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7614073 |
Digital headend and full service network for distribution video and audio programming
A digital headend architecture and full service network are provided to selectively demodulate and decode a variety of digital and analog feeds into baseband signals or pass digital programming...
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7614066 |
Use of multiple embedded messages in program signal streams
A method of generating a program signal stream comprises creating a sequence of serial programs that include a first event and a second, later occurring event and inserting a plurality of messages...
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7610608 |
Digital broadcast system in passive optical network
Provided is a digital broadcast system that receives digital broadcast services on a passive optical network (PON). The data separator separates a signal input thereinto from the outside into an...
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7607161 |
Cable receiver
A cable receiver is disclosed that comprises a multimedia channel unit to receive a multimedia signal, and a multimedia processor to process the multimedia signal. The cable receiver further...
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7594251 |
Apparatus and method of managing reception state of data in digital broadcasting system
An apparatus and method of managing a reception state of data in a digital broadcasting system has monitoring functions of a cable network, a broadcasting channel and received data realized for a...
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7590997 |
System and method for managing, converting and displaying video content on a video-on-demand platform, including ads used for drill-down navigation and consumer-generated classified ads
A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system for a digital television service provider manages a database of templates ordered in a hierarchy for presentation of video content elements of...
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7587735 |
Multimedia-data transmission system, apparatus and method
In a system for transmitting multimedia data including video data, audio data, graphic data, text data and the like via a network, sets of media data are stored in a plurality of servers in a...
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7584490 |
System and method for delivering statistically scheduled advertisements
A system and method for scheduling advertisements in a television service network environment. An ad scheduler prepares an ad insertion schedule based on channel change statistical information and...
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7583704 |
Synchronizing separated upstream and downstream channels of cable modem termination systems
Methods and devices are provided for allowing upstream and downstream cable modem termination systems to be located in different physical locations. According to some embodiments of the invention,...
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7577979 |
System and method for synchronizing streaming content with enhancing content using pre-announced triggers
A client-server architecture synchronizes streaming content with enhancing content via pre-announced triggers. The architecture includes server-based components to generate announcements containing...
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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...
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7574728 |
System for delivering data over a network
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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7574725 |
Multimedia marketing and distribution system
A central server having a computer readable storage media for storing multimedia material, such as motion pictures and television programming, in digital format is connected to a communications...
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7565677 |
Method and apparatus for managing a data carousel
A data carousel contains multiple data files having a particular arrangement. These files are cyclically broadcast to a number of receivers of the data files. A procedure modifies the arrangement...
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7542435 |
Buffer level signaling for rate adaptation in multimedia streaming
In a multimedia streaming network where a client has a receiver buffer to store a plurality of packets received from a server so as to compensate for the difference between data transmission amount...
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7533406 |
Systems and methods for generating a walled garden program for substantially optimized bandwidth delivery
Systems and methods for generating a walled garden program for substantially optimized bandwidth delivery are described. In particular, layers of data that are substantially similar across multiple...
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7533271 |
Method and apparatus for remote control and monitoring of a multimedia system
A method and apparatus for remote control and/or monitoring of a multimedia system includes processing that begins when a hand held device transmits a remote control/monitoring request to a server....
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7529806 |
Partitioning of MP3 content file for emulating streaming
An electronic file, e.g., an MP3 file, is partitioned into a sequence of segments at the server side. The first segment is played out upon downloading. While the first segment is being played out,...
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7490345 |
Upstream only linecard with front end multiplexer for CMTS
One or more upstream line cards each include a digital or analog multiplexer front end circuit for a Cable Modem Termination System. Each upstream line card has only upstream receivers and allows a...
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7487533 |
Digital television translator with PSIP update
A digital television translator includes a digital television receiver for receiving a first digital television signal at a first frequency and generating a digital transport stream from the first...
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7478417 |
Broadcast system and method for browsing the web
The present invention provides a method and apparatus to browse the Web without using a web browser. The application server in a transmitting unit converts a web page transmitted from the Internet...
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7474624 |
Method and apparatus for reducing delay jitter
Elastic buffering takes place within a head end terminal ( 200 ). An elastic buffer ( 206 ) has the effect of shifting time at its output frame-of-reference backward by a fixed amount to compensate...
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7474621 |
Broadcast system
A broadcast system BS includes a broadcast apparatus 1 and a reception apparatus 2 . The broadcast apparatus 1 first receives and stores therein a proxy request PR including at least an...
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7467221 |
Video server for video distribution system
A video server for distributing a digitized video content includes a unit for determining whether or not a video content requested from a terminal is stored in the video server, a unit for issuing...
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7460546 |
System, method and computer program product for residential gateway monitoring and control
A system, method and computer program product is provided that allows an end user to monitor and/or control various data streams appearing on one or more customer premises equipment (CPE)...
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7451474 |
Set top network protocol
A method of and apparatus for efficiently communicating between a provider of video on demand services and a cable television subscriber. The communication is implemented using a message protocol...
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7451467 |
Content/service handling and delivery
An enhanced playback method including receiving real time content from source links connected to a sources, simultaneously storing the real time content as stored content using a fault tolerant and...
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7448061 |
Frame synchronization in an ethernet NTP time-keeping digital cinema playback system
In a digital cinema network of NTP-timekeeping devices in which one of the devices decodes video information, the scheduling of future instructions takes into account the differences between the...
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7434242 |
Multiple content supplier video asset scheduling
An apparatus and method for allocating management functions within an interactive information distribution system between service providers and content providers whereby content providers lease...
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7409702 |
Auxiliary program association table
A method of identifying programs in a digital video communication system, consistent with certain embodiment of the present invention involve generating an auxiliary program association table (PAT)...
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7400637 |
Time slotted logical ring
A Time Slotted Logical Ring protocol manages the flow of traffic in a duplex media including a cable distribution network with a head end, a local node, and a group of subscribers. The subscriber...
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7383566 |
Apparatus for providing information, information receiver and storage medium
The present invention comprises a synchronization section for performing synchronization of an AV stream and metadata, and a capsulization section for capsulizing an AV stream and metadata every...
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7379548 |
Virtual smart card device, method and system
A system and a method for secure transmission of protected content to a subscriber, without requiring a smart card or other renewable security element to be in physical proximity of the recipient...
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7376153 |
Interactive streaming media production tool using communication optimization
The invention provides interactive streaming mixed media production. A mixed media content creation tool includes a resource-computation element that computes the likely resource load to be imposed...
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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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7363649 |
Media content descriptions
A media content description system receives media content descriptions from one or more metadata providers. The media content description system associates each media content description with the...
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7349430 |
Addressing scheme implemented in access networks
An improved addressing scheme is disclosed for use in access networks. According to a specific embodiment, upstream and/or downstream channels may be grouped together based upon logical...
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7346164 |
Communication installation for collective data reception
A communication installation for communal reception of digital television and/or of multimedia data, which receives a plurality of signals emanating from separate sources. The installation of the...
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7339956 |
System and method for the synchronization and distribution of telephony timing information in a cable modem network
A method for synchronizing clocks in a packet transport network. The method comprises, receiving an external network clock at a central packet network node and transmitting timing information to a...
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7337462 |
System and method for providing timing data for programming events
A video production facility system may produce closed caption data that includes text data and timing data. The system may receive script data for a video program. The system may then determine...
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7313810 |
Multimedia information transmission and distribution system
A communication system having programmable, addressable receivers that receive, store, process, and send digital and conventional video, audio and control signals for use in, among other things, a...
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7310352 |
Context-dependent scheduling through the use of anticipated grants for broadband communication systems
A method of scheduling upstream bandwidth. This method comprises: 1) anticipating the need for the upstream bandwidth in advance of any specific request for said upstream bandwidth; and 2)...
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7308489 |
Visibility of media contents of UPnP media servers and initiating rendering via file system user interface
A computing device is equipped with file system services and media related services that automatically make visible to a user of the computing device, through an user interface of the file system,...
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7305696 |
Three part architecture for digital television data broadcasting
This invention provides technology (including apparatus, method, software, and/or data structures) to broadcast data from one or more content providers via one or more broadcast channels to one or...
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7305357 |
Method and system for providing and controlling delivery of content on-demand over a cable television network and a data network
A system and method for delivering content on-demand by way of a cable network are disclosed. Provision of such content is controlled over a data network. Advantageously, a user interface at a...
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7299487 |
Control program, for a co-processor in a video-on-demand system, which uses transmission control lists to send video data packets with respective subgroups of internet protocol headers
A control program for a co-processor in a video-on-demand system directs the co-processor to perform the steps of: a) obtain a transmission control list, from an external source, which identifies a...
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7299486 |
Control program, for a supervisor processor in a video-on-demand system, which builds subgroups of internet protocol headers and transmission control lists
A control program for a supervisor processor in a video-on-demand system directs the supervisor processor to perform the steps of: a) transfer a group of video data packets, from an externally...
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7284258 |
Apparatus and system for providing program-related information, and program-related information providing method
A simple program-related information providing apparatus provides information related to a program to be broadcast to a user while the user is watching the program. The program-related information...
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7278153 |
Content propagation in interactive television
A process of propagates viewing assets on a system of video storages. The process includes copying a missing portion of a replica of a selected viewing asset onto a target video server. The act of...
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