a plurality of devices with the wireless home entertainment hub, where the devices include at least two display devices. A request for program content is received from a user.... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080066122 - Source device change using a wireless home entertainment hub: A method of registering a device with a wireless home entertainment hub in a home entertainment system includes broadcasting by a wireless home entertainment hub a request for a reply from at least one unregistered device. The reply is received from at least one of the unregistered devices and a... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080066125 - Method and system for content distribution: A method and system for content distribution. A scheduler for determining content to be sent to one or more devices and for creating a schedule to transmit the content. A content server for accessing content to be sent to one or more devices. A delivery modules to effectuate delivery of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080066126 - System and method of distributing multimedia content: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for enhanced multimedia distribution. The method can include displaying a multimedia selection at a display device coupled to a first receiver of a video distribution system, where the multimedia selection is determined by a user of a second receiver. A... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080066097 - Method of realizing interactive advertisement under digital braodcasting environment by extending program associated data-broadcasting to internet area: Disclosed is a method for providing an interactive advertisement and detailed information, which including: (a) converting a secondary information tag, which is used for calling secondary information relating to data broadcasting, into data broadcasting contents according to data broadcasting protocols? (b) inserting the secondary information tag converted in step (a)... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080066104 - Program providing method, program for program providing method, recording medium which records program for program providing method and program providing apparatus: A program providing method recording a program by video data and audio data in a recording medium and providing the program to a user, including the steps of detecting digest sections representing the contents of the program by video data by analyzing pictures of the video data, detecting keywords whose... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080066106 - Systems and methods for providing media guidance planners: Systems and methods for providing media planners for planning a user's media content viewing activities are provided. The media planner may include an interactive grid of content with scheduled viewing, recording, or reminders set within a user-selectable time window. The media planner may prioritize content within the planner grid and... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080066111 - Systems and methods for providing enhanced sports watching media guidance: Systems and methods for enhanced sports-related media content access and display are provided. An intelligent tuning module for multi-tuner systems may designate one sporting event as a primary sporting event and another sporting event as a secondary sporting event. A primary tuner may tune the primary event whenever possible and... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080066115 - Method for transmitting services information in different types of broadcasting networks and unit for processing said information: A method for transmitting services information in a broadcasting network by at least one managing center towards a plurality of receivers connected on one hand to a digital data streams broadcasting network of DVB type and on the other hand to a digital data streams broadcasting network of IP type,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080066127 - Set-top box initiated contact center interaction: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) receiving a contact center interaction request via a device coupled to a display screen; (ii) accessing information about the device or a user of the device from a customer database of a content provider; and (iii) establishing an interaction path between the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080066128 - Open cable set-top box diagnosing system and method thereof: An open cable set-top box diagnosing system in which a point of deployment (POD), separated from a main circuit unit, having a newly defined interface is used to check an operation state of an open cable set-top box, transmits the checked state to a predetermined server, according to which the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080066129 - Method and apparatus for interaction with hyperlinks in a television broadcast: A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast in which an interactive content icon is used. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a region, and can be transmitted in encoded form,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080066130 - Methods, systems and computer program products for providing a media file to a designated set-top box: Methods of providing a media file include receiving the media file and an identification of a destination set-top box for the media file at a server device. The received media file is transmitted from the server device to the identified set-top box in an Internet protocol television (IPTV) multimedia format.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080066131 - Authoring system for iptv network: In an embodiment, a system and method permit an IPTV subscriber to display on a channel of an IPTV network video data from a subscriber video database. The system may include, in addition to the IPTV network and the subscriber database, an IPTV server and an IPTV set top box.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080066132 - Digital television receiver and method for processing a digital television signal: A method includes receiving a digital television signal including a virtual channel table comprising a list of attributes for virtual channels carried in transport streams; demultiplexing the virtual channel table from the received digital television signal; parsing channel status information from the demultiplexed virtual channel table, the parsed channel status... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080066133 - Open cable set-top box diagnosing system and method thereof: An open cable set-top box diagnosing system in which a point of deployment (POD), separated from a main circuit unit, having a newly defined interface is used to check an operation state of an open cable set-top box, transmits the checked state to a predetermined server, according to which the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080066134 - Memory bandwidth amortization: A system for processing video information, the system including a memory configured to store video information, a memory controller coupled to the memory and configured to receive memory requests for the video information, a first video signal processing client coupled to the memory controller. The first video signal processing client... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080066135 - Search user interface for media device: A search menu includes a search input field and input characters rendered on a multi-dimensional displacement surface that rotates in response to a user input. A highlight region intersects the multi-dimensional displacement surface and highlights input characters while the input characters intersect the highlight region according to the rotation of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080066136 - System and method for detecting topic shift boundaries in multimedia streams using joint audio, visual and text cues: Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for detecting topic shift boundaries in a multimedia stream. A computer implemented method for detecting topic shift boundaries in a multimedia stream includes receiving a multimedia stream, and performing multimodal analysis on the multimedia stream to locate a plurality of temporal... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080066137 - System and method of displaying system content: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of providing system information. The method can include sending system content to display concurrently with video content on a display device. The video content may be associated with a last selected channel of a set-top box prior to a trigger... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080066138 - Closed captioning language translation: The present invention provides an architecture for translating closed captioning text originally provided with a video program from one language to another and presenting the translated closed captioning text with the video program to a viewer. As such, the viewers are able to receive the closed captioning text in languages... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080066139 - Television, television box, and apparatus for transmitting a multimedia stream to a remote device: TV, TV box, and apparatus for transmitting a multimedia stream to a remote device are provided, wherein all of them are connected to Internet. The TV box comprises a control unit, a data transform module, and a TV process unit. The data transform module transforms the multimedia stream into a... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080066140 - Open cable set-top box diagnosing system and method thereof: An open cable set-top box diagnosing system in which a point of deployment (POD), separated from a main circuit unit, having a newly defined interface is used to check an operation state of an open cable set-top box, transmits the checked state to a predetermined server, according to which the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080066141 - Open cable set-top box diagnosing system and method thereof: An open cable set-top box diagnosing system in which a point of deployment (POD), separated from a main circuit unit, having a newly defined interface is used to check an operation state of an open cable set-top box, transmits the checked state to a predetermined server, according to which the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080066142 - Digital television receiver and method for processing a digital television signal: A method comprises receiving a digital television signal including a system time table providing a current date and time of day information and an event information table containing information for events on defined virtual channels; demultiplexing the system time table and the event information table from the digital television signal;... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080059986 - Online video/chat applications: Presenting video over one or more computer networks includes obtaining permission to distribute video from an owner of rights in the video, charging a flat fee for presentation of the video, where the flat fee being is on a maximum number of users who are permitted to view the video,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080059990 - Behavioral attention control apparatus: A behavioral attention control apparatus and method for treating the short attention span of a child viewing a television that requires the child to respond to an alert signal within a specific window period to prevent the television from turning off. A specialized remote control component has a switch that... Agent: Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP

20080059991 - System and a method for detecting duplications in digital content: In some embodiments, there is provided a method of automatically matching video content, the method may include deriving a color signature for a series of frames within a first video content and searching for a matching second video content having a substantially correlated color signature. The method may further include... Agent: Eitan Law Group C/o LandonIPInc.

20080059992 - System and method for controlled viral distribution of digital content in a social network: A controlled content distribution system (CCDS) employs a peer-level application into which a content producer can import digital content (e.g., video, audio, graphic, image, text, code files, etc.) The content producer identifies distribution parameters including an initial distribution list and a level limit representing the maximum number of levels, or... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080059996 - Hierarchical based advertising system and broadcasting method thereof: A hierarchical based advertising system including a primary server, at least one secondary server and at least one terminal is provided. The primary server has advertisement data. The secondary server is coupled with the primary server while the terminal is coupled with the secondary server. The primary server, the secondary... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080059994 - Method for measuring and selecting advertisements based preferences: A method determines an amount of time consumers are viewing an advertising display. A sequence of images is acquired by a camera of a scene in front of an advertising display. Faces are detected in the sequence of images. For each detected face, determine an orientation of the face with... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080059998 - System and method of communicating emergency alerts: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of communicating emergency alerts. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a multicast emergency alert message at a set-top box device via a multicast-enabled network, where the multicast emergency alert message includes data related to a location code and... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080059999 - Multi-function display controller: Methods and arrangements for signal substitution by set-top-boxes in response to event triggers conveyed by channels outside standard audio/video streams.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080060002 - System and method for delivering targeted advertising data in an internet protocol television system: A system and method for delivering targeted advertising data over an internet protocol television (IPTV) network are disclosed for multicasting from an IPTV server a group of targeted advertising data to a group of end user client devices; receiving at the IPTV server from an end user client device in... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080060007 - Apparatus for generating electronic program guides and control method therefor: In an EPG generating apparatus, a controller specifies a program which meet a predetermined condition and extends the display area of the specified program as a popup portion. When extending the display area of a specified program, the controller changes the configuration of the display area of the specified program... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080060012 - Method and system for dynamic start channel for mobile television: A method for selecting a start-up channel upon initiation of a television application with an electronic equipment where the video data is available from a time-sliced data stream having video data corresponding to each of a plurality of channels is disclosed. The start-up channel is selected based on user preferences... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080060013 - Video channel creation systems and methods: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating one or more channels for the organization of content items. A method according to one embodiment comprises selecting a content item and one or more items of metadata for the selected content item. A determination is made to determine... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080060014 - Multimedia device for providing access to media content: A multimedia device and a method embodied in the multimedia device for providing access to media content from a plurality of media content are provided. The multimedia device includes a user interface (UI) with one or more UI controls, a processor, and an output device. The UI controls receive a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080060019 - Broadcast receiving apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium: A broadcast receiving apparatus and method for controlling the apparatus includes selecting a channel from a plurality of channels included in a broadcast signal, an outputting channel selection information specifying a selected channel, outputting video of the selected channel to a display device, outputting channel information related to the selected... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080060024 - Wirelessly transmitting programming obtained from a satellite system: In one embodiment, an antenna enclosure associated with a satellite antenna may include a converter to downconvert incoming radio frequency (RF) signals from a first frequency to a second frequency, a receiver to receive the second frequency signals and to tune to at least one requested signal channel, and a... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080060025 - Car theater video and audio entertainment system: A car theater video and audio entertainment system is provided with a host box. An interior of the host box is installed with a memory, a wireless signal receiving antenna, a booster, and plural sets of video and audio multiplexers. An input end of the host box is connected to... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080060026 - Iptv subscriber and security management: A method and apparatus is disclosed for security-management of IP TV subscribers across a network comprising: receiving and storing at an access network element, a plurality of requests to connect to one or more multicast groups from a plurality of ports; retrieving, the plurality of requests from the access network... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080060027 - Method and apparatus for managing time-shifting among a plurality of channels: A method for managing time-shifting includes buffering a first program using a first tuner while broadcasting the first program on a first channel, and buffering a second program using a second tuner while broadcasting the second program on a second channel after switching from the first channel to the second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080060028 - Remote control device and automatic switching method using the same: A remote control device for controlling a media renderer is provided, the remote control device includes a wireless personal area network module and a wireless local area network module. The wireless personal area network module includes a receiving module and a determining module. The receiving module receives a packet from... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080060029 - Streaming content management apparatus and method: A streaming content management apparatus and method for recording and replaying video and audio data using a real time video indexing function are provided. A streaming content management apparatus of a multimedia broadcast receiver includes a recording unit for recording an incoming content stream in units of segment together with... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080059987 - Method and system for pricing a programming event viewed by subscriber group: A method and apparatus for group billing purchasers of transmitted programming events is provided. In one embodiment, a subscriber group includes two or more individual subscribers who receive programming from a programming provider. The individual subscribers periodically elect to view a program provided via the program provider. The program is... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080059988 - Methods and apparatus for using audience member behavior information to determine compliance with audience measurement system usage requirements: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture determine compliance with usage guidelines of an audience measurement system. Initially, location information associated with an audience member is obtained. It is then determined whether the audience member is in compliance with the usage guidelines based on the location information. Media monitoring information... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080059989 - Methods and systems for providing media assets over a network: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for providing media assets over a network. First metadata corresponding to a first video asset is generated. The first metadata includes text describing contents displayed when the first video asset is played and a pointer to a location within a video file that... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20080059993 - Method and system for transmitting and receiving authorization message: A method for transmitting an authorization message to terminals includes: transmitting, through multicasting, an authorization message to a plurality of terminals on a transmission network, and. the authorization message carries a multicast address, a product identity and authorization data. A method for receiving an authorization message by a terminal includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080059997 - 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

20080059995 - Selective display of overlay video streams via interactive alert icons: An interactive alert system displayed on a video monitor. The system comprises a first video stream presenting at least video information, the first video stream comprising a viewer channel, and an overlay video stream, displayed simultaneously with the first video stream, wherein the overlay video stream provides information on a... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080060001 - Methods and apparatus for recording and replaying sports broadcasts: A system for replaying a broadcast sports event using a video on demand or personal video recording system. Metadata is created that subdivides the original broadcast into segments, and associates descriptive information with each segment. Playlists that specify an ordered subsequence of the sequence may be selected and used to... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/41

20080060000 - Personalized advertising in mobile television: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for personalized advertising in mobile broadcast television. A method for use in a personal device, for personalizing a service broadcast over a digital broadcast, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, includes: receiving content for personalizing and display on... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080060003 - Methods and systems for self-service programming of content and advertising in digital out-of-home networks: A digital out-of-home network system for digital out-of-home applications and other types of advertising. A plurality of remote display units are included for video display of targeted advertising and digital media presentation. The media presentation systems and related methods may include advertising data servers that are preferably accessed wirelessly from... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080060004 - System and method of attracting, surveying, and marketing to consumers: One method of the present invention includes displaying an interactive map to a consumer and recording interactions with the consumer, recording the interactions, analyzing the recordings, and acting on the analysis. The interactive map is provided at a tourist attraction or other location, and includes maps, images, cameras, and other... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080060006 - Mosaic channel video stream with personalized interactive services: An interactive mosaic channel video stream with indicators as to the action on a given video stream. An interactive matrixed video channel displayed on a video monitor, with a plurality of individual video feeds being presented at a given time, comprising a plurality of video cells presenting at least video... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080060005 - User-selectable audio feed for video programming: An interactive matrixed video channel displayed on a video monitor. A channel in accordance with the present invention has a plurality of individual video feeds being presented at a given time and comprises a plurality of video cells presenting at least video information, each video cell associated with one of... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080060009 - Client/server methods and systems for generating a user interface: A navigation interface display system generates a navigation element that organizes television programming data in an easy-to-use manner. The navigation element employs a hierarchical display protocol for a plurality of selection items that represent the various television programs, channels, and/or networks. The hierarchical display scheme displays a limited number of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080060010 - Media user interfaces using metadata from different sources: A navigation interface display system generates a navigation element that organizes television programming data in an easy-to-use manner. The navigation element employs a hierarchical display protocol for a plurality of selection items that represent the various television programs, channels, and/or networks. The hierarchical display scheme displays a limited number of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080060008 - Method of searching program for user without having to enter keywords: A method for generating keywords of TV programs in Electronic Program Guide (EPG) includes generating keyword information describing characteristics of TV programs in EPG in accordance with the digital video broadcast service information specification, editing service information containing keywords of TV programs at transmitting side, and transmitting the EPG containing... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080060011 - Zoomable user interfaces for television: A navigation interface display system generates a navigation element that organizes television programming data in an easy-to-use manner. The navigation element employs a hierarchical display protocol for a plurality of selection items that represent the various television programs, channels, and/or networks. The hierarchical display scheme displays a limited number of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080060015 - Digital broadcast reception system: A digital broadcast reception system includes: a digital tuner unit including a broadcast wave decoder, for decompressing a compressed digital broadcast wave for moving pictures, and a video scale converter, for reducing an image size provided by the decoded broadcast wave; and a transmission interface unit to be connected to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080060017 - Method for identifying extender text table of electronic program guide in digital tv: A digital television (DTV) receiver and a decoding method are discussed. According to an embodiment, the DTV receiver includes: a receiving unit for receiving a digital broadcasting signal including a plurality of extended text tables (ETTs) that appear in transport stream packets having common PID values, each ETT comprising a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080060018 - Method for identifying extender text table of electronic program guide in digital tv: A digital television (DTV) receiver and a decoding method are discussed. According to an embodiment, the DTV receiver includes: a receiving unit for receiving a digital broadcasting signal including a plurality of extended text tables (ETTs) that appear in transport stream packets having common PID values, each ETT comprising a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080060016 - Secure transmission using adaptive transformation and plural channels: A method, apparatus and computer program product for transmitting data secures the data by adaptively transforming it and spreading the transformed data piecewise over plural transmission channels. The method, apparatus and computer program product may select low-cost channels preferentially to transmit greater amounts of the data; may disorder the data... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080060020 - Methods and systems for semantic zooming: A navigation interface display system generates a navigation element that organizes television programming data in an easy-to-use manner. The navigation element employs a hierarchical display protocol for a plurality of selection items that represent the various television programs, channels, and/or networks. The hierarchical display scheme displays a limited number of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080060021 - Digital storage media command and control data indexing: A system for receiving satellite signals for display on a monitor. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises an antenna, a server receiver, coupled to the antenna, and at least one client receiver, coupled to the server receiver, wherein the server receiver maintains a list of satellite video... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080060022 - Broadcast receiving apparatus: A terrestrial broadcast tuner section is disposed in an area A1, and frequency-converts an externally supplied terrestrial broadcast signal into an IF signal. A terrestrial broadcast analog demodulation section is disposed in an area A3, and demodulates the IF signal frequency-converted by the terrestrial broadcast tuner section. A satellite broadcast... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080060023 - Apparatus for selected provision of linear and/or circular polarity signals: The invention relates to apparatus and method which can be used to receive broadcast digital data. The apparatus and method are provided at one or more receiving locations and is connected to one or more broadcast data receivers at each location. The apparatus is capable of receiving and processing data... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080060030 - Broadband access equipment and method for implementing video service: Embodiments of the present invention provide broadband access equipment and a method for implementing a video service, and the broadband access equipment includes a video service component transmitting stored video service data via the access component of the broadband access equipment to a subscriber terminal according to a request from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080060031 - Matrix switcher and method of controlling matrix switcher: A matrix switcher includes a switcher unit having connection switches provided at intersections of input signal lines and output signal lines and a control unit having a main controller and a backup controller. The backup controller operates a Web server program to transfer a setup command to the main controller... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080060032 - Communication and remote editing of digital photographs: A system, method, and computer program product for selectively transmitting full-resolution digital images to a remote viewer from a field location. One embodiment includes connecting to a portable electronic device, receiving at least one full-resolution image from the portable electronic device, creating a reduced-sized image, transmitting the reduced-size image to... Agent: The Law Office Of Ido Tuchman

20080060033 - Web cam for indicating the expression of a remote end user: A web cam system has a local end computer coupled to a local end web cam, and a remote end computer coupled to a remote end web cam, with the computers coupled to a network and communicating with each other via a messaging application. A facial expression of a local... Agent: Raymond Sun

20080060034 - System and method to combine multiple video streams: Methods and systems for combining multiple video streams are provided. Video feeds are received from multiple optical sensors, and homography information and/or corner metadata is calculated for each frame from each video stream. This data is used to mosaic the separate frames into a single video frame. Local translation of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080060035 - Method of providing an iptv service: A method of providing an Internet protocol television service to a subscriber, and a network element to execute this method. At an acquisition tier, IPTV packets are generated from video stream data of one or more video channels and transmitted to a FCC server cluster at a client-facing tier. IPTV... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080060036 - Identifying works, using a sub-linear time search, such as an approximate nearest neighbor search, for initiating a work-based action, such as an action on the internet: A media work may be associated with an action by (a) extracting features from the media work, (b) determining an identification of the media work, based on the features extracted, using a sub-linear time search, such as an approximate nearest neighbor search for example, and (c) determining an action based... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080060037 - Web-enhanced television experience: A television (TV) broadcast signal is received and routed to a TV display. An audio data stream or ancillary data stream in the TV broadcast, (such as closed-captioning), is scanned to determine if a uniform resource locator (URL) is included in the TV broadcast. If a URL is identified in... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20080060039 - Apparatus and method of storing broadcasting service: Provided are an apparatus and method of storing a broadcasting service. The apparatus and method are capable of moving or copying a broadcasting service stored in a storage device to another storage device and using the moved or copied broadcasting service. The apparatus includes a broadcasting reception unit receiving a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080060038 - Systems and methods for accessing media content: In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a media content provider and a media content processing subsystem communicatively coupled to the media content provider by a network. The media content processing subsystem is configured to receive a first media content instance from the media content provider, and receive... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080060040 - 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

20080060041 - Stand-by mode transitioning: A device for rapidly instituting an active mode of a digital-television enabled system, the system including a first, volatile memory configured to load and store software instructions, includes: an input configured to receive first digital audio and video information; a first output configured to convey second audio and information toward... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080060043 - Exchange of media by device discovery: Media is exchanged by the interaction between devices of an environment. A first device of a first user discovers existing devices within a proximity-based communication range of the first device that have media capable of being shared. As the first user encounters different people and places that have other devices,... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080060045 - Method and system for synchronizing signals in a communication system: Synchronizing signals in a communication system may include determining the amount of data stored in a buffer, comparing the amount of data to a plurality of threshold levels and adjusting a speed of a clock used for decoding the data based on the comparing. The signals to be synchronized may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080060044 - Personal video recorder having improved data access and method thereof: A personal video recorder (PVR) system includes a processing unit, a system memory coupled to the processing unit by a system memory bus, and an insertion module being coupled to the processing unit for inserting a packet into a PVR bit stream according to packet information. During a packet insertion... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080060042 - Video data packing: Systems and methods for rearranging valid data within a block of data for transmission along a data path are described herein. By utilizing previously unused bits in data words, the valid data can be transmitted in fewer clock cycles, thereby increasing the availability of the data bus to other masters.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080060046 - Method for identifying extender text table of electronic program guide in digital tv: A digital television (DTV) receiver and a decoding method are discussed. According to an embodiment, the DTV receiver includes: a receiving unit for receiving a digital broadcasting signal including a plurality of extended text tables (ETTs) that appear in transport stream packets having common PID values, each ETT comprising a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080060047 - Media device: A receiver (3) for television signals has a primary video output (22a) connected to a primary TV (2a) and a secondary video output (22b) connected to a secondary TV (2b) at a remote location (42b). The receiver (3) can be controlled by an infrared remote control (28) either directly or... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080060048 - Open cable set-top box diagnosing system and method thereof: An open cable set-top box diagnosing system in which a point of deployment (POD), separated from a main circuit unit, having a newly defined interface is used to check an operation state of an open cable set-top box, transmits the checked state to a predetermined server, according to which the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080060049 - Open cable set-top box diagnosing system and method thereof: An open cable set-top box diagnosing system in which a point of deployment (POD), separated from a main circuit unit, having a newly defined interface is used to check an operation state of an open cable set-top box, transmits the checked state to a predetermined server, according to which the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080060050 - System with cable mode converter: A compound video cable has a drive interface, a receive interface with a differential-to-single ended converter, and a differential mode data wired transmission medium connected to the drive interface and the receive interface. The differential-to-single ended converter is configured to convert differential mode signals into single ended signals.... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP