Interactive video distribution systems inventions 07/09

20090193450 - Signal receiver security apparatus and methods: Apparatus and methods for denying a user a benefit of information transmitted to a device. The device may be a satellite signal receiver, which may be in the form of a set-top box, or any other device for which location-based security is desired. The method may include disabling a function... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20090193451 - Method for using scheduled hyperlinks to record multimedia content: A method of establishing communications with one or more devices located in an environment using a wireless communication device is disclosed. The wireless communication device comprises a short-range transceiver that is able to communicate with a short-range transceiver located in the environment. A communication is received from the short-range transceiver... Agent: Samuel H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090193452 - Media content sharing over a home network: A master device interactively distributes a television signal to a remote device for remote display with low latency between a user input and a television signal change.... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090193455 - Information storage medium and method for providing additional contents based on trigger, and digital broadcast reception apparatus: Disclosed are an information storage medium having recorded thereon service information regarding a broadcast service to provide additional content, the information storage medium having recorded thereon information for receiving a trigger while the broadcast service is received, information for selecting additional content to be inserted to the broadcast service in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090193456 - Information storage medium storing metadata and method of providing additional contents, and digital broadcast reception apparatus: Disclosed are an information storage medium storing metadata for providing additional content during a broadcast program, the metadata including information indicating whether to insert second additional content instead of first additional content, which is underlying additional content of the broadcast program, and a locator of the second additional content, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090193454 - Restamping transport streams to avoid vertical rolls: In one embodiment, a network device analyzes an encoded stream to identify a timing value included in a packet before a splice point. Next, the device determines a difference between identified timing value and a timing value included in a packet of the encoded segment to be spliced. In conjunction... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090193453 - System and method for harvesting advertising data for dynamic placement into end user data streams: A method is disclosed for selecting advertising data at an end user device, the method comprising monitoring a plurality of advertising data items in a first video data stream at the end user device; correlating advertising characterization data for the advertising data item with end user profile data for an... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Roebuck Attn: Patent Docketing

20090193458 - Method and apparatus for transmission, receipt and display of advertisements: An apparatus for the intelligent display of advertisements to a television services user includes a transmitter, a receiver and a display on which an electronic television program guide, television programs, and advertisements are displayed. Advertising and electronic program guide data are transmitted to a receiver used by one or more... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090193457 - Systems and methods for providing run-time enhancement of internet video files: Methods and systems are provided for enhancing Internet video files at run-time with supplemental multimedia content constructed in real-time. The supplemental multimedia content may comprise any type of content that cannot be known and practically constructed prior to run-time of an Internet video file. The supplemental multimedia content may include... Agent: Christine Johnson Esq.

20090193459 - Channel selection by name: A method to directly tune to a specific station. Each number of a TV remote control keypad represents certain letters. A viewer enters the number that corresponds to each letter of the call letters of a desired TV station, and the TV uses metadata such as program and system information... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090193460 - Program promotion feedback: A user request to watch a program is received in response to a promotion for the program. One or both of recording the program and playback of the program is performed. Information regarding one or both of the recording and the playback is output, this information including an identifier of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090193462 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving electronic service guide in digital video broadcasting system: Provided is an apparatus and a method for transmitting/receiving Electronic Service Guide (ESG) data in a digital video broadcasting system. The method includes creating ESG data bursts by grouping ESG data supporting a plurality of languages for each ESG support language; establishing sessions corresponding to respective ESG data bursts; creating... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090193461 - Information processing device and information providing method: The information processing device of the present invention includes: a display portion that displays objects that respectively performed a function assigned in advance by being selected; an operation portion that inputs operation information to select one of the objects; and a control portion that displays supplementary information linked to the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090193463 - Method and system for sharing information between users in media reproducing system: A method and system for sharing information between users while reproducing media in a media reproducing system, the method including: reproducing the media in the media reproducing system; capturing a part of the media in the media reproducing system; and registering a media related question including the captured part of... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090193465 - Expanded playlist for tv video player: An Internet TV video guide shows thumbnails of video assets available from one or more providers, and one or more of the assets may represent a playlist with two or more associated video clips. When a viewer selects a playlist asset, the thumbnail is expanded to show the individual clips... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090193464 - Up next video guide for tv video player: An Internet TV shows which video clip in an Internet-provided playlist of multiple clips is “up next” for play.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090193466 - Distributed network-based video content for television: This disclosure generally relates to providing network-based video content to television viewers. For example, software for providing network-based video over a television can provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to the television for presentation to a viewer. Then, in response to input through the GUI, the software can identify a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090193467 - Providing information for broadcast and bi-directional communication services: The present invention provides methods and systems for accessing services in a television system. In one embodiment, a DHCT presents a subscriber an EPG presentation containing a plurality of selectable bi-directional services that are purchasable for a period of time and rendered to a buying subscriber on an individualized basis... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090193468 - Tracking and providing availability status of personal bi-directional services: The present invention provides methods and systems for accessing services in a television system. In one embodiment, a DHCT presents a subscriber an EPG presentation containing a plurality of selectable bi-directional services that are purchasable for a period of time and rendered to a buying subscriber on an individualized basis... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090193469 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method, and computer program: A configuration is provided in which a device within a home network receives and plays back content from a server that is located outside the home network. A home IMS gateway maps the external server located outside the home network as a virtual home network device, and executes reception of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090193470 - Data processing method, tv data displaying method and system thereof: A data processing method, including: (a) respectively recording usage duration of a plurality of data in a predetermined time period of at least one day to generate a usage time parameter, or respectively recording the number of usage times of a plurality of data in a predetermined time period of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090193471 - Providing information pertaining to audio-visual and personal bi-directional services: The present invention provides methods and systems for accessing services in a television system. In one embodiment, a DHCT presents a subscriber an EPG presentation containing a plurality of selectable bi-directional services that are purchasable for a period of time and rendered to a buying subscriber on an individualized basis... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090193472 - Video and audio network distribution system: This disclosures describes a local area network (LAN) video and audio system 20. The disclosed system 20 includes a networked audio source node device 300 that couples to a plurality of network speaker nodes 100 via a TCP/IP LAN network 200 where the networked audio source node device is a... Agent: Matthew J. Booth & Associates, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090193473 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving multi-stream signals in wireless transmitter/receiver system environment: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving wireless multi-band stream signals using optimal resolution in a wireless digital television transmitter/receiver environment. The method includes: receiving, from a first wireless receiver, at least one of first resolution information and first channel information of a first receiver terminal connected to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090193474 - Method and apparatus for moving viewing sessions among different devices in a home network: A method is provided for rendering digital content items with a second media renderer in a network having at least one control point, at least one media server, and a plurality of media renderers. The method includes presenting a list of one or more digital content items currently being rendered... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090193476 - Method for live transmission of content with a view to defered recovery in p2p mode after division, and control device and associated equipment: A method is dedicated to the transmission of contents to communication equipment (T1, T2) that is connected to a content broadcast network (N1) and to a communication network (N2). This method consists in i) transmitting contents live to communication equipment (T1, T2) via the broadcast network (N1), then ii) determining... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090193475 - Systems and methods for enabling configurable context-specific actions in streaming video: Systems and methods for deploying video content in a video player which enables context-specific actions and policies may comprise a video player operating in a web browser which receives a policy file or a hierarchy of policy files describing specific actions, such as displaying a text, image, link, or video,... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090193477 - Data providing system: A data providing system in which program deliverers store programs and deliver the stored programs to requesting subscriber terminals has a program allocation control unit that allocates new programs or qualified programs to multiple program deliverers, then selectively deletes the programs from the program deliverers. This allocation scheme assures that... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090193478 - Content shuffling system and method: A video system (10) includes a digital viewing device (22) having a display (32), a plurality of discrete video clips that are each associated with a first stack, and a video clip display sequencer defining an order for sequential display of the video clips in the first stack on the... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090193480 - Bi-directional communication services over cable networks: The present invention provides methods and systems for accessing services in a television system. In one embodiment, a DHCT presents a subscriber an EPG presentation containing a plurality of selectable bi-directional services that are purchasable for a period of time and rendered to a buying subscriber on an individualized basis... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090193479 - Method and apparatus for automatically notifying a renter of digital content when the rental period has expired: Digital content contained on physical media rented to a customer who fails to return said media once the rental term has expired. Date information encoded onto the media or encoded within the content is used to determine that the rental period has expired. If the media containing the expired content... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20090193481 - Method, device and system for providing a broadcast tv: A method for realizing video live broadcast, includes: receiving a request for creating conversation from a user equipment, the request carrying indication information for identifying video live broadcast BTV service packet, the BTV packet includes several channel program with the same authentication attribute and the same accounting attribute; sending BTV... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090193483 - Method and apparatus for providing metadata of content, and method and apparatus for limiting content usage authority: Provided are a method and apparatus for limiting a content usage authority scope of a client by using metadata in an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service. The method performed by a metadata server adds control information to the metadata and transmits the metadata, wherein the content usage authority scope of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090193482 - System and method of scheduling recording of media content: A method at a set-top box. The method includes receiving a signal including media content. The method also includes determining a signal quality metric of the first signal. The method also includes scheduling recording of the media content via a second signal after determining that the signal quality metric of... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090193484 - Adaptive scheduling of streaming video over wireless networks: An adaptive scheduling process is disclosed which dynamically decides which frames need to be transmitted and which ones need to be dropped at any transmission opportunity based on current channel conditions and on characteristics of each video frame.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090193486 - Digital set-top terminal with partitioned hard disk and associated system and method: A video content system includes a server module, a video content network coupled to the server module, and a digital set-top terminal coupled to the video content network. The digital set-top terminal in turn includes a processor; an interface coupled to the processor and the video content network; and a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090193485 - Methods and apparatus for predictive delivery of content over a network: Methods and apparatus for optimizing bandwidth utilization in a cable network. In one embodiment, the method comprises predicting which content will be requested by a set of users based upon the exhibited viewing habits of those users (and/or others). A server process gathers viewership data comprising a listing of programs... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20090193487 - Apparatus, systems and methods for providing enhancements to atsc networks using synchronous vestigial sideband (vsb) frame slicing: Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for signaling to a receiver an availability of a service and a deterministic mapping of a service content corresponding to the service. A modulator receives a digital signal and generates a data frame from the digital signal, where the data frame... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090193488 - Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus and scramble channel deciding method capable of shortening time required for scramble decision: In a digital broadcast receiving apparatus, a receiver receives video packets or audio packets configuring a program of digital broadcast. A selector selects a part of the video packets or the audio packets of each channel received by the receiver. A determination unit determines whether or not decoding of the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090193489 - System for configuring a media processor: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor communicatively coupled to a remote controller by way of a wireless interface. The media processor can have a controller to wirelessly transmit to the remote controller provisioning information stored in the media processor for... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090193490 - Set-top box for converting media signals based on stored output settings: A media presentation device converts media signals based on stored output settings. The media presentation device includes a sink-interaction port to at least partially receive device-specific information of a sink device, a data storage and a processor. The processor determines whether one of the plurality of at least partially stored... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090187932 - Methods and apparatus to monitor, verify, and rate the performance of airings of commercials: Methods and apparatus to monitor, verify, and rate the performance of airings of commercials are disclosed. An example method includes receiving an identification of an advertisement that was presented on a media presentation channel at a time, receiving ratings information for the media presentation channel associated with the time period,... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090187933 - System and method for distribution of picture objects: Proposed is a system (1) and a suitable method for distribution of picture objects which are stored with assigned picture object information in a picture object database (291). In a media center (2) of the system (1), user identification data are received which are transmitted to the media center (2)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090187934 - Interactive reverse channel for direct broadcast satellite system: A system and method is disclosed for providing a reverse channel to enable interactive communication between a DBS subscriber and DBS service provider. The addition of an interactive return channel overcomes the problems associated with existing audience measurement systems as well as the problems associated with existing DBS signal security... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090187935 - Two-way pda, laptop and cell phone audience response system: A two-way PDA, cell phone and laptop audience participation system providing the ability for real-time audience participation in questions and surveys and for real-time generation and display of results. A plurality of two-way wireless communication devices such as PDAs, cellphones or laptops are provided for use by participants at an... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090187936 - Social broadcasting: A method of providing a broadcast is disclosed. One or more network communications is received via a network from each of a plurality of users of a broadcast provided at least in part other than via the network, each indicating a preference of the sending user with respect to a... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090187937 - Device and method for controlling digital bidirectional communication: An interface block (11) converts the format of input downstream data (STRM). A CPU (12) receives the format-converted data (DIF) and realizes the MAC function. A TEK process block (13) receives TEK process data (DTEK) obtained from the data (DIF), analyzes the data structure of the TEK process data, and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090187939 - Methods and apparatus for user-based targeted content delivery: Methods and apparatus for selecting and delivering advertising or promotional content based on, e.g., the attributes of a desired demographic. In one embodiment, the invention enhances advertising or promotional penetration into a particular demographic of a network subscriber pool by correlating the advertising/promotion (and even the contextual program content) with... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20090187938 - Service substitution techniques: Service substitution techniques are described. In an implementation, a substitution table is derived that specifies one or more service substitutions to be performed for content and that specifies particular geographic locations to perform at least one service substitution. One or more communications are formed to be streamed over a packet-switched... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187940 - Video broadcasting method, apparatus, and system: A video broadcasting method includes assigning channels to a video content based on a total number of channels usable for broadcasting the video contents and a playback time of the video content, calculating a broadcast start time interval of the channels assigned to the video content based on the playback... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090187941 - System and method for targeted advertising: A computer readable medium is disclosed containing embedded computer executable instructions that when executed by a computer or router or switch are useful in performing a method for sending targeted advertising data, the computer program comprising instructions to receive a first data set at a server; instructions to duplicate the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Roebuck Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187942 - Receiving apparatus: An apparatus operable with taking an allowable number of copies information into consideration. Provided is a receiving apparatus including a receiving unit configured to receive programs in a plurality of broadcast networks and data including information of the programs, a program guide preparing unit configured to prepare a program guide... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090187945 - Customized electronic programming guide: A customizable electronic programming guide (CEPG) is hosted on a residential gateway. The CEPG includes user-defined folders that may be populated with other folders (i.e., sub-folders), program identifiers, or both. Electronic programming guide data arrive at the residential gateway in a standard form and are reformatted by the residential gateway... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187946 - Fast channel switching for encrypted mediaflo mobile multimedia multicast system: Enhancing a stream layer transmission for a MediaFLO™ mobile multimedia multicast system comprising a transmitter and a receiver. Code word (CW) computations are performed on a current channel being accessed by the receiver. A favorite channel that a user is statistically mostly likely to switch to on the receiver at... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090187943 - Personalized media channel: A multimedia processing device (MPD) includes a relevance engine that is adapted to track a user's viewing preferences over time and to automatically determine which of the programs available in a given time slot is most probably preferred by that user. The relevance engine can then create a sequential play... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187944 - System and method of providing recommendations related to a service system: A method of providing recommendations related to a service is disclosed and includes receiving data from a device associated with a service subscriber, the data identifying an individual. The method also includes creating a personalization profile associated with the service subscriber. The personalization profile is populated with information included in... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187947 - System and method for managing distributed media files: There is disclosed a media file distribution system and method. An asset management and delivery system and method for the distribution of digital files and data is provided. There are two major functions, with sub-functions within each. The system first serves as a fully automated management system for a company... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090187948 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering a program in advance of a scheduled broadcast time: A scheduled broadcast time is retrieved for a program that is to be delivered in advance of the scheduled broadcast time, wherein the scheduled broadcast time is associated with a program content identifier for the program. Prior to the scheduled broadcast time, a pre-cast channel is selected on a network... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187949 - Mapping of network information between data link and physical layer: Aspects of the invention are directed to a cell-frequency-link descriptor configured to map network-specific parameters with time frequency slicing (TFS) information in a digital video broadcast system. The cell-frequency-link descriptor may include fields that provide a mapping between a cell identifier, a TFS group identifier, a bandwidth, a guard interval,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090187950 - Audible menu system: An audible menu system associated with distribution of television content over a service provider network is disclosed. The menu system includes a speech synthesizer and screen reader. Electronic programming guide (EPG) elements are read by a screen reader and provided to a speech synthesizer for presenting audible representations of EPG... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187951 - System for preventing duplicate recordings: Disclosed embodiments help prevent recording duplicate instances of multimedia programs on digital video recorders (DVRs). In response to a request to schedule the broadcast and recording of a multimedia event, a network-based scheduler pings a DVR to determine whether a duplicate instance of the requested multimedia program is stored on... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187952 - Apparatus and method for displaying digital multimedia broadcasting service: An apparatus and method for displaying a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) service, which is capable of always displaying a dynamic label service (DLS) of a digital audio broadcasting (DAB) signal in a ticker form in a digital multimedia broadcasting receiver. A method of displaying a digital multimedia broadcasting service includes... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090187953 - Content delivering system, relaying apparatus, user terminal, content delivering method, program, and recording medium: In the broadcast delivering service utilizing an IP network, a content delivering system is provided in which the emergency broadcast can be timely and securely delivered when the disaster or the happening is induced. The content delivering system is configured by including a relaying apparatus and a user terminal, the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090187954 - Button based video database interface: The described embodiments of the present invention provide a video database client application configured to execute on a wireless communication device or a device with a small display screen. The video database client application includes a user interface including user interface components designed to access video information and view videos... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090187956 - Method and apparatus for merging voice and data features with internet protocol television: A method and apparatus that enable the use of a multi-service endpoint device to integrate features and functions of voice and/or data services with IPTV service through a TV console are disclosed. For example, the method connects a multi-service endpoint device (MSED) to a plurality of networks, where at least... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090187955 - Subscriber controllable bandwidth allocation: A disclosed computer program product includes computer executable instructions, stored on a computer readable medium, for allocating bandwidth among various network provided communication services. The executable instructions include instructions to process a subscriber request to specify a bandwidth allocation, determine a multimedia bandwidth allocation indicative of bandwidth allocated to multimedia... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187957 - Delivery of media assets having a multi-part media file format to media presentation devices: Improved techniques and systems for electronic delivery of digital media asset files to electronic devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a media item can be stored in a multi-part media item file. The multi-part media item file for the media item can be delivered to a host device that can... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090187959 - Digital television translator with psip update: A digital television translator includes a digital television receiver for receiving a first digital television signal at a first frequency and generating a digital transport stream from the first digital television signal. The digital transport stream can include original Program and System Information (PSIP) data having RX channel data that... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090187958 - Method and apparatus for managing video transport: A method and apparatus for managing video transport is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to predict visibility to a viewer of packet loss impairment for communicated video content based at least in part on scene information... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187960 - Iptv receiving system and data processing method: An internet protocol television (IPTV) receiving system and a method of processing data are disclosed. The IPTV receiving system according to present invention comprises a signal receiving unit for receiving an IPTV signal including respective scalable video streams for IPTV services of a plurality of layers including a base layer... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090187961 - Method and apparatus for providing service and method and apparatus for performing communication: A method and apparatus for providing an interactive service and a method and apparatus for performing communication are provided. An Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP) application may be directly executed in at least one broadcasting receiving apparatus by determining whether an application for providing the interactive service is independently executable... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090183193 - Gesture cataloging and recognition: Methods and apparatus for cataloging and recognizing gestures are disclosed. A gesture may be detected using sample motion data. An energy value and a baseline value may be computed. The baseline value may be updated if the energy value is below a calm energy threshold. The sample motion data may... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090183194 - Methods and apparatus to handle telecommunication service changes: Methods and apparatus for handling telecommunication service changes are described. An example apparatus includes a service indicator receiver to receive a first service indicator for a first service and to receive a second service indicator different from the first service indicator for a second service, a converter to convert the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090183195 - Regulatory environment adaptation layer for content protection: Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses, computer media, and methods for supporting post-delivery content protection systems, which are used to protect the content of free-to-air (FTA) or clear-to-air (CTA) digital broadcasts after reception against unauthorized use such as Internet redistribution. A receiver circuit of a receiver device obtains a broadcast... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090183196 - Methods and apparatus to reduce channel switching time: Methods and apparatus to reduce channel switching time. A method for channel switching includes bundling entitlement control messages (ECMs) to generate bundled ECMs that comprise decryption keys associated with a first content channel and one or more additional content channels, respectively, and transmitting the bundled ECMs with the first content... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090183198 - Method of content substitution: A method of substituting a primary content (110) being transmitted on a primary channel (100) with a secondary content (220) corresponding to a content being transmitted on a secondary channel (200), characterized by substituting the secondary content in response to a highlight occurring in the content transmitted on the secondary... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090183197 - Method of splicing encoded multimedia data streams: The present invention provides a method of splicing data streams flowing between an encoder and a decoder. The method includes accessing a first encoded data stream. The first encoded data stream is encoded by the encoder based upon a first buffer size associated with the decoder. The method also includes... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20090183199 - Devices, systems, and methods regarding advertisement on demand: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which can comprise, responsive to a signal from a television control device, causing a display of a video advertisement. The video advertisement can interrupt the video broadcast. The signal can be adapted to cause a detection of a determined frame of a video... Agent: Michael N. Haynes

20090183200 - Augmenting client-server architectures and methods with personal computers to support media applications: Systems and methods according to exemplary embodiments provide systems and methods for augmenting the capabilities of a client device. The client device can be augmented by a device which has additional processing and memory capability to perform additional functions such as, for example, the translation of desired media into a... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090183201 - Interactive learning: A method may include providing a live, interactive program or information associated with the live, interactive program on a video display device; and providing a live interactive content icon on the video display device when a current time is before an end time of the live, interactive program, the live... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090183202 - Method and apparatus to display program information: A method of displaying program information includes generating at least one representative video by extracting a part from video data of content, extracting at least one piece of additional information from the content, and generating the program information by assembling the generated at least one representative video and the extracted... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090183203 - Universal programming system and method for electronic programming guide: An EPG displays programming information in a variety of ways including using 3-D images, alphanumeric text, and video data. A presentation engine allows viewers and/or programmers to select between varying programming worlds. In addition, non-EPG objects, such as interaction objects, may be conflated with the presentation of the world and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090183204 - System and method for collecting opinion data: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to present a user of the media processor a solicitation initiated by a media content supplier requesting an opinion survey of unpublished media content, receive the unpublished media content responsive to... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090183205 - Intelligent client: multiple channel switching over a digital broadcast network: A digital broadcast network is disclosed that can divide an application into multiple channels to be distributed to receiving devices. A receiving device can selectively accept one or more of the multiple channels depending on various criteria including selection parameters and device capability. The selective choice of at least a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090183206 - Method for receiving service information data and an iptv receiver: A method for receiving service information (SI) for building a channel map in an internet protocol television (IPTV) receiver and the IPTV receiver thereof are provided. The method includes receiving a provisioning information table which includes information of location to receive a first stream carrying a master SI table and... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090183207 - Integrated content user interface for a portable media player: A system for integrating video content in a user interface includes a mobile broadcast receiver for receiving primary content and secondary content in a portable communication device, and a mobile service guide for simultaneously displaying the availability of the primary content and the secondary content.... Agent: Michael J. Tempel Smith Frohwein Tempel

20090183208 - Systems and methods for scheduling interactive media and events: The user can respond to a media segment wherein the media segment may be associated with a schedulable event. Software on the device can then schedule the event into an electronic calendar system, and/or may use data associated with the media segment. At the appropriate time, the electronic calendar system... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090183209 - Emergency system for a vehicle: The invention relates to an emergency reporting network system for vehicles such as automotive vehicles. This invention also relates to a security device used in an emergency reporting network system and able to communicate picture information of the vehicle's interior.... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090183210 - Filtering and tailoring multimedia content based on observed user behavior: A user is given the ability to control the display of content items such as advertisements, by for example skipping over content items that are not of interest. Metadata tags associated with non-skipped viewings of content are stored and tracked. Subsequently, candidate content items are scored according to their metadata... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office / Apple Inc.

20090183211 - System, method and device for enabling ims terminals to access existing iptv services: A system and method for enabling IP multimedia sub-system (IMS) terminals to access existing IPTV services, and methods for enabling the IMS terminals to access the VoD and LTV services of the existing IPTV system are disclosed. The system adds a service gateway for communications between the IMS network and... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090183212 - Scheduled retrieval, storage and access of media data: A system and method automates a scheduled retrieval, storage, and access of media data. Media data is retrieved from an external source and downloaded to an end user media device storage for subsequent playback at the end user media device. Media data is accessible from the end user media device... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20090183213 - Personal television channel and system and method thereof: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to transmit to a media source a request to access media content of a personal television (TV) channel composed by a subscriber of a media communication system, transmit to the media... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090183214 - Apparatus and method for arranging and playing a multimedia stream: Apparatuses and methods for arranging and playing a multimedia stream are provided. The multimedia stream comprises both a video and audio stream. The apparatus is configured to write a first portion of the video stream and to write a first portion of the audio stream corresponding to the first portion... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090183216 - Broadcast television distribution services architecture: A system for the distribution of live broadcast television content includes an encoding apparatus receiving a live broadcast television feed. The encoding apparatus includes a circuit matching network, a digital signal processor, a metadata generator, an MPEG multiplexer, an IP encapsulator, and an IP router. A centralized management facility or... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090183215 - Hybrid services: data, audio, and clipcast: A digital broadcast network is disclosed that can divide an application into multiple channels to be distributed to receiving devices. A receiving device can selectively accept one or more of the multiple channels depending on various criteria including selection parameters and device capability. The selective choice of at least a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090183217 - System for managing media content for a personal television channel: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor can have a controller to transmit to a media source a request to access media content of a personal television (TV) channel composed by a subscriber of a media communication system according to one... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090183218 - Predictive allocation of multimedia server resources: Disclosed are techniques for dynamic allocation of multimedia server resources among multimedia transmission services of a service provider based on predicted resource usage by each multimedia transmission service. A predictive usage model of the utilization of server resources by one or more multimedia transmission services is generated for various combinations... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090183219 - Technique for updating a resident application and associated parameters in a user terminal through a communications network: Methods and apparatus related to updating a resident application (RA) and replacing an updated resident application with a previous version of a resident application are described. The methods and apparatus may be used for updating and replacing resident applications in set-top terminals (STTs) of a cable system including a cable... Agent: Alex L. Yip Kaye Scholer LLP

20090183220 - Method and apparatus for providing collaborative viewing of a media stream: A method and apparatus for providing collaborative viewing of a media stream are disclosed. For example, the method establishes a viewing group having a plurality of members, and provides at least one media stream that is accessible by the plurality of members of the viewing group. The method then receives... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090183221 - System and method of delivering content related to a media channel to a wireless d: A method of delivering content related to a media channel to a wireless device is disclosed and includes receiving a request to access a web portal. The request is received from a wireless device at a portal server associated with a video distribution network. The method also includes receiving data... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090183222 - System for managing media content: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a device having a controller to create metadata corresponding to an identity of an entity, incorporate in a media file the metadata that identifies the entity with metadata that describes media content in the media file, and... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090183223 - Video distribution system, video-recording and distribution apparatus, and receiver: When carrying out reception and video-recording of a plurality of programs, a stream receiving unit (201) of a receiver (200) receives one of the plurality of programs, a recording unit (203) outputs a recording start request and a recording end request to a recording control unit (103) of a video-recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090183224 - System for selecting a video or audio path: A communication system where an input port on a transmitter or receiver is configured to receive input data that is either audio data or video data. A processor in the transmitter or the receiver is configured to detect if the input data is either audio data or video data. The... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090178069 - Internet service provider callback for satellite systems: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for delivering purchase information comprising storing purchase information for a purchase of a user in a set top box. The set top box (STB) is configured to receive and display the broadcast signals through a tuner onto a display device.... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090178070 - Content rental system: A content rental system includes one data store for storing rental content. The content rental system also includes a content server for transferring content to one viewing device based upon a received request. The content server is further configured to authorize the transfer of the content from the viewing device... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090178071 - Intelligent automatic digital video recorder: A system measures a frequency with which a user views a television program and identifies the television program as one of the user's favorite programs based on the measured frequency. The system automatically records, without intervention of the user, the one of the user's favorite programs.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090178072 - Content blocking system and method for a consumer electronic product: An example program blocking system and method involve enabling and disabling program blocking on a group of channels responsive to stored blocking settings. When program blocking on the group of channels is enabled in response to the stored blocking settings, the blocking of programs on one or more channels in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090178074 - Electronic program guide with blackout features: An interactive television program guide for supporting programming blackouts is provided. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may unschedule the reminding and recording of blacked-out programs that have been scheduled by a user for reminding or recording. In some embodiments, the interactive television program guide may prevent a... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090178073 - Method and system for control of broadcast content access: A method for controlling access to content, the method comprising: receiving content in an area in which access to the content is blacked out, the content corresponding to a blacked out event; preventing display of the content at the time of receipt; recording the received content; and allowing access to... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090178075 - Method and system of diagnosing a video condition experienced at a customer premises: A test controller can be operable to diagnose a video condition experienced at a customer premises. The test controller can include a port coupled to the customer premises. The test controller can also include a processor operable to activate a diagnosis sequence, send a set of questions to equipment at... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090178076 - Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090178077 - Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090178078 - Systems, methods and computer products for indicators in an interactive program guide: Systems, methods and computer program products for providing indicators in an interactive programming guide. Exemplary embodiments include a method for displaying an interactive program guide with program status indicators, the method including retrieving a set of program guide entries for the program guide, each of the program guide entries representing... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090178079 - Advertisement presentation and tracking in a television apparatus: A system and a method is disclosed which allows both advertisement and program information to be shown on a channel banner, while user changes channel. In another embodiment, an “advertisement channel” is inserted into an active channel list (e.g., scan list), so that when a user is changing channel, a... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090178080 - Storage medium storing an information processing program and information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus has a plurality of display information, with respect to selected display information, displays a content part including a plurality of contents, and displays an index part of the other display information. In a case that an electronic program guide is displayed, as a content part, a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090178081 - Enhanced electronic program guides: A method and system for rating programs, the method including, receiving a sample of viewing logs from a plurality of set top boxes (STBs), determining, from the sample of viewing logs, at least groups of viewers sharing similar interests, and groups of programs sharing similar audience, computing time dynamics of... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090178082 - Method and server side and terminal for finding interactive electric service guide: A method and a service side and a terminal for finding an interactive electrical service guide. Said method comprises: the server side down-issuing the information corresponding to the finding interactive ESG service to the terminal through the broadcast channel, and the terminal acquires the information for finding the interactive ESG... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090178083 - Systems and methods for selecting media assets for display in a screen of an interactive media guidance application: A method and system of selecting assets for display in an interactive media guidance application includes receiving a user input indicating interest in a media item; generating a list of media assets related to the media item, selecting, based on priority rules, a subset of the media assets to display... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090178085 - Method for providing content: In response to a request from a playback apparatus over a network to play back content, a first recording/playback apparatus transmits data indicating content satisfying the request to the playback apparatus over the network. When selecting desired content from the transmitted data, the playback apparatus requests the first recording/playback apparatus... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090178084 - System and method for affinity marketing to mobile devices: A method and system for providing selected content displays to users of mobile electronic devices and more specifically to a method and system for broadcasters to provide a marketing portal presented in the form of displayed customized broadcaster content.... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090178086 - Wired exchange of control information in wireless system: Pairing information is automatically exchanged over a temporary cable in a wireless high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) system. Subsequently, the cable is disconnected and a source of HDMI (such as a disk player) wirelessly sends HDMI A/V to a sink (such as a HDTV).... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090178087 - Intelligent retransmission of data stream segments: An intelligent retransmission of data stream segments is disclosed. One embodiment comprises detecting a missing media data segment at a media receiver, assigning a value to the missing media data segment based upon media playback consequences of not utilizing the missing media data segment, comparing the value with a threshold,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090178089 - Browsing and viewing video assets using tv set-top box: Roughly described, a system and method for delivering video content to a user's client device in a video-on-demand (VOD) system, which includes providing a collection of video segments, the segments having a predefined default sequence; establishing a streaming video session according to a session-oriented protocol; transmitting toward the client device... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090178088 - System and method of delivering video content: A method of delivering video content includes receiving a request for a video stream at a network device of a video distribution network. The request is received via a network link associated with a link aggregation group. The method includes determining a current real-time traffic load at each of a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090178090 - Method and apparatus for streaming digital media content and a communication system: The invention provides a method of streaming of digital media content made up of a stream of data frames, the method comprising: during playback in one mode of the digital media content, determining parameters associated with a defined type of frame within the digital media stream; and, based upon the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090178091 - Contents distribution method and receiving device: The playback of contents in the course of progressive download is stopped depending on the information of the contents and network environments. Also, contents in the course of the playback of progressive download cannot be fast forwarded. When progressive download is indicated, a contents receiving terminal dynamically allocates resources (bus... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090178092 - Video picture information delivering apparatus and receiving apparatus: A video picture information delivering apparatus delivers moving pictures according to a request from a terminal device. The apparatus comprises a determining unit for determining whether or not a predetermined particular picture is included in some of moving pictures to be skipped, upon receipt of a request to skip the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090178093 - Content rental system: A content rental system includes one data store for storing rental content. The content rental system also includes a content server for transferring content to one viewing device based upon a received request. The content server is further configured to authorize the transfer of the content from the viewing device... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090178094 - Broadcasting receiver and method of transmitting / receiving broadcasting signal: A method of transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal and a broadcasting receiver are disclosed. A rating region table (RRT) including a rating value identifier identifying rating information is stored, and, when broadcasting contents are received, the rating value identifier is obtained from a descriptor (or service discovery information) including the rating... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090178095 - Mobile receiving device and method, and device for selecting media streams being a continuation of pct international application no. pct/cn2007/070494, filed august 15, 2007: A mobile receiving device includes: a first interface data processing unit, adapted to extract a first media stream signal from a first interface; a second interface data processing unit, adapted to extract a second media stream signal from a second interface; and a selector, adapted to select one of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090178096 - Intelligent over-transmission of media data segments: An intelligent multi-sending of data stream segments is disclosed. One embodiment comprises monitoring one or more variable data transmission parameters, detecting one or more invariant media data segment parameters, assigning a value to the media data segment based upon the one or more invariant media data segment parameters and the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090178097 - Method, apparatus and system for generating and facilitating mobile high-definition multimedia interface: A method, apparatus and system are provided for generating and facilitating Mobile High-Definition Multimedia Interface. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a transmitter configured to merge multiple channels of a high-definition interface into a single channel to generate a mobile high-definition interface, the mobile high-definition interface configured to facilitate carrying... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090178098 - System for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior: A system for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The invention accepts as input a prioritized list of program viewing preferences which is compared with a database of program guide objects that indicate when... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090178099 - Digital broadcasting transmission/reception devices capable of improving a receiving performance and signal processing method thereof: Disclosed is a digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having an improved reception performance and a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a randomizer for inputting dual TS stream consists of robust and normal packets having stuff bytes inserted in predetermined positions and randomizing the dual TS stream; a stuff... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090178100 - Method and apparatus for acquiring program information: A process receives content from a recording device. The content is provided through a transmission from a distribution system to the recording device and recorded by the recording device on a storage medium associated with the recording device. Further, the process receives, from the recording device, transmission data corresponding to... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090178101 - Method and device for selecting among alternative data items: The method of selecting a data item of the invention comprises the steps of receiving a first data item (35) of a first type, e.g. a short program description, and selecting the first data item (35), e.g. for display. The method further comprises selecting a second data item (37) of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090172720 - Handling metadata based on user behavior: A device and method for receiving media data and related metadata are presented. Metadata is updated regularly in order to provide a user with instant accessibility to the media data contained in the received data stream. In order to reduce power consumption for the reception of metadata in cases when... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090172721 - Interactive television system: A method includes, providing a television, a reading device, an input device, and a printer. The reading device is connected to receive a digital signal transmitted by a television signal provider. The reading device is connected to provide a first output signal to the television and a second output signal... Agent: James Marc Leas

20090172722 - Service activation of set-top box functionality using broadcast conditional access system: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to activate functionality in a set-top box 500. A feature authorization message is received in a set-top box 500. The feature authorization message comprises one or more rules to be evaluated (wherein each of the rules comprises one or more... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090172726 - Distributed tv access system: Distributed navigation of broadcast signals is provided through an on-line application connected through a second network connection. A customer receives the broadcast signals through a first network connection, and navigates the broadcast TV content through an on-line application by a browser connected through a second network connection. The present on-line... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172725 - Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for promoting television programs: A method, which comprises: receiving from a provider of a first content stream an indication of a promotional time slot to be rendered available on the first content stream; accessing a program schedule indicative of television programs scheduled to begin airing on respective content streams at respective start times; consulting... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090172724 - Methods and apparatus for presenting advertisements based on a location of a presentation device: Various embodiments of apparatus and/or methods are described for presenting advertisements in association with broadcast video content on a presentation device in a non-residential location. The advertisements are identified based on characteristics of the non-residential location, such as goods or services offered at the non-residential location. The advertisements may be... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.L.C. Legal Department

20090172723 - Television advertisement placement more resistant to user skipping: Television equipment detects viewers' actions in skipping temporally interleaved television advertising content and, in response, automatically causes selected television advertising content to be spatially combined with a temporal portion of the viewed television programming content, e.g., juxtaposed adjacent to or overlaid on the television advertising content. As a result of... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.C.

20090172729 - Method, system and program product for broadcasting services available to consumers at a location when relevant: A method, system and program product for automatically broadcasting services available at a location within a broadcast area. The method includes inputting, into a tool configured to broadcast, services available at different locations from multiple service providers and broadcasting in a broadcast area covering the different locations the services available... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20090172727 - Selecting advertisements to present: A request to select sponsored content to be presented with a first content item including video is received. A second content item including video is identified. The video included in the second content item has been viewed by at least one viewer of the video included in the first content... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090172730 - System and method for advertisement delivery optimization: Systems and methods for advertisement delivery optimization are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of identifying multimedia content associated with a web-user. One embodiment can include, analyzing the multimedia content to retrieve a set of descriptors, comparing... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090172728 - Targeted online advertisements based on viewing or interacting with television advertisements: In a computer-implemented method, a selected online advertisement is automatically directed to, or online activity is automatically tracked and recorded from, an online user interface device which corresponds, at the time the advertisement is directed or the activity is tracked, to a first online access identifier. The advertisement is directed... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.C.

20090172731 - Methods, apparatus and computer-readable media for conveying television program advertisements: A method, which comprises identifying a television program whose start time falls within a time window of acceptable viewability relative to a promotional time slot appearing within a first content stream, the television program being carried by a second content stream; causing conveyance during the promotional time slot of an... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090172734 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and broadcast receiving method: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a storage module storing a table correspondingly showing a program identifier identifying a broadcast program, and a broadcast start time of the program; a detecting module detecting whether the broadcast start time is brought forward or not based on program guide information acquired from a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172732 - Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic programming guide containing future times when on-demand broadcasting requests can be satisfied: An audio-visual content service provider (400) processor (401) receives (101) at least one on-demand broadcasting request for particular audio-visual content from an end user (405). The processor then determines (102) at least one future time at which the on-demand broadcasting request can likely be satisfied and provides (103) a corresponding... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090172733 - Method and system for content recording and indexing: Methods and systems for content recording and indexing are described. Content may be accessed from a content source. The content may be processed to generate an index of the content. Programming data for future content may be accessed. A content selection guide may be generated in accordance with the index... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090172735 - Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same: A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090172736 - Interactive media guidance application with access to multiple data paths: Systems and methods for an interactive media guidance application with access to multiple data sets are provided. One of the data sets may be selected to generate a media guidance application display screen. A data set may be selected based on the data source or data path from which the... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090172737 - Display processing apparatus, display processing system, and display processing method: A display processing apparatus is disclosed. The display processing apparatus includes: a unit configured to receive a content list from a content server; a content storage portion configured to store a content; a contract information storage portion configured to store contract information; a viewing history information storage portion configured to... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090172738 - Television system: A TVPC 10 accumulates history information that has information indicating a channel viewed by a user and viewing time of the channel in a way that associates the information and the viewing time, and generates, based on the history information, preset information indicating any one of channels. The preset information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090172739 - User interface for interactive television systems: An interactive television system transmits and displays a television program having an associated channel. The system also transmits and displays an interactive television mode indicator if the displayed television program supports an interactive television mode. The interactive television mode is activated in response to a request from a viewer of... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090172740 - Differentiated psip table update interval technology: An apparatus, method and data structure for generating at least one table in a broadcast environment, are provided. The apparatus includes a generator to generate an event information table (EIT) and an extended text table (ETT). The ETT has program guide information for an n-hour span and has a transmission... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090172741 - Content reproduction control apparatus, content reproduction system and content reproduction control method: A content reproduction control apparatus includes a storage unit storing a table representing in a correlated manner an identifier of at least one device and a radio frequency of a radio signal including a content and being transmitted from the device, a receiving unit receiving the radio signal, a radio... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172743 - Method for utilizing at least one signal-receiving module to record multimedia programs and system thereof: The present invention discloses a method for utilizing at least one signal-receiving module to record multimedia programs and system thereof. The method includes utilizing a first signal-receiving module to receive a multimedia stream corresponding to a plurality of channels and supplying an output content corresponding to a selected channel; setting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090172742 - Systems, methods, and computer products for recording of repeated programs: Systems, methods and computer products for recording of repeated programs. Exemplary embodiments include a recording of a repeated program method, including receiving a recording request for a first program from a communications device, the recording request having a specified recording time, determining that the specified recording time is during a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090172744 - Method of enhancing media content and a media enhancement system: A media enhancement system and method, the system including a media player structured to deliver a media selection to a user and an enhancement registry associated with the media selection and including time data and/or other data associated with the media selection and a communicative link to additional materials. A... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090172747 - Distributed tv access system: Distributed navigation of broadcast signals is provided through an on-line application connected through a second network connection. A customer receives the broadcast signals through a first network connection, and navigates the broadcast TV content through an on-line application by a browser connected through a second network connection. The present on-line... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172746 - Method and apparatus for providing expanded displayable applications: An approach is provided for presenting, via a set-top box, a widget. The widget includes content retrieved over a data network and augmented content.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090172745 - Method and apparatus regarding receipt of audio-visual content information and use of such information to automatically infer a relative popularity of that content: A network element (200) receives (101), from a plurality of different end users (205), information regarding content clips as pertain to audio-visual content and uses (102) that information to automatically infer a relative popularity of audio-visual content as corresponds to the content clips to provide popularity information. Such audio-visual content... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090172748 - Drift compensator for a tuning device: An apparatus coupled to, or integrated with, a tuner. This apparatus, which may be referred to herein as a “compensator,” may operate to adjust a frequency of the tuner to counteract drift or error that may cause the tuner to erroneously tune to an inaccurate or undesired frequency. The compensator... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.L.C.

20090172749 - Remodulating satellite tv channels for home distribution: A remodulating interface is designed to receive control data such as frequency information from a power line data interface, and to use this information to control a remodulator that frequency shifts an input TV video signal from a first frequency (or television channel) to a second frequency (or television channel)... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090172750 - Distributed media management apparatus and method: An apparatus and method of distributing media content from a plurality of source devices to a plurality of remotely located display devices within a home network. A first management unit is assigned to control a first source stream and first display stream. A second management unit is assigned to control... Agent: Carlineo, Spicer & Kee, LLC

20090172751 - Method and apparatus for providing virtual channels: An approach is provided for presenting, via a set-top box, audio and/or video transmission to a user. An input is received from the user specifying media content that is accessible over a data network. The media content is retrieved over the data network, and presented via the set-top box.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090172752 - Streaming multiple videos in a playlist: In one embodiment, a play list corresponding to a client is retrieved, wherein the play list comprises a list of two or more videos, one of which is a video requested by the client. A compressed video stream is received from a first video source. The compressed video stream from... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090172754 - Image distribution system, server and client terminal: In an image distribution system which distributes an electronically recorded image to a client terminal through a server, when a high-resolution image of a desired image requested from the client terminal is produced using a single image or plural images recorded in an image recording unit in a high-resolution processing... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090172753 - Method and apparatus to facilitate providing on-demand access to internet media content with other televised content: An audio-visual content service provider (200) processor (201) receives (102) an end user (203) selection of at least one particular Internet media content channel via an audio-visual content service provider-end user interface. The audio-visual content service provider then provides (103) on-demand access to this at least one particular Internet media... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090172755 - Method and system for mobile media point-of-sale: One embodiment may take the form of a method and a system for mobile media point-of-sale (POS). A mobile media-receiving device may receive, via a first network (e.g. a broadcasting network), a media file for playback to a user. The media may include media and media identifying data. Upon receipt... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.L.C.

20090172756 - Lighting analysis and recommender system for video telephony: A home video system (200) capable of supporting video telephony includes a sub-system including a programmed processor (210) for analyzing illumination in a room (100) in which the system (200) is set up and recommending to the user of the system, lighting changes to avoid overwhelming the dynamic range of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090172758 - Distributed tv access system: Distributed navigation of broadcast signals is provided through an on-line application connected through a second network connection. A customer receives the broadcast signals through a first network connection, and navigates the broadcast TV content through an on-line application by a browser connected through a second network connection. The present on-line... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172757 - Method and apparatus for remote set-top box management: An approach is provided for remotely controlling set-top boxes. A command is received from a computing device for controlling a plurality of set-top boxes. The set-top boxes are configured according to the received command.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090172759 - Wireless usb modem device supporting dual service for portable internet and digital broadcasting: The present invention relates to a wireless USB modem device supporting dual service for portable Internet and digital broadcasting. The wireless USB modem device includes a portable Internet communication module and a digital broadcast reception module. The wireless USB modem device includes a USB hub connected to USB interfaces of... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090172760 - Method and apparatus for metadata-based conditioned use of audio-visual content: An audio-visual content service provider processor (201) receives (101) audio-visual content from at least a first content provider (203), which audio-visual content is to be distributed to end users (205) of the audio-visual content service provider processor. That audio-visual content service provider processor then facilitates distribution (103) of the audio-visual... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090172761 - Method and apparatus to facilitate the local recording of audio-visual content, in the absence of end user requests, for subsequent re-broadcasting: An audio-visual content service provider processor (201) receives (101) audio-visual content (302) from at least a first content provider (203), which audio-visual content is to be distributed to end users (205) of the audio-visual content service provider processor. That audio-visual content service provider processor then facilitates distribution (102) of the... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090172763 - Method, system and stream media server for supporting multi audio tracks: A method for supporting multi audio tracks in wireless communication field, which uses multi stream media servers to share the assignment for supporting multi audio tracks. One stream media server receives one video data and multi audio data, but outputs only one determinate audio data; or one stream media server... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090172762 - Methods and system for efficient data transfer over hybrid fiber coax infrastructure: The invention is directed to a method for providing client-server data transfer over a Hybrid Fiber Coax network, comprising interfacing, at a client, a video channel, intercepting a content request made from an end-user computing device, notifying a server of a relevant intercepted message via one of using an interactive... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090172766 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and broadcast receiving method: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a display module displaying a volume setting menu correspondingly showing volume during reproduction and set volume; an input module inputting the set volume based on the displayed volume setting menu; a generation module generating a table correspondingly showing a broadcast channel, the inputted set volume,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172764 - Broadcast receiving device, broadcast receiving method and data broadcast screen presentation program: In a broadcast receiving device, a broadcast signal of a data broadcast program that is tuned in to by a tuner is demodulated into a transport stream by a demodulator, and a data broadcast content is acquired by an information acquisition unit from the demodulated transport stream. The acquired data... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090172765 - Method and system for electronic commerce using internet protocol television (iptv) and mobile terminal: An electronic commerce method and system using an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and a mobile terminal are provided. In an electronic commerce method and system, an IPTV or mobile terminal transmits binding information to a server where a purchaser selects product information, the server determines a purchaser authority using the... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090172767 - System and method for restricting access to a set-top box: A system and method is disclosed for restricting a remote control interface port of a set-top box configured to broadcast multimedia programs over a provider network. A change schedule that changes communication parameters may restrict the remote control interface port. The operating frequency or the code set used to transmit... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing