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8161505 |
Interactive television system
A method includes, providing a television, a reading device, an input device, and a printer. The reading device is connected to receive a digital signal transmitted by a television signal provider....
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8131208 |
Method of using a telephone device to view content stored therein on a nearby display screen which is not physically connected to the telephone device
A method is provided of using a telephone device to view full content on a nearby display screen which is not physically connected to the telephone device. The telephone device includes a display...
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8111951 |
Apparatus and method for detecting target image
The present invention relates to a target image detecting apparatus and a method thereof. According to the present invention, the target video detecting apparatus calculates a video index for each...
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8094820 |
Information recording/reproducing device
[PROBLEM] To provide an information recording/reproducing apparatus, an information recording/reproducing method, an information recording/reproducing program and a record medium, secure contents...
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8095948 |
System and method for billing for interactive television
A system and method for billing for interactive television (ITV) includes recording the content accessed by a consumer and the time of access to render an access record. The access record for each...
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8068519 |
Method and system to use, share and manage digital content by assigning MAC and IP adress to each device and peripheral
The invention shows a method for connecting and sharing content over a plurality of devices, and over a plurality of networks public and private while respecting the content's Digital Rights by...
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8015407 |
Pre-control of a program in an additional chip card of a terminal
Prior to the execution of a program contained in a second chip card inserted in a terminal such as a mobile radio telephone terminal, in addition to a first chip card containing data and connected...
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7970132 |
Reduced hierarchy key management system and method
A controller receives an encrypted media stream (“EMS”) and an identifier indicative of a selected content key from a headend. The EMS is encrypted with an encryption key and can be decrypted wit...
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7937379 |
Fragmentation of a file for instant access
Techniques for fragmenting a file or a collection of media data are disclosed. According one aspect of the techniques, a file pertaining to a title is fragmented into a header and several tails or...
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7890580 |
Communication method, communication device, and program
To further correctly obtain related information about contents being received from a server. A communication apparatus 1 successively transmits request information that requests related information...
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7873737 |
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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7818321 |
Method and system for generating and providing rich media presentations optimized for a device over a network
The present invention provides rich media presentations to a requesting device when required. Attributes of the requesting device are determined and used to create optimized code for the requesting...
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7747241 |
Prepaid reservation-based rating system
A billing system comprising servers, routers, and processors programmed to provide reservation based prepaid billing is disclosed. The billing system is also programmed to concurrently process...
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7720035 |
System for mediating convergence services of communication and broadcasting using non-communicative appliance
Provided is an access mediator system for mediating convergence services of communication and broadcasting using a non-communicative appliance. The access mediator system includes: a...
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7657843 |
Menu promotions user interface
If a plurality of menu items in a menu includes a particular menu item that leads to a content item that is to be promoted when displaying the menu, a promotion for the content item is displayed...
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7650510 |
Method and apparatus for in-line serial data encryption
A method and apparatus for real-time in-line encryption of data transmitted over a serial channel from a source device to a target device. An encryption unit includes logic configured to receive...
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7631036 |
Communication method, communication device, and program
To further correctly obtain related information about contents being received from a server. A communication apparatus 1 successively transmits request information that requests related information...
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7555019 |
Digital broadcast receiving apparatus, digital broadcast apparatus, digital broadcast receiving method, digital broadcast method, and digital broadcast receiving program
A digital broadcast system which, during the control of caching tables multiplexed into a transport stream, optimally updates the caching without wasting filter resources on changes such as updates...
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7539890 |
Hybrid computer security clock
A clock object is provides, which includes a clock time and a monotonic time that are readable by the electronic device. The monotonic time is incremented every read of the monotonic time from the...
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7502473 |
Process for managing the handling of conditional access data by at least two decoders
One embodiment of the invention relates to a management method for conditional access data processing by at least three decoders associated to a subscriber. These decoders include...
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7487364 |
Method to store encrypted data
The objective of the present invention is to propose a method to prevent that the decryption of a keys file of a group of data stored in a storing unit (DB) of a decoder (STB), the latter...
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7461396 |
System and method for providing a secure environment for performing conditional access functions for a set top box
A system and method are provided for decrypting a selected program. The system and method can receive at least one authorization message and at least one control message associated with a selected...
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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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7383243 |
Systems and methods for creating and evaluating content and predicting responses to content
A method of creating new content based on previously experienced content and content ratings, in which content attributes are obtained and analyzed against set-top box events collected as the...
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7373654 |
System, apparatus and method for updating security configurations of a plurality of servers from a centralized directory server
A system, apparatus and method for updating security configurations of a plurality of servers from a centralized directory server. The system includes a centralized directory server and a plurality...
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7366495 |
Prepaid reservation-based rating system
A billing system comprising servers, routers, and processors programmed to provide reservation based prepaid billing is disclosed. The billing system is also programmed to concurrently process...
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7346581 |
Copyright management apparatus, copyrighted-work distribution apparatus, and copyrighted-work distribution and receiving system
A TV music broadcasting program is distributed from a distribution apparatus through a ground station and a satellite, and a musical-piece program is also distributed through a plurality of audio...
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7346917 |
Trusted transactional set-top box
A set top box (STB) includes a trusted transactional cache and associated transactional protocol and enables e-commerce transactions to be securely committed to a remote server extremely quickly...
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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 t0 during the sixth transmission of music piece...
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6985586 |
Distributed information and storage system
The aim of the present invention is to propose a method that allows the reduction of the bandwidth needs in a structure that implements an operating center and a plurality of user units, ensuring...
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6802077 |
Method for a pay-per-view referral
A method for a PPV referral that provides to a subscriber the time, date, and channel of the next showing of a PPV event if the subscriber tries to purchase the PPV event after the purchase window...
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6757909 |
Internet set-top box having an in-band tuner and cable modem
An apparatus and method thereof for communicating a scramble key (for descrambling scrambled digital signals) and service information (used in an electronic programming guide) to an intelligent...
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6647411 |
Secure cached subscription service
A system and method for a secure cached subscription system is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a content provider and a caching device connected to the content provider. The...
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6240401 |
System and method for movie transaction processing
A system and method for tracking and processing transactions for such purposes as creating billing record and detecting possible fraudulent activities. The system and method relates to processing...
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6101535 |
Process for selecting and requesting multimedia services
The selection of multimedia offerings is simplified by the transmission of an electronic ticket loaded from a computer network with the assistance of a PC onto a set top box. On the set top box,...
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6067564 |
Pay broadcasting receiver apparatus
A pay program broadcasting receiver apparatus that receives pay programs, in accordance with the present invention, has a device that stores a limit total viewing charge for a specified period of...
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5886731 |
Video data receiving apparatus, video data transmitting apparatus, and broadcasting system
A video data receiving apparatus displays the program video inserted the CM vide with the desired timing and the desired from based on the demand of viewers. Further, a video data transmitting...
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5798785 |
Terminal for suggesting programs offered on a television program delivery system
A novel reprogrammable set top terminal for a television program delivery system which suggests programs for viewing is described. The invention relates to methods and apparatus for reprogramming...
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5710605 |
Remote control unit for controlling a television and videocassette recorder with a display for allowing a user to select between various programming schedules
A universal remote control unit for controlling a television and videocassette recorder including a data input mechanism securable to a telephone line for receiving signals from an external...
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5594935 |
Interactive image display system of wide angle images comprising an accounting system
An interactive image display system includes a user interface to select a portion of a wide-angle image sequence. An image processor processes the portion of the wide-angle image sequence selected...
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5592212 |
Methods and systems for non-program applications for subscriber television
A pay television gaming system including a pay television network having a multiplicity of subscriber units each including a television, receiving apparatus for receiving gaming inputs from the...
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5592551 |
Method and apparatus for providing interactive electronic programming guide
A subscription television system is provided that transmits a plurality of television signals to a plurality of subscribers. The television signals include pay-per-view programs (purchased by...
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5523781 |
System for controlling television and billing for its use
A billing system for billing for the use of television sets in a hospital, hotel or the like includes a computer located in a billing office and television sets located in various rooms. Command...
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5446488 |
Television programme distribution signal having the capability to selectively block non-programme material
Television programs interupted by non-program material, such as commercials, are broadcasted by the disclosed system over standard TV channels. An ecrypted indicating signal is also broadcasted by...
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5247575 |
Information distribution system
An information distribution system provides information to a user, when the information corresponds to criteria individually selected by the user, and then charges the user only for the selected...
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5144663 |
Method of interactive communication between a subscriber and a decoder of a system of pay-television and decoder thereof
A decoder comprising a microprocessor connected to a receiver of data of teletext and to a text generator for displaying information on the screen of a television receiver. Further, a CPTV-card...
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5003384 |
Set-top interface transactions in an impulse pay per view television system
An impulse pay-per-view system wherein a number of downloadable transactions may be utilized to effect increased control and diversity is disclosed. A preview time/free transaction permits a system...
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4975951 |
IPPV programming distribution control system
A distribution control system for controlling the distribution of scrambled impulse pay per view (IPPV) programming from a plurality of different IPPV programmers to a plurality of descramblers....
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4961109 |
Chargeable program receiving limit setting system in two-way cable television system
A CATV television system in which a subscriber can only charge a maximum number of events before the central facility polls the subscriber's terminal unit for charged events. The subscriber's...
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4947429 |
Pay per view television signaling method
A method of operating a pay per view television system in which the television signal includes a program tag and an IPPV tag identifying memory locations in subscriber authorization memories. A...
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