Interactive video distribution systems inventions 09/08

20080235721 - Methods and systems for creating and providing collaborative user reviews of products and services: Methods, systems, and user-interfaces for creating a collaborative review of an offering may facilitate multiple people (users) collaborating on a review by submitting short statements concerning particular characteristics, traits, or qualities concerning the offering. Users can also vote on the validity or strength of each submitted statement. Votes on statements... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080235722 - Customized advertisement splicing in encrypted entertainment sources: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving gap information from an entertainment content source configured to provide an entertainment stream associated with a contributing source information providing a source of the entertainment stream and a chronological order to render the entertainment stream, the entertainment stream being encrypted and having an... Agent: Clifford G. Cousins Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080235724 - Face annotation in streaming video: The invention relates to a system (5, 15) and a method for detecting and annotating faces on-the-fly in video data. The annotation (29) is performed by modifying the pixel content of the video and is thereby independent of file types, protocols and standards. The invention can also perform real-time face-recognition... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235723 - Pmcp extension metadata, data stream generating device, digital data broadcasting emission system and digital data broadcasting emission method thereof: Provided are a PMCP extended metadata for securing interoperability among devices constituting a digital data broadcasting emitting system, a data stream generating device using the same, a digital data broadcasting emitting system and a digital data broadcasting emitting method. The PMCP extended metadata includes: a channel metadata for providing system... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080235725 - Electronic program guide with targeted advertising: An electronic program guide for use with a television delivery system is disclosed having a plurality of program menus that list information about available television programs. The program information includes, for example, program names and start times. A user navigates the program menus using a user interface, such as an... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Sedna Patent Services, LLC

20080235726 - Television broadcast receiver: An object of the present invention is to provide a function to make a reservation for recording or watching with a simple operation during watching a program promotion, by adding a function to acquire the information required to make a reservation from the program promotion being watched. For the achievement... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080235728 - Broadcasting receiving apparatus, and method for executing applications in broadcasting receiving apparatus: Provided are a broadcast receiving apparatus, and a method for executing an application in the broadcast receiving apparatus. The broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a controller which assigns a channel number of the broadcast receiving apparatus to an application; a storage unit which stores the channel number; a user input unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235727 - Display apparatus and method for displaying broadcast program listing information thereof: A broadcast receiving apparatus which displays broadcast program listing information is disclosed. The broadcast receiving apparatus includes an EPG processor which configures an EPG screen displaying broadcast programs listing information as a plurality of icons, and a display unit which displays the EPG screen configured by the EPG processor. Accordingly,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235729 - User interface apparatus, display method, and computer program product: A content material of a first content which is reproducible constantly and content information describing information relating to a reproduction of a second content which is reproducible on a predetermined time and date are stored in a storage unit. A timewise characteristic or a characteristic relating to a reproducing state... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080235730 - Perspective function for simple program guide: An electronic program guide (100) includes a first list (105) with first information and a second list (110) which is displayed concurrently with the first list (105) in response to selection of a selected information (115) from the first information, which includes a channel list, a theme list, a time... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235731 - User defined rules for assigning destinations of content: A media guidance application is provided by which users can define rules for assigning user equipment devices as destinations for media content. For example, a user may define a rule by which selected media content having attributes that satisfy a user-defined condition are downloaded, recorded, or streamed to a particular,... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080235732 - Apparatus and method for dynamically managing user's favorite channels: An apparatus and method for dynamically managing a user's favorite channels are provided. The apparatus includes a user input unit receiving a channel change input from the user, a channel list storage unit storing an entire channel list comprising channels receivable using a tuner and channel preference information regarding the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235734 - Optimally selecting tv programs for recording and viewing: A system (400), apparatus (300), and method (200) are provided to simultaneously select TV programs for recording and watching during a certain time period [b, e] having a beginning time b and an ending time e. For each TV program a value is provided for receiving and recording and an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235733 - System and method for personal content access: A method and system for integrated personal content access have been disclosed. The system includes a gateway which is able to communicate across devices, coordinating media content distribution among the devices and users. The gateway can seamlessly switch or copy content streams from one device to another, even if the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080235735 - Scaling and layout methods and systems for handling one-to-many objects: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide layout structures and methods for user interfaces.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080235736 - System and method for dynamic updating of tv menu: When a new device such as a set-back box (SBB) connects to a TV, the menu of the TV is dynamically updated with an icon and an application identification associated with the new device, so that a viewer can select the new device from the menu.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080235737 - System and method for scrolling through tv video icons by category: In a TV displaying thumbnails of videos grouped by genre, genre labels are shown so that a user can conveniently move genre to genre with a single click on a remote control device.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080235738 - Channel searching system: Disclosed is a channel searching system including: a head end broadcasting a broadcasting signal over a broadcasting medium, the broadcasting signal including a multi-channel video containing a plurality of videos and video configuration information on the videos; and a receiver receiving the broadcasting signal over the broadcasting medium and showing... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080235739 - System and method for remote recording: The invention relates to a system and method for remote recording of content currently being reproduced on a content reproduction device (1). The content reproduction device (1) is capable of reproducing received content, has means for user input of a command to record the content currently being reproduced, is capable... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235740 - System and method for storing advertising data: A computerized method is disclosed for presenting advertising data extracted from a video data stream, the method including storing a plurality of advertising data items extracted from the video data stream at an end user device; and displaying a plurality of sorted advertising indicator data items at the end user... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080235741 - Systems and methods of providing modified media content: A method and system of providing media content is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving media content from a content source at a set-top box device. The media content includes video data having a first playback rate and audio data having the first playback rate. The method... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080235742 - Content delivery system and method, and server apparatus and receiving apparatus used in this content delivery system: A server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table relating content identification information for specifying the content and a trick play request and a trick play data, and a transmitter which refers to the management table based on the content identification information and the trick play request, reads... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080235743 - Method and apparatus for processing multimedia signals: A method and apparatus for processing multimedia signals is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an adjunct device coupled between a Set-Top Box (STB) and a media device. The adjunct device can have a controller element that receives a telephony signal from... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080235744 - Digital broadcast transmission/reception system and digital broadcast transmission/reception method: A digital broadcast transmission/reception method and a digital broadcast transmission/reception system are disclosed. The digital broadcast transmission/reception method includes requesting connection information including information about a server storing contents guide information based on priorities, transmitting the connection information, receiving the connection information and accessing the server storing the priority-based contents... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080235745 - System and method to provide video communication with a service provider: Methods and systems for providing a video link are provided. A method may include receiving a request to establish a first video link to a healthcare service provider. The method may also include selecting a first healthcare service provider from at least two healthcare service providers and establishing the first... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080235746 - Methods and apparatus for content delivery and replacement in a network: Methods and apparatus for providing an alternate content delivery mechanism available to content-based network users. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable television network, and subscribers are able to retrieve requested content from one or more other subscriber's storage medium and without going outside the cable network (or accessing... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20080235749 - Delivering and displaying advertisement or other application data to display systems: Display devices and systems including television sets, and systems, apparatus and methods for delivering information and providing services through display devices and systems. The display used in the described systems and methods is capable of receiving one or more TV programming channels and an independent designated application channel and having... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080235747 - Method and apparatus for sharing digital contents and system for sharing digital contents by using the method: A method and apparatus for sharing digital content and a system for sharing digital content are provided. A multimedia device, such as an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), as the apparatus for sharing digital content, includes a decoder for decoding digital content data; a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) for encoding the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235748 - Transmitting and receiving method and apparatus for digital television broadcasting data: Provided are an apparatus and method for reducing power consumption by selectively turning off frame receiving while undesired service is transmitted. The method includes generating a service frame group including all service frames and designating the frame number for service frames so that a radio frequency (RF) receiving unit operates... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235750 - Band switchable amplifier system: An amplifier systems for a cable television (CATV) system to increase the ability of a sub-band to transmit information using switchable bands.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080235751 - Program data recording apparatus: Disclosed is a program data recording apparatus for storing a program data based on a broadcast signal in a storage medium, comprising: a programmed-to-record storage section; a storing control section; an extended program retrieving section; a programmed-to-record program retrieving section; a determining section; a setting section; an updating section, a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080235752 - Multimedia presentation resumption within an environment of multiple presentation systems: With at least one implementation described herein, one or more viewers are able to watch the same source multimedia content at multiple locations within an environment (e.g., a household). With at least one implementation described herein, a viewer is able to resume watching such content at a new location (or... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080235753 - Broadcasting receiver and volume control method thereof: A broadcasting receiver implements volume control by first software (OCAP application) for volume control obtained from outside or second software (receiver application) for volume control pre-installed. The broadcasting receiver determines whether the first software is obtained or not. When it is determined that the first software is obtained, the broadcasting... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080229351 - Display device and remote control device for the same: A display device collects pieces of EPG information, stores the program information of a viewed program as a piece of viewing history information, counts the number of occurrences of each of categories in viewing history information and calculates the priority of each category based on the number of occurrences, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080229352 - System and method for providing supplementary interactive content: A method and system for providing television programming content and interactive data services is provided. In one embodiment, the interactive content is displayed on the television concurrently with television programming content and facilitates game play between viewers. The game may be scored for each viewer based on selection data from... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20080229353 - Providing context-appropriate advertisements in video content: Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows integration of context-relevant advertisements with non-real-time video playback. In one approach to this technology, context information related to video content is determined, and used to select advertisements which are contextually related to video content. These advertisements can then be integrated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080229354 - Contextual television advertisement delivery: Various technologies for delivering contextual television advertisement are described. A user selection of a media title is received. The media title has an associated set of contextual metadata that includes information regarding the media title. A request for the media title is forwarded to a first server and an advertisement... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080229355 - Television station, associated conventions and other dedicated services for a demographic comprising persons fifty years old and older: A television, cable or satellite channel dedicated to issues relevant to persons fifty years old or older is disclosed. The content of the channel involves programming on healthcare, politics, insurance and many related issues. Advertisements are also limited to goods and services directed to persons fifty years old and older.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20080229356 - Real-time video compression: There are provided a method, a system and machine-readable medium for encoding a video broadcast. The method includes obtaining one or more first compression settings for the video broadcast from an electronic program guide (EPG), the EPG associating the video broadcast with the one or more first compression settings. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080229358 - Program selection assistant for ip tv: A method and a system are disclosed for providing program selection information to users of IP TV services. The program selection information provides users with real-time information about the viewing behavior of other users. The program selection information can be used by a user to select a particular television program,... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080229357 - Video content identification using scene lengths: Apparatus for identifying video content includes a scene detector to detect a plurality of consecutive scenes in the video content. The video content may include a video program and an advertisement contained within the video program. A timer determines a plurality of scene lengths for each of the plurality of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080229360 - Content recommendation device: Preferences of a user are analyzed with respect to each of a plurality of pieces of content. already viewed by the user, and a piece viewing motivation information that is a combination of attribute entities of the piece of content is generated. A primary viewing motivation-portion and a secondary viewing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080229361 - Initial arrangement of interactive program guide: A method and system for a programmable television services client device that enables a user to navigate to an individual television service and is coupled to a programmable television services server device is provided. The client device comprises a memory for storing data. The client device also includes an interactive... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080229359 - Smart interactive program guide: Systems, methods, and applications for controlling an interactive program guide (IPG) to be displayed on a display screen are disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, among others, an application is stored in memory and is configured to control an IPG. The application comprises logic configured to maintain a data structure.... Agent: Wm. Brook Lafferty Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080229363 - Method and a system for constructing virtual video channel: This invention relates to a method and a system for constructing virtual video channels comprising video content. While playing back video content to a user comprising a number of visual aspects, s/he can select at least one of the visual aspects appearing from said played back video content. Based on... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080229362 - Method and system for presenting interactive television interfaces: A method and system for presenting interactive Television (iTV) interfaces is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an interactive Television (iTV) subsystem having a controller element that presents one among a plurality of selectable user interfaces (UIs) each having a selectable help... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080229364 - System and method for the construction of electronic program guide through cooperative transmission of electronic program guide data: The present invention relates to a system and a method for the construction of EPG service through cooperative transmission of electronic program guide data. The system of the present invention comprises an EPG transmission server transmitting, through a forward path mediated by a broadcasting network, a part of total EPG... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080229365 - System, apparatus and method of providing personal broadcasting service according to scheduling: A system, apparatus, and method of providing a personal broadcasting service according to scheduling are provided. The system for providing a personal broadcasting service includes a producer client which produces and transmits a broadcasting schedule, a broadcasting server which establishes a broadcasting channel according to the broadcasting schedule and provides... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080229366 - Method for customizing a user interface for selecting broadcast sources: A service is provided to program a consumer's remote control device to display logos or call signs of the broadcast stations as soft buttons instead of the conventional channel numbering. The broadcast channels available to the consumer depend on the consumer's geographic location and/or service provider. The service determines the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080229367 - Mobile tv broadcast systems and methods based on td-scdma network: A mobile TV broadcast system based on TD-SCDMA network is disclosed herein.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080229369 - Multimedia communicator utilized to offer open services: A multimedia communicator is disclosed. The multimedia communicator comprises a processing unit; and a storage device coupled to the processing unit. The multimedia communicator further includes a plurality of interfaces to allow the multimedia communicator to offer a user a plurality of services. The MMC which includes a microprocessor computing... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080229368 - Multimedia communicator utilized to offer voice services: A multimedia communicator is disclosed. The multimedia communicator comprises a processing unit; and a storage device coupled to the processing unit. The multimedia communicator further includes a plurality of interfaces to allow the multimedia communicator to offer a user a plurality of services. The MMC which includes a microprocessor computing... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080229370 - Tv-centric system: A TV has a TV processor and a display presenting a map showing the topology of the home network of which the TV is a part. Upon initial energization the TV discovers network devices in the home, uploads this information to an Internet server, which in turn sends back to... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080229371 - Digital multimedia network including method and apparatus for high speed user download of digital files: A video network includes public kiosks having digital storage capacity. Centralized inventory control manages the video files stored at individual kiosks or network LANs. A user requests a multimedia file for download, and selects various ancillary files and control features, such as languages, subtitles, control of nudity, etc. The requested... Agent: Law Office Of Ronald Shea

20080229372 - Method and system for delivering media programs: A method and system for delivering media programs is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a multimedia system having a controller element that receives a transmission request for each of a plurality of media programs, receives a desired viewing time for each... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080229373 - Digital video recorder, digital video system, and video playback method thereof: Disclosed is a digital recording apparatus, which includes: a storage device; a processing circuit, coupled to the storage device, for receiving a video signal and storing the video signal to the storage device in the form of a plurality of video files, and for generating an index data structure comprising... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080229374 - Video network including method and apparatus for high speed distribution of digital files over a network: A video network includes public kiosks having digital storage capacity. Centralized inventory control manages the video files stored at individual kiosks or network LANs. A user requests a multimedia file for download, and selects various ancillary files and control features, such as languages, subtitles, control of nudity, etc. The requested... Agent: Law Office Of Ronald Shea

20080229375 - Locally stored video content having a video resolution associated with remote devices: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for forwarding locally stored video content that has a video resolution associated with receiving remote devices. More specifically, set top boxes (STBs) receive full screen and lower resolution video content for each program title. The STB may store both versions of... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080229376 - Comprehensive system for broadcast information capture and access for data mining purposes: A system to enable comprehensive capture of broadcast media information comprising video, audio and text content. The system includes a plurality of antennas to receive a plurality of channels in one location, a channel splitter to split the plurality of channels, a plurality of receivers, each to receive and decode... Agent: Shiboleth, Yisraeli, Roberts, Zisman & Co.

20080229377 - Method of selecting broadcast channels and a broadcast receiving terminal: A method for displaying broadcast content in a portable electronic device includes identifying a priority channel to be displayed on a display associated with the electronic device, indicating that the priority channel is no longer available, and displaying content associated with a current channel which differs from the priority channel.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080229378 - System and method of distributing audio and video signals: A system (200) for distributing audio and video signals including a source location (202) having one or more devices (204, 206, 208, 210) producing an audio signal and an analogue video signal is provided. At least one display and audio receiver (222) at a remote location (220) is also provided... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080229379 - Method and apparatus providing scalability for channel change requests in a switched digital video system: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing scalability for channel change requests in a Switched Digital Video system is presented. A request for a channel change is received. A determination is made regarding whether a channel requested by the request for a channel change is currently being provided... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080229380 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcasting information using reserved channels: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcasting information. A method of receiving broadcasting information using reserved channels according to an aspect of the present invention includes receiving information of a program schedule that includes a dynamic program having a flexible broadcasting schedule, searching one or more... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080222671 - Method and system for rating media and events in media based on physiological data: Various embodiments of the present invention enable a bottom up analysis approach that derives physiological responses from measured physiological data of viewers of a media, and calculates scores of instances of an event type based on the physiological responses. The scores are then aggregated to rate the event type in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080222670 - Method and system for using coherence of biological responses as a measure of performance of a media: Various embodiments of the present invention create a novel system for rating an event in a media based on the strength of the emotions viewers feel towards the event. The viewer's responses to the media can be measured and calculated via physiological sensors. The metric for rating the strength of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080222672 - Monitoring of a broadcast signal: A method of monitoring a broadcast signal (28) comprises receiving a broadcast signal (28), the broadcast signal including a timebase (23), monitoring the broadcast signal (28) for an identification signal (24), and pausing the timebase (23) if the identification signal (24) is not present. The method further comprises restarting the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080222673 - Systems, methods, and products for presenting content: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for presenting content. Programming content is received having a program and program control data. The program control data may has a default setting followed by a data record comprising a rating value and a content attribute value. Program presentation preferences of a viewer are... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080222674 - Method, system and apparatus for implementing pay per view multicast service: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for implementing a Pay Per View (PPV) multicast service, including: sending, by a user terminal, a PPV program playing request to an access device; determining, by the access device, whether the user terminal has the right to receive the PPV program... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080222676 - Method for transmitting/receiving broadcasting signal and broadcasting signal receiver: A method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal and a broadcasting signal receiver are disclosed. An identifier of a burst period is obtained from program table information of the broadcasting signal including mobile data and only the burst period in which a broadcasting program desired by a user is transmitted is... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080222675 - Pointing capability and associated user interface elements for television user interfaces: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide a user interface for television control functionality.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080222677 - Method of displaying broadcast channel information and broadcast receiver implementing the same: A method of displaying broadcast channel information on a broadcast terminal. The method includes touching a pointer at a first position on a touch screen of the broadcast terminal and then dragging the pointer to a second position on the touch screen, and displaying information about broadcast channels respectively assigned... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080222679 - Enhanced personal video recorder including user play programming: The present invention is directed to a system, software system and method for manipulating multimedia broadcast presentations. Manipulating multimedia events offers users increased options in how they experience multimedia presentations. Thus increasing the overall multimedia experience and consequently user satisfaction. Utilization of the present invention allows the user to experience... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080222678 - Method and apparatus for programme generation and presentation: A method for presenting a plurality of programme elements to a user. Each programme element has an associated classification code, and the method comprises presenting a user interface operable to receive user selection data indicating one of said plurality of programme elements, and to cause display of said indicated programme... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080222680 - Electronic program guide provision apparatus, electronic program guide provision method and program thereof: An electronic program guide provision system includes a preference model creating unit configured to create a preference model of a viewer in which a causal relationship between a cause of viewing and a viewing effect is written based on an electronic program guide and viewing history information of the viewer,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080222681 - Method for recording multiple program in digital broadcasting receiver: The invention relates to a method for recording multiple programs in a digital broadcasting receiver. The digital broadcasting receive, when receiving a record command for multiple programs in the broadcast signal currently incoming, confirms and stores PID's of each of the programs corresponding to the record command. Thereafter, the digital... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080222682 - Satellite distribution apparatus, control means for use in satellite distribution apparatus and method of use thereof: Satellite distribution apparatus is provided for distributing digital broadcast signals in a predetermined locality or building. The apparatus includes satellite receiving means for receiving broadcast signals from at least one satellite and communication means for transmitting the received signals to a control unit in the locality or building. The control... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20080222683 - Cascadable tv-signal distribution units with level indicator: The invention relates to a system comprising a plurality of groups of one or more TV-signal distribution units connected to each other in cascade. Each TV-signal distribution unit comprising a plurality of lines for transporting input signals coming from a head end from an input side to an output side... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080222684 - Media content distribution system and method: A system and method for transfer of digital content, including providing a listing of sources and content destinations, receiving a user selection of a content source and a destination from the source and destination listing, providing a listing of available paths for the exchange of digital content, receiving a user... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20080222685 - Karaoke system provided through an internet protocol television system: Particular embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to support a karaoke system provided via a set-top box and internet protocol television system. An example embodiment includes an apparatus and system to receive a karaoke content user selection through a user interface of a set-top box, send... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080222687 - Device, system, and method of electronic communication utilizing audiovisual clips: Device, system, and method of electronic communication utilizing audiovisual clips. For example, a method of electronic communication utilizing audiovisual clips includes: receiving an identifier of a remotely-stored audiovisual clip through an electronic communication channel associated with an electronic messaging application; and automatically playing the remotely-stored audiovisual clip inside the electronic... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080222686 - Video transmitting over a cellular carrier: A system which correlates across multiple images to find commonalities among the images and compresses according to those commonalities. The commonalities can be across multiple different images which are unrelated. The information is quantized according to the client that will display the images, and then, and luminance in common color... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20080222688 - Transmitting data file during call: A method and device for wirelessly communicating data files using a mobile terminal having video communication capability is provided. The method reserves one or more data files to be transmitted during a video call. The communication device associates identifies data files for transmission to a video call recipient, and displays... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080222689 - System to filter and multicast personal video content: In an embodiment, an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) Set Top Box (STB) receives information regarding a personal channel on an IPTV system and information regarding a plurality of viewer IPTV STBs associated with the personal channel. The IPTV STB further receives personal video content, and filters the personal video content.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080222690 - Terminal and method for providing broadcast information: A terminal displays a broadcast program from a first provider, and displays one or more identifiers from additional broadcast providers. Upon selection of one of the identifiers of the additional providers, additional information of broadcasts from the additional provider is also displayed thereby enabling a user to decide whether to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080222691 - System and method of eliminating or minimizing lo-related interference from tuners: Systems and methods of eliminating or reducing interference resulting from harmonics of local oscillator frequencies of mixers are shown. In one embodiment, a determination is made as to a zone or zones within an intermediate frequency band associated with undesired spurs. Inter-tuner spurs and intra-tuner spurs may be identified such... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080216106 - Content distribution system: A content distribution system, including: a registration module for receiving registration data for a digital item accessible, on a communications network such as a peer to peer (P2P) network, using a digital item client, such as a P2P client, on a first device; an activity module for receiving a request... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080216107 - Verifying and encouraging asset consumption in a communications network: Systems and methods presented herein generally provide for the compensation of asset providers and/or communications network providers for the non-consumption of assets provided with programming In this regard when users elect not to consume the assets associated with the programming, the asset provider loses the opportunity to present their assets... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080216108 - Application blocking system: A set-top box system for blocking signaled applications from being run on a set-top box, the system comprising an audio/video service receiving module to receive at least one audio/video service, an application receiving module to receive an application, an application signaling module to manage a first table including signaling information... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080216110 - Iptv receiver and methods for processing rating information in the iptv receiver: A method for rating information in an IPTV receiver may includes downloading content and first rating information identifying rating values of the content, wherein the first rating information includes information identifying whether the first rating information is newly downloadable, downloading second rating information defining rating types defined for rating systems... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080216109 - Method of providing controlled-access information and video receiving apparatus to use the same: In a controlled access broadcast system, a method of providing controlled-access information to a user includes determining whether a selected channel is a controlled-access channel, determining whether a smart card mounted in a smart card mounting part is configured to access the selected channel, if the selected channel is determined... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080216111 - Electronic television program guide schedule system and method: An electronic program schedule system which includes a receiver for receiving broadcast, satellite or cablecast television programs for a plurality of television channels and a tuner for tuning a television receiver to a selected one of the plurality of channels. A data processor receives and stores in a memory television... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080216112 - Playback of interactive programs: A method for playing back a program which includes one or more interactive applications. A program which is stored, either in the form of a data stream or as a set of files is played back from a storage device. When playback is started, applications which are detected are launched.... Agent: Ludovic Pierre

20080216113 - Method for receiving broadcasting signal and broadcasting receiver: A method for receiving a broadcasting signal and a broadcasting signal receiver are disclosed. Even when a cell is changed while an emergency alert is output, the emergency alert can be continuously output using emergency alert table information included in the broadcasting signal and channel information of the cell. The... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080216115 - Method and system for inserting a new channel into a list of preferred channels: A first set of channels is provided. The first set of channels is selected based on a predetermined criteria related to a viewing preference of a viewer. A first channel not selected based on the predetermined criteria related to the viewing preference of the viewer is inserted into the first... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080216114 - System and method for delivery of content in a network: A content delivery service is described for delivering content over a broadband digital broadcast network. A controller allows the delivery of content to be made in accordance with activity in a public land mobile network. The delivery of content may therefore be effectively scheduled and an appropriate revenue level.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080216117 - Method and apparatus for collecting user interest information: A user interest information-collecting method and apparatus of the present invention are provided for collecting user interest information on the basis of program viewing-behavior patterns of a user. The user interest information-collecting method includes extracting program guide information from a digital broadcast data received by the digital broadcast receiver; classifying... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080216118 - Method of providing user interface in data broadcastng receiver: A method of providing a user interface in a data broadcasting receiver is provided. The method of providing a user interface in a data broadcasting receiver comprises selecting one of a plurality of search factor information transmitted together with video information through data broadcasting and displaying selection options for selecting... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080216116 - Providing zapping streams to broadcast receivers: Methods and systems for providing zapping data for one or more programs transmitted using timeslicing are disclosed herein. Zapping data may be provided by a zapping data provider or server, or may be created at the mobile terminal based on received program information. Zapping data may be provided to mobile... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080216119 - Methods and apparatus for implementing guides and using recording information in determining program to communications channel mappings: A user recovers and records multiple programs communicated simultaneously using a communications channel, e.g., QAM communications channel. The simultaneous communication may be by communicating, e.g., an MPEG-2 transport stream including data corresponding to multiple programs through a corresponding to QAM communications channel. Thus a user device, e.g., a set top... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080216120 - Program guide system for recording television programs: An interactive program guide system is provided. The system facilitates recording of programs selected from the program guide. The system handles the recording and viewing of pay programs, parentally-controlled programs, consecutive programs on different television channels, and programs with and without copy protection. Programs may be recorded using combination television... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080216121 - Device for processing electronic program guide data to be displayed by an electronic equipment within pages associated to time references: An EPG data processing device (D), for an electronic equipment (EE), comprises a processing means (PM) arranged i) to access to sets of data defining respectively channel programmes and each comprising at least first data representative of a channel name and a channel programme name, second data defining a channel... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080216122 - System and method for selection of content source upon device power-on: A system and method for determining which program to display from multiple content sources at a power-on event of a content display device at a certain location is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving metadata containing content information about multiple programming available from multiple content sources on an... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080216123 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing program: In an information processing apparatus, a text information receiving unit receives text information, and a received text morphological analysis unit performs morphological analysis on the text information. An extraction unit extracts text information of a subtitle included in a program. A subtitle text morphological analysis unit performs morphological analysis on... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080216124 - Video system showing original channel during zapping on a tv: The invention relates to a video system which is able to show more than one channel at the same time. If a user, after watching an original channel sufficiently long, zaps to another channel, the original channel is displayed in for example a PIP, together with the new channel in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080216125 - Mobile device collaboration: Systems and methods are described for mobile device collaboration. An exemplary collaborative architecture enables aggregation of resources across two or more mobile devices, in such a manner that the aggregation of resources is practical even considering the miniaturized and limited battery power of most mobile devices. In a video implementation,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080216126 - Mass storage repository for a wireless network: A video repository unit includes a plurality of disk drives arranged in a redundant array and circuitry to control writing/reading of video programs to/from the redundant array. A wireless transceiver receives video programs and transmits a selected video program to a remote viewer responsive to a request received by the... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080216127 - Live video management system: The present invention discloses a mosaic video channel and a system for generating the mosaic video channel. A mosaic video channel in accordance with the present invention is displayed on a monitor with a plurality of individual video feeds being presented at a given time, and comprises a plurality of... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080216128 - Apparatus for receiving satellite broadcasting and method thereof: A method for receiving satellite broadcasting includes: amplifying an inputted satellite broadcasting signal; converting the amplified signal to a baseband signal by mixing the amplified signal with a center frequency of a selected channel; and varying a channel bandwidth of the baseband signal.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080216129 - Method and system for providing data from audio/visual source devices to audio/visual sink devices in a network: A method and system for providing data from one or more audio/visual (A/V) source devices to one or more A/V sink devices in a network is provided. The system implements a rendering method in a video rendering module configured to render display data related to digital videos from an A/V... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080216130 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and recording medium: An information processing system may include first apparatus and second apparatus coupled to each other through communications means. The first apparatus may include a transmitting/receiving unit effecting two-way communications with the second apparatus, and a control unit that transmits data corresponding to the operating signal from the transmitting/receiving unit to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080216132 - Method for establishing a network platform for renting the electronic publications: A method for establishing a network platform for renting the electronic publications adopts a grid algorithm, links to the Internet via various networks, and establishes the network platform having an information service grid character for renting the electronic publication. Three types of nodes are established in the information service grid:... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080216131 - 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..

20080216133 - Transmission of pre-set channel allocation information: The present application provides transferring channel allocation tables for receiving radio frequency services. Automatic updating channel allocation tables is provided by storing within at least one central database at least one channel allocation table, storing within each of a plurality of distributed consumer electronic devices at channel allocation table for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080216134 - Multimedia presentation resumption within an environment of multiple presentation systems: With at least one implementation described herein, one or more viewers are able to watch the same source multimedia content at multiple locations within an environment (e.g., a household). With at least one implementation described herein, a viewer is able to resume watching such content at a new location (or... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080216135 - Methods and apparatus for improved content delivery including content delivery streams dynamically populated in response to user requests: In response to user requests for content, content may be dynamically mapped to communications channels, e.g., QAM channels, used to communicate multiple programs during the same transmission time slot, e.g., through the use of multiplexed MPEG streams. A customer premise device, e.g., STB, uses a tuner tuned to the QAM... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080216136 - Methods and apparatus supporting the recording of multiple simultaneously broadcast programs communicated using the same communications channel: A user recovers and records multiple programs communicated simultaneously using a communications channel, e.g., QAM communications channel. The simultaneous communication may be by communicating, e.g., an MPEG-2 transport stream including data corresponding to multiple programs through a corresponding to QAM communications channel. Thus a user device, e.g., a set top... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080216138 - Television converter device including an internet protocol interface: A television converter device is provided which includes a channel selector and an Internet Protocol (IP) interface. The channel selector is configured to receive multiple channels of television programming from at least one of a satellite, cable, and over-the-air broadcasting source, select one of the channels from the multiple channels,... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20080216137 - Triggering enhanced content: A receiver for an enhanced television system in which video data defining a video stream, enhanced content data defining items of enhanced content, and trigger messages for triggering the play-out of the enhanced content are transmitted to receivers over a data network, the receiver comprising an enhanced content decoder for... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080216139 - 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..

20080216140 - 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..

20080216141 - On demand rf video feed for portable video monitor: The present invention discloses systems for selectively viewing video information. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a portable monitor, a video router, and a controller, coupled to the video router, wherein the video router selectively sends requested video information to the portable monitor based on commands from... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080216142 - System and method of digital media distribution: A system and method for the managed distribution of digital media. A capture station captures media resources by converting the media resources into digital form. Once captured in digital form, the digital media is communicated to a formatting server. The formatting server encodes and encrypts the digital media into a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080216143 - method for receiving ip broadcast and a receiving terminal: An IP broadcast terminal 30 is connected with a multicast address management device 10 for IP broadcast that holds multicast information via an IP multicast network 40 over which IP broadcast service is provided, and when a user issues a request to change an IP broadcast channel, generates a query... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080216144 - System and method for spectral node splitting in a hybrid fiber optic-coaxial cable network: A system and method for spectral node splitting in cable TV network based on hybrid fiber-coax architecture is disclosed. Two-way optical signals carrying video and/or multimedia content are received at a signal distribution node. Portions of the received signals are processed according to the functionality the direction thereof. Certain frequency... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080216145 - System and method for media transmission: System and method for transmitting and protecting media data set in a data communication medium. The invention provides encryption of media data and authorization prior to the media data being accessible on the end-user device. A Set Top Box provides for storage of media data downloaded through an access point,... Agent: Duncan G. Byers PC

20080216146 - Automatic identification of a set-top box user to a network: Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are disclosed for enabling a user of data services over a network to automatically register for such services by plugging in a set-top box, such as an advanced set-top box, or other IP clients such as a Web pad, and entering certain information through a... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP