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7627501 |
System and method of service product offer management
The disclosure is generally directed to a system and method of managing and deploying Internet protocol television (IPTV) services. The method includes a service product offer management and...
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7620422 |
Wireless transmission system
A wireless transmission system for transmitting a picture data between a transmitter and a receiver by wireless communication is provided. Each of the receiver and the transmitter is equipped with...
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7602846 |
Efficiently distributing video using a hybrid network that uses existing infrastructure
A method and apparatus for transporting a video program in compressed form from a source location to a second location. The method comprises receiving at an intermediate location a first compressed...
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7600250 |
Communicating ancillary information associated with a plurality of audio/video programs
A system includes a receiver and a communication interface. The receiver is adapted to tune to an audio/video portion over a transport medium. The communication interface is adapted to receive...
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7594253 |
Autoprogramming for digital television
A digital television autoprogramming and tuning method and apparatus. In a digital television which can tune both MPEG 2 and PSIP format signals, a method of tuning uses one or more tables of...
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7587738 |
Adapter device for image capturing device
A network camera system is configured such that an adapter device is connected with a digital camera, and the adapter device is connected with a network to which a client is also connected. A video...
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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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7564873 |
Method and apparatus for providing in-band messaging within a video on demand environment
A method and apparatus for providing in-band messaging through a video switch or other functional element forming a multiplexed content stream prior to transport processing and/or transmission of...
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7561557 |
Base station apparatus, mobile station, and contents provider
A radio communication system arranged to deliver multimedia information into a plurality of mobile stations is arranged to deliver the multimedia information according to the wave circumstances of...
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7549156 |
Fast channel scanning and acquisition system and method for cable modem applications
A programmable channel scanning and acquisition method for a cable modem first performs a fast scan and then a slow scan to identify channels supporting cable modem services. The fast scan involves...
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7530092 |
Method of prioritizing entries within a service group map to facilitate auto channel discovery
A system and method for minimizing timeouts when enhanced services are requested through a digital home communications terminal (DHCT) requiring discovery of a service group identification (SGID)...
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7523482 |
Seamless digital channel changing
Seamless channel changing in a digital-television-based entertainment network can be implemented, for example, by providing an intra frame to a client device upon a change to a new channel even...
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7522675 |
Digital content preview generation and distribution among peer devices
Methods and devices for end-user generation of content previews including selecting digital content stored on a communications device, and generating a content preview on the communications device...
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7509669 |
VOD transaction error correlator
A system and method for analyzing video-on-demand (VOD) transaction errors in a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable network. Raw XOD transaction error data is acquired from an XOD server. XOD-related...
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7496480 |
Sweep manager for signal analysis
System and method for specifying a signal analysis function. First user input is received, e.g., to a graphical user interface (GUI), indicating a parameter for a first operation implementing at...
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7490346 |
Digital television application protocol for interactive television
A common communication language that can address all the applications running in a multitude of set top boxes (STBs) or client devices and application servers. The present invention, DATP protocol...
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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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7472409 |
System for access to direct broadcast satellite services
A system for receiving direct broadcast satellite signals in a mobile craft is disclosed. Generally, the system includes an orientation system for determining the first orientation of the mobile...
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7457883 |
Mechanism for implementing network discovery in a cable network
In a digital network that includes a plurality of devices, which include multiple devices that transmit transport streams, a system and method are provided for discovering and mapping the transport...
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7454776 |
System and method for supplying supplemental audio information for broadcast television programs
An apparatus, method, and program for providing supplemental information related to a broadcast television program. Through a telephone or electronic network interface, a caller can request...
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7451471 |
Local video and audio network with optical data line
An optical ring network for use, for example, in a motor vehicle, includes an optical data line that defines a ring network, a playback transducer and at least one data source connected to the...
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7447815 |
Architecture for optimizing audio and video operating modes for multimedia devices based on predetermined hierarchical order of available audio and video operating modes
An architecture for automatically optimizing audio and video modes available from interconnected multimedia devices. When one multimedia device is connected with another multimedia device, the...
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7424730 |
Multimedia presentation latency minimization
Systems and methods for presenting time-varying multimedia content are described. In one aspect, a lower quality data stream for an initial portion of the multimedia content is received. The lower...
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7414984 |
System and method for efficient addition of network resources
A system and method for efficiently adding a new network resource to a digital video network, without the need to purchase costly ancillary network hardware or extensive manual configuration, is...
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7406530 |
Method and system for restricting access to user resources
A user's set top box (STB), or other client, executes a shell and has an application program interface (API) by which certain features of the client can be controlled. The client is in...
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7391724 |
System and method with policy control function for multimedia broadcast/multicast system services
A system and method with policy control function (PCF) for multimedia broadcast/multicast system (MBMS) services that includes a core network, one or more application servers, and one or more...
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7386873 |
System and method for provisioning a single physical drop to accomodate multiple devices
A method and system for allowing a plurality of devices at a physical drop to receive access to video and/or data services from a plurality of video/data service providers in a digital broadband...
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7386641 |
Protocol for uncompressed multimedia data transmission
A serial transmission protocol and architecture are provided that can be used to transmit uncompressed multimedia (e.g., video/audio/control data) over a high speed serial forward communication...
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7386273 |
Receiving apparatus
A decision portion decides whether a tuner can receive real-time broadcast content delivered from a server apparatus. If the real-time broadcast content can be received, a control portion controls...
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7369743 |
Enhanced personal video recorder
The present invention is directed to a system, software system and method for effectively managing multimedia broadcast presentations. Effective multimedia broadcast data management offers users...
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7360233 |
Broadcast carousel system access for remote home communication terminal
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing objects to a remote digital home communication terminal (remote DHCT) via a gateway device located at a customer premises. One such method, among...
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7343618 |
Video content transmitting system and method
A video content transmitting system is provided in which a video content transmitting server among a plurality of servers is automatically determined as to which server can establish a network...
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7339954 |
Multiplexing digital broadcast method that can establish a technique which can perfectly obtain a multiplexing digital broadcast data
A multiplexing digital broadcast system includes a receiving terminal; and a broadcasting station. The receiving terminal includes: a receiving side recording device demodulating a specification...
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7324167 |
High-quality twisted-pair transmission line system for high-resolution video
A system comprising a first filter having an input and an output adapted to compensate for the characteristics of a first length of twisted-pair wire is disclosed. A first bypass path has an input...
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7299485 |
Apparatus and method for processing a program guide in a digital video system
A method of processing a packetized datastream that includes program information and ancillary information used to acquire desired program information packets. The method includes the steps of...
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7272847 |
System for return bandwidth minimization using selective sampling
In a cable television system a system for supporting SCU return in FTTB-MDU and FTTC/FTTcab configurations. Fiber, baseband transceiver and networking capabilities are shared with data and voice...
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7269159 |
Upstream bandwidth allocation for packet telephony in a shared-media packet-switched access network
A method and apparatus is provided for allocating bandwidth and reducing jitter in an upstream transmission in a shared-media packet-switched access network with multiple upstream channels offering...
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7263713 |
Television signal distributor apparatus, receiver apparatus, television signal transmission system and method
In a television signal transmission system, CS broadcasting signals received via a master antenna are converted into intermediate frequency signals in an LNB (Low Noise Block Down Converter). The...
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7251821 |
Method for retrieving product information over a communication network
Method for retrieving product information over a communication network. A method for retrieving product information including at least product/service identification or description and related to a...
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7243365 |
Apparatus and method for delivery of metadata on ATVEF transport B enabled platform
A method and associated apparatus for announcing and identifying metadata relating to available video programs and/or enhancements in an enhanced television communications system compliant with the...
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7240121 |
Content providing apparatus and content providing method
The present invention is applied to the distribution of music and videos via the Internet. Single stream content is divided into a plurality of parts A to D in a time-series manner, and a first...
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7237250 |
Promotion server using video on demand channel
Idle Video-On-Demand (VOD) channel capacity is used to deliver promotional content to selected set-top boxes (STBs) in a cable television network. Commercial segment cues are used to instruct a...
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7231654 |
Remote monitoring method and monitor control server
A remote monitoring system which enables the owner and the custodian of a facility to recognize an intrusion from the outside and the owner himself to confirm the details of the intrusion, and...
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7231653 |
Method for delivering transport stream data
According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes a transmission device that converts a transport stream in to a transport stream file (TSF), a transmission medium coupled to...
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7228558 |
Address assignment in digital transmission system
A method of transmission of digital information in a digital broadcast system including a central transmission station and one or more decoders, the central station transmitting at least one...
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7227871 |
Method and system for real-time change of slot duration
A supervisory communications device, such as a headend device within a cable communications network, monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote communications devices, such as...
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7225459 |
Method and system for dynamically adjusting video bit rates
A system and method for dynamically adjusting the bit rate of a data transmission. A sending endpoint transmits data, such as video conferencing data across a network to a receiving endpoint. The...
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7213257 |
Determining phase linearity in CATV distribution systems
An apparatus for testing the phase linearity of a network comprises a first local oscillator, a first mixer, and a first filter, a second local oscillator, and a second mixer for mixing the first...
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7185282 |
Interface device for an integrated television-based broadband home health system
An integrated home health system includes a television-based patient station, a first provider station for providing telemedicine or other healthcare services to a patient located at the patient...
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7184433 |
System and method for providing media content to end-users
System and method for providing media packets to users, the end users coupled to a communication network having a communication network protocol, the method includes the steps of: (a) receiving...
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