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5712906 Communications systems supporting shared multimedia session  
A public switched telephone network for providing information from a multimedia information server to any one of a plurality of subscriber premises, comprises a central office receiving multimedia...
5701582 Method and apparatus for efficient transmissions of programs  
A system and method of optimizing transmission of a program to multiple users over a distribution system, with particular application to video-on-demand for a CATV network. The system includes, at...
5664046 Autoconfigurable video system  
A video system and method comprising an automatic configuration with a viewer's video content preferences, and the automatic selection of video segments from a plurality of video segments...
5652627 System and method for reducing jitter in a packet-based transmission network  
A system and method for use in a video transmission network that regulates the timing of both the video signal and the audio signal regardless of the transport mechanism used to deliver the...
5648824 Video control user interface for controlling display of a video  
A video control user interface is provided for use in an interactive television system. The video control user interface includes a remote control handset with a multi-purpose, multi-direction...
5640193 Multimedia service access by reading marks on an object  
An apparatus and method enables a user to control the selection of electronic multimedia services to be provided to the user by one or more servers over a communication medium. The apparatus...
5629978 Service delivery using broadband  
A system and method for purchasing, customizing and modifying switch-based and Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) telephone services through the Broadband Network. The system and method utilize a...
5625864 Interactive digital video services system with store and forward capabilities  
An interactive video services system for enabling store and forward distribution of digitized video programming is disclosed. In accordance with a feature of the present invention, encoded and...
5585866 Electronic television program guide schedule system and method including virtual channels  
An electronic program schedule system having virtual channels which includes a receiver for receiving broadcast, satellite or cablecast television programs for a plurality of television channels...
5570415 Video programming and storage control using the telephone network  
This invention relates to a multi-function, hand-held, wireless, remote control apparatus for television viewer use. An apparatus that permits the viewer to use the public telephone network, to...
5565908 Bi-directional system for providing information, management, and entertainment services  
A system for providing information, management, and entertainment services is described. The system enables the user to select a service via a remote control. Once the system receives a request...
5557317 Video-on-demand system with program relocation center  
A video-on-demand system provides video signals from a video information provider to any one of subscriber terminals. The system comprises video storage devices distributed over a network area for...
5557724 User interface, method, and apparatus selecting and playing channels having video, audio, and/or text streams  
A user interface is displayed on a computer system capable of processing one or more data streams. The user interface has one or more displayed representations, where each of the displayed...
5534912 Extended range video on demand distribution system  
In a video on demand system utilizing asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) interfaces, a plurality of video channels are arranged at a central office into ADSL format and, together with a...
5517257 Video control user interface for interactive television systems and method for controlling display of a video movie  
A video control user interface is provided for use in an interactive television system. The video control user interface includes a remote control handset with a multi-purpose, multi-direction...
5508733 Method and apparatus for selectively receiving and storing a plurality of video signals  
Video receiving method and apparatus, are responsive to requests from a selector unit (240), for identifying channels (1 through n), in a transmitter system (204), containing video signals to be...
5485196 Secure interactive program distribution control for teledistribution network  
An interactive arborescent architecture teledistribution network includes an exchange controlling the transmission of television programs, images and sound programs and a wide band source for...
5483278 System and method for finding a movie of interest in a large movie database  
A system comprising a user interface which can access downloaded electronic programs (e.g. pay per view movies) and information records related to said programs, which can be continually updated...
5475835 Audio-visual inventory and play-back control system  
An improved audio-visual computer-based home entertainment media inventory and control system is disclosed comprising a computer with associated software, for controlling any combination or number...
5442390 Video on demand with memory accessing and or like functions  
In a system for interactively viewing videos, a selected video is transmitted as a plurality of frames of digitized video data for playback on a viewing device. The system receives the transmitted...
5421031 Program transmission optimisation  
A system and method of optimizing transmission of a program to multiple users over a distribution system, with particular application to video-on-demand for a CATV network. The system includes, at...
5400402 System for limiting use of down-loaded video-on-demand data  
A digital data system that includes a control system at a customer site that blocks access to a down-loaded stored program after it has been viewed a predetermined number of times (e.g., once), or...
5383112 Inventory management method  
A method of managing information used and generated in the scheduling and exhibition of performances is disclosed. A video network includes a video server that operates several video recorders to...
5371532 Communications architecture and method for distributing information services  
A store-and-forward architecture which stores and distributes information programs to subscribers on demand includes: information warehouses which archive information programs from multiple service...
5251909 Secured high throughput data channel for public broadcast system  
Apparatus and method for sending and receiving subscriber video game computer data over a broadcast medium for use with video game players and which includes microprocessor controlled transmitter...
5229850 Video monitoring system including a memory for storing and transmitting a video signal immediately following the occurrence of an event  
A communication path is established, only when monitoring a video signal on an object is required, between a sending station which acquires the video signal and a receiving station which monitors...
5206722 Remote channel switching for video on demand service  
VOD services are provided by providing at each subscriber location a switching apparatus (e.g., 23 of FIG. 2) which is remotely controlled from the head end (12) of the system. A set top box of...
4709418 Wideband cable network  
In an interactive wideband cable network in which several wideband services, such as television or video signals, can be provided simultaneously from a central service position to a remote wideband...
4590516 Recorded program communication system  
Telephone selection signals are conducted through a separate signal path to a program selector at a remote program storing station from which program readout signals are conducted, after the...
4499568 Process for the teledistribution of recorded information and a system for performing this process  
A process and system for vending recorded information, wherein a recording of information is carried out at a faster speed than normal. Calls from subscribers are received and a message is formed...
4450477 Television information system  
This television information system transmits selected video picture information to one of a number of subscribers who have television sets connected to the system. First, the subscriber makes a...
4028733 Pictorial information retrieval system  
A system for retrievably providing a video display of a pictorial information message on a video display device from video information stored, such as on a video tape, in a plurality of frames,...
3882269 Apparatus, system and method of storing a static image displayed on a television tube  
An apparatus, system and method for storing a static image onto a generally flat plate formed from a layer of ceramic material capable of forming an image when concurrently exposed to an...
3746780 VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM  
A video information transfer and display system having a plurality of video display devices and apparatus to select for display at particular display devices, on the basis of identification data...
3718906 VENDING SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY ACCESSIBLE STORED INFORMATION  
A vending system includes a central station at which various information stored on master recordings can be selectively accessed by purchasers from any of multiple remote vending machines, the...
3654708 COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION VIA VIDEO TELEPHONE  
A teaching system utilizing a video telephone as a terminal in which the video telephone is tied into a computer whereby information is fed into the video telephone and other information is...
3597692 PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR THE SELECTIVE TRANSMISSION OF IMAGES BY TELEVISION SET  
Process and apparatus for the selective transmission of images by ordinary commercial television set, characterized in that it substantially comprises recording program carriers; also recording on...
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