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7007296 Active cable modem outside customer premises servicing multiple customer premises  
A signal distribution system to save on the cost of cable modems for cable TV headend operators who wish to deliver broadband digital data services, DSL, video-on-demand or POTS service over their...
7006457 Modem front-end apparatus and method  
A method and apparatus for recovering a second transport stream included within a first transport stream and reducing timing anomaly imparted to the second transport stream within the context of a...
7000245 System and method for recording pushed data  
A method for recording pushed interactive data streams of a program. A pushed data stream is broadcast to a receiving station. The data stream includes one or more data objects. The data stream may...
6993783 System for searching TV program data via the internet  
A system for searching TV program data via the Internet, wherein TV program data is received from broadcasting stations via the Internet and recorded in a database. A program data search means...
6988216 Method and system for synchronizing data  
A method and system that synchronizes time-related data in a digital processing system. The data to be synchronized includes display data such as audio or video data and command data such as...
6986155 Methods and apparatus for selecting multicast IP data transmitted in broadcast streams  
Through the association of an IP address with each data stream, a single system may be used by a network card or a tuner to select multicast IP data. Each data stream is identified by a unique IP...
6981275 Television receiver  
A television receiver in which a summary of an electronic mail can be displayed along with a television picture. A central processing unit (CPU) receives an electronic mail by an electronic mail...
6971120 Method and apparatus for providing consumer-chosen telephone services on a digital cable TV set-top box  
A method and system of downloading a set of programs, navigational, branding and other data to a consumer's set-top box coupled to a cable TV headend controller. The set-top box is also coupled to...
6959449 System and method for simultaneously accessing video data and internet page data  
A system and method for simultaneously accessing video data and Internet page data includes a format manager that inserts a video tag into page data to concurrently display a positionable video...
6952835 Integration of passive data content in a multimedia-controlled environment  
A device and method for integrating passive data content into multimedia content-controlled environment is described. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a device is coupled to a...
6941574 Interactive television system and method having on-demand web-like navigational capabilities for displaying requested hyperlinked web-like still images associated with television content  
A system and method for displaying still video images related to video content in an interactive broadcast television system. The system and method of the present invention may also be used for...
6938270 Communicating scripts in a data service channel of a video signal  
Described are methods and apparatus for enhancing an information resource, such as a Web page, simultaneously residing in memory on a number of remote receivers. A content creator, (e.g., a program...
6934708 Method and apparatus for sampling remote data sources  
A method of sampling, at a central location, data generated from a number of remote data sources. The method comprises: a) causing those data sources with generated data to implement a local...
6892387 System and method for compensating viewer for viewing of designated channel with reduction of telephone charges  
Disclosed is a system for compensating a viewer for viewing of a designated channel with reduction of telephone charges. The system comprises a signal input port to which image signals from a...
6880171 Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing information represented by audiovisual data  
The invention facilitates and enhances review of a body of information, such as a set of audio, video and text data or some combination thereof, enabling the body of information to be quickly...
6859937 Context-sensitive options panel  
The present invention provides a system and method for integrating convention television viewing with Internet-related activities. A viewer accesses both conventional television features and...
6842721 Refrigerator and method for controlling the same  
In a method for requesting a repair of a refrigerator through the Internet and a system therefor, and particularly in a refrigerator and a method for controlling the same, a failure of a...
6832388 Personal computer used in conjunction with television to display information related to television programming  
In one embodiment of the invention, a conventional home computer is connected via the Internet to a link broadcasting computer that is being accessed by many other households. The link broadcasting...
6810413 System and method for providing internet content using hybrid wireless and wire technologies at the end user site  
Systems and methods for content delivery, such as Internet content, using hybrid wireless technology, such as satellite technology, and wire technology, such as twisted pair, cable, and fiber...
6804708 Media-on-demand flexible and adaptive architecture  
The invention is a flexible and adaptive application framework and method for providing media services via an interactive media services client device coupled to a programmable media services...
6802078 TV broadcast cooperative type data perusal apparatus, TV broadcast cooperative type data perusal method, and storage medium  
A TV broadcast cooperative type data perusal apparatus is provided that can establish connection to websites in which is provided information related to the subject matter of a program that is...
6795973 Enhanced television recorder and player  
An enhanced television recorder and player includes a trigger inserter unit that inserts triggers into vertical blanking intervals of audio/video signals. The triggers point to resources that are...
6792618 Viewer customization of displayed programming based on transmitted URLs  
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) or other network information identifiers embedded in television signals are processed in order to permit viewers to customize the display of a corresponding...
6792617 Method and apparatus for selective recording of television programs using event notifications  
Improved enhanced TV programming provides the capability for event driven recording of TV programs and program segments. Recording a selected program segment of a digital TV program includes...
6785905 Television transmitter, television transmitting method, television receiver and television receiving method  
A television method and receiver are configured to receive a television broadcast signal that includes multimedia data files including hypertext data. The multimedia data files relate to a...
6772434 Device and method for the integrated presentation of a secondary service as a part of a primary service  
A method and apparatus for providing an integrated presentation of existing media program services and secondary media program services is described. The method comprises the steps of receiving and...
6757909 Internet set-top box having an in-band tuner and cable modem  
An apparatus and method thereof for communicating a scramble key (for descrambling scrambled digital signals) and service information (used in an electronic programming guide) to an intelligent...
6757907 Display selection in a video-on-demand system  
A video-on-demand system transfers a control screen signal to a second communication system and receives a viewer control signal from the second communication system. The video-on-demand system...
6754907 Remote control of video-on-demand system  
A video-on-demand system transfers video content signals to a first communication system. The video-on-demand system transfers a control screen signal to a second communication system and receives...
6745368 Methods, apparatus, and systems for storing, retrieving and playing multimedia data  
Various embodiments of the invention provide increased speed and decreased computer processing for playing and navigating multimedia content by using two types of data objects for displaying the...
6745245 Managing access to set-top box objects using television conditional access system  
Methods for using a conditional access system to modify access control information maintained at a set-top box or another client system. The access control information regulates the availability of...
6738982 Method and system for uniform resource identification and access to television services  
The present invention provides a method and system for a DHCT coupled to a display to enable a user to access functionality of a service infrastructure of an interactive television network by a...
6728763 Adaptive media streaming server for playing live and streaming media content on demand through web client's browser with no additional software or plug-ins  
A method and system for providing media content in real-time on a web client is disclosed. The web client includes a browser utilizing a cache. The media content can be separated into a plurality...
6710815 Synchronizing multiple signals received through different transmission mediums  
Multiple signals received through different transmission mediums are synchronized within a set top box (STB) for subsequent mixing and presentation. For example, a video program transmitted via a...
6711743 Method and apparatus for improvement in set-top box network performance  
A method and apparatus of enhancing communications in a set-top box having a high speed modem and a lower speed modem. A selected one of the modems can be used, depending upon noise and speed...
6708335 Tracking viewing behavior of advertisements on a home entertainment system  
Systems and methods for tracking viewing behavior of advertisements on home entertainment systems. A processing device associated with the home entertainment system determines that an advertisement...
6687486 Method and apparatus to configure, provision and control a set-top terminal  
A method and apparatus to configure, provision and control a set-top terminal using a wireless web appliance is provided where a wireless communications path is established between the wireless web...
6671883 Method and apparatus for lost connectivity recovery  
The method and device carry out communication between a settop box and a target network through nay of a number of head ends. When a connectivity between the settop box and the target network...
6662007 Cordless phone back link for interactive television system  
A system for communicating information from a television viewer to a central site includes a remote control unit for sending command signals from the viewer to a television or video cassette...
6637032 System and method for synchronizing enhancing content with a video program using closed captioning  
A system and method uses the closed captioning script to synchronize supplemental data with specified junctures in a video program. A parser parses the closed captioning script to identify a set of...
6637027 System and method for controlling access to broadcast services  
A multimedia system is described that is capable of presenting multimedia segments including television broadcasts, radio broadcasts, stored video information, stored audio information, and Web...
6625813 Digital television broadcast architecture for massively multi-user application  
A broadcast system architecture implementing a method for distributing data for a multi-user application (e.g., a shared virtual world) between client systems. Included are a plurality of server...
6622306 Internet television apparatus  
An internet television apparatus which has an internet connecting capability, comprising a means for storing an HTML document received from a Web server, a means for interpreting the HTML document...
6604241 Communicating video information in a network using universal resource locators  
A method and apparatus are provided for communicating network information among network devices using protocols based on Universal Resource Locators. In one embodiment, an apparatus for retrieving...
6598230 Multimedia box network  
The invention relates to a multimedia box network consisting of a data server comprising a mass storage device, on which digital pieces of music and/or videos are stored, and of a plurality of...
6598226 Apparatus and method for providing, retrieving, and using data guide information supplied in a digital vestigial sideband signal  
A device for provisioning, retrieving, and using data guide information transmitted in a digital broadcast signal is disclosed. A receiver receives the digital broadcast signal which includes...
6574798 System and controller for control and distribution of audio and video signals  
The object of the invention is to provide a system and controller for distribution of audio/video signals on a pay-for-use basis, to a customer in a controlled environment such as a motel, hotel,...
6571296 Apparatus and method for hybrid network access  
A system in which a personal computer sends messages into a TCP/IP network using a conventional dial-up link and downloads data from the TCP/IP network using a high-speed one-way satellite link. A...
6571392 Receiving an information resource from the internet if it is not received from a broadcast channel  
In interactive television, information from an information resource may be displayed along with television video in a synchronized fashion. When information is to be displayed at a point in the...
6567984 System for viewing multiple data streams simultaneously  
Systems and methods of viewing multiple data streams are disclosed. A base station receives a first data stream and a second data stream. The first data stream is transmitted to a first device. The...
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