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7634787 |
Automatic control of broadcast and execution of interactive applications to maintain synchronous operation with broadcast programs
An automation server interfaces with broadcast scheduling systems of various types to automatically synchronize the behavior of interactive applications relative to various broadcast programs, such...
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7621814 |
Media enhanced gaming system
An integrated group of systems, processes, and controls that enable real-time/near real-time media (video and audio) enhancement and capabilities in a gaming environment. Media from a variety of...
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7594250 |
Method and system of program transmission optimization using a redundant transmission sequence
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...
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7530090 |
System for transmitting programs to client terminals
A system ( 100 ) has a collection of programs on a central storage device ( 112 ). The system ( 100 ) supplies a particular program to a plurality of client terminals ( 104, 106 ) in a...
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7512697 |
Scheduling of multiple files for serving on a server
Multiple files a served using a server coupled to a data network. A plurality of files is determined, wherein a file includes an integer number of blocks, and wherein each block includes at least...
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7496647 |
Personal inter-home media exchange network
A system and method support the exchange of media between friends, family members, and 3 rd party media providers over a closed and secure media exchange network. The media may include, for...
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7496665 |
Personal access and control of media peripherals on a media exchange network
Methods are disclosed for indirectly monitoring and controlling at least one media peripheral device in a media exchange network by accessing a media management system (MMS) via a first media...
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7483985 |
Media search engine for a personal media network
A system providing search functionality supporting the exchange and consumption of media is disclosed. The searching of media on storage belonging to any of a pre-defined group of users of a...
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7443883 |
Method and system of providing customer premise equipment code
A method and system for providing customer premise equipment (CPE) code to one or more pieces of CPE in a cable system having a national code repository (NCR) in communication with a number of...
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7424534 |
Common media consumption across multiple media processing systems via single user control
A system and method for the management of common consumption of media in a media exchange network is disclosed. Various embodiments of the present invention provide for control by a first user at a...
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7424535 |
Management of multimedia display content in a media exchange network
A system and method for managing multimedia display content in a communication network is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention may support the selection, scheduling, and delivery of...
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7373653 |
Channel merging method for VOD system
A channel merging method for a VOD system, said method comprises the steps of: in response to requests from a plurality of clients for a video program, establishing a root channel (S 1 ) and at...
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7367043 |
System and method for generating metadata for programming events
Metadata for a programming event may be generated by receiving descriptive information and timing information for the programming event and analyzing this information to determine category goodness...
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7308003 |
System and method for re-multiplexing multiple video streams
A multimedia packet re-multiplexer system having a plurality of multimedia sources, each multimedia source sending incoming multimedia packets, each packet having a header which includes a packet...
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7278152 |
Video pedestal network
An architecture for distributing digital information to subscriber units wherein selection from among multiple digital services is accomplished by transmitting a tuning command from a subscriber...
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7222336 |
Method of compiling bytecode to native code
A method of compiling byte code into native code disclosed together with a server ( 100 ) and a receiving terminal ( 101 ) for the same. The method comprises the steps of transmitting byte code...
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7200669 |
Method and system for delivering large amounts of data with interactivity in an on-demand system
A method and system for delivering data over a network to a large number of clients, which may be suitable for building large-scale Video-on-Demand (VOD) systems. In current VOD systems, the client...
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7181431 |
Interactive information services system and associated method for facilitating purchasing transactions
A method and system are provided to permit a network operator to capture transaction data relating to transactions between a subscriber and a service provider that are conducted via a...
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7143132 |
Distributing files from a single server to multiple clients via cyclical multicasting
A method and system are disclosed for reliably distributing file data from a single server to multiple client computers using a cyclical multicast approach. By “cyclical,” it is meant that data...
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7096487 |
Apparatus and method for combining realtime and non-realtime encoded content
Methods for slice-based encoding of program guides and user interfaces. The program guides include multiple video streams for picture-in-picture and other applications. A method for encoding the...
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7089577 |
Process for supplying video-on-demand and other requested programs and services from a headend
A system for providing video-on-demand service, broadband internet access and other broadband services over T-carrier systems including a pull multiplexer cherrypicker at the head end is disclosed....
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7065778 |
Method and system for providing media from remote locations to a viewer
One embodiment of the present invention enables a user to utilize a personalized video recorder (PVR) to order and receive specific television shows that are unavailable from his or her television...
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6988278 |
Process and system for video on demand
For providing video-on-demand (VOD) a set comprising a plurality of N video programs at staggered time intervals is repeatedly transmitting from a VOD server to a network for access by a view box...
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6857132 |
Head end multiplexer to select and transmit video-on-demand and other requested programs and services
A system for providing video-on-demand service, broadband internet access and other broadband services over T-carrier systems including a pull multiplexer cherrypicker at the head end is disclosed....
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6785292 |
Method for detecting radio frequency impairments in a data-over-cable system
A method and system for determining a source radio frequency impairment in a data-over-cable system. The method includes ascertaining reference signal-to-noise ratios and comparing them to...
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6738980 |
Methods and systems for video streaming with VCR functionality
Methods and systems for providing a video stream from a server to a client over a network include a memory for storing a forward-encoded bit-stream and a reverse-encoded bit-stream for a video...
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6477707 |
Method and system for broadcast transmission of media objects
A distributed broadcast system for receiving, processing, scheduling and broadcasting a wide variety of media objects is disclosed. The system comprises: a media object tracking system, a channel...
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6463587 |
Data transmission apparatus and data transmission method
A data transmission apparatus having unit modules connected in cascade in a plurality (x; 2≦x) of stages and a list converting means, wherein each of the unit modules has a recording and/or...
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6430742 |
Device for distributing television signals by cable
A television signal distribution device comprises a plurality of downgoing cables ( 1-4 ) corresponding to signals received from various satellites ( 10-40 ). Signals received by terrestrial...
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6374402 |
Method and apparatus for installation abstraction in a secure content delivery system
A system for secure delivery of on-demand content over broadband access networks includes a client application executing on a user's local computer system. The client application interacts with a...
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6370688 |
Method and apparatus for server broadcast of time-converging multi-media streams
An embodiment of the present invention is a method for broadcasting information from a server to a client which includes the steps of: (a) broadcasting information at predetermined starting times;...
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5990881 |
Near video-on-demand signal receiver
A video signal receiver receives a plurality of video channels simultaneously carrying, offset by a transmission interval, a single video program, selects one channel from which to obtain the...
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5936659 |
Method for video delivery using pyramid broadcasting
A method for broadcasting movies within channels of a wide band network by breaking the communications path into a number of logical channels and breaking each movie up into a number of segments of...
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5926205 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and formatting data representing a video program to provide multiple overlapping presentations of the video program
Selective video-on-demand access is provided to a virtually unlimited number of subscribers by partitioning the video program into an ordered sequence of N segments and providing the subscribers...
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5917538 |
Data Transmission apparatus of video-on-demand or near video-on-demand system
A data transmission apparatus suitable for use in a VOD system which can send program data in response to requests made at any time. In the data transmission apparatus of the present invention, a...
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5911046 |
Audio-video data transmission apparatus, audio-video data transmission system and audio-video data server
An AV data transmission apparatus including an AV data storage unit for storing AV data comprising a single program and having audio data and/or video data, a reference time generating unit for...
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5864284 |
Apparatus for coupling radio-frequency signals to and from a cable of a power distribution network
A coupling system for transferring a RF signal to and from a high-voltage cable (302) of a power distribution system is described. In one embodiment the coupling system uses a lightning arrester...
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5847750 |
Method of accessing a repetitively transmitted video program
A digital video communication system includes a two-way communication link between a source and a viewer. A video program, in sequential compressed digital form, is repetitively supplied to a fifo...
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5799127 |
Video data recording apparatus and video data reproducing apparatus
A video data recording/reproducing apparatus including an input unit for inputting a number of channels, the number of channels indicating a plurality of channels on which a plurality of series of...
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5793971 |
Video signal output apparatus having near video-on-demand function
In this invention, it is possible to realize a video signal output apparatus having so called Near Video On Demand function such that, in respective reproducers of a plurality of reproduction...
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5764893 |
Video-on-demand system uses adjusting positions of slots in a slot table to address additional image data distribution request from terminal devices
A video-on-demand system divides compressed image data of a video program into image data sections with a predetermined length and stores them in one of a series of storage media in order of...
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5721823 |
Digital layout method suitable for near video on demand system
A method for layout of digitized media, movies, especially on discs, whereby storage capacity and bandwidth are optimized and near video on demand is accomplished. Several embodiments are taught,...
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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...
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5594491 |
Near-video-on-demand digital video distribution system utilizing asymmetric digital subscriber lines
A system for distribution of near-video-on-demand (NVOD) program information featuring use of ADSL telephone links. In NVOD, video program material is divided into segments which are spooled from a...
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5550825 |
Headend processing for a digital transmission system
A headend method and apparatus for a digital transmission system is provided which includes inputs for receiving first and second program information from first and second program sources and...
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5477263 |
Method and apparatus for video on demand with fast forward, reverse and channel pause
In a video distribution system, methods and apparatus for rapid channel selection are implemented to reduce the channel-to-channel latencies which might otherwise occur in modern video decoding...
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5339315 |
Cable broadcasting system and the transmission center for on demand program services
The present invention provides a cable broadcasting system and the transmission center employed therein. In the transmission center, plural images are divided into several groups in the same kinds...
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5168353 |
Video distribution system allowing viewer access to time staggered indentical prerecorded programs
System for distributing video programs includes a transmission system having a plurality of channels, includes a stored database representing a predetermined schedule including timing instructions....
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