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7620967 |
Method for transmitting multimedia information elements, receiver of multimedia information elements distributed by said method and user interface for consulting said information elements
A method of broadcasting multimedia information items, a receiver of multimedia information items broadcast by that method, and a user interface for consulting the information items. The invention...
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7620964 |
Recommended program search device and recommended program search method
A recommended program search device includes a viewing history information acquiring block which acquires a viewing channel and a viewing time by the user for each area corresponding to a time...
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7617512 |
Personal preferred viewing using electronic program guide
A method and system for implementing a preferred viewing library of programs are disclosed. Electronic program guide data is searched for a program satisfying a criterion, and a determination is...
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7617511 |
Entering programming preferences while browsing an electronic programming guide
Systems and methods are described for entering user preference for particular program attribute values while a user is browsing an electronic programming guide (EPG). When a program description is...
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7617295 |
Systems and methods for providing a broadcast entertainment service and an on-demand entertainment service
The present invention provides systems and methods for, in some cases, supplementing a broadcast media service with an on-demand and personalized media service.
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7613691 |
Dynamic insertion of supplemental video based on metadata
A media service application responsive to a media retrieval request received from a user of client computer to retrieve a video designated by the retrieval request. The media service retrieves...
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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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7606883 |
Method and system for controlling and auditing content/service systems
An improved interactive network system is provided that allows the Network Operator to control the transfer of information to and from the network end users, the system preferably using triggers or...
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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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7603685 |
Program guide system with combination category search
An interactive television program guide system is provided in which the program guide may provide the user with a selectable list of combination categories. Combination categories are composed of...
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7600242 |
Program detail information display apparatus and method thereof
A program detail information display apparatus comprises a display unit, a storage unit for storing program data including program detail information, a program detail information extracting unit...
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7596797 |
Client terminal for providing a subscription to a bundle of channels from a program guide
A client terminal connectable to a video distribution system (VDS) and a display device. The VDS provides program guide information to create a program guide that includes program guide entries for...
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7594245 |
Networked video devices
A collaborative information system.
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7594244 |
Program recommendation system
A system and a method for program recommendation are described. In order to present a user a recommendation for a choice of audio or video content pieces broadcast consecutively at a plurality of...
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7587732 |
Portable multi-purpose audience measurement system
As disclosed herein, media metering functionality may be imparted to a panelists device that was not previously capable of media metering. According to one example, a method of providing a...
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7587731 |
Program guide information providing device, program device information providing system, information receiving device, remote operating system, and method thereof
A program guide information providing device is arranged so that reference information corresponding to identification information transmitted from a communication terminal device is read from...
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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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7584215 |
User-specific personalization of information services
A method of creating user-experiential media services in an information system including several databases for information content, users of information services, information content parameters and...
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7584214 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program
Each program content has a plurality of program states, such as “already recorded”, “not recorded”, “preset for recording”, “not preset for recording”, and “not received”...
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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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7577974 |
Movies channel
The present invention provides a movie channel to a user on a mobile device. Movie based content associated with a movie channel is automatically delivered and stored on a mobile electronic device...
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7577973 |
Client terminal for displaying program guide information associated with different programs within a pop-up
A client terminal providing an on-screen program guide that allows a user to easily navigate through program guide information within a pop-up for different programs on a selected channel. A head...
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7571453 |
Apparatus and method for constrained selection of favorite channels
An interactive program guide system is provided in which an interactive program guide offers a user access to content from multiple available media types. The program guide system allows the...
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7571452 |
Method and apparatus for recommending items of interest to a user based on recommendations for one or more third parties
A method and apparatus are disclosed for recommending items of interest to a user based on recommendations made to one or more third parties. The recommendation scores generated by a primary...
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7568213 |
Method for providing episodic media content
A personalized media service provides, e.g., user customization of radio channel selections, immediate availability of multiple preprogrammed and/or customized channels, the ability to intersperse...
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7567983 |
Customer feedback reporting
Systems and methods are disclosed for reporting customer feedback. The disclosed systems and methods may include extracting data in response to content selections by the customer, wherein the...
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7567305 |
Method for selecting preference channel and digital TV using the same
A method for selecting preference channels comprising the steps of initializing a digital TV(DTV) system to set an idle state of a general mode in which a channel is selected through...
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7565672 |
Method for transmitting and recording user preference information in optical disc device
A method for transmitting and recording user preference information when recording an optical disc. The method records user preference information, prestored in the optical disc player, which is...
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7565671 |
System and method for diffusing image objects
A system and a suitable method for distribution of picture objects which are stored with assigned picture object information in a picture object database. In a media center of the system, user...
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7562376 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, broadcast system, storage medium, and computer program
An information processing apparatus has the capability of making a registration for timer-controlled automatic viewing/recording not only in units of programs but also in units of sub-programs. The...
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7559072 |
System and method for neighborhood optimization for content recommendation
A cost function is stochastically optimized using, e.g., simulated annealing to render a neighborhood of entities based on which content recommendations can be provided to a user of a home...
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7559071 |
Broadcasting receiver having operation mode selection function
In a broadcasting receiver having a function to set and select an operation mode of the receiver for each user based on input by a plurality of users, the operation mode is selected for each user...
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7555557 |
Review and approval system
The review and Approval system of the present invention advantageously provides computer implemented access for a reviewer to digital content for the purpose of reviewing and approving the digital...
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7546627 |
Digital broadcast receiving and recording apparatus
When an operation of starting a time shift recording is input, start a recording of a channel in viewing when the channel is set as a favorite channel. When the channel is not set as the favorite...
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7546622 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling broadcast information
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for efficiently scheduling incoming information objects so that timely objects from a variety of content classes are scheduled for broadcast. The incoming...
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7543322 |
Method for enhanced event specific features on personal video recorders
A method for enhanced presentation of sports audio video (A/V) content, the method includes: receiving a user's preferences for sports related electronic program guide (EPG) presentation, and...
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7539659 |
Multidimensional timeline browsers for broadcast media
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that effectuates selective viewing of multimedia audio and/or visual content. The disclosed system can include a component that obtains...
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7533399 |
Programming guide content collection and recommendation system for viewing on a portable device
An EPG contents collection and recommendation system includes an EPG database of identifications of available programs. A program information acquisition module applies text classification to...
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7509662 |
Method and apparatus for generation of a preferred broadcasted programs list
A second set of broadcasted programs is added to a first set of broadcasted programs. The second set of broadcasted programs includes broadcasted programs viewed by a viewer for a period of time at...
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7509580 |
Audiovisual information management system with preferences descriptions
A method of using a system with at least one of audio, image, and a video comprises a plurality of frames comprising the steps of providing a usage preferences description where the usage...
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7506351 |
Receiving apparatus, program notifying method, recording medium, and program with determination of whether or not it is suitable for user to view program in real time
In a receiving apparatus which has an agent function of retrieving user's favorite programs, if there is a program, among the favorite programs, which should be viewed in real time, a user is...
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7503058 |
Standardized theme handling for digital television
Genre or theme assignment data ( 104 ) for a program in a digital television or other data transmission is recovered by a receiver ( 100 ) and mapped to a genre in a standardized genre assignment...
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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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7487530 |
Method and apparatus for ranking broadcast programs
Frequencies of viewing of first weekly broadcast programs by a user are detected in connection with past sections of the first weekly broadcast programs. At least one which has the detected viewing...
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7454775 |
Method and apparatus for generating television program recommendations based on similarity metric
The invention recommends television programs that are similar to shows identified by a user by computing a similarity metric between programs both in a user-specified selected set and in an...
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7451470 |
TV program profiling technique and interface
A new, interactive, television program profile interface and method are described. The interface is used to capture and display the likes and dislikes of a television viewer in multi-axis format....
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7447792 |
Method for distributing a video split up in spatial pieces
A video distribution method, apparatus, and system for distributing a video divided into a plurality of spatial pieces encoded separately as independent video streams. The distribution method...
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7444660 |
System and method for generating metadata for video programming events
A device for generating metadata for a programming event receives data corresponding to a programming event that includes descriptive information and timing information. The device analyzes the...
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7441260 |
Television program recommender with automatic identification of changing viewer preferences
A television program recommender is disclosed that automatically identifies changes in viewing preferences. Once changing viewing preferences are identified, the disclosed television programming...
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7440999 |
Imprint client statistical filtering
A method, system, API and computer product for adapting reverse data channel (RDC) utilization by selectively restricting the reporting of statistics data from client devices using a client-side...
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