Interactive video distribution systems inventions 11/08

20080295126 - Method and system for creating an aggregated view of user response over time-variant media using physiological data: A novel approach enables comparing and aggregating physiological responses from viewers to a time-variant media. This approach defines key events in the media, measures physiological response to and timing of each of the key events for each viewer of the media, aggregates such response for each key event, reconnects these... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080295127 - Game for increasing viewership of television commericals and a method for playing the game: A game for increasing viewership of television commercials is provided. The game provides a game card having a plurality of spaces arranged in multiple rows and columns. A player receives a game card associated with a particular participating program. The plurality of spaces on the game card are individually assigned... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080295128 - Advertising management method and system: System and method for managing distribution of content such as television programs to portable multi-media devices which are capable of using such content and communicating includes a broadcast management system arranged to manage delivery of content from content sources to the devices, an account management system arranged to manage requests... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080295130 - Method and apparatus for presenting and aggregating information related to the sale of multiple goods and services: A computer-implemented method can automatically present a plurality of selectable rich media video clips associated with goods and/or services offered for sale via an interactive networked communication system including at least one client and at least one server. A request to the server can be initiated at the client via... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080295129 - System and method for interactive video advertising: A method and a system to provide association of a video with selectable display locations associated with objects, and display of an advertisement associated with a selected display location of the video.... Agent: Steven Laut

20080295131 - System and method of delivering media content: In a particular embodiment, a method of delivering media content in some embodiments includes providing multimedia content from a multimedia delivery service to a customer premises equipment (CPE) device via an access network, wherein the multimedia content includes audio content and video content., the method further includes receiving a request... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080295133 - Method and system for generating a recommendation for at least one further content item: Method and system (100) for generating a recommendation for at least one further content item is disclosed. A personalized content channel is enabled to play out a plurality of content items (programs) complying with multiple selection criteria. At least one further content item is recommended by a recommender engine (107),... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080295132 - System and method of delivering media content: Provided is a program recommendation apparatus that recommends a program to a user that is in accordance with the user's preference, by taking into account the importance of keywords used in classifying programs' contents into correct categories. The program recommendation apparatus has a category dictionary containing words as keywords, where... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080295134 - Receiver and semiconductor integrated device: A receiver includes: first and second tuners configured to select respectively different broadcast channels; first and second AGC control circuits configured to generate first and second AGC control signals configured to respectively control gains of first and second AGC amplifiers based on output signals of the respective tuners; first and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080295136 - High frequency receiving apparatus: In a high frequency receiver main body 40, on a circuit board 12 within a shield case 9 with a bottom, distributors 3a and 3b, and filter circuits 4a and 4b, AGC amplification circuits 5a and 5b, mixers 6a and 6b, local oscillation circuits 8a and 8b, and demodulation circuits... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080295135 - Information distribution system and information distribution method: When viewing/listening to a video and an audio via a terminal device 1 having a monitor 7, a broadcast content D1 broadcast via an electric wave is received by a broadcast content reception section 6 which can be detachably attached to the terminal device 1 and a network content D4... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080295137 - Digital video broadcasting-satellite multi-input receiving circuit and associated method: A digital video broadcasting-satellite (DVB-S) multi-input receiving circuit and an associated method are provided to receive satellite input signals provided by a plurality of low noise blocks (LNB), thereby reducing the cost of DVB-S receivers. The DVB-S multi-input receiving circuit includes a selection circuit and a combiner. The selection circuit... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080295138 - On-train video information delivery control and display system: [Means for Resolution] A delivery control central device 10 installed in a lead car configuring a train delivers video information comprising moving image information and still image information to a delivery control terminal device 30 of each car via an inter-car transmission path 1 on the basis of contents and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080295139 - Message delivery management method and system: System and method for managing distribution of content such as television programs to portable multi-media devices which are capable of using such content and communicating includes a broadcast management system arranged to manage delivery of content from content sources to the devices, an account management system arranged to manage requests... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080295140 - Controlling access in a terminal device to services broadcast in multicast mode: In a terminal device for controlling access to multicast services over a broadcasting network, an application outputs a user-preselected broadcast service request to a router that receives the broadcast services. The request contains an address of the selected service. The device includes a filtering entity that compares the address in... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080295141 - Personalized tv apparatus: A personalized TV apparatus and a method of using it to access entertainment information from the Internet are disclosed. The TV apparatus includes a CPU, storage device, network interface, switch, decoder and search, download, and management modules running on the CPU. The CPU in the TV apparatus can automatically search... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080295142 - Package identification method and location resolution method: Provided are a package identification method and a location resolution method, more particularly, a package identification method for identifying a dependent package linked with a main AV and independent packages not linked with the main AV, and a location resolution method. Both when the package is dependent and linked with... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080295143 - Multimedia television system: A multimedia television system is disclosed. The multimedia television system comprises a receiver, a detector, an audio processing/controlling device, and a mixing device. The receiver receives an audio/video signal comprising an audio signal and a video signal and outputs the audio signal and the video signal respectively. When an external... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080288972 - Coded/non-coded program audience measurement system: An audience measurement system identifies a program which is broadcast from a signal source and to which a receiver is tuned. The audience measurement system includes a code reader for reading an ancillary code of the program to which the receiver is tuned, a channel status detector for determining channel... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080288975 - Advertising system and method thereof: An advertising system comprises an advertising server unit and a set-top box. The advertising server unit is capable of receiving at least one advertisement from at least one external advertiser, and broadcasting at least part of the advertisement to outside in a pushing manner. The set-top box is capable of... Agent: Raymond Sun

20080288973 - System and method for providing advertisements for video content in a packet based network: A system and method of providing advertisements for video content in a packet based communication system is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes storing a plurality of advertisements in a memory, wherein each of the plurality of advertisements is configured to be displayed concurrently with a video player having... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20080288974 - Systems and methods for outputting advertisements with ongoing video streams: Systems and methods for outputting advertisements with ongoing video streams are disclosed. A method for outputting advertisements to a display in conjunction with a video stream includes outputting a video stream to a user containing embedded advertisement information for display on a display device. Displaying an advertising display module within... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080288976 - System and method for providing advertisements for video content in a packet based network: A system and method of providing advertisements for video content in a packet based communication system is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes storing a plurality of advertisements in a memory, wherein each of the plurality of advertisements is configured to be displayed over a video player and includes... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20080288977 - System and method of indicating video content quality: A method of indicating video content quality is disclosed that includes receiving performance data at a video content quality server from a set-top box device. The performance data may include values of a plurality of video content quality parameters. The method also includes generating a graphical user interface indicating a... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080288978 - Nut cracker: A method of providing selectable interactivity for a viewer watching a show, whereby the viewer (1) can choose a position or person (6) from which the viewer will experience audio from the ongoing show, the viewer (1) being informed of a given code (K1) arranged by a certain activity to... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20080288980 - Interactive computer system for providing television schedule information: The present invention provides systems and methods for providing television schedule and/or listing 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 and/or listing information can be displayed on... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080288979 - System and method for providing fast channel surfing: A system and method for enabling television watchers to “channel surf” faster and reduce the amount of bandwidth used over a network to communicate television channels to end-users. Electronic programming guide information and images associated therewith may be communicated to an end-user. An image associated with a video program may... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080288981 - Receiving device, information providing device, information providing system, information providing method, and programs: There is provided an information providing device that includes a program listing information transmission portion that transmits, to a receiving device, program listing information showing a plurality of programs currently available for viewing; a related information storage portion that links to a program and stores related information in which a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080288982 - Method and apparatus for generating a recommendation for at least one content item: A recommender engine (107—1, 107—2, 107—3) recommends further content items for playout on a personalized content channel on the basis of a profile (109—1, 109—2, 109—3) associated with that personalized content channel. The profile (109—1, 109—2, 109—3) includes an indication of the user's “like” and “dislike” of content items played... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080288983 - System and method for providing sequential video and interactive content: A system and method of providing sequential video and contextual based content to an end user viewing video content in a video player on an end user computing device is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises storing a plurality of videos in a memory, storing a plurality of advertisements... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20080288984 - Minor channel selection method for digital television: Disclosed herein is a minor channel selection method for digital televisions. The method comprises storing a major channel number in response to an input of the major channel number, followed by determining whether or not the major channel number is consistently input for a first preset time; determining whether or... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080288985 - Optimally selecting partial tv programs: A system (600), apparatus (500), and method are provided to select a best set of TV programs for reception and recording by at least one tuner said TV programs being broadcast during a given time period [b, e] having a beginning time b and an ending time e. Partial and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080288986 - Wireless integrated security controller: A system and method are disclosed for improved video transmission, particularly in security settings. An improved security controller combines the interfaces and functionality for high quality video delivery over often less-than-perfect wireless networks, multi-camera analog/digital video controllers and encoders, multi-frequency wireless camera support, connectivity for serial controllers, network switching, and... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20080288987 - Method and system for utilizing a/v bridging and a/v bridging extensions to replace display port, hdmi, dvi and/or analog ports on a personal computing system: Aspects of a system for utilizing A/V bridging and A/V bridging extensions to replace Display Port and/or analog ports on a computing system may include a LAN subsystem that enables transmission of at least video data from a computing device, such as a computer workstation, to a multimedia monitor coupled... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080288988 - Information processing device, information processing method and program: An information processing device which shares program information specifying a program with other devices connected through a network is disclosed. The device includes: a program information receiving means for receiving the program information the accumulation of which is allocated to the information processing device; a program information storage means for... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080288989 - System, methods and apparatus for video communications: A computer software product, methods and apparatus for improved video communications are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided that is configured to send v-mail messages. The v-mail messages contain a video stream that is stored on a second device on a network. In one embodiment, the second device... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080288990 - Interactive broadcasting system: Disclosed herein is an interactive broadcasting system. The interactive broadcasting system includes a web server, a content providing server, a streaming server, a broadcast control server, and a content control server. The web server provides a web page through the Internet and controls a web connection. The content providing server... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080288991 - System and method for reducing network bandwidth for distributing video programming: A system and method for enabling television watchers to “channel surf” faster and reduce the amount of bandwidth used over a network to communicate television channels to end-users. Electronic programming guide information and images associated therewith may be communicated to an end-user. An image associated with a video program may... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080288992 - Systems and methods for improving image responsivity in a multimedia transmission system: The present invention relates to improved methods and systems for transmission of images overlaid on video, particularly images requiring high levels of responsivity (e.g. mouse pointers) relative to the underlying video, from a computing device to a television. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method of... Agent: Patentmetrix

20080288993 - Interactive multi-user tv method and system and a tv receiver for using such a method: The invention relates to an interactive multi-user TV method and system and to a TV receiver for using such a method. The invention method consists of broadcasting a TV program (23) and at least one related interactive program (22) to a TV receiver (3), in downloading the sequences of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080288994 - Method for storing broadcast contents, and a broadcast content storage system: The invention describes a method for storing broadcast contents and a broadcast content storage system. A plurality of content categories (KAT1, KAT2) is pre-defined, each of which is defined or described by at least one content descriptor (OB 1, OB2). Broadcast contents transmitted over at least one broadcast transmission channel... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080288995 - Method and system for enabling video communication via ethernet utilizing asymmetrical physical layer operations: Signals may be communicated between a video source and a video rendering device via and asymmetrical multi-rate Ethernet physical layer (PHY). The asymmetric multi-rate PHY may support multiple rates. The asymmetrical multi-rate Ethernet PHY may handle compressed and/or uncompressed, encrypted and/or unencrypted video signals and may handle audio/video bridging. One... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080288996 - Method and apparatus for provisioning media content in a multi-user environment: A method and apparatus for provisioning media content in a multi-user environment is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Set-Top Box having a controller element to: receive multimedia content from a communication system; configure individual access to the multimedia content among... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080288997 - Recording system, receiving apparatus and receiving method, recording apparatus and recording method, and program: A recording system includes: a receiving apparatus that receives a content; and a recording apparatus that records the content received by the receiving apparatus. The receiving apparatus includes reception means for receiving the content, acceptance means for accepting a user's operation instructing to record the received content, generation means for... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080288998 - Multimedia signal processing system: A multimedia signal processing system utilizes an easily manipulated, low-cost storage and display system that allows the user to view a television program and instantly review previous scenes within the program. The invention also allows the user to store selected programs while simultaneously watching or reviewing another. A versatile system... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080282283 - Method and system for processing commerce transactions in an interactive environment: A method and system for processing commerce transactions between a consumer and a business in an interactive environment is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises generating a request package from commands received at a set top box. The request package is received over a cable network. The... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080282284 - Method and apparatus for utilizing a broadcast flag: There are provided apparatus and methods for controlling distribution of data from a first device to a second device. One such apparatus includes a broadcast flag detector and a data manipulation device (106). The broadcast flag detector is for detecting one or more portions of the data associated with an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080282285 - Interactive media system and method for presenting pause-time content: Interactive media systems and methods are provided for substituting pause-time content in place of media that has been paused. The user may pause media such as real-time media, video-on-demand media, near video-on-demand, or recorded media. If the user pauses real-time media or near video-on-demand media, the interactive media application may... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080282286 - Method and apparatus for conducting real time dialogues with mass viewer audiences during live programs: Disclosed is a system for conducting real time dialogues with an audience comprising a plurality of remote viewers of a broadcast program, said system comprising: (a) a Real Time Dialog Machine having input ports for enabling substantially simultaneous data input from each of a plurality of viewers in data communicating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080282287 - Method for processing a sports video and apparatus thereof: The present invention discloses a method of processing a sports video. The method includes the steps of: analyzing the sports video to detect at least one semantic event and each of the at least one semantic event associated with a segment length; and generating a summarized video according to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080282288 - Remote control unit and remotely operating method: Provided is a remote control unit for remotely controlling an external device. The remote control unit includes a key input part having a plurality of keys, a wireless communication module, a memory device, a display part, and a controller. The wireless communication module transmits/receives data to/from the external device. The... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080282289 - Interactive television user interface: An interactive television user interface (439) that is adapted to allow a user to access a service; receive personalised data inputs for a service for a designated user; store the personalised data for that service and present the stored data to the designated user the next time the service is... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080282290 - Interactive viewer for advertisements: A system, method, and computer-readable media are presented for displaying an interactive viewer associated with an advertisement within a user interface. In one aspect, the system includes an advertisement manager for providing advertisements in response to request from clients. The system further includes a rendering component for determining if an... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080282291 - Tv content search system and method with multi-field search and display: A search based TV interface system and method is disclosed. Search results are dynamically displayed based on search parameters and/or time. A dynamically adjusted grid may be provided which collapses to a list if a minimum grid size is not met. Search results may also be dynamically displayed organized by... Agent: David L. Henty Suite 1150

20080282292 - Receiving apparatus and method: Partial data related to information data is received, image data corresponding to the received partial data is generated by sequentially processing the received partial data, and the generated image data is output to a display unit. Before output of the image data corresponding to the partial data to the display... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080282294 - Features for use with advanced set-top applications on interactive television systems: Advanced features for interactive television applications are described, including a back feature, a forward feature, a history feature, a go to feature, an extras feature, a reminder feature, a favorites feature, a parental control feature, and a search feature. Features may be inter-resource. Support for multiple data paths, Internet access,... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080282293 - System and method for an event scheduler: A system and a method for event searching and scheduling for network events of various event types, including offline and online events.... Agent: Dr. D'vorah Graeser C/o Discovery Dispatch

20080282296 - Image data delivery: A conversion apparatus is connected to a camera server delivering image information obtained by image sensing to a display operation terminal. When image information is received from the camera server, the conversion apparatus converts the received image information to a format for a portable display terminal, and delivers it to... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080282295 - Pausing and resuming content streaming on wireless devices: In one embodiment, a communication system transmits video content in a looped manner using wireless communications to a cell phone capable of playing the content in a streaming manner. The cell phone is capable, after the playing of the received video content has been interrupted during a current transmission of... Agent: Mendelsohn And Associates, P.C.

20080282297 - System and method for providing additional information using bi-directional broadcasting service: Disclosed is a system for providing additional information using a bi-directional broadcasting service and a method for the same. The system provides additional information using a bi-directional broadcasting service, after the additional information provided through the bi-directional broadcasting service is book-marked, and is capable of providing the book-marked additional information... Agent: LexyoumeIPGroup, LLC

20080282298 - Method and apparatus for supporting file sharing in a distributed network: To facilitate instant playback of an ordered title (e.g., a movie), a file pertaining to the title is fragmented into a header and segments. The header is seeded in all boxes in service and none, one or more segments are distributed to the network of boxes. When the title is... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080282299 - Method and apparatus for delivering consumer entertainment services accessed over an ip network: The present invention provides IP-centric, multi-channel, time-shifted and real-time telecommunications services to a plurality of system users. The system can capture both digital and analog multi-channel feeds and, through a cross-connect layer, can convert the signals to a digital format and subsequently send them to an encoder to be compressed.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080282300 - Digital television receiver: A digital television receiver for use in a digital television broadcast system in which a plurality of digital television data streams can be provided in respective streams of television broadcast packets forming the lowest layer of a layered digital television structure and also in respective streams of Internet protocol packets... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080282301 - System and method of providing video content: A method of providing video content includes receiving a channel change data packet from a set-top box device at a subscriber premise via a packet-based video distribution network. The channel change data packet includes data indicating a requested channel and a channel change index value. The method also includes reading... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080282302 - Open api video system and method of making and using same: A video player unit, system and method, and a video hierarchy. Included are at least one memory device, a plurality of communication access points for receiving at least one program play, an open application programming interface associated with the at least one memory device, wherein a plurality of applications correspondent... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080282303 - Detection of media links in broadcast signals: A detection apparatus includes a tuner tuned to the program and a meter coupled to the tuner and arranged to detect content ancillary information from the program tuned by the tuner. The content ancillary information may be a media link, closed captioning information, or the like. The meter may also... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080282306 - Mapping transport streams: In a digital network that includes a plurality of devices, which include multiple devices that transmit transport streams, a system and method are provided for discovering and mapping the transport streams and the plurality of devices included in the digital network. One such method sends a transport stream map request... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20080282305 - Media distribution system, apparatus, method and software: Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide for media delivery and reporting. Modules are defined using a an extendable mark up language for first media, second media, and system users. A first module includes characteristics and requirements for first media and second media locations within the first media. A second module... Agent: Gamburd Law Group LLC

20080282304 - Module and architecture for generating real-time, multiple-resolution video streams and the architecture thereof: A module for generating real-time, multiple-resolution video streams and the architecture thereof are disclosed. A module for generating multiple-resolution video streams as well as the architecture thereof for use with a video encoder includes a system bus, an external memory and a main processor. The main processor and the external... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080282307 - Providing video content to a subscriber while minimizing transmission channel capacity: A method for providing video content to a subscriber while minimizing transmission channel capacity that includes acquiring information corresponding to factors contributing to a perceived picture quality at a display device in communication with a set-top box, compressing video content based on the acquired information, and transmitting over a local... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20080282308 - Optimizing data rates for video services to a subscriber: A method for optimizing data rates for video services to a subscriber that includes receiving an indication of whether incoming video signals to a set-top box corresponding to the subscriber are being recorded, receiving an indication of whether video content corresponding to the video signals being recorded is being simultaneously... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20080282309 - Method and apparatus for providing content through bidirectional communication network: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing content. The apparatus includes a content acquisition information storage unit to store content acquisition information that is identified by a content identifier for content acquired through a bidirectional communication network and necessary to acquire the content by communication with a server that... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080282310 - Ip datagram de-encapsulation: An apparatus (1001), system (1000) and method (800-900) are provided for improving the de-encapsulation of sections from Multi Protocol Encapsulation (MPE) (151) and Multi Protocol Encapsulation-Forward Error Correction (MPE-FEC) (152) Sections in a DVB-H transport stream. DVB-H is a standard for broadcasting services to hand-helds. Its difference from DVB-T, C,... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080282311 - Subscribing to programming packages: Methods and systems for enabling users visiting a friend or family member to subscribe to a TV programming package that the friend or family member currently subscribes to. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a user-interface (UI) via the friend's set-top box to enable entry of visitor user identification... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080282312 - System and method for allocating tuner and/or recording resources: A system and method of implementing a distributed recording capability may be employed to allocate tuner resources among connected recorder devices, including digital video recorder (DVR) devices. In accordance with one aspect, a server may receive a request to record a multimedia broadcast from a user. The server may search... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20080276264 - Certified two way source initiated transfer: An audience response system comprising a base unit and a plurality of remote units communicating using wireless communication operating on a frequency pair. When a response key on a remote unit is activated, the remote unit transmits a voting signal packet to the base unit. The base unit registers the... Agent: Olson & Cepuritis, Ltd.

20080276265 - Methods and apparatus for generating signatures: Methods and apparatus for characterizing media are described. In one example, a method of characterizing media includes capturing a block of audio; converting at least a portion of the block of audio into a frequency domain representation; dividing the frequency domain representation into a plurality of bands; determining a characteristic... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080276266 - Characterizing content for identification of advertising: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for characterizing content for content targeting. A first content item is received. One or more content boundaries are determined for the first content item. The content boundaries segment the first content item into a plurality of segments. One or more respective targeting... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080276267 - Iptv architecture for dynamic commercial insertion: Dynamic delivery of different commercials to different viewers is achieved using a network node within an IPTV packet-switched network that is coupled to receive both a multicast television program and commercial programs. The network node is able to identify one or more subscribers to the multicast television program and to... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080276268 - System and method for content insertion: A device and method for local content insertion. The method includes: receiving multiple programs over a satellite link (220); determining whether to perform a local content insertion such as to insert a local content entity to a selected program being outputted by an end user device (240); inserting the local... Agent: Reches Patents

20080276270 - System, method, and apparatus for implementing targeted advertising in communication networks: The present technique detects at least one active user utilizing a set of communication devices over a communication network. The method includes receiving behavior data, fulfillment data and feedback data for the at least one active user of the set of communication devices accessing content over the communication network using... Agent: Gaian Consulting Services Inc

20080276269 - User interfaces for web-based video player: A system, method and various user interfaces enable association of advertising content with requested shared video content for access via a web-based video player. Advertising content is provided selectively in conjunction with playback of video content. Selection of how and where advertising is displayed is based on a flexibly managed... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080276271 - Voting and headend insertion model for targeting content in a broadcast network: A system and method is provided for use in connection with delivering content that is targeted to users of a broadcast network. In order to select content that is targeted to users of the broadcast network, signals are received from a plurality of customer premise equipment devices (CPEs) of the... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080276272 - Animated video overlays: A video server provides video content to a client via a network. At the instruction of the video server, a player at the client contacts an ad server and downloads one or more creatives and a controller file to the client. The controller file indicates how the creative manifests itself... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080276273 - System and method for focused navigation in a media center/extension device architecture: A home entertainment system includes a home media center for providing media content to a plurality of remotely located televisions within a home. The home media center includes a user interface module to generate graphical commands usable by a separate media center extension to render a focused navigation user interface... Agent: Digeo, Inc C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20080276274 - Media services devices and methods: A media services device including a display device configured to present user-selectable options corresponding to video-on-demand services, and a video-on-demand application server component configured to provide the video-on-demand services responsive to user selection of the options.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20080276276 - Apparatus and method of receiving electronic program guide: An apparatus for and a method of receiving an electronic program guide (EPG), the EPG receiving apparatus including: a receiving unit to receive basic EPG information and detailed EPG information corresponding to the basic EPG information from the server; a buffer to temporarily store the detailed EPG information; a control... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080276275 - Program guide system with video-on-demand browsing: An interactive television program guide system is provided in which a viewer may direct a television to simultaneously display a selected television program and a program guide display. A viewer may use the program guide display to browse available video-on-demand (VOD) while continuing to view a previously selected program in... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080276277 - Method and system for presenting television program guide information based on viewer usage patterns: A method and system for presenting television program guide information is provided. A program guide is obtained, and program viewing patterns of a viewer are monitored. Information from the program guide is selectively presented to the viewer based on the viewing patterns. Selectively presenting information from the program guide includes... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080276278 - User interface presenting enhanced video content information associated with video programs: Providing interactive access to video programming and video content information in a multimedia system. A processing device of the multimedia system receives video content information associated with video programming that is to be broadcast. The video content information includes at least video identification information and video content information. The display... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080276279 - Interactive media display across devices: A computer-implemented method includes identifying a computer-based portable program module, automatically altering code in the portable program module to permit display of the module on a television-based display so that the displayed module has a substantially similar appearance on the television-based display as on a computer display, and providing the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080276280 - Information providing apparatus and information providing method: The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus and an information providing apparatus. Images which are consecutive in time series are sequentially enlarged and displayed such that the enlarged images are continuous spirally in the time-series order from the inner circumferential side. In this manner, according to the present... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080276281 - Information processing device, information processing method, information processing program, and recording medium recorded with the information processing program: A recording/reproducing system (100) displays timer-recording information recorded in timer-recording list information in a display area as a timer-recording list. Further, upon recognizing that at least one of the timer-recording information is selected among the displayed timer-recording information, the recording/reproducing system (100) carries out control so as to display basic... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080276282 - Method, system and computer program product for efficient storage of data: A method, system and computer program product for efficient storage of data for use by an application, including a set top box. The set top box including a physical memory, a bulk storage device, and a memory management unit (MMU) coupled between the application and the physical memory and the... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080276283 - 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

20080276284 - Systems and methods for recording overlapping media content during scheduling conflicts: In many aspects, systems and methods for recording overlapping media content using interactive media guidance applications are provided. The systems and methods for recording overlapping media content generally relate to cropping overlapping portions of the media content thereby allowing a user to enjoy most of the recording while only forgoing... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080276286 - Method and apparatus for displaying information: Disclosed herein, in various embodiments, are methods and apparatus incorporating, among other things, the concept of using, in particular but without limitation, traditionally non-commercial programming as a medium for selling products or services on-line, and again in particular over the Internet. Using this concept, for example, an element identified in... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080276285 - Method and apparatus for displaying information and collecting viewer information: Disclosed herein, in various embodiments, are methods and apparatus incorporating, among other things, the concept of using, in particular but without limitation, traditionally non-commercial programming as a medium for selling products or services on-line, and again in particular over the Internet. Using this concept, for example, an element identified in... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080276287 - Digital broadcasting system and digital broadcast transmission and reception method: The present invention is a digital broadcasting system for transmitting and receiving, via a network, a broadcast stream created from a broadcast source. The digital broadcasting system includes: a hierarchical coding unit (2) which codes the broadcast source depending on a characteristic of the broadcast source and generates, from the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080276288 - Method and device for setting connection type of dual tuner: The present invention relates to a connection state setting method of a dual tuner and an apparatus. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the method of setting a tuner connection state of n satellites in a digital broadcast receiver having the plurality of tuners, n being a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080276289 - System for video presentations with adjustable display elements: A client computer, for viewing a media presentation, includes a processor and memory. The processor is connected to the memory. The client computer is arranged for connecting to a network and for receiving video image data from a video server on the network. The client computer is further arranged for... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080276290 - Monitoring apparatus: A monitoring system checks a transmission error of a video/audio signal transmitted from a source (10) to a destination (20A, 20B) by comparing in real time a first feature extracted from the pre-transmission video/audio signal and a second feature extracted from the post-transmission video/audio signal. The transmitted video/audio signal is... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080276291 - Producing special effects to complement displayed video information: A hierarchical publish/subscribe network is employed to produce and distribute special effects to users to complement displayed video information. A top level broker in the network receives a plurality of data streams corresponding to a respective plurality of primary special. A service provider makes a subscription request for one of... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080276292 - Releasing system, releasing method of internet television and internet television client: A releasing system and releasing method of Internet TV, an Internet TV client. The system includes a program releasing unit for releasing programs of an Internet TV channel; a switching information recording unit for recording and monitoring switching information of a channel, and issuing an activating instruction to the channel... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080276293 - Point-to-multipoint high definition multimedia transmitter and receiver: A high definition video transmitter and receiver are disclosed. The transmitter provides high definition video to a one-point receiver or to multipoint receivers. The transmission network is asynchronous and the receiver re-synchronizes the video. The transmission can be wired or wireless.... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP