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7624409 |
Multi-market broadcast tracking, management and reporting method and system
A method for confirming and reporting on fulfilled and unfulfilled advertising orders includes assigning unique identifiers to a plurality of commercial advertisements, recording information...
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7624408 |
Apparatus, method, and system for information processing, and recording medium
Apparatus, method, and system as well as recording media designed to process information so as to enable individual information to be delivered per user, together with the AV contents. A server...
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7620390 |
Establishing a call session during an advertisement time period
To communicate between terminal devices, a time period of overlap between a first time slot of first advertisement content provided to a first terminal device and a second time slot of second...
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7614067 |
Content reproduction apparatus and reproduction method
A content reproduction apparatus functioning to (a) reproduce broadcast program content (“BC”), being image, sound, and other data, that has been received, (b) store commercial content...
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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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7610601 |
Apparatus and method for automatically recording content, and recording medium and program thereof
An automatic recording apparatus for content includes a preference operation history managing unit operable to generate history information of an operation relating to a preference for a content...
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7603683 |
Method of and client device for interactive television communication
An interactive television system includes a plurality of client devices connected to a server through a network. The client devices display broadcast contents based on received broadcast data. Icon...
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7603430 |
System and method of associating events with requests
Embodiments of the present invention can associate events, including non page events, such as the generation of dynamic content, with HTTP requests. One embodiment of the present invention can...
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7590993 |
Method and apparatus for gathering programs watched data
A processor in a television program delivery system receives programs watched information from terminals in a television delivery system. The processor arranges the programs watched information in...
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7587747 |
Telepresence method and apparatus for simultaneous use by multiple active/passive users
A telepresence server is for connection to a telecommunications network for providing access to a reality engine for a plurality of passive users. The reality engine can be controlled by an active...
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7568210 |
Method and apparatus for locally targeting virtual objects within a terminal
A method and an apparatus are used to target virtual objects to subscribers in a television delivery system. Programs are selected and virtual object locations are defined in the selected programs....
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7552458 |
Method and apparatus for transmission receipt and display of advertisements
An apparatus for the intelligent display of advertisements to a television services user includes a transmitter, a receiver and a display on which an electronic television program guide, television...
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7546619 |
Voting and headend insertion model for targeting content in a broadcast network
A system and method is provided for use in connection with delivering content that is targeted to users of a broadcast network. In order to select content that is targeted to users of the broadcast...
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7546617 |
Credit based media presentation
A method for monitoring and controlling the presentation of electronic media according to a credit-based scheme. “Debit-bearing” media may include video, audio, interactive software, etc....
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7546383 |
Enabling broadcast of multiple data configurations
A broadcast data server enables broadcast of multiple data configurations. The broadcast data server maintains configuration definitions that define how broadcast data may be configured for...
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7546378 |
Server-side stream switching
Server-side stream switching is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a server and a client. The server is capable of sending data within a first and a second stream via packets with a...
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7543319 |
Presenting notifications in response to viewer-initiated actions
Notification data is received and stored at a client device. A notice represented by the notification data is then displayed to the television viewer when a channel change event is detected. The...
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7543068 |
Filtering information at a data network based on filter rules associated with consumer processing devices
Information that is being communicated from information sources, such as servers, through a data network to consumer processing devices is filtered by the data network. Filter rules are associated...
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7540009 |
Use tagging in television programs for scene filtering and alerts
A method and system for using tagging in programming such as television programming, movie DVDs and streaming video, and establishing personalized tag alerts for objectionable programming. The...
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7519273 |
Content with advertisement information segment
A data delivery mechanism, such as a recordable disk or packets on a wire, delivering an info segment which specifies interruption points at which a first content item such as a television program...
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7519265 |
Method and apparatus for making archival copies of audiovisual recordings
Recorded audiovisual programs are aggregated for archival storage on another storage medium, such as a DVD. As related programs are temporarily recorded on a DVR, the lengths of the programs are...
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7509663 |
Technique for identifying favorite program channels for receiving entertainment programming content over a communications network
A favorites list of program channels which a cable TV user likely prefers is generated automatically, from which the user may select a program channel to watch. Each program channel in the...
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7506349 |
Method and apparatus for processing television system messages received when a device is in a low power mode
Methods and apparatus for processing system message data received at an electronic device that is in a low power mode are disclosed. System message data is processed by receiving at least one...
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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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7487525 |
***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Method and apparatus for gathering programs watched data
A processor in a television program delivery system receives programs watched information from terminals in a television delivery system. The processor arranges the programs watched information in...
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7487524 |
Method and apparatus for presenting content of images
The present invention is a method for presenting the content of images, in which, out of images that include at least moving images and can be segmented into a plurality of scenes, groups of two or...
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7487523 |
Tiered programming television delivery system
A method is disclosed for delivering television programming, including advertisements, to subscribers using a tiered video system. Advertisements or other video programs are associated with a...
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7483975 |
Systems and methods for gathering data concerning usage of media data
The present invention concerns methods and systems for gathering data concerning usage of media data provided from a predetermined receiver to a user. First data concerning usage of the media data...
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7475349 |
Interactive graphical user interface for television set-top box
A graphical user interface (GUI) for a television set-top box which includes a web browser. The set-top box has an Internet data connection and is controlled from user inputs entered through a...
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7454773 |
Television signal receiver capable of receiving emergency alert signals
A television signal processing apparatus is capable of receiving emergency alert signals and providing alert outputs to notify individuals of emergency events. According to one exemplary...
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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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7444659 |
Post production visual alterations
Disclosed is a method and system in which “labels,” comprising supplemental information such as advertising, promotional, or informational elements including interactive elements, may be...
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7444658 |
Method and system to perform content targeting
A method and system for targeting advertisements. Advertisements are selectively sent to user terminals based on a user classification. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system...
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7444657 |
Event masking for television signal receiver having an emergency alert function
A television signal receiver having an emergency alert function provides a masked list of emergency events during a user setup process for the emergency alert function which makes the setup process...
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7444656 |
Post production visual enhancement rendering
Disclosed is a method and system that renders enhancement images onto receptor sites of a scene of a pre-existing program. A receptor site defines an area of a scene onto which an enhancement image...
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7434244 |
Method and system for recommending content
Provided are a method and system for recommending content. The method and system enable a user to be given recommendations of contents similar to what he/she likes. The method for recommending...
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7412714 |
Network delivery data transmitting method, network delivery data receiving method, network delivery data transmitting system, and network delivery data receiving system
The present invention is intended to provide network delivery data transmitting methods and receiving methods which allow the selection of content data as desired by user. In a data transmitting...
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7400711 |
System and technique for dynamically interjecting live advertisements in the context of real-time isochronous (telephone-model) discourse
A method, system and program storage device are provided for interjecting messages into a real-time isochronous discourse (such as a telephone call) between a plurality of callers wherein the...
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7395547 |
System and method for providing user-defined media presentations
A media system including memory to store media information that characterizes the media and a processor configured by the memory to provide a user interface to enable a user to define a media...
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7395546 |
Set top terminal having a program pause feature
A system for automatically pausing a video program in response to detection of the occurrence of a communications event or triggering event. In response to an incoming phone call, message, web...
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7376414 |
Method and system for inserting advertisements into broadcast content
The present invention is directed to providing advertisements for playing on a mobile device based on previously provided information regarding the mobile device user. Information regarding the...
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7373439 |
System method using material exchange format (MXF) converting program for audio and video data files having routines that generates attribute data from audio and video data file
An MXF parser thread 43 parses data MXF_D, being, mixed together, a plurality of video data PIC, a plurality of audio data SOU, and system data SYS. Then, it generates video file attribute data...
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7365655 |
Transcoding media content from a personal video recorder for a portable device
A media signal is controlled using a portable media content device. The media signal is received and encoded into an encoded media signal for a portable media content device. The encoded media...
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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...
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7360232 |
System and method to subscribe to channel URL addresses and to provide non-programming-related URL addresses in an interactive video casting system
A remote device is capable to receive network address information, such as uniform resource locator (URL) addresses, and other supplemental content that are available along with television signal....
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7360160 |
System and method for providing substitute content in place of blocked content
A method for blocking content from being presented at a client device including substitution of alternative content. The client device recognizes and evaluates the received tags and blocks content...
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7343616 |
Information retrieval method and apparatus
Based on a user's own basic selection tastes, the priority order of the information is determined, so that an information retrieval method and the apparatus which can retrieve the information...
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7340760 |
Advertisements in an end-user controlled playback environment
This invention discloses a method for displaying advertisements transmitted to a user unit, the method includes receiving, at the user unit, at least one advertisement tagged with a delay tag...
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7337456 |
Advertisement method, advertisement apparatus, advertisement receiver and recording medium
An advertisement method considers the circumstances of individual users. This invention comprises a received advertisement database which stores advertisement data; a time obtaining section which...
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7334249 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically altering digital video images
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for dynamically altering a portion of a digital video image based upon a user profile. A source, such as a network feed or video server, sends...
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