Interactive video distribution systems inventions 08/08

20080209462 - Method and service for providing access to premium content and dispersing payment therefore: A method and system for providing premium content and dispersing payment therefore. The method includes entering into an agreement with at least one partner that provides premium content and entering into an agreement with at least one customer that grants the customer access to premium content provided by at least... Agent: Mark S. Leonardo Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP

20080209463 - Information management system and method, center processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium used therewith, and information processing apparatus and method, and program and recording medium used therewith: The present invention provides users with functions matching their preferences. In an information processing apparatus, a user-information analyzing unit analyzes user information and calculates a variation in parameter. A procedure selecting unit classifies, based on the calculated amount, the user into a predetermined group, and acquires, from a procedure database,... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080209464 - Mobile cable subscription: A system, method and computer readable medium are described that allow a traveler to receive content similar to what that subscriber receives at home. In one case, the subscriber receives local content but at a tier of service that is similar to the tier of service the subscriber enjoys at... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080209465 - Systems and methods for supplementing on-demand media: Systems and methods for providing supplemental content with on-demand media in an interactive television application are described.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080209466 - Broadcasting data converter: A relay station comprises an emergency information detection unit for detecting an emergency information broadcasting flag in the digital broadcasting TMCC signal transmitted from the center station; a replacement data creation unit for issuing an instruction for creating replacement contents and replacing the data when emergency information is multiplexed in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080209467 - Broadcast signal processing apparatus and control method thereof: A broadcast signal processing apparatus, includes: a signal processor which processes a broadcast signal of a broadcast program to display an image corresponding to the broadcast program, an information receiver which receives source data having predetermined broadcast information on the broadcast program, an information storage unit which stores at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080209468 - Clock-based user interface for audio/video play lists navigation/editing: An apparatus for navigating an area (218) of memory (142), such as a play list of recorded audio/video, includes a clock-face-based user interface (128) with superimposed, rotatable clock hands (132, 136, 404, 408). In one embodiment, items may be added to, or deleted from, the play list at the navigated-to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080209470 - Electronic program guide generation: A receiver-decoder apparatus has a receiver-decoder circuit capable of receiving and decoding broadcast television signals of different services to generate therefrom a video signal for display of an image on a display device. The apparatus has an EPG generator for generating a signal for display on said display device of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080209469 - Extensible encoding for interactive user experience elements: Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows for storage and playback of interactive user elements in a television stream. In one approach to this technology, a content data stream, including a television program and a user experience element, is received. This content data stream is transformed, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080209471 - Program table display device and program table display method: According to one embodiment, in a case of displaying an electronic program table prepared based on program information so that the table can move on a screen, when it is requested that the displayed electronic program table be moved to display, on the screen, a portion corresponding to a date... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080209472 - Emphasized mosaic video channel with interactive user control: An interactive mosaic channel video stream is disclosed. Such a channel is 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 information, each video cell associated with one of the plurality... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080209473 - Method and apparatus for building an electronic program guide based on channel profiles: A method and apparatus for building an electronic programming guide based on statistical information about the history of broadcasted programs where the programming information is obtained on the basis of currently available schedule information and where a broadcast system spreads programming information across a plurality of transport streams. Each time... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080209474 - Method and apparatus for managing tv channel lists: Disclosed are a system and method for generating a favorite list from a plurality of broadcast/Internet contents according to the preferences of the user. A plurality of incoming television and Internet contents is examined to identify a particular program liked by a viewer according to a past viewing history, then... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080209475 - Information recording and reproducing apparatus: An information recording and reproducing apparatus includes a tuner, a recording and reproducing unit to record a television program selected by the tuner into a recording medium and to reproduce the television program recorded in the recording medium, and a system controller that includes a program identification information storage unit... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080209476 - Live integration of push-to-talk (ptt) audio with independent video feed: The present invention discloses a mosaic video channel and a system for generating the mosaic video channel. A system in accordance with the present invention indicates an audio input for a mosaic video channel displayed on a monitor, with a plurality of individual video feeds being presented at a given... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080209477 - Promotion and degradation of soft erasure information using crc and proceding decoder information: This invention describes a system and method for assigning four levels of priority to erasures and promoting/degrading erasures by confining the number of locations to which erasures are assigned using decoder information from a preceding RS decoder and a CRC. The preceding decoder produces soft-erasure information based on blocks of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080209478 - Single-wire multiswitch and channelized rf cable test meter: Multiple embodiments of systems for testing the delivery of satellite and cable television signals are described.... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080209479 - Connection interface for personal electronic devices with a television: A connection interface allows individuals (such as guests at a lodging facility) to use portable personal electronic devices (such as laptop computers, digital audio players, and digital audio/video players) in conjunction with a television. The connection interface device includes inputs to receive signals from various portable devices, and includes selection... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20080209480 - Method for enhanced video programming system for integrating internet data for on-demand interactive retrieval: A digital information system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. Pllc

20080209481 - Directly access attached video on demand delivery: An apparatus and method for managing requests for video on demand media data for effecting VoD stream delivery, including an interface for receiving data requests addressed for processing by a particular data request service device, an agent operatively coupled to the interface and configured for selecting which of a number... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.c.

20080209484 - Automatic creation of thumbnails for music videos: There is provided a method for automatically creating a music video thumbnail (50) from a music video signal (12). The music video signal is separated into a music signal (16) and a video signal (18). The music signal is analysed by detecting similarity regions and the sections of the music... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080209485 - Information provision apparatus, information receiving apparatus, and storage medium: The present invention comprises a synchronization section for performing synchronization of an AV stream and metadata, and a capsulization section for capsulizing an AV stream and metadata every metadata unit, and by reconfiguring metadata unit by unit and capsulizing an AV stream by this means, makes possible partial execution of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080209482 - Methods, systems. and products for retrieving audio signals: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for retrieving audio signals. A video signal is received that is associated with a content identifier and an alternate audio tag. In response to the alternate audio tag, a query is made for an alternate audio source that corresponds to the content identifier. A... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, Pllc

20080209483 - System and method for providing rss content in a broadcast system: A system and method for providing RSS content in a broadcast system. According to one embodiment, a method for providing RSS content in a broadcast system comprises the acts of: periodically retrieving, at a broadcast station (102), RSS content from at least one remote source (110) storing the RSS content;... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080209487 - Remote control for video media servers: Systems and methods are described for remote control of a media server computer from a controller device, typically a laptop computer, where remote operation of the media server, including the selection of videos and other digital media may be performed from the controller while normal TV programming (cable, satellite, or... Agent: Robert Osann, Jr.

20080209486 - System for live television broadcasting from a mobile telephone: The invention relates to a system for live television broadcasting from a mobile telephone. The inventive system comprises: a mobile telephone (1) with UMTS technology, a server (4) with software for receiving a call over the Internet and for transmitting the video signal by means of a card with an... Agent: Brown & Michaels, Pc 400 M & T Bank Building

20080209488 - Network-extensible reconfigurable media appliance: Extensible reconfigurable media appliance for security and entertainment captures images digitally for storage. Digital effects and filters are applied to incoming video stream on-the-fly or to video data stored in memory. Digital effects and filters are dynamically stored, modified, updated or deleted, providing extensible reconfigurable effects studio. Digital media appliance... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20080209489 - System and method for transmitting digital content using cable modem termination system (cmts) bypass architecture: A method and system for transmitting digital content, such as Internet Protocol television (IPTV) content, to a downstream modulator, such as an Edge Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (EQAM) modulator, within a cable system that includes a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS), such as a modular CMTS (M-CMTS). Content is transmitted from... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080209490 - Methods in transmission and searching of video information: In a method for transmission of video information between HTTP servers and clients in a shared network resource, particularly Internet, the video information is stored as a video file consisting of packet-divided video streams compression-coded with average bit rates t(c) which cover the clients' expected channel bit rates s. Each... Agent: Jacobson Holman Pllc

20080209491 - Personal content server apparatus and methods: Personal content server apparatus and associated methods that allow a user (e.g., cable or satellite network subscriber) to access content, such as a video program, from a location outside the subscriber's network. In one embodiment, a personal content server streams the content to the subscriber over a network connection from... Agent: Robert F. Gazdzinski Gazdzinski & Associates

20080209492 - Data transmission method, data reception processing method, event-driven type file creating apparatus, event-driven type file reading apparatus, data storing method, data processing method, program recording medium, transmission method, receiving method,: Disclosed is a data transmission method for transmitting: data consisting of at least one of character data, image data, and voice data; an event descriptor describing an event for triggering the processing of the data; a condition descriptor describing a condition (including no condition) for the processing of the data;... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080209493 - Contents browsing apparatus and method: Provided are a content browsing apparatus and method. The method includes: generating a terminal profile which includes system information and a user profile which includes information regarding user-preferred contents; receiving broadcasting contents or Web contents based on the information regarding the user-preferred contents included in the user profile; and rendering... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080209494 - Network architecture for intelligent network elements: Hybrid fiber/coax networks employ the existing cable plant used for cable TV and transmit data signals in a frequency bandwidth above that which is used for cable TV. As this cable plant was deployed in a tree and branch topology, data transmissions may be susceptible to noise, variable transmission loss... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080209495 - Audio video network system , set-top box, image display apparatus and method for offering user interface: A home audio video network system for providing a remote user interface (UI) to image display apparatuses coupled to a set-top box, a set-top box, an image display apparatus and a method for offering a UI are provided. The system includes a set-top box which analyzes an event and outputs... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080209496 - Power management method and system of set-top box, and power manageable set-top box: A power management system of a set-top box includes a display module, connected to the set-top box via a video terminal, for transmitting video terminal information, produced by video terminal selection of a user, to the set-top box; and the set-top box, when the video terminal information is received from... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080209497 - Method for reestablishing presentation of a paused media program: A method for reestablishing presentation of a paused media program is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Set-Top Box (STB) located in a building can have a controller element that presents a media program to a media device operable only in... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080209498 - Method and apparatus for recording digital programs and storage medium storing program supplementary information by using the same method: A method and apparatus for recording digital program by transforming program supplementary information into graphic data are provided. The apparatus includes a supplementary information analyzer, a graphic data generator and a disk generator. The supplementary information analyzer extracts program supplementary information from a digital program signal and analyzes the program... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080209499 - Channel change latency reduction: A wireless communication system is enhanced to allow for low-latency channel surfing and to enable a user to quickly see the content carried over a selected channel while searching channels for desired content. The techniques for reducing the channel change latency may be implemented in a transmitter, receiver, or in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080209500 - Tv-centric system: A method for abstracting a TV hardware component to a service class to facilitate providing services through a TV.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080201731 - System and method for single sign on targeted advertising: A method is disclosed for sending targeted advertising data, the method including monitoring in a plurality of data communications networks, single sign on (SSO) subscriber event data from a first SSO subscriber end user device and a second SSO subscriber end user device, calculating product interest correlation scores in a... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080201732 - Method and apparatus for improving a channel change rate in an opencable system: A method and system for improving a channel change rate using a conditional access table/program map table (CAT/PMT) to be transmitted in an out-of-band (OOB) band. First main data including a channel ID of a scrambled channel and Conditional access table (CAT) information corresponding thereto and defining a version is... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080201733 - Systems and methods for channeling client network activity: As one example, a system for facilitating a market for channels is provided that enable access to Internet users. The system comprises a channel server including multiple channels, each of which are defined at least in part by an activity profile associated with the channel, where for at least one... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080201734 - Association of ads with tagged audiovisual content: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting advertisements. In one aspect, audiovisual content is presented to a user. An indicator is presented together with the audiovisual content to the user. The indicator is associated with one or more tags. Input selecting the indicator is received from the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080201735 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: In the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus for recommending contents. The information processing apparatus may include recommended content extracting means for, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, during a period within a predetermined time from a point in time at which the predetermined condition is satisfied,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080201736 - Using triggers with video for interactive content identification: Access to interactive content at a client device through the use of triggers is disclosed. The client device is coupled to a television communication network and receives an encoded broadcast video stream containing at least one trigger. The client device decodes the encoded broadcast video stream and parses the broadcast... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080201737 - Freezing live video frames with interactive links: An embodiment of the present invention allows a user to maintain the display of a video frame containing one or more interactive links while also maintaining access to the links. Thus allowing the user to select and examine any desired links at his own pace. For one embodiment, the display... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080201738 - Digital broadcast playback method for mobile terminal: A digital broadcast playback method for a mobile terminal is disclosed. The digital broadcast playback method includes updating, upon transitioning to a broadcast reception mode, electronic service guide (ESG) data, displaying a service channel list using the ESG data, selecting a service channel in the service channel list, downloading at... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080201740 - Internet television program guide system: An Internet television program guide system is provided that allows a user at a multimedia system to access information related to television programs over an Internet communications link. The user can view television program guide listings and related video stills and video clips. The user can perform database searches on... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080201739 - Master guide table for digital broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the table: A master guide table for a digital broadcast protocol, and a method of broadcasting and updating an electronic program guide using the table, uses identification information included in a bit stream syntax of the master guide table to classify whether contents of an event information table are merely shifted in... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080201741 - Information processing apparatus and method, and television signal receiving apparatus and method: An information processing apparatus has: an input unit for inputting image data and program information data, the program information data indicating information on a program including the image data; a display unit for displaying an image corresponding to the image data input from the input unit; and a control unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080201742 - System and method for disseminating advertisements by presence information: The present invention discloses a method, a system, and an advertisement server for disseminating advertisements by means of presence information, so as to solve the problem that the advertisement dissemination by means of a presence system can not be recorded effectively in the prior art. The method disclosed in the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080201744 - Method and system for managing recorded content channels: Disclosed is a system and method for managing program contents according to the preferences of the user and then presented in an assigned channel specified by the user. The system executes the following steps: receiving at least one program content; assigning the program content to an unused channel or one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080201743 - Method for facilitating the watching of tv programs, dvd films and the like, meant for deaf people and people with hearing damage: The method is for facilitating the watching of films, TV programs and the like, meant for deaf people and people with hearing impairment. The method allows a transparent or translucent shadow-graph to be produced on the screen.... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080201745 - Control circuit of display device having program search function and method for controlling display device to receive program information of tv programs and selecting programs: The present invention provides a control circuit of a program search display device and a method for controlling a display device to receive program information of TV programs and select programs. The method comprises: (a) receiving a TV signal; (b) processing the TV signal to generate program information; (c) storing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080201746 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving electronic service guide in a digital broadcasting system: A method for transmitting an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) in a Convergence of Broadcasting and Mobile Service (CBMS) system is provided. A delivery path of ESG data is parsed. A first information element indicating transmission of a broadcast ESG when the ESG data can be delivered over a broadcast network... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080201747 - System and method for aggregating, editing, and distributing content: A system and method for the distribution of content to subscribers while maintaining the distribution rights associated with the content. Tags identifying aspects and features, including distribution rights, of the content are associated with the content. The tagged content is aggregated into a centralized data center that receives requests from... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080201748 - Methods and apparatus for device capabilities discovery and utilization within a content-based network: Methods and apparatus for determining and selecting digital coding and/or decoding technology, delivery bitrates, and resolution parameters for programming and data delivery over, e.g., a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises an HFC cable or satellite network that includes a server process interfacing with a plurality of customer... Agent: Robert F. Gazdzinski Gazdzinski & Associates

20080201749 - Method for authentication on a subscriber terminal: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for performing authentication on a subscriber terminal in a digital television (DTV) network which comprises at least one subscriber terminal and a head end for sending encrypted DTV program data to each subscriber terminal, the subscriber terminal comprising a set top... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080201750 - Method, apparatus and system for implementing service management: A method for managing a service includes: receiving a request from a user; obtaining a service management strategy taking the features of the user as manage conditions and determining the manage measure for a service according to the features of the user requesting the service and the service management strategy.... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080201751 - Wireless media transmission systems and methods: The present invention relates to a media transmission and reception system that is implemented, in the form of programs stored in a satellite device having a memory, an input mechanism for receiving commands from a user, and a transceiver capable of wirelessly accessing a network, and in a computing device... Agent: Patentmetrix

20080201752 - Multicast data packet recovery system: Particular embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to support a multicast data packet recovery system. In an example embodiment, the system includes a distribution server operable to detect a missed data packet in a multicast data stream; issue a request for a retransmission of the missed... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080201753 - System and method for saving and recalling state data for media and home appliances: A set of media playback and device settings data from each home appliance of a first set of home appliances is stored on a central server and/or sent to a remote control device upon initiation of a suspend command by a user. The stored media and devices states may be... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080201754 - System and method for saving and recalling state data for media and home appliances: A set of media playback and device settings data from each home appliance of a first set of home appliances is stored on a central server and/or sent to a remote control device upon initiation of a suspend command by a user. The stored media and devices states may be... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080201755 - Broadcast receiving system: The present invention provides a broadcast receiving system capable of receiving programs with a secondary viewing terminal device(s) even when a primary viewing terminal device is not turned on, and detecting a secondary viewing terminal device(s) used in an unauthorized manner. When device authentication between the secondary viewing terminal device... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080201756 - Multi-media digital interface systems and methods: Systems and methods are provided herein for interfacing a first multi-media digital device with a second multi-media digital device. An exemplary method includes the steps of: (i) converting a plurality of differential digital content channels from the first multi-media digital device into a plurality of single-ended digital content channels; (ii)... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080201757 - Apparatus and method for providing interactive service to device using different digital broadcast middleware standards: An apparatus and method for providing an interactive service to devices using different digital broadcast middleware standards are provided. The apparatus includes an execution information providing module which provides execution information regarding an application that has been executed in a first device using a first middleware standard so that the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080201758 - Home communication systems: Systems and methods are disclosed of a network including a primary device, a plurality of remote devices, and a shared peripheral device. The network allows the remote devices to operate the peripheral device, such as a DVD player, VCR, or camcoder, via the primary device and the network. The peripheral... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080196053 - Program guide system with monitoring of advertisement usage and user activities: A program guide system is provided in which interactive television program guide advertisement usage is monitored. Advertisement usage may be monitored by monitoring when advertisements are transmitted from a television distribution facility to user television equipment. Advertisement usage information may also be monitored by monitoring when advertisements are received by... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080196054 - Method and system for facilitating analysis of audience ratings data for content: There is provided a method for use by a content processing device for facilitating the analysis of audience ratings data for content. In one embodiment, content is received from a source. Then, the content is encoded into a target format to enable insertion of a first number of markers in... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080196057 - Apparatus, method and system for generating private personal virtual channels: The invention describes an apparatus, system and related method that allow a guest user to create a private personal virtual channel. The apparatus includes a user interface (8) whereby an authorized apparatus user can make an invitation to a guest user. The authorized apparatus user can also set expiry conditions... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080196056 - Method of augmenting local programming content: A method and business model are provided for augmenting programming content at a remote location, such as a hotel, with the programming content ordinarily provided under subscription to a home location, such as a user's home. A user agreement is formed between a user and a home service provider, delineating... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss)

20080196055 - Restricting access to content: A method and system generally directed towards limiting access to content. The access may be limited as a function of permissible and impermissible content. An access point may be provided with permissible and impermissible content, such as from a media content provider, and controlled to limit access to the permissible... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080196058 - Digest creating method and device: An apparatus includes an input unit to which replay information including a broadcasting section of a replay video and a reference section representing an actual filming time zone, and information for designating a length of a digest are input; a replay importance degree computing unit that obtains the number of... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080196059 - Substituting or replacing components in media objects based on steganographic encoding: The application discloses various methods and systems to provide substitute or replacement components for media objects (e.g., audio, video or images). The substitute or replacement components can be substituted for or to replace corresponding components when making copies of media objects. One claim includes: an apparatus comprising: a processor; and... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080196060 - Methods of influencing buying behavior with directed incentives and compensation: Disclosed are methods and systems for influencing buying behavior. The methods include obtaining purchase information for a particular user and obtaining a product indication, such as a universal product code or product description, from the user. Based on the purchase information, the product information, and other user traits, the methods... Agent: Patentbest

20080196061 - Method and apparatus for channel change in dsl system: There is provided a set top box and corresponding methods for enabling a channel change in a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) system. The set top box includes a channel change processing unit for sending a join request for both a normal stream and channel change stream upon receiving a channel... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080196062 - Electronic program guide having plurality of program category groups and method for forming electronic program guide: The present invention provides an electronic program guide and a method for forming the electronic program guide thereof. The electronic program guide includes a plurality of program category groups each comprising at least one television channel. The method for forming the electronic program guide includes generating a plurality of program... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080196063 - Method for setting contents of channel corresponding to specific program category, method for playing programs, and apparatus thereof: Methods and apparatus for setting channel contents are provided. A method includes: associating a specific channel with a specific program category; assigning a program to the selected specific channel when the specific channel is selected and the program corresponding to the specific program category is available from a live multimedia... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080196064 - Apparatus and method of providing a recommended broadcast program: A recommended program information providing apparatus includes an extractor to extract, based on a specific performer whom a viewing audience likes, a similar performer similar to the specific performer, using a relation between a plurality of performers which is shown as a network, and select a node satisfying a first... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080196065 - Managing record events: Systems, methods, and computer program products for managing and prioritizing record events. A priority manager includes an event list that lists scheduled record events. Each event in the event list has a priority that is different from the other events in the event list. If some of the events conflict,... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080196066 - Apparatus for receiving and displaying cellular television content and method for billing for same: An apparatus and method are provided for receiving and displaying cellular television content. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a wireless communication device for establishing a connection to a wireless telecommunications network and for receiving video content over the connection. The apparatus includes a processor for receiving the cellular television... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080196067 - Mobile communication device, method and system for managing broadcast program information: A mobile communication device, method and system for managing broadcast program information are disclosed. The mobile communication device has a broadcast program information managing function including a transmission/reception module receiving broadcast program information, and a controller extracting broadcast program information corresponding to user information from the received broadcast program information.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080196068 - Portable multimedia device: A portable multimedia device capable of remotely controlling and receiving TV signals transmitted from a display device using a wireless transmission function thereof is disclosed. The portable multimedia device includes of: a transmission interface, a display unit, a page-dividing unit and a selecting unit. The page-dividing unit allows the user... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20080196069 - Broadcast receiving device to report purchasing information and a reporting method thereof: A broadcast receiving device and a reporting method thereof are disclosed. If a request to purchase a pay service is received, a signal received from a remote control device within a preset reference time period is sensed before purchasing the pay service in order to determine whether the purchase is... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080196070 - 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

20080196071 - Method and system to provide interactive television content: Methods and systems for providing interactive television are provided. A method may include sending television content received from a content source to a user device. The method may also include sending at least one interactive program trigger. The interactive program trigger may be adapted to cause the user device to... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080196072 - Method of linkage-viewing tv broadcasting program between mobile communication apparatus and digital tv, and mobile communication apparatus and digital tv thereof: A method of linkage-viewing a TV broadcasting program between a mobile communication apparatus and a digital TV, the method includes inputting a TV linkage-viewing command in order to successively view a TV broadcasting program which is being viewed on the mobile communication apparatus, on the digital TV; transmitting data information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080196073 - Image data communication apparatus: Disclosed is an image data communication apparatus for achieving real-time transmission of image data such as one compatible with an extended definition television using a plurality of communication lines having a transmission capacity equivalent to an ADSL system at a time. The data communication apparatus includes a data transmission section... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080196074 - Advertising information collection apparatus and advertising information collection and provision apparatus, and advertising system and method using them: s

20080196075 - Capture of configuration and service provider data via ocr: In one embodiment, a method of obtaining information associated with a television access device used in a television reception system, wherein the method is carried out in a control device that does not have direct access to the configuration information of the access device involves directing the access device to... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080196076 - Image adaptation with target size, quality and resolution constraints: A computer-implemented method for image adaptation includes accepting a digitally-represented input image and a target size requirement. The input image is modified by optimally determining at least one of a resolution of the input image and a quality of the input image, the quality defining an amount of information allocated... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080196077 - Methods and apparatus for monitoring compressed bitstreams: Methods and an apparatus for monitoring compressed bitstreams are disclosed. The disclosed methods and apparatus receive an encoded signal including encoded video frames and determine if video represented by the encoded video frames is frozen or blacked out based on a comparison of sizes of the encoded frames.... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080196078 - Recording multi-stream interactive television: Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows recording and playback of multi-stream interactive television. In one approach to this technology, the service configuration for an interactive television feature is determined. Data describing this service configuration is then obtained, and a recording device is then configured to record... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080196079 - Data-broadcast-receiving apparatus and display apparatus: A data-broadcast-receiving apparatus and a display apparatus are disclosed. The data-broadcast-receiving apparatus includes an application-classifying module that classifies a predetermined broadcast-service application into an execution application and a presentation application, an application-executing module that executes the execution application, and a communication module that transmits the presentation module. The display apparatus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080196080 - Display device and method, and program: A display device includes: a storage portion storing content addition information associated with one or two or more pieces of content data; a display screen generation portion generating a display screen, which includes image information related with one content addition information stored in the storage portion; and a display switch... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080189732 - Display of enhanced content: A method in a television broadcasting system in which a transmission unit controls the presentation of items of enhanced content during a running program and the presentation of the items of enhanced content is triggered in response to receipt by the transmission unit of periodic indications embedded in the running... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080189733 - Content rating systems and methods: Content can be sent to a device that can render the content. The rendered content changes as a function of time. Rating values associated with the content can be sent to the device. The rating values represent at least one person's opinion of the content. The rating values are displayed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080189734 - System and method for an adaptive scheduling system architecture: The placement of spots may be accomplished through the use of an ordered list which may be generated based on a number of inputs that may be user-selected. A non-limiting example of user inputs may include: spot length, spot cost, contract line priority, beginning date/time of contract line, ending date/time... Agent: Duane Morris LLPIPDepartment (harris Corp.)

20080189735 - System and method for combining media data: System and method for processing media data set and transmission of the same in a data communication medium. A first set of data is scanned for specific time-indicating markers. A second set of data comprising one or more sub-sets of data are selected according to a predetermined set of criteria,... Agent: Duncan G. Byers PC

20080189736 - System and method for displaying information related to a television signal: A computerized method and system are disclosed for presenting information in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system. The method includes sensing at an end user device, reference data inserted into a video data stream from the IPTV system, weighting at the end user device, the reference data sensed in the... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080189738 - Active channel for interactive television services: An interactive home video channel displayed on a monitor is disclosed. A channel in accordance with the present invention comprises a plurality of video cells presenting at least video information, a text box, a menu comprising menu choices, each menu choice and each video cell associated with a programming subject,... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080189740 - Interactive television application with navigable cells and regions: An interactive television application with mosaic browsing is provided. Selectable cells that may be associated with entities are used to display information corresponding to the entities. Information may include brand marks such as logos or any other suitable entity identifier. A cell may be in focus or it may not... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080189737 - Interactive television program guide system having multiple devices within a household: An interactive television program guide system based on multiple user television equipment devices in a single household is provided. The system provides a user with an opportunity to adjust program guide settings with a given one of the interactive television program guides. The system coordinates the operation of the interactive... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080189739 - 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

20080189742 - Interactive television program guide with remote access: An interactive television program guide with remote access is provided. The interactive television program guide is implemented on interactive television program guide equipment. A remote program guide access device is connected to the interactive television program guide equipment by a remote access link to provide a user with remote access... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080189743 - Interactive television program guide with remote access: An interactive television program guide with remote access is provided. The interactive television program guide is implemented on interactive television program guide equipment. A remote program guide access device is connected to the interactive television program guide equipment by a remote access link to provide a user with remote access... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080189741 - Method and apparatus for storing electronic program guide (epg), and method and apparatus for providing epg: An Electronic Program Guide (EPG) storing method, the EPG storing method including: receiving an EPG including program information for at least one program; and storing the program information included in the EPG in a database assigned to an index number corresponding to the at least one program with reference to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080189746 - Internet television program guide system with embedded real-time data: An Internet television program guide system is provided that allows a user at a multimedia system to access television program listings containing embedded real-time data over an Internet communications link. The television program listing may be for a sporting event that is currently being broadcast and the real-time data may... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080189745 - Program guide with a digital storage device: An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to select a program for recording onto the digital storage device. The program guide may then provide the user a list of programs that includes at least one listing for a recorded... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080189744 - Systems and methods for contextually linking television program information: The present invention provides systems and methods for providing television schedule information to a viewer, and for allowing the viewer to link, search, select and interact with information in a remote database, e.g., a database on the internet. The television schedule information can be displayed on a variety of viewer... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080189747 - System for concurrent mobile two-way data communications and tv reception: A low profile mobile in-motion antenna and transmit/receive terminal system for two-way “VSAT” type satellite communication using FSS service, preferably in Ku band, supporting at the same time TV signal reception from the same satellite or a separate DBS satellite located at the same or nearby geo-stationary orbital position.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080189748 - Aircraft video display unit and system: A video display unit includes a housing coupled to a portion of an aircraft cabin, a local area network interface disposed at least partially within the housing, and a video decoder disposed within the housing. The video decoder receives video content via the network interface, and decodes the video content.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080189749 - Video on demand methods and systems: v

20080189753 - Apparatus and method for analyzing a content stream comprising a content item: The invention relates to an apparatus (300) and a method for analyzing a content stream (201) comprising a content item, and to a computer program product enabling a programmable device. The apparatus comprises a content analysis processor (310) for identifying an exact indicator of a boundary (221, 222) of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080189752 - Extended intelligent video streaming system: A method for playing back video files optimizes display viewing while minimizing file size. On of a plurality of video files representing the same video production is automatically selected for viewing based on multiple criteria, such as network bandwidth, the type of video players available to display the video file,... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080189750 - Interactive multimedia service system and method thereof: Disclosed is related to an interactive multimedia service system and method thereof using mobile station that is enable to see a broadcasting with real time/non-real time. A broadcasting station broadcasts a multimedia contents composed of the broadcasting contents being broadcasted and the other multimedia contents generated by the mobile station,... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20080189751 - Methods & systems for image processing: Variable video stream delivery tools include methods and systems that detect activation of a zoom command during presentation of a first stream of data to a multimedia device and that selectively supplants a second stream of data having a higher resolution for a zoomed image plane of the first stream... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080189754 - Pod identification method in digital content providing system: Provided is a commercial break identification method in a digital content providing system. The method for identifying commercial break in a digital content providing system includes the steps of: a) generating segment metadata including Pod identification information (PodId) identifying the Pod in a digital content; and b) transmitting the segment... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080189755 - Media stream scheduling for hiccup-free fast-channel-change in the presence of network chokepoints: An implementation, as described herein, facilitates fast start-up of a new media stream while avoiding temporal interruption (i.e. “hiccups”) of the presentation of that new media stream. At least one implementation, described herein, coordinates the delivery of multiple simultaneous media streams on a media-stream network. Its coordination accounts for traversal... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080189756 - Method for processing frames of digital broadcast signals and system thereof: Disclosed are a method for processing a plurality of frames of digital broadcast signals by utilizing a plurality of processor cores and a system thereof. The method includes detecting load of each processor core, determining a specific processor core having a specific load according to loads corresponding to the processor... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation