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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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7603693 |
CATV uplink optical transmission system
A CATV station apparatus subjects received optical signals to processes such as optical-electrical conversion, signal separation, coupling, and demodulation for obtaining an uplink signal. A...
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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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7581237 |
Method and apparatus for generating television program recommendations based on prior queries
A method and apparatus are disclosed that generate television program recommendations based on queries that have previously been performed by a user on an electronic program guide. A conventional...
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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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7499462 |
System, method and apparatus for wireless delivery of content from a generalized content source to a generalized content sink
A system, method and apparatus for implementing a wireless point-to-point interface that securely and robustly delivers digital content from a generalized content source to a generalized content...
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7490342 |
Content provisioning system and method
To implement more appropriate QoS control by compressing contents data distributed via a network taking into consideration meaning of contents and preferences of users. A network system comprises...
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7490341 |
System and associated terminal, method and computer program product for directional channel browsing of broadcast content
A system for providing broadcast content includes at least one content source for broadcasting content, and at least one terminal. The terminal can receive and consume content for a selected...
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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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7458092 |
Centralized IP video gateway with port extenders having remote control interfaces
A centralized gateway connects to a broadband digital network for receiving various types of video feeds. The gateway provides output television signals directly to conventional inputs of standard...
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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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7359332 |
Enhanced DOCSIS upstream channel changes
Enhanced DOCSIS upstream channel changes. A CMTS directs channel changing of a CM, sometimes between upstream data bursts. Logical channels, part of a single frequency channel, may be used, and the...
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7337461 |
CATV system provided with a digital broadcasting receiving unit and a bilateral remote controller
A digital broadcasting transmitting unit multiplexes a content exclusively used for remote controller in addition to contents of programs A and B and transmits the multiplexed contents. A digital...
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7284260 |
Method and apparatus for bit vector array
A bit vector array apparatus provides a high speed method for processing network transmission controls. Complex data structures for controlling network access are represented in the simplest...
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7283782 |
Method and apparatus for switching between shared and individual channels to provide broadcast content services in a wireless telephone network
A wireless communications network ( 100 ) includes various base stations ( 110 ) and subscriber-stations ( 114 ). The base stations each provide ( 602 ) broadcast content services to...
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7266836 |
Tune alerts for remotely adjusting a tuner
Methods and systems are provided for alerting users of audio and/or video broadcasts. A user of a first media player may create a tune alert message and transmit the message to a second media...
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7228560 |
Performing server side interactive television
A method for providing enhanced programming to an entertainment module where the display of the enhanced programming is prepared remotely from the entertainment module. The method includes a step...
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7228356 |
IGMP expedited leave triggered by MAC address
Method and apparatus for improving channel changing or channel surfing functionality in IGMP supported services.
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7200855 |
Method and apparatus of multiplexing a plurality of channels in a multimedia system
A method and apparatus for multiplexing a plurality of channels within a multimedia system includes processing that begins by receiving a plurality of channels from a multimedia source. The...
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7194756 |
Systems and methods for provisioning a host device for enhanced services in a cable system
Flexible systems and methods are disclosed that may be used for provisioning, configuring, and controlling a host embodied in a cable set top box or other digital device attached to a digital...
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7168086 |
Proxy for video on demand server control
A video on demand system includes a head-end coupled through a proxy server to plural client terminals. The proxy server performs (or cooperates with another component in performing) various...
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7162732 |
System and related methods facilitating the detection and acquisition of a data channel in a cable modem
A method is presented comprising receiving a broadband signal at a receiver in accordance with a first modulation technique, tuning the receiver to a channel within the broadband signal, and...
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7043749 |
Audio-video packet synchronization at network gateway
A method and apparatus for synchronizing sound and images in a real-time multimedia communication, such as an audio-video telephone call, through a network gateway, when the source and/or the...
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7039939 |
Method and apparatus for creating virtual upstream channels for enhanced lookahead channel parameter testing
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are disclosed for creating a virtual lookahead upstream receiver in a single physical upstream receiver in a CMTS, thereby avoiding having to...
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7039317 |
Reconfigurable node for a hybrid fiber cable network
A reconfigurable node for a hybrid fiber cable network includes fiber slots housing a transmitter or receiver interfacing to a head end, coax slots housing an RF brick interfacing with subscribers...
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7036140 |
Capacity scaling and functional element redistribution within an in-building coax cable internet access system
A set of system configurations adapted to provide data communications to and from a set of client modems connected to one or more central modems through a tree and branch network such as exists in...
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7017174 |
Methods and apparatus for providing a central recorder in a broadcast system
Systems and methods for providing a central recorder in an interactive broadcast television network environment are disclosed. A broadcast center records and stores incoming content as it is...
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7013480 |
Gateway power synchronization
A system for receiving network video includes a remote control with a power control input. A video receiver, controlled by the remote control, powers up or powers down based on a control signal...
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6892389 |
Broadcasting unit to broadcast distributive interactive services in an access network
In an access network (ACCESS NETWORK) wherein channels (TV 1 , TV 2 ) of a distributive interactive service are broadcasted, the user terminals (UT 1 , UT 2 , UT 3 ) send first type request...
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6886181 |
Extended distribution of ADSL signals
A plurality of metallic telephone lines carrying both baseband POTS (plain old telephone service) and DSL (digital subscriber line) or ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) signals originate at...
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6845090 |
Radio communication system and radio terminal device using faster and slower radio networks cooperatively
A communication system including a first terminal device connected to first and second networks, having only a reception function with respect to the first network and transmission and reception...
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6829782 |
System for accessing a remote processor on a network
A system for accessing a remote processor on a network The system includes a data set relating to a commercial event, embedded in a broadcast. A receiving device responsive to a non-video portion...
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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...
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6745392 |
Enhanced security communication system
A telecommunications system for providing telecommunication services to a plurality of users connected to a loop-through cable distribution architecture. The system includes a signal collection and...
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6622307 |
Multiple-room signal distribution system
A multiple-room communication system is adapted to provide digital television programming (e.g. DBS) to a plurality of rooms in a single family dwelling and may be further adapted to provide...
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6598231 |
Enhanced security communications system
A telecommunications system for providing telecommunication services to a plurality of users. The system includes a signal collection and transmission circuit or headend circuit for collecting and...
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6588017 |
Master and slave subscriber stations for digital video and interactive services
A master subscriber station is provided that supports a relatively low cost slave subscriber station. The slave subscriber station relies upon the master subscriber station for certain functions...
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6484210 |
Packet processing relay agent to provide link layer forwarding in one-way cable/wireless/satellite modems
A method and apparatus for allowing a personal computer to receive data from a computer network such as the Internet via a broadcast channel of a cable or satellite television network, while...
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6453473 |
Access device and system for managing television and data communications through a cable television network
An access device for use with a cable television communications network and a network utilizing such a device. The network includes a cable head end in communication with a television source and a...
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6408436 |
Method and apparatus for cross-connection of video signals
A switched telecommunication access system for providing video data to gateway devices. The switched telecommunication access system includes a switched multicasting station for transmitting video...
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6400705 |
Method to determine an access frequency band, a head-end and a first terminal realizing such a method and a communication access network including such a head-end and such a terminal
A method to determine an access frequency band in a communication access network. The communication access network includes terminals and a head-end which includes transceivers. The head-end is...
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6378131 |
Local upstream hub for one-way cable system data/video/services requests
Most cable television systems in the United States (over 75% as of this application) are structured for one-way only service between the cable headend and the user. With more and more services...
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6266816 |
Tunable pass filter cable television control
A cable television control apparatus includes a television channel access controller connected at a node of a cable television network between the network and at least one subscriber household. All...
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6253238 |
Interactive cable television system with frame grabber
In an interactive cable system having at least one processor at a headend in communication with subscribers through an information service distribution network, a frame grabber is provided for...
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6237049 |
Method and system for defining and discovering proxy functionality on a distributed audio video network
A method and system for defining and discovering proxy functionality on a distributed audio video network. The present invention operates within a network of consumer electronic media devices...
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6202211 |
Method and apparatus for providing television signals to multiple viewing systems on a network
A method and apparatus are provided for enabling multiple users to concurrently access a PC-based server in a home local area network using conventional TVs as display devices. A client system...
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6188871 |
Regional common-use block of CATV system and CATV system using the regional common-use blocks
A regional common-use block for a CATV system, which can be flexibly managed with increased convenience according to regional requirements, and which does not require a large-scale installation at...
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6131023 |
Cable modem tuner with an up-stream and a reception circuit in the same casing
A cable modem tuner includes, in the same casing, an up-stream circuit to transmit an up-stream data signal to a CATV station, and a reception circuit for receiving a down-stream signal via a HPF...
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6100883 |
Home interface controller for providing interactive cable television
An interactive television information system coupled to a cable television system having a headend for supplying information services and an information service distribution network for delivering...
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6078783 |
Digital tuner having IEEE 1394 serial bus interface for providing a plurality of selected programs as a functional unit
In a digital tuner, a tuner subunit selects a data stream of one or more programs from a data stream in which digital signals of a plurality of programs are multiplexed, and a 1394 interface...
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