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7596801 Single wire return device in a fiber to the home system  
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing reverse signals from a plurality of DHCTs to a downstream modulator that is located in the headend facility. The present invention includes a single...
7590998 Television system having internet web browsing capability  
A television system for providing standard television programming and Internet browsing includes a television set for viewing digital and/or analog programming and includes a memory storage device...
7584495 Redundant stream alignment in IP datacasting over DVB-H  
A real-time program transmission system and method may receive a signal from a content source, and generate two different data streams. One stream may be of a higher quality than the other. The two...
7583887 Recording medium having data structure for managing main data additional content data thereof and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses  
A recording medium having a data structure for managing additional content data of main data recorded thereon in accordance with the present invention comprises a data area storing at least one...
7577978 System for converting TV content to interactive TV game program operated with a standard remote control and TV set-top box  
A system for converting TV content to an interactive TV game program uses viewer input pointing to “hot spot” objects in TV programs to enter answers in the game program. Viewers can point to...
7577976 Support server, support method, and program for determining providing route of content  
A support server receives via a communication network, facility condition information provided by a content providing terminal that provides a content, showing the condition of the facility where a...
7540011 Caching graphical interface for displaying video and ancillary data from a saved video  
A system and a method for attaining a selectable image sequence are provided. The system includes a viewer display component configured to transmit a request from a user's interface component for...
7536706 Information enhanced audio video encoding system  
A system includes additional information together with a video stream, where the additional information is related to at least one of the frames. Preferably the additional information is related to...
7503059 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...
7503057 Client and server system  
An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The system includes a server and a client...
7392312 Method for utilizing visual cue in conjunction with web access  
The use of a visual indicia or cue facilitates computer based access of a network by a consumer witnessing a presentation. A visual indicia or cue is provided during the presentation indicative of...
7386875 Freezing live video frames with interactive links  
An embodiment of the present invention allows a user to maintain the display of a video frame containing one or more interactive links while also maintaining access to the links. Thus allowing the...
7346920 System, method and article of manufacture for a common cross platform framework for development of DVD-Video content integrated with ROM content  
A method for providing enhanced content for play across multiple play platforms employs steps of delivering media content to a client device; delivering HTML content to a client device, the HTML...
7346918 Intelligent device system and method for distribution of digital signals on a wideband signal distribution system  
A plurality of intelligent device systems for use with a wideband signal distribution network, and methods for transmitting digital information and receiving digital and non-digital information...
7320134 System and method for cable operator control over enhanced programming  
A system and method are described for allowing cable operators to actively block, pass through, modify, append, filter, or replace triggers corresponding to various forms of enhanced content being...
7308701 Web site load management  
A system for broadcasting enhanced television content may provide for early notification of web hosting facilities when uniform resource locators may be broadcast with television content. When...
7296287 Image down-loading apparatus and system, and image down-loading method  
A switching apparatus of a camera server switches to down-load advertisement for a predetermined period at predetermined intervals while down-loading an image sensed by a camera, in response to a...
7296282 Interactive optical cards and other hand-held devices with increased connectivity  
A system for deriving benefits from the reception and processing of composite video signals by a hand-held device, such as a smart card. Video signals are modulated with auxiliary data creating...
7219173 System for video processing control and scheduling wherein commands are unaffected by signal interrupts and schedule commands are transmitted at precise time  
A method, apparatus, computer medium, and other embodiments for synchronizing control of one or more devices at predetermined times are described. A host scheduler loads a to-do list of...
7213255 Set-top preview program  
Disclosed is a system for generating a graphics window that is capable of emulating enhanced video from a combined video and interactive content stream. The set-top emulator can randomly access the...
7206754 System for issuing short life coupons or other promotional devices  
An improved short life coupon system which allows a television viewer to select discount or promotional coupons while viewing a television commercial. Coupon information relating to the commercial...
7206303 Time ordered indexing of an information stream  
Methods and apparatuses in which two or more types of attributes from an information stream are identified. Each of the identified attributes from the information stream is encoded. A time ordered...
7178161 Method and apparatus for creating a connection speed detecting movie and rich media player customization on the fly  
A master movie and player are created on the fly. The master movie is created based on characteristics of a movie or other asset to be viewed by the player. The player is constructed from a...
7107605 Digital image frame and method for using the same  
A digital image frame and method for using the same are provided. In one embodiment, the digital image frame is coupled with a computer system via a local area network (LAN). Data is sent between...
7010263 System and method for distributing music and data  
A system and method for distributing music and data. The music or data is first transmitted to a consumer via a satellite radio network. The system includes a satellite radio receiver for the user...
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...
6912726 Method and apparatus for integrating hyperlinks in video  
Hypervideo data is encoded with two distinct portions, a first portion which contains the video data and a second portion, typically much smaller than the first, which contains hyperlink...
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...
6766528 Apparatus and method for displaying additional information  
An apparatus and method for displaying additional information on a TV program is disclosed. In the present invention, both a detail information included in the additional information transmitted by...
6748423 Remote control of a linked computer  
Techniques for using a controlling computer to control another computer with special instruction package prior to launch of the operating system in the controlled computer. For example, a method...
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...
6658662 Retrieving information from a broadcast signal  
A broadcast video signal is captured on user command and processed to identify network addresses contain therein. Network addresses are stored together with information about the program during...
6651250 Digital broadcast receiving system in information processor  
A digital satellite broadcast receiving system is proposed in which the necessary packets of an MPEG2-based transport stream can be transferred to the system memory of a computer to facilitate...
6642966 Subliminally embedded keys in video for synchronization  
A data file containing metadata and/or control data is synchronized with associated audio/video data by subliminally embedding a key in a frame of the audio/video. The key indicates the location of...
6615408 Method, system, and apparatus for providing action selections to an image referencing a product in a video production  
Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for providing action selections to an image referencing a product in a video production. According to the disclosure a method for providing action...
6549241 Methods and apparatus for processing multimedia broadcasts  
A receiver arranged to receive and store broadcast data transported by elementary stream of a multiplexed and modulated digital television signal in a rewritable memory during a low power...
6510558 Discrimination of information access methods  
A broadcast station 10 transmits a broadcast signal having content data and origin data both multiplexed thereto. An information access system 20 receives the broadcast signal, and extracts the...
6473903 Method and system for implementing interactive broadcast programs and commercials  
A system for implementing an interactive broadcast program which includes a transmitter for transmitting a multiplexed data stream which includes a main program and a plurality of different...
6392664 Method and system for presenting television programming and interactive entertainment  
An entertainment head-end provides broadcast programming, video-on-demand services, and HTML-based interactive programming through a distribution network to client terminals in subscribers' homes....
6370543 Display of media previews  
A method and apparatus for searching for multimedia files in a distributed database and for displaying results of the search based on the context and content of the multimedia files.
5987509 System and method for displaying active uniform network resource locators during playback of a media file or media broadcast  
A system and method are provided for displaying an active uniform network resource locator during playback of a media file or media broadcast. In one embodiment, a uniform network resource locator...
5929849 Integration of dynamic universal resource locators with television presentations  
A display system receives a data stream having successive image frame data in frame regions and Internet Universal Resource Locator (URL) data and association data in data regions between frame...
5630119 System and method for displaying program listings in an interactive electronic program guide  
Disclosed herein is an interactive entertainment distribution network including a headend which is connected to provide programs to a plurality of user interface units in individual homes. The user...
5587743 Signal processors for transparent and simultaneous transmission and reception of a data signal in a video signal  
Signal processors for permitting the transparent, simultaneous transmission and reception of a data signal in the video bandwidth is disclosed. The signal processor in the transmitter rasterizes...
5262860 Method and system communication establishment utilizing captured and processed visually perceptible data within a broadcast video signal  
A method and system are disclosed for capturing and processing visually perceptible data, such as address or telephone numbers, within a broadcast video signal. Optically recognizable text,...
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