Interactive video distribution systems inventions 10/09

20090249382 - System and method for monitoring broadcast transmissions of commercials: A technique for determining whether a program transmitted in a programming signal by a signal source was perceived by audience members within a specified time period. The programming signal is combined with a code signal to form a broadcast signal, wherein occurrence of the code signal corresponds to an occurrence... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP Suite 1210

20090249383 - Broadcast data network system: The invention relates to a system and method for the selective transmission of data to individuals or groups of viewing locations to thereby allow at selected times at least, the targeting of data which is more focussed or targeted to viewers at said locations. This is achieved by detecting and... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090249384 - Entertainment content purchase via advertising viewing credit: The purchase of entertainment content online via advertising credits is disclosed herein. One disclosed embodiment comprises providing an advertising content item to a user over a network, and awarding an amount of advertising viewing credit to the user based upon the advertising content item provided to the user. Next, a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090249385 - Terminal and method of controlling broadcasting therein: An apparatus and method for previewing broadcasting data on a mobile terminal are provided. When a user selected broadcast channel is an authority-restricted channel, data associated with the selected broadcast channel is output according to a presence or non-presence of a preview authority for the selected broadcast channel.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090249388 - Confirmation of advertisement viewing: Techniques to confirm advertisement viewing are described. In an implementation, an advertisement is displayed on a remote control device having functionality to initiate one or more control functions to control a display of content by a client. A user is confirmed to have viewed an advertisement output by the client... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090249386 - Facilitating advertisement placement over video content: Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for facilitating advertisement placement over video content are provided. Images within a video are partitioned into image regions. Upon partitioning images into image regions, an intrusiveness score is determined for each image region. Based on the intrusiveness scores, optimal placement of an... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090249389 - Method of increasing effectiveness of television advertising during a game show: A method for increasing the effectiveness of advertising content during a broadcast includes forming questions based on the advertising content of the broadcast. The broadcast may include a home participation aspect, and the questions may be presented to listeners or viewers who seek to participate in a home participation aspect... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090249390 - Methods and systems for forced advertising: Methods and systems for forced advertising are provided. These methods and systems determine when a forced advertisement is to be presented, determine what forced advertisement is to be presented, and control how the forced advertisement is to be presented. A forced advertisement may be received prior to the time at... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090249387 - Personalized event notification using real-time video analysis: A system and methods for personalized event notification using real-time video analysis are described. In an embodiment, a live video feed is automatically monitored and characteristics of the video feed are analyzed against criteria which relate to an event which has been identified by a user. The criteria relate to... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20090249391 - System and method of delivering event notifications: A method of delivering event notifications includes receiving data from a network-based calendar system at a notification system. The data indicates that a notification related to a calendar-based event is to be sent to a subscriber. The method also includes receiving presence information related to the subscriber from a presence... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20090249392 - Digital broadcast receiver and method for processing caption thereof: A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver receives caption information indicating whether an digital television closed caption service is present or a line 21 closed caption service is present in the video stream.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090249393 - Advanced digital tv system: A system for displaying electronic program guide information about a plurality of video items on a screen, the system including a display module to display a plurality of pages layering into the screen, each of the pages including a plurality of graphical panels associated with the video items, and a... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090249395 - Application gadgets: Application gadget techniques are described. In an implementation, a remote control device includes a display device and one or more modules. The one or more modules are configured to initiate one or more control functions related to control of a display of content by a client. The one or more... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090249396 - Method of sharing channel information and related device: To provide convenience to usage of an electronic program guide, known as EPG, the present invention provides a method of sharing channel information for a client device coupled to a server including a plurality of communities. The method includes the following steps. A plurality of channels is received to generate... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090249394 - Mini epg interface for on-demand and other content data: A method and system are disclosed for providing an on-demand mini EPG interface displayed over underlying content. The underlying content may for example be broadcast content. The on-demand mini EPG interface may be populated with discovery data for video-on-demand content which may be selected and organized within the interface based... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090249397 - Video episode order adherence: Viewing episodes of a video series in order allows for a good viewing experience and understanding of episode content of the individual episodes. Functionality can be implemented in a video recording device and/or at a content provider to collect data about viewing behavior to determine if a user(s) tends to... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, Pllc

20090249398 - Non-grid television guide: The technology is a system and method for displaying a non-grid electronic program guide. Available television channels and episodes are identified in a program guide database. The available television channels are displayed in a first window of the guide. The television series associated with the available episodes are displayed in... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090249399 - Program guide navigation: Systems and methods that provide a first electronic program guide (EPG) screen having a plurality of channel identifiers, program information, and an icon corresponding to increasing scroll speed, and responsive to a user selection corresponding to the icon, enable a user to scroll among the plurality of channel identifiers at... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090249400 - Systems and methods for providing on-demand media content: A media guidance application having a media content search function is implemented on a plurality of user equipment devices. Search-related communications from users are received and analyzed to identify a media content not currently available via the media guidance application. Once a media content has been identified from at least... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090249401 - Facilitating interactive functionality for a community of mind in association with delivery of televised content: A method for providing interactive functionality in conjunction with delivery of televised content has a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for receiving a request from a television service subscriber. The request communicates a desire of the television service subscriber for being provided interactive subscriber functionality in conjunction with... Agent: Alcatel-lucent

20090249402 - Method and apparatus for reproducing contents based on electronic program guide: Provided are a method of and an apparatus for reproducing contents based on an Electronic Program Guide (EPG), the method including receiving a plurality of EPGs which are provided by a plurality of content providers, receiving a first EPG generated by a third party using the plurality of EPGs, generating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090249403 - Apparatus and method for providing contents in internet broadcasting system: An Internet broadcasting system for supporting broadcast services by using Internet Protocol (IP), and more particularly an apparatus and method for providing a user's preferred contents in an Internet broadcasting system are provided. The method of providing contents in an Internet broadcasting system includes searching for contents in an Electronic... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20090249404 - Video playing system and method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium: A video playing system and a method thereof are described. When the video playing system randomly plays sections of a multimedia video, it can control scheduled events in-between so as to ensure the user does not miss important events when an important blocking effect exists in the multimedia video schedule.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090249406 - Mobile video device with enhanced video navigation: A mobile video device includes a receiver that receives a plurality of video signals from a network. A a video playback module includes a memory that stores selected ones of the plurality of video signals as a plurality of stored video files, a processing module that generates navigation data for... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090249405 - Video transmission system with edge device for adjusting video streams based on device parameters and methods for use therewith: A video transmission system includes a transceiver module that receives a device parameter from a remote device and that transmits a video signal to the remote device. An edge device receives a video stream from a video source and that generates the video signal by adjusting the video stream in... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090249407 - Systems, methods and apparatus for transmitting data over a voice channel of a wireless telephone network: The various embodiments described herein generally provide apparatus, systems and methods which facilitate the transmission of data between a client device and a remote device over a wireless telephone network. More particularly, data from a client device is modulated into an audio signal and transmitted to a wireless telephone. The... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.l.c. Legal Department

20090249408 - Access control system for inflight services at passenger seat: An access control system for controlling individualized access, by passengers of a vehicle, to data transmissions and electrical power including a transmission source; a passenger access interface; and a control circuit in communication with the transmission source. The control circuit includes: a microprocessor with memory storage, the microprocessor having a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20090249409 - Dynamic rebroadcast scheduling of videos: Television viewers want to watch previously broadcast videos for a number of reasons. For example, a viewer may have missed one or more episodes of his or her favorite series. As another example, a viewer may have mistaken the broadcast date of a show. Functionality can be implemented in a... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, Pllc

20090249410 - Content switching apparatus and content switching method: The content switching apparatus includes at least a position identifying unit (800) and a play control unit (700). In switching from a first content (broadcast program) to a second content (VOD content), the position identifying unit identifies the position of the image in the second content, the image being the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20090249411 - Receiving apparatus and control method thereof: In the case where the receiving apparatus 1 obtains, from a content archive, and reproduces a first video content having the same content as a program being broadcast, the difference of the ending time between the first video content being played and the program being broadcast is detected (S701). In... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20090249412 - Managing acquisition of fee based videos: Purchasing PPV movies and events can be quite expensive for a viewer particularly when multiple PPV videos are purchased. Functionality can be implemented in a video recording device to search for less expensive alternatives for acquiring selected PPV content and other fee based videos. Automatically searching for lower fees and... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, Pllc

20090249413 - Video transmission system based on location data and methods for use therewith: A video transmission system includes a transceiver module that receives location data from a remote device and that transmits a video signal to the remote device. A network module receives a video stream from a video source and that generates the video signal based on the location data.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090249414 - Enhanced voice-rich input for interactive programming: A method may provide an interactive video program to a user, receive, by a video client, audio data from a microphone based on the user's interactive speech during the interactive video program, and send, by the video client, the audio data to another device to verify at least one of... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090249415 - Method and system for providing services: A method for providing a service on a device. The method includes instantiating a service provider that provides the service, where the service provider implements a service provider interface (SPI) corresponding to the service and where the SPI is defined by a service provision framework for providing services to Xlets.... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20090249416 - System and method for presenting support services: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, system having a controller to receive from a set-top box (STB) a request for assistance, identify a subscriber account associated with the STB, identify from the subscriber account a subscription grade, select one of a plurality of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090249417 - Cmts upstream channel bandwidth scheduler: In one embodiment, a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) generates a bandwidth grant message corresponding to a time segment. The CMTS identifies a portion of the time segment to be assigned according to received bandwidth request messages originating from downstream cable modems. The CMTS determines whether a remaining portion of... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090249418 - Repository for information about streaming video/audio channels: A computing platform accessible through a communication network enables users to search among television channels available through the communication network, to select a channel, and to receive the selected channel on a user device, generally a mobile device but sometimes a non-mobile device. Users can readily change among channels. The... Agent: Brenda Pomerance Law Office Of Brenda Pomerance

20090249419 - Method and system of queued management of multimedia storage: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for a method and system of queued management of multimedia storage. In some examples, a queue management module receives a message to queue location information for multimedia content. The queue management module stores the location information in a queue corresponding... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090249420 - Method for configuring video apparatus according to video system and content, and video apparatus and server applying the same: A method for configuring a video apparatus, and a video apparatus and a server are provided. The video apparatus transmits video apparatus information and content information to an external server, receives setting information corresponding to the video apparatus information and content information from the external server, and thereby configures the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090249421 - Distributing digital video content to multiple end-user devices: A technique for managing the distribution of digital video content to multiple end-user devices is disclosed. The technique involves statistically multiplexing multiple VBR encoded video streams into an access channel, such as a data over cable service interface specifications (DOCSIS) bonded group, and utilizing quality of service capabilities of an... Agent: Wilson & Ham

20090249423 - Method, device and system for implementing seeking play of stream media: A method, a device and a system for implementing seeking play of stream media are provided. The method for implementing seeking play of stream media includes: sending a seeking play request to a stream media server; receiving preview key frames for seeking play sent from the stream media server according... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090249422 - Video transmission system with authentication based on a global clock and methods for use therewith: A video transmission system includes a network module that receives network timing data and that transmits a video signal to a remote device that includes authentication data that is based on the network timing data. A remote device receives the video signal and that authenticates the play of the video... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090249424 - Video transmission system with timing based on a global clock and methods for use therewith: A video transmission system includes a network module that receives network global positioning system (GPS) signals and that transmits a video signal to a remote device that includes time stamps that are based on the network GPS data. A remote device receives the video signal and that plays the video... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090249425 - Imaging distribution apparatus and imaging distribution method: An imaging distribution apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a distribution request for distribution of a specific program from a client apparatus via a network, a program scenario acquisition unit configured to acquire a program scenario corresponding to the specific program requested for by the distribution request, a... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20090249426 - Supplementing broadcast service with network content: A broadcast interactive television service provides broadcast content received through a broadcast and supplemental content retrieved over a network. The broadcast content may include a broadcast markup language (BML) file which is parsed to provide an interface to the user. If the BML file contains information regarding the location or... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090249429 - System and method for presenting media content: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to present a media program with associated thematic metadata, and modify a design of one or more on-screen controls that manage a presentation of the media program according to the thematic... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090249428 - System and method of interacting with home automation systems via a set-top box device: A method of interacting with home automation systems via a set-top box device is disclosed and includes receiving data at a set-top box device from one of a plurality of home automation systems communicating with the set-top box device. The data indicating that a triggering event has been detected at... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20090249427 - System, method and computer program product for interacting with unaltered media: An interactive media player that allows users to view, discuss and interact with any video or audio segment that is owned by the users. In one aspect, a video player graphical user interface presents a video segment in its native, unaltered format and surrounds the video segment with interactive elements... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc