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8181199 |
Method for displaying internet television information of broadcasting receiver and broadcasting receiver enabling the method
The present invention relates to a method for, when a broadcasting receiver outputs a broadcast program, determining whether the same program is present in a program list of an Internet television...
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8176519 |
Method and system for transmitting plural data in portable broadcasting service
A method and system for transmitting a plurality of ESG data to an MS over a communication network in a DVB-H CBMS portable broadcasting service are provided. The MS requests ESG data over the...
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8166504 |
Method and apparatus for processing content in home network using TV channels
A content processing method and apparatus which can maximize user convenience by allocating content available in a home network to an empty TV channel are provided. The content processing method...
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8166502 |
Downloading TV channel map based on location and provider
A network-enabled TV sends a geographic location to an Internet server and in response receives back a list of TV service providers for the location. A user selects a provider and the server in...
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8156526 |
Apparatus and method for controlling screen layout in digital broadcast receiver for receiving moving picture content
Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for screen display in a digital broadcast receiver for receiving moving picture contents. The method includes: receiving head-end side data including...
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8156527 |
System and method for providing a unified programming guide
A method includes receiving data representative of a plurality of multimedia channels and associating channel numbers with at least a subset of the plurality of multimedia channels to generate a...
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8141115 |
Systems and methods for multiple media coordination
The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that effectuate multiple media coordination. The system can include devices and components that coordinate in real time the...
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8132204 |
System and method for enhanced video selection and categorization using metadata
Systems and methods for presenting video asset information to a viewer to assist the view in selecting a video asset for viewing is described. The video assets can be available from a plurality of...
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8099752 |
Non-real time services
In certain embodiments, a digital television receiver that receives non-real time (NRT) content has an IP demultiplex or a radio frequency tuner that receives a transport stream. The output...
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8095466 |
Methods and apparatus to conditionally authorize content delivery at content servers in pay delivery systems
Methods and apparatus to conditionally authorize content delivery at content servers in pay delivery systems are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving an authorization for a program...
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8095954 |
System and method for providing custom channel arrangements in a programming guide
A method includes associating a first channel identifier of an electronic programming guide with a first multimedia channel from a first content source and associating a second channel identifier...
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8091106 |
Method and apparatus for using DVD subpicture information in a television receiver
A method and apparatus for using DVD subpicture formatted information within a MPEG data stream to provide data channel information to a television receiver. More particularly, the television...
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8091105 |
Method and apparatus for reproducing contents based on electronic program guide
Provided are a method of and an apparatus for reproducing contents based on an Electronic Program Guide (EPG), the method including receiving a plurality of EPGs which are provided by a plurality...
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8082568 |
Electronic program guide with integrated program listings
An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to store information associated with recorded programs in a directory in...
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8074244 |
Receiving apparatus and method
Partial data related to information data is received, image data corresponding to the received partial data is generated by sequentially processing the received partial data, and the generated...
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8073492 |
Simultaneously multi-networked handheld multimedia gateways
A user may simultaneously access sources of multimedia information via multiple wireless networks using a handheld multimedia gateway. A user interface may support the selection of information...
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8074243 |
System and method for generating electronic program guides
A method and system for generating electronic program guides is provided. The method comprises: sharing Electronic Program Guides (EPG) data among at least one terminal and at least two service...
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8056104 |
Control system and user interface for network of input devices
Apparatus, methods, and systems for centrally and uniformly controlling the operation of a variety of devices, such as communication, consumer electronic, audio-video, analog, digital, 1394, and...
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8024754 |
Content processing device, content processing method, control program, and storage medium
To add new additional content to the reproduction schedule on the basis of reference content scheduled in a time slot in the reproduction schedule, a digital television in accordance with the...
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8010981 |
Method and system for creating television programming guide
A household level electronic program guide which provides a PC user with a specific guide of television stations which are available at a location where a cable has been scanned to determine the...
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8010980 |
EPG data
In one implementation, a method is described that may include applying at least one of a capitalization rule and a spacing rule to a word obtained from compressed electronic program guide (EPG)...
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8006264 |
Interactive television program guide with passive content
A hybrid passive-interactive program guide is generated by combining the features of an interactive program guide with the passive video portion of a passive program guide. The interactive guide...
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8001565 |
Methods and apparatus to conditionally authorize content delivery at receivers in pay delivery systems
Methods and apparatus to conditionally authorize content delivery at receivers in pay delivery systems are disclosed. An example receiver station includes a receiver interface to receive a...
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7992185 |
Receiver and receiving method and program
In a TS information sharing system, digital broadcast receivers and a digital-broadcast-compliant TV receive TS information separately and may transfer the received TS information to each other in...
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7992172 |
Method and systems for multicast using multiple transport streams
A system for delivering interactive program guide (IPG) includes a number of encoding units, at least one transport stream generator, and a session manager. The encoding units encode a number of...
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7971217 |
Content digest system, video digest system, user terminal, video digest generation method, video digest reception method and program therefor
Meta data about content is converted into characteristic values. Each characteristic value is associated with one or more content segments of content. The content can be audio, video, or other data...
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7971218 |
Distribution of real-time entertainment scheduling data
A method, system, and software for distributing entertainment scheduling data (e.g., television scheduling data, movie scheduling data, etc.) to end users. Entertainment scheduling data updates are...
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7962947 |
Content delivery proxy system and method
A content delivery proxy system and method delivers content to an unsupported client device within a content delivery system by converting messages and data from the unsupported client device into...
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7962937 |
Media content catalog service
Aggregating media content catalog data from a plurality of content providers. The catalog data is merged according to rules and provided to a user on a scheduled basis or on demand. In an...
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7958528 |
System and method for construction, delivery and display of iTV applications that blend programming information of on-demand and broadcast service offerings
A user interface allows for blending of television program choices from which a viewer may select, the blending representing options for linear and non-linear programming presented together within...
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7954126 |
Control system and user interface for network of input devices
Apparatus, methods, and systems for centrally and uniformly controlling the operation of a variety of devices, such as communication, consumer electronic, audio-video, analog, digital, 1394, and...
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7941821 |
Control system and user interface for home theater network
Apparatus, methods, and systems for centrally and uniformly controlling the operation of a variety of devices, such as communication, consumer electronic, audio-video, analog, digital, 1394, and...
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7941564 |
Synchronous updating of dynamic interactive applications
An automation server interfaces with broadcast scheduling systems of various types to automatically synchronize the behavior of interactive applications relative to various broadcast programs, such...
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7934245 |
Audio and/or video signal transmission system, transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus thereof
In order to accurately display information on the format of different signals from respective different signal source apparatuses as an image, the output signals of analog signal sources are...
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7929560 |
Packet transmitting apparatus
A packet transmitting apparatus for transmitting a content protected with a content protection technique such as DTCP in the form of packets which are widely used, such as IP packets, and for...
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7921448 |
Multicast media distribution system
The present invention provides for methods, systems, and devices for simultaneously receiving and processing multimedia asset packages transmitted by a plurality of multimedia content providers....
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7913279 |
Global listings format (GLF) for multimedia programming content and electronic program guide (EPG) information
An exemplary global listings format (GLF) is metadata for electronically transferring multimedia programming content and electronic program guide information. The GLF metadata specifies a...
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7890978 |
Generic data processing engine
A generic data processing engine is operable to receive a format definition and process data formatted according to the definition, without use of formatting information in the data. The format...
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7886330 |
Enhanced home entertainment system with removable long-term storage
A method and apparatus for set top box (STB) receiving a single selection or actuation, and in response to a single selection from a user, transferring a program and auxiliary data related to the...
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7870584 |
Interactive program guide with selectable updating
A method for providing an interactive program guide (IPG) includes receiving from a user a request for an IPG, and providing the user with an IPG that includes listings that were received by a...
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7865923 |
Information receiving apparatus and control method thereof
A channel selection order to receive, from each channel, program data corresponding to a designated partial period is determined based on the start timing of the reception and the receiving timing...
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7861269 |
EPG data
In one implementation, a method is described that may include applying at least one of a capitalization rule and a spacing rule to a word obtained from compressed electronic program guide (EPG)...
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7853974 |
System for collating data from multiple sources to form a composite program guide for display
A video decoder system collates program guide information acquired from a variety of local and remote sources. Program guide information is received from a first source and a selectable program...
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7840980 |
Incorporation of lead actor information for TV recommenders
A program recommender (300) that receives one or more starring actor data fields for a program. The recommender adjusts one or more of the received starring actor data fields (600) by utilizing a...
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7836480 |
Signal processing apparatus and methods
A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within...
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7836466 |
Methods and systems for generating electronic program guides
Various embodiments provide ways to collect, organize and process metadata associated with particular instances of media content. Metadata can be collected from a variety of metadata providers and...
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7831988 |
Selecting apparatus and selecting method
A selecting apparatus is disclosed which includes a selecting unit for selecting an input source from a plurality of sources, a switching unit for switching content data in the input source...
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7827576 |
Announcing the availability of an electronic programming guide to receivers of enhanced television transmissions
A unique session identifier may be utilized to announce the availability of an electronic programming guide to users of an enhanced television distribution system. In some embodiments, the unique...
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7822319 |
Automatic recording/reproducing method and automatic recording/reproducing apparatus
Recording reservation information of a plurality of programs is grouped and at least the latest program among the programs recorded on the basis of the reservation information is left on a...
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7818776 |
Signal processing apparatus and methods
A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within...
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