Interactive video distribution systems inventions 06/08

20080155581 - Method and apparatus for providing commercials suitable for viewing when fast-forwarding through a digitally recorded program: A method and apparatus is provided for rendering a video program. The apparatus includes a computer-readable storage medium and a processor responsive to the computer-readable storage medium and to a software program. The software program, when loaded into the processor, is operative to: receive a user command specifying a fast... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080155583 - Audience measurement apparatus, system and method for producing audience information of a media presentation: Audience measurement methods and systems for producing audience information of a media presentation. At least one embodiment includes a moveable apparatus comprising an audio capturing means for picking up audio from a media presentation distributed to an audience through at least one media rendering device to produce an audio signal,... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080155582 - Media targeting system and method: A system and method for collecting, in real-time, information related to the audience of a media appliance, and responsively providing content to that appliance as a function of the collected information. The invention may be implemented using known methods and systems for the real-time identification of individuals (biometric monitoring, mobile... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080155584 - System for obtaining data regarding customer use of interactive television: A system and method for obtaining data regarding customer use of interactive television, where application servers residing at a broadcast center include application programs that provide customers with a graphical user interface. Customers may retrieve the application programs via a satellite through integrated receiver/decoders (“IRDs”). The IRD includes a modem,... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080155586 - Method and device for processing video stream in digital video broadcasting systems: The invention provides a novel method for enhancing user experiences, especially when changing channels, in digital video broadcasting systems. The invention provides a mechanism to show a low resolution version of the contents immediately after the channel change, and then automatically switch to the high resolution content once the new... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080155585 - Systems and methods for viewing substitute media while fast forwarding past an advertisement: Systems and methods for displaying substitute media while fast forwarding past advertisements are provided. When a user reaches the advertisement, the interactive media guidance application may receive an instruction to fast forward the advertisement. In response to the fast forward instruction, the interactive media guidance application may identify and display... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080155588 - Content hosting and advertising systems and methods: In an exemplary system, a data store includes at least a subset of media content, media content attribute data associated with the media content, user profile data associated with at least one consumer having access to the media content, advertising content, and content matching data associated with the advertising content.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080155590 - Dynamic advertising control: Subscribers request programs from a network based content server and view the requested programs via their customer equipment. The content server receives various programs and breaks the program content for each program into a sequence of program segments, which are logically linked by program association indicia. The content server also... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080155592 - Method and system for inserting advertising data into content: A method is disclosed for data communication in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system. The method includes receiving at a first end user device remote advertising data associated with a remote zone and home content data, wherein the home content data is not available in the remote zone and merging... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, Pc

20080155589 - Method and system to control advertising: Methods and systems for subscriber advertising control are disclosed. According to one method, a subscriber is allowed to control advertising content provided to the subscriber in association with program content intended to include advertising. Advertising control information is received from the subscriber. Selected content is identified to provide to the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080155591 - Method, system and device for providing advertisement content in place-shifted multimedia content: A system (10), device (14) and method (70) for providing advertisement content in multimedia content based on the viewing location of the multimedia content, e.g., the viewing location of multimedia content place-shifted from a video processing device to a communication device. The method includes providing the viewing location of multimedia... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha Llc

20080155587 - Video content targeting system and method: A system and method for collecting, in real-time, information related to the audience of a media appliance, and responsively providing content to that appliance as a function of the collected information. The invention may be implemented using known methods and systems for the real-time identification of individuals (biometric monitoring, mobile... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080155594 - Faster tunning using multiple tuners andnetworked monitors: Multiple television monitors (160, 170, 360, 370) share access via a network (150) to a central tuning device (100) that is able to tune multiple channels concurrently. The monitors communicate channel requests to the central device via the network. The central device processes the requests by controlling a number of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080155593 - Method and apparatus for changing channel: A channel-changing method is disclosed. The method includes receiving broadcast signals consisting of multiple packets, extracting frames using packet-identification information on the packets, and storing the extracted frames by channels, and outputting frames corresponding to the channel requested by a user among the stored frame.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080155599 - Display apparatus and information display method thereof: A display apparatus, including: a receiving part which receives a video signal which comprises a supplementary information; a video processing part which performs a video process with respect to the received video signal; a display part which displays a video based on the processed video signal, and a control part... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080155596 - Dynamically adjustable electronic service guide: Embodiments of the invention are directed to allocating mobile-terminal electronic-service-guide (ESG) memory for use in storing a dynamically adjustable ESG, determining a composition of a dynamically adjustable ESG that can be stored in the allocated mobile-terminal ESG memory, and determining whether ESG fragments are deleted from the dynamically adjustable ESG... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080155598 - Image display apparatus and method for displaying broadcast schedule list: An image display apparatus and method for displaying a broadcast schedule list are provided. The image display apparatus includes a storage unit which stores information on broadcast programs scheduled for broadcasting, and a controller which reads out the stored broadcast program information so that the information is displayed in the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080155595 - Linear program guide for media content access systems and methods: In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a media content processing subsystem configured to provide at least a portion of a linear program guide to a display for presentation to a user. The linear program guide includes a list of media content carriers and associated media content instances,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080155597 - Vehicle tv and content router: A router that routes television signals from a cellular communication system to a plurality of receivers in a vehicle.... Agent: David Klein Dekel Patent Ltd.

20080155601 - Display apparatus and method for displaying broadcast program listings: A display apparatus displays broadcast program listings. The display apparatus includes a storage unit which stores Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information, a display unit which displays broadcast program listings using the EPG information, a user interface which receives an input of a command to move, and a control unit which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080155600 - Systems and methods for providing remote access to interactive media guidance applications: Systems and methods for providing remote access to interactive media guidance applications are provided. In particular, the systems and methods for providing remote access to interactive media guidance applications provided herein generally relate to enhancing remote access capabilities by providing algorithms and techniques for managing and correcting disparities that may... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080155604 - Broadcast terminal and favorite broadcast program notification method for the same: A broadcast terminal including a broadcast receiver configured to receive an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) including broadcast program information about a plurality of broadcast programs, a display configured to display any one of the plurality of broadcast programs, an input unit configured to input a selection signal to select one... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080155602 - Method and system for preferred content identification: A content stream user defines preferences, which are compared to aggregated metadata describing in real time a plurality of content streams to which the user has access. The metadata for each content stream may be generated by automated analysis of onscreen indicators, noise levels in standard video or audio sequences,... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080155603 - System and method for interactive targeted video content delivery: The invention provides a system for delivering targeted video content across a broadcast network. The invention allows content providers to deliver content to groups of consumers with common interests or specified individual subscribers. The invention also allows for the receipt of feedback from viewers. Embodiments of the invention include mechanisms... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP Ip Group, Columbia Square

20080155605 - Method and apparatus for selecting digital broadcast channel: An apparatus and method for selecting a broadcast channel are provided. The apparatus includes a controller which constructs a broadcast information providing screen image such that broadcast information of each of a plurality of channels is arranged at a location corresponding to a location of each of a plurality of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080155606 - Providing information of image data stored in digital image display apparatus: A device and a method for providing information of image data stored in a digital image display apparatus and a recording medium recorded with a program for realizing the same are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the device for providing information of image data stored in... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080155608 - Method for reservation recording in digital broadcasting receiver and apparatus for reservation recording using the same: A method and an apparatus for reservation recording in a digital broadcasting receiver are provided. The apparatus includes an input unit which receives first time information and channel information for reservation recording; a tuner unit which tunes a reservation recording channel corresponding to the channel information; and a controller which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080155607 - Systems and methods for providing remote access to interactive media guidance applications: Systems and methods for providing remote access to interactive media guidance applications are provided. In particular, the systems and methods for providing remote access to interactive media guidance applications provided herein generally relate to enhancing remote access capabilities by providing algorithms and techniques for managing and correcting disparities that may... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080155609 - Method of providing key frames of video in mobile terminal: A display configured to display a list of videos that can be reproduced on the terminal on a screen of the terminal, an input unit configured to select a specific video from the list of videos, and a controller configured to select a plurality of key frames from image frames... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080155610 - Molniya orbit satellite systems, apparatus, and methods: A system includes a satellite fleet (102, FIG. 1), in which each satellite receives uplink signals from an uplink hub (104), and transmits downlink signals in at least one directed beam (112). In an embodiment, downlink signals include television content, which is transmitted within a frequency range between about 3.7... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080155611 - Television lan signal-separating apparatus, indoor lan system and television lan signal-separating method: The invention provides an indoor LAN system, including: a distributor for distributing or delivering a television signal having a frequency band contained in a first frequency band, and a LAN signal having a frequency band contained in a second frequency band to a plurality of common antenna terminals provided in... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080155612 - Ip broadcasting system and a multicast group management apparatus for the same: The present invention provides an IP broadcasting system that can receive IP broadcasting videos over an IP multicast network. In the IP broadcasting system, a multicast group management apparatus for IP broadcasting that holds multicast group identifiers is connected via an IP multicast network over which IP broadcasting services are... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080155613 - Methods, apparatus and user interface for providing content on demand: Methods and apparatus for supporting content delivery service are described. In accordance with the invention content can be supplied to temporary storage of a regional or local server used to supply the content to a customer's premises when the requested content is not already available in the regional or local... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080155614 - Multi-source bridge content distribution system and method: A multi-source bridge content distribution system links multiple content owners with access network operators or content distribution providers leasing space on access networks so that multi-media content can be provided from multiple content owners to consumers through a multi-source bridge or data center. Content files and associated content owner preference... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080155615 - Systems and methods for supporting multi-user media content access using index points: Systems and methods for providing more flexible multi-user media content access using index points is provided. A plurality of custom index points are maintained in a multi-user or multi-room media system. After receiving a request to view an asset, a listing of the index points associated with the requested asset... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080155616 - Broadcast program and advertising distribution system: An audio program and message distribution system in which a host system organizes and transmits program segments to client subscriber locations. The host organizes the program segments by subject matter and creates scheduled programming in accordance with preferences associated with each subscriber. Program segments are associated with descriptive subject matter... Agent: Charles G. Call

20080155617 - Video access: A media content instance is provided for display. A plurality of first images are identified associated with locations within a first segment of a media content instance according to a first offset that is one of: a time interval and a number of frames. The first images are retrieved from... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080155618 - System and method for managing multiple content sources: The preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for centralizing the scheduling of multiple tuners for recording content from various sources. In accordance with the preferred embodiment, a universal network tuner is created whereby the tuning capabilities of each networked device within a given geography... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080155620 - Apparatus, system and method for controlling multimedia system: An apparatus, a system and a method for controlling multimedia system are provided. In the present method, a received wireless communication signal is translated into a control code. Next, a reference table is looked up for obtaining a control instruction corresponding to the control code. The control instruction is used... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080155619 - Technique for dynamically controlling delivery of content: A technique for dynamically controlling delivery of content is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for controlling the delivery of subscriber television content over a network. The method comprises the steps of: receiving at least one content receiver designation associated with a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080155621 - Method and dvb-h system for providing broadcast image configuration information: A method is provided in which a broadcast provider can flexibly change and provide an image configuration of a digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) reception terminal. Information required to configure a broadcast service image is provided to the DVB-H reception terminal using Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) midlet. A J2ME midlet... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080155622 - Service associated with a broadcasting of digital content: In a network, which comprises an entity (11) for broadcasting digital contents and a server (10) storing auxiliary data to be associated with at least one digital content, at least one digital content is broadcast to terminals. At least one terminal command is broadcast in this digital content. At the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080155624 - Apparatus and method for providing adaptive broadcast service using classification schemes for usage environment description: Provided is an apparatus and method for providing an adaptive broadcasting service using classification schemes for Usage Environment Description (UED). The adaptive broadcasting service providing apparatus using UED classification scheme (CS) to provide a targeting function for selecting an Audio video (AV) program, a package or components of the package... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080155623 - High quality video delivery via the internet: A method of providing improved quality of Internet Protocol (IP) video content over the Internet involves, for an item of content, calculating a score representative of a likelihood that a particular viewer will order the item of content; if the score is greater than a threshold score T, then downloading... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080155626 - Information processing apparatus and content registration method, and program: The present invention registers a content so that its composition can be easily recognized, and promotes the reduction of a load in playing processing on the registered content, and improves convenience of users. Also, it evaluates the value of production of a content more properly. An information processing apparatus includes:... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080155625 - Sharing a streaming video: A video segment can be shared over a computer network by first receiving the video segment at a receiving computer on the network. The receiving computer assures that the video segment is in a streaming video format, and creates at least one identification tag for the video segment. The receiving... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155627 - Systems and methods of searching for and presenting video and audio: The invention relates to systems and methods for providing video segments over a network. In one embodiment, metadata identifying a video segment is received from a first client device and transmitted to a second client device on a platform different than the first client device, via a network. In another... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080155628 - Method and system for content sharing: The present invention provides a hyperlinking convention for Internet Protocol (IP) Television (TV) program content. A hyperlink comprises a resource identifier that identifies a location of the program content, and an index to a content segment within the program content. The content segment corresponds to a portion of the program... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080155629 - Method and system for sharing video over a network: A user can create a video segment or employ an existing video segment, and then share it over a computer network. The user provides an indication that one or more particular video segments are to be shared over the network. The video segment(s) is/are then automatically assessed and determined to... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155630 - Distributor-embedded cable modem module, tv receiver, set-top-box, and method for connecting distributor-embedded modem module to tuner module: According to one embodiment, a cable modem module includes a first RF terminal connected to a CATV center station via a cable and a second RF terminal connected to an external tuner module. The second RF terminal is provided to the distributor-embedded cable modem module in such a manner that... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080155632 - Method of interactive communication between communication terminals, server and interactive television network: A method of interactive communication between communication terminals comprises a step of definition of the characteristics of persons with whom a session initiator wishes to have interactive communication, the set of these persons forming a virtual community with this initiator; a step of definition, for the interactive communication session, of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080155631 - Sharing a streaming video: A video segment can be shared over a computer network by first receiving the video segment at a receiving computer on the network. The receiving computer assures that the video segment is in a streaming video format, and creates at least one identification tag for the video segment. The receiving... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080155633 - System and method for enhanced broadcasting and interactive television: An enhanced interactive television broadcast is disclosed wherein an audio/video broadcast is viewed on a first display system, and an “enhancement” to the broadcast is simultaneously viewed or experienced on a second, separate display system. The “enhancement” is synchronized to the broadcast, and delivered to a user as a code... Agent: The Walt Disney Company C/o Greenberg Traurig LLP

20080155635 - System and/or method for high-definition media distribution: The exemplary embodiments described herein relate to a high-definition media distribution system for use in connection with a media distribution network. At least one HD media source is provided. A plurality of non-HD media sources is provided. A media vault has access to the plurality of non-HD media sources. At... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080155634 - System sharing content: A portable wireless communications subscriber audio and/or video player apparatus and system and method for selecting, requesting, downloading, and playing audio and/or video data content files from an Internet-based database server. The wireless link is preferably implemented in accordance with the WiFi protocol, which allows connectivity to the Internet by... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080155636 - Set top box apparatus having a radio frequency antenna and an associated method: Systems, methods and devices are provided for enabling a wireless television network at a subscriber location in a subscriber television network, such as a cable or satellite television network. In general, a set top box apparatus is provided having a receiver configured to receive a media content signal from the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080155637 - Method and system for acquiring information on the basis of media content: A method and a system for acquiring information on the basis of a media content (106) is disclosed. The method includes detecting (304) one or more particular image patterns or audio patterns in the media content to correspond to one or more of a plurality of pre-defined image and audio... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080155638 - Method of reproducing interactive graphic streams from information storage medium: A method of reproducing one interactive graphics stream among one or more interactive graphics streams from an information storage medium, via a reproduction apparatus providing a visual display of interactive graphics, including obtaining attribute information in a player status register in the reproducing apparatus, and reading and reproducing one of... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080155640 - Broadcasting receiver and communication method using the broadcasting receiver: A method of performing communication between an Internet protocol (IP) address allocation server and an apparatus including a cable card and a host device is disclosed. In the communication method, the host acquires identification information of the cable card and transmits a message including the identification information of the cable... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080155639 - Data receiving apparatus: A video signal receiving apparatus controls a video display portion to display an error message when a video signal is received in a nonconforming video format. A user checks an error message and selects Yes through an input portion. A control portion of a video signal receiving apparatus controls a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080148306 - System for managing bandwidth: A system (10) for managing bandwidth for delivering webcasts from webcasters (50) to viewers (40), the system (10) comprising: a booking module (20) to receive webcast bookings from the webcasters (50), each booking defining technical and operational requirements for the webcast, the technical requirements including transmission speed of the webcast,... Agent: Paul D. Gornall Reg'd Patent & Tm Agent

20080148307 - Display device on/off detection methods and apparatus: Display device ON/OFF detection methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to determine whether a presentation device is ON or OFF comprises determining a plurality of metrics based on monitoring at least one output of the presentation device, wherein each metric in the plurality of metrics comprises... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080148308 - In-channel marketing and product testing system: An in-channel marketing and product testing system having a purchase environment module with instructions for generating a virtual purchase environment comprising a plurality of competitive products. The system also includes a panelist interface configured to receive panelist input, wherein the panelist interface is arranged in selective communication with the purchase... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080148309 - Audience measurement system and monitoring devices: Audience measurement systems having fixed and portable monitoring devices are provided. Embodiments of the audience measurement system may be suitable for monitoring programs viewed and/or listened to by one or more members of a sample household. The fixed monitoring device may be associated with a particular media device, for example,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080148310 - Parental controls in a media network: Access to media content is restricted. A message may be sent to a remote computer requesting access to the media content, wherein the message is based at least in part on user input. A response to the message may be received from the remote computer. It may be determined whether... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080148311 - Advertising and content management systems and methods: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for replacing an advertisement. The advertisement is categorized as overrideable, meaning the advertisement may be replaced with another advertisement. A request is received to replace the advertisement with the another advertisement. A scene, comprising content associated with the advertisement, is retrieved. The content is... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, Pllc

20080148312 - Screenplay-selectable video displaying method: The present invention relates to a screenplay-selectable video displaying method. According to a predetermined filename of a beginning plot, the plot is read and a video is to be played. During the playing process, the same screenplay is designed with plot files of different results. The selectable plot is used... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080148313 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: storing means for storing audio data and related information corresponding to the audio data; receiving means for acquiring electronic program guide information indicating programs scheduled to be broadcasted; and program selecting means for executing comparison processing for comparing predetermined related information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080148315 - Method and apparatus for facilitating program data acquisition: Methods and apparatus for facilitating program data acquisition. In one embodiment, a set-top box is set to enter an auto-off state based on a user-defined auto-off time. Once the set-top box has entered the auto-off state, a channel from which program guide data may be obtained may be automatically tune... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080148314 - Techniques for displaying data based on characteristics of a display device: A method of selecting a portion of a block of data for display based on characteristics of a display device. The method comprises several steps. In the first step, a block of Electronic Program Guide (EPG) data is received at a communication device adapted to process this data. Next, an... Agent: Sony C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080148316 - Method and system for providing information which relates in broadcasting: A system and method for providing information which relates in broadcasting are disclosed. In one aspect, there is a system, which includes: a first data transceiver receiving audio and time information related to the broadcast content from a mobile communication terminal; an information analyser determining a broadcast program containing the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080148317 - Systems and methods for presentation of preferred program selections: Preferred systems and methods are disclosed for navigating among a group or lists of programs, such as in a network terminal (such as a set top box) in a video program distribution system which presents a viewer with an electronic program guide comprising a plurality of program titles wherein the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080148318 - Method of providing application information of broadcast data service in dvb-h system, and system therefor: A method of providing a broadcast data service in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) system and a system therefore is provided. The system includes a broadcast service providing server for inserting at least one of application type information and application execution information into an acquisition fragment of an Electronic Service... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080148319 - Coordinating web media with time-shifted broadcast: A method and a program product are provided for coordinating web media with a time-shifted broadcast. Time perspective information for a time-shifted broadcast is acquired. Then, web content corresponding to the time perspective for the time-shifted broadcast is provided.... Agent: Steven E. Bach, Attorney At Law

20080148320 - System and method of scheduling an event related to an advertisement: A method of scheduling an event related to an advertisement includes transmitting media content to a set-top box. The media content includes an advertisement having a selectable reminder indicator related to the advertisement. The method further includes receiving an input selection related to the selectable reminder indicator and scheduling a... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080148321 - System, apparatus and method for single-channel or multi-channel terrestrial communication: A terrestrial radio system for delivering to consumers data transmission services, Internet services, two-way capabilities and single-channel or multi-channel video programming, including national, regional and local television broadcast signals, as well as an apparatus and method thereof. The terrestrial radio system transmits terrestrial signals at satellite-allocated frequencies while mitigating interference... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080148322 - System and method of providing video-on-demand content: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for distributing video-on-demand content. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving data at a server of a first multimedia service provider. The received data identifies a multimedia program available from a second multimedia service provider as video-on-demand... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080148323 - Video on demand methods and systems: An entertainment head-end provides broadcast programming, video-on-demand services, and HTML-based interactive programming through a distribution network to client terminals in subscribers' homes. A number of different features are provided, including novel user interfaces, enhanced video-on-demand controls, a variety of interactive services (personalized news, jukebox, games, celebrity chat), and techniques that... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080148324 - Admitting a data file into a channel: In a method for admitting a new data file into a channel, a request for admission of the new data file into the channel is received. It is determined as to whether at least a minimum number of bits of at least one current data file has been transferred to... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080148325 - Full duplex wideband communications system for a local coaxial network: Systems and methods are disclosed for a full duplex wideband communications system for a local (e.g. in-home) coaxial network. The system employs a Frequency-division duplex (FDD) scheme that allows identical wideband modems to communicate with each other. To achieve this, the wideband modems contain a duplexer and a switch that... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20080148327 - Method and apparatus for providing adaptive trick play control of streaming digital video: A method and system for providing adaptive trick play control of streaming digital video is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to change a rate of transmission of data packets from a first rate of transmission to a requested second rate of transmission. The data packets are transmitted at... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080148326 - Method and system for obtaining viewing information in broadband video system: The present invention provides a method and a system for obtaining viewing information in broadband video system; the present invention takes full advantage of the corresponding relation between user terminals and multicast groups in broadband video system to obtain user terminal information and then determine the viewing information of programs... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080148328 - Instant messaging with a media device: A content processing device is provided. Media content is selectively received by the content processing device for display on a media playback device. A software application is included on the content processing device and is configured to perform at least one of (a) receiving message content from a remote computer... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080148330 - Method and system for sharing video over a network: A user can create a video segment or employ an existing video segment, and then share it over a computer network. The user provides an indication that one or more particular video segments are to be shared over the network. The video segment(s) is/are then automatically assessed and determined to... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080148329 - Video over ip network transmission system: Methods are disclosed for maintaining a quality video stream in Internet Protocol (IP) mode include dynamically adjusting IP packet-loss periods and loss distances between IP packet-loss events.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080148331 - System and apparatus for managing media content: A system and apparatus for managing media content is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a terminal device can have a controller element that receives a media guide from a Set-Top Box (STB), and presents on a display unit of the terminal... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080148332 - Media manager: A content processing device within a customer premises is connected to a first network internal to the customer premises and is also connected to a second network external to the customer premises. The content processing device is configured to download via the second network, and then to execute, instructions to... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080148333 - Method and apparatus for managing audio/video (av) network: A method and apparatus for managing an audio/video (AV) network are provided. The method includes requesting a broadcast receiving apparatus to form an AV session; receiving a reply from the broadcast receiving apparatus; and setting an operating mode for the broadcast receiving apparatus using information included in the reply.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080148334 - Techniques to enable a wi-fi access point to convert dtv broadcasting into wi-fi broadcasting: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising an access point (AP) including a digital television (DTV) receiver.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080148335 - Expansion of television functionality: A method of expansion of a television receiver's functionality consistent with certain embodiments involves connecting an accessory device to the television receiver, wherein the accessory device adds functionality to the television receiver; sending a menu legend and an associated function command to the television receiver from the accessory device for... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080148336 - System and method of providing interactive video content: A method of providing interactive video content is presented that includes receiving video content from a video content source. An initial interactive content indicator is encoded within a closed-captioning portion of the video content at the video content source. The method also includes selecting a substitute uniform resource locator (URL)... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080148337 - Video detection cell: A switch for switching video signals in a set top box between a first interface for connecting the set top box to a television, a second interface for connecting the set top box to a video playback device, and decoding circuitry for decoding a video stream, the set top box... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080141293 - Convenient parental restriction control of video output: Apparatus and method for temporarily adjusting parental control restrictions without password entry or traversing configuration menus within a video device configured for displaying video or outputting a video stream to a display. Parental control can be implemented on television sets, fixed and removable video player devices, gaming consoles and personal... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20080141295 - Digital broadcast receiving apparatus: There is provided a digital broadcast receiving apparatus capable of notifying a user that an item in itself exists even if a blank exists in the name portion of an item in the variable RRT to prevent the user from omitting setting. The microcomputer 18 acquires a rating region table... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080141294 - Method and system for managing access to a video communication device: A method and system for managing access to a video communication device (102) is provided. The method comprises receiving (304) a communication request for one or more communication services. The method also comprises associating (306) the requested one or more communication services with at least one communication service identifier. Further,... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080141296 - Method and system for providing wireless lan service using rental digital television: A method and system for providing a wireless LAN service using a rental digital television is provided. When a wireless-LAN-embedded digital television leased to a first user is turned on, the digital television accesses a management authentication server using a service server included in the digital television to determine whether... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080141297 - Method of display advertising with tv visualizations: Apparatus and method for outputting advertising displays from a video device, preferably having an integral display. The video device is configured for outputting a source of regular video content when in an active mode. When switched to a stand-by mode then visualizations containing advertising are output instead of the regular... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20080141299 - Private user data: Another embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for extracting private user data. A data sequence in a packetized transport stream is parsed to obtain a user data identifier (UDI) associated with a pre-defined data structure. The UDI is registered with a registration authority and is different from a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080141298 - Remote media detection and presentation: Media experiences may be presented to a user on a local device organized by category and subcategory, even though the experiences may be served from various sources located on a network. A remote device with available media may establish a secure connection with the local device and transmit a mechanism... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080141300 - Method of processing broadcast signal associated with emergency alert system in terrestrial broadcasting and broadcast receiver for the same: A broadcast signal associated with an emergency alert system in terrestrial broadcasting, a processing method thereof, and a broadcast receiver for the same are disclosed, by which information on a channel for carrying emergency alert news can be completely prevented from being overlapped with information on other general channels in... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080141302 - Apparatus and method for collaborating between a video device and a telephonic device: An apparatus and method for collaborating over a short-range communication path between a video output device, such as a television, and a telephonic device which is also configured for simultaneous communication over a long-range communication path. Call progress of the telephonic device is annunciated by the video output device whose... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20080141301 - Methods and systems for delivering personalized health related messages and advertisements: Systems and methods, for delivering targeted content to specific individuals, that provide health related information about an individual; correlates the individual with the targeted content based at least in part on the health related information; and delivers the targeted content to the individual through a device for delivering media content.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080141303 - Interactive media guidance system having multiple devices: When selecting a television program for recording, a user may configure the delivery of the selected television program and associated data and interactive applications to different user equipment devices in a home network, which may have different capabilities. Because the user equipment devices in the home network may have different... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080141305 - Interactive service provision method and relevant device and system: The present invention discloses an interactive service provision method mainly including: associating a program with interactive service information, acquiring the interactive service information associated with the program and presenting the interactive service information by the set-top box when the program is played, according to interaction attribute of the program indicating... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080141304 - Portable terminal, displaying method, and storage medium: A portable terminal includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain program information via a network from a providing apparatus that provides the program information, the program information being used to display a program guide; a program-information storing unit configured to store the program information obtained; a displaying unit configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080141306 - Method of sending media program information to a subscriber and nodes therefor: A method and nodes are introduced to allow pushing from a network towards an IP television (IPTV) terminal an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) in an optimized manner. An IPTV server stores a personalized EPG based on a generic EPG and on a subscriber profile. Upon changes to the personalized EPG,... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080141308 - Apparatus and method for providing adaptive broadcast service using usage environment description including biographic information and terminal information: Provided is an adaptive broadcasting service providing apparatus using UED information including biographic information and terminal information. The apparatus can provide a targeting function for selecting AV program, package or components of the package based on a user consumption environment and preference by defining biographic information and terminal information for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080141307 - Customized media on demand: A profile includes an indication of one or more topics of interest. A mixing server is configured to create a custom media channel based on the profile. A playback application is configured to provide the custom media channel upon a request from a user, wherein the custom media channel includes... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080141311 - Programmed recording apparatus for tv programs: A program recording apparatus in which the maximum number of recording reservations in the same time zone is determined by the number of tuners included in the apparatus. The apparatus includes a program guide generating unit for generating a program guide which displays a balloon message in the case where... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080141309 - Retrieving lost content for a scheduled program: In an embodiment, content is received on a channel between a scheduled start time and a scheduled stop time. A schedule specifies a planned transmission of a scheduled program between the scheduled start time and the scheduled stop time. The received content is recorded to a saved program. A determination... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080141310 - System and method for managing content on a digital video recorder: A system for managing a digital video recorder includes a transceiver for receiving program signals from a media source and for transmitting the program signals to a display device. The transceiver is further operative to transmit information regarding the digital video recorder to the display device to generate a user-interface... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080141312 - Interactive video tour system editor: A computer system, method, and apparatus for editing an interactive image video tour. The system may include a computer including an image editor for providing a visual program interface for editing an interactive image video tour; a database in communication with the computer containing data associated with a plurality of... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080141313 - Authentication bootstrap by network support: An authoritative server and method are described herein that enable a person to use a Video-on-Demand (VoD) service subscription on their mobile phone (e.g., user device) to have a service operator (e.g., IMS operator) stream a video to a target device (e.g., TV terminal, computer terminal) instead of to their... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080141314 - System for handoff of aircraft-based content delivery to enable passengers to receive the remainder of a selected content from a terrestrial location: The Content Delivery Handoff System enables a passenger's wireless device, operating in an airborne wireless cellular network, to receive selected content and to ensure continuity and/or completion of the content delivery when the aircraft reaches its destination before the entirety of the selected content is delivered to the passenger. This... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080141315 - On-board vessel entertainment system: An improved user experience is provided for passengers on a vessel such as an airplane, train or ship. Passengers can customize their travel experience ahead of time by accessing a web-based server system to indicate preferences with respect to a number of in-flight entertainment options. The passenger's experience is also... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080141316 - Automatic adjustment of devices in a home entertainment system: 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.

20080141317 - Systems and methods for media source selection and toggling: Systems and methods for switching or toggling between various media content sources are provided. One or more standard versions of a requested media asset may be automatically mapped to an enhanced version, if available within the media system. An on-screen toggle option may also be presented, allowing the user to... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080141318 - Client apparatus, server, and method for providing broadcast service: An apparatus and method for providing broadcast programs. The method of providing a broadcast program in a client apparatus, includes generating final frame information identifying a frame corresponding to a broadcast watching stop time of a broadcast program that a user has been watching; transmitting the final frame information to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080141319 - Method and system for setting channel in dvb-h service: Provided is a method and system for setting a new channel when a DVB-H terminal sets a channel initially or changes the channel. The method includes a DVB-H server transmitting Program Specific Information (PSI)/Service Information (SI) and burst data of Audio/Video (A/V) streams corresponding to a plurality of service channels,... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080141321 - Content storage and delivery systems and associated methods: Systems and methods are provided for the storage of content on a network and the delivery of content to subscriber locations. According to one system and method, content is delivered to a set-top box from a content source in the process of transmitting the same content to another set-top box.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080141320 - System and method of providing public video content: Disclosed is a system and method of providing public video content. The method includes receiving video content of a public video content channel at a set-top box device via a private access network of a video distribution system, where the video content is accessible to the video distribution system via... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080141322 - System for providing broadcasting content information and method for providing broadcasting service in the system: A system and method for providing information about currently broadcast content at a broadcasting server. A multimedia broadcasting system includes a broadcasting server for broadcasting a packet including a broadcasting content ID corresponding to currently broadcast broadcasting content for each broadcasting channel and a broadcasting reception terminal for receiving a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080141323 - Content information outputting apparatus, content information receiving apparatus, content information outputting method, content information receiving method: The content information outputting apparatus according to the present invention includes: a storage unit for storing multimedia contents; a transmitting and receiving unit; a message processing unit which extracts, from a request message, a search condition from a terminal; a content searching unit which searches for a media content, based... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080141324 - Iptv supplementary service control system and method: An IPTV supplementary service control system and an IPTV supplementary service method using the system are provided. The IPTV supplementary service control system decrypts an IPTV supplementary service request contained in an SOAP message contained in a set-top box in order to provide the IPTV supplementary service. The IPTV supplementary... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080141325 - Systems and methods for dynamic conversion of web content to an interactive walled garden program: Systems and methods to dynamically convert Web content to an interactive program for display on resource constrained television clients are described. In particular, a head-end server in a digital television entertainment system downloads the Web content from an external data source. The head-end server dynamically transcodes the downloaded content into... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080141326 - Interactive gaming channel video stream with nested features: An interactive gaming channel presented on a monitor, with a plurality of transponders being used to present the games available at a given time. Such a channel in accordance with the present invention comprises a game selection screen, comprising a genre selection area and a game selection area, related to... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080141327 - Apparatus and method for configuring and executing function of application appropriate to broadcast-receiving device: An apparatus and method for configuring and executing an application appropriate to a broadcast-receiving device are provided. The apparatus includes an application-generating unit that generates an application having at least two functions to be selectively performed by the broadcast-receiving device and information related with the application, and an application-transmitting unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080141328 - Content storage and delivery system and associated method and device: A system is provided for the storage of content on a network and the delivery of content to subscriber locations. The system includes routers and subscriber set-top boxes in communication with each other and a main content source. Content is delivered over a packet-switching network according to a peer to... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080141329 - Device control using multi-dimensional motion sensing and 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.

20080134228 - Customer loyalty based system internet protocol television advertising mechanism: A system, method, and computer readable medium for customer loyalty based Internet Protocol television advertising, comprises, recording a viewership of a viewed advertisement, collecting a view time of the viewed advertisement, and crediting a viewer with having viewed the advertisement.... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080134229 - Methods and apparatus for awarding consumers of advertising content: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for awarding consumers of advertising content. In general, a user of the disclosed system consumes a program (e.g., a television show) distributed from a program distributor (e.g., a television broadcaster) to a program player (e.g., a television). The program from the program distributor... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080134230 - Apparatus and method for extracting conditional access internal message in mobile multimedia broadcasting system: Provided is an apparatus and method for extracting a conditional access internal message which can efficiently extract a conditional access internal message including an entitlement control message (ECM)/entitlement management message (EMM) without fast information channel (FIC) of a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) frame in a mobile multimedia broadcasting system. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080134231 - Broadcast receiving device: A broadcast receiving device includes a table storage component, a setup condition storage component, a table acquisition component, a first determination component, a second determination component and a display control component. The table storage component stores a first viewing control table including first viewing control conditions. The setup condition storage... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080134233 - Digital broadcasting receiving device: A microcomputer 18 obtains a variable RRT from a broadcast signal and stores, in a recording medium, the variable RRT in association with a physical channel; sets a viewing restriction flag for an item in the variable RRT based on an operation input from a user; applies viewing restriction to... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080134232 - Methods for controlling rendering of images and video: The present invention relates generally to digital watermarking and steganographic encoding. One claimed method recites a method including: obtaining video or image data, the video or image data comprising information steganographically hidden in data representing perceptual portions of the video or image data; analyzing the video or image data to... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080134234 - Conditional access filter as for a packet video signal inverse transport system: A method for transmitting and processing by a system packetized data stream comprising audio and video components and program guide information. The program guide information has a predetermined service identifier and includes service identifier information associated with audio and video program components. The program guide information is used to identify... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080134235 - Telepresence via wireless streaming multicast: A method is disclosed which provides for multicasting video of an event, thereby allowing geographically dispersed members of a user's social network to experience a user's current locale, so that the user's friends may join him via live video at events (concerts, clubs, or other venues) which they cannot attend... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080134236 - Method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of advertisements: A method and an apparatus for reproducing advertisement data stored on a receiving side, and a recording medium for recording reproduction procedures are provided. Weighting for priority of reproduction with respect to each of a plurality of pieces of advertisement data stored on the receiving side is executed, a priority... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080134237 - Automatically reconfigurable multimedia system with interchangeable personality adapters: A TV-set is equipped with HDMI and USB connections that allow it to display and run audio-video content from a variety of conventional consumer devices. The TV-set is further equipped to provide a secure HDMI-USB interface that will allow the transfer of licensed high definition content and Internet subscriber services.... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20080134238 - Broadcast receiving device: A broadcast receiving device includes a table storage component, a viewing control acquisition component, a first determination component and a table production component. The viewing control acquisition component acquires program viewing control information including a column number and a row number. The first determination component determines whether or not to... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080134240 - Device and method for modifying video image of display apparatus: A method for modifying a video image of a display apparatus, the method including dividing received broadcast signals into a video signal, an audio signal, and supplementary information, converting the video signal to a video image and displaying the converted video image, displaying a video image modifying menu for allowing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080134239 - Multiple interactive electronic program guide system and methods: A multiple Interactive Program Guide (IPG) system provides different television programming and different IPGs to several different users respectively. A single set-top box is capable of providing programming and scheduling data to several different television sets. Each of the different IPGs share a common database. Therefore, a first IPG being... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080134241 - Broadcast receiver capable of enlarging broadcast-related information on screen and method of controlling the broadcast receiver: A method of controlling a broadcast receiver and which includes displaying a broadcast program on a screen of the broadcast receiver, determining if a broadcast-related information enlargement mode is selected, and enlarging the broadcast-related information on the screen of the broadcast receiver when the determining step determines the broadcast-related information... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080134244 - Broadcast receiving system: A broadcast receiving system includes a broadcast receiving device and a remote control. The broadcast receiving device receives television broadcasts. The broadcast receiving device includes a program information storage component, a search component and an output component. The program information storage component stores program information for receivable programs. The program... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080134242 - Multi-source switching in a television system: The present invention provides a tuning scheme for coordinating schedule information and programs received from multiple sources (26, 28, 30 and 34). In the preferred embodiment, an identifier associated with the program's channel (52) is used to identify a source device (26, 28, 30 or 34). When a user selects... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080134243 - Multi-source switching in a television system: The present invention provides a tuning scheme for coordinating schedule information and programs received from multiple sources (26, 28, 30 and 34). In the preferred embodiment, an identifier associated with the program's channel (52) is used to identify a source device (26, 28, 30 or 34). When a user selects... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080134245 - Portable video programs: A method for providing portable delivery of television programs using a portable wireless device (PWD) involves receiving an instruction transmitted from the PWD at a television receiver system, the instruction comprising television program information relating to a television program currently being received by and displayed on the PWD; retrieving electronic... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080134246 - Information descriptor and extended information descriptor data structures for digital television signals: According to an aspect, there is provided a digital television (DTV) data stream including program and system information protocol (PSIP) data associated with content of the DTV data stream, the PSIP data including a virtual channel table (VCT) and an event information table (EIT), the EIT comprising: a source identification... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080134247 - Information descriptor and extended information descriptor data structures for digital television signals: According to an aspect, there is provided a digital television (DTV) data stream including program and system information protocol (PSIP) data associated with content of the DTV data stream, the PSIP data including a virtual channel table (VCT) and an event information table (EIT), the EIT comprising: a source identification... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080134249 - Channel control method for iptv service and apparatus thereof: A channel control method and apparatus for an IPTV service are provided. In order to search for and select channels according to program viewing preference of a user, the channel control method for an IPTV service includes: mode setting operation setting a favorite channel mode and a basic channel mode... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080134250 - Method, server, set top box and system for customizing an electronic program guide interface: The present invention discloses a method, a server, a Set Top Box and a system for customizing an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) interface. The invention at least includes: combining an EPG template with a dynamic data value and parsing to generate an EPG interface which may be finally displayed. Specifically,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080134248 - Tv program search apparatus: Record history record processing accumulates all user operations relating to program recording in a storage as a recording history. Preference change analysis processing extracts recorded programs in the most recent period from the recording history, obtains the weight of a word in the recorded program from an index from an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080134251 - End of program pattern detector: Systems and methods are set forth for detecting an end of program pattern. More specifically, systems and methods are set forth for recognizing and acting upon sequential image data that contains an end of program pattern.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080134252 - Recording video broadcasts that end at a time different than the originally scheduled time: A computer implemented method and digital video recorder for recording a show, wherein the show comprises video and audio transmitted by a broadcaster. The digital video recorder is set to record the show at a start time, an end time, and a channel. An overtime signal is received from the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080134253 - Data upload and broadcast system: A TV content transmission and broadcasting system comprising means for transmitting video content to a server; means for reviewing the content; means for allocating a unique identifier to the content; means for broadcasting the content via a TV channel; and means enabling votes to be cast for that content whereby... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080134255 - Communication system and method: A remote control device for consumer broadcast receivers, particularly television and radio receivers, is disclosed. In addition to the remote control features normally found on such a device, the device also contains a display on which advertisements, product and service offers, and other information (collectively, “display data”) may be shown... Agent: Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro

20080134256 - Portable video programs: A method for providing portability of television programs involves at a first television receiving device, requesting at least a portion of program identifying information associated with a television program currently playing on a second television receiving device; at the first television receiving device, receiving the at least a portion of... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080134254 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed high definition video data using a beamforming acquisition protocol: A system and method for obtaining a transmit beamforming vector for transmission of high definition video data over a wireless medium is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises at least one transceiver, a memory configured to store a first transmit beamforming vector, and a processor configured to i) perform... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080134257 - Gleaning localized information via at least one satellite television broadcast: A method of gleaning localized information via at least one satellite television broadcast includes receiving, at a call center, information from at least one information source, the information relating to at least one incident and at least one geographic location. A geographic region for the at least one incident is... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080134259 - Method, server and system for subscribing for presence information: The present invention discloses a method, a server and a system for subscribing for Presence Information, wherein the method includes: receiving a request from a watcher for subscribing Presence Information; obtaining a public group that is allowed to subscribe from the authorization rules of the publisher of the Presence Information;... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080134258 - Multi-source and resilient video on demand streaming system for a peer-to-peer subscriber community: Centralized video on demand (VoD) systems offer limited content and limited archival ability. Peer-to-peer networks allow users to share a wide selection of content directly among peers, but connections between peers may have limited uplink bandwidth and may be unreliable. The present invention according to various embodiments contemplates systems and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080134260 - Systems, methods and apparatus for providing sequences of media segments and corresponding interactive data on a channel in a media distribution system: Systems, methods and apparatus for producing, distributing and presenting media presentations include identifying, providing and generating a sequence of media segments from a plurality of media presentations, optionally in combination with associated interactive services, so as to define a media channel.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080134261 - Viewing information distribution system, television reception apparatus, and information processing apparatus: A system allowing a viewer of a program to know a rating is provided. A viewing information distribution system includes an IP telephone management server and each television connected to the Internet. The television is controlled by a signal emitted from a remote control terminal having an IP telephone function.... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080134262 - Depi interface device for m-cmts cable system and method thereof: A downstream external PHY interface (DEPI) interface apparatus for a modular-cable modem termination system (M-CMTS) cable system complying with a data over cable service interface specifications (DOCSIS) standard is provided. The DEPI interface apparatus for an M-CMTS cable system complying with the DOCSIS standard includes: an Ethernet interface transmitting Ethernet... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080134263 - Outlet with analog signal adapter, a method for use thereof and a network using said outlet: An outlet for a LAN, containing an integrated adapter that converts digital data to and from analog video signals, allowing the use of analog video units in a digital data network or telephone line-based data networking system, eliminating the need for digital video units or external adapter. The outlet may... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080134266 - Digital broadcasting system and error correction method thereof: A digital broadcasting system and an error correction method thereof includes: a server to group a predetermined number of multicast packets to obtain Forward Error Correction (FEC) groups for digital broadcast data (MPEG TS) transmission, to create FEC data for each multicast packet using digital broadcast data (MPEG TS) of... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080134265 - Image display system: An image display system allowing a plurality of users to enjoy viewing programs is provided. The image display system includes a plurality of television sets connected to the Internet, and an IP telephone management server. The IP telephone management server has a friend list as data including information about television... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080134264 - Method and apparatus for interactivity with broadcast media: A method and apparatus for interactivity with broadcast media is provided. The method includes capturing (404) a plurality of audio segments from a plurality of broadcasts. The plurality of broadcasts correspond to a plurality of broadcast channels. Further, the method includes receiving (406) an audio clip from an electronic device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080134267 - Remote access to internet protocol television by enabling place shifting utilizing a telephone company network: A system, method, and computer readable medium for remote access to Internet Protocol television by enabling place shifting utilizing a telephone company network, that comprises, confirming an identity of a remote Internet Protocol enabled device, managing a rate of a data stream to the remote Internet Protocol enabled device based... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080134269 - Iptv service system and method for efficient multicast of mpeg-ts: Provided are an IPTV service system and a method thereof. The IPTV service system includes: a headend, a set-top box, and a plurality of multicast routers. The headend assigns a multicast group address for each channel and assigns a source address for each PID with respect to an MPEG-TS and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080134268 - Multimedia broadcasting system, device, and operation method: This invention is related to a multimedia broadcasting system and device. The system comprises a server and a plurality of broadcasting device. The broadcasting devices are connected to the server through a proxy server and network interface. The server build in a network database, a customer database, a content database,... Agent: Hwei-tsu Luh

20080134270 - Programming management system, programming management apparatus, programming management method, and programming management program: The programming management system is a system in which a plurality of programming management apparatuses 2 and 3 for managing programming information for programming an operation of devices 4 and 5 and the devices 4 and 5 are connected to each other via a network 1. The system includes: detecting... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080134271 - System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a relay device for power saving: An apparatus and method for achieving power saving for a portable device in a wireless network for transmitting audio/video (A/V) data is disclosed. An optimal transmit power level is selected by transmitting multiple probe messages by a portable device at increasing transmit power levels until a response to one of... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20080134272 - Service providing system and application executing method employing the same: A disclosed service providing system includes a server configured to deliver an image; and an image display terminal device configured to receive the image from the server via a communication network and display the image on a monitor. The server starts up and executes an application program at the server... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080134273 - Intelligent device system and method for distribution of digital signals on a wideband signal distribution system: A plurality of intelligent device systems for use with a wideband signal distribution network, and methods for transmitting digital information and receiving digital and non-digital information onto and off of an RF carrier through a wideband signal distribution network, are disclosed. The intelligent device systems provide networks of intelligent devices... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080134275 - Broadcast reception apparatus and broadcast reception method: According to one embodiment, a broadcast reception apparatus includes a first tuner section which demodulates a broadcast signal and outputs audio and video signals, a second tuner section which is operated independently from the first tuner section, and a control section which receives broadcast signals of respective channels of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080134274 - Configuration management for co-located network systems: One receiver is configured in the main state and the other receivers are configured in the secondary state. The receivers are communicatively coupled to each other via a local communications link and the main receiver determines the co-location state of the secondary states, and transmits authorization information to the secondary... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080134276 - Receiver and aspects thereof: A method of provisioning a mobile communications device with a digital audio broadcast (DAB) application configured to run on the mobile communications device, the method comprising: generating a request for at least one component of the DAB application using a communications application of said mobile communications device; communicating the request... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080134277 - Multi-access content server with security management for iptv: A system and method for distributing content over multiple networks may include at least two encoders configured to encode the content in formats for play on devices having different formats. A metadata management unit may be configured to apply information associated with the content to the content in the form... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080134278 - Set-top box and method for operating the set-top box using a mobile telephone: A system and method are described that allow for both call control data and voice data to be transferred between a mobile radiotelephone and a set-top box or residential gateway. When a mobile radiotelephone is placed into a docking station or near the set-top box or residential gateway, both devices... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080134279 - Frequency translation apparatus: An architecture and protocol enables signal communications between a frequency translation module and a plurality of decoders within a dwelling. According to an exemplary embodiment, the frequency translation module includes a plurality of inputs operative to receive a plurality of bands of television signals. A plurality of tuners is connected... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080134280 - Dvb-h receiving terminal and method for frequency scanning in dvb-h receiving terminal: Disclosed is a method for efficiently scanning a frequency of a new broadcasting area when a DVB-H receiving terminal moves. To this end, the DVB-H terminal stores in advance in a table DVB-H frequency changes according to the broadcasting area based on each cell whenever it moves. Then, the DVB-H... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.