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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...
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...
7577982 Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding broadcast data in a digital broadcasting system  
An apparatus and method for changing a channel in a digital broadcasting system are provided. The apparatus includes: a digital broadcast server for transmitting a multiplexed stream obtained by...
7551843 Authoring system, program, and authoring method  
In an authoring system of the invention, generation of volume configuration information for a DVD-Video is performed in parallel with generation of volume configuration information for a BD-ROM....
7549175 Recording medium, recording method, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, data transmission method, and server device  
A recording medium is applicable to information service system for receiving and transmitting information when a terminal device on the user's side accesses an administrative server, which is a...
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...
7523145 System for managing data in a distributed computing system  
A method and mechanism for managing data in a distributed computing system. A television system is configured to convey audio/video/interactive data to receiving devices. Data conveyed to the...
7516471 Detector for digital television signal  
A DTV signal detector detects DTV signals received by a receiver on a selected DTV channel in a Digital Television System. The DTV detector includes a first DTV signal detector that detects a first...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7363643 Real-time audience monitoring, content rating, and content enhancing  
A method, system, and computer-readable medium for collecting usage information in real-time for a computing device receiving digital content for presentation, such as to enable various types of...
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...
7310810 Broadcasting apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method, and medium  
To compensate a failure in downloading of music piece data. For example, when a viewer instructs purchase of a music pieceC to an IRD at a timing t 0 during the sixth transmission of music piece...
7305698 Data communication system, data transmitting apparatus, and data receiving apparatus  
A transmitting apparatus for an interactive communication system using a broadcast wave, which includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a transmitting unit. The first storage unit...
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...
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...
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...
7278152 Video pedestal network  
An architecture for distributing digital information to subscriber units wherein selection from among multiple digital services is accomplished by transmitting a tuning command from a subscriber...
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...
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...
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...
7100193 Rate controlled insertion of asynchronous data into a synchronous stream  
Disclosed is a system and method that provides rate controlled insertion of asynchronous data into a synchronous stream in a broadcast system. A calculation of the transmission time for an...
7096487 Apparatus and method for combining realtime and non-realtime encoded content  
Methods for slice-based encoding of program guides and user interfaces. The program guides include multiple video streams for picture-in-picture and other applications. A method for encoding the...
7073193 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...
7055169 Supporting common interactive television functionality through presentation engine syntax  
A method and mechanism for enabling the creation and/or control of interactive television content using declarative-like directives such as HTML, scripting languages, or other languages. A a...
7047553 Method and apparatus for decreasing cable installation time and cable installation faults  
A method and apparatus for decreasing cable installation times and cable installation faults is disclosed. The back panel of the CTMS has a light source, for example an LED associated with each...
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...
7039048 Headend cherrypicker multiplexer with switched front end  
A headend or central office or satellite uplink facility for receiving upstream video-on-demand requests and MPEG transport streams containing video program data and packetizing said video data...
7020888 System and method for providing an omnimedia package  
Disclosed is a system that permits a variable number of disparate streams of data to be packaged together as content into a single distinct program referred to as an omnimedia package. A framework...
7003793 System for providing video-on-demand services in wireless network environment and method therefor  
A system for providing video-on-demand (VOD) services and Internet services in a wireless network environment. A VOD terminal displays predetermined video information. A wireless telecommunications...
6934002 System for interactive display of a magic show  
An interactive system for motion picture display of a magic show has a remote information site, such as a television station or internet web site having one of a series of cameras for recording...
6898801 Transmission apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method, and distribution medium  
In order to reduce the amount of data to be transmitted by a transmission apparatus, the transmission apparatus transmits control sub-information to a receiving apparatus separately from video data...
6857132 Head end multiplexer to select and transmit video-on-demand and other requested programs and services  
A system for providing video-on-demand service, broadband internet access and other broadband services over T-carrier systems including a pull multiplexer cherrypicker at the head end is disclosed....
6850711 Unused band use right acquisition controlling method and passive optical network for the same  
A passive optical network (PON) including an optical line termination (OLT) and a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) which are connected. The optical line termination includes a band setting...
6799326 Interactive television program guide system with local advertisements  
A program guide system is provided in which local advertisements may be distributed to interactive television program guides implemented on the user television equipment associated with a...
6792615 Encapsulated, streaming media automation and distribution system  
Disclosed are systems and methods for creating and distributing programming content carried by a digital streaming media to be a plurality of remote nodes located over a large geographic area to...
6782553 Apparatus and method for transporting information about broadcast programs  
A program information transport apparatus comprises a update unit for accepting a request for a change in either one of program information and transmission control information stored in a memory,...
6778222 Data broadcast apparatus for controlling presentation timing of additional data with high precision  
A data broadcast apparatus repeatedly broadcasts broadcast data to a reception apparatus which stores the broadcast data into a memory and reproduces the broadcast data stored in the memory,...
6775842 Method and arrangement for transmitting and receiving encoded images  
TeleWeb services are currently being developed, in which HTML-encoded images are transmitted in the vertical blanking interval of a conventional analog television signal. For special applications,...
6763523 Intelligent transfer of multimedia data files from an editing system to a playback device  
A method and system is provided to avoid the duplicate storage and transfer of multimedia data in a playback device, thereby increasing system bandwidth and available playback memory. A multimedia...
6754271 Temporal slice persistence method and apparatus for delivery of interactive program guide  
Techniques to efficiently deliver interactive program guide (IPG) to a number of terminals. Each IPG page can be decomposed into a guide portion that is specific to each IPG page and a background...
6718553 Centralized aggregation of broadcast television programming and multi-market digital delivery thereof over interconnected terrestrial fiber optic networks  
Systems and end-to-end methods for delivering digital aggregated broadcast television programming from a centralized aggregation headend to subscribers in multiple markets using an interconnected...
6708338 Apparatus and method for generating broadcast interoperable protocol message  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating a broadcast interoperable protocol (BIOP) message for effectively generating a broadcast interoperable protocol message in a...
6651253 Interactive system and method for generating metadata for programming events  
Metadata for a programming event may be generated through an interactive process. A system may receive data corresponding to a programming event. The data may include descriptive information and...
6600520 Command and control architecture for a digital sound  
A command and control architecture for a compressed digital television broadcast studio. The architecture includes provisions for session management, real-time control of studio activities, the use...
6557171 DIGITAL TV BROADCAST SENDING APPARATUS, DIGITAL TV BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND DIGITAL TV BROADCAST SENDING / RECEIVING SYSTEM WHICH FACILITATE PRESELECTION OF TV PROGRAMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM FOR ACHIEVING A FUNCTION OF THE DIGITAL TV BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS  
A digital broadcast sending/receiving system includes a digital broadcast sending apparatus and a digital broadcast receiving apparatus. The digital broadcast sending apparatus multiplexes the...
6449768 Split linked A/B switch apparatus  
A switch apparatus is used in the transmission of a redundant Cable TV (CTV) signal. The redundant CTV signal can be a symmetric split linked redundant CTV signal or an asymmetric split linked...
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