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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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7620297 |
Recording medium, recording method, reproduction apparatus and method, and computer-readable program
An AV Clip generated by multiplexing video and graphics streams is recorded on a BD-ROM. The graphics stream is a sequence of PES packets. The PES packets include ODSs (Object Definition Segments)...
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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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7603686 |
Information processing method and apparatus and recording medium
An information processing apparatus in which television channel setting processing and provider setting processing can be completed expeditiously. The information processing apparatus has the...
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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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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...
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7568211 |
System and method to implement business model for advertising revenue by detecting and tracking audience members who visit advertiser designated locations
The invention discloses a system and method to implement a business model for advertising revenue that allows advertising hosts to reliably detect registered audience members who respond to...
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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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7565153 |
Method and system for delivery of location specific information
A method and system for delivering location specific information to a receiver without the receiver having to transmit its location. The method includes self-determining a location of a receiver...
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7548962 |
Internet multimedia advertisement insertion system selection architecture
Architecture is provided for selecting an ad insertion system/server from a plurality of ad insertion systems/server for receiving broadcast transmissions and inserted advertisements. A gateway, as...
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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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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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7536316 |
Methods and systems for selectively displaying advertisements
A system, including a planning module, a control module and a receiver module, configured to schedule display of one or more advertising impressions of available advertising inventory. The planning...
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7529856 |
Delivering multimedia services
Disclosed is a scalable, hierarchical, distributed network architecture and processes for the delivery of high-performance, end-to-end online multimedia services, including Internet services such...
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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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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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7500258 |
Advertisement subgroups for digital streams
A targeted advertising system based on subgroups. Different subgroups are formed based one or more subscriber characteristics, and different targeted advertisements transmitted to the different...
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7487526 |
Method for object retransmission without a continuous network connection in a digital media distributor system
The present invention provides a method for object retransmission in an asynchronous environment without a continuous network connection in a digital media distributor (DMD) system. The method...
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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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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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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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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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7434247 |
System and method for determining the desirability of video programming events using keyword matching
The desirability of programming events may be determined using metadata for programming events that includes goodness of fit scores associated with categories of a classification hierarchy one or...
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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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7380259 |
System and method for integrating weather data into television broadcasts
A system and method are provided for integrating data representing at least one weather parameter prevailing at at least a first geographic location into a television broadcast related to the first...
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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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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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7331057 |
Grouping advertisement subavails
Method and system for creating one or more advertising avail sections (subavails) and thereupon aggregating the subavails to form one or more groups of subavails. The advertisement opportunities...
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7305691 |
System and method for providing targeted programming outside of the home
A system and method for providing targeted programming to a user outside of the user's home. The method of receiving at least one of a user identification and a user profile, selecting a program...
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7292604 |
Device and method for efficient delivery of redundant national television signals
A method and apparatus of broadcasting is provided that has a geographic identifier memory, an overlay memory storing an overlay, a receiver circuit for receiving a broadcast signal and a control...
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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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7228555 |
System and method for delivering targeted advertisements using multiple presentation streams
A system and method for delivering channels of presentation streams carrying targeted advertisements in a television service network environment. The system includes a generator for generating a...
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7227583 |
Digital TV method for switching channel automatically
A digital TV and a method of switching a channel automatically thereof provides a viewer with advance notice of an automatic channel switch using linkage descriptor information on HD broadcasting....
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7225275 |
System and method for delivering high-performance online multimedia services
Disclosed is a scalable, hierarchical, distributed network architecture and processes for the delivery of high-performance, end-to-end online multimedia services, including Internet services such...
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7222354 |
Dynamic composition at the set-top box
A method for displaying on a viewer information processing system with an interface to a display (a device for rendering audio and video), a set of multimedia segments to form a multimedia...
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7219173 |
System for video processing control and scheduling wherein commands are unaffected by signal interrupts and schedule commands are transmitted at precise time
A method, apparatus, computer medium, and other embodiments for synchronizing control of one or more devices at predetermined times are described. A host scheduler loads a to-do list of...
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7212730 |
System and method for enhanced edit list for recording options
A system and method provides a detailed edit schedule for a user's recording device, such as a digital video recorder. The detailed edit schedule can be provided over a network by the user's DVR...
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7200853 |
Electronic information content distribution processing system, information distribution apparatus, information processing apparatus, and electronic information content distribution processing method
A system is provided to distribute electronic information contents D 0 containing advertisement to a user, and process advertisement information D 2 at the user side. This system comprises an...
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7185353 |
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...
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7168084 |
Method and apparatus for targeting virtual objects
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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7152237 |
Delivering targeted advertisements to the set-top-box
A system and a method for delivering targeted advertisements to the set-top box (STB). The targeted advertisements may be delivered to the STB in a low bandwidth channel or in a high bandwidth...
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7150030 |
Subscriber characterization system
A subscriber characterization system is presented in which the subscriber's selections are monitored, including monitoring of the time duration programming is watched, the volume at which the...
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7140032 |
System and method for establishing TV channel
A system and method for automatically establishing TV channels, based on time/date/geographic location/location of the TV within the home either entered manually or using a locater system such as GPS.
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7114170 |
Method and apparatus for providing interactive media presentation
A method and system for presenting interactive and non-interactive media content to a client computer over a computer network. The system can combine discrete, continuous and interactive media into...
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